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D-Index
64
Citations
13534
World Ranking
2626
National Ranking
69

Francisco Sobrino publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francisco Sobrino sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 272 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Francisco Sobrino D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Francisco Sobrino sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Francisco Sobrino is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain, focusing on research related to animal diseases, viral infections, and immunology. Their work spans several intersecting scientific disciplines, including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Subfields of particular relevance in their research include Agronomy and Crop Science, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Immunology.

Their scientific contributions address main topics such as Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Viral Infections and Immunology Research, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, T-cell and Retrovirus Studies, and vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches.

Significant recent publications by Francisco Sobrino include:

  • A Single Dose of Dendrimer B2T Peptide Vaccine Partially Protects Pigs against Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Infection, 2020, Vaccines
  • Peptide-Based Vaccines: Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus, a Paradigm in Animal Health, 2021, Vaccines
  • Immunogenicity of a Dendrimer B2T Peptide Harboring a T-Cell Epitope From FMDV Non-structural Protein 3D, 2020, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • MDA5 cleavage by the Leader protease of foot-and-mouth disease virus reveals its pleiotropic effect against the host antiviral response, 2020, Cell Death and Disease
  • A bivalent B-cell epitope dendrimer peptide can confer long-lasting immunity in swine against foot-and-mouth disease, 2020, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Frequent co-authors in their work include Rodrigo Cañas-Arranz, Patricia de León, María José Bustos, Mar Forner, and Sira Defaus.

Francisco Sobrino has published extensively in several journals and venues, with multiple papers appearing in Vaccines. Other venues featuring their work include Frontiers in Immunology, The Journal of Physiology, Scientific Reports, and Frontiers in Veterinary Science.

Best Publications

  • The quasispecies (extremely heterogeneous) nature of viral RNA genome populations: biological relevance — a review

    Esteban Domingo;Encarnación Martínez-Salas;Francisco Sobrino;Juan Carlos de la Torre

  • Evolution of foot-and-mouth disease virus.

    Esteban Domingo;Cristina Escarmı́s;Eric Baranowski;Carmen M Ruiz-Jarabo

  • Foot-and-mouth disease virus: a long known virus, but a current threat

    Francisco Sobrino;Margarita Sáiz;Miguel A. Jiménez-Clavero;Jose I. Núñez

  • Multiple genetic variants arise in the course of replication of foot-and-mouth disease virus in cell culture.

    Francisco Sobrino;Mercedes Dávila;Juan Ortín;Esteban Domingo

  • Foot-and-mouth disease virus.

    Esteban Domingo;Eric Baranowski;Cristina Escarmı́s;Francisco Sobrino

  • Oxidative Stress Triggers STAT3 Tyrosine Phosphorylation and Nuclear Translocation in Human Lymphocytes

    Modesto Carballo;Manuel Conde;Rajaa El Bekay;Jose Martı́n-Nieto

  • A large-scale evaluation of peptide vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease: lack of solid protection in cattle and isolation of escape mutants.

    O Taboga;C Tami;E Carrillo;J I Núñez

  • A single amino acid substitution affects multiple overlapping epitopes in the major antigenic site of foot-and-mouth disease virus of serotype C.

    M. G. Mateu;M. A. Martínez;L. Capucci;D. Andreu

  • Methylation-Dependent Gene Silencing Induced by Interleukin 1β via Nitric Oxide Production

    Abdelkrim Hmadcha;Francisco J. Bedoya;Francisco Sobrino;Elizabeth Pintado

  • Oxidative stress is a critical mediator of the angiotensin II signal in human neutrophils: involvement of mitogen-activated protein kinase, calcineurin, and the transcription factor NF-κB

    Rajaa El Bekay;Moisés Álvarez;Javier Monteseirín;Gonzalo Álba

  • Genetic Variability and Antigenic Diversity of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus

    Esteban Domingo;Mauricio G. Mateu;Miguel A. Martínez;Joaquín Dopazo

  • Establishment of cell lines persistently infected with foot-and-mouth disease virus.

    Juan Carlos de la Torre;Mercedes DáVila;Francisco Sobrino;Juan Ortín

  • Evolution of the capsid protein genes of foot-and-mouth disease virus: antigenic variation without accumulation of amino acid substitutions over six decades.

    M A Martínez;J Dopazo;J Hernández;M G Mateu

  • Implications of a quasispecies genome structure: effect of frequent, naturally occurring amino acid substitutions on the antigenicity of foot-and-mouth disease virus.

    M G Mateu;M A Martínez;E Rocha;D Andreu

  • A Single Amino Acid Substitution in Nonstructural Protein 3A Can Mediate Adaptation of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus to the Guinea Pig

    Jose Ignacio Núñez;Eric Baranowski;Nicolas Molina;Carmen M. Ruiz-Jarabo

  • Foot and mouth disease: current perspectives.

    Francisco Sobrino;Esteban Domingo

  • The Composition of West Nile Virus Lipid Envelope Unveils a Role of Sphingolipid Metabolism in Flavivirus Biogenesis

    Miguel Ángel Martín-Acebes;Teresa Merino-Ramos;Ana Belén Blázquez;Josefina Casas

  • Foot-and-mouth disease virus: biology and prospects for disease control

    Margarita Sáiz;José I. Núñez;Miguel A. Jimenez-Clavero;Eric Baranowski

  • Fixation of mutations in the viral genome during an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease: heterogeneity and rate variations.

    F. Sobrino;E.L. Palma;E. Beck;M. Dávila

  • Immunogenicity of non-structural proteins of foot-and-mouth disease virus: differences between infected and vaccinated swine

    Ana Rodríguez;J. Dopazo;J. C. Sáiz;F. Sobrino

Frequent Co-Authors

Esteban Domingo
Esteban Domingo Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa
David Andreu
David Andreu Pompeu Fabra University
Juan-Carlos Saiz
Juan-Carlos Saiz Autonomous University of Madrid
Encarnación Martínez-Salas
Encarnación Martínez-Salas Spanish National Research Council
Joaquín Dopazo
Joaquín Dopazo Institute of Biomedicine of Seville
Mauricio G. Mateu
Mauricio G. Mateu Spanish National Research Council
Beatriz G. de la Torre
Beatriz G. de la Torre University of KwaZulu-Natal
Miguel Angel Martínez
Miguel Angel Martínez Autonomous University of Barcelona
Ernest Giralt
Ernest Giralt University of Barcelona
Andrés Moya
Andrés Moya University of Valencia

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