2026 Jaime Huerta-Cepas: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	53	3672	3465	66	62	83	62552

Overview

Jaime Huerta-Cepas is affiliated with the Technical University of Madrid in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus in subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Genetics, Food Science, and Plant Science.

Their scholarly work concentrates on several main topics, including:

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Genetic diversity and population structure
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Probiotics and Fermented Foods
Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
Gut microbiota and health

Jaime Huerta-Cepas has published extensively in venues such as:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nucleic Acids Research
Nature
Nature Microbiology

Frequent collaborators include:

Peer Bork
Álvaro Rodríguez del Río
Ana Hernández-Plaza
Luís Pedro Coelho
Carlos P. Cantalapiedra

Some of their recent publications are:

eggNOG-mapper v2: Functional Annotation, Orthology Assignments, and Domain Prediction at the Metagenomic Scale, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution
eggNOG-mapper v2: Functional Annotation, Orthology Assignments, and Domain Prediction at the Metagenomic Scale, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
eggNOG 6.0: enabling comparative genomics across 12 535 organisms, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
Discovery of antimicrobial peptides in the global microbiome with machine learning, 2024, Cell
Towards the biogeography of prokaryotic genes, 2021, Nature

Best Publications

STRING v11: protein-protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets.

Damian Szklarczyk;Annika L. Gable;David Lyon;Alexander Junge

14650
Citations
STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life

Damian Szklarczyk;Andrea Franceschini;Stefan Wyder;Kristoffer Forslund

11368
Citations
eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses.

Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Damian Szklarczyk;Davide Heller;Ana Hernández-Plaza

4766
Citations
Fast Genome-Wide Functional Annotation through Orthology Assignment by eggNOG-Mapper

Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Kristoffer Forslund;Luis Pedro Coelho;Damian Szklarczyk;Damian Szklarczyk

2928
Citations
eggNOG-mapper v2: Functional Annotation, Orthology Assignments, and Domain Prediction at the Metagenomic Scale.

Carlos P Cantalapiedra;Ana Hernández-Plaza;Ivica Letunic;Peer Bork

2557
Citations
Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome.

Mohammad Bahram;Mohammad Bahram;Mohammad Bahram;Falk Hildebrand;Sofia K. Forslund;Sofia K. Forslund;Jennifer L. Anderson

2324
Citations
eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences

Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Damian Szklarczyk;Damian Szklarczyk;Kristoffer Forslund;Helen Cook

2230
Citations
Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

Erich D. Jarvis;Siavash Mirarab;Andre J. Aberer;Bo Li;Bo Li;Bo Li

2118
Citations
ETE 3: Reconstruction, analysis and visualization of phylogenomic data

Jaime Huerta-Cepas;François Serra;Peer Bork

1935
Citations
Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nancy Moran

1866
Citations
eggNOG v4.0: nested orthology inference across 3686 organisms

Sean Powell;Kristoffer Forslund;Damian Szklarczyk;Kalliopi Trachana

709
Citations
Durable coexistence of donor and recipient strains after fecal microbiota transplantation.

Simone S. Li;Ana Zhu;Vladimir Benes;Paul I. Costea

535
Citations
ETE: a python Environment for Tree Exploration.

Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Joaquín Dopazo;Toni Gabaldón

447
Citations
Gene Expression Changes and Community Turnover Differentially Shape the Global Ocean Metatranscriptome

Guillem Salazar;Lucas Paoli;Adriana Alberti;Jaime Huerta-Cepas

429
Citations
Microbial abundance, activity and population genomic profiling with mOTUs2

Alessio Milanese;Daniel R Mende;Lucas Paoli;Guillem Salazar

383
Citations
Standardized benchmarking in the quest for orthologs

Adrian M Altenhoff;Adrian M Altenhoff;Brigitte Boeckmann;Salvador Capella-Gutierrez;Daniel A Dalquen

254
Citations
PhylomeDB v4: zooming into the plurality of evolutionary histories of a genome.

Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez;Leszek P. Pryszcz;Marina Marcet-Houben

248
Citations
Phylemon 2.0: a suite of web-tools for molecular evolution, phylogenetics, phylogenomics and hypotheses testing

Rubén Sánchez;François Serra;Joaquín Tárraga;Ignacio Medina

237
Citations
The human phylome

Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Hernán Dopazo;Joaquín Dopazo;Toni Gabaldón

227
Citations
PhylomeDB v3.0: an expanding repository of genome-wide collections of trees, alignments and phylogeny-based orthology and paralogy predictions

Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Salvador Capella-Gutierrez;Leszek P. Pryszcz;Ivan Denisov

182
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Toni Gabaldón Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

Joaquín Dopazo Institute of Biomedicine of Seville

Christian von Mering University of Zurich

Shinichi Sunagawa Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Ivica Letunic European Bioinformatics Institute

Marina Marcet-Houben Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Ioannis Xenarios University of Lausanne

Erik L. L. Sonnhammer Stockholm University

Christophe Dessimoz University College London

External Links

Personal website of Jaime Huerta-Cepas

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