2026 Josep V. Planas: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	54	15842	14543	6582	5882	146	8012

Overview

Josep V. Planas is affiliated with the International Pacific Halibut Commission in the United States. Their research focuses on various aspects of marine biology, particularly related to Pacific halibut and aquaculture.

Their work encompasses several main fields of study including:

Environmental Science
Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, Planas has contributed to subfields such as:

Global and Planetary Change
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Aquatic Science
Ecology
Genetics

The main topics of their work include:

Fish Ecology and Management Studies
Marine and fisheries research
Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
Physiological and biochemical adaptations
Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

Nathan Wolf
Anna Simeon
Bradley P. Harris
Ian J. Stewart
Claude L. Dykstra

Planas has published in several venues, notably:

Fisheries Research
Reviews in Aquaculture
Molecular Ecology Resources
Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Fisheries Oceanography

Selected recent papers include:

"Aerobic swimming in intensive finfish aquaculture: applications for production, mitigation and selection", 2020, Reviews in Aquaculture
"Generation of a chromosome-level genome assembly for Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) and characterization of its sex-determining genomic region", 2022, Molecular Ecology Resources
"Use of artificial illumination to reduce Pacific halibut bycatch in a U.S. West Coast groundfish Bottom trawl", 2020, Fisheries Research
"Ontogenetic and spawning migration of Pacific halibut: a review", 2021, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
"Multiple life-stage connectivity of Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) across the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska", 2020, Fisheries Oceanography

Best Publications

Genetically lean mice result from targeted disruption of the RIIβ subunit of protein kinase A

David E. Cummings;Eugene P. Brandon;Josep V. Planas;Kouros Motamed

514
Citations
Tumor necrosis factors.

Frederick W Goetz;Josep V Planas;Simon MacKenzie

322
Citations
Endotoxin recognition: In fish or not in fish?

Dimitar B. Iliev;Jared C. Roach;Simon Mackenzie;Josep V. Planas

253
Citations
Effects of stocking density and feed ration on growth and gene expression in the Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis): potential effects on the immune response.

Emilio Salas-Leiton;Victoria Anguis;Beatriz Martín-Antonio;Diego Crespo

225
Citations
Fish under exercise

Arjan P. Palstra;Arjan P. Palstra;Josep V. Planas

194
Citations
Maturation-associated changes in the response of the salmon testis to the steroidogenic actions of gonadotropins (GTH I and GTH II) in vitro.

Josep V. Planas;Penny Swanson

191
Citations
LPS-stimulated expression of a tumor necrosis factor-alpha mRNA in primary trout monocytes and in vitro differentiated macrophages

Simon MacKenzie;Josep V. Planas;Frederick W. Goetz

176
Citations
Transcriptional analysis of LPS-stimulated activation of trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) monocyte/macrophage cells in primary culture treated with cortisol.

S. MacKenzie;D. Iliev;C. Liarte;H. Koskinen

175
Citations
Regulation of Ovarian Steroidogenesis In Vitro by Follicle-Stimulating Hormone and Luteinizing Hormone During Sexual Maturation in Salmonid Fish

Josep V. Planas;Jaime Athos;Frederick W. Goetz;Penny Swanson

161
Citations
Establishing zebrafish as a novel exercise model: swimming economy, swimming-enhanced growth and muscle growth marker gene expression.

Arjan P. Palstra;Arjan P. Palstra;Christian Tudorache;Mireia Rovira;Sebastiaan A. Brittijn

156
Citations
Cyclic AMP, PKA, and the Physiological Regulation of Adiposity

G S McKnight;D E Cummings;P S Amieux;M A Sikorski

145
Citations
Somatolactin stimulates in vitro gonadal steroidogenesis in coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch.

Josep V. Planas;Penny Swanson;Penny Swanson;Mariann Rand-Weaver;Walton W. Dickhoff;Walton W. Dickhoff

142
Citations
Ovarian receptors for insulin and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and effects of IGF-I on steroid production by isolated follicular layers of the preovulatory coho salmon ovarian follicle.

Miguel A. Maestro;Josep V. Planas;Shunsuke Moriyama;Joaquim Gutiérrez

141
Citations
Insulin, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and glucagon: the evolution of their receptors.

I Navarro;B Leibush;T.W Moon;E.M Plisetskaya

133
Citations
Analysis of genes isolated from lipopolysaccharide-stimulated rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) macrophages

Frederick W. Goetz;Dimitar B. Iliev;Linda A.R. McCauley;Cristina Q. Liarte

129
Citations
High-throughput sequence analysis of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) transcriptome using 454-pyrosequencing for the discovery of antiviral immune genes.

Patricia Pereiro;Pablo Balseiro;Alejandro Romero;Sonia Dios

128
Citations
Cloning and expression analysis of an IL-6 homolog in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).

Dimitar B. Iliev;Barbara Castellana;Simon MacKenzie;Josep V. Planas

117
Citations
Thyroid hormones down-regulate thyrotropin β subunit and thyroglobulin during metamorphosis in the flatfish Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis Kaup)

Manuel Manchado;Carlos Infante;Esther Asensio;Josep V. Planas

117
Citations
Transcriptomics of in vitro immune-stimulated hemocytes from the Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum using high-throughput sequencing.

Rebeca Moreira;Pablo Balseiro;Josep V. Planas;Berta Fuste

116
Citations
AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Plays an Important Evolutionary Conserved Role in the Regulation of Glucose Metabolism in Fish Skeletal Muscle Cells

Leonardo J. Magnoni;Yoryia Vraskou;Arjan P. Palstra;Josep V. Planas

116
Citations