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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Molecular Biology 77 1113 992 574 500 225 21063

Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco between 1975 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco published across 51 years, from 1975 to 2025, averaging 5.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2023. 9 of the 268 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1975 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 16. Peak 16 publications in 2023. 1975: 1 publication 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 2 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 1 publication 1982: 1 publication 1983: 0 publications 1984: 1 publication 1985: 1 publication 1986: 1 publication 1987: 0 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 3 publications 1990: 3 publications 1991: 3 publications 1992: 4 publications 1993: 3 publications 1994: 3 publications 1995: 6 publications 1996: 5 publications 1997: 6 publications 1998: 4 publications 1999: 7 publications 2000: 9 publications 2001: 6 publications 2002: 7 publications 2003: 13 publications 2004: 9 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 6 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 15 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 12 publications 2018: 7 publications 2019: 2 publications 2020: 14 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 6 publications 2023: 16 publications 2024: 3 publications 2025: 6 publications
1975 2025

268 publications in total across all disciplines

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Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco: publications per year, 1975 to 2025
Year Publications
1975 1
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 2
1980 0
1981 1
1982 1
1983 0
1984 1
1985 1
1986 1
1987 0
1988 1
1989 3
1990 3
1991 3
1992 4
1993 3
1994 3
1995 6
1996 5
1997 6
1998 4
1999 7
2000 9
2001 6
2002 7
2003 13
2004 9
2005 9
2006 7
2007 4
2008 6
2009 10
2010 5
2011 6
2012 4
2013 7
2014 15
2015 11
2016 11
2017 12
2018 7
2019 2
2020 14
2021 7
2022 6
2023 16
2024 3
2025 6
Total 268
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Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 53 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 564+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 177. Most scientists, 177, have 117–126 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 217–226 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 7 scientists 57–66 publications: 17 scientists 67–76 publications: 65 scientists 77–86 publications: 90 scientists 87–96 publications: 125 scientists 97–106 publications: 131 scientists 107–116 publications: 162 scientists 117–126 publications: 177 scientists 127–136 publications: 158 scientists 137–146 publications: 158 scientists 147–156 publications: 146 scientists 157–166 publications: 159 scientists 167–176 publications: 131 scientists 177–186 publications: 110 scientists 187–196 publications: 112 scientists 197–206 publications: 100 scientists 207–216 publications: 89 scientists 217–226 publications: 98 scientists 227–236 publications: 74 scientists 237–246 publications: 72 scientists 247–256 publications: 63 scientists 257–266 publications: 53 scientists 267–276 publications: 54 scientists 277–286 publications: 49 scientists 287–296 publications: 52 scientists 297–306 publications: 43 scientists 307–316 publications: 46 scientists 317–326 publications: 41 scientists 327–336 publications: 42 scientists 337–346 publications: 31 scientists 347–356 publications: 28 scientists 357–366 publications: 29 scientists 367–376 publications: 26 scientists 377–386 publications: 24 scientists 387–396 publications: 24 scientists 397–406 publications: 14 scientists 407–416 publications: 13 scientists 417–426 publications: 20 scientists 427–436 publications: 12 scientists 437–446 publications: 20 scientists 447–456 publications: 11 scientists 457–466 publications: 10 scientists 467–476 publications: 14 scientists 477–486 publications: 14 scientists 487–496 publications: 10 scientists 497–506 publications: 13 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 2 scientists 527–536 publications: 4 scientists 537–546 publications: 6 scientists 547–556 publications: 8 scientists 557–563 publications: 6 scientists 564+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 publications 564+

This scientist: 225 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

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Number of Molecular Biology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,076 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
47–56 7
57–66 17
67–76 65
77–86 90
87–96 125
97–106 131
107–116 162
117–126 177
127–136 158
137–146 158
147–156 146
157–166 159
167–176 131
177–186 110
187–196 112
197–206 100
207–216 89
217–226 98 225
227–236 74
237–246 72
247–256 63
257–266 53
267–276 54
277–286 49
287–296 52
297–306 43
307–316 46
317–326 41
327–336 42
337–346 31
347–356 28
357–366 29
367–376 26
377–386 24
387–396 24
397–406 14
407–416 13
417–426 20
427–436 12
437–446 20
447–456 11
457–466 10
467–476 14
477–486 14
487–496 10
497–506 13
507–516 13
517–526 2
527–536 4
537–546 6
547–556 8
557–563 6
564+ 100
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Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100 125
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 145+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 131. Most scientists, 131, have 64–65 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 76–77 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 36 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 115 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 121 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 118 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 130 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 106 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 116 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 113 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 129 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 120 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 105 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 131 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 97 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 106 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 83 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 89 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 77 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 70 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 73 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 60 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 48 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 45 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 50 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 31 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 51 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 43 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 39 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 41 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 29 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 33 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 35 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 20 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 38 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 19 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 28 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 13 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 23 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 15 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 11 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 21 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 13 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 14 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 9 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 16 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 7 scientists 144 D-Index: 7 scientists 145+ D-Index: 100 scientists
40–41 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

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Number of Molecular Biology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,076 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 36
42–43 101
44–45 115
46–47 121
48–49 118
50–51 130
52–53 106
54–55 116
56–57 113
58–59 129
60–61 120
62–63 105
64–65 131
66–67 95
68–69 97
70–71 106
72–73 83
74–75 89
76–77 77 77
78–79 70
80–81 73
82–83 60
84–85 48
86–87 45
88–89 50
90–91 31
92–93 51
94–95 43
96–97 38
98–99 39
100–101 41
102–103 29
104–105 33
106–107 35
108–109 20
110–111 38
112–113 19
114–115 28
116–117 13
118–119 23
120–121 16
122–123 15
124–125 11
126–127 21
128–129 7
130–131 13
132–133 14
134–135 17
136–137 9
138–139 8
140–141 16
142–143 7
144 7
145+ 100
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco is affiliated with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with significant contributions to several interconnected subfields.

Their main areas of study encompass molecular biology, infectious diseases, immunology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and public health, environmental and occupational health. Within these broader fields, the scientist's work focuses on specific topics such as RNA research and splicing, immune cell function and interaction, viral infections and immunology research, mosquito-borne diseases and control, RNA modifications and cancer, viral infections and vectors, and interferon and immune responses.

Garcia-Blanco has published extensively, contributing to numerous journal venues. Frequent publication outlets for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nucleic Acids Research, Antiviral Research, RNA, and Nature Communications.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Garcia-Blanco include:

  • A high-throughput neutralizing antibody assay for COVID-19 diagnosis and vaccine evaluation, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Discovery of Widespread Host Protein Interactions with the Pre-replicated Genome of CHIKV Using VIR-CLASP, 2020, Molecular Cell
  • A high-throughput neutralizing antibody assay for COVID-19 diagnosis and vaccine evaluation, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ribosomal stalk proteins RPLP1 and RPLP2 promote biogenesis of flaviviral and cellular multi-pass transmembrane proteins, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Role of Alternative Splicing in Regulating Host Response to Viral Infection, 2021, Cells

The scientist has collaborated with a range of frequent co-authors including Shelton S. Bradrick, W. Samuel Fagg, Geraldine Schott, Gaddiel Galarza-Muñoz, and Steven G. Widen. Such collaborations indicate an interdisciplinary approach spanning molecular biology and virology.

Recognition of Garcia-Blanco's contributions includes election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011. Additionally, they are a member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Interleukin 7 receptor α chain (IL7R) shows allelic and functional association with multiple sclerosis

    Simon G. Gregory;Silke Schmidt;Puneet Seth;Jorge R. Oksenberg

  • Protein-protein interactions and 5'-splice-site recognition in mammalian mRNA precursors

    Jhumku D. Kohtz;Sharon F. Jamison;Cindy L. Will;Ping Zuo;Ping Zuo

  • Zika virus: History, emergence, biology, and prospects for control.

    Scott C. Weaver;Federico Costa;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco;Albert I. Ko

  • Circulating tumor cells from patients with advanced prostate and breast cancer display both epithelial and mesenchymal markers.

    Andrew J. Armstrong;Matthew S. Marengo;Sebastian Oltean;Sebastian Oltean;Gabor Kemeny

  • Alternative splicing in disease and therapy

    Mariano A Garcia-Blanco;Andrew P Baraniak;Erika L Lasda

  • A Screen of FDA-Approved Drugs for Inhibitors of Zika Virus Infection

    Nicholas J. Barrows;Nicholas J. Barrows;Rafael K. Campos;Rafael K. Campos;Steven T. Powell;K. Reddisiva Prasanth

  • N6-Methyladenosine in Flaviviridae Viral RNA Genomes Regulates Infection.

    Nandan S. Gokhale;Alexa B.R. McIntyre;Michael J. McFadden;Allison E. Roder

  • Reversible cross-linking combined with immunoprecipitation to study RNA-protein interactions in vivo.

    Somashe Niranjanakumari;Erika Lasda;Robert Brazas;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco

  • Autoregulation of Polypyrimidine Tract Binding Protein by Alternative Splicing Leading to Nonsense-Mediated Decay

    Matthew C Wollerton;Clare Gooding;Eric J Wagner;Mariano A Garcia-Blanco

  • Polypyrimidine Tract Binding Protein Antagonizes Exon Definition

    Eric J. Wagner;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco

  • Identification and purification of a 62,000-dalton protein that binds specifically to the polypyrimidine tract of introns.

    Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco;Sharon F. Jamison;Phillip A. Sharp

  • Dengue subgenomic RNA binds TRIM25 to inhibit interferon expression for epidemiological fitness

    Gayathri Manokaran;Esteban Finol;Esteban Finol;Chunling Wang;Jayantha Gunaratne;Jayantha Gunaratne

  • Discovery of insect and human dengue virus host factors

    October M. Sessions;Nicholas J. Barrows;Jayme A. Souza-Neto;Timothy J. Robinson

  • Characterization of cDNAs encoding the polypyrimidine tract-binding protein.

    Anna Gil;Phillip A. Sharp;Sharon F. Jamison;Sharon F. Jamison;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco

  • A high-throughput neutralizing antibody assay for COVID-19 diagnosis and vaccine evaluation.

    Antonio E. Muruato;Camila R. Fontes-Garfias;Ping Ren;Mariano A Garcia-Blanco;Mariano A Garcia-Blanco

  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Flaviviruses

    Nicholas J. Barrows;Nicholas J. Barrows;Rafael K. Campos;Rafael K. Campos;Kuo Chieh Liao;K. Reddisiva Prasanth

  • G3BP1, G3BP2 and CAPRIN1 Are Required for Translation of Interferon Stimulated mRNAs and Are Targeted by a Dengue Virus Non-coding RNA

    Katell Bidet;Dhivya Dadlani;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco

  • Identification and characterization of a HeLa nuclear protein that specifically binds to the trans-activation-response (TAR) element of human immunodeficiency virus

    Robert A. Marciniak;Robert A. Marciniak;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco;Phillip A. Sharp

  • Alternative splicing of fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 (FGF-R2) in human prostate cancer

    Russ P. Carstens;James V. Eaton;Hannah R. Krigman;Philip J. Walther

  • SR proteins escort the U4/U6.U5 tri-snRNP to the spliceosome.

    Robert F. Roscigno;Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Armstrong
Andrew J. Armstrong Duke University
Pei-Yong Shi
Pei-Yong Shi GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)
Daniel J. George
Daniel J. George Duke University
Eng Eong Ooi
Eng Eong Ooi National University of Singapore
Xuping Xie
Xuping Xie The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Simon G. Gregory
Simon G. Gregory Duke University
Vineet D. Menachery
Vineet D. Menachery The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Nikos Vasilakis
Nikos Vasilakis The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Diane E. Griffin
Diane E. Griffin Johns Hopkins University

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