2026 Raymond L. Rodriguez: 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	50	17398	15967	7150	6381	131	21192

Overview

Raymond L. Rodriguez is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans across multiple domains within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a particular focus on nutrition and infectious diseases.

Their main fields of study include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine

Within these fields, their research delves into several subfields:

Molecular Biology
Nutrition and Dietetics
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Physiology
Infectious Diseases

Major research topics covered by their work are:

Vitamin C and Antioxidants Research
Nutritional Studies and Diet
Nutrition and Health in Aging
COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
Fatty Acid Research and Health
Pluripotent Stem Cells Research

The scientist's recent publications demonstrate a broad range of interests and contributions. These include:

COVID-19: repositioning nutrition research for the next pandemic (2020) published in Nutrition Research
N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids block the trimethylamine-N-oxide- ACE2- TMPRSS2 cascade to inhibit the infection of human endothelial progenitor cells by SARS-CoV-2 (2022) published in The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
Applications of Plant-Made Fibroblast Growth Factor for Human Pluripotent Stem Cells (2023) published in Stem Cells and Development
Early career Latinas in STEM: Challenges and solutions (2023) published in Cell
Production and characterization of basic fibroblast growth factor protein in rice suspension cultures (2023) published in Biochemical Engineering Journal

The scientist frequently publishes in these venues:

Nutrition Research
The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry
Stem Cells and Development
Cell
Biochemical Engineering Journal

Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors such as:

Junjing Jia
Anindya Karmaker
Asuka Nishimura
Hayuma Otsuka
Kazuaki Ohara

Best Publications

Construction and characterization of new cloning vehicles. II. A multipurpose cloning system.

Francisco Bolivar;Raymond L. Rodriguez;Patricia J. Greene;Mary C. Betlach

6579
Citations
Construction and characterization of new cloning vehicles. I. Ampicillin-resistant derivatives of the plasmid pMB9.

Francisco Bolivar;Raymond L. Rodriguez;Mary C. Betlach;Herbert W. Boyer

970
Citations
Vectors : a survey of molecular cloning vectors and their uses

Raymond L. Rodriguez;David T. Denhardt

856
Citations
Recombinant DNA techniques : an introduction

Raymond L. Rodriguez;Robert C. Tait

569
Citations
Nutritional genomics: the next frontier in the postgenomic era

Jim Kaput;Raymond L. Rodriguez

536
Citations
A general method for the purification of restriction enzymes.

Patricia J. Greene;Herbert L. Heyneker;Francisco Bolivar;Raymond L. Rodriguez

365
Citations
Construction and characterization of the chloramphenicol-resistance gene cartridge: a new approach to the transcriptional mapping of extrachromosomal elements.

Timothy J. Close;R.L. Rodriguez

347
Citations
Classification and characterization of the rice α-amylase multigene family

Ning Huang;Thomas D. Sutliff;James C. Litts;Raymond L. Rodriguez

271
Citations
Computing for rural empowerment: enabled by last-mile telecommunications

Somen Nandi;Saigopal Thota;Avishek Nag;Sw. Divyasukhananda

224
Citations
The case for strategic international alliances to harness nutritional genomics for public and personal health

Jim Kaput;Jose M. Ordovas;Lynnette Ferguson;Ben van Ommen

212
Citations
Production of functional human alpha 1-antitrypsin by plant cell culture.

M. Terashima;Y. Murai;M. Kawamura;S. Nakanishi

193
Citations
Metabolite Signals Regulate Gene Expression and Source/Sink Relations in Cereal Seedlings

Bruce R. Thomas;Raymond L. Rodriguez

175
Citations
Three cis-elements required for rice alpha-amylase Amy3D expression during sugar starvation.

Y S Hwang;E E Karrer;B R Thomas;L Chen

167
Citations
Structure of a rice β-glucanase gene regulated by ethylene, cytokinin, wounding, salicylic acid and fungal elicitors

Carl R. Simmons;James C. Litts;Ning Huang;Raymond L. Rodriguez

162
Citations
Expression and Purification of Functional Human α-1-Antitrypsin from Cultured Plant Cells

Jianmin Huang;Thomas D. Sutliff;Liying Wu;Somen Nandi

161
Citations
CONSTRUCTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF CLONING VEHICLES

Raymond L. Rodriguez;Francisco Bolivar;Howard M. Goodman;Herbert W. Boyer

148
Citations
Origin of replication of pBR345 plasmid DNA

Francisco Bolivar;Mary C. Betlach;Herbert L. Heyneker;John Shine

146
Citations
Biosynthesis of bacterial glycogen. Cloning of the glycogen biosynthetic enzyme structural genes of Escherichia coli.

T W Okita;R L Rodriguez;J Preiss

146
Citations
Expression of functional recombinant human lysozyme in transgenic rice cell culture

Jianmin Huang;Liying Wu;Dorice Yalda;Yuriko Adkins

146
Citations
The α-amylase genes in Oryza sativa: Characterization of cDNA clones and mRNA expression during seed germination

Sharman D. O'Neill;Monto H. Kumagai;Arindam Majumdar;Ning Huang

145
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