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Ricardo Flores publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

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

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 219 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Ricardo Flores D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ricardo Flores is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain and has contributed extensively to research in plant virology, molecular biology, and related fields. Their work spans various areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine.

The scientist's research focuses prominently on topics including Plant Virus Research Studies, Plant and Fungal Interactions Research, Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions, Plant Reproductive Biology, and Genetic Factors in Colorectal Cancer.

Flores has published articles in several venues, with a noted presence in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, Virus Evolution, PlantwisePlus Knowledge Bank, Gastroenterology, and the Annual Review of Virology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Flores include Francesco Di Serio, Beatriz Navarro, Andrew Fu, Joseph F. LaComb, and Alexandra Guillaume.

Some of their recent published papers are:

  • "Advances in Viroid-Host Interactions" (2021), Annual Review of Virology
  • "ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Pospiviroidae" (2020), Journal of General Virology
  • "Viroid pathogenesis: a critical appraisal of the role of RNA silencing in triggering the initial molecular lesion" (2020), FEMS Microbiology Reviews
  • "Reassessing species demarcation criteria in viroid taxonomy by pairwise identity matrices" (2021), Virus Evolution
  • "A scenario for the emergence of protoviroids in the RNA world and for their further evolution into viroids and viroid-like RNAs by modular recombinations and mutations" (2022), Virus Evolution

Best Publications

  • Viroids and viroid-host interactions.

    Ricardo Flores;Carmen Hernández;A. Emilio Martínez de Alba;José-Antonio Daròs

  • Peripheral regions of natural hammerhead ribozymes greatly increase their self-cleavage activity

    Marcos De la Peña;Selma Gago;Ricardo Flores

  • Extremely high mutation rate of a hammerhead viroid

    Selma Gago;Selma Gago;Santiago F. Elena;Santiago F. Elena;Ricardo Flores;Ricardo Flores;Rafael Sanjuán;Rafael Sanjuán

  • Plus and minus RNAs of peach latent mosaic viroid self-cleave in vitro via hammerhead structures.

    Carmen Hernandez;Ricardo Flores

  • A rapid and reproducible assay for quantitative estimation of proteins using bromophenol blue.

    R. Flores

  • Small RNAs containing the pathogenic determinant of a chloroplast‐replicating viroid guide the degradation of a host mRNA as predicted by RNA silencing

    Beatriz Navarro;Andreas Gisel;Maria Elena Rodio;Sonia Delgado

  • Sequences of Citrus tristeza virus separated in time and space are essentially identical.

    María R. Albiach-Martí;Munir Mawassi;Siddarame Gowda;Tatineni Satyanarayana

  • Chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid: Unusual structural properties of a subgroup of self-cleaving viroids with hammerhead ribozymes

    Beatriz Navarro;Ricardo Flores

  • Replication of avocado sunblotch viroid: evidence for a symmetric pathway with two rolling circles and hammerhead ribozyme processing.

    J A Daròs;J F Marcos;C Hernández;R Flores

  • A proposed scheme for viroid classification and nomenclature

    R. Flores;J. W. Randles;M. Bar-Joseph;T. O. Diener

  • Two Chloroplastic Viroids Induce the Accumulation of Small RNAs Associated with Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing

    A. E. Martínez de Alba;R. Flores;C. Hernández

  • Current status of viroid taxonomy.

    F. Di Serio;R. Flores;J. Th. J. Verhoeven;S.-F. Li

  • Viroids: Survivors from the RNA World?

    Ricardo Flores;Selma Gago-Zachert;Pedro Serra;Rafael Sanjuán

  • Genomic Structure of Three Phenotypically Different Isolates of Peach Latent Mosaic Viroid: Implications of the Existence of Constraints Limiting the Heterogeneity of Viroid Quasispecies

    S. Ambrós;C. Hernández;J. C. Desvignes;R. Flores

  • The complete genome sequence of the major component of a mild citrus tristeza virus isolate.

    M C Vives;L Rubio;C López;J Navas-Castillo

  • A chloroplastic RNA polymerase resistant to tagetitoxin is involved in replication of avocado sunblotch viroid.

    José-Antonio Navarro;Antonio Vera;Ricardo Flores

  • RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase 6 Delays Accumulation and Precludes Meristem Invasion of a Viroid That Replicates in the Nucleus

    Francesco Di Serio;Angel-Emilio Martínez de Alba;Beatriz Navarro;Andreas Gisel

  • A chloroplast protein binds a viroid RNA in vivo and facilitates its hammerhead-mediated self-cleavage

    José‐Antonio Daròs;Ricardo Flores

  • Viroids: The Noncoding Genomes

    Ricardo Flores;Francesco Di Serio;Carmen Hernández

  • Avsunviroidae family: viroids containing hammerhead ribozymes.

    Ricardo Flores;Jose-Antonio Daròs;Carmen Hernández

Frequent Co-Authors

José-Antonio Daròs
José-Antonio Daròs Universitat Politècnica de València
Francesco Di Serio
Francesco Di Serio National Research Council (CNR)
Luis Navarro
Luis Navarro Universidade de Vigo
Leandro Peña
Leandro Peña Universitat Politècnica de València
Vicente Pallás
Vicente Pallás Universitat Politècnica de València
José Guerri
José Guerri Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias
Santiago F. Elena
Santiago F. Elena Santa Fe Institute
Jesús Navas-Castillo
Jesús Navas-Castillo University of Malaga
Thierry Candresse
Thierry Candresse University of Bordeaux
William O. Dawson
William O. Dawson University of Florida

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