2026 Rodrigo Franco: 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	52	16399	15056	6780	6059	134	39939

Overview

Rodrigo Franco is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 40 publications, and Medicine, with 26 publications. Within these broader fields, they have contributed extensively in subfields including Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Organic Chemistry, and Epidemiology.

Their research topics cover a diverse array of subjects. These include genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress; histone deacetylase inhibitors research; epigenetics and DNA methylation; mosquito-borne diseases and control; autophagy in disease and therapy; phytochemicals and antioxidant activities; and diet and metabolism studies.

Rodrigo Franco's work has been published repeatedly in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

Antioxidants (4 publications)
Free Radical Biology and Medicine (2 publications)
Journal of Virology (2 publications)
Investigational New Drugs (2 publications)
Plants (2 publications)

They have collaborated regularly with several coauthors, often working with Aglaia Pappa (21 times), Mihalis I. Panayiotidis (20 times), Sotiris Kyriakou (16 times), Dimitrios T. Trafalis (13 times), and Ioannis Anestopoulos (11 times).

Some of their recent published papers include:

Mitochondrial Metabolism in Astrocytes Regulates Brain Bioenergetics, Neurotransmission and Redox Balance, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience
Redox homeostasis, oxidative stress and mitophagy, 2020, Mitochondrion
Sulforaphane and iberin are potent epigenetic modulators of histone acetylation and methylation in malignant melanoma, 2020, European Journal of Nutrition
Mechanisms of sex hormones in autoimmunity: focus on EAE, 2020, Biology of Sex Differences
Aldehyde dehydrogenase 3A1 confers oxidative stress resistance accompanied by altered DNA damage response in human corneal epithelial cells, 2020, Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Best Publications

Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

10661
Citations
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

8665
Citations
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

8488
Citations
Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

895
Citations
Apoptosis and glutathione: beyond an antioxidant

R Franco;J A Cidlowski

834
Citations
Oxidative stress, DNA methylation and carcinogenesis

Rodrigo Franco;Rodrigo Franco;Onard Schoneveld;Alexandros G. Georgakilas;Mihalis I. Panayiotidis

716
Citations
Environmental toxicity, oxidative stress and apoptosis: ménage à trois.

Rodrigo Franco;Roberto Sánchez-Olea;Elsa M. Reyes-Reyes;Mihalis I. Panayiotidis

660
Citations
The central role of glutathione in the pathophysiology of human diseases

R. Franco;O. J. Schoneveld;A. Pappa;M. I. Panayiotidis

646
Citations
Reactive oxygen species (ROS)--induced genetic and epigenetic alterations in human carcinogenesis.

Dominique Ziech;Rodrigo Franco;Aglaia Pappa;Mihalis I. Panayiotidis;Mihalis I. Panayiotidis

642
Citations
Oxidative Stress, Redox Signaling, and Autophagy: Cell Death Versus Survival

Juliana Navarro-Yepes;Juliana Navarro-Yepes;Michaela Burns;Annadurai Anandhan;Oleh Khalimonchuk

447
Citations
Glutathione Depletion Is Necessary for Apoptosis in Lymphoid Cells Independent of Reactive Oxygen Species Formation

Rodrigo Franco;Mihalis I. Panayiotidis;John A. Cidlowski

336
Citations
The role of reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress in environmental carcinogenesis and biomarker development.

Dominique Ziech;Rodrigo Franco;Alexandros G. Georgakilas;Stavroula Georgakila

330
Citations
DNA damage induced by endogenous aldehydes: current state of knowledge.

Georgia Persephoni Voulgaridou;Ioannis Anestopoulos;Rodrigo Franco;Mihalis I. Panayiotidis;Mihalis I. Panayiotidis

321
Citations
Molecular Mechanisms of Pesticide-induced Neurotoxicity: Relevance to Parkinson’s Disease

Rodrigo Franco;Sumin Li;Humberto Rodriguez-Rocha;Michaela Burns

290
Citations
Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

287
Citations
Glutathione efflux and cell death.

Rodrigo Franco;John A. Cidlowski

257
Citations
DNA damage and autophagy

Humberto Rodriguez-Rocha;Aracely Garcia-Garcia;Mihalis I. Panayiotidis;Rodrigo Franco

250
Citations
Neurotoxicity Linked to Dysfunctional Metal Ion Homeostasis and Xenobiotic Metal Exposure: Redox Signaling and Oxidative Stress

Carla Garza-Lombó;Yanahi Posadas;Liliana Quintanar;María E. Gonsebatt

186
Citations
Antioxidant gene therapy against neuronal cell death

Juliana Navarro-Yepes;Juliana Navarro-Yepes;Laura Zavala-Flores;Annadurai Anandhan;Fang Wang

181
Citations
Oxidative Stress, Redox Signaling, andAutophagy: Cell Death Versus Survival

Juliana Navarro-Yepes;Michaela Burns;Anandhan Annadurai;Oleh Khalimonchuk

8
Citations