2026 Salvador Ventura: 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	66	8467	7818	147	145	297	24276

Overview

Salvador Ventura is affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Physiology, Neurology, Materials Chemistry, and Biomaterials.

They have contributed to topics including:

Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
Protein Structure and Dynamics
Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
Enzyme Structure and Function
Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
RNA Research and Splicing

Recent notable publications by Salvador Ventura include:

Critical assessment of protein intrinsic disorder prediction, 2021, Nature Methods
DisProt in 2022: improved quality and accessibility of protein intrinsic disorder annotation, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
DisProt in 2024: improving function annotation of intrinsically disordered proteins, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
AlphaFold and the amyloid landscape, 2021, Journal of Molecular Biology
Computational methods to predict protein aggregation, 2022, Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Frequent co-authors associated with Salvador Ventura include:

Jaime Santos
Valentín Iglesias
Irantzu Pallarès
Javier García-Pardo
Carlos Pintado-Grima

Their work appears frequently in the following publication venues:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Neural Regeneration Research
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
Methods in molecular biology
Nucleic Acids Research

Best Publications

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

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

8488
Citations
AGGRESCAN: a server for the prediction and evaluation of "hot spots" of aggregation in polypeptides

Oscar Conchillo-Solé;Natalia S de Groot;Francesc X Avilés;Josep Vendrell

1153
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
Protein quality in bacterial inclusion bodies

Salvador Ventura;Antonio Villaverde

486
Citations
Aggregation as bacterial inclusion bodies does not imply inactivation of enzymes and fluorescent proteins

Elena García-Fruitós;Nuria González-Montalbán;Montse Morell;Andrea Vera

370
Citations
DisProt 7.0: a major update of the database of disordered proteins.

Damiano Piovesan;Francesco Tabaro;Francesco Tabaro;Ivan Micetic;Marco Necci

337
Citations
Short amino acid stretches can mediate amyloid formation in globular proteins: The Src homology 3 (SH3) case

Salvador Ventura;Jesús Zurdo;Saravanakumar Narayanan;Matilde Parreño

305
Citations
Amyloid-like Properties of Bacterial Inclusion Bodies

Mar Carrió;Nuria González-Montalbán;Andrea Vera;Antonio Villaverde

295
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
Amyloid Fibril Formation by a Partially Structured Intermediate State of α-Chymotrypsin

Irantzu Pallarès;Josep Vendrell;Francesc X. Avilés;Salvador Ventura

266
Citations
Design, selection, and characterization of thioflavin-based intercalation compounds with metal chelating properties for application in Alzheimer's disease.

Cristina Rodríguez-Rodríguez;Natalia Sánchez de Groot;Albert Rimola;Ángel Álvarez-Larena

249
Citations
AGGRESCAN3D (A3D): server for prediction of aggregation properties of protein structures

Rafael Zambrano;Michal Jamroz;Agata Szczasiuk;Jordi Pujols

245
Citations
Prediction of "hot spots" of aggregation in disease-linked polypeptides

Natalia Sánchez de Groot;Irantzu Pallarés;Francesc X Avilés;Josep Vendrell

244
Citations
DisProt: intrinsic protein disorder annotation in 2020.

András Hatos;Borbála Hajdu-Soltész;Alexander M Monzon;Nicolas Palopoli

243
Citations
Mutagenesis of the central hydrophobic cluster in Abeta42 Alzheimer's peptide. Side-chain properties correlate with aggregation propensities.

Natalia Sánchez de Groot;Francesc X. Aviles;Josep Vendrell;Salvador Ventura

237
Citations
Small molecule inhibits α-synuclein aggregation, disrupts amyloid fibrils, and prevents degeneration of dopaminergic neurons

Jordi Pujols;Samuel Peña-Díaz;Diana F Lázaro;Francesca Peccati

222
Citations
Effect of temperature on protein quality in bacterial inclusion bodies

Natalia Sánchez de Groot;Salvador Ventura

210
Citations
Folding of small disulfide-rich proteins: clarifying the puzzle.

Joan L. Arolas;Francesc X. Aviles;Jui-Yoa Chang;Salvador Ventura

202
Citations
Protein aggregation: mechanisms and functional consequences.

Gaetano Invernizzi;Elena Papaleo;Elena Papaleo;Raimon Sabate;Raimon Sabate;Salvador Ventura

192
Citations
Staphylococcal Bap Proteins Build Amyloid Scaffold Biofilm Matrices in Response to Environmental Signals

Agustina Taglialegna;Susanna Navarro;Salvador Ventura;James A. Garnett

176
Citations