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Toni Gabaldón 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 Toni Gabaldón sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 328 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Toni Gabaldón 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 Toni Gabaldón sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Spain Leader Award
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Toni Gabaldón is affiliated with the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats in Spain. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine. The work focuses on several subfields such as molecular biology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, plant science, and cell biology.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Fungal infections and studies
  • Plant pathogens and fungal diseases
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Yeasts and rust fungi studies
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research

Among recent publications authored by or associated with Toni Gabaldón are:

  • "Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Emerging and Future Challenges for Dental and Oral Medicine" (2020), published in Journal of Dental Research
  • "The Human Oral Microbiome in Health and Disease: From Sequences to Ecosystems" (2020), published in Microorganisms
  • "The era of reference genomes in conservation genomics" (2022), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "How genomics can help biodiversity conservation" (2023), published in Trends in Genetics
  • "Drug-Resistant Fungi: An Emerging Challenge Threatening Our Limited Antifungal Armamentarium" (2020), published in Antibiotics

Frequent co-authors in Toni Gabaldón's body of work include:

  • Marina Marcet-Houben
  • Ester Saus
  • Verónica Mixão
  • Ewa Księżopolska
  • Olfat Khannous-Lleiffe

Gabaldón has published extensively in several venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • BMC Biology
  • mBio
  • Nucleic Acids Research

The scientist has been recognized as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), indicating a formal distinction within the European molecular biology community.

Best Publications

  • trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

    Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez;José M. Silla-Martínez;Toni Gabaldón

  • Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

    Erich D. Jarvis;Siavash Mirarab;Andre J. Aberer;Bo Li;Bo Li;Bo Li

  • Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nancy Moran

  • The genome of melon (Cucumis melo L.)

    Jordi Garcia-Mas;Andrej Benjak;Walter Sanseverino;Michael Bourgeois

  • The genome of the recently domesticated crop plant sugar beet ( Beta vulgaris )

    Juliane C. Dohm;André E. Minoche;Daniela Holtgräwe;Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez

  • eggNOG v4.0: nested orthology inference across 3686 organisms

    Sean Powell;Kristoffer Forslund;Damian Szklarczyk;Kalliopi Trachana

  • Rapid transcriptional plasticity of duplicated gene clusters enables a clonally reproducing aphid to colonise diverse plant species

    Thomas C. Mathers;Yazhou Chen;Gemy Kaithakottil;Fabrice Legeai;Fabrice Legeai

  • Functional and evolutionary implications of gene orthology

    Toni Gabaldón;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Synonymous Mutations Frequently Act as Driver Mutations in Human Cancers

    Fran Supek;Fran Supek;Belén Miñana;Juan Valcárcel;Juan Valcárcel;Toni Gabaldón;Toni Gabaldón

  • Immunity and other defenses in pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum

    Nicole M Gerardo;Boran Altincicek;Caroline Anselme;Caroline Anselme;Hagop Atamian

  • Redundans: an assembly pipeline for highly heterozygous genomes

    Leszek P. Pryszcz;Toni Gabaldón

  • The i5K initiative: Advancing arthropod genomics for knowledge, human health, agriculture, and the environment

    Jay D Evans;Susan J Brown;Kevin J Hackett;Gene Robinson

  • An expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy

    Yuxiang Jiang;Tal Ronnen Oron;Wyatt T. Clark;Asma R. Bankapur

  • ETE: a python Environment for Tree Exploration.

    Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Joaquín Dopazo;Toni Gabaldón

  • Genome structure and metabolic features in the red seaweed Chondrus crispus shed light on evolution of the Archaeplastida.

    Jonas Collén;Betina Porcel;Betina Porcel;Wilfrid Carré;Steven G Ball

  • Three crocodilian genomes reveal ancestral patterns of evolution among archosaurs

    Richard E. Green;Edward L. Braun;Joel Armstrong;Dent Earl

  • The Human Oral Microbiome in Health and Disease: From Sequences to Ecosystems.

    Jesse R. Willis;Toni Gabaldón

  • Beyond the Whole-Genome Duplication: Phylogenetic Evidence for an Ancient Interspecies Hybridization in the Baker's Yeast Lineage.

    Marina Marcet-Houben;Toni Gabaldón

  • An expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy

    Yuxiang Jiang;Tal Ronnen Oron;Wyatt T Clark;Asma R Bankapur

  • Additional file 1 of An expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy

    Yuxiang Jiang;Tal Ronnen Oron;Wyatt T. Clark;Asma R. Bankapur

Frequent Co-Authors

Marina Marcet-Houben
Marina Marcet-Houben Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Jaime Huerta-Cepas
Jaime Huerta-Cepas Technical University of Madrid
Christophe Dessimoz
Christophe Dessimoz University College London
Roderic Guigó
Roderic Guigó Pompeu Fabra University
Martijn A. Huynen
Martijn A. Huynen Radboud University Medical Center
Fabrice Legeai
Fabrice Legeai University of Rennes
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Andrés Moya
Andrés Moya University of Valencia
Amparo Latorre
Amparo Latorre University of Valencia
Heinz Himmelbauer
Heinz Himmelbauer BOKU University

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