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Esteban Ballestar

Active 1996–2025

95
Papers
22,259
Citations
66
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Citations

Citations per year for Esteban Ballestar1959: 1 citations1997: 1 citations1998: 6 citations1999: 9 citations2000: 65 citations2001: 76 citations2002: 58 citations2003: 92 citations2004: 71 citations2005: 104 citations2006: 198 citations2007: 242 citations2008: 315 citations2009: 284 citations2010: 349 citations2011: 370 citations2012: 344 citations2013: 300 citations2014: 261 citations2015: 244 citations2016: 287 citations2017: 247 citations2018: 260 citations2019: 712 citations2020: 684 citations2021: 714 citations2022: 550 citations2023: 427 citations2024: 600 citations2025: 337 citations2026: 8 citations1960–1996: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 3,001 citing papers, 27.1% of this breakdownChina: 1,266 citing papers, 11.4% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 744 citing papers, 6.7% of this breakdownSpain: 645 citing papers, 5.8% of this breakdownGermany: 638 citing papers, 5.7% of this breakdownItaly: 472 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownFrance: 394 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownCanada: 382 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownJapan: 318 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownAustralia: 269 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownNetherlands: 254 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownIndia: 185 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology60.5%
  • Medicine26.2%
  • Immunology and Microbiology5.5%
  • Neuroscience2.9%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.4%
  • Environmental Science0.9%
  • Other2.6%

Topics

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation11.9%
  • RNA modifications and cancer3.5%
  • Cancer-related gene regulation3.1%
  • Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research2.9%
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation2.5%
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics2.5%
  • Other73.6%

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  1. Autophagy maintains stemness by preventing senescence

    Authors: Laura García‐Prat, Marta Martínez‐Vicente, Eusebio Perdiguero, Laura Ortet, Javier Rodríguez‐Ubreva, Elena Rebollo, Vanessa Ruiz‐Bonilla, Susana Gutarra, Esteban Ballestar, Antonio L. Serrano, Marco Sandri, Pura Muñoz‐Cánoves - Nature 2016 cited by 1,373

  2. Tolerogenic Dendritic Cells in Autoimmunity and Inflammatory Diseases

    Authors: Octavio Morante-Palacios, Federico Fondelli, Esteban Ballestar, Eva Martínez‐Cáceres - Trends in Immunology 2020 cited by 256

  3. Geriatric muscle stem cells switch reversible quiescence into senescence

    Authors: Pedro Sousa‐Victor, Susana Gutarra, Laura García‐Prat, Javier Rodríguez‐Ubreva, Laura Ortet, Vanessa Ruiz‐Bonilla, Mercè Jardı́, Esteban Ballestar, Susana González, Antonio L. Serrano, Eusebio Perdiguero, Pura Muñoz‐Cánoves - Nature 2014 cited by 996

  4. Epigenetic differences arise during the lifetime of monozygotic twins

    Authors: Mario F. Fraga, Esteban Ballestar, Maria F. Paz, Santiago Ropero, Fernando Setién, Maria Luisa Ballestar, Damián Heine‐Suñer, Juan C. Cigudosa, Miguel Urioste, Javier Benı́tez, Manuel Boix-Chornet, Abel Sánchez‐Aguilera, Charlotte Ling, Emma Carlsson, Pernille Poulsen, Allan Vaag, Zarko Stephan, Tim D. Spector, Yue-Zhong Wu, Christoph Plass, Manel Esteller - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2005 cited by 3,602

  5. Loss of acetylation at Lys16 and trimethylation at Lys20 of histone H4 is a common hallmark of human cancer

    Authors: Mario F. Fraga, Esteban Ballestar, Ana Villar‐Garea, Manuel Boix-Chornet, Jesús Espada, Gunnar Schotta, Tiziana Bonaldi, Claire E. Haydon, Santiago Ropero, Kevin Petrie, N. Gopalakrishna Iyer, Alberto Pérez‐Rosado, Enrique Calvo, Juan Antonio López, Amparo Cano, Marı́a José Calasanz, Dolors Colomer, Miguel Á. Piris, Natalie G. Ahn, Axel Imhof, Carlos Caldas, Thomas Jenuwein, Manel Esteller - Nature Genetics 2005 cited by 1,911

  6. Data integration in the era of omics: current and future challenges

    Authors: David Gomez-Cabrero, Imad Abugessaisa, Dieter Maier, Andrew E. Teschendorff, Matthias Merkenschlager, Andreas Gisel, Esteban Ballestar, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Ana Conesa, Jesper Tegnér - BMC Systems Biology, BMC Syst. Biol. 2014 cited by 423

  7. Prostaglandin E2 Leads to the Acquisition of DNMT3A-Dependent Tolerogenic Functions in Human Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells

    Authors: Javier Rodríguez‐Ubreva, Francesc Català‐Moll, Nataša Obermajer, Damiana Álvarez‐Errico, Ricardo N. Ramírez, Roser Vento‐Tormo, Gema Moreno‐Bueno, Robert P. Edwards, A Mortazavi, Paweł Kaliński, Esteban Ballestar - Cell Reports 2017 cited by 136

  8. Epigenetic regulation of B cells and its role in autoimmune pathogenesis

    Authors: Fan Xiao, Ke Rui, Xiaofei Shi, Haijing Wu, Xiaoyan Cai, Kathy O. Lui, Qianjin Lu, Esteban Ballestar, Jie Tian, Hejian Zou, Liwei Lu - Cellular and Molecular Immunology 2022 cited by 69

  9. Genetic Unmasking of an Epigenetically Silenced microRNA in Human Cancer Cells

    Authors: Amaia Lujambio, Santiago Ropero, Esteban Ballestar, Mario F. Fraga, Celia Cerrato, Fernando Setién, Sara Casado, Ana Suárez‐Gauthier, Montse Sánchez‐Céspedes, Anna Gitt, Inmaculada Spiteri, Partha Pratim Das, Carlos Caldas, Eric A. Miska, Manel Esteller - Cancer Research 2007 cited by 936

  10. Notch Signaling Is Essential for Ventricular Chamber Development

    Authors: Joaquím Grego‐Bessa, Luis Luna‐Zurita, Gonzalo del Monte‐Nieto, Victoria Bolós, Pedro Melgar, Alejandro Arandilla, Alistair N. Garratt, Heesuk Zang, Yoh‐suke Mukouyama, Hanying Chen, Weinian Shou, Esteban Ballestar, Manel Esteller, Ana M. Rojas, José M. Pérez‐Pomares, José Luís de la Pompa - Developmental Cell 2007 cited by 517

  11. PU.1 target genes undergo Tet2-coupled demethylation and DNMT3b-mediated methylation in monocyte-to-osteoclast differentiation

    Authors: Lorenzo de la Rica, Javier Rodríguez‐Ubreva, Mireia García, Abul Bashar Mir Md. Khademul Islam, José Urquiza, Henar Hernando, Jesper Frank Christensen, Kristian Helin, Carmen Gómez‐Vaquero, Esteban Ballestar - Genome biology 2013 cited by 213

  12. Epigenetic control of myeloid cell differentiation, identity and function

    Authors: Damiana Álvarez‐Errico, Roser Vento‐Tormo, Michael H. Sieweke, Esteban Ballestar - Nature reviews. Immunology 2014 cited by 336

  13. The Human Microglia Atlas (HuMicA) unravels changes in disease-associated microglia subsets across neurodegenerative conditions

    Authors: Ricardo Martins-Ferreira, Josep Calafell-Segura, Bárbara Leal, Javier Rodríguez‐Ubreva, Elena Martínez‐Sáez, Elisabetta Mereu, Paulo Costa, Ariadna Laguna, Esteban Ballestar - Nature Communications 2025 cited by 85

  14. Vitamin D receptor, STAT3, and TET2 cooperate to establish tolerogenesis

    Authors: Francesc Català‐Moll, Anna G. Ferreté-Bonastre, Gerard Godoy‐Tena, Octavio Morante-Palacios, Laura Ciudad, Laura Barberà, Federico Fondelli, Eva Martínez‐Cáceres, Javier Rodríguez‐Ubreva, Tianlu Li, Esteban Ballestar - Cell Reports 2022 cited by 61

  15. Vitamin C enhances NF-κB-driven epigenomic reprogramming and boosts the immunogenic properties of dendritic cells

    Authors: Octavio Morante-Palacios, Gerard Godoy‐Tena, Josep Calafell-Segura, Laura Ciudad, Eva Martínez‐Cáceres, José Luis Sardina, Esteban Ballestar - Nucleic Acids Research 2022 cited by 54

  16. A DNA methylation fingerprint of 1628 human samples

    Authors: Agustín F. Fernández, Yassen Assenov, José I. Martín‐Subero, Balázs Bálint, Reiner Siebert, Hiroaki Taniguchi, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Manuel Hidalgo, Aik Choon Tan, Oliver Galm, Isidró Ferrer, Montse Sánchez‐Céspedes, Alberto Villanueva, F. Javier Carmona, José V. Sánchez‐Mut, María Berdasco, Vı́ctor Moreno, Gabriel Capellá, David Monk, Esteban Ballestar, Santiago Ropero, Ramón Martínez, Marta Sänchez‐Carbayo, Felipe Prósper, Xabier Agirre, Mario F. Fraga, Osvaldo Graña‐Castro, Luis A. Pérez‐Jurado, Jaume Mora, Susana Puig, Jaime Prat, Lina Badimón, Annibale Alessandro Puca, Stephen J. Meltzer, Thomas Lengauer, John Bridgewater, Christoph Bock, Manel Esteller - Genome Research 2011 cited by 418

  17. Snail Mediates E-Cadherin Repression by the Recruitment of the Sin3A/Histone Deacetylase 1 (HDAC1)/HDAC2 Complex

    Authors: Héctor Peinado, Esteban Ballestar, Manel Esteller, Amparo Cano - Molecular and Cellular Biology 2003 cited by 739

  18. miRNAs as Therapeutic Targets in Inflammatory Disease

    Authors: Qianjin Lu, Ruifang Wu, Ming Zhao, Antonio García-Gómez, Esteban Ballestar - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences 2019 cited by 129

  19. IL-4 orchestrates STAT6-mediated DNA demethylation leading to dendritic cell differentiation

    Authors: Roser Vento‐Tormo, Javier Rodríguez‐Ubreva, Lorenzo de la Rica, José Urquiza, Biola M. Javierre, Radhakrishnan Sabarinathan, Ana Luque, Manel Esteller, Josep M. Aran, Damiana Álvarez‐Errico, Esteban Ballestar - Genome biology 2016 cited by 125

  20. Sampling time-dependent artifacts in single-cell genomics studies

    Authors: Ramon Massoni-Badosa, Giovanni Iacono, Cátia Moutinho, Marta Kulis, Núria Palau, Doménica Marchese, Javier Rodríguez‐Ubreva, Esteban Ballestar, Gustavo Rodríguez-Esteban, Sara Marsal, Marta Aymerich, Dolors Colomer, Elı́as Campo, Antonio Julià, José I. Martín‐Subero, Holger Heyn - Genome biology 2020 cited by 95

  21. Inflammatory cytokines and organ dysfunction associate with the aberrant DNA methylome of monocytes in sepsis

    Authors: Clara Lorente‐Sorolla, Antonio García-Gómez, Francesc Català‐Moll, Víctor Toledano, Laura Ciudad, José Avendaño‐Ortiz, Charbel Maroun‐Eid, Alejandro Martín‐Quirós, Mónica Martínez‐Gallo, Adolfo Ruiz-Sanmartín, Álvaro Campo, Ricard Ferrer, Juan Carlos Ruiz‐Rodríguez, Damiana Álvarez‐Errico, Eduardo López‐Collazo, Esteban Ballestar - Genome Medicine 2019 cited by 95

  22. Clinical value of DNA methylation markers in autoimmune rheumatic diseases

    Authors: Esteban Ballestar, Amr H. Sawalha, Qianjin Lu - Nature Reviews Rheumatology 2020 cited by 86

  23. SIRT1/2 orchestrate acquisition of DNA methylation and loss of histone H3 activating marks to prevent premature activation of inflammatory genes in macrophages

    Authors: Tianlu Li, Antonio García-Gómez, Octavio Morante-Palacios, Laura Ciudad, Sevgi Özkaramehmet, Evelien Van Dijck, Javier Rodríguez‐Ubreva, Alejandro Vaquero, Esteban Ballestar - Nucleic Acids Research 2019 cited by 63

  24. Coordinated glucocorticoid receptor and MAFB action induces tolerogenesis and epigenome remodeling in dendritic cells

    Authors: Octavio Morante-Palacios, Laura Ciudad, Raphael Micheroli, Carlos de la Calle‐Fabregat, Tianlu Li, Gisela Barbisan, Miranda Houtman, Sam G. Edalat, Mojca Frank‐Bertoncelj, Caroline Ospelt, Esteban Ballestar - Nucleic Acids Research 2021 cited by 37