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Researcher · Universidade de São Paulo · Brazil

Marcelo U. Ferreira

Marcelo U. Ferreira publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Parasitology and Immunology, on topics such as Malaria Research and Control, Mosquito-borne diseases and control and Vector-borne infectious diseases.

ORCID 0000-0002-5293-9090 OpenAlex
World rank
#159,147
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#544
of 253,246
Works
353
Citations
14k
Citations per work
39.1
h-index
65
i10-index 214Top 1% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Marcelo U. Ferreira

What does Marcelo U. Ferreira research?

Marcelo U. Ferreira's work is mostly in Medicine (51%), Immunology and Microbiology (19%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (3%).

Health Sciences: 180 works · 51.0% of their workMedicine: 180 works · 51.0% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 140 works · 39.7% of their workEpidemiology: 20 works · 5.8% of their workInfectious Diseases: 19 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 95 works · 27.0% of their workLife Sciences: 78 works · 22.0% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 66 works · 18.7% of their workParasitology: 36 works · 10.2% of their workImmunology: 30 works · 8.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 works · 3.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 12 works · 3.3% of their workTHEIR WORKMarcelo U.Ferreira353works
Life Sciences22%Health Sciences51%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine18051.0%
  2. Everything else9527.0%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology6618.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology123.3%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health40% of their works
  2. 2Parasitology10% of their works
  3. 3Immunology8% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology6% of their works
  5. 5Infectious Diseases6% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Marcelo U. Ferreira's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Vaccine Development, Artemisinin Resistance, Plasmodium falciparum, Arboviral Diseases, Zika Virus, Helminth Infections and Lyme Disease.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology3993 topics
  2. Vaccine Development3572 topics
  3. Artemisinin Resistance2271 topic
  4. Plasmodium falciparum2271 topic
  5. Arboviral Diseases1301 topic
  6. Zika Virus1301 topic
  7. Helminth Infections582 topics
  8. Lyme Disease421 topic
  9. Tick-Borne Diseases421 topic
  10. Complement381 topic
  11. Immune381 topic
  12. Schistosomiasis361 topic
  13. Soil-Transmitted Helminths361 topic
  14. Host Defense251 topic
  15. Invertebrate Immunity251 topic
  16. Ivermectin221 topic
  17. Lymphatic Filariasis221 topic
  18. Epitope Prediction211 topic
  19. Peptide-MHC Binding211 topic

Where does Marcelo U. Ferreira work?

Marcelo U. Ferreira's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Marcelo U. Ferreira have?

OpenAlex counts 353 works and 13,802 citations for Marcelo U. Ferreira, an h-index of 65, ranking #159,147 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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