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Microbiology

D-Index
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Citations
27423
World Ranking
1710
National Ranking
2

Medicine

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34768
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14886
National Ranking
4

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 796 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 72 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales is affiliated with Fundación Universitaria Autónoma De Las Américas in Colombia. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine, particularly focusing on infectious diseases and public health. The main fields of study include Medicine, with 909 publications, and subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Virology, and Modeling and Simulation.

Their work covers a range of main topics, including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Poxvirus research and outbreaks
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health

Recent notable papers authored by Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales include:

  • "Clinical, laboratory and imaging features of COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis" (2020), published in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • "Coronavirus Disease 2019-COVID-19" (2020), published in Clinical Microbiology Reviews
  • "COVID-19 in Latin America: The implications of the first confirmed case in Brazil" (2020), published in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
  • "Clinical, Laboratory and Imaging Features of COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis" (2020), published in Preprints.org
  • "Going global - Travel and the 2019 novel coronavirus" (2020), published in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Frequent co-authors associated with this scientist include:

  • D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana
  • Ranjit Sah
  • Kuldeep Dhama
  • Ali A. Rabaan
  • Joshuan J. Barboza

The primary publication venues for their research are:

  • Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease (69 publications)
  • New Microbes and New Infections (44 publications)
  • Preprints.org (28 publications)
  • Infezioni in Medicina (16 publications)
  • Research Square (Research Square) (15 publications)

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales has contributed to book publications primarily through the following publishers:

  • IntechOpen, with two books: "Current Topics and Emerging Issues in Malaria Elimination" (2021) and "Current Topics in SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 - Two Years After" (2022)
  • Frontiers Media, with one book: "Emerging and Re-emerging Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases" (2022)

Best Publications

  • Clinical, laboratory and imaging features of COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales;Jaime A Cardona-Ospina;Estefanía Gutiérrez-Ocampo;Rhuvi Villamizar-Peña

  • Clinical, Laboratory and Imaging Features of COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales;Jaime A. Cardona-Ospina;Estefanía Gutiérrez-Ocampo;Rhuvi Villamizar-Peña

  • Coronavirus Disease 2019–COVID-19

    Kuldeep Dhama;Sharun Khan;Ruchi Tiwari;Shubhankar Sircar

  • COVID-19 in Latin America: The implications of the first confirmed case in Brazil.

    Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales;Viviana Gallego;Juan Pablo Escalera-Antezana;Claudio A. Méndez

  • SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-COV: A comparative overview

    Ali A Rabaan;Shamsah H Al-Ahmed;Shafiul Haque;Ranjit Sah

  • Going global - Travel and the 2019 novel coronavirus.

    Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales;Kirsten MacGregor;Sanch Kanagarajah;Dipti Patel

  • The first 2019 novel coronavirus case in Nepal.

    Anup Bastola;Ranjit Sah;Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales;Bibek Kumar Lal

  • History is repeating itself: Probable zoonotic spillover as the cause of the 2019 novel Coronavirus Epidemic

    A. J. Rodriguez-Morales;D. K. Bonilla-Aldana;G. J. Balbin-Ramon;A. A. Rabaan

  • Diagnosis and classification of optic neuritis

    Unknown

  • Relative Reproduction Number of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B.1.1.529) Compared with Delta Variant in South Africa

    Unknown

  • COVID-19: animals, veterinary and zoonotic links.

    Ruchi Tiwari;Kuldeep Dhama;Khan Sharun;Mohd. Iqbal Yatoo

  • Cutaneous mycobacterial infections.

    Carlos Franco-Paredes;Luis A. Marcos;Andrés F. Henao-Martínez;Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales

  • COVID-19: Zoonotic aspects.

    Tauseef Ahmad;Muhammad Khan;Haroon;Taha Hussein Musa

  • Prevalence of Post-Chikungunya Infection Chronic Inflammatory Arthritis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

    Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales;Jaime A. Cardona-Ospina;Sivia Fernanda Urbano-Garzón;Juan Sebastian Hurtado-Zapata

  • Prediction of the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Top 15 Affected Countries: Advanced Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Model.

    Ram Kumar Singh;Meenu Rani;Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula;Ranjit Sah

  • Dengue, chikungunya and Zika co-infection in a patient from Colombia.

    Wilmer E. Villamil-Gómez;Orfy González-Camargo;José Rodriguez-Ayubi;Diana Zapata-Serpa

  • SARS-CoV-2 jumping the species barrier: Zoonotic lessons from SARS, MERS and recent advances to combat this pandemic virus.

    Kuldeep Dhama;Shailesh Kumar Patel;Khan Sharun;Mamta Pathak

  • Impact of climate variability in the occurrence of leishmaniasis in northeastern Colombia

    Rocio Cardenas;Claudia M. Sandoval;Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales;Carlos Franco-Paredes

  • Preparación y control de la enfermedad por coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) en América Latina

    Alfonso J . Rodríguez-Morales;Jorge A . Sánchez-Duque;Sebastian Hernández Botero;Carlos E . Pérez-Díaz

  • The socio-ecology of zoonotic infections

    A. Cascio;M. Bosilkovski;A.J. Rodriguez-Morales;G. Pappas

  • Revisiting the one health approach in the context of COVID-19: A look into the ecology of this emerging disease

    D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana;Kuldeep Dhama;Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

  • Zika: the new arbovirus threat for Latin America.

    Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales

  • An update on SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 with particular reference to its clinical pathology, pathogenesis, immunopathology and mitigation strategies.

    Kuldeep Dhama;Shailesh Kumar Patel;Mamta Pathak;Mohd Iqbal Yatoo

Frequent Co-Authors

Kuldeep Dhama
Kuldeep Dhama Indian Veterinary Research Institute
Ruchi Tiwari
Ruchi Tiwari Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University
Yashpal Singh Malik
Yashpal Singh Malik Indian Veterinary Research Institute
Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq
Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Juan-Manuel Anaya
Juan-Manuel Anaya Universidad del Rosario
Martin P. Grobusch
Martin P. Grobusch University of Amsterdam
Hiroshi Nishiura
Hiroshi Nishiura Kyoto University
Nadine Rouphael
Nadine Rouphael Emory University
Yasuhiro Kotera
Yasuhiro Kotera University of Nottingham
David A. B. Dance
David A. B. Dance University of Oxford

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