2026 Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales: Microbiology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Microbiology	72	1710	1554	2	1	796	27423
Medicine	84	14886	14009	4	4	1036	34768

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

4432
Citations
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

1863
Citations
Coronavirus Disease 2019–COVID-19

Kuldeep Dhama;Sharun Khan;Ruchi Tiwari;Shubhankar Sircar

1517
Citations
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

703
Citations
SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-COV: A comparative overview

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

666
Citations
Going global - Travel and the 2019 novel coronavirus.

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

383
Citations
The first 2019 novel coronavirus case in Nepal.

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

353
Citations
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

338
Citations
Diagnosis and classification of optic neuritis

Unknown

314
Citations
Relative Reproduction Number of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B.1.1.529) Compared with Delta Variant in South Africa

Unknown

294
Citations
COVID-19: animals, veterinary and zoonotic links.

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

292
Citations
Cutaneous mycobacterial infections.

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

289
Citations
COVID-19: Zoonotic aspects.

Tauseef Ahmad;Muhammad Khan;Haroon;Taha Hussein Musa

264
Citations
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

236
Citations
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

231
Citations
Dengue, chikungunya and Zika co-infection in a patient from Colombia.

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

228
Citations
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

223
Citations
Impact of climate variability in the occurrence of leishmaniasis in northeastern Colombia

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

222
Citations
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

213
Citations
The socio-ecology of zoonotic infections

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

211
Citations
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

197
Citations
Zika: the new arbovirus threat for Latin America.

Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales

195
Citations
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

192
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kuldeep Dhama Indian Veterinary Research Institute

Ruchi Tiwari Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University

Yashpal Singh Malik Indian Veterinary Research Institute

Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Juan-Manuel Anaya Universidad del Rosario

Martin P. Grobusch University of Amsterdam

Hiroshi Nishiura Kyoto University

Nadine Rouphael Emory University

Yasuhiro Kotera University of Nottingham

David A. B. Dance University of Oxford

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