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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 14885 14008 4 4 1036 34768

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales between 1989 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales published across 37 years, from 1989 to 2025, averaging 37.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 166 publications in 2020. 139 of the 1,398 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
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Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1989 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 166. Peak 166 publications in 2020. 1989: 1 publication 1990: 1 publication 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 4 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 2 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 23 publications 2006: 26 publications 2007: 36 publications 2008: 24 publications 2009: 33 publications 2010: 27 publications 2011: 21 publications 2012: 39 publications 2013: 52 publications 2014: 61 publications 2015: 74 publications 2016: 82 publications 2017: 73 publications 2018: 99 publications 2019: 58 publications 2020: 166 publications 2021: 130 publications 2022: 128 publications 2023: 86 publications 2024: 84 publications 2025: 55 publications
1989 2025

1,398 publications in total across all disciplines

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Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales: publications per year, 1989 to 2025
Year Publications
1989 1
1990 1
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 0
1998 2
1999 1
2000 4
2001 3
2002 2
2003 2
2004 5
2005 23
2006 26
2007 36
2008 24
2009 33
2010 27
2011 21
2012 39
2013 52
2014 61
2015 74
2016 82
2017 73
2018 99
2019 58
2020 166
2021 130
2022 128
2023 86
2024 84
2025 55
Total 1,398
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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.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 55–64 to 679+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 288. Most scientists, 288, have 135–144 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 679+ publications, is where this scientist sits. 55–64 publications: 8 scientists 65–74 publications: 29 scientists 75–84 publications: 55 scientists 85–94 publications: 112 scientists 95–104 publications: 137 scientists 105–114 publications: 190 scientists 115–124 publications: 235 scientists 125–134 publications: 234 scientists 135–144 publications: 288 scientists 145–154 publications: 265 scientists 155–164 publications: 264 scientists 165–174 publications: 253 scientists 175–184 publications: 276 scientists 185–194 publications: 190 scientists 195–204 publications: 234 scientists 205–214 publications: 208 scientists 215–224 publications: 198 scientists 225–234 publications: 155 scientists 235–244 publications: 161 scientists 245–254 publications: 160 scientists 255–264 publications: 146 scientists 265–274 publications: 139 scientists 275–284 publications: 148 scientists 285–294 publications: 115 scientists 295–304 publications: 96 scientists 305–314 publications: 88 scientists 315–324 publications: 106 scientists 325–334 publications: 65 scientists 335–344 publications: 76 scientists 345–354 publications: 64 scientists 355–364 publications: 62 scientists 365–374 publications: 65 scientists 375–384 publications: 61 scientists 385–394 publications: 34 scientists 395–404 publications: 44 scientists 405–414 publications: 36 scientists 415–424 publications: 35 scientists 425–434 publications: 29 scientists 435–444 publications: 33 scientists 445–454 publications: 34 scientists 455–464 publications: 25 scientists 465–474 publications: 26 scientists 475–484 publications: 20 scientists 485–494 publications: 19 scientists 495–504 publications: 16 scientists 505–514 publications: 17 scientists 515–524 publications: 23 scientists 525–534 publications: 14 scientists 535–544 publications: 14 scientists 545–554 publications: 18 scientists 555–564 publications: 12 scientists 565–574 publications: 7 scientists 575–584 publications: 9 scientists 585–594 publications: 9 scientists 595–604 publications: 9 scientists 605–614 publications: 7 scientists 615–624 publications: 9 scientists 625–634 publications: 7 scientists 635–644 publications: 4 scientists 645–654 publications: 5 scientists 655–664 publications: 6 scientists 665–674 publications: 7 scientists 675–678 publications: 3 scientists 679+ publications: 99 scientists
55–64 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.

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Number of Microbiology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
55–64 8
65–74 29
75–84 55
85–94 112
95–104 137
105–114 190
115–124 235
125–134 234
135–144 288
145–154 265
155–164 264
165–174 253
175–184 276
185–194 190
195–204 234
205–214 208
215–224 198
225–234 155
235–244 161
245–254 160
255–264 146
265–274 139
275–284 148
285–294 115
295–304 96
305–314 88
315–324 106
325–334 65
335–344 76
345–354 64
355–364 62
365–374 65
375–384 61
385–394 34
395–404 44
405–414 36
415–424 35
425–434 29
435–444 33
445–454 34
455–464 25
465–474 26
475–484 20
485–494 19
495–504 16
505–514 17
515–524 23
525–534 14
535–544 14
545–554 18
555–564 12
565–574 7
575–584 9
585–594 9
595–604 9
605–614 7
615–624 9
625–634 7
635–644 4
645–654 5
655–664 6
665–674 7
675–678 3
679+ 99 796
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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.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 88 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40 to 127+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 162. Most scientists, 162, have 58 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 72 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40 D-Index: 30 scientists 41 D-Index: 86 scientists 42 D-Index: 90 scientists 43 D-Index: 117 scientists 44 D-Index: 122 scientists 45 D-Index: 123 scientists 46 D-Index: 108 scientists 47 D-Index: 110 scientists 48 D-Index: 106 scientists 49 D-Index: 109 scientists 50 D-Index: 129 scientists 51 D-Index: 111 scientists 52 D-Index: 116 scientists 53 D-Index: 127 scientists 54 D-Index: 134 scientists 55 D-Index: 134 scientists 56 D-Index: 112 scientists 57 D-Index: 136 scientists 58 D-Index: 162 scientists 59 D-Index: 151 scientists 60 D-Index: 139 scientists 61 D-Index: 123 scientists 62 D-Index: 126 scientists 63 D-Index: 144 scientists 64 D-Index: 109 scientists 65 D-Index: 103 scientists 66 D-Index: 124 scientists 67 D-Index: 112 scientists 68 D-Index: 103 scientists 69 D-Index: 131 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 93 scientists 72 D-Index: 96 scientists 73 D-Index: 92 scientists 74 D-Index: 80 scientists 75 D-Index: 66 scientists 76 D-Index: 87 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 73 scientists 79 D-Index: 59 scientists 80 D-Index: 57 scientists 81 D-Index: 55 scientists 82 D-Index: 47 scientists 83 D-Index: 77 scientists 84 D-Index: 50 scientists 85 D-Index: 45 scientists 86 D-Index: 42 scientists 87 D-Index: 41 scientists 88 D-Index: 32 scientists 89 D-Index: 38 scientists 90 D-Index: 35 scientists 91 D-Index: 34 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 26 scientists 94 D-Index: 33 scientists 95 D-Index: 22 scientists 96 D-Index: 37 scientists 97 D-Index: 22 scientists 98 D-Index: 21 scientists 99 D-Index: 22 scientists 100 D-Index: 30 scientists 101 D-Index: 16 scientists 102 D-Index: 20 scientists 103 D-Index: 17 scientists 104 D-Index: 19 scientists 105 D-Index: 16 scientists 106 D-Index: 19 scientists 107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108 D-Index: 14 scientists 109 D-Index: 10 scientists 110 D-Index: 9 scientists 111 D-Index: 7 scientists 112 D-Index: 11 scientists 113 D-Index: 6 scientists 114 D-Index: 15 scientists 115 D-Index: 10 scientists 116 D-Index: 12 scientists 117 D-Index: 7 scientists 118 D-Index: 10 scientists 119 D-Index: 10 scientists 120 D-Index: 11 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 7 scientists 123 D-Index: 12 scientists 124 D-Index: 5 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126 D-Index: 6 scientists 127+ D-Index: 95 scientists
40 D-Index 127+

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.

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Number of Microbiology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 5,513 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40 30
41 86
42 90
43 117
44 122
45 123
46 108
47 110
48 106
49 109
50 129
51 111
52 116
53 127
54 134
55 134
56 112
57 136
58 162
59 151
60 139
61 123
62 126
63 144
64 109
65 103
66 124
67 112
68 103
69 131
70 94
71 93
72 96 72
73 92
74 80
75 66
76 87
77 60
78 73
79 59
80 57
81 55
82 47
83 77
84 50
85 45
86 42
87 41
88 32
89 38
90 35
91 34
92 27
93 26
94 33
95 22
96 37
97 22
98 21
99 22
100 30
101 16
102 20
103 17
104 19
105 16
106 19
107 18
108 14
109 10
110 9
111 7
112 11
113 6
114 15
115 10
116 12
117 7
118 10
119 10
120 11
121 2
122 7
123 12
124 5
125 9
126 6
127+ 95
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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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