2026 Marcelo U. Ferreira: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	71	6789	6259	15	15	307	14806

Overview

Marcelo U. Ferreira is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, with a primary focus in the field of Medicine. Their research spans several subfields, including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Ecology, and Parasitology.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as:

Malaria Research and Control
Mosquito-borne diseases and control
Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
Complement system in diseases
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Vector-borne infectious diseases
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Marcelo U. Ferreira has frequently published in the following venues:

PLoS neglected tropical diseases
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
Nature Communications
The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Their recent papers include:

Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers the herd immunity threshold, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers the herd immunity threshold, 2022, Journal of Theoretical Biology
Herd immunity thresholds for SARS-CoV-2 estimated from unfolding epidemics, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Strains used in whole organism Plasmodium falciparum vaccine trials differ in genome structure, sequence, and immunogenic potential, 2020, Genome Medicine
Keras R-CNN: library for cell detection in biological images using deep neural networks, 2020, BMC Bioinformatics

Frequent co-authors of Marcelo U. Ferreira are:

Rodrigo M. Corder
Márcia C. Castro
Priscila T. Rodrigues
Simone Ladeia-Andrade
Igor Cavallini Johansen

Best Publications

Microsatellite markers reveal a spectrum of population structures in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

Timothy J. C. Anderson;Bernhard Haubold;Jeff T. Williams;Jose G. Estrada-Franco§

919
Citations
Human toxocariasis: diagnosis, worldwide seroprevalences and clinical expression of the systemic and ocular forms

Guita Rubinsky-Elefant;C. E. Hirata;J. H. Yamamoto;Marcelo Urbano Ferreira

472
Citations
Challenges for malaria elimination in Brazil

Marcelo U. Ferreira;Marcia C. Castro

242
Citations
Transferrin receptor 1 is a reticulocyte-specific receptor for Plasmodium vivax

Jakub Gruszczyk;Usheer Kanjee;Li Jin Chan;Li Jin Chan;Sébastien Menant

231
Citations
Population genomics studies identify signatures of global dispersal and drug resistance in Plasmodium vivax

Daniel N Hupalo;Zunping Luo;Alexandre Melnikov;Patrick L Sutton

221
Citations
Genomic analysis of local variation and recent evolution in Plasmodium vivax

Richard D Pearson;Richard D Pearson;Roberto Amato;Roberto Amato;Sarah Auburn;Olivo Miotto;Olivo Miotto;Olivo Miotto

217
Citations
Amazonian malaria: Asymptomatic human reservoirs, diagnostic challenges, environmentally driven changes in mosquito vector populations, and the mandate for sustainable control strategies

Mônica da Silva-Nunes;Marta Moreno;Jan E. Conn;Jan E. Conn;Dionicia Gamboa

203
Citations
Antigenic Diversity and Immune Evasion by Malaria Parasites

Marcelo U. Ferreira;Mônica da Silva Nunes;Gerhard Wunderlich

184
Citations
Fy(a)/Fy(b) antigen polymorphism in human erythrocyte Duffy antigen affects susceptibility to Plasmodium vivax malaria.

Christopher L. King;John H. Adams;Jia Xianli;Brian T. Grimberg

179
Citations
Mosaic organization and heterogeneity in frequency of allelic recombination of the Plasmodium vivax merozoite surface protein-1 locus

Chaturong Putaporntip;Somchai Jongwutiwes;Naoko Sakihama;Marcelo Urbano Ferreira

177
Citations
Infectious causes of microcephaly: epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management

Delan Devakumar;Alasdair Bamford;Alasdair Bamford;Marcelo U Ferreira;Jonathan Broad

174
Citations
Bone Marrow Is a Major Parasite Reservoir in Plasmodium vivax Infection.

Nicanor Obaldia;Nicanor Obaldia;Elamaran Meibalan;Elamaran Meibalan;Juliana M. Sa;Siyuan Ma

170
Citations
Population structure and transmission dynamics of Plasmodium vivax in rural Amazonia.

Marcelo U. Ferreira;Nadira D. Karunaweera;Nadira D. Karunaweera;Mônica da Silva-Nunes;Natal S. da Silva

169
Citations
Underlying factors associated with anemia in Amazonian children: a population-based, cross-sectional study.

Marly Augusto Cardoso;Kézia K. G. Scopel;Pascoal T. Muniz;Eduardo Villamor

158
Citations
Age-Dependent Acquisition of Protective Immunity to Malaria in Riverine Populations of the Amazon Basin of Brazil

Simone Ladeia-Andrade;Marcelo Urbano Ferreira;Maria Esther de Carvalho;Izilda Curado

155
Citations
Plasmodium falciparum Accompanied the Human Expansion out of Africa

Kazuyuki Tanabe;Toshihiro Mita;Thibaut Jombart;Anders Eriksson

154
Citations
Genome-wide SNP genotyping highlights the role of natural selection in Plasmodium falciparum population divergence

Daniel E. Neafsey;Stephen F. Schaffner;Sarak K. Volkman;Sarak K. Volkman;Daniel Park

148
Citations
Unstable hypoendemic malaria in Rondonia (western Amazon region, Brazil): epidemic outbreaks and work-associated incidence in an agro-industrial rural settlement

L M Camargo;M U Ferreira;H Krieger;E P De Camargo

147
Citations
High prevalence of Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium ovale in malaria patients along the Thai‐Myanmar border, as revealed by acridine orange staining and PCR‐based diagnoses

M. Zhou;Q. Liu;C. Wongsrichanalai;W. Suwonkerd

145
Citations
Applying Faster R-CNN for Object Detection on Malaria Images

Jane Hung;Deepali Ravel;Stefanie C.P. Lopes;Gabriel Rangel

60
Citations