2026 Marco Salemi: Microbiology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Microbiology	59	3246	2974	1284	1142	280	14242

Marco Salemi 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 Marco Salemi sits on this spectrum.

55 publications 679+

This scientist: 280 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Marco Salemi 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 Marco Salemi sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Marco Salemi is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields primarily within medicine, with a strong focus on infectious diseases and molecular biology. Salemi has contributed extensively to the study of viral pathogens and their epidemiology, addressing key challenges related to emerging and re-emerging infections.

The main fields of study for Salemi include:

Medicine
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broader fields, Salemi's work delves into several subfields:

Infectious Diseases
Molecular Biology
Epidemiology
Virology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

The topics they investigate cover important areas in current global health, including:

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
HIV Research and Treatment
Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
Mosquito-borne diseases and control
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Vibrio bacteria research studies

Salemi's recent notable research papers include:

"Independent infections of porcine deltacoronavirus among Haitian children," 2021, Nature
"The global spread of 2019-nCoV: a molecular evolutionary analysis," 2020, Pathogens and Global Health
"Collection of SARS-CoV-2 Virus from the Air of a Clinic within a University Student Health Care Center and Analyses of the Viral Genomic Sequence," 2020, Aerosol and Air Quality Research
"A thermostable Cas12b from Brevibacillus leverages one-pot discrimination of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern," 2022, EBioMedicine

The primary venues where Salemi publishes include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Clinical Infectious Diseases
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Microbiology Spectrum

Collaborations with frequent co-authors demonstrate an extensive network in the infectious disease research community. Key collaborators include:

Carla Mavian
Simone Marini
Mattia Prosperi
Brittany Rife Magalis
Melanie N. Cash

Best Publications

An index of substitution saturation and its application.

Xuhua Xia;Zheng Xie;Marco Salemi;Lu Chen

1697
Citations
Vitamins and Hormones

Robert S. et.al Harris;Philippe Lemey;Marco Salemi;Anne-Mieke Vandamme

1265
Citations
Tracing the origin and history of the HIV-2 epidemic.

Philippe Lemey;Oliver G. Pybus;Bin Wang;Nitin K. Saksena

592
Citations
The Phylogenetic Handbook: A Practical Approach to Phylogenetic Analysis and Hypothesis Testing

Philippe Lemey;Marco Salemi;Anne-Mieke Vandamme

492
Citations
Independent infections of porcine deltacoronavirus among Haitian children.

John A. Lednicky;Massimiliano S. Tagliamonte;Sarah K. White;Maha A. Elbadry

402
Citations
Ancient co-speciation of simian foamy viruses and primates.

William M. Switzer;Marco Salemi;Vedapuri Shanmugam;Feng Gao

309
Citations
Structure of the HIV-1 RNA packaging signal

Sarah C. Keane;Xiao Heng;Kun Lu;Siarhei Kharytonchyk

302
Citations
the Phylogenetic Handbook : A Practical Approach to DNA and protein phylogeny

Marco Salemi;Anne-Mieke Vandamme

242
Citations
The global spread of 2019-nCoV: a molecular evolutionary analysis.

Domenico Benvenuto;Marta Giovanetti;Marco Salemi;Mattia Prosperi

205
Citations
Dating the common ancestor of SIVcpz and HIV-1 group M and the origin of HIV-1 subtypes by using a new method to uncover clock-like molecular evolution

Marco Salemi;Korbinian Strimmer;William W. Hall;Margaret Duffy

204
Citations
QuRe: software for viral quasispecies reconstruction from next-generation sequencing data.

Mattia C. F. Prosperi;Marco Salemi

178
Citations
Dating the Origin of the African Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type-I (HTLV-I) Subtypes

S. Van Dooren;M. Salemi;A.-M. Vandamme

176
Citations
Characterization of a Novel Simian Immunodeficiency Virus with a vpu Gene from Greater Spot-Nosed Monkeys (Cercopithecus nictitans) Provides New Insights into Simian/Human Immunodeficiency Virus Phylogeny

Valérie Courgnaud;Marco Salemi;Xavier Pourrut;Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole

175
Citations
U.S. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Epidemic: Date of Origin, Population History, and Characterization of Early Strains

Kenneth E. Robbins;Philippe Lemey;Oliver G. Pybus;Harold W. Jaffe

170
Citations
HIV DNA Is Frequently Present within Pathologic Tissues Evaluated at Autopsy from Combined Antiretroviral Therapy-Treated Patients with Undetectable Viral Loads

Susanna L. Lamers;Rebecca Rose;Ekaterina Maidji;Melissa Agsalda-Garcia

165
Citations
The mode and tempo of hepatitis C virus evolution within and among hosts

Rebecca R Gray;Joe Parker;Philippe Lemey;Marco Salemi

160
Citations
Mayaro Virus in Child with Acute Febrile Illness, Haiti, 2015.

John Lednicky;Valery Madsen Beau De Rochars;Maha Elbadry;Julia Loeb

151
Citations
A novel methodology for large-scale phylogeny partition

Mattia C.F. Prosperi;Massimo Ciccozzi;Iuri Fanti;Francesco Saladini

149
Citations
Molecular epidemiology: HIV-1 and HCV sequences from Libyan outbreak

Tulio de Oliveira;Oliver G. Pybus;Andrew Rambaut;Marco Salemi

138
Citations
Zika Virus Outbreak in Haiti in 2014: Molecular and Clinical Data.

John Lednicky;Valery Madsen Beau De Rochars;Maha El Badry;Julia Loeb

132
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne-Mieke Vandamme Rega Institute for Medical Research

Massimo Ciccozzi Università Campus Bio-Medico

J. Glenn Morris University of Florida

John A. Lednicky University of Florida

Michael S. McGrath University of California, San Francisco

Kenneth C. Williams The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Oliver G. Pybus University of Oxford

Philippe Lemey KU Leuven

Tulio de Oliveira University of KwaZulu-Natal

Judith A. Johnson University of Florida

External Links

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