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Marilia Sá Carvalho

Marilia Sá Carvalho

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
57
Citations
12486
World Ranking
1784
National Ranking
17

Marilia Sá Carvalho publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marilia Sá Carvalho sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 302 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Marilia Sá Carvalho D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marilia Sá Carvalho sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Marilia Sá Carvalho is affiliated with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Brazil. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a significant concentration on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Modeling and Simulation, Infectious Diseases, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, and Information Systems and Management.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, notably:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Scientometrics and bibliometrics research
  • Academic Publishing and Open Access
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Viral Infections and Vectors

Their publication record includes papers such as "A pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil: crônica de uma crise sanitária anunciada" (2020) published in Cadernos de Saúde Pública, "Combined effects of hydrometeorological hazards and urbanisation on dengue risk in Brazil: a spatiotemporal modelling study" (2021) in The Lancet Planetary Health, "O que é urgente e necessário para subsidiar as políticas de enfrentamento da pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil?" (2020) in Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, "The COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: chronicle of a health crisis foretold." (2020) in PubMed, and "Rainfall and other meteorological factors as drivers of urban transmission of leptospirosis" (2022) in PLoS neglected tropical diseases.

Marilia collaborates frequently with various researchers, including Luciana Dias de Lima, Luciana Correia Alves, Luiz Carlos de Sá Carvalho, Leonardo Soares Bastos, and Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz.

Their research has been published predominantly in journals such as:

  • Cadernos de Saúde Pública
  • PubMed
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Scientific Reports

In addition to journal articles, Marilia Sá Carvalho has contributed to book publications including Complexidade e ação sistêmica na saúde coletiva (2025) published by Editora FIOCRUZ eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil): objectives and design.

    Estela M. L Aquino;Sandhi Maria Barreto;Isabela M Benseñor;Marília Sá Carvalho

  • Cohort Profile: Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)

    Maria Inês Schmidt;Bruce B Duncan;José Geraldo Mill;Paulo A Lotufo

  • Impact of environment and social gradient on Leptospira infection in urban slums.

    Renato B. Reis;Guilherme S. Ribeiro;Ridalva D. M. Felzemburgh;Francisco S. Santana

  • The Zika Virus Epidemic in Brazil: From Discovery to Future Implications.

    Rachel Lowe;Christovam Barcellos;Patrícia Brasil;Oswaldo G Cruz

  • Zika Virus Outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Clinical Characterization, Epidemiological and Virological Aspects

    Patrícia Brasil;Guilherme Amaral Calvet;André Machado Siqueira;Mayumi Wakimoto

  • Análise de dados espaciais em saúde pública: métodos, problemas, perspectivas

    Marilia Sá Carvalho;Reinaldo Souza-Santos

  • The effect of chronic diseases on functional status of the elderly living in the city of São Paulo, Brazil

    Luciana Correia Alves;Beatriz Consuelo Quinet Leimann;Maria Estrella López Vasconcelos;Marilia Sá Carvalho

  • Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment and Influence of Socioeconomic Variables on Control of High Blood Pressure: Results of the ELSA-Brasil Study.

    Dora Chor;Antônio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro;Marilia Sá Carvalho;Bruce Bartholow Duncan

  • Prospective study of leptospirosis transmission in an urban slum community: role of poor environment in repeated exposures to the leptospira agent

    Ridalva D. M. Felzemburgh;Guilherme S. Ribeiro;Federico Costa;Renato B. Reis

  • Prenatal and postnatal depression among low income Brazilian women

    V.A. Da-Silva;A.R. Moraes-Santos;M.S. Carvalho;M.L.P. Martins

  • Spatial Evaluation and Modeling of Dengue Seroprevalence and Vector Density in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Nildimar Alves Honório;Rita Maria Ribeiro Nogueira;Cláudia Torres Codeço;Marilia Sá Carvalho

  • Mudanças climáticas e ambientais e as doenças infecciosas: cenários e incertezas para o Brasil

    Christovam Barcellos;Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro;Carlos Corvalán;Helen C. Gurgel

  • An open challenge to advance probabilistic forecasting for dengue epidemics.

    Michael A. Johansson;Michael A. Johansson;Karyn M. Apfeldorf;Scott Dobson;Jason Devita

  • Prognosis of critically ill patients with cancer and acute renal dysfunction.

    Márcio Soares;Jorge I.F. Salluh;Marilia S. Carvalho;Michael Darmon

  • Spatio-temporal modelling of climate-sensitive disease risk: Towards an early warning system for dengue in Brazil

    Rachel Lowe;Trevor C. Bailey;David B. Stephenson;Richard J. Graham

  • Spatiotemporal Determinants of Urban Leptospirosis Transmission: Four-Year Prospective Cohort Study of Slum Residents in Brazil

    José E. Hagan;Paula Moraga;Federico Costa;Federico Costa;Federico Costa;Nicolas Capian

  • Developing new approaches for detecting and preventing Aedes aegypti population outbreaks: basis for surveillance, alert and control system

    Lêda Regis;Antonio Miguel Monteiro;Maria Alice Varjal de Melo-Santos;José Constantino Silveira

  • O que é urgente e necessário para subsidiar as políticas de enfrentamento da pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil?

    Mauricio Lima Barreto;Mauricio Lima Barreto;Aluisio Jardim Dornellas de Barros;Marília Sá Carvalho;Claudia Torres Codeço

  • Combined effects of hydrometeorological hazards and urbanisation on dengue risk in Brazil: a spatiotemporal modelling study.

    Rachel Lowe;Sophie A Lee;Kathleen M O'Reilly;Oliver J Brady

  • A pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil: crônica de uma crise sanitária anunciada

    Guilherme Loureiro Werneck;Guilherme Loureiro Werneck;Marilia Sá Carvalho

  • Análise de sobrevivência: teoria e aplicações em saúde

    Marilia Sá Carvalho;Valeska Lima Andreozzi;Claudia Torres Codeço;Dayse Pereira Campos

  • A pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil: Crnica de uma crise sanitria anunciada

    Guilherme Loureiro Werneck;Marilia S Carvalho

Frequent Co-Authors

Christovam Barcellos
Christovam Barcellos Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Dóra Chor
Dóra Chor Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Patrícia Brasil
Patrícia Brasil Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Albert I. Ko
Albert I. Ko Yale University
David B. Stephenson
David B. Stephenson University of Exeter
Cláudia Torres Codeço
Cláudia Torres Codeço Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Mitermayer G. Reis
Mitermayer G. Reis Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Isabela M. Benseñor
Isabela M. Benseñor Universidade de São Paulo
Mauricio Lima Barreto
Mauricio Lima Barreto Oswaldo Cruz Foundation
Beatriz Grinsztejn
Beatriz Grinsztejn Oswaldo Cruz Foundation

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