Alfred Cortés

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

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Alfred Cortés is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alfred Cortés has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 27 papers in Immunology and 18 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alfred Cortés's work include Malaria Research and Control (45 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (20 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (16 papers). Alfred Cortés is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (45 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (20 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (16 papers). Alfred Cortés collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Papua New Guinea and Switzerland. Alfred Cortés's co-authors include Núria Rovira‐Graells, Valerie M. Crowley, Cristina Bancells, John C. Reeder, Lluı́s Ribas de Pouplana, Manuel Llinás, Hans‐Peter Beck, Björn F.C. Kafsack, Mirjam Kaestli and Ariadna Benet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Alfred Cortés

51 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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A transcriptional switch underlies commitment to sexual development in malaria parasites

2014 338 citations Björn F.C. Kafsack, Núria Rovira‐Graells et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alfred Cortés Spain	28	1.8k	919	825	257	243	52	2.2k
Peter L. Blair United States	14	1.6k 0.9×	805 0.9×	769 0.9×	306 1.2×	196 0.8×	18	2.2k
Rosaura Hernández‐Rivas Mexico	21	1.3k 0.8×	761 0.8×	864 1.0×	313 1.2×	240 1.0×	60	2.2k
Victor Fernandez Sweden	17	1.5k 0.8×	867 0.9×	402 0.5×	222 0.9×	193 0.8×	27	2.0k
Pedro Clavijo United States	23	1.3k 0.8×	809 0.9×	1.1k 1.3×	209 0.8×	247 1.0×	29	2.2k
B. Kim Lee Sim United States	29	1.6k 0.9×	739 0.8×	438 0.5×	333 1.3×	215 0.9×	75	2.2k
Jeffrey A. Lyon United States	28	1.4k 0.8×	739 0.8×	790 1.0×	211 0.8×	204 0.8×	45	2.1k
Ababacar Diouf United States	24	1.3k 0.8×	630 0.7×	412 0.5×	207 0.8×	154 0.6×	53	1.7k
Ellen Knuepfer United Kingdom	25	1.9k 1.1×	657 0.7×	618 0.7×	425 1.7×	163 0.7×	39	2.4k
Ann‐Kristin Mueller Germany	20	1.3k 0.7×	432 0.5×	610 0.7×	425 1.7×	114 0.5×	48	1.9k
Till S. Voss Switzerland	28	2.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	411 1.6×	482 2.0×	54	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alfred Cortés

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Llorà-Batlle, Oriol, et al.. (2025). Heterochromatin de novo formation and maintenance in Plasmodium falciparum. PLoS Pathogens. 21(6). e1013137–e1013137.

Casas-Vila, Núria, et al.. (2024). Heterochromatin dynamics during the initial stages of sexual development in Plasmodium falciparum. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 23180–23180. 2 indexed citations

Llorà-Batlle, Oriol, María Fernanda Yasnot, Mariona Graupera, et al.. (2024). Plasmodium vivax spleen-dependent protein 1 and its role in extracellular vesicles-mediated intrasplenic infections. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 14. 1408451–1408451. 1 indexed citations

Cortés, Alfred, et al.. (2022). Malaria parasites do respond to heat. Trends in Parasitology. 38(6). 435–449. 6 indexed citations

Natama, Hamtandi Magloire, Pieter Guetens, Eduard Rovira-Vallbona, et al.. (2022). Plasmodium falciparum sexual conversion rates can be affected by artemisinin-based treatment in naturally infected malaria patients. EBioMedicine. 83. 104198–104198. 7 indexed citations

Russell, Timothy J., Núria Casas-Vila, David J. Conway, et al.. (2021). A heat-shock response regulated by the PfAP2-HS transcription factor protects human malaria parasites from febrile temperatures. Nature Microbiology. 6(9). 1163–1174. 31 indexed citations

Llorà-Batlle, Oriol, et al.. (2020). Conditional expression of PfAP2-G for controlled massive sexual conversion in Plasmodium falciparum. Science Advances. 6(24). eaaz5057–eaaz5057. 52 indexed citations

Amambua‐Ngwa, Alfred, Emmanuel Bottieau, Muna Affara, et al.. (2017). Expression of the Plasmodium falciparum Clonally Variant clag3 Genes in Human Infections. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 215(6). 938–945. 26 indexed citations

Cortés, Alfred & Kirk Deitsch. (2017). Malaria Epigenetics. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 7(7). a025528–a025528. 51 indexed citations

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Rovira‐Graells, Núria, et al.. (2016). New Assays to Characterise Growth-Related Phenotypes of Plasmodium falciparum Reveal Variation in Density-Dependent Growth Inhibition between Parasite Lines. PLoS ONE. 11(10). e0165358–e0165358. 17 indexed citations

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Kafsack, Björn F.C., Núria Rovira‐Graells, Taane G. Clark, et al.. (2014). A transcriptional switch underlies commitment to sexual development in malaria parasites. Nature. 507(7491). 248–252. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hoen, Rob, Eva Maria Novoa, Noelia Camacho, et al.. (2013). Selective Inhibition of an Apicoplastic Aminoacyl‐tRNA Synthetase from Plasmodium falciparum. ChemBioChem. 14(4). 499–509. 25 indexed citations

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Crowley, Valerie M., Núria Rovira‐Graells, Lluı́s Ribas de Pouplana, & Alfred Cortés. (2011). Heterochromatin formation in bistable chromatin domains controls the epigenetic repression of clonally variant Plasmodium falciparum genes linked to erythrocyte invasion. Molecular Microbiology. 80(2). 391–406. 63 indexed citations

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Cortés, Alfred, et al.. (2007). Epigenetic Silencing of Plasmodium falciparum Genes Linked to Erythrocyte Invasion. PLoS Pathogens. 3(8). e107–e107. 121 indexed citations

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Kaestli, Mirjam, Ian A. Cockburn, Alfred Cortés, et al.. (2006). Virulence of Malaria Is Associated with Differential Expression ofPlasmodium falciparum varGene Subgroups in a Case‐Control Study. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 193(11). 1567–1574. 121 indexed citations

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Cortés, Alfred, et al.. (2005). Adhesion of Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells to CD36 under flow is enhanced by the cerebral malaria-protective trait South–East Asian ovalocytosis. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 142(2). 252–257. 26 indexed citations

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Cortés, Alfred. (2004). A chimeric Plasmodium falciparum Pfnbp2b/Pfnbp2a gene originated during asexual growth. International Journal for Parasitology. 35(2). 125–130. 22 indexed citations

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Cortés, Alfred, et al.. (2004). Plasmodium falciparum: distribution of msp2 genotypes among symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals from the Wosera region of Papua New Guinea. Experimental Parasitology. 106(1-2). 22–29. 16 indexed citations

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Cortés, Alfred, Ingrid Felger, & Hans‐Peter Beck. (2003). Molecular parasitology of malaria in Papua New Guinea. Trends in Parasitology. 19(6). 246–249. 2 indexed citations

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Cole‐Tobian, Jennifer L., Alfred Cortés, Moses Baisor, et al.. (2002). Age‐Acquired Immunity to aPlasmodium vivaxInvasion Ligand, the Duffy Binding Protein. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 186(4). 531–539. 72 indexed citations

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