Ángel Balmaseda

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Ángel Balmaseda is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ángel Balmaseda has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Infectious Diseases, 65 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 39 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Ángel Balmaseda's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (64 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (57 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (36 papers). Ángel Balmaseda is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (64 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (57 papers) and Malaria Research and Control (36 papers). Ángel Balmaseda collaborates with scholars based in United States, Nicaragua and Rwanda. Ángel Balmaseda's co-authors include Eva Harris, Aubree Gordon, Lionel Gresh, Guillermina Kuan, Leah C. Katzelnick, Juan Carlos Mercado, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Magelda Montoya, Nery Sánchez and Sergio Ojeda and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Ángel Balmaseda

105 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Antibody-dependent enhancement of severe dengue disease in humans

2017 738 citations Leah C. Katzelnick, Lionel Gresh et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ángel Balmaseda United States	36	3.2k	3.2k	979	471	433	112	4.8k
Aubree Gordon United States	37	2.2k 0.7×	3.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	373 0.8×	502 1.2×	110	4.8k
Leah C. Katzelnick United States	27	2.4k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	545 0.6×	227 0.5×	252 0.6×	51	3.9k
Anna P. Durbin United States	48	4.8k 1.5×	4.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	538 1.1×	483 1.1×	126	6.4k
Richard G. Jarman United States	43	4.8k 1.5×	4.1k 1.3×	937 1.0×	254 0.5×	442 1.0×	173	6.5k
Daniel H. Libraty United States	37	4.2k 1.3×	4.1k 1.3×	834 0.9×	1.5k 3.2×	410 0.9×	64	6.4k
Philippe Dussart Cambodia	33	2.4k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	854 0.9×	156 0.3×	299 0.7×	149	3.8k
Anon Srikiatkhachorn United States	35	3.0k 0.9×	2.6k 0.8×	798 0.8×	545 1.2×	191 0.4×	73	4.2k
Timothy P. Endy United States	40	4.6k 1.4×	4.0k 1.3×	476 0.5×	321 0.7×	214 0.5×	112	5.6k
Alison J. Johnson United States	24	3.5k 1.1×	3.1k 1.0×	894 0.9×	494 1.0×	245 0.6×	38	4.3k
Marc Fischer United States	29	5.0k 1.6×	4.2k 1.3×	1.7k 1.7×	182 0.4×	505 1.2×	80	6.2k

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Côrtes, Fernanda Heloise, Rosa Isela Gálvez, Elizabeth J. Phillips, et al.. (2025). Identification of immunogenic and cross-reactive chikungunya virus epitopes for CD4+ T cells in chronic chikungunya disease. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5756–5756.

Márquez, Sully, José G. Juárez, Cristhiam Cerpas, et al.. (2025). Enhancing capacities in genomic surveillance capabilities for SARS-CoV-2 and dengue virus: A South-South collaborative partnership. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(4). e0004365–e0004365.

Myers, Rachel A., José Víctor Zambrana, Brenda López, et al.. (2024). Obesity Is Associated With Increased Pediatric Dengue Virus Infection and Disease: A 9-Year Cohort Study in Managua, Nicaragua. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 79(4). 1102–1108. 4 indexed citations

Stadlbauer, Daniel, Ángel Balmaseda, Guillermina Kuan, et al.. (2024). Humoral Correlates of Protection Against Influenza A/H3N2 Virus Infection. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 230(6). 1319–1328. 2 indexed citations

Tami, Adriana, Tereza Magalhæs, Ernesto T. A. Marques, et al.. (2024). Pooled Cohort Profile: ReCoDID Consortium’s Harmonized Acute Febrile Illness Arbovirus Meta-Cohort. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 10. e54281–e54281. 2 indexed citations

Kuan, Guillermina, Roger López, Sergio Ojeda, et al.. (2023). Infection-Induced Immunity Is Associated With Protection Against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection and Decreased Infectivity. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 76(12). 2126–2133. 9 indexed citations

Aogo, Rosemary A., José Víctor Zambrana, Nery Sánchez, et al.. (2023). Effects of boosting and waning in highly exposed populations on dengue epidemic dynamics. Science Translational Medicine. 15(722). eadi1734–eadi1734. 12 indexed citations

Maier, Hannah E., Guillermina Kuan, Nery Sánchez, et al.. (2023). Increased influenza severity in children in the wake of SARS‐CoV‐2. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 17(7). e13178–e13178. 9 indexed citations

Hacker, Kathryn P., Guillermina Kuan, Gerardo Chowell, et al.. (2022). Pediatric burden and seasonality of human metapneumovirus over 5 years in Managua, Nicaragua. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 16(6). 1112–1121. 14 indexed citations

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Maier, Hannah E., Miguel Plazaola, Roger López, et al.. (2022). SARS‐CoV‐2 infection‐induced immunity and the duration of viral shedding: Results from a Nicaraguan household cohort study. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 17(1). e13074–e13074. 7 indexed citations

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Kubale, John, Ángel Balmaseda, Cristhiam Cerpas, et al.. (2022). High Co-circulation of Influenza and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 9(12). ofac642–ofac642. 5 indexed citations

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Balmaseda, Ángel, Mayuri Patel, Sergio Ojeda, et al.. (2022). Burden and seasonality of primary and secondary symptomatic common cold coronavirus infections in Nicaraguan children. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 17(1). e13078–e13078. 2 indexed citations

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Maier, Hannah E., Guillermina Kuan, Lionel Gresh, et al.. (2022). The Nicaraguan Pediatric Influenza Cohort Study, 2011–2019: Influenza Incidence, Seasonality, and Transmission. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 76(3). e1094–e1103. 5 indexed citations

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Kubale, John, Guillermina Kuan, Sergio Ojeda, et al.. (2022). SARS-CoV-2 and endemic coronaviruses: Comparing symptom presentation and severity of symptomatic illness among Nicaraguan children. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(5). e0000414–e0000414. 5 indexed citations

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Brouwer, Andrew F., Ángel Balmaseda, Lionel Gresh, et al.. (2022). Birth cohort relative to an influenza A virus’s antigenic cluster introduction drives patterns of children’s antibody titers. PLoS Pathogens. 18(2). e1010317–e1010317. 5 indexed citations

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Andrade, Paulina, Magelda Montoya, Daniela Michlmayr, et al.. (2020). Primary and Secondary Dengue Virus Infections Elicit Similar Memory B-Cell Responses, but Breadth to Other Serotypes and Cross-Reactivity to Zika Virus Is Higher in Secondary Dengue. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 222(4). 590–600. 18 indexed citations

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Thongsripong, Panpim, et al.. (2020). Evolution and epidemiologic dynamics of dengue virus in Nicaragua during the emergence of chikungunya and Zika viruses. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 92. 104680–104680. 8 indexed citations

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Nachbagauer, Raffael, Ángel Balmaseda, Daniel Stadlbauer, et al.. (2020). Antibody responses to influenza A(H1N1)pdm infection. Vaccine. 38(27). 4221–4225. 4 indexed citations

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Maier, Hannah E., Raffael Nachbagauer, Guillermina Kuan, et al.. (2019). Pre-existing Antineuraminidase Antibodies Are Associated With Shortened Duration of Influenza A(H1N1)pdm Virus Shedding and Illness in Naturally Infected Adults. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 70(11). 2290–2297. 64 indexed citations

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Weiskopf, Daniela, Alba Grifoni, Cecilia S. Lindestam Arlehamn, et al.. (2017). Sequence-based HLA-A, B, C, DP, DQ, and DR typing of 339 adults from Managua, Nicaragua. Human Immunology. 79(1). 1–2. 8 indexed citations

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