Cynthia Braga

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
96 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Cynthia Braga is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cynthia Braga has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Infectious Diseases, 39 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 19 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Cynthia Braga's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (35 papers), Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment (26 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (19 papers). Cynthia Braga is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (35 papers), Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment (26 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (19 papers). Cynthia Braga collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and United Kingdom. Cynthia Braga's co-authors include Wayner Vieira de Souza, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli, Marli Tenório Cordeiro, Ernesto T. A. Marques, Maria de Fátima Pessoa Militão de Albuquerque, Ulísses Ramos Montarroyos, Priscila M. S. Castanha, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes, David O. Freedman and Laura C. Rodrigues and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Journal of Immunology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Cynthia Braga

92 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Association between Zika virus infection and microcephaly in Brazil, January to May, 2016: preliminary report of a case-control study

2016 322 citations Thália Velho Barreto de Araújo, Laura C. Rodrigues et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cynthia Braga Brazil	29	1.5k	1.4k	661	315	308	96	2.7k
Dominique Rousset France	36	1.5k 1.0×	2.1k 1.5×	1.3k 2.0×	355 1.1×	178 0.6×	132	4.0k
Leisa Weld United States	30	2.4k 1.6×	1.3k 0.9×	449 0.7×	586 1.9×	574 1.9×	38	3.7k
Louis Loutan Switzerland	31	1.3k 0.8×	612 0.4×	860 1.3×	320 1.0×	333 1.1×	97	3.2k
Maria Glória Teixeira Brazil	35	2.5k 1.7×	1.7k 1.2×	470 0.7×	55 0.2×	279 0.9×	133	4.2k
Evan M. Bloch United States	25	758 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	560 0.8×	205 0.7×	427 1.4×	165	2.6k
José Eduardo Levi Brazil	31	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.9×	241 0.8×	93 0.3×	173	3.3k
Christian T. Bautista United States	30	957 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	149 0.5×	312 1.0×	105	3.5k
Clas Ahlm Sweden	39	1.1k 0.7×	3.2k 2.2×	489 0.7×	87 0.3×	168 0.5×	161	4.6k
Pedro Luíz Tauil Brazil	26	1.6k 1.1×	491 0.3×	343 0.5×	48 0.2×	262 0.9×	96	2.3k
Patrick Walker United Kingdom	33	1.3k 0.8×	458 0.3×	1.6k 2.4×	71 0.2×	215 0.7×	126	3.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Höfelmann, Dorotéia Aparecida & Cynthia Braga. (2023). Contribuições do Sistema de Vigilância Alimentar e Nutricional (Sisvan) nas análises do perfil nutricional da população brasileira: potencialidades e limitações. Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde. 32(4).

Castanha, Priscila M. S., et al.. (2022). Mannose-binding lectin levels and MBL2 gene polymorphisms are associated with dengue infection in Brazilian children at the early ages. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 117. 212–219. 3 indexed citations

Alexander, Neâl, Wayner Vieira de Souza, Laura C. Rodrigues, et al.. (2020). Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Population Risk of Congenital Microcephaly in Pernambuco State, Brazil. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(3). 700–700. 3 indexed citations

Magalhæs, Tereza, et al.. (2020). The Endless Challenges of Arboviral Diseases in Brazil. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease. 5(2). 75–75. 22 indexed citations

Castanha, Priscila M. S., Wayner Vieira de Souza, Cynthia Braga, et al.. (2019). Perinatal analyses of Zika- and dengue virus-specific neutralizing antibodies: A microcephaly case-control study in an area of high dengue endemicity in Brazil. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 13(3). e0007246–e0007246. 37 indexed citations

Aguiar-Santos, Ana Maria, et al.. (2019). Assessment of transmission in areas of uncertain endemicity for lymphatic filariasis in Brazil. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 13(11). e0007836–e0007836. 10 indexed citations

Ramesh, Anita, Mary Cameron, Maria Alice Varjal de Melo-Santos, et al.. (2018). Development of an urban molecular xenomonitoring system for lymphatic filariasis in the Recife Metropolitan Region, Brazil. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 12(10). e0006816–e0006816. 12 indexed citations

Castanha, Priscila M. S., Cynthia Braga, Marli Tenório Cordeiro, et al.. (2016). Placental Transfer of Dengue Virus (DENV)–Specific Antibodies and Kinetics of DENV Infection–Enhancing Activity in Brazilian Infants. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 214(2). 265–272. 38 indexed citations

Souza, Ariani Impieri de, Priscila M. S. Castanha, Marli Tenório Cordeiro, et al.. (2014). Dengue infection in pregnancy and transplacental transfer of anti-dengue antibodies in Northeast, Brazil. Journal of Clinical Virology. 60(1). 16–21. 29 indexed citations

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Albuquerque, Maria de Fátima Pessoa Militão de, Joanna d’Arc Lyra Batista, Cynthia Braga, et al.. (2014). Validating a Scoring System for the Diagnosis of Smear-Negative Pulmonary Tuberculosis in HIV-Infected Adults. PLoS ONE. 9(4). e95828–e95828. 7 indexed citations

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Féres, Valéria Christina de Rezende, et al.. (2013). Prevalence and incidence of dengue virus and antibody placental transfer during late pregnancy in central Brazil. BMC Infectious Diseases. 13(1). 254–254. 33 indexed citations

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Castanha, Priscila M. S., Marli Tenório Cordeiro, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli, et al.. (2012). Force of infection of dengue serotypes in a population-based study in the northeast of Brazil. Epidemiology and Infection. 141(5). 1080–1088. 43 indexed citations

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Rodríguez-Barraquer, Isabel, Marli Tenório Cordeiro, Cynthia Braga, et al.. (2011). From Re-Emergence to Hyperendemicity: The Natural History of the Dengue Epidemic in Brazil. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 5(1). e935–e935. 117 indexed citations

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Braga, Cynthia, et al.. (2010). Correlation Between Pesticide Use in Agriculture and Adverse Birth Outcomes in Brazil: An Ecological Study. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 84(6). 647–651. 31 indexed citations

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Braga, Cynthia, et al.. (2009). Efeito da fortificação alimentar com ácido fólico na prevalência \nde defeitos do tubo neural. Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). 13 indexed citations

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Ximenes, Ricardo Arraes de Alencar, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli, Edgar Merchán-Hamann, et al.. (2008). Multilevel analysis of hepatitis A infection in children and adolescents: a household survey in the Northeast and Central-west regions of Brazil. International Journal of Epidemiology. 37(4). 852–861. 48 indexed citations

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Braga, Cynthia, et al.. (2005). Bancroftian filariasis in an endemic area of Brazil: differences between genders during puberty. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Braga, Cynthia. (1998). Risk factors for the occurrence of bancroftian filariasis infection in children living in endemic areas of northeast of Brazil. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics. 44(2). 87–91. 11 indexed citations

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Braga, Cynthia, et al.. (1997). Perfil epidemiológico da filariose linfática em crianças residentes em áreas endêmicas Epidemiological pattern of limphatic filariasis in children living in endemic areas. 2 indexed citations

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Freedman, David O., et al.. (1995). Abnormal Lymphatic Function in Presymptomatic Bancroftian Filariasis. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 171(4). 997–1001. 30 indexed citations

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