Federico Costa

9.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
123 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Federico Costa is a scholar working on Parasitology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Federico Costa has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Parasitology, 47 papers in Infectious Diseases and 33 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Federico Costa's work include Leptospirosis research and findings (66 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (36 papers) and Zoonotic diseases and public health (18 papers). Federico Costa is often cited by papers focused on Leptospirosis research and findings (66 papers), Viral Infections and Vectors (36 papers) and Zoonotic diseases and public health (18 papers). Federico Costa collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and United Kingdom. Federico Costa's co-authors include Albert I. Ko, José E. Hagan, Martha Sílvia Martinez-Silveira, Juan Ignácio Calcagno, Mitermayer Galvão dos Reis, Michael J. Kane, Paul R. Torgerson, Cláudia Stein, Bernadette Abela-Ridder and Guilherme S. Ribeiro and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and Annals of Internal Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Federico Costa

117 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

Global Morbidity and Mortality of Leptospirosis: A System... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2016 2015 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Global Morbidity and Mortality of Leptospirosis: A Systematic Review
    2015 1.2k citations Federico Costa, José E. Hagan et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases profile →
  2. Zika virus: History, emergence, biology, and prospects for control
    2016 505 citations Federico Costa, Albert I. Ko et al. profile →
  3. Global Burden of Leptospirosis: Estimated in Terms of Disability Adjusted Life Years
    2015 270 citations José E. Hagan, Federico Costa et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Federico Costa Brazil 32 3.0k 2.2k 1.6k 479 449 123 5.1k
Dennis Tappe Germany 30 1.2k 0.4× 1.8k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 172 0.4× 511 1.1× 191 3.8k
Rupert J. Quinnell United Kingdom 39 1.9k 0.6× 805 0.4× 2.5k 1.6× 558 1.2× 984 2.2× 101 5.3k
Jörg Heukelbach Brazil 49 2.7k 0.9× 5.7k 2.5× 1.7k 1.1× 184 0.4× 392 0.9× 249 8.3k
Jan Hattendorf Switzerland 38 2.4k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 870 0.6× 1.4k 2.9× 1.3k 2.8× 203 5.4k
Fernando Ferreira Brazil 35 2.1k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 1.0k 2.1× 326 0.7× 246 4.7k
Daniel A. Boakye Ghana 38 1.9k 0.6× 2.6k 1.2× 1.6k 1.0× 818 1.7× 1.7k 3.8× 190 5.3k
C. N. L. Macpherson Grenada 36 2.3k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 563 0.4× 195 0.4× 812 1.8× 109 4.4k
Mark Bronsvoort United Kingdom 37 835 0.3× 1.6k 0.7× 791 0.5× 775 1.6× 413 0.9× 177 4.5k
Philip J. Cooper Ecuador 41 2.3k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 546 0.3× 621 1.3× 966 2.2× 150 5.3k
Uriel Kitron United States 37 940 0.3× 2.2k 1.0× 2.9k 1.9× 148 0.3× 346 0.8× 74 4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Federico Costa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Federico Costa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Federico Costa

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Federico Costa. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Federico Costa based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Federico Costa. Federico Costa is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ecke, Frauke, Jan C. Semenza, Elena Bužan, et al.. (2025). Adaptive ecosystem restoration to mitigate zoonotic risks. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(11). 1979–1988.
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Perrone, Serafina, V. Dell’Orto, Giuseppe De Bernardo, et al.. (2024). Predictive Role of Reticulocyte Fluorescence for Late Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Very Low Birth Weight Infants. Archives of Medical Research. 55(7). 103066–103066. 1 indexed citations
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Stuart, Alexander M., Jens Jacob, Federico Costa, et al.. (2024). Alternative domestic rodent pest management approaches to address the hazardous use of metal phosphides in low- and middle-income countries. Journal of Pest Science. 98(1). 89–111. 2 indexed citations
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Alves, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega, et al.. (2024). Wildlife as Food and Medicine in Brazil: A Neglected Zoonotic Risk?. Pathogens. 13(3). 222–222.
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Eyre, Max T., Peter J. Diggle, Albert I. Ko, et al.. (2024). Disentangling the influence of reservoir abundance and pathogen shedding on zoonotic spillover of the Leptospira agent in urban informal settlements. Frontiers in Public Health. 12. 1447592–1447592. 3 indexed citations
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Nery, Nívison, Joe Brown, Anu G. Bourgeois, et al.. (2023). A tale of two communities: Comparing user perceptions of condominial and conventional sewer systems in Salvador, Brazil. PLOS Water. 2(11). e0000129–e0000129. 1 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Daiana de, et al.. (2023). Bartonella in Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) from the urban slum environment in Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 95(suppl 2). e20220809–e20220809. 1 indexed citations
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Nery, Nívison, Juan P. Aguilar Ticona, Moyra Machado Portilho, et al.. (2022). Reliable estimation of SARS-CoV-2 anti-spike protein IgG titers from single dilution optical density values in serologic surveys. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 104(4). 115807–115807.
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Cremonese, Cleber, et al.. (2022). A Systematic Review of the geographic distribution of pathogenic Leptospira serovars in the Americas, 1930-2017. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 94(3). e20201026–e20201026. 20 indexed citations
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Costa, Federico, Hammed Oladeji Mogaji, Mitermayer Galvão dos Reis, et al.. (2022). Why is leptospirosis hard to avoid for the impoverished? Deconstructing leptospirosis transmission risk and the drivers of knowledge, attitudes, and practices in a disadvantaged community in Salvador, Brazil. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(12). e0000408–e0000408. 3 indexed citations
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Silva, Eduardo Mendes da, et al.. (2021). Using Rhodamine B to assess the movement of small mammals in an urban slum. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(11). 2234–2242. 9 indexed citations
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Ramos, Eduardo Antônio Gonçalves, et al.. (2021). Leptospira interrogans biofilm formation in Rattus norvegicus (Norway rats) natural reservoirs. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(9). e0009736–e0009736. 26 indexed citations
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Ticona, Juan P. Aguilar, Nívison Nery, Mariam O. Fofana, et al.. (2021). Willingness to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine among Residents of Slum Settlements. Vaccines. 9(9). 951–951. 26 indexed citations
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Khalil, Hussein, Daiana de Oliveira, Max T. Eyre, et al.. (2021). Poverty, sanitation, and Leptospira transmission pathways in residents from four Brazilian slums. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(3). e0009256–e0009256. 35 indexed citations
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Frisaldi, Elisa, Margherita Fabbri, Marco Trucco, et al.. (2021). Effectiveness of a dance-physiotherapy combined intervention in Parkinson’s disease: a randomized controlled pilot trial. Neurological Sciences. 42(12). 5045–5053. 23 indexed citations
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Pinto, Pedro Luiz Silva, Max T. Eyre, Mitermayer Galvão dos Reis, et al.. (2021). Angiostrongylus cantonensisin urban populations of terrestrial gastropods and rats in an impoverished region of Brazil. Parasitology. 148(8). 994–1002. 11 indexed citations
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Brito, Patricia, et al.. (2020). The Spatial Dimension of COVID-19: The Potential of Earth Observation Data in Support of Slum Communities with Evidence from Brazil. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 9(9). 557–557. 25 indexed citations
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Eyre, Max T., Ticiana S. A. Carvalho‐Pereira, Hussein Khalil, et al.. (2020). A multivariate geostatistical framework for combining multiple indices of abundance for disease vectors and reservoirs: a case study of rattiness in a low-income urban Brazilian community. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(170). 20200398–20200398. 7 indexed citations
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Khalil, Hussein, Ticiana S. A. Carvalho‐Pereira, Melissa Hanzen Pinna, et al.. (2020). Prevalence of Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) and Salmonella spp. with zoonotic potential in urban rats in Salvador, Brazil. Epidemiology and Infection. 149. e128–e128. 6 indexed citations

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