Keilor Rojas-Jiménez

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
59 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Keilor Rojas-Jiménez is a scholar working on Ecology, Pollution and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Keilor Rojas-Jiménez has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Ecology, 19 papers in Pollution and 17 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Keilor Rojas-Jiménez's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (13 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (9 papers). Keilor Rojas-Jiménez is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers), Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (13 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (9 papers). Keilor Rojas-Jiménez collaborates with scholars based in Costa Rica, Germany and United States. Keilor Rojas-Jiménez's co-authors include Hans‐Peter Grossart, María Arias-Andrés, Uli Klümper, Christian Wurzbacher, Silke Van den Wyngaert, Maiko Kagami, Michael Cunliffe, Matthias Labrenz, Sonja Oberbeckmann and Pablo Vinuesa and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Keilor Rojas-Jiménez

51 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Microplastic pollution increases gene exchange in aquatic ecosystems

2018 440 citations María Arias-Andrés, Uli Klümper et al. Environmental Pollution profile →
Fungi in aquatic ecosystems

2019 300 citations Hans‐Peter Grossart, Silke Van den Wyngaert et al. profile →

Peers

Keilor Rojas-Jiménez

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ECOLO

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Loïs Maignien France

Renmao Tian China

Paola Quatrini Italy

Jae-Hyung Ahn South Korea

Joy E. M. Watts United States

Caroline De Tender Belgium

K. Martin Eriksson Sweden

George Tsiamis Greece

Lili Han China

Guillermina Hernandez‐Raquet France

Loïs Maignien France

Keilor Rojas-Jiménez

457 ×0.5

POLLU

597 ×0.8

ECOLO

641 ×1.3

392 ×0.8

206 ×0.6

IME

Citations per year, relative to Keilor Rojas-Jiménez Keilor Rojas-Jiménez (= 1×) peers Loïs Maignien

Countries citing papers authored by Keilor Rojas-Jiménez

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Fields of papers citing papers by Keilor Rojas-Jiménez

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keilor Rojas-Jiménez

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rojas-Jiménez, Keilor, et al.. (2025). Draft genome sequences of four potential new species of the genus Bradyrhizobium isolated from root nodules of native legumes in Costa Rican forests. Access Microbiology. 7(5).

Rojas-Jiménez, Keilor, et al.. (2025). Influence of Seasonality and Pollution on the Presence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Potentially Pathogenic Bacteria in a Tropical Urban River. Antibiotics. 14(8). 798–798.

Hernández, E., et al.. (2025). Caffeine has low affinity for polystyrene micro- and nanoplastics in aquatic environments (and vice versa). Environmental Pollution. 386. 127298–127298.

Lejzerowicz, Franck, César Rodríguez, Odd-Gunnar Wikmark, et al.. (2025). Anthropogenic imprint on riverine plasmidome diversity and proliferation of antibiotic resistance genes following pollution and urbanization. Water Research. 281. 123553–123553. 4 indexed citations

Cambronero-Heinrichs, Juan Carlos, et al.. (2024). Highly abundant bacteria in the gut of Triatoma dimidiata (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) can inhibit the growth of Trypanosoma cruzi (Kinetoplastea: Trypanosomatidae). Journal of Medical Entomology. 61(6). 1333–1344. 1 indexed citations

Rodríguez, César, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Urban Pollution on Plasmid-Mediated Resistance Acquisition in Enterobacteria from a Tropical River. Antibiotics. 13(11). 1089–1089. 4 indexed citations

Rojas-Jiménez, Keilor, et al.. (2024). Strategy for Optimizing Vitamin B12 Production in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 Using Metabolic Modeling. Metabolites. 14(11). 636–636. 2 indexed citations

Rojas-Jiménez, Keilor, et al.. (2023). Bacterial communities in residential wastewater treatment plants are physiologically adapted to high concentrations of quaternary ammonium compounds. CLEAN - Soil Air Water. 51(11). 1 indexed citations

Kuropka, Benno, et al.. (2023). Mechanisms of low susceptibility to the disinfectant benzalkonium chloride in a multidrug-resistant environmental isolate of Aeromonas hydrophila. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1180128–1180128. 6 indexed citations

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Arias-Andrés, María, et al.. (2023). Microplastics in feed cause sublethal changes in the intestinal microbiota and a non-specific immune response indicator of the freshwater crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Decapoda: Cambaridae). Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1197312–1197312. 10 indexed citations

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Rojas-Jiménez, Keilor, et al.. (2023). Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Colonization of Jatropha curcas Roots and Its Impact on Growth and Survival under Greenhouse-Induced Hydric Stress. Agriculture. 13(12). 2197–2197.

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Rojas-Jiménez, Keilor, et al.. (2022). Biodegradation of plastics at home composting conditions. Environmental Challenges. 7. 100500–100500. 26 indexed citations

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Wyngaert, Silke Van den, Lars Ganzert, Kensuke Seto, et al.. (2022). Seasonality of parasitic and saprotrophic zoosporic fungi: linking sequence data to ecological traits. The ISME Journal. 16(9). 2242–2254. 37 indexed citations

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Arias-Andrés, María, et al.. (2021). Short-term exposure to benzalkonium chloride in bacteria from activated sludge alters the community diversity and the antibiotic resistance profile. Journal of Water and Health. 19(6). 895–906. 21 indexed citations

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Masigol, Hossein, Jason Woodhouse, Pieter van West, et al.. (2021). Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity of Saprolegniales and Fungi Isolated from Temperate Lakes in Northeast Germany. Journal of Fungi. 7(11). 968–968. 9 indexed citations

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Villalobos, Javier, et al.. (2020). Microplastic ingestion by a herring Opisthonema sp. in the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Regional Studies in Marine Science. 38. 101367–101367. 24 indexed citations

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Rojas-Jiménez, Keilor, Hans‐Peter Grossart, Erik E. Cordes, & Jorge Cortés. (2020). Fungal Communities in Sediments Along a Depth Gradient in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 575207–575207. 18 indexed citations

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Arias-Andrés, María, Keilor Rojas-Jiménez, & Hans‐Peter Grossart. (2018). Collateral effects of microplastic pollution on aquatic microorganisms: An ecological perspective. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 112. 234–240. 96 indexed citations

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Arias-Andrés, María, Uli Klümper, Keilor Rojas-Jiménez, & Hans‐Peter Grossart. (2018). Microplastic pollution increases gene exchange in aquatic ecosystems. Environmental Pollution. 237. 253–261. 440 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wyngaert, Silke Van den, Kensuke Seto, Keilor Rojas-Jiménez, Maiko Kagami, & Hans‐Peter Grossart. (2017). A New Parasitic Chytrid, Staurastromyces oculus (Rhizophydiales, Staurastromycetaceae fam. nov.), Infecting the Freshwater Desmid Staurastrum sp.. Protist. 168(4). 392–407. 30 indexed citations

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