Lucas Freitas

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 742 citations indexed

About

Lucas Freitas is a scholar working on Ecology, Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucas Freitas has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 742 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Ecology, 4 papers in Infectious Diseases and 4 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Lucas Freitas's work include Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (3 papers), Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (3 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (3 papers). Lucas Freitas is often cited by papers focused on Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (3 papers), Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (3 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (3 papers). Lucas Freitas collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United Kingdom and United States. Lucas Freitas's co-authors include Joses Ho, Sebastian Maurer‐Stroh, Amadou Diallo, Céline Gurry, Mark B. Schultz, Mariana F. Nery, Carlos G. Schrago, Carolina Moreira Voloch, C. Russo and Carlos R. Ruiz‐Miranda and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Lucas Freitas

21 papers receiving 728 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.

GISAID’s Role in Pandemic Response

2021 562 citations Céline Gurry, Lucas Freitas et al. China CDC Weekly profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucas Freitas Brazil	9	491	232	102	89	78	22	742
Damien Richard France	14	711 1.4×	328 1.4×	98 1.0×	106 1.2×	108 1.4×	29	1.2k
Cormac M. Kinsella Netherlands	13	521 1.1×	145 0.6×	81 0.8×	137 1.5×	100 1.3×	21	862
Peter Forster Germany	7	478 1.0×	257 1.1×	89 0.9×	102 1.1×	222 2.8×	8	996
Brittany Rife Magalis United States	14	308 0.6×	360 1.6×	110 1.1×	24 0.3×	154 2.0×	34	912
Charles S. P. Foster Australia	14	280 0.6×	340 1.5×	84 0.8×	30 0.3×	143 1.8×	35	874
Kayla M. Peck United States	9	436 0.9×	153 0.7×	45 0.4×	31 0.3×	82 1.1×	13	636
Jing‐Zhe Jiang China	14	286 0.6×	192 0.8×	246 2.4×	53 0.6×	24 0.3×	42	794
Leiping Zeng United States	8	824 1.7×	596 2.6×	35 0.3×	119 1.3×	147 1.9×	9	1.4k
Eneida Hatcher United States	7	204 0.4×	340 1.5×	105 1.0×	13 0.1×	85 1.1×	8	787
Paul D. Hartley United States	11	561 1.1×	1.2k 5.4×	69 0.7×	133 1.5×	235 3.0×	15	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucas Freitas

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Freitas, Lucas, et al.. (2024). Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates. Systematic Biology. 74(2). 323–334.

Freitas, Lucas, et al.. (2023). The molecular evolution of genes previously associated with large sizes reveals possible pathways to cetacean gigantism. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 67–67. 7 indexed citations

Leite, Juliana Almeida, Andrea Vicari, Enrique Pérez Gutiérrez, et al.. (2022). Implementation of a COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance Regional Network for Latin America and Caribbean region. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0252526–e0252526. 18 indexed citations

Freitas, Lucas & Mariana F. Nery. (2022). Positive selection in multiple salivary gland proteins of Anophelinae reveals potential targets for vector control. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 100. 105271–105271. 2 indexed citations

Prado, Tatiana, Martha Lima Brandão, Túlio Machado Fumian, et al.. (2022). Virome analysis in lakes of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica - 2020. The Science of The Total Environment. 852. 158537–158537. 6 indexed citations

Gurry, Céline, Lucas Freitas, Mark B. Schultz, et al.. (2021). GISAID’s Role in Pandemic Response. China CDC Weekly. 3(49). 1049–1051. 562 indexed citations breakdown →

Freitas, Lucas, Miriam Marmontel, Fabrício R. Santos, et al.. (2021). The evolutionary history of manatees told by their mitogenomes. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 3564–3564. 12 indexed citations

Prado, Tatiana, et al.. (2021). Virome in roof-harvested rainwater of a densely urbanized low-income region. The Science of The Total Environment. 807(Pt 2). 150778–150778. 5 indexed citations

Freitas, Lucas, et al.. (2020). Latitudinal diversity gradient and cetaceans from the perspective of MHC genes. Immunogenetics. 72(6-7). 393–398. 2 indexed citations

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Moreira, Ana Paula B., Lucas Freitas, Fabiano L. Thompson, et al.. (2020). Genetic diversity and connectivity of Flaccisagitta enflata (Chaetognatha: Sagittidae) in the tropical Atlantic ocean (northeastern Brazil). PLoS ONE. 15(5). e0231574–e0231574. 5 indexed citations

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Calegário, Gabriela, Lucas Freitas, Luciana Appolinario, et al.. (2020). Conserved rhodolith microbiomes across environmental gradients of the Great Amazon Reef. The Science of The Total Environment. 760. 143411–143411. 9 indexed citations

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Freitas, Lucas. (2020). Shot distribution in the NBA: did we see when 3-point shots became popular?. German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research. 51(2). 237–240. 7 indexed citations

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Freitas, Lucas, Luciana Appolinario, Gabriela Calegário, et al.. (2020). Glacial-interglacial transitions in microbiomes recorded in deep-sea sediments from the western equatorial Atlantic. The Science of The Total Environment. 746. 140904–140904. 5 indexed citations

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Freitas, Lucas & Mariana F. Nery. (2020). Expansions and contractions in gene families of independently-evolved blood-feeding insects. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(1). 87–87. 13 indexed citations

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Freitas, Lucas, et al.. (2020). The role of selection in the evolution of marine turtles mitogenomes. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 16953–16953. 15 indexed citations

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Freitas, Lucas, Rafael D. Mesquita, & Carlos G. Schrago. (2020). Survey for positively selected coding regions in the genome of the hematophagous tsetse fly Glossina morsitans identifies candidate genes associated with feeding habits and embryonic development. Genetics and Molecular Biology. 43(2). e20180311–e20180311. 1 indexed citations

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Calegário, Gabriela, Lucas Freitas, Eidy de Oliveira Santos, et al.. (2019). Environmental modulation of the proteomic profiles from closely phylogenetically related populations of the red seaweed Plocamium brasiliense. PeerJ. 7. e6469–e6469. 4 indexed citations

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Mariano, Douglas Oscar Ceolin, Lucas Freitas, Daniel C. Pimenta, et al.. (2018). Tb II-I, a Fraction Isolated from Tityus bahiensis Scorpion Venom, Alters Cytokines’: Level and Induces Seizures When Intrahippocampally Injected in Rats. Toxins. 10(6). 250–250. 9 indexed citations

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Ruiz‐Miranda, Carlos R., Milton Cézar Ribeiro, Adriana D. Grativol, et al.. (2017). Temporal genetic dynamics of reintroduced and translocated populations of the endangered golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus rosalia). Conservation Genetics. 18(5). 995–1009. 28 indexed citations

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Freitas, Lucas, et al.. (2015). Diversification of the Genus Anopheles and a Neotropical Clade from the Late Cretaceous. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0134462–e0134462. 26 indexed citations

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