Marina Muñoz

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
134 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Marina Muñoz is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Marina Muñoz has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Infectious Diseases, 52 papers in Epidemiology and 39 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Marina Muñoz's work include Trypanosoma species research and implications (22 papers), Research on Leishmaniasis Studies (21 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (20 papers). Marina Muñoz is often cited by papers focused on Trypanosoma species research and implications (22 papers), Research on Leishmaniasis Studies (21 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (20 papers). Marina Muñoz collaborates with scholars based in Colombia, United States and Spain. Marina Muñoz's co-authors include Juan David Ramírez, Manuel A. Patarroyo, Luz Helena Patiño, Alberto Paniz‐Mondolfi, Carolina Hernández, Giovanny Herrera, Nathalia Ballesteros, Sergio Castañeda, Milena Camargo and Manuel E. Patarroyo and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Marina Muñoz

122 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Phylogenomic analysis of the monkeypox virus (MPXV) 2022 outbreak: Emergence of a novel viral lineage?

2022 131 citations Nicolás Luna, Angie Ramírez et al. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marina Muñoz Colombia	20	625	570	437	393	328	134	1.5k
Martin E. Adelson United States	27	754 1.2×	568 1.0×	494 1.1×	224 0.6×	342 1.0×	76	2.0k
Vincenzo Di Marco Lo Presti Italy	22	577 0.9×	746 1.3×	171 0.4×	196 0.5×	868 2.6×	89	1.7k
Ghislaine Guigon France	23	340 0.5×	500 0.9×	473 1.1×	255 0.6×	192 0.6×	29	1.7k
Ricardo Parreira Portugal	24	211 0.3×	902 1.6×	252 0.6×	688 1.8×	409 1.2×	94	1.7k
Ludwig E. Hoelzle Germany	28	432 0.7×	707 1.2×	309 0.7×	213 0.5×	800 2.4×	91	2.2k
Christine Aznar French Guiana	26	1.8k 2.9×	1.1k 1.9×	148 0.3×	502 1.3×	661 2.0×	70	2.3k
Stacy Ricklefs United States	21	494 0.8×	1.1k 2.0×	431 1.0×	821 2.1×	209 0.6×	38	2.0k
Grazia Greco Italy	24	348 0.6×	1.2k 2.1×	220 0.5×	163 0.4×	371 1.1×	86	2.0k
Scott E. Johnson United States	18	511 0.8×	356 0.6×	408 0.9×	174 0.4×	227 0.7×	28	2.5k
Jorge Timenetsky Brazil	20	339 0.5×	286 0.5×	225 0.5×	152 0.4×	360 1.1×	120	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marina Muñoz

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Muñoz, Marina, et al.. (2025). The genomic diversity of arthropod-specific viruses reinforces the continental distribution pattern of Aedes aegypti. Parasites & Vectors. 18(1). 468–468.

Camargo, Milena, Marina Muñoz, Luz Helena Patiño, & Juan David Ramírez. (2025). Strengthening molecular testing capacity in Colombia: Challenges and opportunities. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease. 111(3). 116716–116716. 1 indexed citations

Herrera, Giovanny, Sergio Castañeda, Juan E. Pérez‐Jaramillo, et al.. (2024). Metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) suggest an acetate-driven protective role in gut microbiota disrupted by Clostridioides difficile. Microbiological Research. 285. 127739–127739. 3 indexed citations

Muñoz‐Leal, Sebastián, Camilo Guzmán, Alfonso Calderón, et al.. (2023). Molecular evidence of Borrelia spp. in bats from Córdoba Department, northwest Colombia. Parasites & Vectors. 16(1). 5–5. 2 indexed citations

Ballesteros, Nathalia, et al.. (2023). The first report of Dirofilaria repens infection in dogs from Colombia. Parasitology Research. 122(10). 2445–2450. 7 indexed citations

Patiño, Luz Helena, Marina Muñoz, Angie Ramírez, et al.. (2023). A Landscape of the Genomic Structure of Cryptococcus neoformans in Colombian Isolates. Journal of Fungi. 9(2). 135–135. 1 indexed citations

Luna, Nicolás, Marina Muñoz, D. Katterine Bonilla‐Aldana, et al.. (2023). Monkeypox virus (MPXV) genomics: A mutational and phylogenomic analyses of B.1 lineages. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 52. 102551–102551. 30 indexed citations

Luna, Nicolás, et al.. (2023). Characterizing the blood microbiota of omnivorous and frugivorous bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Casanare, eastern Colombia. PeerJ. 11. e15169–e15169. 3 indexed citations

Ramírez, Angie, Nicolás Luna, Luz Helena Patiño, et al.. (2022). Impact of SARS‐CoV‐2 Mu variant on vaccine effectiveness: A comparative genomics study at the peak of the third wave in Bogota, Colombia. Journal of Medical Virology. 94(8). 3988–3991. 2 indexed citations

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Muñoz, Marina, Patricia Escandón, Juan David Ramírez, et al.. (2022). Deciphering the Association among Pathogenicity, Production and Polymorphisms of Capsule/Melanin in Clinical Isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii VNI. Journal of Fungi. 8(3). 245–245. 5 indexed citations

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Hernández, Carolina, Omar Cantillo‐Barraza, Marina Muñoz, et al.. (2022). Estimating the genetic structure of Triatoma dimidiata (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) and the transmission dynamics of Trypanosoma cruzi in Boyacá, eastern Colombia. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(7). e0010534–e0010534. 9 indexed citations

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Muñoz, Marina, et al.. (2021). FastMLST: A Multi-core Tool for Multilocus Sequence Typing of Draft Genome Assemblies. Bioinformatics and Biology Insights. 15. 739624486–739624486. 24 indexed citations

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Castañeda, Sergio, Luz Helena Patiño, Marina Muñoz, et al.. (2021). Evolution and Epidemic Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Colombia: A Year into the Pandemic. Vaccines. 9(8). 837–837. 8 indexed citations

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Patiño, Luz Helena, et al.. (2021). Revisiting the heterogeneous global genomic population structure of Leishmania infantum. Microbial Genomics. 7(9). 4 indexed citations

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Lalueza, Antonio, et al.. (2021). Lack of clinical significance for molecular detection of respiratory viruses in bronchoalveolar lavage samples. Journal of Medical Virology. 93(8). 4693–4703.

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Herrera, Giovanny, Daniel Paredes‐Sabja, Manuel A. Patarroyo, Juan David Ramírez, & Marina Muñoz. (2021). Updating changes in human gut microbial communities associated with Clostridioides difficile infection. Gut Microbes. 13(1). 1966277–1966277. 11 indexed citations

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Higuera, Adriana, et al.. (2020). Succinate dehydrogenase gene as a marker for studying Blastocystis genetic diversity. Heliyon. 6(11). e05387–e05387. 5 indexed citations

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Camargo, Milena, Sara Cecilia Soto‐De León, Marina Muñoz, et al.. (2014). Human papillomavirus detection in women with and without human immunodeficiency virus infection in Colombia. BMC Cancer. 14(1). 451–451. 19 indexed citations

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Muñoz, Marina, Milena Camargo, Sara Cecilia Soto‐De León, et al.. (2013). Human Papillomavirus Detection from Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Colombian Women's Paired Urine and Cervical Samples. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e56509–e56509. 13 indexed citations

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Camargo, Milena, Sara Cecilia Soto‐De León, Ricardo Sánchez, et al.. (2011). Detection by PCR of human papillomavirus in Colombia: Comparison of GP5+/6+ and MY09/11 primer sets. Journal of Virological Methods. 178(1-2). 68–74. 40 indexed citations

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