Mário Ramirez

8.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
139 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Mário Ramirez is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Mário Ramirez has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Epidemiology, 58 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 38 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Mário Ramirez's work include Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (63 papers), Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (53 papers) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (34 papers). Mário Ramirez is often cited by papers focused on Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (63 papers), Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (53 papers) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (34 papers). Mário Ramirez collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United States and Paraguay. Mário Ramirez's co-authors include José Melo‐Cristino, João André Carriço, Alexandre P. Francisco, Francisco Pinto, Cátia Vaz, Catarina Silva‐Costa, Alexander Tomasz, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Miguel Bugalho and Elisabete Martins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Mário Ramirez

137 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

Global optimal eBURST analysis of multilocus typing data ... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400
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 optimal eBURST analysis of multilocus typing data using a graphic matroid approach
    2009 477 citations Alexandre P. Francisco, Miguel Bugalho et al. BMC Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mário Ramirez Portugal 40 2.5k 1.8k 1.7k 1.2k 1.0k 139 5.7k
José Melo‐Cristino Portugal 39 1.9k 0.8× 1.7k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 906 0.8× 809 0.8× 147 4.7k
Stephen F. Porcella United States 58 1.8k 0.7× 2.9k 1.6× 4.1k 2.4× 2.2k 1.9× 992 0.9× 144 9.4k
João André Carriço Portugal 31 1.3k 0.5× 611 0.3× 1.3k 0.7× 1.6k 1.3× 635 0.6× 69 4.6k
Rachel Urwin United Kingdom 23 2.3k 0.9× 599 0.3× 1.3k 0.8× 1.4k 1.2× 2.3k 2.2× 64 5.9k
Nicholas J. Croucher United Kingdom 43 3.0k 1.2× 750 0.4× 1.9k 1.1× 2.8k 2.3× 1.5k 1.4× 103 7.9k
Max Maurin France 41 1.2k 0.5× 1.6k 0.9× 3.1k 1.8× 1.6k 1.3× 363 0.3× 159 7.3k
Jiaji Zhou United Kingdom 12 2.1k 0.8× 469 0.3× 961 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 1.7k 1.6× 20 4.5k
Morag Graham Canada 32 758 0.3× 1.3k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 1.3k 1.1× 460 0.4× 67 4.3k
Jianguo Xu China 45 1.2k 0.5× 3.0k 1.6× 3.3k 1.9× 2.2k 1.8× 942 0.9× 342 8.5k
Janetta Top Netherlands 36 1.0k 0.4× 940 0.5× 3.4k 2.0× 1.4k 1.2× 447 0.4× 78 4.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mário Ramirez

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mário Ramirez

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All Works

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Silva‐Costa, Catarina, et al.. (2024). Rebound of pediatric invasive pneumococcal disease in Portugal after the COVID-19 pandemic was not associated with significant serotype changes. Journal of Infection. 89(4). 106242–106242. 17 indexed citations
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Silva‐Costa, Catarina, et al.. (2023). Adult non-invasive pneumococcal pneumonia in Portugal is dominated by serotype 3 and non-PCV13 serotypes 3-years after near universal PCV13 use in children. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1279656–1279656. 6 indexed citations
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Gouveia, Catarina, Maria Paula Bajanca-Lavado, Fernanda Rodrigues, et al.. (2023). Sustained increase of paediatric invasive Streptococcus pyogenes infections dominated by M1UK and diverse emm12 isolates, Portugal, September 2022 to May 2023. Eurosurveillance. 28(36). 44 indexed citations
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Falci, Diego R., et al.. (2023). Epidemiology and risk factors for mortality among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremic patients in Southern Brazil. PLoS ONE. 18(4). e0283774–e0283774. 4 indexed citations
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Motro, Yair, et al.. (2022). LMAS: evaluating metagenomic short de novo assembly methods through defined communities. GigaScience. 12. 5 indexed citations
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Mukherjee, Debanjan, Ângelo Ferreira Chora, Ricardo S. Ramiro, et al.. (2022). Host lung microbiota promotes malaria-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3747–3747. 14 indexed citations
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Silva, Mickael, Miguel P. Machado, Diogo Nuno Silva, et al.. (2018). chewBBACA: A complete suite for gene-by-gene schema creation and strain identification. Microbial Genomics. 4(3). 271 indexed citations
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Jamet, Anne, Marie Touchon, Bruno Ribeiro-Gonçalves, et al.. (2017). A widespread family of polymorphic toxins encoded by temperate phages. BMC Biology. 15(1). 75–75. 31 indexed citations
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Machado, Miguel P., Bruno Ribeiro-Gonçalves, Mickael Silva, Mário Ramirez, & João André Carriço. (2016). Epidemiological Surveillance and Typing Methods to Track Antibiotic Resistant Strains Using High Throughput Sequencing. Methods in molecular biology. 1520. 331–356. 8 indexed citations
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Silva‐Costa, Catarina, Ana Friães, Mário Ramirez, & José Melo‐Cristino. (2015). Macrolide-resistantStreptococcus pyogenes: prevalence and treatment strategies. Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy. 13(5). 615–628. 46 indexed citations
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Friães, Ana, et al.. (2014). Epidemiological survey of the first case of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in Europe. Epidemiology and Infection. 143(4). 745–748. 36 indexed citations
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Vaz, Cátia, Alexandre P. Francisco, Keith A. Jolley, et al.. (2014). TypOn: the microbial typing ontology. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 5(1). 43–43. 6 indexed citations
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Friães, Ana, Francisco Pinto, Catarina Silva‐Costa, Mário Ramirez, & José Melo‐Cristino. (2012). Superantigen gene complement of Streptococcus pyogenes—relationship with other typing methods and short-term stability. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 32(1). 115–125. 24 indexed citations
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Francisco, Alexandre P., Miguel Bugalho, Mário Ramirez, & João André Carriço. (2009). Global optimal eBURST analysis of multilocus typing data using a graphic matroid approach. BMC Bioinformatics. 10(1). 152–152. 477 indexed citations breakdown →
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Aguiar, Sandra I., Isa Serrano, Francisco Pinto, José Melo‐Cristino, & Mário Ramirez. (2008). Changes in Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes causing invasive disease with non-universal vaccination coverage of the seven-valent conjugate vaccine. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 14(9). 835–843. 67 indexed citations
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Silva‐Costa, Catarina, Mário Ramirez, & José Melo‐Cristino. (2006). Identification of macrolide-resistant clones of Streptococcus pyogenes in Portugal. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 12(6). 513–518. 37 indexed citations
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Ramirez, Mário, Donald A. Morrison, & Alexander Tomasz. (1997). Ubiquitous Distribution of the Competence Related Genes comA and comC Among Isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Microbial Drug Resistance. 3(1). 39–52. 32 indexed citations

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