Rafael Maciel‐de‐Freitas

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Rafael Maciel‐de‐Freitas is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Insect Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael Maciel‐de‐Freitas has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 36 papers in Insect Science and 19 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Rafael Maciel‐de‐Freitas's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (78 papers), Malaria Research and Control (42 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (33 papers). Rafael Maciel‐de‐Freitas is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (78 papers), Malaria Research and Control (42 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (33 papers). Rafael Maciel‐de‐Freitas collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, Germany and Australia. Rafael Maciel‐de‐Freitas's co-authors include Ricardo Lourenço‐de‐Oliveira, Cláudia Torres Codeço, Mariana Rocha David, Gabriela A. Garcia, Álvaro Eduardo Eiras, Denise Valle, Gabriel Sylvestre, Daniel Antunes Maciel Villela, Jacob C. Koella and José Bento Pereira Lima and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Rafael Maciel‐de‐Freitas

85 papers receiving 2.9k citations

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Modelling adult Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus survival at different temperatures in laboratory and field settings

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rafael Maciel‐de‐Freitas Brazil	32	2.6k	1.1k	892	484	306	89	3.0k
Álvaro Eduardo Eiras Brazil	28	2.0k 0.8×	924 0.8×	676 0.8×	763 1.6×	288 0.9×	110	2.6k
Nildimar Alves Honório Brazil	29	2.7k 1.0×	433 0.4×	1.0k 1.2×	466 1.0×	305 1.0×	90	3.0k
Brian L. Montgomery Australia	22	2.0k 0.7×	1.6k 1.4×	646 0.7×	263 0.5×	186 0.6×	48	2.6k
Pablo Manrique‐Saide Mexico	25	1.9k 0.7×	515 0.5×	751 0.8×	478 1.0×	421 1.4×	150	2.3k
Anubis Vega-Rúa Guadeloupe	19	1.8k 0.7×	663 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	305 0.6×	224 0.7×	40	2.0k
Ildefonso Fernández‐Salas Mexico	27	2.5k 0.9×	749 0.7×	1.5k 1.7×	316 0.7×	297 1.0×	96	2.9k
Marie Vazeille France	32	3.6k 1.4×	940 0.8×	2.4k 2.7×	481 1.0×	425 1.4×	73	3.9k
Romain Girod France	23	1.9k 0.7×	517 0.5×	743 0.8×	442 0.9×	189 0.6×	72	2.3k
Laurence Mousson France	31	2.3k 0.9×	968 0.9×	1.4k 1.5×	318 0.7×	265 0.9×	69	2.7k
Chester G. Moore United States	29	2.3k 0.9×	533 0.5×	1.6k 1.8×	309 0.6×	207 0.7×	55	2.8k

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Danko, David, Charles J Vörösmarty, Anthony D. Cak, et al.. (2025). The challenges and opportunities in creating a One Health warning system for pandemics. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 2(9). 100485–100485.

Maciel‐de‐Freitas, Rafael, et al.. (2025). Midgut microbiota diversity and interactions shift when field Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carry the wMel strain of Wolbachia pipientis. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1479–1479.

Maciel‐de‐Freitas, Rafael, et al.. (2025). Horizons of the Future: Preparedness and Response. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 447. 363–387. 1 indexed citations

Leandro, André de Souza, et al.. (2024). Optimising the surveillance of Aedes aegypti in Brazil by selecting smaller representative areas within an endemic city. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 29(5). 414–423. 1 indexed citations

David, Mariana Rocha, et al.. (2024). DENV-1 Titer Impacts Viral Blocking in wMel Aedes aegypti with Brazilian Genetic Background. Viruses. 16(2). 214–214. 2 indexed citations

Cooper, Caitlin, et al.. (2024). Screening the Global Health Priority Box against Plasmodium berghei liver stage parasites using an inexpensive luciferase detection protocol. Malaria Journal. 23(1). 357–357. 1 indexed citations

David, Mariana Rocha, Rafael Maciel‐de‐Freitas, Daniel P. Bray, et al.. (2023). Aedes aegypti oviposition‐sites choice under semi‐field conditions. Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 37(4). 683–692. 4 indexed citations

Couto‐Lima, Dinair, et al.. (2023). Dengue Exposure and Wolbachia wMel Strain Affects the Fertility of Quiescent Eggs of Aedes aegypti. Viruses. 15(4). 952–952. 8 indexed citations

Garcia, Gabriela A., Anton Lord, Mariana Rocha David, et al.. (2022). Rapid and Non-Invasive Detection of Aedes aegypti Co-Infected with Zika and Dengue Viruses Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy. Viruses. 15(1). 11–11. 6 indexed citations

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Leandro, André de Souza, et al.. (2021). The adoption of the One Health approach to improve surveillance of venomous animal injury, vector-borne and zoonotic diseases in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(2). e0009109–e0009109. 25 indexed citations

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Garcia, Gabriela A., Mariana Rocha David, Márcio G. Pavan, et al.. (2021). High throughput estimates of Wolbachia, Zika and chikungunya infection in Aedes aegypti by near-infrared spectroscopy to improve arbovirus surveillance. Communications Biology. 4(1). 67–67. 18 indexed citations

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Garcia, Gabriela A., Gabriel Sylvestre, Guilherme Borges da Costa, et al.. (2019). Matching the genetics of released and local Aedes aegypti populations is critical to assure Wolbachia invasion. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 13(1). e0007023–e0007023. 108 indexed citations

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David, Mariana Rocha, Gabriela A. Garcia, Denise Valle, & Rafael Maciel‐de‐Freitas. (2018). Insecticide Resistance and Fitness: The Case of Four Aedes aegypti Populations from Different Brazilian Regions. BioMed Research International. 2018. 1–12. 33 indexed citations

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Fernandes, Jill N., Thaís Chouin-Carneiro, Márcio G. Pavan, et al.. (2018). Rapid, noninvasive detection of Zika virus in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes by near-infrared spectroscopy. Science Advances. 4(5). eaat0496–eaat0496. 59 indexed citations

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Gurgel‐Gonçalves, Rodrigo, et al.. (2018). Should I stay or should I go? Movement of adult Triatoma sordida within the peridomestic area of a typical Brazilian Cerrado rural household. Parasites & Vectors. 11(1). 14–14. 13 indexed citations

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Garcia, Gabriela A., Mariana Rocha David, Ademir Jesus Martins, et al.. (2018). The impact of insecticide applications on the dynamics of resistance: The case of four Aedes aegypti populations from different Brazilian regions. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 12(2). e0006227–e0006227. 63 indexed citations

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Villela, Daniel Antunes Maciel, Gabriela A. Garcia, & Rafael Maciel‐de‐Freitas. (2017). Novel inference models for estimation of abundance, survivorship and recruitment in mosquito populations using mark-release-recapture data. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 11(6). e0005682–e0005682. 11 indexed citations

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Villela, Daniel Antunes Maciel, et al.. (2017). How does competition among wild type mosquitoes influence the performance of Aedes aegypti and dissemination of Wolbachia pipientis?. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 11(10). e0005947–e0005947. 17 indexed citations

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Maciel‐de‐Freitas, Rafael, Jacob C. Koella, & Ricardo Lourenço‐de‐Oliveira. (2011). Lower survival rate, longevity and fecundity of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) females orally challenged with dengue virus serotype 2. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 105(8). 452–458. 89 indexed citations

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Maciel‐de‐Freitas, Rafael, Reinaldo Souza‐Santos, Cláudia Torres Codeço, & Ricardo Lourenço‐de‐Oliveira. (2010). Influence of the spatial distribution of human hosts and large size containers on the dispersal of the mosquito Aedes aegypti within the first gonotrophic cycle. Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 24(1). 74–82. 35 indexed citations

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