Sejal Modha

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 795 citations indexed

About

Sejal Modha is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sejal Modha has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 795 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Infectious Diseases, 10 papers in Plant Science and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sejal Modha's work include Plant Virus Research Studies (10 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and Animal Virus Infections Studies (7 papers). Sejal Modha is often cited by papers focused on Plant Virus Research Studies (10 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and Animal Virus Infections Studies (7 papers). Sejal Modha collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and United States. Sejal Modha's co-authors include Pablo R. Murcia, Joseph Hughes, Susan F. Cotmore, Peter Tijssen, Marcílio Jorge Fumagalli, Mylène Ogliastro, Maria Söderlund‐Venermo, David J. Pintel, Peter Tattersall and Marta Canuti and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

Sejal Modha

23 papers receiving 790 citations

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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.

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Parvoviridae

2019 338 citations Susan F. Cotmore, Mavis Agbandje‐McKenna et al. Journal of General Virology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sejal Modha United Kingdom	14	476	329	298	173	117	23	795
Kore Schlottau Germany	17	729 1.5×	314 1.0×	159 0.5×	339 2.0×	140 1.2×	38	1.1k
Ward Deboutte Belgium	15	479 1.0×	243 0.7×	136 0.5×	183 1.1×	122 1.0×	21	894
Leen Beller Belgium	13	477 1.0×	220 0.7×	106 0.4×	176 1.0×	126 1.1×	15	814
Enikő Fehér Hungary	18	597 1.3×	507 1.5×	254 0.9×	158 0.9×	87 0.7×	65	1.1k
Judit J. Pénzes United States	13	476 1.0×	528 1.6×	666 2.2×	160 0.9×	41 0.4×	24	1.0k
Ningyi Jin China	18	489 1.0×	288 0.9×	249 0.8×	109 0.6×	224 1.9×	70	850
Julián Ruíz-Saenz Colombia	15	336 0.7×	264 0.8×	392 1.3×	488 2.8×	193 1.6×	59	962
Florian Pfaff Germany	15	289 0.6×	149 0.5×	77 0.3×	351 2.0×	90 0.8×	57	728
Santino Prosperi Italy	19	558 1.2×	543 1.7×	563 1.9×	219 1.3×	63 0.5×	58	989
Erhard F. Kaleta Germany	15	274 0.6×	246 0.7×	101 0.3×	380 2.2×	56 0.5×	23	764

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sejal Modha

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All Works

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Modha, Sejal, Joseph Hughes, Richard Orton, & Spyros Lytras. (2025). Expanding the genomic diversity of human anelloviruses. Virus Evolution. 11(1). veaf002–veaf002. 1 indexed citations

Blanco-Melo, Daniel, Matthew A. Campbell, Henan Zhu, et al.. (2024). A novel approach to exploring the dark genome and its application to mapping of the vertebrate virus fossil record. Genome biology. 25(1). 120–120. 7 indexed citations

Modha, Sejal, David L. Robertson, Joseph Hughes, & Richard Orton. (2022). Quantifying and Cataloguing Unknown Sequences within Human Microbiomes. mSystems. 7(2). e0146821–e0146821. 5 indexed citations

Souza, William Marciel de, Marcílio Jorge Fumagalli, Gilberto Sabino‐Santos, et al.. (2019). A Novel Hepacivirus in Wild Rodents from South America. Viruses. 11(3). 297–297. 13 indexed citations

Modha, Sejal, Joseph Hughes, Heather M. Ferguson, et al.. (2019). Metaviromics Reveals Unknown Viral Diversity in the Biting Midge Culicoides impunctatus. Viruses. 11(9). 865–865. 15 indexed citations

Hufsky, Franziska, Bashar Ibrahim, Sejal Modha, et al.. (2019). The Third Annual Meeting of the European Virus Bioinformatics Center. Viruses. 11(5). 420–420. 3 indexed citations

Fumagalli, Marcílio Jorge, William Marciel de Souza, Jansen de Araújo, et al.. (2019). Krykféie dicistrovirus: A novel dicistrovirus in velvety free-tailed bats from Brazil. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 75. 104036–104036. 7 indexed citations

Souza, William Marciel de, Marcílio Jorge Fumagalli, Jansen de Araújo, et al.. (2019). Discovery of novel astrovirus and calicivirus identified in ruddy turnstones in Brazil. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5556–5556. 17 indexed citations

Cotmore, Susan F., Mavis Agbandje‐McKenna, Marta Canuti, et al.. (2019). ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Parvoviridae. Journal of General Virology. 100(3). 367–368. 338 indexed citations breakdown →

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Souza, William Marciel de, Marcílio Jorge Fumagalli, Matheus Cavalheiro Martini, et al.. (2019). Pingu virus: A new picornavirus in penguins from Antarctica. Virus Evolution. 5(2). vez047–vez047. 5 indexed citations

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Souza, William Marciel de, Tristan P. W. Dennis, Marcílio Jorge Fumagalli, et al.. (2018). Novel Parvoviruses from Wild and Domestic Animals in Brazil Provide New Insights into Parvovirus Distribution and Diversity. Viruses. 10(4). 143–143. 26 indexed citations

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Souza, William Marciel de, Marcílio Jorge Fumagalli, Adriano de Oliveira Torres Carrasco, et al.. (2018). Viral diversity of Rhipicephalus microplus parasitizing cattle in southern Brazil. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16315–16315. 74 indexed citations

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Dunlop, James I., Agnieszka M. Szemiel, Aitor Navarro, et al.. (2018). Development of reverse genetics systems and investigation of host response antagonism and reassortment potential for Cache Valley and Kairi viruses, two emerging orthobunyaviruses of the Americas. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 12(10). e0006884–e0006884. 14 indexed citations

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Modha, Sejal, Anil S. Thanki, Susan F. Cotmore, Andrew J. Davison, & Joseph Hughes. (2018). ViCTree: an automated framework for taxonomic classification from protein sequences. Bioinformatics. 34(13). 2195–2200. 5 indexed citations

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Souza, William Marciel de, Marília Farignoli Romeiro, Gilberto Sabino‐Santos, et al.. (2018). Novel orthohepeviruses in wild rodents from São Paulo State, Brazil. Virology. 519. 12–16. 15 indexed citations

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Maia, Felipe Gonçalves Motta, William Marciel de Souza, Gilberto Sabino‐Santos, et al.. (2018). A novel polyomavirus in sigmodontine rodents from São Paulo State, Brazil. Archives of Virology. 163(10). 2913–2915. 5 indexed citations

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Souza, William Marciel de, Gustavo Olszanski Acrani, Adriano de Oliveira Torres Carrasco, et al.. (2018). A58 Identification of novel viruses in the families Flaviviridae (Jigmenvirus), Chuviridae, and Bunyaviridae (phlebovirus-like) in ticks from the south of Brazil. Virus Evolution. 4(suppl_1). 3 indexed citations

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Souza, William Marciel de, Marcílio Jorge Fumagalli, Jansen de Araújo, et al.. (2017). Discovery of novel anelloviruses in small mammals expands the host range and diversity of the Anelloviridae. Virology. 514. 9–17. 44 indexed citations

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Thorburn, Fiona, Susan E. Bennett, Sejal Modha, et al.. (2015). The use of next generation sequencing in the diagnosis and typing of respiratory infections. Journal of Clinical Virology. 69. 96–100. 85 indexed citations

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Ray, Jessica Louise, Michael Dondrup, Sejal Modha, et al.. (2012). Finding a Needle in the Virus Metagenome Haystack - Micro-Metagenome Analysis Captures a Snapshot of the Diversity of a Bacteriophage Armoire. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34238–e34238. 19 indexed citations

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