2026 Angus Buckling: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	88	528	504	76	72	308	26480

Angus Buckling publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Angus Buckling sits on this spectrum.

37 publications 531+

This scientist: 308 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Angus Buckling D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Angus Buckling sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Angus Buckling is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research is situated primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Their work extends across several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Sociology and Political Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas focused on evolutionary and microbial dynamics. These include:

Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Plant and animal studies
Gut microbiota and health
Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Angus Buckling has contributed to numerous scientific publications. Among their recent papers are:

"The Reproductive Microbiome: An Emerging Driver of Sexual Selection, Sexual Conflict, Mating Systems, and Reproductive Isolation," 2020, published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
"Evolutionary temperature compensation of carbon fixation in marine phytoplankton," 2020, published in Ecology Letters
"Community coalescence: an eco-evolutionary perspective," 2020, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
"Antimicrobial resistance acquisition via natural transformation: context is everything," 2021, published in Current Opinion in Microbiology
"Resident microbial communities inhibit growth and antibiotic-resistance evolution of Escherichia coli in human gut microbiome samples," 2020, published in PLoS Biology

Their frequent co-authors reflect a collaborative research network and include:

Elze Hesse
Luke Lear
Daniel Padfield
Meaghan Castledine
Michiel Vos

Publication venues where Angus Buckling's work appears frequently include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Ecology Letters
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
Microbiology

Best Publications

Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria

Ashleigh S Griffin;Stuart A West;Angus Buckling

1297
Citations
The Social Lives of Microbes

Stuart A. West;Stephen P. Diggle;Angus Buckling;Andy Gardner

844
Citations
Antagonistic coevolution between a bacterium and a bacteriophage.

Angus Buckling;Paul B Rainey

730
Citations
Antagonistic coevolution accelerates molecular evolution

Steve Paterson;Tom Vogwill;Angus Buckling;Rebecca Benmayor

635
Citations
Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

598
Citations
Big questions, small worlds: microbial model systems in ecology

Christine M. Jessup;Rees Kassen;Samantha E. Forde;Ben Kerr

538
Citations
Bacteria-phage antagonistic coevolution in soil.

Pedro Gómez;Pedro Gómez;Angus Buckling;Angus Buckling

534
Citations
Diversity peaks at intermediate productivity in a laboratory microcosm.

Rees Kassen;Angus Buckling;Graham Bell;Paul B. Rainey

458
Citations
Diversity of locust gut bacteria protects against pathogen invasion

R. J. Dillon;C. T. Vennard;A. Buckling;A. K. Charnley

440
Citations
The causes of Pseudomonas diversity

Andrew J. Spiers;Angus Buckling;Paul B. Rainey

439
Citations
Cooperation, virulence and siderophore production in bacterial parasites.

Stuart A West;Angus Buckling

434
Citations
Coevolution with viruses drives the evolution of bacterial mutation rates

Csaba Pal;María D. Maciá;Antonio Oliver;Ira Schachar

383
Citations
The role of parasites in sympatric and allopatric host diversification

Angus Buckling;Paul B. Rainey;Paul B. Rainey

363
Citations
Rapid evolution of metabolic traits explains thermal adaptation in phytoplankton.

Daniel Padfield;Genevieve Yvon-Durocher;Angus Buckling;Simon Jennings;Simon Jennings

352
Citations
Host–parasite coevolutionary arms races give way to fluctuating selection

Alex R. Hall;Pauline D. Scanlan;Andrew D. Morgan;Andrew D. Morgan;Angus Buckling;Angus Buckling

330
Citations
Bacteriocins, spite and virulence

Andy Gardner;Stuart A. West;Angus Buckling

314
Citations
Disturbance and diversity in experimental microcosms

Angus Buckling;Rees Kassen;Graham Bell;Paul B. Rainey

311
Citations
The effect of migration on local adaptation in a coevolving host–parasite system

Andrew D. Morgan;Sylvain Gandon;Angus Buckling

309
Citations
Parasite Exposure Drives Selective Evolution of Constitutive versus Inducible Defense

Edze R. Westra;Stineke van Houte;Sam Oyesiku-Blakemore;Ben Makin

295
Citations
The Beagle in a bottle

Angus Buckling;R. Craig Maclean;Michael A. Brockhurst;Nick Colegrave

293
Citations
The population genetics of antibiotic resistance: integrating molecular mechanisms and treatment contexts

R. Craig MacLean;Alex R. Hall;Gabriel G. Perron;Angus Buckling

288
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Brockhurst University of Manchester

Paul B. Rainey Max Planck Society

Andy Gardner University of St Andrews

Stuart A. West University of Oxford

Edze R. Westra University of Exeter

Gabriel Yvon-Durocher University of Exeter

Steve Paterson University of Liverpool

Sylvain Gandon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Sam P. Brown Georgia Institute of Technology

David J. Hodgson University of Exeter

External Links

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