2026 Anurag A. Agrawal: 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	103	237	223	101	95	320	44978

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
2017 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2006 - George Mercer Award, The Ecological Society of America

Overview

Anurag A. Agrawal is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions across various subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's work encompasses multiple key topics including SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, asthma and respiratory diseases, COVID-19 diagnosis using AI, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, climate change and health impacts, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

Notable recent papers include:

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2020, The Lancet)
Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2020, The Lancet)
Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine)
Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950-2019: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (2020, The Lancet)
Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990-2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (2024, The Lancet)

Their frequent co-authors include:

Ziyad Al-Aly
Rajesh Pandey
Bijay Pattnaik
Khalid A Altirkawi
Hassan Abolhassani

Publications have often appeared in venues such as The Lancet, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Wellcome Open Research, UNC Libraries, and Nature Medicine.

Anurag A. Agrawal has received several awards over their career, including the George Mercer Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2006, election as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012, and Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2017.

Best Publications

Induced plant responses and information content about risk of herbivory.

Richard Karban;Anurag A. Agrawal;Jennifer S. Thaler;Lynn S. Adler

3112
Citations
Phenotypic plasticity in the interactions and evolution of species.

Anurag A. Agrawal

1936
Citations
The ecology and evolution of plant tolerance to herbivory.

Sharon Y. Strauss;Anurag A. Agrawal

1912
Citations
Transgenerational induction of defences in animals and plants

Anurag A. Agrawal;Christian Laforsch;Ralph Tollrian

986
Citations
Biotic interactions and plant invasions

Charles E. Mitchell;Anurag A. Agrawal;James D. Bever;Gregory S. Gilbert

948
Citations
Specialist versus generalist insect herbivores and plant defense

Jared G. Ali;Anurag A. Agrawal

941
Citations
The impact of air pollution on deaths, disease burden, and life expectancy across the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

Kalpana Balakrishnan;Sagnik Dey;Tarun Gupta;R S Dhaliwal

891
Citations
Plant defense syndromes.

Anurag A. Agrawal;Mark Fishbein

886
Citations
Induced responses to herbivory and increased plant performance

Anurag A. Agrawal

812
Citations
Re-evaluating the costs and limits of adaptive phenotypic plasticity

Josh R. Auld;Anurag A. Agrawal;Rick A. Relyea

794
Citations
Macroevolution and the biological diversity of plants and herbivores

Douglas J. Futuyma;Anurag A. Agrawal

696
Citations
Health and economic impact of air pollution in the states of India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Anamika Pandey;Michael Brauer;Maureen L Cropper;Kalpana Balakrishnan

648
Citations
Filling key gaps in population and community ecology

Anurag A. Agrawal;David D. Ackerly;Fred Adler;A. Elizabeth Arnold

610
Citations
Trade-Offs Between Plant Growth and Defense Against Insect Herbivory: An Emerging Mechanistic Synthesis

Tobias Züst;Anurag A. Agrawal

599
Citations
Current trends in the evolutionary ecology of plant defence

Anurag A. Agrawal

589
Citations
Macroevolution of plant defense strategies

Anurag A. Agrawal

538
Citations
Herbivory in the Previous Generation Primes Plants for Enhanced Insect Resistance

Sergio Rasmann;Martin De Vos;Clare L. Casteel;Donglan Tian

536
Citations
Insect Herbivores Drive Real-Time Ecological and Evolutionary Change in Plant Populations

Anurag A. Agrawal;Amy P. Hastings;Marc T. J. Johnson;John L. Maron

521
Citations
Toxic cardenolides: chemical ecology and coevolution of specialized plant–herbivore interactions

Anurag A. Agrawal;Georg Petschenka;Robin A. Bingham;Marjorie G. Weber

514
Citations
What is phenotypic plasticity and why is it important

D. W. Whitman;A. A. Agrawal;T. N. Ananthakrishnan

493
Citations
Latex: A Model for Understanding Mechanisms, Ecology, and Evolution of Plant Defense Against Herbivory

Anurag A. Agrawal;Kotaro Konno

474
Citations
A role for isothiocyanates in plant resistance against the specialist herbivore Pieris rapae.

Anurag A. Agrawal;Nile S. Kurashige

450
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergio Rasmann University of Neuchâtel

Marc T. J. Johnson University of Toronto

John L. Maron University of Montana

Juha-Pekka Salminen University of Turku

Jennifer S. Thaler Cornell University

Kailen A. Mooney University of California, Irvine

Richard Karban University of California, Davis

John D. Parker Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Jeffrey K. Conner Michigan State University

Georg Jander Boyce Thompson Institute

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