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Anurag A. Agrawal

Anurag A. Agrawal

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Ecology and Evolution
USA
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
103
Citations
44978
World Ranking
234
National Ranking
101

Anurag A. Agrawal 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 Anurag A. Agrawal sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 320 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Anurag A. Agrawal 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 Anurag A. Agrawal sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 103 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Phenotypic plasticity in the interactions and evolution of species.

    Anurag A. Agrawal

  • The ecology and evolution of plant tolerance to herbivory.

    Sharon Y. Strauss;Anurag A. Agrawal

  • Transgenerational induction of defences in animals and plants

    Anurag A. Agrawal;Christian Laforsch;Ralph Tollrian

  • Biotic interactions and plant invasions

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

  • Specialist versus generalist insect herbivores and plant defense

    Jared G. Ali;Anurag A. Agrawal

  • 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

  • Plant defense syndromes.

    Anurag A. Agrawal;Mark Fishbein

  • Induced responses to herbivory and increased plant performance

    Anurag A. Agrawal

  • Re-evaluating the costs and limits of adaptive phenotypic plasticity

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

  • Macroevolution and the biological diversity of plants and herbivores

    Douglas J. Futuyma;Anurag A. Agrawal

  • 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

  • Filling key gaps in population and community ecology

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

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

    Tobias Züst;Anurag A. Agrawal

  • Current trends in the evolutionary ecology of plant defence

    Anurag A. Agrawal

  • Macroevolution of plant defense strategies

    Anurag A. Agrawal

  • Herbivory in the Previous Generation Primes Plants for Enhanced Insect Resistance

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

  • 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

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

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

  • What is phenotypic plasticity and why is it important

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

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

    Anurag A. Agrawal;Kotaro Konno

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

    Anurag A. Agrawal;Nile S. Kurashige

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergio Rasmann
Sergio Rasmann University of Neuchâtel
Marc T. J. Johnson
Marc T. J. Johnson University of Toronto
John L. Maron
John L. Maron University of Montana
Juha-Pekka Salminen
Juha-Pekka Salminen University of Turku
Jennifer S. Thaler
Jennifer S. Thaler Cornell University
Kailen A. Mooney
Kailen A. Mooney University of California, Irvine
Richard Karban
Richard Karban University of California, Davis
John D. Parker
John D. Parker Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Jeffrey K. Conner
Jeffrey K. Conner Michigan State University
Georg Jander
Georg Jander Boyce Thompson Institute

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