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D-Index
56
Citations
12351
World Ranking
2828
National Ranking
999

Charles Mitter 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 Charles Mitter sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 90 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Charles Mitter 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 Charles Mitter sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Overview

Charles Mitter is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The subfields in which Mitter's work is concentrated include History and Philosophy of Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Their research topics cover History of Science and Medicine, Plant and Animal Studies, along with Philosophy and History of Science.

Mitter's recent scholarly contributions include the paper titled Charles Valentine Riley: Founder of Modern Entomology. By W. Conner Sorensen, Edward H. Smith, and Janet R. Smith, with Donald C. Weber. Tuscaloosa (Alabama): University of Alabama Press. $54.95. xviii + 438 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 9780817320096 (hc); 9780817392222 (eb). 2018., published in 2022 in The Quarterly Review of Biology.

  • The Quarterly Review of Biology

  • History of Science and Medicine
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Philosophy and History of Science

Best Publications

  • Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In : Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

    Erik J. Van Nieukerken;Lauri Kaila;Ian J. Kitching;Niels P. Kristensen

  • The Phylogenetic Study of Adaptive Zones: Has Phytophagy Promoted Insect Diversification?

    Charles Mitter;Brian Farrell;Brian Wiegmann

  • Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

    Zhi-Qiang Zhang;John Na Hooper;Rob Wm Van Soest;Andrzej Pisera

  • Nitrogen in Insects: Implications for Trophic Complexity and Species Diversification

    William F. Fagan;Evan Siemann;Charles Mitter;Robert F. Denno

  • ESCALATION OF PLANT DEFENSE: DO LATEX AND RESIN CANALS SPUR PLANT DIVERSIFICATION?

    Brian D. Farrell;David E. Dussourd;Charles Mitter

  • A highly conserved nuclear gene for low-level phylogenetics: elongation factor-1 alpha recovers morphology-based tree for heliothine moths.

    S Cho;A Mitchell;J C Regier;C Mitter

  • A Large-Scale, Higher-Level, Molecular Phylogenetic Study of the Insect Order Lepidoptera (Moths and Butterflies)

    Jerome C. Regier;Charles Mitter;Andreas Zwick;Adam L. Bazinet

  • Toward reconstructing the evolution of advanced moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an initial molecular study

    Jerome C. Regier;Andreas Zwick;Michael P. Cummings;Akito Y. Kawahara

  • Evolutionary Patterns of Host Plant Use by Delphacid Planthoppers and Their Relatives

    Stephen W. Wilson;Charles Mitter;Robert F. Denno;Michael R. Wilson

  • Phylogenetic studies of insect-plant interactions: Insights into the genesis of diversity

    Charles Mitter;Brian Farrell;Douglas J. Futuyma

  • Phylogeny and Evolution of Lepidoptera.

    Charles Mitter;Donald R. Davis;Michael P. Cummings

  • Phylogenetic aspects of coevolution

    D. J. Futuyama;M. Slatkin;C. Mitter;D. R. Brooks

  • PHYLOGENESIS OF INSECT/PLANT INTERACTIONS: HAVE PHYLLOBROTICA LEAF BEETLES (CHRYSOMELIDAE) AND THE LAMIALES DIVERSIFIED IN PARALLEL?

    Brian D. Farrell;Charles Mitter

  • Diversification at the Insect-Plant Interface

    Brian D. Farrell;Charles Mitter;Douglas J. Futuyma

  • More taxa or more characters revisited: combining data from nuclear protein-encoding genes for phylogenetic analyses of Noctuoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera).

    Andrew Mitchell;Charles Mitter;Jerome C. Regier

  • Systematics and evolution of the cutworm moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): evidence from two protein-coding nuclear genes

    Andrew Mitchell;Charles Mitter;Jerome C. Regier;Jerome C. Regier

  • GENETIC VARIATION AND HOST PLANT RELATIONS IN A PARTHENOGENETIC MOTH.

    Charles Mitter;Douglas J. Futuyma;John C. Schneider;J. Daniel Hare

  • 18. The Phylogenetic Dimension Of Insect-Plant Interactions: A Review Of Recent Evidence

    Charles Mitter;Isaac S. Winkler

  • A molecular phylogeny for the pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) and its implications for higher‐level classification

    Jerome C. Regier;Charles Mitter;M. Alma Solis;James E. Hayden

  • Phylogenetic utility of elongation factor-1 alpha in noctuoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera): the limits of synonymous substitution.

    A Mitchell;S Cho;J.C Regier;C Mitter

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerome C. Regier
Jerome C. Regier University of Maryland, College Park
Michael P. Cummings
Michael P. Cummings University of Maryland, College Park
Akito Y. Kawahara
Akito Y. Kawahara Florida Museum of Natural History
Brian D. Farrell
Brian D. Farrell Harvard University
Douglas J. Futuyma
Douglas J. Futuyma Stony Brook University
Ian J. Kitching
Ian J. Kitching Natural History Museum
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Niklas Wahlberg
Niklas Wahlberg Lund University
David C. Lees
David C. Lees Natural History Museum
Axel Kallies
Axel Kallies University of Melbourne

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