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David A. Baum publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David A. Baum sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 147 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

David A. Baum D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David A. Baum sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

David A. Baum is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines with a focus on Medicine and Origins and Evolution of Life.

Their main fields of study include Medicine, with subfields such as Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. The primary research topics covered include Tracheal and airway disorders, Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, Origins and Evolution of Life, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Protein Structure and Dynamics, Plant Diversity and Evolution, and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms.

David A. Baum has frequently published in venues such as JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, arXiv (Cornell University), Life, QUBES, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

They have coauthored research with scientists including New York, Diego Preciado, Cristina Baldassari, Louise Davies, and Edward D. McCoul.

Notable recent publications include:

  • "An ecological framework for the analysis of prebiotic chemical reaction networks," 2020, Journal of Theoretical Biology
  • "Transitions between biomes are common and directional in Bombacoideae (Malvaceae)," 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • "The hierarchical organization of autocatalytic reaction networks and its relevance to the origin of life," 2022, PLoS Computational Biology
  • "The Prebiotic Kitchen: A Guide to Composing Prebiotic Soup Recipes to Test Origins of Life Hypotheses," 2021, Life
  • "The merger that made us," 2020, BMC Biology

David A. Baum has received recognition as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2007 and as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic Overdispersion in Floridian Oak Communities

    J. Cavender-Bares;D. D. Ackerly;D. A. Baum;F. A. Bazzaz

  • Genealogical perspectives on the species problem

    D. Baum;K. L. Shaw;P. C. Hoch;A. G. Stephenson

  • Bayesian Estimation of Concordance among Gene Trees

    Cécile Ané;Bret Larget;David A. Baum;Stacey DeWitt Smith

  • Phylogeny of the core Malvales: evidence from ndhF sequence data.

    William S. Alverson;Barbara A. Whitlock;Reto Nyffeler;Clemens Bayer

  • The Tree-Thinking Challenge

    David A. Baum;Stacey DeWitt Smith;Samuel S. S. Donovan

  • Biogeography and floral evolution of baobabs (Adansonia, Bombacaceae) as inferred from multiple data sets.

    David A. Baum;Randall L. Small;Jonathan F. Wendel

  • ADAPTATION REVIEWED: A PHYLOGENETIC METHODOLOGY FOR STUDYING CHARACTER MACROEVOLUTION

    David A. Baum;Allan Larson

  • Choosing among alternative "phylogenetic" species concepts

    David A. Baum;Michael J. Donoghue

  • A Phylogenetic Analysis of Epilobium (Onagraceae) Based on Nuclear Ribosomal DNA Sequences

    David A. Baum;Kenneth J. Sytsma;Peter C. Hoch

  • Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology

    David A. Baum;Stacey D. Smith

  • Phylogeny and the evolution of flower symmetry in the Asteridae

    Michael J Donoghue;Richard H Ree;David A Baum

  • Phylogenetic species concepts.

    David Baum

  • Concordance trees, concordance factors, and the exploration of reticulate genealogy

    David A. Baum

  • A Systematic Revision of Adansonia (Bombacaceae)

    David A Baum

  • Circumscription of the Malvales and relationships to other Rosidae: evidence from rbcL sequence data.

    William S. Alverson;Kenneth G. Karol;David A. Baum;Mark W. Chase

  • EARLY TERTIARY OUT-OF-INDIA DISPERSAL OF CRYPTERONIACEAE: EVIDENCE FROM PHYLOGENY AND MOLECULAR DATING

    Elena Conti;Torsten Eriksson;Jürg Schönenberger;Kenneth J. Sytsma

  • An inside-out origin for the eukaryotic cell

    David A Baum;Buzz Baum

  • The Role of Pollinator Shifts in the Floral Diversification of Iochroma (Solanaceae)

    Stacey DeWitt Smith;Cécile Ané;David A. Baum

  • The comparative pollination and floral biology of baobabs (Adansonia-Bombacaceae).

    David A Baum

  • Phylogenetic relationships of Malvatheca (Bombacoideae and Malvoideae; Malvaceae sensu lato) as inferred from plastid DNA sequences.

    David A. Baum;David A. Baum;Stacey De Witt Smith;Alan Yen;William S. Alverson

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Donoghue
Michael J. Donoghue Yale University
Kenneth J. Sytsma
Kenneth J. Sytsma University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jonathan F. Wendel
Jonathan F. Wendel Iowa State University
Ed T.F. Witkowski
Ed T.F. Witkowski University of the Witwatersrand
Jürg Schönenberger
Jürg Schönenberger University of Vienna
Buzz Baum
Buzz Baum MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Charles C. Davis
Charles C. Davis Harvard University
Mark W. Chase
Mark W. Chase Royal Botanic Gardens
Thomas L. Saunders
Thomas L. Saunders University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Elena Conti
Elena Conti University of Zurich

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