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D-Index
37
Citations
6377
World Ranking
6815
National Ranking
2296

David C. Blackburn publications per year

2003: 2 publications 2004: 0 publications 2005: 1 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 7 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 3 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 4 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 5 publications 2018: 10 publications 2019: 12 publications 2020: 23 publications 2021: 15 publications 2022: 9 publications 2023: 8 publications 2024: 4 publications 2025: 13 publications
2003 2025

168 publications in total across all disciplines

David C. Blackburn publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2027

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where David C. Blackburn sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 137 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David C. Blackburn D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2027

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where David C. Blackburn sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% 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

  • 1993 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the understanding and characterization of the electrothermal properties and related failure mechanisms of power semiconductor devices.

Overview

David C. Blackburn is affiliated with the Florida Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on Environmental Science, with specific attention to Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology, and Molecular Biology.

Their scholarly work covers a range of main topics, including Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Animal and Plant Science Education, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Frequent collaborators in Blackburn's work include Edward L. Stanley, Marcel T. Kouete, Rachel Keeffe, Jaimi A. Gray, and Michelle S. Koo.

Key recent publications by Blackburn include:

  • Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D imaging: The openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network, 2024, BioScience
  • Digitization and the Future of Natural History Collections, 2020, BioScience
  • Metamorphosis shapes cranial diversity and rate of evolution in salamanders, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Evolution of hyperossification expands skull diversity in frogs, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Comment on "Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity", 2020, Science

Blackburn's most frequent publication venues encompass Zootaxa, MorphoSource Media, BioScience, Evolution, and the Journal of Herpetology.

In 1993, Blackburn received the IEEE Fellow award for contributions to understanding and characterizing the electrothermal properties and related failure mechanisms of power semiconductor devices.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary.

    Yan-Jie Feng;David C. Blackburn;Dan Liang;David M. Hillis

  • Specimen collection: An essential tool

    L. A. Rocha;A. Aleixo;G. Allen;F. Almeda

  • Evolutionary Processes of Diversification in a Model Island Archipelago

    Rafe M. Brown;Cameron D. Siler;Carl H. Oliveros;Jacob A. Esselstyn

  • DNA damage in preserved specimens and tissue samples: a molecular assessment

    Juergen Zimmermann;Mehrdad Hajibabaei;David C Blackburn;James Hanken

  • Finding Our Way through Phenotypes.

    Andrew R. Deans;Suzanna E. Lewis;Eva Huala;Salvatore S. Anzaldo

  • Evaluating mechanisms of diversification in a Guineo-Congolian tropical forest frog using demographic model selection

    Daniel M. Portik;Adam D. Leaché;Danielle Rivera;Michael F. Barej

  • Unification of multi-species vertebrate anatomy ontologies for comparative biology in Uberon:

    Melissa A Haendel;James P Balhoff;James P Balhoff;Frederic B Bastian;Frederic B Bastian;David C Blackburn

  • Cryptic diversity of a widespread global pathogen reveals expanded threats to amphibian conservation.

    Allison Q. Byrne;Vance T. Vredenburg;An Martel;Frank Pasmans

  • An adaptive radiation of frogs in a southeast Asian island archipelago.

    David C. Blackburn;David C. Blackburn;Cameron D. Siler;Cameron D. Siler;Cameron D. Siler;Arvin C. Diesmos;Jimmy A. McGuire

  • Genetics, Morphology, Advertisement Calls, and Historical Records Distinguish Six New Polyploid Species of African Clawed Frog (Xenopus, Pipidae) from West and Central Africa

    Ben J. Evans;Timothy F. Carter;Eli Greenbaum;Václav Gvoždík;Václav Gvoždík

  • An ancient origin for the enigmatic Flat-Headed Frogs (Bombinatoridae: Barbourula) from the islands of Southeast Asia.

    David C. Blackburn;David P. Bickford;Arvin C. Diesmos;Djoko T. Iskandar

  • Biogeography and evolution of body size and life history of African frogs: phylogeny of squeakers (Arthroleptis) and long-fingered frogs (Cardioglossa) estimated from mitochondrial data.

    David C. Blackburn

  • Metamorphosis shapes cranial diversity and rate of evolution in salamanders.

    Anne-Claire Fabre;Carla Bardua;Carla Bardua;Margot Bon;Julien Clavel;Julien Clavel

  • Pax6 regulation of Math5 during mouse retinal neurogenesis

    Amy N. Riesenberg;Tien T. Le;Minde I. Willardsen;David C. Blackburn

  • Evolution of hyperossification expands skull diversity in frogs

    Daniel J. Paluh;Edward L. Stanley;David C. Blackburn

  • Evolution of arthropod visual systems: Development of the eyes and central visual pathways in the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus Linnaeus, 1758 (Chelicerata, Xiphosura)

    Steffen Harzsch;Kathia Vilpoux;David C. Blackburn;David Platchetzki

  • Dispersal to or from an African biodiversity hotspot

    D. C. Blackburn;G. J. Measey

  • Isolation and expression of Pax6 and atonal homologues in the American Horseshoe Crab, Limulus polyphemus

    David C. Blackburn;Kevin W. Conley;David C. Plachetzki;Karen Kempler

  • A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

    Seenapuram Palaniswamy Vijayakumar;Seenapuram Palaniswamy Vijayakumar;Robert Alexander Pyron;K. P. Dinesh;Varun R. Torsekar

  • Dramatic Declines of Montane Frogs in a Central African Biodiversity Hotspot.

    Mareike Hirschfeld;David C. Blackburn;Thomas M. Doherty-Bone;LeGrand Nono Gonwouo

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark-Oliver Rödel
Mark-Oliver Rödel Museum für Naturkunde
Eli Greenbaum
Eli Greenbaum The University of Texas at El Paso
Adam D. Leaché
Adam D. Leaché University of Washington
Rafe M. Brown
Rafe M. Brown University of Kansas
James P. Balhoff
James P. Balhoff University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Vance T. Vredenburg
Vance T. Vredenburg San Francisco State University
David B. Wake
David B. Wake University of California, Berkeley
Cameron D. Siler
Cameron D. Siler University of Oklahoma
Jimmy A. McGuire
Jimmy A. McGuire University of California, Berkeley
Christopher J. Mungall
Christopher J. Mungall Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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