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Biology and Biochemistry
New Zealand
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
82
Citations
25868
World Ranking
3666
National Ranking
6

David Penny 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 Penny sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 275 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David Penny 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 Penny sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 1990 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

David Penny is affiliated with Massey University in New Zealand. Their research encompasses several areas within social sciences and education, with a focus on gender diversity, mentoring, academic development, and higher education employability.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Mentoring and Academic Development
  • Higher Education and Employability

The subfields of study related to their research are:

  • Gender Studies
  • Social Psychology
  • Education

David Penny has published multiple papers in peer-reviewed venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Charles Darwin as a scientist," 2024, New Zealand Science Review
  • "The continuity of mind, from great apes to humans," 2023, New Zealand Science Review
  • "A Fallen Line of Marble Drums," 2022, Electronic workshops in computing
  • "Female student participation in New Zealand universities: Forty years on," 2023, New Zealand Science Review (co-authored with Paul A. Stock)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with David Penny are:

  • Paul A. Stock
  • Ema Alter

Their publications have predominantly appeared in these venues:

  • New Zealand Science Review
  • Electronic workshops in computing

David Penny was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis, cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus.

    William Martin;Tamas Rujan;Erik Richly;Andrea Hansen

  • Recovering evolutionary trees under a more realistic model of sequence evolution.

    Peter J. Lockhart;Michael A. Steel;Michael D. Hendy;David Penny

  • The hemochromatosis gene product complexes with the transferrin receptor and lowers its affinity for ligand binding

    John N. Feder;David M. Penny;Alivelu Irrinki;Vince K. Lee

  • A Framework for the Quantitative Study of Evolutionary Trees

    Michael D. Hendy;David Penny

  • The modern molecular clock.

    Lindell Bromham;David Penny

  • Branch and bound algorithms to determine minimal evolutionary trees

    M.D. Hendy;David Penny

  • Mass survival of birds across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: molecular evidence.

    Alan Cooper;David Penny

  • Genome-scale phylogeny and the detection of systematic biases

    Matthew J. Phillips;Frederic Delsuc;David Penny

  • A genome phylogeny for mitochondria among alpha-proteobacteria and a predominantly eubacterial ancestry of yeast nuclear genes.

    Christian Esser;Nahal Ahmadinejad;Christian Wiegand;Carmen Rotte

  • Parsimony, Likelihood, and the Role of Models in Molecular Phylogenetics

    Mike Steel;David Penny

  • The Use of Tree Comparison Metrics

    David Penny;M. D. Hendy

  • Distributions of Tree Comparison Metrics—Some New Results

    Mike A. Steel;David Penny

  • Inferring Phylogenies.—Joseph Felsenstein. 2003. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.

    David Penny

  • The path from the RNA world.

    Anthony M. Poole;Daniel C. Jeffares;David Penny

  • Relics from the RNA world.

    Daniel C. Jeffares;Anthony M. Poole;David Penny

  • Early Penguin Fossils, Plus Mitochondrial Genomes, Calibrate Avian Evolution

    Kerryn E. Slack;Craig M. Jones;Tatsuro Ando;G. L.(Abby) Harrison

  • Conserved sequence motifs, alignment, and secondary structure for the third domain of animal 12S rRNA.

    R E Hickson;C Simon;A Cooper;G S Spicer

  • The root of the mammalian tree inferred from whole mitochondrial genomes.

    Matthew J. Phillips;David Penny

  • The comparative method in evolutionary biology

    D. Penny

  • a Predominantly Eubacterial Ancestry of Yeast Nuclear Genes

    Christian Esser;Nahal Ahmadinejad;Christian Wiegand;Carmen Rotte

Frequent Co-Authors

Mike Steel
Mike Steel University of Canterbury
Peter J. Lockhart
Peter J. Lockhart Massey University
Scott William Roy
Scott William Roy San Francisco State University
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
Vincent Moulton
Vincent Moulton University of East Anglia
Manuel Irimia
Manuel Irimia Pompeu Fabra University
Frédéric Delsuc
Frédéric Delsuc University of Montpellier
Keith Grimwood
Keith Grimwood Griffith University
Anthony W. D. Larkum
Anthony W. D. Larkum University of Sydney
Lindell Bromham
Lindell Bromham Australian National University

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