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Dean C. Adams 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 Dean C. Adams sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 136 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.

Dean C. Adams 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 Dean C. Adams sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 64 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dean C. Adams is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with notable contributions across several interconnected subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geometry and Topology, Paleontology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The key topics covered by their work span Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Morphological Variations and Asymmetry, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Adams has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Evolution
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Evolutionary Ecology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Adams include:

  • "geomorph v4.0 and gmShiny: Enhanced analytics and a new graphical interface for a comprehensive morphometric experience" (2021), Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Phylogenetically aligned component analysis" (2020), Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Jigsaw method improves learning and retention for observation-based undergraduate biology laboratory activities" (2020), Journal of Biological Education
  • "Making Heads or Tails of Combined Landmark Configurations in Geometric Morphometric Data" (2020), Evolutionary Biology
  • "An effect size for comparing the strength of morphological integration across studies" (2022), Evolution

In terms of collaborative work, Adams frequently publishes with several recurring co-authors, including Michael L. Collyer, Adrián Talavera, Bernat Burriel-Carranza, Salvador Carranza, and Gabriel Mochales-Riaño.

Among professional recognitions, Adams was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Geometric morphometrics: Ten years of progress following the ‘revolution’

    Dean C. Adams;F. James Rohlf;Dennis E. Slice

  • geomorph: an r package for the collection and analysis of geometric morphometric shape data

    Dean C. Adams;Erik Otárola-Castillo;Erik Otárola-Castillo

  • A field comes of age: geometric morphometrics in the 21 st century

    Dean C. Adams;F. James Rohlf;Dennis E. Slice

  • RESAMPLING TESTS FOR META-ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL DATA

    Dean C. Adams;Jessica Gurevitch;Michael S. Rosenberg

  • RRPP: An r package for fitting linear models to high‐dimensional data using residual randomization

    Michael L. Collyer;Dean C. Adams

  • A Generalized K Statistic for Estimating Phylogenetic Signal from Shape and Other High-Dimensional Multivariate Data

    Dean C. Adams

  • geomorph v4.0 and gmShiny: Enhanced analytics and a new graphical interface for a comprehensive morphometric experience

    Erica K. Baken;Michael L. Collyer;Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou;Dean C. Adams

  • Ecological character displacement in Plethodon: Biomechanical differences found from a geometric morphometric study

    Dean C. Adams;F. James Rohlf

  • A method for analysis of phenotypic change for phenotypes described by high-dimensional data

    M L Collyer;D J Sekora;D J Sekora;D C Adams

  • Are rates of species diversification correlated with rates of morphological evolution

    Dean C. Adams;Chelsea M. Berns;Kenneth H. Kozak;Kenneth H. Kozak;John J. Wiens

  • A general framework for the analysis of phenotypic trajectories in evolutionary studies.

    Dean C. Adams;Michael L. Collyer

  • Ontogenetic convergence and evolution of foot morphology in European cave salamanders (Family: Plethodontidae)

    Dean C Adams;Annamaria Nistri

  • Using randomization techniques to analyse behavioural data

    Dean C. Adams;Carl D. Anthony

  • Multivariate Phylogenetic Comparative Methods: Evaluations, Comparisons, and Recommendations.

    Dean C. Adams;Michael L. Collyer

  • Evolutionary convergence of body shape and trophic morphology in cichlids from Lake Tanganyika

    L. RÜber;D. C. Adams

  • A METHOD FOR ASSESSING PHYLOGENETIC LEAST SQUARES MODELS FOR SHAPE AND OTHER HIGH-DIMENSIONAL MULTIVARIATE DATA

    Dean C. Adams

  • AMPHIBIANS DO NOT FOLLOW BERGMANN'S RULE

    Dean C. Adams;James O. Church

  • Evaluating modularity in morphometric data: challenges with the RV coefficient and a new test measure

    Dean C. Adams

  • Direct nitrous oxide emissions in Mediterranean climate cropping systems: Emission factors based on a meta-analysis of available measurement data

    Maria L. Cayuela;Eduardo Aguilera;Alberto Sanz-Cobena;Dean C. Adams

  • Quantifying and Comparing Phylogenetic Evolutionary Rates for Shape and other High-Dimensional Phenotypic Data

    Dean C. Adams

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicole Valenzuela
Nicole Valenzuela Iowa State University
Gavin J. P. Naylor
Gavin J. P. Naylor Florida Museum of Natural History
Robert G. Jaeger
Robert G. Jaeger University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Fredric J. Janzen
Fredric J. Janzen Iowa State University
Pasquale Raia
Pasquale Raia University of Naples Federico II
John J. Wiens
John J. Wiens University of Arizona
Jessica Gurevitch
Jessica Gurevitch Stony Brook University
Miguel A. Carretero
Miguel A. Carretero University of Porto
Frank Johansson
Frank Johansson Uppsala University
Kerstin Johannesson
Kerstin Johannesson University of Gothenburg

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