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D-Index
39
Citations
7920
World Ranking
6299
National Ranking
40

Evan P. Economo 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 Evan P. Economo sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 166 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Evan P. Economo 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 Evan P. Economo sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Evan P. Economo is affiliated with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Their research contributions span primarily within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work frequently intersects with subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Genetics; Ecology; Insect Science; and Ecological Modeling.

Their research interests focus extensively on topics related to insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, fossil insects in amber, insect and pesticide research, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and animal and plant science education.

Economo has been involved in multiple recent papers, highlighting a range of topics and publication venues:

  • The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity, 2022, Science Advances
  • Utility of acoustic indices for ecological monitoring in complex sonic environments, 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • Functional innovation promotes diversification of form in the evolution of an ultrafast trap-jaw mechanism in ants, 2021, PLoS Biology
  • From species sorting to mass effects: spatial network structure mediates the shift between metacommunity archetypes, 2021, Ecography
  • The global spread and invasion capacities of alien ants, 2023, Current Biology

Frequent coauthors in their research projects include Benoît Guénard, Francisco Hita Garcia, Adrian Richter, Julian Katzke, and Roberto A. Keller. These collaborations represent a significant portion of their scholarly output.

Their publications are commonly found in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Ecography, Nature Communications, and the Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, with multiple works published in each of these sources.

Best Publications

  • The future of hyperdiverse tropical ecosystems

    Jos Barlow;Filipe França;Filipe França;Toby A. Gardner;Christina C. Hicks

  • Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools.

    Hanno Seebens;Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Ellie E. Dyer;Ellie E. Dyer;Piero Genovesi

  • Scaling metabolism from organisms to ecosystems

    Brian J. Enquist;Evan P. Economo;Travis E. Huxman;Andrew P. Allen

  • Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

    Wayne Dawson;Dietmar Moser;Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Holger Kreft

  • Visualizing and interacting with large-volume biodiversity data using client–server web-mapping applications: The design and implementation of antmaps.org

    Julia Janicki;Nitish Narula;Matt Ziegler;Benoit Guénard;Benoit Guénard

  • The Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics (GABI) database: synthesizing data on the geographic distribution of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    BS Guenard;Weiser;K Gomez;N Narula

  • Metacommunity phylogenetics: separating the roles of environmental filters and historical biogeography.

    Mathew A. Leibold;Evan P. Economo;Pedro Peres-Neto

  • Macroecology and macroevolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in ants.

    Evan P. Economo;Nitish Narula;Nicholas R. Friedman;Michael D. Weiser

  • Species diversity in neutral metacommunities: a network approach

    Evan P. Economo;Timothy H. Keitt

  • The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity

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  • Remoteness promotes biological invasions on islands worldwide.

    Dietmar Moser;Bernd Lenzner;Patrick Weigelt;Wayne Dawson

  • Sequencing degraded DNA from non-destructively sampled museum specimens for RAD-tagging and low-coverage shotgun phylogenetics.

    Mandy Man-Ying Tin;Evan Philip Economo;Alexander Sergeyevich Mikheyev

  • An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).

    Himender Bharti;Benoit Guénard;Meenakshi Bharti;Evan P. Economo

  • The ascent of the abundant: how mutational networks constrain evolution.

    Matthew C. Cowperthwaite;Evan P. Economo;William R. Harcombe;Eric L. Miller

  • Network isolation and local diversity in neutral metacommunities

    Evan P. Economo;Timothy H. Keitt

  • The Roles of Introgression and Climate Change in the Rise to Dominance of Acropora Corals.

    Yafei Mao;Evan P. Economo;Noriyuki Satoh

  • New records of ant species from Yunnan, China.

    Cong Liu;Benoit Guénard;Francisco Hita Garcia;Seiki Yamane

  • Diversity regulation at macro-scales: species richness on oceanic archipelagos

    Kostas A. Triantis;Kostas A. Triantis;Evan P. Economo;Evan P. Economo;François Guilhaumon;François Guilhaumon;Robert E. Ricklefs

  • Introduced Pheidole of the world: taxonomy, biology and distribution

    Eli М. Sarnat;Georg Fischer;Benoit Guénard;Evan P. Economo

  • Adaptive differences in plant physiology and ecosystem paradoxes: insights from metabolic scaling theory

    Brian J. Enquist;Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Travis E. Huxman;Evan P. Economo

  • Revisiting the ants of Melanesia and the taxon cycle: historical and human-mediated invasions of a tropical archipelago.

    Evan P. Economo;Eli M. Sarnat

Frequent Co-Authors

Benoit Guénard
Benoit Guénard University of Hong Kong
Alexander S. Mikheyev
Alexander S. Mikheyev Australian National University
L. Lacey Knowles
L. Lacey Knowles University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Mark van Kleunen
Mark van Kleunen University of Konstanz
Tim M. Blackburn
Tim M. Blackburn University College London
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
César Capinha
César Capinha University of Lisbon
Rolf G. Beutel
Rolf G. Beutel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Brian L. Fisher
Brian L. Fisher California Academy of Sciences

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