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D-Index
40
Citations
8702
World Ranking
6006
National Ranking
107

Marcelo F. Simon 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 Marcelo F. Simon sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 135 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Marcelo F. Simon 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 Marcelo F. Simon sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Marcelo F. Simon is affiliated with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation in Brazil. Their research primarily addresses topics within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, spanning 151 and 60 publications respectively. Their work delves into several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (107 publications), Nature and Landscape Conservation (39), Plant Science (32), Molecular Biology (11), and Global and Planetary Change (9).

The scientist's main topics of study focus on Plant and animal studies, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, and Species Distribution and Climate Change. These thematic areas reflect a broad engagement with both fundamental and applied aspects of biodiversity and ecosystem research.

Marcelo F. Simon has contributed to numerous papers with high citation counts in well-regarded journals. Some of their recent publications include:

  • Fast diversification through a mosaic of evolutionary histories characterizes the endemic flora of ancient Neotropical mountains, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Hybrid capture of 964 nuclear genes resolves evolutionary relationships in the mimosoid legumes and reveals the polytomous origins of a large pantropical radiation, 2020, American Journal of Botany
  • Evolutionary diversity in tropical tree communities peaks at intermediate precipitation, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Precipitation is the main axis of tropical plant phylogenetic turnover across space and time, 2023, Science Advances

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon, Carolina V. Castilho, Ângelo Gilberto Manzatto, and Susan G. W. Laurance, each with close to or above twenty joint works.

Publications appear often in a range of scientific venues, notably including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Revista Brasileira de Botânica, Phytotaxa, PhytoKeys, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Recent assembly of the Cerrado, a neotropical plant diversity hotspot, by in situ evolution of adaptations to fire

    Marcelo F. Simon;Rosaura Grether;Luciano P. de Queiroz;Cynthia Skema

  • A new subfamily classification of the leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny

    Nasim Azani;Marielle Babineau;C. Donovan Bailey;Hannah Banks

  • EVIDENCE FOR ADAPTATION TO FIRE REGIMES IN THE TROPICAL SAVANNAS OF THE BRAZILIAN CERRADO

    Marcelo F. Simon;Toby Pennington

  • Legume phylogeny and classification in the 21st century: Progress, prospects and lessons for other species-rich clades

    A. Bruneau;J.J. Doyle;P. Herendeen;C. Hughes

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system

    Sally Archibald;Sally Archibald;C. E. R. Lehmann;C. E. R. Lehmann;Claire M. Belcher;William J. Bond

  • Burkholderia species are ancient symbionts of legumes

    Cyril Bontemps;Geoffrey N. Elliott;Marcelo F. Simon;Fábio B. Dos Reis Júnior

  • The evolutionary history of Mimosa (Leguminosae): toward a phylogeny of the sensitive plants.

    Marcelo F. Simon;Marcelo F. Simon;Rosaura Grether;Luciano P. de Queiroz;Tiina E. Särkinen

  • Whole Genome Analyses Suggests that Burkholderia sensu lato Contains Two Additional Novel Genera (Mycetohabitans gen. nov., and Trinickia gen. nov.): Implications for the Evolution of Diazotrophy and Nodulation in the Burkholderiaceae.

    Paulina Estrada-de los Santos;Marike Palmer;Belén Chávez-Ramírez;Chrizelle Winsie Beukes

  • Burkholderia phymatum is a highly effective nitrogen-fixing symbiont of Mimosa spp. and fixes nitrogen ex planta.

    Geoffrey N. Elliott;Wen-Ming Chen;Jui-Hsing Chou;Hui-Chun Wang

  • Evolutionary islands in the Andes: persistence and isolation explain high endemism in Andean dry tropical forests

    Tiina Särkinen;Tiina Särkinen;Tiina Särkinen;R. Toby Pennington;Matt Lavin;Marcelo F. Simon

  • Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Timothy J. Killeen;William F. Laurance

  • Phytogeographic patterns of Mimosa (Mimosoideae, Leguminosae) in the Cerrado biome of Brazil: an indicator genus of high-altitude centers of endemism?

    M.F Simon;C Proença

  • Nodulation and nitrogen fixation by Mimosa spp. in the Cerrado and Caatinga biomes of Brazil.

    Fábio Bueno dos Reis;Marcelo F. Simon;Eduardo Gross;Robert M. Boddey

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Forgotten forests - issues and prospects in biome mapping using Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests as a case study

    Tiina Särkinen;João R V Iganci;Reynaldo Linares-Palomino;Marcelo F Simon

  • Fast diversification through a mosaic of evolutionary histories characterizes the endemic flora of ancient Neotropical mountains

    Thais N. C. Vasconcelos;Thais N. C. Vasconcelos;Suzana Alcantara;Caroline O. Andrino;Félix Forest

  • Horizontal Transfer of Symbiosis Genes within and Between Rhizobial Genera: Occurrence and Importance

    Mitchell Andrews;Sofie De Meyer;Sofie De Meyer;Euan K James;Tomasz Stępkowski

  • Locating evolutionary precursors on a phylogenetic tree.

    Brigitte Marazzi;Brigitte Marazzi;Cécile Ané;Marcelo F. Simon;Alfonso Delgado-Salinas

  • Biased-corrected richness estimates for the Amazonian tree flora.

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Paulo I. Prado;Renato A.F.de Lima;Renato A.F.de Lima;Edwin Pos

  • An invasive Mimosa in India does not adopt the symbionts of its native relatives

    Hukam Singh Gehlot;Nisha Tak;Muskan Kaushik;Shubhajit Mitra

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin E. Hughes
Colin E. Hughes University of Zurich
Kyle G. Dexter
Kyle G. Dexter University of Edinburgh
Euan K. James
Euan K. James James Hutton Institute
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Rafael P. Salomão
Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
R. Toby Pennington
R. Toby Pennington University of Exeter
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado
Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado University of St Andrews
Florian Wittmann
Florian Wittmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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