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D-Index
40
Citations
6368
World Ranking
6114
National Ranking
2083

Noah K. Whiteman 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 Noah K. Whiteman sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 117 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Noah K. Whiteman 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 Noah K. Whiteman 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.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Noah K. Whiteman is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans numerous aspects of agricultural and biological sciences, with particular emphasis on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these, they focus on various subfields such as:

  • Plant Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Insect Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics

Whiteman's research topics cover a broad range of biological and ecological themes, including:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes" (2021, eLife)
  • "Insect herbivory reshapes a native leaf microbiome" (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Predictability of Biotic Stress Structures Plant Defence Evolution" (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Convergent resistance to GABA receptor neurotoxins through plant-insect coevolution" (2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Convergent evolution of cardiac-glycoside resistance in predators and parasites of milkweed herbivores" (2021, Current Biology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Whiteman include:

  • Kirsten I. Verster
  • Julianne Peláez
  • Teruyuki Matsunaga
  • Jessica M. Aguilar
  • Bernard Kim

Whiteman's work is regularly published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Current Biology
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Journal of Heredity

In 2020, Whiteman was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Evolution of jasmonate and salicylate signal crosstalk.

    Jennifer S. Thaler;Parris T. Humphrey;Noah K. Whiteman

  • Disease ecology in the Galapagos Hawk (Buteo galapagoensis): host genetic diversity, parasite load and natural antibodies

    Noah Kerness Whiteman;Kevin D Matson;Jennifer L Bollmer;Patricia G Parker

  • Using parasites to infer host population history: a new rationale for parasite conservation

    Noah Kerness Whiteman;Patricia G. Parker

  • Highly contiguous assemblies of 101 drosophilid genomes.

    Bernard Y Kim;Jeremy R Wang;Danny E Miller;Olga Barmina

  • Co‐phylogeography and comparative population genetics of the threatened Galápagos hawk and three ectoparasite species: ecology shapes population histories within parasite communities

    Noah Kerness Whiteman;Rebecca T. Kimball;Patricia G. Parker

  • Herbivory increases diversification across insect clades

    John J. Wiens;Richard T. Lapoint;Noah K. Whiteman

  • Genome editing retraces the evolution of toxin resistance in the monarch butterfly.

    Marianthi Karageorgi;Simon C. Groen;Simon C. Groen;Fidan Sumbul;Julianne N. Pelaez

  • Evolution of herbivory in Drosophilidae linked to loss of behaviors, antennal responses, odorant receptors, and ancestral diet.

    Benjamin Goldman-Huertas;Robert F. Mitchell;Richard T. Lapoint;Cécile P. Faucher

  • EFFECTS OF HOST SOCIALITY ON ECTOPARASITE POPULATION BIOLOGY

    Noah Kerness Whiteman;Patricia G. Parker

  • Extensive gene tree discordance and hemiplasy shaped the genomes of North American columnar cacti

    Dario Copetti;Dario Copetti;Alberto Búrquez;Enriquena Bustamante;Joseph L.M. Charboneau

  • Evolution in an Ancient Detoxification Pathway Is Coupled with a Transition to Herbivory in the Drosophilidae

    Andrew D. Gloss;Daniel G. Vassão;Alexander L. Hailey;Anna C. Nelson Dittrich

  • Characterization of canarypox-like viruses infecting endemic birds in the Galápagos Islands.

    Teresa Thiel;Noah K. Whiteman;Ana Tirapé;Maria Ines Baquero

  • 110 years of Avipoxvirus in the Galapagos Islands.

    Patricia G. Parker;Elizabeth L Buckles;Heather L. Farrington;Kenneth Petren

  • Diversity and abundance of phyllosphere bacteria are linked to insect herbivory

    Parris T. Humphrey;Trang T. Nguyen;Martha M. Villalobos;Noah K. Whiteman

  • Establishment of the avian disease vector Culex quinquefasciatus Say, 1823 (Diptera: Culicidae) on the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

    Noah Kerness Whiteman;Simon J. Goodman;Bradley J. Sinclair;Tim Walsh

  • Phylogeography of the Galápagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis): a recent arrival to the Galápagos Islands.

    Jennifer L. Bollmer;Rebecca T. Kimball;Noah Kerness Whiteman;José Hernán Sarasola

  • CONSERVATION MEDICINE ON THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS: PARTNERSHIPS AMONG BEHAVIORAL, POPULATION, AND VETERINARY SCIENTISTS

    Patricia G. Parker;Noah Kerness Whiteman;R. Eric Miller

  • Differences in straggling rates between two genera of dove lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) reinforce population genetic and cophylogenetic patterns *

    Noah Kerness Whiteman;Diego Santiago-Alarcon;Kevin P. Johnson;Patricia G. Parker

  • Mining the plant–herbivore interface with a leafmining Drosophila of Arabidopsis

    Noah K. Whiteman;Simon C. Groen;Daniela Chevasco;Ashley Bear

  • Promises and challenges in insect-plant interactions

    David Giron;Géraldine Dubreuil;Alison Bennett;Franck Dedeine

  • CRYPTIC HOST SPECIFICITY OF AN AVIAN SKIN MITE (EPIDERMOPTIDAE) VECTORED BY LOUSEFLIES (HIPPOBOSCIDAE) ASSOCIATED WITH TWO ENDEMIC GALÁPAGOS BIRD SPECIES

    Noah Kerness Whiteman;Pablo Sánchez;Jane Merkel;Hans Klompen

Frequent Co-Authors

Patricia G. Parker
Patricia G. Parker University of Missouri–St. Louis
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University
Naomi E. Pierce
Naomi E. Pierce Harvard University
Rebecca T. Kimball
Rebecca T. Kimball University of Florida
Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs University of Missouri–St. Louis
Kenneth Petren
Kenneth Petren University of Cincinnati
Travis C. Glenn
Travis C. Glenn University of Georgia
Georg Jander
Georg Jander Boyce Thompson Institute
Andrew A. Cunningham
Andrew A. Cunningham Zoological Society of London
Kevin D. Matson
Kevin D. Matson Wageningen University & Research

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