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Norman I. Platnick 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 Norman I. Platnick sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 283 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Norman I. Platnick 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 Norman I. Platnick sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% 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

  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Norman I. Platnick was affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research focused primarily on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific contributions to Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covered a range of topics including:

  • Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy
  • Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny
  • Coleoptera: Cerambycidae studies

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Norman I. Platnick include:

  • "The guardstone spiders of the genus Phonotimpus Gertsch & Davis (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) from northeastern Mexico," 2022, Zootaxa
  • "The Guardstone Spiders of the genus Scotinella (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) in the Southeastern United States," 2024, Zootaxa
  • "Natural history specimens collected and/or identified and deposited," 2024, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Other papers related to the broader research area where Platnick was active, especially concerning spider taxonomy and behavior but authored by collaborators, include:

  • "Capobula gen. nov., a new Afrotropical dark sac spider genus related to Orthobula Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Trachelidae)," 2021, Zootaxa
  • "A revision of the spider genus Orthobula Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Trachelidae) in the Afrotropical Region. I. Continental species," 2022, Zootaxa

Frequent co-authors who collaborated multiple times include:

  • Gareth Nelson (4 publications)
  • Gustavo Hormiga (2 publications)
  • Robert J. Raven (2 publications)
  • Martín J. Ramiréz (2 publications)
  • Peter Jäger (2 publications)

The scientist's publications were commonly found in venues such as:

  • Zootaxa (4 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (4 publications)
  • Biosystema (3 publications)

Norman I. Platnick also contributed to book publications, including works published by Princeton University Press and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Notable book titles include:

  • "Spiders of the World," 2020, published by Princeton University Press
  • "Systématique et Biogéographie," 2024, published by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Among honors received, Platnick was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Systematics and Biogeography

    Gareth Nelson;Norman I. Platnick

  • Systematics and Biogeography: Cladistics and Vicariance

    Gareth J. Nelson;Norman I. Platnick

  • A Method of Analysis for Historical Biogeography

    Norman I. Platnick;Gareth Nelson

  • The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling

    Ward C. Wheeler;Jonathan A. Coddington;Louise M. Crowley;Dimitar Dimitrov;Dimitar Dimitrov

  • The intellectual content of taxonomy: a comment on DNA taxonomy

    D. Lipscomb;Norman I. Platnick;Q. Wheeler

  • The Arthropoda: Habits, Functional Morphology, and Evolution

    Norman I. Platnick

  • Philosophy and the Transformation of Cladistics

    Norman I. Platnick

  • ON MISSING ENTRIES IN CLADISTIC ANALYSIS

    Norman I. Platnick;Charles E. Griswold;Jonathan A. Coddington

  • Advances in cladistics

    D. R. Brooks;V. A. Funk;Norman I. Platnick

  • Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny

    Charles E. Griswold;Martin J. Ramirez;Jonathan A. Coddington;Norman I. Platnick

  • Spinneret Morphology and the Phylogeny of Haplogyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae)

    N. I. Platnick;Jonathan A. Coddington;R. R. Forster;C. E. Griswold

  • Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity

    Q. D. Wheeler;Sandra Knapp;D. W. Stevenson;J. Stevenson

  • Cladistic Methods in Textual, Linguistic, and Phylogenetic Analysis

    Norman I. Platnick;H. Don Cameron

  • Towards a Phylogeny of Entelegyne Spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae)

    Charles E. Griswold;Jonathan A. Coddington;Norman I. Platnick;Raymond R. Forster

  • THREE-TAXON STATEMENTS: A MORE PRECISE USE OF PARSIMONY?

    Gareth Nelson;Norman I. Platnick

  • A review of the North Asian ground spiders of the genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 212

    V. I. Ovcharenko;Norman I. Platnick;Daxiang. Song

  • Patterns of biodiversity: tropical vs temperate

    Norman I. Platnick

  • AN EMPIRICAL COMPARISON OF MICROCOMPUTER PARSIMONY PROGRAMS

    Norman I. Platnick

  • A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae).

    Raymond R Forster;Norman I Platnick

  • Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of haplogyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae). American Museum novitates ; no. 3016

    Norman I. Platnick;Jonathan A. Coddington;Raymond R. Forster;Charles E. Griswold

  • Systematics and Biogeography: Cladistics and Vicariance

    Carl S. Keener;G. Nelson;N. Platnick

  • Evolution and the Diversity of Life: Selected Essays.

    Norman I. Platnick;Ernst Mayr

Frequent Co-Authors

Gareth Nelson
Gareth Nelson University of Melbourne
Charles E. Griswold
Charles E. Griswold California Academy of Sciences
Jonathan A. Coddington
Jonathan A. Coddington National Museum of Natural History
Gustavo Hormiga
Gustavo Hormiga George Washington University
Ward C. Wheeler
Ward C. Wheeler American Museum of Natural History
Mark S. Harvey
Mark S. Harvey Australian Museum
Dimitar Dimitrov
Dimitar Dimitrov University of Bergen
Karl R. Popper
Karl R. Popper London School of Economics and Political Science
William A. Shear
William A. Shear American Museum of Natural History
Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha
Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha Universidade de São Paulo

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