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D-Index
52
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9746
World Ranking
3469
National Ranking
105

Pelayo Acevedo 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 Pelayo Acevedo sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 233 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pelayo Acevedo 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 Pelayo Acevedo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Pelayo Acevedo is affiliated with the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain. Their research primarily falls within Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Ecology. The subfields of study in which they have contributed include Ecology, Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecological Modeling, Infectious Diseases, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research topics cover a range of ecological and disease-related issues, including:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health
  • Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

Pelayo Acevedo has co-authored extensively with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include Joaquín Vicente, Javier Fernández López, José Blanco, Pablo Palencia, and Ignacio García-Bocanegra.

They have published articles in several key venues such as EFSA Supporting Publications, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), European Journal of Wildlife Research, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Among the recent papers featuring their work are:

  • "Wild ungulate overabundance in Europe: contexts, causes, monitoring and management recommendations" (2020), Mammal Review
  • "Overabundant wild ungulate populations in Europe: management with consideration of socio-ecological consequences" (2020), Mammal Review
  • "Assessing the camera trap methodologies used to estimate density of unmarked populations" (2021), Journal of Applied Ecology
  • "Towards a best-practices guide for camera trapping: assessing differences among camera trap models and settings under field conditions" (2021), Journal of Zoology
  • "Stepping up from wildlife disease surveillance to integrated wildlife monitoring in Europe" (2021), Research in Veterinary Science

Best Publications

  • Disease risks and overabundance of game species

    Christian Gortázar;Pelayo Acevedo;Francisco Ruiz-Fons;Joaquín Vicente

  • Estimation of European wild boar relative abundance and aggregation: a novel method in epidemiological risk assessment.

    P. Acevedo;J. Vicente;U. Höfle;J. Cassinello

  • Wild ungulate overabundance in Europe: contexts, causes, monitoring and management recommendations

    Antonio J. Carpio;Antonio J. Carpio;Marco Apollonio;Pelayo Acevedo

  • The status of tuberculosis in European wild mammals

    Christian Gortázar;Richard J. Delahay;Robbie A. Mcdonald;Mariana Boadella

  • Factors affecting wild boar abundance across an environmental gradient in Spain

    Pelayo Acevedo;Marco A. Escudero;Rosa Muńoz;Christian Gortázar

  • Estimating red deer abundance in a wide range of management situations in Mediterranean habitats

    P. Acevedo;P. Acevedo;F. Ruiz-Fons;F. Ruiz-Fons;J. Vicente;A. R. Reyes-García

  • Bovine tuberculosis in Doñana Biosphere Reserve: the role of wild ungulates as disease reservoirs in the last Iberian lynx strongholds.

    Christian Gortázar;María José Torres;Joaquín Vicente;Pelayo Acevedo

  • Risk factors associated with the prevalence of tuberculosis-like lesions in fenced wild boar and red deer in south central Spain

    Joaquín Vicente;Joaquín Vicente;Joaquín Vicente;Ursula Höfle;Joseba M Garrido;Isabel G Fernández-de-Mera

  • Delimiting the geographical background in species distribution modelling

    Pelayo Acevedo;Pelayo Acevedo;Pelayo Acevedo;Alberto Jiménez-Valverde;Jorge M. Lobo;Raimundo Real

  • Spatial distribution and risk factors of Brucellosis in Iberian wild ungulates

    Pilar M Muñoz;Mariana Boadella;Maricruz Arnal;María J de Miguel

  • Overabundant wild ungulate populations in Europe: management with consideration of socio‐ecological consequences

    Ana M. Valente;Ana M. Valente;Pelayo Acevedo;Ana M. Figueiredo;Carlos Fonseca

  • Past, present and future of wild ungulates in relation to changes in land use

    Pelayo Acevedo;Miguel Ángel Farfán;Ana Luz Márquez;Miguel Delibes-Mateos

  • Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from wild ungulates in south-central Spain

    Christian Gortazar;Joaquín Vicente;Sofia Samper;Joseba M. Garrido

  • Discrimination capacity in species distribution models depends on the representativeness of the environmental domain

    Alberto Jiménez-Valverde;Pelayo Acevedo;Pelayo Acevedo;A. Márcia Barbosa;A. Márcia Barbosa;Jorge M. Lobo

  • Favourability: concept, distinctive characteristics and potential usefulness

    Pelayo Acevedo;Raimundo Real

  • Spatiotemporal interactions between wild boar and cattle: implications for cross-species disease transmission

    Jose A Barasona;M Cecilia Latham;Pelayo Acevedo;Jose A Armenteros

  • Ixodid ticks parasitizing Iberian red deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus) and European wild boar (Sus scrofa) from Spain: Geographical and temporal distribution

    Francisco Ruiz-Fons;Isabel G. Fernández-de-Mera;Pelayo Acevedo;Ursula Höfle

  • Assessing the camera trap methodologies used to estimate density of unmarked populations

    Pablo Palencia;J. Marcus Rowcliffe;Joaquín Vicente;Pelayo Acevedo

  • A broad assessment of factors determining Culicoides imicola abundance: modelling the present and forecasting its future in climate change scenarios.

    Pelayo Acevedo;Francisco Ruiz-Fons;Rosa Estrada;Ana Luz Márquez

  • Temporal Trend of Tuberculosis in Wild Ungulates from Mediterranean Spain

    J. Vicente;J. A. Barasona;P. Acevedo;J. F. Ruiz-Fons

  • Unmanned aircraft systems for studying spatial abundance of ungulates: Relevance to spatial epidemiology

    José A. Barasona;Margarita Mulero-Pázmány;Pelayo Acevedo;Juan J. Negro

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Gortázar
Christian Gortázar University of Castilla-La Mancha
Joaquín Vicente
Joaquín Vicente University of Castilla-La Mancha
Francisco Ruiz-Fons
Francisco Ruiz-Fons University of Castilla-La Mancha
José de la Fuente
José de la Fuente University of Castilla-La Mancha
Raimundo Real
Raimundo Real University of Malaga
Ursula Höfle
Ursula Höfle University of Castilla-La Mancha
Paulo C. Alves
Paulo C. Alves University of Porto
Ignacio García-Bocanegra
Ignacio García-Bocanegra University of Córdoba
Carlos Fonseca
Carlos Fonseca University of Aveiro

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