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D-Index
100
Citations
53278
World Ranking
1485
National Ranking
844

Rob DeSalle publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rob DeSalle sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 465 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Rob DeSalle D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rob DeSalle sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 100 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Rob DeSalle is affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, where they have contributed to 31 publications. DeSalle's subfields include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Paleontology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work covers a range of topics including Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Race, Genetics, and Society, Plant and Animal Studies, Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, and aspects of the Wine Industry and Tourism.

DeSalle has published recent papers such as:

  • NIH must confront the use of race in science, 2020, Science
  • Scale-dependent patterns of metacommunity structuring in aquatic organisms across floodplain systems, 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • Morphological Characters Can Strongly Influence Early Animal Relationships Inferred from Phylogenomic Data Sets, 2020, Systematic Biology
  • The enigmatic Placozoa part 1: Exploring evolutionary controversies and poor ecological knowledge, 2021, BioEssays
  • Phylogenomics and the first higher taxonomy of Placozoa, an ancient and enigmatic animal phylum, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent coauthors from their collaborative work include Ian Tattersall, Susan L. Perkins, Michael Tessler, and Apurva Narechania.

DeSalle's publications appear often in scholarly venues such as:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Yale University Press eBooks
  • Microbial Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The scientist has authored several books published mainly by Yale University Press and Cambridge University Press. Among these are:

  • Distilled (2022)
  • Welcome to the Microbiome (2020)
  • A Natural History of Wine (2020)
  • Understanding Race (2022)

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • The unholy trinity: taxonomy, species delimitation and DNA barcoding

    Rob DeSalle;Mary G Egan;Mark Siddall

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • The carcinogenicity of human papillomavirus types reflects viral evolution

    Mark Schiffman;Rolando Herrero;Rob DeSalle;Allan Hildesheim

  • Multiple Sources of Character Information and the Phylogeny of Hawaiian Drosophilids

    Richard H. Baker;Rob DeSalle

  • Tempo and mode of sequence evolution in mitochondrial DNA of Hawaiian Drosophila

    Rob DeSalle;Toby Freedman;Ellen M. Prager;Alan C. Wilson

  • Oil palm genome sequence reveals divergence of interfertile species in Old and New worlds

    Rajinder Singh;Meilina Ong-Abdullah;Eng Ti Leslie Low;Mohamad Arif Abdul Manaf

  • Taking race out of human genetics

    Michael Yudell;Dorothy Roberts;Rob DeSalle;Sarah Tishkoff

  • The expansion of conservation genetics

    Rob DeSalle;George Amato

  • Diagnosing Units of Conservation Management

    Alfried P. Vogler;Rob Desalle

  • DNA sequences from a fossil termite in Oligo-Miocene amber and their phylogenetic implications

    Rob DeSalle;John Gatesy;Ward Wheeler;David Grimaldi

  • Alignment-ambiguous nucleotide sites and the exclusion of systematic data.

    John Gatesy;Rob DeSalle;Ward Wheeler

  • Class-level relationships in the phylum Cnidaria: evidence from mitochondrial genome structure.

    Diane Bridge;Clifford W. Cunningham;Bernd Schierwater;Rob Desalle

  • Integrating DNA barcode data and taxonomic practice: Determination, discovery, and description

    Paul Z. Goldstein;Rob DeSalle

  • Patterns of mitochondrial versus nuclear DNA sequence divergence among nymphalid butterflies: the utility of wingless as a source of characters for phylogenetic inference

    A. V. Z. Brower;R. DeSalle

  • Character-based DNA barcoding allows discrimination of genera, species and populations in Odonata

    J. Rach;Rob DeSalle;Indra Neil Sarkar;B. Schierwater

  • Phylogeny of the Acipenseriformes: cytogenetic and molecular approaches

    Vadim J. Birstein;Robert Hanner;Rob DeSalle

  • Punctuated bursts in human male demography inferred from 1,244 worldwide Y-chromosome sequences

    G David Poznik;Yali Xue;Fernando L Mendez;Thomas F Willems

  • Class-level relationships in the phylum Cnidaria: molecular and morphological evidence.

    D Bridge;C W Cunningham;R DeSalle;L W Buss

  • Assessing the relative contribution of molecular and morphological characters in simultaneous analysis trees.

    Richard H. Baker;Xiaobo Yu;Rob DeSalle

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul J. Planet
Paul J. Planet Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Bernd Schierwater
Bernd Schierwater University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
George Amato
George Amato American Museum of Natural History
Robert D. Burk
Robert D. Burk Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Richard Baker
Richard Baker University of Leicester
Zigui Chen
Zigui Chen Chinese University of Hong Kong
John Gatesy
John Gatesy American Museum of Natural History
Rolando Herrero
Rolando Herrero Costa Rican Agency for Biomedical Research, INCIENSA Foundation
Ward C. Wheeler
Ward C. Wheeler American Museum of Natural History
Gloria M. Coruzzi
Gloria M. Coruzzi New York University

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