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D-Index
30
Citations
3169
World Ranking
8360
National Ranking
2765

Sarah E. Bush 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 Sarah E. Bush sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 122 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sarah E. Bush 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 Sarah E. Bush sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 30 D-Index — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Sarah E. Bush is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on parasitology, avian ecology, and microbiology with an emphasis on the interactions between birds and their ectoparasites.

Their recent published works include:

  • The assembled and annotated genome of the pigeon louse Columbicola columbae, 2021, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Long-distance dispersal of pigeons and doves generated new ecological opportunities for host-switching and adaptive radiation by their parasites, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The role of scratching in the control of ectoparasites on birds, 2020, The Auk
  • A Misidentification Crisis Plagues Specimen-Based Research: A Case for Guidelines with a Recent Example (Ali et al., 2020), 2021, Journal of Parasitology
  • Stochasticity, determinism, and contingency shape genome evolution of endosymbiotic bacteria, 2024, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Dale H. Clayton
  • Daniel R. Gustafsson
  • Kevin P. Johnson
  • Julie M. Allen
  • Michael D. Shapiro

Sarah E. Bush has published numerous papers in the following venues:

  • Journal of Parasitology
  • European Journal of Taxonomy
  • Zootaxa
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their scholarly work spans multiple main fields of study including Immunology and Microbiology, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

In addition, their subfields of expertise cover Parasitology, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, and Ecological Modeling.

The primary research topics pursued by Sarah E. Bush are:

  • Bird parasitology and diseases
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Study of Mite Species
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences

Besides research articles, Sarah E. Bush has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Corwin eBooks: The Math Pact, High School: Achieving Instructional Coherence Within and Across Grades (2021).

Best Publications

  • How Birds Combat Ectoparasites

    Dale H. Clayton;Jennifer A. H. Koop;Christopher W. Harbison;Brett R. Moyer

  • Adaptive significance of avian beak morphology for ectoparasite control

    Dale H Clayton;Brett R Moyer;Sarah E Bush;Tony G Jones

  • Host defense reinforces host-parasite cospeciation

    Dale H. Clayton;Sarah E. Bush;Brad M. Goates;Kevin P. Johnson

  • Ecology of congruence: past meets present.

    Dale H. Clayton;Sarah E. Bush;Kevin P. Johnson

  • Anti-parasite behaviour of birds.

    Sarah E. Bush;Dale H. Clayton

  • Coevolution of Life on Hosts: Integrating Ecology and History

    Dale H. Clayton;Sarah Elizabeth Bush;Kevin P. Johnson

  • CORRELATED EVOLUTION OF HOST AND PARASITE BODY SIZE: TESTS OF HARRISON'S RULE USING BIRDS AND LICE

    Kevin Paul Johnson;Sarah E. Bush;Dale H. Clayton

  • THE ROLE OF BODY SIZE IN HOST SPECIFICITY: RECIPROCAL TRANSFER EXPERIMENTS WITH FEATHER LICE

    Sarah E. Bush;Dale H. Clayton

  • Unlocking the black box of feather louse diversity: A molecular phylogeny of the hyper-diverse genus Brueelia

    Sarah E. Bush;Jason D. Weckstein;Daniel R Gustafsson;Julie M. Allen

  • Host defence mediates interspecific competition in ectoparasites

    Sarah E. Bush;Jael R. Malenke

  • Coevolution of Life on Hosts

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  • COMPARATIVE TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS OF COMPETING PARASITE SPECIES

    Christopher W. Harbison;Christopher W. Harbison;Sarah E. Bush;Jael R. Malenke;Dale H. Clayton

  • Phthiraptera, the Chewing Lice

    Dale H. Clayton;Richard J. Adams;Sarah E. Bush

  • Morphological revision of the hyperdiverse Brueelia -complex (Insecta: Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) with new taxa, checklists and generic key

    Daniel R. Gustafsson;Sarah E. Bush

  • ECOMORPHOLOGY OF PARASITE ATTACHMENT: EXPERIMENTS WITH FEATHER LICE

    Sarah E. Bush;Edward Sohn;Dale H. Clayton

  • Twelve new species of Priceiella (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from Old World babblers, with keys to species of two subgenera and checklists of species for the genus.

    Daniel R. Gustafsson;Dale H. Clayton;Sarah E. Bush

  • Rapid experimental evolution of reproductive isolation from a single natural population.

    Scott M. Villa;Juan C. Altuna;James S. Ruff;Andrew B. Beach

  • Twelve new species of Guimaraesiella (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from “babblers” (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae, Pellorneidae, Timaliidae) with a description of a new subgenus and a key to its species

    Daniel R. Gustafsson;Dale H. Clayton;Sarah E. Bush

  • Walk or ride? Phoretic behaviour of amblyceran and ischnoceran lice.

    Andrew W. Bartlow;Scott M. Villa;Michael W. Thompson;Sarah E. Bush

  • A new subgenus and eight new species of Guimaraesiella Eichler, 1949 (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae: Brueelia-complex).

    Daniel R. Gustafsson;Sarah E. Bush

  • Geographic Variation in the Community Structure of Lice on Western Scrub-Jays

    Sarah E. Bush;Christopher W. Harbison;David L. Slager;A. Townsend Peterson

  • The genera and species of the Brueelia-complex (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) described by Mey (2017)

    Daniel R. Gustafsson;Sarah E. Bush;Ricardo L. Palma

  • Phoretic dispersal influences parasite population genetic structure.

    Emily DiBlasi;Kevin P. Johnson;Sydney A. Stringham;Angela N. Hansen

  • Size matters for lice on birds: Coevolutionary allometry of host and parasite body size.

    Andrea Harnos;Zsolt Lang;Dóra Petrás;Sarah E. Bush

  • Influence of Bill and Foot Morphology on the Ectoparasites of Barn Owls

    Sarah E. Bush;Scott M. Villa;Than J. Boves;Dallas Brewer

Frequent Co-Authors

Dale H. Clayton
Dale H. Clayton University of Utah
Kevin P. Johnson
Kevin P. Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Vasyl V. Tkach
Vasyl V. Tkach University of North Dakota
Jason D. Weckstein
Jason D. Weckstein Drexel University
A. Townsend Peterson
A. Townsend Peterson University of Kansas
Michael F. Whiting
Michael F. Whiting Brigham Young University
Donald W. Duszynski
Donald W. Duszynski University of New Mexico
Bruce D. Patterson
Bruce D. Patterson Field Museum of Natural History
Robert M. Waterhouse
Robert M. Waterhouse Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Erica Spackman
Erica Spackman United States Department of Agriculture

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