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Simon Van Noort publications per year

1993: 1 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 0 publications 2002: 1 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 1 publications 2005: 1 publications 2006: 0 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 13 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 9 publications 2015: 6 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 5 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 65 publications 2020: 16 publications 2021: 14 publications 2022: 41 publications 2023: 19 publications 2024: 13 publications 2025: 9 publications
1993 2025

253 publications in total across all disciplines

Simon Van Noort publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2027

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where Simon Van Noort sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

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

Simon Van Noort D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2027

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where Simon Van Noort sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

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Overview

Simon Van Noort is affiliated with the Iziko South African Museum in South Africa. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant number of publications in the associated subfields of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Genetics, Ecology, and Plant Science.

Their work encompasses several main topics, including Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Fossil Insects in Amber, Plant and animal studies, Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, Biological Control of Invasive Species, and Hemiptera insect studies.

Van Noort has contributed to a variety of recent academic papers, including:

  • From hell's heart I stab at thee! A determined approach towards a monophyletic Pteromalidae and reclassification of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera), 2022, Journal of Hymenoptera Research
  • World Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera): A Key to Higher-Level Groups, 2020, Insect Systematics and Diversity
  • The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps, 2023, Cladistics
  • The Chalcidoidea bush of life - a massive radiation blurred by mutational saturation, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ultra-Conserved Elements and morphology reciprocally illuminate conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses in Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), 2020, Cladistics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Van Noort include:

  • Elijah J. Talamas
  • Zachary Lahey
  • Andrew Polaszek
  • Norman F. Johnson
  • Andrew D. Austin

Their publications are commonly found in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Metamorphosis
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Journal of Hymenoptera Research
  • ZooKeys

Simon Van Noort has also authored books published by Princeton University Press, including two editions of Wasps of the World in 2023 and 2024.

Best Publications

  • An Extreme Case of Plant–Insect Codiversification: Figs and Fig-Pollinating Wasps

    Astrid Cruaud;Nina Ronsted;Nina Ronsted;Nina Ronsted;Bhanumas Chantarasuwan;Lien Siang Chou

  • A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera)

    John M. Heraty;Roger A. Burks;Roger A. Burks;Astrid Cruaud;Astrid Cruaud;Gary A.P. Gibson

  • Fig volatiles: Their role in attracting pollinators and maintaining pollinator specificity

    Anthony B. Ware;Perry T. Kaye;Stephen G. Compton;Simon Van Noort

  • Laying the foundations for a new classification of Agaonidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), a multilocus phylogenetic approach

    Astrid Cruaud;Roula Jabbour-Zahab;Gwenaëlle Genson;Corinne Cruaud

  • One Fig to Bind Them All: Host Conservatism in a Fig Wasp Community Unraveled by Cospeciation Analyses Among Pollinating and Nonpollinating Fig Wasps

    Emmanuelle Jousselin;Emmanuelle Jousselin;Simon van Noort;Vincent Berry;Jean-Yves Rasplus

  • Transcriptome sequence-based phylogeny of chalcidoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) reveals a history of rapid radiations, convergence, and evolutionary success.

    Ralph S. Peters;Oliver Niehuis;Simon Gunkel;Marcel Bläser

  • Codivergence and multiple host species use by fig wasp populations of the Ficus pollination mutualism.

    Michael J McLeish;Simon van Noort

  • Floral volatiles, pollinator sharing and diversification in the fig–wasp mutualism: insights from Ficus natalensis, and its two wasp pollinators (South Africa)

    A. Cornille;J. G. Underhill;A. Cruaud;M. Hossaert-McKey

  • Out of Australia and back again: the world-wide historical biogeography of non-pollinating fig wasps (Hymenoptera: Sycophaginae)

    Astrid Cruaud;Roula Jabbour-Zahab;Gwenaëlle Genson;Arnaud Couloux

  • Phylogeny and evolution of life-history strategies in the Sycophaginae non-pollinating fig wasps (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)

    Astrid Cruaud;Roula Jabbour-Zahab;Gwenaelle Genson;Finn Kjellberg

  • A revision of Anacharoides Cameron, 1904 (Hymenoptera, Figitidae) with a description of a new species

    Matthew L Buffington;Simon van Noort

  • Revision of Afrotropical Dyscritobaeus Perkins, 1910 (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)

    Francesco Tortorici;Virgilio Caleca;Simon Van Noort;Lubomir Masner

  • Dispersal and fighting in male pollinating fig wasps.

    Jaco M Greeff;Simon van Noort;Jean-Yves Rasplus;Finn Kjellberg

  • Revision of the Oriental genera of Agathidinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with an emphasis on Thailand and interactive keys to genera published in three different formats

    Michael Sharkey;Dicky Yu;Simon van Noort;Katja Seltmann

  • Revision of World Species of the Genus Oreiscelio Kieffer Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae

    Elijah Talamas;Norman Johnson;Simon van Noort;Lubomir Masner

  • New species of the plesiomorphic genus Nixonia Masner (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea, Platygastridae) from South Africa

    Simon van Noort;Norman Johnson

  • Revision of the Afrotropical species of Pristomerus (Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae), with descriptions of 31 new species

    Pascal Rousse;Simon van Noort

  • Identity of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae and Eulophidae) reared from aquatic leaf-mining flies (Diptera, Ephydridae) on invasive Brazilian waterweed Egeria densa in South Africa

    Simon van Noort;Rosali Smith;Julie A. Coetzee

  • Darwin wasps: a new name heralds renewed efforts to unravel the evolutionary history of Ichneumonidae

    Seraina Klopfstein;Bernardo F Santos;Mark R Shaw;Mabel Alvarado

  • Mantophasmatodea now in South Africa.

    Mike D. Picker;Jonathan F. Colville;Simon van Noort

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Yves Rasplus
Jean-Yves Rasplus INRA Biology Center for Population Management (CBGP)
Stephen G. Compton
Stephen G. Compton University of Leeds
Finn Kjellberg
Finn Kjellberg Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Emmanuelle Jousselin
Emmanuelle Jousselin INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Vincent Savolainen
Vincent Savolainen Imperial College London
John M. Heraty
John M. Heraty University of California, Riverside
Donald L. J. Quicke
Donald L. J. Quicke Chulalongkorn University
Carole Kerdelhué
Carole Kerdelhué Montpellier SupAgro
Arnaud Couloux
Arnaud Couloux French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Celso O. Azevedo
Celso O. Azevedo Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

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