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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Ecology and Evolution 48 4149 4002 1446 1383 116 12152

Vance T. Vredenburg publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Vance T. Vredenburg between 1995 and 2024, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Vance T. Vredenburg published across 30 years, from 1995 to 2024, averaging 3.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 11 publications in 2017. 8 of the 118 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
2 4 6 8 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1995 to 2024. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 11. Peak 11 publications in 2017. 1995: 1 publication 1996: 2 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 1 publication 1999: 0 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 1 publication 2002: 0 publications 2003: 0 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 1 publication 2010: 9 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 6 publications 2016: 3 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 8 publications 2020: 7 publications 2021: 9 publications 2022: 4 publications 2023: 2 publications 2024: 6 publications
1995 2024

118 publications in total across all disciplines

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Vance T. Vredenburg: publications per year, 1995 to 2024
Year Publications
1995 1
1996 2
1997 0
1998 1
1999 0
2000 1
2001 1
2002 0
2003 0
2004 3
2005 3
2006 2
2007 5
2008 2
2009 1
2010 9
2011 5
2012 5
2013 6
2014 6
2015 6
2016 3
2017 11
2018 9
2019 8
2020 7
2021 9
2022 4
2023 2
2024 6
Total 118
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Vance T. Vredenburg 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 Vance T. Vredenburg sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 100 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 37–41 to 531+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 333. Most scientists, 333, have 97–101 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 112–116 publications, is where this scientist sits. 37–41 publications: 2 scientists 42–46 publications: 9 scientists 47–51 publications: 10 scientists 52–56 publications: 31 scientists 57–61 publications: 56 scientists 62–66 publications: 91 scientists 67–71 publications: 92 scientists 72–76 publications: 127 scientists 77–81 publications: 173 scientists 82–86 publications: 236 scientists 87–91 publications: 227 scientists 92–96 publications: 240 scientists 97–101 publications: 333 scientists 102–106 publications: 280 scientists 107–111 publications: 300 scientists 112–116 publications: 285 scientists 117–121 publications: 305 scientists 122–126 publications: 287 scientists 127–131 publications: 278 scientists 132–136 publications: 289 scientists 137–141 publications: 273 scientists 142–146 publications: 262 scientists 147–151 publications: 246 scientists 152–156 publications: 235 scientists 157–161 publications: 205 scientists 162–166 publications: 199 scientists 167–171 publications: 174 scientists 172–176 publications: 164 scientists 177–181 publications: 173 scientists 182–186 publications: 189 scientists 187–191 publications: 170 scientists 192–196 publications: 139 scientists 197–201 publications: 128 scientists 202–206 publications: 117 scientists 207–211 publications: 115 scientists 212–216 publications: 107 scientists 217–221 publications: 124 scientists 222–226 publications: 81 scientists 227–231 publications: 82 scientists 232–236 publications: 85 scientists 237–241 publications: 75 scientists 242–246 publications: 66 scientists 247–251 publications: 81 scientists 252–256 publications: 69 scientists 257–261 publications: 70 scientists 262–266 publications: 55 scientists 267–271 publications: 64 scientists 272–276 publications: 49 scientists 277–281 publications: 48 scientists 282–286 publications: 44 scientists 287–291 publications: 45 scientists 292–296 publications: 36 scientists 297–301 publications: 39 scientists 302–306 publications: 38 scientists 307–311 publications: 30 scientists 312–316 publications: 34 scientists 317–321 publications: 25 scientists 322–326 publications: 22 scientists 327–331 publications: 28 scientists 332–336 publications: 30 scientists 337–341 publications: 22 scientists 342–346 publications: 30 scientists 347–351 publications: 26 scientists 352–356 publications: 22 scientists 357–361 publications: 29 scientists 362–366 publications: 21 scientists 367–371 publications: 12 scientists 372–376 publications: 18 scientists 377–381 publications: 17 scientists 382–386 publications: 13 scientists 387–391 publications: 21 scientists 392–396 publications: 13 scientists 397–401 publications: 10 scientists 402–406 publications: 15 scientists 407–411 publications: 8 scientists 412–416 publications: 9 scientists 417–421 publications: 8 scientists 422–426 publications: 4 scientists 427–431 publications: 10 scientists 432–436 publications: 10 scientists 437–441 publications: 5 scientists 442–446 publications: 4 scientists 447–451 publications: 10 scientists 452–456 publications: 2 scientists 457–461 publications: 4 scientists 462–466 publications: 7 scientists 467–471 publications: 7 scientists 472–476 publications: 6 scientists 477–481 publications: 6 scientists 482–486 publications: 3 scientists 487–491 publications: 3 scientists 492–496 publications: 4 scientists 497–501 publications: 4 scientists 502–506 publications: 8 scientists 507–511 publications: 5 scientists 512–516 publications: 4 scientists 517–521 publications: 5 scientists 522–526 publications: 4 scientists 527–530 publications: 5 scientists 531+ publications: 100 scientists
37–41 publications 531+

This scientist: 116 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Ecology and Evolution scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 8,381 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
37–41 2
42–46 9
47–51 10
52–56 31
57–61 56
62–66 91
67–71 92
72–76 127
77–81 173
82–86 236
87–91 227
92–96 240
97–101 333
102–106 280
107–111 300
112–116 285 116
117–121 305
122–126 287
127–131 278
132–136 289
137–141 273
142–146 262
147–151 246
152–156 235
157–161 205
162–166 199
167–171 174
172–176 164
177–181 173
182–186 189
187–191 170
192–196 139
197–201 128
202–206 117
207–211 115
212–216 107
217–221 124
222–226 81
227–231 82
232–236 85
237–241 75
242–246 66
247–251 81
252–256 69
257–261 70
262–266 55
267–271 64
272–276 49
277–281 48
282–286 44
287–291 45
292–296 36
297–301 39
302–306 38
307–311 30
312–316 34
317–321 25
322–326 22
327–331 28
332–336 30
337–341 22
342–346 30
347–351 26
352–356 22
357–361 29
362–366 21
367–371 12
372–376 18
377–381 17
382–386 13
387–391 21
392–396 13
397–401 10
402–406 15
407–411 8
412–416 9
417–421 8
422–426 4
427–431 10
432–436 10
437–441 5
442–446 4
447–451 10
452–456 2
457–461 4
462–466 7
467–471 7
472–476 6
477–481 6
482–486 3
487–491 3
492–496 4
497–501 4
502–506 8
507–511 5
512–516 4
517–521 5
522–526 4
527–530 5
531+ 100
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Vance T. Vredenburg 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 Vance T. Vredenburg sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 92 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 121+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 280. Most scientists, 280, have 40 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 48 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 95 scientists 31 D-Index: 123 scientists 32 D-Index: 191 scientists 33 D-Index: 245 scientists 34 D-Index: 252 scientists 35 D-Index: 244 scientists 36 D-Index: 249 scientists 37 D-Index: 244 scientists 38 D-Index: 254 scientists 39 D-Index: 254 scientists 40 D-Index: 280 scientists 41 D-Index: 274 scientists 42 D-Index: 266 scientists 43 D-Index: 233 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 208 scientists 46 D-Index: 201 scientists 47 D-Index: 213 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 172 scientists 50 D-Index: 209 scientists 51 D-Index: 199 scientists 52 D-Index: 153 scientists 53 D-Index: 169 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 148 scientists 56 D-Index: 120 scientists 57 D-Index: 146 scientists 58 D-Index: 137 scientists 59 D-Index: 140 scientists 60 D-Index: 104 scientists 61 D-Index: 119 scientists 62 D-Index: 118 scientists 63 D-Index: 99 scientists 64 D-Index: 77 scientists 65 D-Index: 100 scientists 66 D-Index: 86 scientists 67 D-Index: 83 scientists 68 D-Index: 75 scientists 69 D-Index: 94 scientists 70 D-Index: 57 scientists 71 D-Index: 68 scientists 72 D-Index: 59 scientists 73 D-Index: 63 scientists 74 D-Index: 66 scientists 75 D-Index: 60 scientists 76 D-Index: 42 scientists 77 D-Index: 49 scientists 78 D-Index: 39 scientists 79 D-Index: 37 scientists 80 D-Index: 43 scientists 81 D-Index: 41 scientists 82 D-Index: 45 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 40 scientists 85 D-Index: 35 scientists 86 D-Index: 55 scientists 87 D-Index: 24 scientists 88 D-Index: 24 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 25 scientists 92 D-Index: 27 scientists 93 D-Index: 27 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 23 scientists 96 D-Index: 12 scientists 97 D-Index: 14 scientists 98 D-Index: 19 scientists 99 D-Index: 16 scientists 100 D-Index: 14 scientists 101 D-Index: 5 scientists 102 D-Index: 21 scientists 103 D-Index: 16 scientists 104 D-Index: 10 scientists 105 D-Index: 7 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 7 scientists 108 D-Index: 6 scientists 109 D-Index: 9 scientists 110 D-Index: 11 scientists 111 D-Index: 12 scientists 112 D-Index: 9 scientists 113 D-Index: 7 scientists 114 D-Index: 3 scientists 115 D-Index: 8 scientists 116 D-Index: 5 scientists 117 D-Index: 11 scientists 118 D-Index: 4 scientists 119 D-Index: 2 scientists 120 D-Index: 5 scientists 121+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Ecology and Evolution scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 8,381 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 95
31 123
32 191
33 245
34 252
35 244
36 249
37 244
38 254
39 254
40 280
41 274
42 266
43 233
44 248
45 208
46 201
47 213
48 207 48
49 172
50 209
51 199
52 153
53 169
54 163
55 148
56 120
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63 99
64 77
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68 75
69 94
70 57
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83 34
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86 55
87 24
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93 27
94 13
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96 12
97 14
98 19
99 16
100 14
101 5
102 21
103 16
104 10
105 7
106 7
107 7
108 6
109 9
110 11
111 12
112 9
113 7
114 3
115 8
116 5
117 11
118 4
119 2
120 5
121+ 100
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Overview

Vance T. Vredenburg is affiliated with San Francisco State University in the United States, contributing primarily to the field of Environmental Science. Their research involves several specialized subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology, and Genetics.

The primary topics of Vredenburg's work focus on Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, Animal and Plant Science Education, and Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities.

They have co-authored with several frequent collaborators, including Michelle S. Koo, Andrew G. Zink, Allison Q. Byrne, David C. Blackburn, and Erica Bree Rosenblum.

Vredenburg's research has been published extensively in notable venues such as Microbial Ecology, PeerJ, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Frontiers in Veterinary Science, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Their recent papers include:

  • Environmental Factors and Host Microbiomes Shape Host-Pathogen Dynamics (2020), published in Trends in Parasitology
  • Comment on "Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity" (2020), published in Science
  • State of the Amphibia 2020: A Review of Five Years of Amphibian Research and Existing Resources (2022), published in Ichthyology & Herpetology
  • Effectiveness of antifungal treatments during chytridiomycosis epizootics in populations of an endangered frog (2022), published in PeerJ
  • Parental Care Alters the Egg Microbiome of Maritime Earwigs (2020), published in Microbial Ecology

Best Publications

  • Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians

    David B. Wake;Vance T. Vredenburg;Vance T. Vredenburg

  • Dynamics of an emerging disease drive large-scale amphibian population extinctions

    Vance T. Vredenburg;Roland A. Knapp;Tate S. Tunstall;Cheryl J. Briggs

  • Skin microbes on frogs prevent morbidity and mortality caused by a lethal skin fungus

    Reid N Harris;Robert M Brucker;Jenifer B Walke;Matthew H Becker

  • Enzootic and epizootic dynamics of the chytrid fungal pathogen of amphibians

    Cheryl J. Briggs;Roland A. Knapp;Vance T. Vredenburg

  • Coincident mass extirpation of neotropical amphibians with the emergence of the infectious fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

    Tina L. Cheng;Sean M. Rovito;David B. Wake;Vance T. Vredenburg

  • Emerging infectious disease as a proximate cause of amphibian mass mortality.

    Lara J. Rachowicz;Roland A. Knapp;Jess A. T. Morgan;Mary J. Stice

  • The Novel and Endemic Pathogen Hypotheses: Competing Explanations for the Origin of Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife

    Lara J. Rachowicz;Jean-Marc Hero;Jean-Marc Hero;Ross A. Alford;John W. Taylor

  • Reversing introduced species effects: Experimental removal of introduced fish leads to rapid recovery of a declining frog.

    Vance T. Vredenburg

  • Symbiotic bacteria contribute to innate immune defenses of the threatened mountain yellow-legged frog, Rana muscosa

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Vance T. Vredenburg;Mary Alice Simon;Dean Billheimer

  • Transmission of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis within and between amphibian life stages.

    Lara J. Rachowicz;Vance T. Vredenburg

  • INVESTIGATING THE POPULATION‐LEVEL EFFECTS OF CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS: AN EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE OF AMPHIBIANS

    Cheryl J. Briggs;Vance T. Vredenburg;Roland A. Knapp;Lara J. Rachowicz

  • Population genetics of the frog-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

    Jess A. T. Morgan;Vance T. Vredenburg;Lara J. Rachowicz;Roland A. Knapp

  • Removal of nonnative fish results in population expansion of a declining amphibian (mountain yellow-legged frog, Rana muscosa).

    Roland A. Knapp;Daniel M. Boiano;Vance T. Vredenburg

  • Proportion of individuals with anti-Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis skin bacteria is associated with population persistence in the frog Rana muscosa

    Brianna A. Lam;Jenifer B. Walke;Vance T. Vredenburg;Reid N. Harris

  • A reservoir species for the emerging Amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis thrives in a landscape decimated by disease.

    Natalie M. M. Reeder;Allan P. Pessier;Vance T. Vredenburg

  • Averting a North American biodiversity crisis

    Tiffany A. Yap;Tiffany A. Yap;Tiffany A. Yap;Michelle S. Koo;Richard F. Ambrose;David B. Wake

  • Molecular phylogenetics of western North American frogs of the Rana boylii species group.

    J.Robert Macey;Jared L Strasburg;Jennifer A Brisson;Vance T Vredenburg

  • People, pollution and pathogens – Global change impacts in mountain freshwater ecosystems

    Dirk S Schmeller;Adeline Loyau;Kunshan Bao;Werner Brack

  • Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and the Collapse of Anuran Species Richness and Abundance in the Upper Manu National Park, Southeastern Peru

    Alessandro Catenazzi;Edgar Lehr;Lily O. Rodriguez;Vance T. Vredenburg

  • Large-scale recovery of an endangered amphibian despite ongoing exposure to multiple stressors

    Roland A. Knapp;Gary M. Fellers;Patrick M. Kleeman;David A. W. Miller

  • Concordant molecular and phenotypic data delineate new taxonomy and conservation priorities for the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog

    V. T. Vredenburg;R. Bingham;R. Knapp;J. A. T. Morgan

  • Introduced trout sever trophic connections in watersheds: consequences for a declining amphibian.

    Jacques C. Finlay;Vance T. Vredenburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Cheryl J. Briggs
Cheryl J. Briggs University of California, Santa Barbara
Roland A. Knapp
Roland A. Knapp University of California, Berkeley
Alessandro Catenazzi
Alessandro Catenazzi Florida International University
David B. Wake
David B. Wake University of California, Berkeley
Douglas C. Woodhams
Douglas C. Woodhams University of Massachusetts Boston
Louise A. Rollins-Smith
Louise A. Rollins-Smith Vanderbilt University
Reid N. Harris
Reid N. Harris James Madison University
Erica Bree Rosenblum
Erica Bree Rosenblum University of California, Berkeley
David C. Blackburn
David C. Blackburn Florida Museum of Natural History
Jean-Marc Hero
Jean-Marc Hero University of the Sunshine Coast

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