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Winnie Hallwachs 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 Winnie Hallwachs sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 361 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Winnie Hallwachs 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 Winnie Hallwachs sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Winnie Hallwachs is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science, with significant contributions in insect science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their work covers several main topics including forest insect ecology and management, insect-plant interactions and control, insect behavior and control techniques, Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny, plant and animal studies, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Hallwachs has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins, 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Minimalist revision and description of 403 new species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps, including host records for 219 species, 2021, ZooKeys
  • To us insectometers, it is clear that insect decline in our Costa Rican tropics is real, so let's be kind to the survivors, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Área de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica: Converting a tropical national park to conservation via biodevelopment, 2020, Biotropica
  • Using DNA-barcoded Malaise trap samples to measure impact of a geothermal energy project on the biodiversity of a Costa Rican old-growth rain forest, 2020, Genome

The scientist frequently collaborates with others in their field. Their frequent co-authors include Daniel H. Janzen, Paul D. N. Hebert, Michael J. Sharkey, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, and Brianne St. Jacques.

Hallwachs contributes to several publication venues, with the highest number of their works appearing in Zenodo, Zootaxa, Biodiversity Data Journal, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, and Diversity.

Best Publications

  • Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the neotropical skipper butterfly Astraptes fulgerator

    Paul D. N. Hebert;Erin H. Penton;John M. Burns;Daniel H. Janzen

  • DNA barcodes distinguish species of tropical Lepidoptera

    Mehrdad Hajibabaei;Daniel H. Janzen;John M. Burns;Winnie Hallwachs

  • DNA barcodes reveal cryptic host-specificity within the presumed polyphagous members of a genus of parasitoid flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)

    M. Alex Smith;Norman E. Woodley;Daniel H. Janzen;Winnie Hallwachs

  • Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections

    M. Alex Smith;Josephine J. Rodriguez;James B. Whitfield;Andrew R. Deans

  • DNA barcodes affirm that 16 species of apparently generalist tropical parasitoid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) are not all generalists

    M. Alex Smith;D. Monty Wood;Daniel H. Janzen;Winnie Hallwachs

  • Caterpillars lack a resident gut microbiome.

    Tobin J. Hammer;Daniel H. Janzen;Winnie Hallwachs;Samuel P. Jaffe

  • Wedding biodiversity inventory of a large and complex Lepidoptera fauna with DNA barcoding

    Daniel H Janzen;Mehrdad Hajibabaei;John M Burns;Winnie Hallwachs

  • Integration of DNA Barcoding Into An Ongoing Inventory of Complex Tropical Biodiversity

    Daniel H. Janzen;Winnie Hallwachs;Patrick Blandin;John M. Burns

  • Simultaneous assessment of the macrobiome and microbiome in a bulk sample of tropical arthropods through DNA metasystematics

    Joel Gibson;Shadi Shokralla;Shadi Shokralla;Teresita M. Porter;Ian King

  • DNA barcodes and cryptic species of skipper butterflies in the genus Perichares in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

    John M. Burns;Daniel H. Janzen;Mehrdad Hajibabaei;Winnie Hallwachs

  • Next-generation DNA barcoding: using next-generation sequencing to enhance and accelerate DNA barcode capture from single specimens.

    Shadi Shokralla;Shadi Shokralla;Joel F. Gibson;Hamid Nikbakht;Daniel H. Janzen

  • Wolbachia and DNA Barcoding Insects: Patterns, Potential, and Problems

    M. Alex Smith;Claudia Bertrand;Kate Crosby;Eldon S. Eveleigh

  • A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins

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  • DNA barcodes of closely related (but morphologically and ecologically distinct) species of skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae) can differ by only one to three nucleotides

    John M Burns;Daniel H Janzen;Mehrdad Hajibabaei;Winnie Hallwachs

  • Perspective: Where might be many tropical insects?

    Daniel H. Janzen;Winnie Hallwachs

  • Nuclear genomes distinguish cryptic species suggested by their DNA barcodes and ecology

    Daniel H. Janzen;John M. Burns;Qian Cong;Winnie Hallwachs

  • Joining inventory by parataxonomists with DNA barcoding of a large complex tropical conserved wildland in northwestern Costa Rica.

    Daniel H. Janzen;Winnie Hallwachs

  • A tropical horde of counterfeit predator eyes

    Daniel H. Janzen;Winnie D. Hallwachs;John M. Burns

  • Review of Apanteles sensu stricto (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, with keys to all described species from Mesoamerica.

    Jose L. Fernandez-Triana;James B. Whitfield;Josephine J. Rodriguez;M. Alex Smith

  • Extrapolations from field studies and known faunas converge on dramatically increased estimates of global microgastrine parasitoid wasp species richness (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

    Josephine J. Rodriguez;Jose L. Fernández-Triana;M. Alex Smith;Daniel H. Janzen

  • Minimalist revision and description of 403 new species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps, including host records for 219 species.

    Michael J. Sharkey;Daniel H. Janzen;Winnie Hallwachs;Eric G. Chapman

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel H. Janzen
Daniel H. Janzen University of Pennsylvania
M. Alex Smith
M. Alex Smith University of Guelph
Mehrdad Hajibabaei
Mehrdad Hajibabaei University of Guelph
Paul D. N. Hebert
Paul D. N. Hebert University of Guelph
James B. Whitfield
James B. Whitfield University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nick V. Grishin
Nick V. Grishin The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Donald L. J. Quicke
Donald L. J. Quicke Chulalongkorn University
Scott E. Miller
Scott E. Miller National Museum of Natural History
Mark R Shaw
Mark R Shaw National Museum of Natural History
Ian J. Kitching
Ian J. Kitching Natural History Museum

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