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Researcher · The University of Western Australia · Australia

Leigh W. Simmons

Leigh W. Simmons publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Insect Science, on topics such as Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and animal studies and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0003-0562-1474 OpenAlex
World rank
#33,878
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#973
of 140,210
Works
527
Citations
32k
Citations per work
60.7
h-index
96
i10-index 378Top 0.1% in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Leigh W. Simmons

What does Leigh W. Simmons research?

Leigh W. Simmons's work is mostly in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (53%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (19%), Environmental Science (6%).

Life Sciences: 382 works · 72.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 280 works · 53.2% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 252 works · 47.9% of their workInsect Science: 28 works · 5.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 101 works · 19.2% of their workGenetics: 101 works · 19.2% of their workEverything else: 87 works · 16.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 32 works · 6.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 32 works · 6.1% of their workEcology: 18 works · 3.4% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 14 works · 2.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 26 works · 5.0% of their workPsychology: 26 works · 5.0% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 26 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKLeigh W. Simmons527works
Life Sciences72%Physical Sciences6%Social Sciences5%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences28053.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10119.2%
  2. Everything else8716.5%
    1. Environmental Science326.1%
    1. Psychology265.0%
  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics48% of their works
  2. 2Genetics19% of their works
  3. 3Insect Science5% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works
  5. 5Ecology3% of their works
  6. 6Nature and Landscape Conservation3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Leigh W. Simmons's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biodiversity, Invasive Species, Natural Selection, Phenotypic Plasticity, Ecosystem Services, Pollinator Decline, Genomics and Social Insects.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Biodiversity3222 topics
  2. Invasive Species3222 topics
  3. Natural Selection3181 topic
  4. Phenotypic Plasticity3181 topic
  5. Ecosystem Services2961 topic
  6. Pollinator Decline2961 topic
  7. Genomics2161 topic
  8. Social Insects2161 topic
  9. Evolutionary Psychology701 topic
  10. Human Behavior701 topic
  11. Honey Bees331 topic
  12. Neonicotinoids331 topic
  13. Evolution291 topic
  14. Orthoptera291 topic
  15. Conservation261 topic
  16. Ecosystem261 topic
  17. Herbivore-Induced Plant Volatiles241 topic
  18. Jasmonate Signaling241 topic

Where does Leigh W. Simmons work?

Leigh W. Simmons's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Western Australia, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Leigh W. Simmons have?

OpenAlex counts 527 works and 31,972 citations for Leigh W. Simmons, an h-index of 96, ranking #33,878 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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