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Researcher · Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas · Spain

Pedro Castañera

Pedro Castañera publishes mostly in Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science, on topics such as Diptera species taxonomy and behavior, Insect behavior and control techniques and Research on scale insects.

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World rank
#450,543
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Spain
#12,629
of 45,870
Works
21
Citations
90
Citations per work
4.3

What does Pedro Castañera research?

Insect Science: 44.4%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 19.4%Plant Science: 16.7%Molecular Biology: 11.1%other fields: 8.4%44%top field
Insect Science44.4%Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics19.4%Plant Science16.7%Molecular Biology11.1%other fields8.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Insect Science44% of their works
  2. 2Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics19% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science17% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology11% of their works
  5. 5Infectious Diseases3% of their works
  6. 6Aquatic Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Pedro Castañera's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Biological Control, Phylogeny, Taxonomy, Invasive Species, Morphology, Population Dynamics, Pest Management and Biogeography.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Biological Control143 topics
  2. Phylogeny133 topics
  3. Taxonomy133 topics
  4. Invasive Species122 topics
  5. Morphology122 topics
  6. Population Dynamics122 topics
  7. Pest Management92 topics
  8. Biogeography72 topics
  9. Diptera61 topic
  10. Drosophila Suzukii61 topic
  11. Evolution61 topic
  12. Fruit Fly61 topic
  13. Mealybug61 topic
  14. Scale Insects61 topic
  15. Bacillus thuringiensis41 topic
  16. RNA Interference41 topic
  17. Botanical Insecticides31 topic
  18. Essential Oils31 topic
  19. Herbivore-Induced Plant Volatiles21 topic
  20. Jasmonate Signaling21 topic
  21. Acariformes11 topic
  22. Aquaculture11 topic
  23. Mites11 topic
  24. Nutrition11 topic

Where does Pedro Castañera work?

Pedro Castañera's main affiliation in the publication record is Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas, Spain.

How many publications and citations does Pedro Castañera have?

Science Explorer counts 21 works and 90 citations for Pedro Castañera, ranking #450,543 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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