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Researcher · United States Department of Agriculture · United States

R. A. Cushma

R. A. Cushma publishes mostly in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science and Genetics, on topics such as Diptera species taxonomy and behavior, Study of Mite Species and Fossil Insects in Amber.

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World rank
#1,340,102
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#316,845
of 358,040
Works
15
Citations
10
Citations per work
0.7

What does R. A. Cushma research?

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 62.5%Insect Science: 20.8%Genetics: 8.3%Paleontology: 4.2%other fields: 4.2%62%top field
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics62.5%Insect Science20.8%Genetics8.3%Paleontology4.2%other fields4.2%

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

  1. 1Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics62% of their works
  2. 2Insect Science21% of their works
  3. 3Genetics8% of their works
  4. 4Paleontology4% of their works
  5. 5Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. A. Cushma's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Phylogeny, Biogeography, Taxonomy, Morphology, Evolution, Diptera, Invasive Species and molecular data.

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 25 words, with their numbers
  1. Phylogeny114 topics
  2. Biogeography93 topics
  3. Taxonomy93 topics
  4. Morphology83 topics
  5. Evolution62 topics
  6. Diptera51 topic
  7. Invasive Species53 topics
  8. molecular data51 topic
  9. Biodiversity42 topics
  10. Biological Control42 topics
  11. Acariformes31 topic
  12. DNA Barcoding32 topics
  13. Mites31 topic
  14. Amber Fossils21 topic
  15. Decomposition21 topic
  16. Drosophila Suzukii21 topic
  17. Forensic Entomology21 topic
  18. Fruit Fly21 topic
  19. Gall-Inducing Insects21 topic
  20. Insect Evolution21 topic
  21. Parasitoid Wasps21 topic
  22. Coleoptera11 topic
  23. Ecosystem Services11 topic
  24. Pollinator Decline11 topic
  25. beetles11 topic

Where does R. A. Cushma work?

R. A. Cushma's main affiliation in the publication record is United States Department of Agriculture, United States.

How many publications and citations does R. A. Cushma have?

Science Explorer counts 15 works and 10 citations for R. A. Cushma, ranking #1,340,102 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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