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Top Insect Science Researchers

C. A. Edwards ranks first, out of 4,854 ranked researchers.

Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.

The ranking

  1. 1 C. A. Edwards United States · #262 worldwide 4.6k citations · 190 works
  2. 2 Marimuthu Palaniswami Australia · #339 worldwide 3.8k citations · 179 works
  3. 3 John F. Anderson United States · #928 worldwide 2.6k citations · 101 works
  4. 4 Theodosius Dobzhansky United States · #1,282 worldwide 1.6k citations · 102 works
  5. 5 Daniel Simberloff United States · #1,360 worldwide 2.9k citations · 130 works
  6. 6 Daniel H. Janzen United States · #1,965 worldwide 2.1k citations · 131 works
  7. 7 G. H. Hardy United Kingdom · #2,515 worldwide 939 citations · 96 works
  8. 8 Ramaswamy Govindan United States · #2,745 worldwide 2k citations · 181 works
  9. 9 Wim H. van der Putten Netherlands · #3,512 worldwide 1.5k citations · 116 works
  10. 10 David M. Richardson South Africa · #3,615 worldwide 2.3k citations · 131 works
  11. 11 Miguel A. Altieri United States · #4,595 worldwide 947 citations · 100 works
  12. 12 Paul R. Ehrlich United States · #5,163 worldwide 1.7k citations · 153 works
  13. 13 David Pimentel United States · #7,589 worldwide 1.2k citations · 97 works
  14. 14 Teja Tscharntke Germany · #7,856 worldwide 1.7k citations · 83 works
  15. 15 William R. Morrison United States · #8,285 worldwide 1.2k citations · 53 works
  16. 16 Matthias C. Rillig Germany · #9,023 worldwide 2k citations · 103 works
  17. 17 A. Townsend Peterson United States · #9,437 worldwide 2.1k citations · 148 works
  18. 18 Mark Blaxter United Kingdom · #9,489 worldwide 774 citations · 73 works
  19. 19 Scott C. Weaver United States · #9,581 worldwide 1k citations · 91 works
  20. 20 Harry C. Evans United Kingdom · #9,807 worldwide 1.1k citations · 51 works
  21. 21 John E. Casida United States · #12,133 worldwide 1.6k citations · 159 works
  22. 22 Charles A. Powell United States · #12,142 worldwide 856 citations · 98 works
  23. 23 Petr Pyšek Czechia · #12,934 worldwide 1.4k citations · 113 works
  24. 24 Nancy A. Moran United States · #13,212 worldwide 1k citations · 54 works
  25. 25 Philip Hugenholtz United States · #14,317 worldwide 1.9k citations · 141 works
  26. 26 Marc Dufrêne Belgium · #14,633 worldwide 777 citations · 127 works
  27. 27 Peter W. Price United States · #15,496 worldwide 663 citations · 59 works
  28. 28 Josef Settele Germany · #15,526 worldwide 1.1k citations · 82 works
  29. 29 Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter Germany · #16,803 worldwide 1k citations · 62 works
  30. 30 Charles D. Michener United States · #16,956 worldwide 1.2k citations · 132 works
  31. 31 Simon G. Potts United Kingdom · #18,309 worldwide 765 citations · 57 works
  32. 32 Maurice W. Sabelis Netherlands · #18,639 worldwide 617 citations · 77 works
  33. 33 David G. Williams United States · #20,560 worldwide 716 citations · 51 works
  34. 34 J. Mark Scriber United States · #20,744 worldwide 649 citations · 48 works
  35. 35 Montserrat Vilà Spain · #20,843 worldwide 910 citations · 62 works
  36. 36 Gene E. Robinson United States · #21,095 worldwide 758 citations · 61 works
  37. 37 Ilkka Hanski Finland · #21,167 worldwide 686 citations · 54 works
  38. 38 Kim C. Worley United States · #21,473 worldwide 1k citations · 50 works
  39. 39 David Chandler United Kingdom · #21,494 worldwide 646 citations · 155 works
  40. 40 May R. Berenbaum United States · #22,304 worldwide 718 citations · 78 works
  41. 41 Riccardo Bommarco Sweden · #22,875 worldwide 774 citations · 41 works
  42. 42 François Rousset France · #23,047 worldwide 772 citations · 39 works
  43. 43 Giuseppe Mazza Canada · #24,617 worldwide 744 citations · 82 works
  44. 44 Milan Chytrý Czechia · #26,241 worldwide 982 citations · 115 works
  45. 45 Karl J. Kramer United States · #26,569 worldwide 338 citations · 50 works
  46. 46 Th. Dobzhansky United States · #26,682 worldwide 415 citations · 59 works
  47. 47 Linda Partridge United Kingdom · #26,899 worldwide 949 citations · 106 works
  48. 48 James F. Price United States · #27,371 worldwide 507 citations · 67 works
  49. 49 Kevin D. Hyde Thailand · #28,272 worldwide 4.8k citations · 473 works
  50. 50 Robert F. Denno United States · #29,398 worldwide 688 citations · 38 works
  51. 51 Giuseppe Brundu Italy · #29,995 worldwide 445 citations · 72 works
  52. 52 Josep Peñuelas Spain · #30,345 worldwide 4.1k citations · 311 works
  53. 53 Denis J. Wright United Kingdom · #30,673 worldwide 292 citations · 49 works
  54. 54 Jonathan Lenoir France · #31,521 worldwide 1.1k citations · 84 works
  55. 55 François Buscot Germany · #32,300 worldwide 693 citations · 51 works
  56. 56 Ian T. Baldwin Germany · #32,668 worldwide 508 citations · 74 works
  57. 57 Henrik G. Smith Sweden · #33,449 worldwide 718 citations · 81 works
  58. 58 A. van Huis Netherlands · #33,692 worldwide 304 citations · 47 works
  59. 59 Anurag A. Agrawal United States · #33,711 worldwide 575 citations · 61 works
  60. 60 Bernard Greenberg United States · #33,938 worldwide 405 citations · 70 works
  61. 61 Alan G. Barbour United States · #34,057 worldwide 549 citations · 49 works
  62. 62 Petr Baldrián Czechia · #34,948 worldwide 546 citations · 50 works
  63. 63 Didier Lereclus France · #35,288 worldwide 262 citations · 84 works
  64. 64 V. B. Wigglesworth United Kingdom · #35,449 worldwide 374 citations · 66 works
  65. 65 Claire Kremen United States · #35,506 worldwide 1.1k citations · 33 works
  66. 66 Christian Ammer Germany · #36,452 worldwide 613 citations · 54 works
  67. 67 Ahmadali Enayati Iran · #36,559 worldwide 2.3k citations · 31 works
  68. 68 Hervé Jactel France · #36,986 worldwide 491 citations · 63 works
  69. 69 Brian L. Strom United States · #37,466 worldwide 344 citations · 44 works
  70. 70 César Cardona Colombia · #37,757 worldwide 466 citations · 37 works
  71. 71 Huyen Dinh United States · #38,174 worldwide 1.2k citations · 31 works
  72. 72 Ivette Perfecto United States · #38,432 worldwide 632 citations · 52 works
  73. 73 Michael J. Wade United States · #38,503 worldwide 583 citations · 60 works
  74. 74 Piermaria Corona Italy · #38,988 worldwide 1.1k citations · 122 works
  75. 75 Paul H. Williams United Kingdom · #39,037 worldwide 409 citations · 43 works
  76. 76 Markus Fischer Switzerland · #39,673 worldwide 1k citations · 80 works
  77. 77 John H. Werren United States · #39,715 worldwide 519 citations · 39 works
  78. 78 John W. Taylor United States · #39,718 worldwide 831 citations · 140 works
  79. 79 John Vandermeer United States · #39,957 worldwide 967 citations · 102 works
  80. 80 Charles W. Fox United States · #40,197 worldwide 516 citations · 93 works
  81. 81 Lois K. Miller United States · #41,067 worldwide 388 citations · 36 works
  82. 82 Erik Næsset Norway · #41,442 worldwide 1.1k citations · 91 works
  83. 83 Michael R. Strand United States · #41,623 worldwide 472 citations · 42 works
  84. 84 Ernst‐Detlef Schulze Germany · #41,875 worldwide 1.8k citations · 228 works
  85. 85 David Kleijn Netherlands · #42,165 worldwide 522 citations · 60 works
  86. 86 Harry K. Kaya United States · #45,150 worldwide 563 citations · 56 works
  87. 87 Walter R. Terra Brazil · #45,507 worldwide 366 citations · 63 works
  88. 88 A. H. Sturtevant United States · #45,515 worldwide 320 citations · 33 works
  89. 89 W. J. Schroeder United States · #45,777 worldwide 359 citations · 37 works
  90. 90 Charles W. O’Brien United States · #47,203 worldwide 317 citations · 49 works
  91. 91 Hugh M. Robertson United States · #47,212 worldwide 469 citations · 37 works
  92. 92 J. A. McMurtry United States · #47,489 worldwide 441 citations · 36 works
  93. 93 Randy Thornhill United States · #47,668 worldwide 547 citations · 47 works
  94. 94 Paul Schmid‐Hempel Switzerland · #48,413 worldwide 449 citations · 44 works
  95. 95 Michael G. Kontominas Greece · #48,847 worldwide 431 citations · 46 works
  96. 96 David G. Watson United Kingdom · #50,055 worldwide 386 citations · 55 works
  97. 97 Juming Tang United States · #50,376 worldwide 764 citations · 80 works
  98. 98 Douglas J. Futuyma United States · #51,123 worldwide 593 citations · 75 works
  99. 99 Juha Siitonen Finland · #52,058 worldwide 412 citations · 34 works
  100. 100 Valeria Trivellone United States · #52,847 worldwide 266 citations · 34 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Insect Science, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.

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