Bernardo F. Santos

967 total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 575 citations indexed

About

Bernardo F. Santos is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernardo F. Santos has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 575 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 32 papers in Insect Science and 20 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Bernardo F. Santos's work include Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny (42 papers), Plant and animal studies (32 papers) and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (28 papers). Bernardo F. Santos is often cited by papers focused on Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny (42 papers), Plant and animal studies (32 papers) and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (28 papers). Bernardo F. Santos collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and France. Bernardo F. Santos's co-authors include Alexandre P. Aguiar, Seán G. Brady, Robert R. Kula, James M. Carpenter, Kurt M. Pickett, Bonnie B. Blaimer, A. Perrard, David R. Smith, Matthew L. Buffington and Astrid Cruaud and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Bernardo F. Santos

53 papers receiving 561 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Key innovations and the diversification of Hymenoptera

2023 90 citations Bonnie B. Blaimer, Bernardo F. Santos et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bernardo F. Santos United States	12	445	240	238	83	44	58	575
Stanislav Korenko Czechia	15	414 0.9×	359 1.5×	307 1.3×	99 1.2×	68 1.5×	43	652
Hathal M. Al Dhafer Saudi Arabia	12	384 0.9×	211 0.9×	228 1.0×	65 0.8×	99 2.3×	104	534
Shauna L. Price United States	10	241 0.5×	209 0.9×	301 1.3×	50 0.6×	30 0.7×	10	399
Stephan M. Blank Germany	15	735 1.7×	140 0.6×	354 1.5×	128 1.5×	38 0.9×	59	833
Serap Mutun Türkiye	12	322 0.7×	207 0.9×	139 0.6×	156 1.9×	37 0.8×	30	424
Elizabeth A. Murray United States	12	448 1.0×	325 1.4×	306 1.3×	89 1.1×	124 2.8×	28	620
Jéssica P. Gillung United States	12	511 1.1×	166 0.7×	213 0.9×	52 0.6×	74 1.7×	21	636
Petr Janšta Czechia	11	343 0.8×	227 0.9×	121 0.5×	44 0.5×	72 1.6×	41	443
Enrico Schifani Italy	14	319 0.7×	172 0.7×	389 1.6×	57 0.7×	27 0.6×	73	495
Taeger Andreas Germany	10	698 1.6×	160 0.7×	325 1.4×	77 0.9×	41 0.9×	52	762

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bernardo F. Santos

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Lawniczak, Mara, Kevin M. Kocot, Jonas J. Astrin, et al.. (2025). Best-practice guidance for Earth BioGenome Project sample collection and processing: progress and challenges in biodiverse reference genome creation. GigaScience. 14. 1 indexed citations

Santos, Bernardo F., Wesley D. Colombo, Elizabeth A. Murray, Seán G. Brady, & Celso O. Azevedo. (2024). Insights from the first phylogenomic analysis of flat wasps (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) reveal two new subfamilies. Cladistics. 40(5). 510–525.

Blaimer, Bonnie B., Bernardo F. Santos, Astrid Cruaud, et al.. (2023). Key innovations and the diversification of Hymenoptera. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1212–1212. 90 indexed citations breakdown →

Santos, Bernardo F. & Seán G. Brady. (2023). Leveraging museum specimens, genomics and legacy datasets to unravel the phylogeny and biogeography of cryptin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptini). Zoologica Scripta. 53(3). 338–357. 4 indexed citations

Levesque‐Beaudin, Valerie, Torsten Dikow, Scott E. Miller, et al.. (2023). A workflow for expanding DNA barcode reference libraries through ‘museum harvesting’ of natural history collections. ZooKeys. 11. e100677–e100677. 4 indexed citations

Villemant, Claire, et al.. (2023). Mymarommatidae, new family and superfamily of parasitoid wasps for Corsica (Hymenoptera, Mymarommatoidea). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 128(4). 411–419. 4 indexed citations

Quicke, Donаld L. J., Sergey А. Belokobylskij, Bernardo F. Santos, et al.. (2022). Mitochondrial phylogenomics and mitogenome organization in the parasitoid wasp family Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 22(1). 46–46. 16 indexed citations

Santos, Bernardo F., Alejandro Zaldívar‐Riverón, José Fernández-Triana, et al.. (2022). Phylogenomics of braconid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) sheds light on classification and the evolution of parasitoid life history traits. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 173. 107452–107452. 31 indexed citations

Santos, Bernardo F., et al.. (2021). Ultraconserved elements-based systematics reveals evolutionary patterns of host-plant family shifts and phytophagy within the predominantly parasitoid braconid wasp subfamily Doryctinae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 166. 107319–107319. 6 indexed citations

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Santos, Bernardo F., et al.. (2020). Species delimitation, environmental cline and phylogeny for a new Neotropical genus of Cryptinae (Ichneumonidae). PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0237233–e0237233. 4 indexed citations

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Legeai, Fabrice, Bernardo F. Santos, Stéphanie Robin, et al.. (2020). Genomic architecture of endogenous ichnoviruses reveals distinct evolutionary pathways leading to virus domestication in parasitic wasps. BMC Biology. 18(1). 89–89. 24 indexed citations

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Klopfstein, Seraina, Bernardo F. Santos, Mark Shaw, et al.. (2019). Darwin wasps: a new name heralds renewed efforts to unravel the evolutionary history of Ichneumonidae. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. ec01006–ec01006. 48 indexed citations

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Santos, Bernardo F., et al.. (2019). Revision of Distictus Townes, 1966 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae), with descriptions of ten new species. European Journal of Taxonomy. 4 indexed citations

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Santos, Bernardo F., A. Perrard, & Seán G. Brady. (2019). Running in circles in phylomorphospace: host environment constrains morphological diversification in parasitic wasps. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1895). 20182352–20182352. 17 indexed citations

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Santos, Bernardo F., Mabel Alvarado, Ilari E. Sääksjärvi, et al.. (2018). Molecular phylogeny of Ateleutinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): systematics and biogeography of a widespread parasitoid wasp lineage. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 185(4). 1057–1078. 3 indexed citations

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Santos, Bernardo F. & Alexandre P. Aguiar. (2018). Review of Dotocryptus Brèthes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae), with a New Species from Colombia. Neotropical Entomology. 47(6). 871–884. 5 indexed citations

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Santos, Bernardo F., et al.. (2017). Long-term seasonal dominance of the wasp Trihapsis polita Townes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Biodiversity Data Journal. 5(5). e11337–e11337. 1 indexed citations

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Santos, Bernardo F., et al.. (2016). First record of egg sac predation on a wall crab spider Selenopidae (Araneae) by the wasp Camera lunavenatrix sp. n. (Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 49. 65–79. 6 indexed citations

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Santos, Bernardo F., et al.. (2010). Generic redefinition, key and two new species of Acorystus Townes (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae). Zootaxa. 2721(1). 1 indexed citations

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Aguiar, Alexandre P. & Bernardo F. Santos. (2009). Biological synopsis of Photocryptus Viereck (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae), with eight new host records and fourteen new geographic records. Zootaxa. 2148(1). 3 indexed citations

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