Darren Ward

3.3k total citations
90 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Darren Ward is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Darren Ward has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 46 papers in Insect Science and 39 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Darren Ward's work include Plant and animal studies (48 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (26 papers) and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (22 papers). Darren Ward is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (48 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (26 papers) and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (22 papers). Darren Ward collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and Australia. Darren Ward's co-authors include Alan L. Yen, T. R. New, Jacqueline R. Beggs, Robert Poulin, Marlene Zuk, Margaret C. Stanley, Marie‐Claude Larivière, Eckehard G. Brockerhoff, Richard J. Harris and Ígnasi Bartomeus and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Darren Ward

84 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Darren Ward New Zealand 19 928 665 616 563 430 90 1.7k
Wouter Dekoninck Belgium 22 705 0.8× 525 0.8× 559 0.9× 313 0.6× 196 0.5× 113 1.6k
Derek S. Sikes United States 20 921 1.0× 778 1.2× 618 1.0× 565 1.0× 283 0.7× 82 1.6k
Harold F. Greeney United States 17 1.2k 1.3× 483 0.7× 453 0.7× 751 1.3× 351 0.8× 139 1.9k
Margriet van Asch Netherlands 10 837 0.9× 714 1.1× 273 0.4× 681 1.2× 626 1.5× 12 1.8k
Ivone R. Diniz Brazil 21 1.4k 1.5× 789 1.2× 565 0.9× 484 0.9× 281 0.7× 70 2.0k
Brandon T. Barton United States 25 714 0.8× 398 0.6× 381 0.6× 897 1.6× 400 0.9× 44 1.8k
Erhard Christian Austria 19 1.0k 1.1× 383 0.6× 954 1.5× 373 0.7× 276 0.6× 45 1.7k
Shawn M. Wilder United States 25 1.1k 1.2× 651 1.0× 900 1.5× 573 1.0× 113 0.3× 78 1.9k
Richard J. Walters United Kingdom 20 657 0.7× 281 0.4× 397 0.6× 519 0.9× 231 0.5× 49 1.4k
Åsa Berggren Sweden 19 481 0.5× 465 0.7× 352 0.6× 442 0.8× 167 0.4× 68 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Darren Ward

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Darren Ward

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Darren Ward. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Darren Ward based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Darren Ward. Darren Ward is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Ward, Darren. (2024). Building a DNA barcode reference collection of Hymenoptera in New Zealand. ZooKeys. 12. e131701–e131701.
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Lester, Philip J., Jacqueline R. Beggs, Bob Brown, et al.. (2023). The outlook for control of New Zealand’s most abundant, widespread and damaging invertebrate pests: social wasps. 70(4). 56–62. 2 indexed citations
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Ward, Darren, et al.. (2022). Coastal Diptera species and communities and their geographic distribution in Aotearoa|New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 49(4). 335–354. 1 indexed citations
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Dopheide, Andrew, et al.. (2022). Fast‐tracking bespoke DNA reference database generation from museum collections for biomonitoring and conservation. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(5). e13733–e13733. 4 indexed citations
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Ward, Darren, et al.. (2020). Dataset of host records for introduced parasitoid wasp species (Hymenoptera) in New Zealand. ZooKeys. 8. e59472–e59472. 1 indexed citations
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Schmack, Julia M., Matthias Schleuning, Darren Ward, & Jacqueline R. Beggs. (2020). Biogeography and anthropogenic impact shape the success of invasive wasps on New Zealand's offshore islands. Diversity and Distributions. 26(4). 441–452. 19 indexed citations
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Fernández-Triana, José & Darren Ward. (2020). Notogaster, a new genus of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from New Zealand. Zootaxa. 4801(2). zootaxa.4801.2.3–zootaxa.4801.2.3.
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Probert, Anna F., et al.. (2020). Invasion patterns of non-native ants in natural ecosystems in warm, temperate New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 44(1). 2 indexed citations
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Martin, N.A., et al.. (2018). A survey of the adventive parasitoid Meteorus pulchricornis (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and native larval parasitoids of native Lepidoptera. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 45(4). 326–340. 5 indexed citations
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Khalaim, Andrey I. & Darren Ward. (2018). Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from New Zealand. Part 1. Generic key and three new genera. Zootaxa. 4425(1). 41–77. 1 indexed citations
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Ward, Darren, Dean P. Anderson, & M. C. Barron. (2016). Using spatially explicit surveillance models to provide confidence in the eradication of an invasive ant. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 34953–34953. 9 indexed citations
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Ward, Darren. (2014). Overview and key to the New Zealand Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera). Zootaxa. 3878(6). 563–79. 2 indexed citations
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Njoroge, Grace N., et al.. (2013). Invasive species in east Africa: current status for informed policy decisions and management. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology. 15(1). 45–55. 10 indexed citations
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Ward, Darren. (2012). More Than Just Records: Analysing Natural History Collections for Biodiversity Planning. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e50346–e50346. 35 indexed citations
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Stanley, Margaret C., et al.. (2008). Optimizing pitfall sampling for the detection of Argentine ants, Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).. Sociobiology. 51(2). 461–472. 12 indexed citations
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Ward, Darren. (2008). Ecological Partitioning and Invasive Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a Tropical Rain Forest Ant Community from Fiji1. Pacific Science. 62(4). 473–482. 7 indexed citations
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Ward, Darren & Marie‐Claude Larivière. (2004). Terrestrial invertebrate surveys and rapid biodiversity assessment in New Zealand: lessons from Australia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 50(10). 1674–80. 57 indexed citations
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Ward, Darren, et al.. (1997). A new predictive tool for identifying areas of desertification: a case study from Namibia. 12–18. 2 indexed citations

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