Paul D. N. Hebert

90.6k total citations · 18 hit papers
571 papers, 68.4k citations indexed

About

Paul D. N. Hebert is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul D. N. Hebert has authored 571 papers receiving a total of 68.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 265 papers in Genetics, 245 papers in Ecology and 192 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Paul D. N. Hebert's work include Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (121 papers), Plant and animal studies (109 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (109 papers). Paul D. N. Hebert is often cited by papers focused on Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (121 papers), Plant and animal studies (109 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (109 papers). Paul D. N. Hebert collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Paul D. N. Hebert's co-authors include Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Jeremy R deWaard, Alina Cywinska, Shelley L. Ball, Tyler Zemlak, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, Robert Ward, Mehrdad Hajibabaei and Natalya Ivanova and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Paul D. N. Hebert

564 papers receiving 64.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Biological identifications through DNA barcodes

2003 9.9k citations Paul D. N. Hebert, Jeremy R deWaard et al. profile →
bold: The Barcode of Life Data System (http://www.barcodinglife.org)

2007 4.7k citations Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Paul D. N. Hebert Molecular Ecology Notes profile →
Barcoding animal life: cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 divergences among closely related species

2003 3.6k citations Paul D. N. Hebert, Sujeevan Ratnasingham et al. profile →
DNA barcoding Australia's fish species

2005 3.2k citations Paul D. N. Hebert et al. profile →
Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the neotropical skipper butterfly Astraptes fulgerator

2004 2.8k citations Paul D. N. Hebert, John M. Burns et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Identification of Birds through DNA Barcodes

2004 2.1k citations Paul D. N. Hebert et al. profile →
A DNA-Based Registry for All Animal Species: The Barcode Index Number (BIN) System

2013 1.6k citations Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Paul D. N. Hebert PLoS ONE profile →
An inexpensive, automation‐friendly protocol for recovering high‐quality DNA

2006 1.2k citations Natalya Ivanova, Jeremy R deWaard et al. Molecular Ecology Notes profile →
Universal primer cocktails for fish DNA barcoding

2007 1.1k citations Natalya Ivanova, Paul D. N. Hebert et al. Molecular Ecology Notes profile →
DNA barcodes distinguish species of tropical Lepidoptera

2006 1.1k citations Daniel H. Janzen, John M. Burns et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The Promise of DNA Barcoding for Taxonomy

2005 965 citations Paul D. N. Hebert et al. profile →
DNA barcoding: how it complements taxonomy, molecular phylogenetics and population genetics

2007 867 citations Paul D. N. Hebert et al. profile →
The campaign to DNA barcode all fishes, FISH‐BOL

2009 722 citations Paul D. N. Hebert et al. profile →
A universal DNA mini-barcode for biodiversity analysis

2008 515 citations Jean‐François Landry, Paul D. N. Hebert et al. profile →
Ecological and Genetic Studies onDreissena polymorpha(Pallas): a New Mollusc in the Great Lakes

1989 514 citations Paul D. N. Hebert et al. profile →
Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections

2008 478 citations M. Alex Smith, James B. Whitfield et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
DNA barcodes reveal cryptic host-specificity within the presumed polyphagous members of a genus of parasitoid flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)

2006 468 citations M. Alex Smith, Norman E. Woodley et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Counting animal species with DNA barcodes: Canadian insects

2016 278 citations Paul D. N. Hebert, Sujeevan Ratnasingham et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Data on insect biodiversity in a Chinese potato agroecosystem from DNA metabarcoding 2025 ·Scientific Data ·(unknown), Chenxi Liu, (unknown), Hongmei Cheng, Muhammad Ashfaq, Paul D. N. Hebert, Yulin Gao	1
2	Metabarcoding arthropods in agroecosystems in Southern Ontario, Canada 2025 ·Biodiversity Data Journal ·Dirk Steinke, (unknown), Sean W. J. Prosser, Jayme E Sones, Jireh Agda, Stephanie deWaard, Jeremy R deWaard, Evgeny V. Zakharov, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Paul D. N. Hebert, John M. Fryxell	0
3	Tachinid Flies (Diptera), Caterpillar Hosts (Lepidoptera) and Their Food Plants, Reared in Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), Northwestern Costa Rica: Documenting Community Structure with the Aid of DNA Barcodes 2025 ·Diversity ·Donаld L. J. Quicke, (unknown), David M. Wood, Norman E. Woodley, Ramya Manjunath, Suresh Naik, M. Alex Smith, Michael J. Sharkey, Winnie Hallwachs, Daniel H. Janzen, José Fernández-Triana, James B. Whitfield, Paul D. N. Hebert, Buntikа А. Butcher	1
4	Response of parasitoid communities to insecticide application during a Lymantria dispar outbreak in mixed oak forests 2024 ·Journal of Applied Ecology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Hans‐Peter Tschorsnig, Daniel Whitmore, (unknown), Wolfgang W. Weisser, Oliver Mitesser, Evgeny V. Zakharov, Paul D. N. Hebert, Andrew M. Liebhold, Jörg Müller	5
5	Low-cost, high-volume imaging for entomological digitization 2024 ·ZooKeys ·Dirk Steinke, Jaclyn McKeown, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Paul D. N. Hebert	1
6	Message in a Bottle—Metabarcoding enables biodiversity comparisons across ecoregions 2022 ·GigaScience ·Dirk Steinke, (unknown), Jayme E Sones, Natalya Ivanova, Sean W. J. Prosser, Kate Perez, Thomas Braukmann, Megan Milton, Evgeny Zakharov, Jeremy R deWaard, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Paul D. N. Hebert	27
7	Description of Chilearinus Sharkey gen. nov. and status of Nearctic Earinus Wesmael, 1837 (Braconidae, Agathidinae) with the description of new species 2022 ·ZooKeys ·Michael J. Sharkey, (unknown), Ramya Manjunath, Paul D. N. Hebert	1
8	More discussion of minimalist species descriptions and clarifying some misconceptions contained in Meier et al. 2021 2022 ·ZooKeys ·Michael J. Sharkey, Erika M. Tucker, (unknown), M. Alex Smith, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Ramya Manjunath, Paul D. N. Hebert, Winnie Hallwachs, Daniel H. Janzen	3
9	Assessment of current taxonomic assignment strategies for metabarcoding eukaryotes 2021 ·Molecular Ecology Resources ·(unknown), Joanne E. Littlefair, Dirk Steinke, Paul D. N. Hebert, Melania E. Cristescu	51
10	Debar: A sequence‐by‐sequence denoiser for COI‐5P DNA barcode data 2021 ·Molecular Ecology Resources ·Cameron M. Nugent, Tyler A. Elliott, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Paul D. N. Hebert, Sarah J. Adamowicz	2
11	Resolving the Taxonomic Status of Potential Biocontrol Agents Belonging to the Neglected Genus Lipolexis Förster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Aphidiinae) with Descriptions of Six New Species 2020 ·Insects ·(unknown), Andjeljko Petrović, (unknown), Nickolas G. Kavallieratos, Ehsan Rakhshani, Judit Arnó, (unknown), Paul D. N. Hebert, Željko Tomanović	9
12	DNA barcode library for European Gelechiidae (Lepidoptera) suggests greatly underestimated species diversity 2020 ·ZooKeys ·Peter Huemer, Ole Karsholt, Leif Aarvik, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jean‐François Landry, Marko Mutanen, Kari Nupponen, Andreas H. Segerer, (unknown), Christian Wieser, (unknown), Paul D. N. Hebert	39
13	DNA barcodes reveal 63 overlooked species of Canadian beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) 2019 ·ZooKeys ·Mikko Pentinsaari, Robert S. Anderson, Lech Borowiec, Patrice Bouchard, Adam Brunke, Hume Douglas, Andrew B. T. Smith, Paul D. N. Hebert	33
14	Expedited assessment of terrestrial arthropod diversity by coupling Malaise traps with DNA barcoding 2018 ·Genome ·Jeremy R deWaard, Valerie Levesque‐Beaudin, Stephanie deWaard, Natalya Ivanova, Jaclyn McKeown, (unknown), Suresh Naik, Kate Perez, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Crystal N Sobel, Jayme E Sones, Claudia Steinke, Angela C Telfer, Andrew D. Young, Monica R Young, Evgeny Zakharov, Paul D. N. Hebert	59
15	Large geographic distance versus small DNA barcode divergence: Insights from a comparison of European to South Siberian Lepidoptera 2018 ·PLoS ONE ·Peter Huemer, Paul D. N. Hebert, Marko Mutanen, Christian Wieser, (unknown), Axel Hausmann, Roman V. Yakovlev, Markus Möst, Brigitte Gottsberger, Patrick Strutzenberger, Konrad Fiedler	23
16	Slippage of degenerate primers can cause variation in amplicon length 2018 ·Scientific Reports ·Vasco Elbrecht, Paul D. N. Hebert, Dirk Steinke	25
17	An inexpensive, automation‐friendly protocol for recovering high‐quality DNA breakdown → 2006 ·Molecular Ecology Notes ·Natalya Ivanova, Jeremy R deWaard, Paul D. N. Hebert	1198
18	Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the neotropical skipper butterfly Astraptes fulgerator breakdown → 2004 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Paul D. N. Hebert, (unknown), John M. Burns, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs	2758
19	Phylogenetic relationships and remarkable radiation in Parartemia (Crustacea: Anostraca), the endemic brine shrimp of Australia: evidence from mitochondrial DNA sequences 2001 ·Biological Journal of the Linnean Society ·Elpidio A. Remigio, Paul D. N. Hebert, Alan Savage	40
20	Range extension of the fairy shrimp Polyartemiella haze ni (Murdoch, 1884) (Crustacea: Anostraca) to the eastern Canadian Arctic, with notes on the distribution of other eastern Arctic Anostraca 1989 ·The Canadian Field-Naturalist ·Neil Billington, (unknown), Paul D. N. Hebert	1

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