Richard D. Alexander

20.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
156 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Richard D. Alexander is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard D. Alexander has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 38 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 23 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Richard D. Alexander's work include Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (68 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (60 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (39 papers). Richard D. Alexander is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (68 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (60 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (39 papers). Richard D. Alexander collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Richard D. Alexander's co-authors include Donald W. Tinkle, Jill Quadagno, Philip J. Armitage, C. J. Clarke, J. E. Pringle, Paul W. Sherman, Daniel Otte, Katharine Noonan, R. S. Bigelow and Richard D. Howard and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Richard D. Alexander

147 papers receiving 10.4k 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.

The Evolution of Social Behavior

1974 2.7k citations Richard D. Alexander profile →
Darwinism and Human Affairs.

1981 834 citations Richard D. Alexander et al. profile →
Aggressiveness, Territoriality, and Sexual Behavior in Field Crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae)

1961 517 citations Richard D. Alexander profile →
Natural Selection and Social Behavior: Recent Research and New Theory

1981 440 citations Richard D. Alexander et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Evidence of a Disk Wind Origin for Fluorescent H₂ in Classical T Tauri Stars 2025 ·The Astronomical Journal ·(unknown), Kevin France, B. Nisini, (unknown), Richard D. Alexander, J. Eislöffel, J. Campbell-White, Hsien Shang, Manuele Gangi, Zhen Guo, (unknown)	0
2	Leading and trailing spiral arms in a nearly broken protoplanetary disc 2025 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Rebecca Nealon, Richard D. Alexander, Farzana Meru	0
3	Disc–planet misalignment from an unstable triple system: IRAS04125 2025 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters ·Rebecca Nealon, (unknown), Hossam Aly, Andrew J. Winter, Cristiano Longarini, Nicolás Cuello, Dimitri Veras, Richard D. Alexander	4
4	Modeling JWST MIRI-MRS Observations of T Cha: Mid-IR Noble Gas Emission Tracing a Dense Disk Wind 2024 ·The Astronomical Journal ·Andrew D. Sellek, (unknown), Ilaria Pascucci, C. J. Clarke, Richard D. Alexander, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Uma Gorti, Andras Gáspár, Jane Morrison	7
5	A question of personalities: evolution of viscous and wind-driven protoplanetary discs in the presence of dead zones 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Richard D. Alexander, Giovanni Rosotti	2
6	PHL 5038AB: is the brown dwarf causing pollution of its white dwarf host star? 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·S. L. Casewell, John H. Debes, Trent J. Dupuy, P. Dufour, Amy Bonsor, A. Rebassa–Mansergas, (unknown), (unknown), Richard D. Alexander, Siyi Xu, Emily C. Martin, Elena Manjavacas	0
7	The role of drag and gravity on dust concentration in a gravitationally unstable disc 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Rebecca Nealon, Farzana Meru, James Wurster, Hossam Aly, Richard D. Alexander, Ken Rice, Richard A Booth	12
8	Short-lived gravitational instability in isolated irradiated discs 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Daniel J. Price, C. Pinte, Rebecca Nealon, Farzana Meru, Richard D. Alexander	5
9	Inward and outward migration of massive planets: moving towards a stalling radius 2022 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), C. J. Clarke, Giovanni Rosotti, Richard A Booth, Richard D. Alexander, Enrico Ragusa	8
10	HD 143006: circumbinary planet or misaligned disc? 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Rebecca Nealon, Richard D. Alexander, Nicolás Cuello, C. Pinte, Daniel J. Price	22
11	Chemical signatures of a warped protoplanetary disc 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Richard D. Alexander, Catherine Walsh, Rebecca Nealon, Alice S. Booth, C. Pinte	16
12	Spirals, shadows & precession in HD 100453 – II. The hidden companion 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Rebecca Nealon, Nicolás Cuello, Jean-François Gonzalez, (unknown), C. Pinte, Richard D. Alexander, F. Ménard, Daniel J. Price	17
13	Flybys in protoplanetary discs – II. Observational signatures 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Nicolás Cuello, F. Louvet, Daniel Mentiplay, C. Pinte, Daniel J. Price, Andrew J. Winter, Rebecca Nealon, F. Ménard, Giuseppe Lodato, Giovanni Dipierro, Valentin Christiaens, Matías Montesinos, Jorge Cuadra, Guillaume Laibe, Lucas A. Cieza, Ruobing Dong, Richard D. Alexander	49
14	Scattered light shadows in warped protoplanetary discs 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Rebecca Nealon, C. Pinte, Richard D. Alexander, Daniel Mentiplay, Giovanni Dipierro	39
15	A hubble space telescope survey of H emission in the circumstellar environments of young stars 2012 ·Scopus ·Eric Schindhelm, A. G. A. Brown, G. J. Herczeg, H. Abgrall, E. Roueff, Richard D. Alexander, E. A. Bergin, J. M. Brown, Jeffrey L. Linsky, Ho-Soon Yang	1
16	A Review of the Genus Gryllus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae), With a New Species From Korea 1991 ·The Great Lakes Entomologist ·Richard D. Alexander	2
17	Die Herausforderung der Evolutionsbiologie 1988 ·Piper eBooks ·Heinrich Meier, Richard D. Alexander	14
18	The Australian crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) 1983 ·Daniel Otte, Richard D. Alexander	115
19	Field crickets (Gryllus and Acheta) of California and Baja California, Mexico (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Gryllinae). 1980 ·Transactions of the American Entomological Society ·David B. Weissman, D. C. F. Rentz, Richard D. Alexander, Werner Loher	48
20	A comparative study of sound production in insects : with special reference to the singing Orthoptera and Cicadidae of the eastern United States 1956 ·OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) ·Richard D. Alexander	30

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