Ryan D. Phillips

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Ryan D. Phillips is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan D. Phillips has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 57 papers in Plant Science and 53 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ryan D. Phillips's work include Plant and animal studies (84 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (52 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (45 papers). Ryan D. Phillips is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (84 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (52 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (45 papers). Ryan D. Phillips collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Ryan D. Phillips's co-authors include Kingsley W. Dixon, Rod Peakall, Stephen D. Hopper, Björn Bohman, Steven D. Johnson, Myles H. M. Menz, Noushka Reiter, G. R. Brown, Gavin R. Flematti and Celeste C. Linde and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Ryan D. Phillips

91 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Beyond the various contrivances by which orchids are pollinated: global patterns in orchid pollination biology

2023 62 citations James D. Ackerman, Ryan D. Phillips et al. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan D. Phillips Australia	28	2.2k	1.3k	1.2k	583	527	95	2.6k
Mark Fishbein United States	23	2.2k 1.0×	1.5k 1.2×	735 0.6×	1.3k 2.3×	589 1.1×	49	3.3k
Niklas Wikström Sweden	26	2.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	564 0.5×	1.3k 2.3×	358 0.7×	43	3.0k
Alicia N. Sérsic Argentina	20	1.1k 0.5×	809 0.6×	465 0.4×	323 0.6×	388 0.7×	78	1.5k
Jana Jersáková Czechia	24	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 1.2×	751 0.6×	774 1.3×	188 0.4×	58	2.3k
Scott A. Hodges United States	31	3.2k 1.5×	2.2k 1.7×	1.1k 1.0×	1.8k 3.1×	1.1k 2.1×	52	4.4k
Hervé Sauquet Australia	30	2.5k 1.2×	938 0.7×	636 0.5×	1.6k 2.8×	549 1.0×	79	3.4k
Sven Buerki United States	27	1.7k 0.8×	802 0.6×	381 0.3×	1.0k 1.8×	416 0.8×	123	2.5k
Atsushi Kawakita Japan	32	1.8k 0.8×	965 0.7×	554 0.5×	611 1.0×	640 1.2×	74	2.3k
Philipp M. Schlüter Switzerland	26	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	474 0.4×	1.0k 1.8×	513 1.0×	47	2.3k
Víctor Parra‐Tabla Mexico	31	2.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	313 0.5×	345 0.7×	122	2.7k

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Reiter, Noushka, et al.. (2025). How widespread is pollination by sexual deception of fungus gnats in Pterostylis (Orchidaceae)?. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 209(1). 1–19. 1 indexed citations

Jager, Marinus L. de, et al.. (2025). Sexually deceptive orchids with distinct flower morphologies elicit different behaviours from a shared pollinator. Annals of Botany. 137(1). 281–294.

Reiter, Noushka, Björn Bohman, Michael Batley, et al.. (2025). Restoring a critically endangered grassland orchid by co-planting to improve pollination and selecting sites based on pollinator availability. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1566543–1566543. 1 indexed citations

Wong, Darren C. J., et al.. (2024). Discordance Down Under: Combining Phylogenomics and Fungal Symbioses to Detangle Difficult Nodes in a Diverse Tribe of Australian Terrestrial Orchids. Systematic Biology. 74(3). 434–452. 1 indexed citations

Davis, Robert A., et al.. (2024). Does pollination by non-flying mammals contribute substantially to fruit set of Banksia (Proteaceae)? A test in four species with contrasting floral traits. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 208(2). 125–141. 1 indexed citations

Bohman, Björn, et al.. (2024). Pollination by multiple species of nectar foraging Hymenoptera in Prasophyllum innubum, a critically endangered orchid of the Australian Alps. Australian Journal of Botany. 72(5).

Phillips, Ryan D., et al.. (2022). Strong phylogenetic congruence between Tulasnella fungi and their associated Drakaeinae orchids. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36(1). 221–237. 3 indexed citations

Ackerman, James D., Ryan D. Phillips, Raymond L. Tremblay, et al.. (2022). On the various contrivances by which orchids are pollinated: 2900 species reveal global patterns in pollination strategies. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Kestel, Joshua H., et al.. (2021). Unexpectedly low paternal diversity is associated with infrequent pollinator visitation for a bird-pollinated plant. Oecologia. 196(4). 937–950. 6 indexed citations

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García, Jair E., Ryan D. Phillips, Craig I. Peter, & Adrian G. Dyer. (2020). Changing How Biologists View Flowers—Color as a Perception Not a Trait. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 601700–601700. 24 indexed citations

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Phillips, Ryan D., Rod Peakall, Timotheüs van der Niet, & Steven D. Johnson. (2020). Niche Perspectives on Plant–Pollinator Interactions. Trends in Plant Science. 25(8). 779–793. 92 indexed citations

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Reiter, Noushka, et al.. (2018). Threatened plant translocation case study: Caladenia hastata (Nicholls) Rupp (Melbloms Spider-orchid), orchidaceae: Pollinator rarity limits conservation translocation sites in a rare orchid. Australasian Plant Conservation journal of the Australian Network for Plant Conservation. 26(4). 9–12. 1 indexed citations

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Bohman, Björn, Ryan D. Phillips, Gavin R. Flematti, & Rod Peakall. (2017). (Methylthio)phenol semiochemicals are exploited by deceptive orchids as sexual attractants for Campylothynnus thynnine wasps. Fitoterapia. 126. 78–82. 15 indexed citations

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Gaskett, Anne C., John A. Endler, & Ryan D. Phillips. (2016). Convergent evolution of sexual deception via chromatic and achromatic contrast rather than colour mimicry. Evolutionary Ecology. 31(2). 205–227. 20 indexed citations

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Tomlinson, Sean & Ryan D. Phillips. (2015). Differences in metabolic rate and evaporative water loss associated with sexual dimorphism in thynnine wasps. Journal of Insect Physiology. 78. 62–68. 16 indexed citations

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Menz, Myles H. M., et al.. (2014). Ecological and genetic evidence for cryptic ecotypes in a rare sexually deceptive orchid,Drakaea elastica. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 177(1). 124–140. 25 indexed citations

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Phillips, Ryan D., Daniela Scaccabarozzi, Christine Hayes, et al.. (2013). Caught in the act: pollination of sexually deceptive trap-flowers by fungus gnats in Pterostylis (Orchidaceae). Annals of Botany. 113(4). 629–641. 78 indexed citations

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Phillips, Ryan D., Andrew Storey, & M. S. Johnson. (2009). Genetic structure of Melanotaenia australis at local and regional scales in the east Kimberley, Western Australia. Journal of Fish Biology. 74(2). 437–451. 16 indexed citations

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Narum, Shawn R., Michael Banks, Terry D. Beacham, et al.. (2008). Differentiating salmon populations at broad and fine geographical scales with microsatellites and single nucleotide polymorphisms. Molecular Ecology. 17(15). 3464–3477. 144 indexed citations

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Williamson, Kevin S., Ryan D. Phillips, & B. May. (2008). Characterization of a Chromosomal Rearrangement Responsible for Producing "Apparent" XY-Female Fall-Run Chinook Salmon in California. Journal of Heredity. 99(5). 483–490. 18 indexed citations

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