Scott P. Egan

6.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
105 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Scott P. Egan is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott P. Egan has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 55 papers in Ecology and 49 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Scott P. Egan's work include Plant and animal studies (38 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (34 papers) and Forest Insect Ecology and Management (29 papers). Scott P. Egan is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (38 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (34 papers) and Forest Insect Ecology and Management (29 papers). Scott P. Egan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Canada. Scott P. Egan's co-authors include Patrik Nosil, Jeffrey L. Feder, Daniel J. Funk, Glen R. Hood, James R. Ott, David M. Lodge, Crysta A. Gantz, Mark A. Renshaw, Gregory J. Ragland and Aaron A. Comeault and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Scott P. Egan

101 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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 genomics of speciation-with-gene-flow

2012 606 citations Jeffrey L. Feder, Scott P. Egan et al. profile →
HETEROGENEOUS GENOMIC DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN WALKING-STICK ECOTYPES: "ISOLATION BY ADAPTATION" AND MULTIPLE ROLES FOR DIVERGENT SELECTION

2008 451 citations Patrik Nosil, Scott P. Egan et al. profile →
Stick Insect Genomes Reveal Natural Selection’s Role in Parallel Speciation

2014 305 citations Víctor Soria‐Carrasco, Zachariah Gompert et al. Science profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott P. Egan

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Warming Increases Environmental DNA (eDNA) Removal Rates in Flowing Waters 2025 ·Environmental DNA ·(unknown), Jens Tank, (unknown), Brett Peters, Pedro F. P. Brandão‐Dias, Elizabeth Curtis, Kyle Bibby, Arial J. Shogren, Diogo Bolster, Scott P. Egan, Gary A. Lamberti	0
2	Comparing the Fate of eDNA by Particle Sizes and Molecule Lengths in Recirculating Streams 2025 ·Environmental DNA ·Pedro F. P. Brandão‐Dias, (unknown), Jennifer L. Tank, Ursula H. Mahl, Brett Peters, Arial J. Shogren, Diogo Bolster, Gary A. Lamberti, Kyle Bibby, Scott P. Egan	1
3	Particle size influences decay rates of environmental DNA in aquatic systems 2023 ·Molecular Ecology Resources ·Pedro F. P. Brandão‐Dias, (unknown), (unknown), Jennifer L. Tank, Diogo Bolster, (unknown), Arial J. Shogren, Gary A. Lamberti, Kyle Bibby, Scott P. Egan	26
4	Spatial sorting promotes rapid (mal)adaptation in the red-shouldered soapberry bug after hurricane-driven local extinctions 2023 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), Scott P. Carroll, Scott P. Egan	6
5	The relationship between host plant traits and biodiversity across three sympatric seed‐feeding tri‐trophic systems in a tropical region of Brazil 2023 ·Insect Conservation and Diversity ·(unknown), (unknown), Pedro F. P. Brandão‐Dias, Scott P. Egan, Alejandro Zaldívar‐Riverón, (unknown), (unknown), Lucas Del Bianco Faria	0
6	Description of the herbivore and natural enemy community associated with the seeds of an invasive plant in Brazil 2023 ·Ecological Entomology ·(unknown), Pedro F. P. Brandão‐Dias, Scott P. Egan, (unknown), Alejandro Zaldívar‐Riverón, (unknown), (unknown), Lucas Del Bianco Faria	1
7	Ormyrus labotus (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae): Another Generalist That Should not be a Generalist is not a Generalist 2022 ·Insect Systematics and Diversity ·(unknown), (unknown), Y. Miles Zhang, Charles K. Davis, Linyi Zhang, Scott P. Egan, Andrew A. Forbes	15
8	Delimiting the cryptic diversity and host preferences of Sycophila parasitoid wasps associated with oak galls using phylogenomic data 2022 ·Molecular Ecology ·Y. Miles Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Andrew A. Forbes, Kirsten M. Prior, Graham N. Stone, Michael W. Gates, Scott P. Egan, Linyi Zhang, Charles K. Davis, Kelly L. Weinersmith, George Melika, Andrea Lucky	12
9	Genomically correlated trait combinations and antagonistic selection contributing to counterintuitive genetic patterns of adaptive diapause divergence in Rhagoletis flies 2021 ·Journal of Evolutionary Biology ·(unknown), Meredith M. Doellman, Jeffrey L. Feder, Glen R. Hood, Peter J. Meyers, Scott P. Egan, Thomas H. Q. Powell, (unknown), (unknown), Hannes Schuler, Stewart H. Berlocher, James J. Smith, Patrik Nosil, Daniel A. Hahn, Gregory J. Ragland	8
10	A test of adaptive divergence in a newly discovered host association of the soapberry bugJadera haematolomaon Mexican buckeye,Ungnadia speciosa 2021 ·Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata ·(unknown), Scott P. Carroll, Scott P. Egan	5
11	Arthropod Community Associated With the Asexual Generation of Bassettia pallida (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) 2020 ·Annals of the Entomological Society of America ·Kelly L. Weinersmith, Andrew A. Forbes, (unknown), Pedro F. P. Brandão‐Dias, Y. Miles Zhang, Scott P. Egan	14
12	A keeper of many crypts: a behaviour-manipulating parasite attacks a taxonomically diverse array of oak gall wasp species 2019 ·Biology Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Scott P. Egan, Kelly L. Weinersmith, Andrew A. Forbes	7
13	Limited genetic evidence for host plant‐related differentiation in the Western cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis indifferens 2018 ·Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata ·(unknown), Glen R. Hood, Scott P. Egan, Thomas H. Q. Powell, Hannes Schuler, Meredith M. Doellman, (unknown), James J. Smith, Wee L. Yee, Robert B. Goughnour, H. M. A. Thistlewood, (unknown), Nusha Keyghobadi, Juan Rull, Martı́n Aluja, Jeffrey L. Feder	6
14	Tales from the crypt: a parasitoid manipulates the behaviour of its parasite host 2017 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Kelly L. Weinersmith, (unknown), Andrew A. Forbes, Scott P. Egan	12
15	Experimental evidence of genome‐wide impact of ecological selection during early stages of speciation‐with‐gene‐flow 2015 ·Ecology Letters ·Scott P. Egan, Gregory J. Ragland, (unknown), Thomas H. Q. Powell, Glen R. Hood, Scott Emrich, Patrik Nosil, Jeffrey L. Feder	97
16	Stick Insect Genomes Reveal Natural Selection’s Role in Parallel Speciation breakdown → 2014 ·Science ·Víctor Soria‐Carrasco, Zachariah Gompert, Aaron A. Comeault, Timothy E. Farkas, Thomas L. Parchman, J. Spencer Johnston, C. Alex Buerkle, Jeffrey L. Feder, Jens Bast, Tanja Schwander, Scott P. Egan, Bernard J. Crespi, Patrik Nosil	305
17	Rapid Invasive Species Detection by Combining Environmental DNA with Light Transmission Spectroscopy 2013 ·Conservation Letters ·Scott P. Egan, Matthew A. Barnes, (unknown), Andrew R. Mahon, (unknown), S. T. Ruggiero, Carol E. Tanner, David M. Lodge	57
18	DNA detection using Laser Transmission Spectroscopy 2012 ·TechConnect Briefs ·(unknown), Scott P. Egan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), David M. Lodge, (unknown), S. T. Ruggiero, Rolf Schäfer, Carol E. Tanner	1
19	Ecological Adaptation and Speciation: The Evolutionary Significance of Habitat Avoidance as a Postzygotic Reproductive Barrier to Gene Flow 2012 ·International Journal of Ecology ·Jeffrey L. Feder, Scott P. Egan, Andrew A. Forbes	9
20	Isolation by adaptation in Neochlamisus leaf beetles: host-related selection promotes neutral genomic divergence 2011 ·Molecular Ecology ·Daniel J. Funk, Scott P. Egan, Patrik Nosil	43

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