Stacey A. Combes

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Stacey A. Combes is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stacey A. Combes has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 29 papers in Genetics and 23 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stacey A. Combes's work include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (28 papers), Plant and animal studies (23 papers) and Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (23 papers). Stacey A. Combes is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (28 papers), Plant and animal studies (23 papers) and Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms (23 papers). Stacey A. Combes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Japan. Stacey A. Combes's co-authors include T. L. Daniel, Andrew Mountcastle, James D. Crall, Callin M. Switzer, Sridhar Ravi, Robert Dudley, Nick Gravish, Robert L Oppenheimer, Jay M. Iwasaki and Robert J. Wood and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Stacey A. Combes

53 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Flexural stiffness in insect wings I. Scaling and the influence of wing venation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stacey A. Combes United States	29	1.7k	1.1k	784	593	482	53	3.1k
C. P. Ellington United Kingdom	21	2.5k 1.5×	937 0.9×	602 0.8×	982 1.7×	228 0.5×	30	3.4k
Robin J. Wootton United Kingdom	33	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	912 1.2×	432 0.7×	183 0.4×	51	4.1k
Thomas L. Daniel United States	34	1.0k 0.6×	675 0.6×	390 0.5×	288 0.5×	184 0.4×	64	3.4k
Fritz‐Olaf Lehmann Germany	30	3.7k 2.2×	785 0.7×	543 0.7×	1.6k 2.7×	179 0.4×	62	4.7k
T. L. Daniel United States	23	1.4k 0.8×	387 0.4×	254 0.3×	498 0.8×	98 0.2×	45	2.6k
Sanjay P. Sane India	24	4.9k 2.9×	895 0.8×	576 0.7×	2.1k 3.6×	241 0.5×	58	5.9k
Werner Nachtigall Germany	29	934 0.6×	889 0.8×	544 0.7×	190 0.3×	290 0.6×	136	2.7k
Robert B. Srygley United States	29	670 0.4×	1.6k 1.5×	1.0k 1.3×	361 0.6×	406 0.8×	86	2.8k
Florian T. Muijres Netherlands	23	1.4k 0.9×	650 0.6×	182 0.2×	469 0.8×	73 0.2×	61	2.1k
Tyson L. Hedrick United States	37	3.1k 1.8×	1.5k 1.4×	429 0.5×	824 1.4×	68 0.1×	109	5.4k

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Burnett, Nicholas, et al.. (2024). Flying, nectar-loaded honey bees conserve water and improve heat tolerance by reducing wingbeat frequency and metabolic heat production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(4). e2311025121–e2311025121. 12 indexed citations

Burnett, Nicholas & Stacey A. Combes. (2023). Close encounters of three kinds: impacts of leg, wing and body collisions on flight performance in carpenter bees. Journal of Experimental Biology. 226(9). 4 indexed citations

Joiner, Wilsaan M., et al.. (2023). Multimodal processing of noisy cues in bumblebees. iScience. 27(1). 108587–108587. 2 indexed citations

Combes, Stacey A., et al.. (2023). Going against the flow: bumblebees prefer to fly upwind and display more variable kinematics when flying downwind. Journal of Experimental Biology. 226(Suppl_1). 2 indexed citations

Burnett, Nicholas, Marc A. Badger, & Stacey A. Combes. (2022). Wind and route choice affect performance of bees flying above versus within a cluttered obstacle field. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0265911–e0265911. 9 indexed citations

Ravi, Sridhar, Olivier J. N. Bertrand, Liang Li, et al.. (2020). Bumblebees perceive the spatial layout of their environment in relation to their body size and form to minimize inflight collisions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(49). 31494–31499. 32 indexed citations

Burnett, Nicholas, Marc A. Badger, & Stacey A. Combes. (2020). Wind and obstacle motion affect honeybee flight strategies in cluttered environments. Journal of Experimental Biology. 223(Pt 14). 15 indexed citations

Combes, Stacey A., et al.. (2020). Kinematic flexibility allows bumblebees to increase energetic efficiency when carrying heavy loads. Science Advances. 6(6). eaay3115–eaay3115. 27 indexed citations

Ravi, Sridhar, Ryusuke Noda, Dmitry Kolomenskiy, et al.. (2020). Modulation of Flight Muscle Recruitment and Wing Rotation Enables Hummingbirds to Mitigate Aerial Roll Perturbations. Current Biology. 30(2). 187–195.e4. 12 indexed citations

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Switzer, Callin M., Avery L. Russell, Daniel R. Papaj, Stacey A. Combes, & Robin Hopkins. (2019). Sonicating bees demonstrate flexible pollen extraction without instrumental learning. Current Zoology. 65(4). 425–436. 25 indexed citations

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Crall, James D., Nick Gravish, Andrew Mountcastle, et al.. (2018). Spatial fidelity of workers predicts collective response to disturbance in a social insect. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1201–1201. 80 indexed citations

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Crall, James D., Callin M. Switzer, Robert L Oppenheimer, et al.. (2018). Neonicotinoid exposure disrupts bumblebee nest behavior, social networks, and thermoregulation. Science. 362(6415). 683–686. 205 indexed citations

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Switzer, Callin M. & Stacey A. Combes. (2016). <i>Bombus impatiens</i> (Hymenoptera: Apidae) display reduced pollen foraging behavior when marked with bee tags vs. paint. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1–13. 7 indexed citations

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Mountcastle, Andrew, et al.. (2016). Wing wear reduces bumblebee flight performance in a dynamic obstacle course. Biology Letters. 12(6). 20160294–20160294. 34 indexed citations

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Mountcastle, Andrew, et al.. (2016). Wing flexibility improves bumblebee flight stability. Journal of Experimental Biology. 219(Pt 21). 3384–3390. 26 indexed citations

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Switzer, Callin M. & Stacey A. Combes. (2016). The neonicotinoid pesticide, imidacloprid, affects Bombus impatiens (bumblebee) sonication behavior when consumed at doses below the LD50. Ecotoxicology. 25(6). 1150–1159. 32 indexed citations

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Switzer, Callin M., Katja Hogendoorn, Sridhar Ravi, & Stacey A. Combes. (2015). Shakers and head bangers: differences in sonication behavior between Australian Amegilla murrayensis (blue-banded bees) and North American Bombus impatiens (bumblebees). Arthropod-Plant Interactions. 10(1). 1–8. 29 indexed citations

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Crall, James D., Nick Gravish, Andrew Mountcastle, & Stacey A. Combes. (2015). BEEtag: A Low-Cost, Image-Based Tracking System for the Study of Animal Behavior and Locomotion. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0136487–e0136487. 90 indexed citations

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Combes, Stacey A., et al.. (2013). Capture Success and Efficiency of Dragonflies Pursuing Different Types of Prey. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53(5). 787–798. 31 indexed citations

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Donoughe, Seth, James D. Crall, Rachel A. Merz, & Stacey A. Combes. (2011). Resilin in dragonfly and damselfly wings and its implications for wing flexibility. Journal of Morphology. 272(12). 1409–1421. 78 indexed citations

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