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Edward Gilbert

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Biodiversity Informatician

Arkansas State University

Also affiliated: Smithsonian Institution (2021); Florida Museum of Natural History (2021); State University of New York (1965); Georgia College & State University (1976); University of Kansas (2025); California Polytechnic State University (2022–2023); Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (2024); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2003); Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (2021); University of South-Eastern Norway (2024); University of Surrey (2019); The Nature Conservancy (2021); Institut Africain d'Informatique (2021); Ministre de la Forêt,de la Mer et de l'Environnement (2021); Arizona State University (2014–2024); University of West Georgia (1976); Stony Brook University (1965); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1981); Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (2024)

Faculty Researcher

12 h-index 52 pubs 442 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

  • Biodiversity
  • Postoperative Complications
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Plants
  • Information Dissemination
  • Plant Diseases
  • Plant Viruses
  • Oryza
  • Adult
  • Electric Stimulation
  • Facial Nerve
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male

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OverviewAI-generated summary

Edward Gilbert's research focuses on biodiversity informatics, with an emphasis on digitizing and mobilizing natural history collections. He has contributed to initiatives aimed at improving the understanding of bees through image and trait digitization, such as the Big-Bee project. Gilbert's work also addresses the challenges of herbarium digitization, exploring synergies between community science and machine learning to overcome bottlenecks. He has investigated gaps in the photographic record of vascular plants in the Americas and contributed to the development of dynamic checklists for fungi in megadiverse countries, utilizing platforms like the Consortium of Lichen Herbaria. His publications advocate for unified ideals in biodiversity data sharing and reuse, and highlight advances in digitizing natural history collections in regions like Guatemala, employing systems such as Symbiota to manage and mobilize data. Gilbert's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 12, with 52 total publications and 441 total citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 12
  • Publications: 52
  • Citations: 442

Selected Publications

  • Grains, trade and war in the multimodal transmission of Rice yellow mottle virus: An historical and phylogeographical retrospective (2025)
    PLoS Pathogens 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Grains, trade and war in the multimodal transmission of Rice yellow mottle virus: an historical and phylogeographical retrospective (2024)
    bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) DOI OpenAlex
  • Nicholas W. Stephenson Smith. <i>Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea: A History of Violence from 1830 to the Twentieth Century</i>. (2023)
    The American Historical Review DOI OpenAlex
  • <i>Abraham’s Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World</i>. By Elizabeth A. Lambourn (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2018) 301 pp. $99.99 cloth $39.99 paper (2020)
    The Journal of Interdisciplinary History DOI OpenAlex
  • Thomas F. McDow. Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean. (2019)
    The American Historical Review DOI OpenAlex
  • TRANSNATIONALISM IN DAR ES SALAAM - Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean: Transnational Histories of Race and Urban Space. By Ned Bertz. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. Pp. xi + 275. $59.00, hardback (ISBN 9780824851552). (2018)
    The Journal of African History DOI OpenAlex
  • THE ARABIST IN THE ARCHIVE - Islamic Reform and Arab Nationalism: Expanding the Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean (1880s–1930s). By Amal N. Ghazal. London: Routledge, 2010. Pp. xiv+171. $130, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-415-77980-7). (2015)
    The Journal of African History DOI OpenAlex
  • Book Reviews / Comptes rendus (2011)
    Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines DOI OpenAlex
  • Dhow Cultures and the Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam (2011)
    Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 17 citations DOI OpenAlex

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