Edward Gilbert Source Confirmed

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Biodiversity Informatician

Arkansas State University

faculty

13 h-index 53 pubs 685 cited

Research Areas

Biodiversity Informatics Natural History Collections Data Mobilization Community Science Machine Learning Applications Race, History, and American Society Classical Antiquity Studies Media Studies and Communication

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Edward Gilbert's research focuses on the intersection of biodiversity informatics, natural history collections, and data mobilization. He investigates methods to improve the digitization and accessibility of biological specimens, often leveraging community science and machine learning approaches. Gilbert has published on initiatives aimed at understanding bee populations through image and trait digitization, as well as identifying gaps in photographic records of plant flora across the Americas. His work also extends to developing dynamic checklists for fungal biodiversity in megadiverse countries and promoting unified ideals for data sharing in biodiversity research. Gilbert has contributed to efforts to increase capacities for mobilizing natural history collections, particularly through initiatives like the Guatemala Biodiversity Portal using the Symbiota platform. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 12, 53 total publications, and 452 total citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 13
  • Publications: 53
  • Citations: 685

Selected Publications

  • Grains, trade and war in the multimodal transmission of Rice yellow mottle virus: An historical and phylogeographical retrospective (2025) DOI
  • Grains, trade and war in the multimodal transmission of Rice yellow mottle virus: an historical and phylogeographical retrospective (2024) DOI
  • Nicholas W. Stephenson Smith. <i>Colonial Chaos in the Southern Red Sea: A History of Violence from 1830 to the Twentieth Century</i>. (2023) DOI