Ricardo Ramirez-Romero

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I'm a Biologist by the 'Universidad de las Américas-Puebla' (UDLA-P). In November 2004, I obtained a doctorate at the 'Université Paris XIII-Paris Nord' (Supervisors: Dr. Minh-Ha Pham-Delegue and Dr. Laure Kaiser), so I had the chance to live in Paris for five years. After this, In January 2005, I went back to Mexico and performed a Postdoc for two years at the 'Instituto de Ecología A.C' (INECOL) (Laboratory of Dr. Martín Aluja). Since 2007, I work at the 'Universidad de Guadalajara, México' (UdG), first as Associate Professor and later as a Full Professor. I performed research stays at Texas A & M University (Lab of Dr. Julio Bernal), the USDA in Florida (Lab of Dr. John Sivinski), the INRA at Sophia Antipolis in France (Lab of Dr. Nicolas Desneux) and invited to perform an academic visit to the Tianjin Institute of Plant Protection, in the City of Tianjin, China. Along 2019-2020 I performed a sabbatical stay with Dr. Jorge Contreras Garduño at ENES-UNAM, Morelia, Mexico. Since 2005, I have coauthored 33 papers for international journals (ISI®) (cited in more than 700 international articles [ISI®], excluding self-citations, h-index=15 [according to ISI® WoS]), five popular articles (with more than 6,500 views in the site of Academia.edu) and two book chapters. I taught at the UDLA-P (undergraduate level) and the UdG (undergraduate and graduate level). I have participated in the supervision of undergraduate and graduate students. Other of my scientific activities include Associate Editor for Entomologia Generalis (IF: 4.333, Q1, JCR®2019), Pest Management Science (IF: 3.75, Q1, JCR®2019) and Biological Control (IF: 2.754, Q1, JCR®2019). Reviewer for 24 international journals (ISI®), for the Mexican Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT, Mexico) and the AgreenSkills and AgreenSkills + program (France). I have also been part of the advisory board of the 'basic science' funding program of CONACyT. Besides the ecology of insects, I enjoy reading novels, philosophy, and history.

Papers 
33) Méndez-López T.T., Contreras-Garduño J., Mendoza-Cuenca L. and Ramirez-Romero R.*. 2021. Do entomopathogenic nematodes induce immune priming? Microbial Pathogenesis. 154: 104844 [IF=2.914 & Q3]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpath.2021.104844

32) Sánchez-Hernández C.V., Desneux N., Bao-Fundora L. and Ramirez-Romero R.*. 2021. Alternative extraguild prey modifies focal extraguild prey consumption and parasitism but not intraguild predation intensity. Biological Control. 153: 104475 [IF=2.754 & Q1]. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2020.104475

​31) Qu Y., Chen X., Monticelli L.S., Zhang F., Desneux N., Huijie D., Ramirez-Romero R. and Wang S. 2020. Parasitism performance of the parasitoid Trichogramma dendrolimi on the plum fruit moth Grapholitha funebrana. Entomologia Generalis. 40: 385-395 [IF=4.333 & Q1].

30)  Jaworski C.C., Xiao D., Xu Q., Ramirez-Romero R., Guo X., Wang S. and Desneux N. 2019. Varying the spatial arrangement of synthetic herbivore-induced plant volatiles and companion plants to improve conservation biological control. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56: 1176-1188 [5.84 & Q1].

Miscelaneous
Reviewer for Scientific Reports, PLoS ONE, Oikos, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Journal of Economic Entomology, Journal of Applied Entomology, Bulletin of Entomological Research, Ecotoxicology, Crop Protection, Biocontrol, Biological Control, Biocontrol Science & Technology, Journal of Applied Ecology, International Journal of Biological Sciences, Insects, Journal of Insect Science, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Phytoparasitica, Bulletin of Insectology, Agriculture and Forest Entomology, Journal of Apicultural Science, Entomologia Generalis, Pest Management Science.

​Reviewer for the Mexican Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT): participation evaluating proposals in the funding programs 'bilateral funds', 'mixed funds', 'retentions-repatriation' and 'basic science'.
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Associate Editor for Entomologia Generalis, ranked in the top 10 of ISI Web of Science, category Entomology. Impact Factor: 4.333, Q1 (JCR®2019).  

Associate Editor for Pest Management Science, ranked in the top 10 of ISI Web of Science, category Entomology. Impact Factor: 3.75, Q1 (JCR®2019).

Editor for Biological Control, ranked 12 out of 101 of ISI Web of Science, category Entomology. Impact Factor: 2.754, Q1 (JCR®2019).