Ben Scott

Natural History Museum — United Kingdom

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

12h-index2.6kcitations54works1.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Species Distribution and Climate Change(25), Research Data Management Practices(15), Scientific Computing and Data Management(9), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(7), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies(4)

Publications54 total

Biodiversity data and new species descriptions of polychaetes from offshore waters of the Falkland Islands, an area undergoing hydrocarbon exploration
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
AI-Driven Solutions for Optimising Drawer Expansion and Storage Management of Entomology Collections
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards·2026Open Access
Accelerating Pinned Insect Specimen Digitization: A Deep Learning Pipeline for Future Collaborative Robots
Advanced Intelligent Systems·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Using DNA barcoding to evaluate freshwater mussel and fish-host relationships in the Flint River (Georgia, USA)
Freshwater Science·2025· 3 cited
The use of generative <scp>AI</scp> for coding in academia
Methods in Ecology and Evolution·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Cobots at the Museum: The Role of Robotics in Digitisation
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards·2024Open Access
Automatic Detection and Identification of Calcareous Nannofossils in Chalk Using Deep Learning: A Proof-of-Concept Study for Biostratigraphy and Climate Research
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Author response for "The use of generative &lt;scp&gt;AI&lt;/scp&gt; for coding in academia"
2024
Unscrambling the Eggs: Automated Data Extraction from Structured Record Cards
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Accelerating Museum AI Research and Application at the UK Natural History Museum: The NHM AI Lab Programme
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Open Information and Exceptions Policy of the Natural History Museum, London
Research Ideas and Outcomes·2024Open Access
Reducing the number of Data Deficient plant species
Systematics and Biodiversity·2024· 2 cited
DiSSCo Transition Abridged Grant Proposal
Research Ideas and Outcomes·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections
Biodiversity Data Journal·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
Robot-in-the-loop: Prototyping robotic digitisation at the Natural History Museum
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
AI-Accelerated Digitisation of Insect Collections: The next generation of Angled Label Image Capture Equipment (ALICE)
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Planetary Knowledge Base: Semantic Transcription Using Graph Neural Networks
Biodiversity Information Science and Standards·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections
2022Open Access
Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections
2022· 1 cited
Incrementally building FAIR Digital Objects with Specimen Data Refinery workflows
Research Ideas and Outcomes·2022Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Vincent Smith(15), Laurence Livermore(12), Arianna Salili‐James(9), Quentin Groom(6), Jeremy A. Miller(5), David Roberts(5), Tim Robertson(5), Helen Hardy(5), Sanson Poon(5), Vladimir Blagoderov(4), Irina Brake(4), Wouter Addink(4), Lyubomir Penev(3), Donat Agosti(3), Teodor Georgiev(3), Terry Catapano(3), Simon Ryrcroft(3), Mathias Dillen(3), Arturo H. Ariño(3), Christian Bölling(3)