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Alexander Schmidt

Alexander Schmidt

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
69
Citations
18601
World Ranking
7327
National Ranking
136

Alexander Schmidt publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander Schmidt sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 151 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Alexander Schmidt D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander Schmidt sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alexander Schmidt is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Medicine. Their work is specialized in several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Oncology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas, such as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA research and splicing, advanced proteomics techniques and applications, mass spectrometry techniques and applications, RNA modifications and cancer, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and cancer, hypoxia, and metabolism.

Alexander Schmidt has contributed to multiple publications in various scientific journals and platforms. Frequent venues for these publications include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Proteome Research
  • Cell Reports
  • eLife

Among recent papers associated with or relevant to their research are:

  • Hepatic stellate cells suppress NK cell-sustained breast cancer dormancy, 2021, Nature
  • Students' and lecturers' perspective on the implementation of online learning in dental education due to SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19): a cross-sectional study, 2020, BMC Medical Education
  • From coarse to fine: the absolute Escherichia coli proteome under diverse growth conditions, 2021, Molecular Systems Biology
  • Integrative proteogenomic characterization of hepatocellular carcinoma across etiologies and stages, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Benchmarking of analysis strategies for data-independent acquisition proteomics using a large-scale dataset comprising inter-patient heterogeneity, 2022, Nature Communications

Throughout their career, Alexander Schmidt has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Danilo Ritz, Katarzyna Buczak, Mihaela Zavolan, Nitish Mittal, and Meriç Ataman.

Best Publications

  • The quantitative proteome of a human cell line

    Martin Beck;Alexander Schmidt;Johan Malmstroem;Manfred Claassen

  • SuperHirn - a novel tool for high resolution LC-MS-based peptide/protein profiling.

    Lukas N. Mueller;Oliver Rinner;Alexander Schmidt;Simon Letarte

  • The quantitative and condition-dependent Escherichia coli proteome.

    Alexander Schmidt;Karl Kochanowski;Silke Vedelaar;Erik Ahrné

  • A novel strategy for quantitative proteomics using isotope‐coded protein labels

    Alexander Schmidt;Josef Kellermann;Friedrich Lottspeich

  • Quantitative Analysis of Fission Yeast Transcriptomes and Proteomes in Proliferating and Quiescent Cells

    Samuel Marguerat;M Alexander Schmidt;Sandra Codlin;Wei-Wei Chen

  • Proteome Organization in a Genome-Reduced Bacterium

    Sebastian Kühner;Vera van Noort;Matthew J. Betts;Alejandra Leo-Macias

  • Identification of cross-linked peptides from large sequence databases

    Oliver Rinner;Jan Seebacher;Thomas Walzthoeni;Thomas Walzthoeni;Lukas N Mueller

  • Proteome-wide cellular protein concentrations of the human pathogen Leptospira interrogans

    Johan Malmström;Martin Beck;Alexander Schmidt;Vinzenz Lange

  • Large-Scale Quantitative Assessment of Different In-Solution Protein Digestion Protocols Reveals Superior Cleavage Efficiency of Tandem Lys-C/Trypsin Proteolysis over Trypsin Digestion

    Timo Glatter;Christina Ludwig;Erik Ahrné;Ruedi Aebersold;Ruedi Aebersold

  • A Mass Spectrometric-Derived Cell Surface Protein Atlas

    Damaris Bausch-Fluck;Andreas Hofmann;Thomas Bock;Andreas P. Frei

  • Glucocorticoids promote breast cancer metastasis.

    Milan M. S. Obradović;Milan M. S. Obradović;Baptiste Hamelin;Nenad Manevski;Joana Pinto Couto;Joana Pinto Couto;Joana Pinto Couto

  • Protein Identification False Discovery Rates for Very Large Proteomics Data Sets Generated by Tandem Mass Spectrometry

    Lukas Reiter;Manfred Claassen;Sabine P. Schrimpf;Marko Jovanovic

  • Quantification of mRNA and protein and integration with protein turnover in a bacterium.

    Tobias Maier;Alexander Schmidt;Marc Güell;Sebastian Kühner

  • Phenotypic variation of Salmonella in host tissues delays eradication by antimicrobial chemotherapy.

    Beatrice Claudi;Petra Spröte;Anna Chirkova;Nicolas Personnic

  • A complete mass-spectrometric map of the yeast proteome applied to quantitative trait analysis

    Paola Picotti;Mathieu Clément-Ziza;Hugo Y K Lam;David S Campbell

  • ATM-Dependent and -Independent Dynamics of the Nuclear Phosphoproteome After DNA Damage

    Ariel Bensimon;Alexander Schmidt;Yael Ziv;Ran Elkon

  • Ubiquitin-related modifier Urm1 acts as a sulphur carrier in thiolation of eukaryotic transfer RNA

    Sebastian Leidel;Patrick G. A. Pedrioli;Tamara Bucher;Renée Brost

  • The Plk1-dependent Phosphoproteome of the Early Mitotic Spindle

    Anna Santamaria;Bin Wang;Sabine Elowe;Rainer Malik

  • Functioning of a metabolic flux sensor in Escherichia coli

    Karl Kochanowski;Benjamin Volkmer;Luca Gerosa;Bart R Haverkorn van Rijsewijk

  • Two FK506 resistance-conferring genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, TAT1 and TAT2, encode amino acid permeases mediating tyrosine and tryptophan uptake.

    A Schmidt;M N Hall;A Koller

Frequent Co-Authors

Erich A. Nigg
Erich A. Nigg University of Basel
Mihaela Zavolan
Mihaela Zavolan University of Basel
Matthias Heinemann
Matthias Heinemann University of Groningen
Friedrich Lottspeich
Friedrich Lottspeich Max Planck Society
Martin Beck
Martin Beck TU Dresden
Dirk Bumann
Dirk Bumann University of Basel
Bernd Bodenmiller
Bernd Bodenmiller University of Zurich
Luis Serrano
Luis Serrano Centre for Genomic Regulation

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