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Joachim Kurtz 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 Joachim Kurtz sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 155 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Joachim Kurtz 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 Joachim Kurtz sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Joachim Kurtz is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany and has a research focus within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Insect Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Immunology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. The range of topics covered in their research notably includes Insect Resistance and Genetics, Insect Utilization and Effects, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms, Insect Symbiosis and Bacterial Influences, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, and Insect Pest Control Strategies.

The scientist's publication record includes multiple contributions to well-known venues in biological and ecological research. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, BioScience, Insects, and Evolution Medicine and Public Health.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Joachim Kurtz illustrate a range of research interests:

  • "How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance" (2022, BioScience)
  • "Climate change facilitates a parasite's host exploitation via temperature-mediated immunometabolic processes" (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • "Morphological Characterisation of Haemocytes in the Mealworm Beetle Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae)" (2021, Insects)
  • "Shifts between cooperation and antagonism driven by individual variation: a systematic synthesis review" (2021, Oikos)
  • "Comparative Mortality and Adaptation of a Smurf Assay in Two Species of Tenebrionid Beetles Exposed to Bacillus thuringiensis" (2020, Insects)

Their collaborative network involves several frequent co-authors with whom they have published multiple times. These collaborators include Nora K. E. Schulz, Jörn P. Scharsack, Robert Peuß, Lai Ka Lo, and R Reshma.

Best Publications

  • Evidence for memory in invertebrate immunity

    Joachim Kurtz;Karoline Franz

  • Specific memory within innate immune systems.

    Joachim Kurtz

  • Parasite selection for immunogenetic optimality

    K. Mathias Wegner;Martin Kalbe;Joachim Kurtz;Thorsten B. H. Reusch

  • Introduction. Ecological immunology.

    Hinrich Schulenburg;Joachim Kurtz;Yannick Moret;Michael T Siva-Jothy

  • Major histocompatibility complex diversity influences parasite resistance and innate immunity in sticklebacks.

    Joachim Kurtz;Martin Kalbe;Peter B. Aeschlimann;Michael A. Häberli

  • Strain-specific priming of resistance in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

    Olivia Roth;Ben M Sadd;Paul Schmid-Hempel;Joachim Kurtz

  • Immune memory in invertebrates

    Barbara Milutinović;Joachim Kurtz

  • Paternally derived immune priming for offspring in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

    Olivia Roth;Gerrit Joop;Hendrik Eggert;Jonas Hilbert

  • Gender differences and individual variation in the immune system of the scorpionfly Panorpa vulgaris (Insecta: Mecoptera).

    Joachim Kurtz;Andreas Wiesner;Peter Götz;Klaus Peter Sauer

  • Cryptic male choice: sperm allocation strategies when female quality varies

    Klaus Reinhold;Joachim Kurtz;Leif Engqvist

  • Alternative adaptive immunity in invertebrates.

    Joachim Kurtz;Sophie Alice Octavia Armitage

  • Heat and immunity: an experimental heat wave alters immune functions in three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus).

    Janine Dittmar;Hannah Janssen;Hannah Janssen;Andra Kuske;Joachim Kurtz

  • Memory in the innate and adaptive immune systems

    Joachim Kurtz

  • Local differences in immunocompetence reflect resistance of sticklebacks against the eye fluke Diplostomum pseudospathaceum

    M. Kalbe;J. Kurtz

  • Phagocytosis mediates specificity in the immune defence of an invertebrate, the woodlouse Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda)

    Olivia Roth;Joachim Kurtz

  • An experimental test of the immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in a teleost fish: 11-ketotestosterone suppresses innate immunity in three-spined sticklebacks.

    Joachim Kurtz;Martin Kalbe;Åsa Langefors;Ian Mayer

  • The immunocompetence handicap hypothesis: testing the genetic predictions

    Joachim Kurtz;Klaus Peter Sauer

  • Juvenile immune system activation induces a costly upregulation of adult immunity in field crickets Gryllus campestris

    Alain Jacot;Hannes Scheuber;Joachim Kurtz;Martin W. G. Brinkhof

  • Modulation of granulocyte responses in three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus infected with the tapeworm Schistocephalus solidus.

    J. P. Scharsack;M. Kalbe;R. Derner;J. Kurtz

  • MATING SYSTEM AND SEXUAL SELECTION IN THE SCORPIONFLY PANORPA VULGARIS (MECOPTERA : PANORPIDAE)

    Klaus Peter Sauer;Thomas Lubjuhn;Jörn Sindern;Harald Kullmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Kalbe
Martin Kalbe Max Planck Society
Thorsten B.H. Reusch
Thorsten B.H. Reusch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Manfred Milinski
Manfred Milinski Max Planck Society
Hinrich Schulenburg
Hinrich Schulenburg Kiel University
Jens Krause
Jens Krause Technical University of Berlin
Klaus Reinhold
Klaus Reinhold Bielefeld University
Philip Rosenstiel
Philip Rosenstiel Kiel University
Caroline Müller
Caroline Müller Bielefeld University
Erich Bornberg-Bauer
Erich Bornberg-Bauer University of Münster
Holger Schielzeth
Holger Schielzeth Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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