2026 Jürgen Heinze: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	74	1140	1086	76	74	414	17347

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Ecology and Evolution

1140

1086

414

17347

Overview

Jürgen Heinze is affiliated with the University of Regensburg in Germany. Their research spans several interconnected fields and subfields within biological sciences, with a focus on understanding various aspects of insect biology, behavior, and molecular mechanisms.

Heinze's main domains of study include:

Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Their specialized subfields of study encompass:

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Genetics
Insect Science
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Immunology

The research topics they frequently address include:

Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Plant and animal studies
Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Insect and Pesticide Research
Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
Fossil Insects in Amber

Jürgen Heinze has contributed to multiple publications in various scientific venues. Common outlets for their work are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Ecology and Evolution
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Insectes Sociaux

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Heinze include:

Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects: a significant but inconsistent link?, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Ageing and sociality: why, when and how does sociality change ageing patterns?, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
Convergent Loss of Chemoreceptors across Independent Origins of Slave-Making in Ants, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution
Convergent evolution of a labile nutritional symbiosis in ants, 2022, The ISME Journal

The scientist collaborates frequently with a number of other researchers, including:

Jan Oettler
Abel Bernadou
Eva Schultner
Enikő Csata
Marion Cordonnier

Best Publications

GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

2245
Citations
GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 M$_\odot$ Black Hole with a 2.6 M$_\odot$ Compact Object

R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott

939
Citations
Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

866
Citations
Electrochemical and spectroscopic characterization of polyalkylenedioxythiophenes

Michael Dietrich;Jürgen Heinze;Gerhard Heywang;Friedrich Jonas

764
Citations
Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star–Black Hole Coalescences

R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

677
Citations
GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object

R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

653
Citations
Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

598
Citations
Electrochemical oxidation and structural changes of 5,6-dihydrobenzo[c]cinnolines

Michael Dietrich;Jürgen Heinze;Claus Krieger;Franz A. Neugebauer

587
Citations
Ultramicroelectrodes in Electrochemistry

Jürgen Heinze

564
Citations
THE EVOLUTION OF MALE TRAITS IN SOCIAL INSECTS

Jacobus J. Boomsma;Boris Baer;Jürgen Heinze

424
Citations
The genome of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta

Yannick Wurm;John Wang;Oksana Riba-Grognuz;Miguel Corona

418
Citations
Properties and astrophysical implications of the 150 Msun binary black hole merger GW190521.

R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott

326
Citations
Electropolymerization of pyrrole and electrochemical study of polypyrrole: 1. Evidence for structural diversity of polypyrrole

Ming Zhou;Jürgen Heinze

318
Citations
Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott

256
Citations
Moribund Ants Leave Their Nests to Die in Social Isolation

Jürgen Heinze;Bartosz Walter

253
Citations
Diffusion processes at finite (micro) disk electrodes solved by digital simulation

Jürgen Heinze

247
Citations
Transposable element islands facilitate adaptation to novel environments in an invasive species

Lukas Schrader;Jay W. Kim;Daniel Ence;Aleksey Zimin

247
Citations
Apparent Dear‐enemy Phenomenon and Environment‐based Recognition Cues in the Ant Leptothorax nylanderi

Jürgen Heinze;Susanne Foitzik;Andreas Hippert;Bert Hölldobler

243
Citations
Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521

R. Abbott;T. D. Abbott;S. Abraham;F. Acernese

242
Citations
The Ecology of Communal Breeding: The Case of Multiple-Queen Leptothoracine Ants

Andrew F. G. Bourke;Jürgen Heinze

217
Citations
Structure and properties of cation-radical salts of arenes. II. Crystal structure, phase transitions and analysis of the electrochemical crystallization process of fluoranthenyl cation-radical salts

V. Enkelmann;B.S. Morra;Ch. Kröhnke;G. Wegner

178
Citations