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Louise A. Rollins-Smith

Louise A. Rollins-Smith

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
58
Citations
11418
World Ranking
3445
National Ranking
1359

Louise A. Rollins-Smith publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Louise A. Rollins-Smith sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 150 publications — 27th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Louise A. Rollins-Smith D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Louise A. Rollins-Smith sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Louise A. Rollins-Smith is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research focuses on environmental science and immunology and microbiology, with specific contributions to subfields including global and planetary change, microbiology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, immunology, and molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed substantially to the study of amphibians, with a particular focus on amphibian and reptile biology, antimicrobial peptides and their activities, animal behavior and reproduction, species distribution and climate change, vector-borne infectious diseases, mast cells and histamine, and animal and plant science education.

Significant recent publications include:

  • Global Amphibian Declines, Disease, and the Ongoing Battle between Batrachochytrium Fungi and the Immune System (2020, Herpetologica)
  • The importance of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in amphibian skin defense (2023, Developmental & Comparative Immunology)
  • Comment on "Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity" (2020, Science)
  • Effects of captivity and rewilding on amphibian skin microbiomes (2022, Biological Conservation)
  • Winter is coming-Temperature affects immune defenses and susceptibility to Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (2021, PLoS Pathogens)

The most frequent co-authors in their publications include Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, Laura K. Reinert, Douglas C. Woodhams, Jamie Voyles, and Emily H. Le Sage.

Rollins-Smith's work is regularly published in venues such as Developmental & Comparative Immunology, Antibiotics, Ecosphere, Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science, and eLife.

The scientist's recognized areas of expertise include interactions between pathogens and the immune system, antimicrobial mechanisms in amphibian skin, and the ecological impacts of infectious diseases on amphibian populations.

Among the distinctions received, they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Amphibian declines: an immunological perspective.

    Cynthia Carey;Nicholas Cohen;Louise Rollins-Smith

  • Resistance to chytridiomycosis varies among amphibian species and is correlated with skin peptide defenses

    D. C. Woodhams;D. C. Woodhams;K. Ardipradja;R. A. Alford;G. Marantelli

  • Metamorphosis and the amphibian immune system

    Louise A. Rollins-Smith

  • Symbiotic bacteria contribute to innate immune defenses of the threatened mountain yellow-legged frog, Rana muscosa

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Vance T. Vredenburg;Mary Alice Simon;Dean Billheimer

  • LIFE-HISTORY TRADE-OFFS INFLUENCE DISEASE IN CHANGING CLIMATES: STRATEGIES OF AN AMPHIBIAN PATHOGEN

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Ross A. Alford;Cheryl J. Briggs;Megan Johnson

  • The role of amphibian antimicrobial peptides in protection of amphibians from pathogens linked to global amphibian declines

    Louise A. Rollins-Smith

  • Immune Defenses against Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a Fungus Linked to Global Amphibian Declines, in the South African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis

    Jeremy P. Ramsey;Laura K. Reinert;Laura K. Harper;Douglas C. Woodhams

  • Amphibian immune defenses against chytridiomycosis: impacts of changing environments.

    Louise A. Rollins-Smith;Jeremy P. Ramsey;James D. Pask;Laura K. Reinert

  • Amphibians acquire resistance to live and dead fungus overcoming fungal immunosuppression.

    Taegan A. McMahon;Taegan A. McMahon;Brittany F. Sears;Matthew D. Venesky;Scott M. Bessler

  • Inactivation of viruses infecting ectothermic animals by amphibian and piscine antimicrobial peptides.

    V.G Chinchar;L Bryan;U Silphadaung;E Noga

  • Antimicrobial peptide defenses against pathogens associated with global amphibian declines.

    Louise A. Rollins-Smith;Jennifer K. Doersam;Joyce E. Longcore;Sharon K. Taylor

  • Effects of agricultural pesticides on the immune system of Xenopus laevis and Rana pipiens.

    M.S. Christin;L. Ménard;A.D. Gendron;S. Ruby

  • Antimicrobial peptide defenses against chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease of amphibian populations

    Louise A. Rollins-Smith;J. Michael Conlon

  • Amphibian immunity-stress, disease, and climate change.

    Louise A. Rollins-Smith

  • Activity of antimicrobial skin peptides from ranid frogs against Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the chytrid fungus associated with global amphibian declines

    Louise A Rollins-Smith;Cynthia Carey;Joyce Longcore;Jennifer K Doersam

  • Effects of chytrid and carbaryl exposure on survival, growth and skin peptide defenses in foothill yellow-legged frogs.

    Carlos Davidson;Michael F. Benard;H. Bradley Shaffer;John M. Parker

  • The invasive chytrid fungus of amphibians paralyzes lymphocyte responses.

    J. Scott Fites;Jeremy P. Ramsey;Whitney M. Holden;Sarah P. Collier

  • Antifungal isolates database of amphibian skin-associated bacteria and function against emerging fungal pathogens

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Ross A. Alford;Rachael E. Antwis;Holly Archer

  • Antimicrobial Peptides from Amphibian Skin Potently Inhibit Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Transfer of Virus from Dendritic Cells to T Cells

    Scott E. VanCompernolle;R. Jeffery Taylor;Kyra Oswald-Richter;Jiyang Jiang

  • Population trends associated with skin peptide defenses against chytridiomycosis in Australian frogs.

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Douglas C. Woodhams;Louise A. Rollins-Smith;Cynthia Carey;Laura Reinert

  • PREDICTED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY IN A PANAMANIAN AMPHIBIAN ASSEMBLAGE BASED ON SKIN PEPTIDE DEFENSES

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Jamie Voyles;Karen R. Lips;Cynthia Carey

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas C. Woodhams
Douglas C. Woodhams University of Massachusetts Boston
J. Michael Conlon
J. Michael Conlon University of Ulster
Reid N. Harris
Reid N. Harris James Madison University
Ross A. Alford
Ross A. Alford James Cook University
Nicholas Cohen
Nicholas Cohen University of Rochester
Vance T. Vredenburg
Vance T. Vredenburg San Francisco State University
Cheryl J. Briggs
Cheryl J. Briggs University of California, Santa Barbara
Lisa K. Belden
Lisa K. Belden Virginia Tech
Joyce E. Longcore
Joyce E. Longcore University of Maine
Tomas Bergman
Tomas Bergman Karolinska Institute

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