2026 Martin Middendorf: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	46	6677	6485	318	308	236	15254

Martin Middendorf publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Martin Middendorf sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 236 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Martin Middendorf D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Martin Middendorf sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Martin Middendorf is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany. Their research spans multiple scientific fields, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Engineering. Within these broad areas, Middendorf's work delves into subfields such as Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research interests are reflected in diverse main topics including:

Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Plant and animal studies
Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
Insect and Pesticide Research
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

Middendorf has published research in several venues, with a frequent presence in the following journals and platforms:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Notable recent papers include:

"Evolutionary Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization via Learning From Historical Search Process" (2021) published in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
"A Hybrid Swarm Intelligence Algorithm for Vehicle Routing Problem With Time Windows" (2020) published in IEEE Access
"Individual differences in honey bee behavior enabled by plasticity in brain gene regulatory networks" (2020) published in eLife
"Automated monitoring of honey bees with barcodes and artificial intelligence reveals two distinct social networks from a single affiliative behavior" (2023) published in Scientific Reports
"Automated monitoring of animal behaviour with barcodes and convolutional neural networks" (2020) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Middendorf often collaborates with a core group of co-authors, including:

Matthias Bernt
Lisa Fiedler
Beryl M. Jones
Tim Gernat
Tobias Jagla

Best Publications

MITOS: Improved de novo metazoan mitochondrial genome annotation

Matthias Bernt;Alexander Donath;Frank Jühling;Frank Jühling;Fabian Externbrink

5207
Citations
Ant colony optimization for resource-constrained project scheduling

D. Merkle;M. Middendorf;H. Schmeck

1215
Citations
Improved annotation of protein-coding genes boundaries in metazoan mitochondrial genomes

Alexander Donath;Frank Jühling;Frank Jühling;Marwa Al-Arab;Marwa Al-Arab;Stephan H Bernhart

715
Citations
A hierarchical particle swarm optimizer and its adaptive variant

S. Janson;M. Middendorf

493
Citations
CREx: inferring genomic rearrangements based on common intervals.

Matthias Bernt;Daniel Merkle;Kai Ramsch;Guido Fritzsch

392
Citations
Bi-Criterion Optimization with Multi Colony Ant Algorithms

Steffen Iredi;Daniel Merkle;Martin Middendorf

363
Citations
Improved systematic tRNA gene annotation allows new insights into the evolution of mitochondrial tRNA structures and into the mechanisms of mitochondrial genome rearrangements

Frank Jühling;Joern Pütz;Matthias Bernt;Alexander Donath

344
Citations
A Population Based Approach for ACO

Michael Guntsch;Martin Middendorf

269
Citations
Multi Colony Ant Algorithms

Martin Middendorf;Frank Reischle;Hartmut Schmeck

264
Citations
Applying Population Based ACO to Dynamic Optimization Problems

Michael Guntsch;Martin Middendorf

263
Citations
Pheromone Modification Strategies for Ant Algorithms Applied to Dynamic TSP

Michael Guntsch;Martin Middendorf

245
Citations
Guest editorial: special section on ant colony optimization

M. Dorigo;L.M. Gambardella;M. Middendorf;T. Stutzle

214
Citations
An Ant Algorithm with a New Pheromone Evaluation Rule for Total Tardiness Problems

Daniel Merkle;Martin Middendorf

191
Citations
An Island Model Based Ant System with Lookahead for the Shortest Supersequence Problem

René Michel;Martin Middendorf

189
Citations
Waiting Strategies for Dynamic Vehicle Routing

Jürgen Branke;Martin Middendorf;Guntram Noeth;Maged Dessouky

187
Citations
Dynamic scheduling of tasks on partially reconfigurable FPGAs

O. Diessel;H. ElGindy;M. Middendorf;H. Schmeck

168
Citations
An Ant Colony Optimization approach to dynamic TSP

Michael Guntsch;Martin Middendorf;Hartmut Schmeck

164
Citations
Molecular docking with multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization

Stefan Janson;Daniel Merkle;Martin Middendorf

151
Citations
Performance evaluation of artificial bee colony optimization and new selection schemes

Konrad Diwold;Andrej Aderhold;Alexander Scheidler;Martin Middendorf

147
Citations
Automated monitoring of behavior reveals bursty interaction patterns and rapid spreading dynamics in honeybee social networks.

Tim Gernat;Vikyath D. Rao;Martin Middendorf;Harry Dankowicz

146
Citations
An ACO algorithm for the shortest common supersequence problem

René Michel;Martin Middendorf

138
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hartmut Schmeck Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Peter F. Stadler Leipzig University

Madeleine Beekman University of Sydney

Gene E. Robinson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gerik Scheuermann Leipzig University

Günther R. Raidl TU Wien

Christian Blum Spanish National Research Council

Thomas Stützle Université Libre de Bruxelles

Marco Dorigo Université Libre de Bruxelles

Saurabh Sinha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

External Links

Personal website of Martin Middendorf Google Scholar page

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