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Paul Schmid-Hempel

Paul Schmid-Hempel

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
96
Citations
31391
World Ranking
1834
National Ranking
42

Paul Schmid-Hempel 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 Paul Schmid-Hempel sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 272 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paul Schmid-Hempel 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 Paul Schmid-Hempel sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Paul Schmid-Hempel is a researcher affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, focusing primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several interconnected fields, including Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science, as well as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research explores various topics related to plant and animal studies, insect and pesticide research, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, evolution and genetic dynamics, and mathematical and theoretical epidemiology and ecology models.

Paul Schmid-Hempel has contributed to the scientific community with publications in notable journals. Recent papers include:

  • Impact of climate change on parasite infection of an important pollinator depends on host genotypes (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • Sociality and parasite transmission (2021, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology)
  • Genetic variation and microbiota in bumble bees cross-infected by different strains of C. bombi (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Function and mechanisms in defence strategies (2021, Current Opinion in Insect Science)
  • RNA viruses of Crithidia bombi, a parasite of bumblebees (2023, Journal of Invertebrate Pathology)

Frequent coauthors collaborating on this research include Regula Schmid-Hempel, Oliver Manlik, Sunil Mundra, Seth M. Barribeau, and Jean-Claude Walser.

Their scholarship has been disseminated through several publication venues such as:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Current Opinion in Insect Science
  • Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Best Publications

  • Parasites in Social Insects

    Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • Survival for immunity: the price of immune system activation for bumblebee workers.

    Yannick Moret;Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

    Hauke Koch;Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF INSECT IMMUNE DEFENSES

    Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • Evolutionary Parasitology: The Integrated Study of Infections, Immunology, Ecology, and Genetics

    Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • Variation in immune defence as a question of evolutionary ecology

    Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • On the evolutionary ecology of specific immune defence

    Paul Schmid-Hempel;Dieter Ebert

  • Deformed wing virus is a recent global epidemic in honeybees driven by Varroa mites

    L. Wilfert;G. Long;H. C. Leggett;P. Schmid-Hempel

  • Insect immunity shows specificity in protection upon secondary pathogen exposure.

    Ben M. Sadd;Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • Honeybees maximize efficiency by not filling their crop

    Paul Schmid-Hempel;Alejandro Kacelnik;Alasdair I. Houston

  • The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization

    Ben M Sadd;Ben M Sadd;Seth M Barribeau;Seth M Barribeau;Guy Bloch;Dirk C. de Graaf

  • Condition-dependent expression of virulence in a trypanosome infecting bumblebees

    M. J. F. Brown;R. Loosli;P. Schmid-Hempel

  • Shared use of flowers leads to horizontal pathogen transmission

    Stephan Durrer;Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • Strong context-dependent virulence in a host–parasite system: reconciling genetic evidence with theory

    Mark J. F. Brown;Mark J. F. Brown;Regula Schmid-Hempel;Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • Trans-generational immune priming in a social insect.

    Ben M Sadd;Yvonne Kleinlogel;Regula Schmid-Hempel;Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • Pathogenesis, Virulence, and Infective Dose

    Paul Schmid-Hempel;Steven A Frank

  • Principles of ecological immunology.

    Ben M. Sadd;Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • On the evolutionary ecology of host-parasite interactions: addressing the question with regard to bumblebees and their parasites.

    Paul Schmid-Hempel

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. F. Brown
Mark J. F. Brown Royal Holloway University of London
Juergen Gadau
Juergen Gadau University of Münster
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Guy Smagghe
Guy Smagghe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Jay D. Evans
Jay D. Evans Agricultural Research Service
Steven A. Frank
Steven A. Frank University of California, Irvine
Christine G. Elsik
Christine G. Elsik University of Missouri
Robert M. Waterhouse
Robert M. Waterhouse Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Olav Rueppell
Olav Rueppell University of Alberta
Jacobus J. Boomsma
Jacobus J. Boomsma University of Copenhagen

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