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Paul Schmid-Hempel

Paul Schmid-Hempel

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
94
Citations
27941
World Ranking
376
National Ranking
11

Paul Schmid-Hempel publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paul Schmid-Hempel sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 268 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Paul Schmid-Hempel D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Paul Schmid-Hempel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Overview

Paul Schmid-Hempel is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work intersects several subfields, notably Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Key topics covered in their research include:

  • 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
  • Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models

Recent publications by Paul Schmid-Hempel include:

  • Sociality and parasite transmission, 2021, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Function and mechanisms in defence strategies, 2021, Current Opinion in Insect Science

Other recent papers relevant to their research area, although authored by collaborators, include:

  • Impact of climate change on parasite infection of an important pollinator depends on host genotypes, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Genetic variation and microbiota in bumble bees cross-infected by different strains of C. bombi, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • RNA viruses of Crithidia bombi, a parasite of bumblebees, 2023, Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Frequent co-authors involved in related collaborative research are:

  • Regula Schmid-Hempel
  • Oliver Manlik
  • Sunil Mundra
  • Seth M. Barribeau
  • Jean-Claude Walser

Their research findings have appeared in various scientific journals, such as:

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

Paul Schmid-Hempel received the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften award in 2004 for contributions to Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

Best Publications

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

    Yannick Moret;Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • Social Immunity

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  • 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

  • Variation in immune defence as a question of evolutionary ecology

    Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • On the evolutionary ecology of specific immune defence

    Paul Schmid-Hempel;Dieter Ebert

  • Experimental variation in polyandry affects parasite loads and fitness in a bumble-bee

    Boris Baer;Paul Schmid-Hempel

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

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

  • Honeybees maximize efficiency by not filling their crop

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

  • 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

  • The Bee Microbiome: Impact on Bee Health and Model for Evolution and Ecology of Host-Microbe Interactions.

    Philipp Engel;Waldan K. Kwong;Waldan K. Kwong;Quinn McFrederick;Kirk E. Anderson

  • Trans-generational immune priming in a social insect.

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

  • Immune defence, parasite evasion strategies and their relevance for ‘macroscopic phenomena’ such as virulence

    Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • Pathogenesis, Virulence, and Infective Dose

    Paul Schmid-Hempel;Steven A Frank

  • Female mating frequencies in Bombus spp. from Central Europe

    R. Schmid-Hempel;P. Schmid-Hempel

  • 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

  • Diversity and evolutionary patterns of bacterial gut associates of corbiculate bees

    Hauke Koch;Hauke Koch;Dharam P. Abrol;Jilian Li;Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • Immune defence in bumble-bee offspring

    Yannick Moret;Paul Schmid-Hempel

  • The invasion of southern South America by imported bumblebees and associated parasites

    Regula Schmid-Hempel;Michael Eckhardt;David Goulson;Daniel Heinzmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey R. Lucas
Jeffrey R. Lucas Purdue University West Lafayette

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