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Biology and Biochemistry
Luxembourg
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
66
Citations
22721
World Ranking
8483
National Ranking
3

Paul Wilmes 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 Wilmes sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 312 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paul Wilmes 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 Wilmes sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Luxembourg Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Luxembourg Leader Award

Overview

Paul Wilmes is affiliated with the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg. Their research spans across several fields primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their work focuses on various subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Neurology, Infectious Diseases, and Physiology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Diet and metabolism studies.

Paul Wilmes has published numerous papers in frequently encountered venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Microbiome, Nature Communications, SSRN Electronic Journal, and ISME Communications.

Some of their recent publications include:

  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • The gut microbial metabolite formate exacerbates colorectal cancer progression, 2022, Nature Metabolism
  • Microbiome in Colorectal Cancer: How to Get from Meta-omics to Mechanism?, 2020, Trends in Microbiology
  • Glutathione Restricts Serine Metabolism to Preserve Regulatory T Cell Function, 2020, Cell Metabolism
  • PathoFact: a pipeline for the prediction of virulence factors and antimicrobial resistance genes in metagenomic data, 2021, Microbiome

The scientist frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors including:

  • Patrick May
  • Susheel Bhanu Busi
  • Cédric C. Laczny
  • Rashi Halder
  • Benoît J. Kunath

Best Publications

  • Treg induction by a rationally selected mixture of Clostridia strains from the human microbiota

    Koji Atarashi;Takeshi Tanoue;Kenshiro Oshima;Wataru Suda

  • A Dietary Fiber-Deprived Gut Microbiota Degrades the Colonic Mucus Barrier and Enhances Pathogen Susceptibility

    Mahesh S. Desai;Mahesh S. Desai;Anna M. Seekatz;Nicole M. Koropatkin;Nobuhiko Kamada

  • Generation of genome-scale metabolic reconstructions for 773 members of the human gut microbiota

    Stefania Magnusdottir;Almut Katrin Heinken;Laura Kutt;Dmitry Ravcheev

  • Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants

    Linwei Wu;Daliang Ning;Bing Zhang;Yong Li

  • Human Gut Microbiome: Function Matters

    Anna Heintz-Buschart;Paul Wilmes

  • A microfluidics-based in vitro model of the gastrointestinal human-microbe interface.

    Pranjul Shah;Joëlle V. Fritz;Enrico Glaab;Mahesh S. Desai

  • The nasal and gut microbiome in Parkinson's disease and idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder

    Anna Heintz-Buschart;Urvashi Pandey;Tamara Wicke;Friederike Sixel-Döring

  • Metaproteomics: studying functional gene expression in microbial ecosystems

    Paul Wilmes;Philip L. Bond

  • VizBin - an application for reference-independent visualization and human-augmented binning of metagenomic data.

    Cedric Christian Laczny;Tomasz Sternal;Valentin Plugaru;Piotr Gawron

  • The application of two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and downstream analyses to a mixed community of prokaryotic microorganisms.

    Paul Wilmes;Philip L. Bond

  • Extensive transmission of microbes along the gastrointestinal tract.

    Thomas Sebastian Benedikt Schmidt;Matthew Robert Hayward;Luis Pedro Coelho;Simone S Li

  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist

    Chloe Mirzayi;Audrey Renson;Massive Analysis

  • Characterization of extracellular polymeric substances from acidophilic microbial biofilms.

    Yongqin Jiao;George D. Cody;Anna K. Harding;Paul Wilmes

  • Integrated multi-omics of the human gut microbiome in a case study of familial type 1 diabetes

    Anna Heintz-Buschart;Patrick May;Cédric C. Laczny;Laura A. Lebrun

  • Birth mode is associated with earliest strain-conferred gut microbiome functions and immunostimulatory potential

    Linda Wampach;Anna Heintz-Buschart;Anna Heintz-Buschart;Joëlle V. Fritz;Joëlle V. Fritz;Javier Ramiro-Garcia

  • Colonization and Succession within the Human Gut Microbiome by Archaea, Bacteria, and Microeukaryotes during the First Year of Life

    Linda Wampach;Anna Heintz-Buschart;Angela Hogan;Emilie E. L. Muller

  • Systematic Design of 18S rRNA Gene Primers for Determining Eukaryotic Diversity in Microbial Consortia

    Luisa W. Hugerth;Emilie E. L. Muller;Yue O. O. Hu;Laura A. M. Lebrun

  • Community proteogenomics highlights microbial strain-variant protein expression within activated sludge performing enhanced biological phosphorus removal

    Paul Wilmes;Anders F Andersson;Mark G Lefsrud;Margaret Wexler

  • The human gut microbiome in health: establishment and resilience of microbiota over a lifetime

    Kacy Greenhalgh;Kristen M. Meyer;Kjersti M. Aagaard;Paul Wilmes

  • This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Fully formatted PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon. VizBin - an application for reference-independent visualization and human- augmented binning of metagenomic data

    Cedric C Laczny;Tomasz Sternal;Arash Atashpendar;Laurens van der Maaten

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip L. Bond
Philip L. Bond University of Queensland
Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley
Wolfgang Sand
Wolfgang Sand Institute of Oceanology
Paul Keim
Paul Keim Northern Arizona University
David J. Galas
David J. Galas Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute
Lance B. Price
Lance B. Price George Washington University
Robert L. Hettich
Robert L. Hettich Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Anders F. Andersson
Anders F. Andersson Royal Institute of Technology
Tom J. Battin
Tom J. Battin École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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