Benedikt R. Schmidt

11.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
166 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Benedikt R. Schmidt is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Benedikt R. Schmidt has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 90 papers in Ecology and 85 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Benedikt R. Schmidt's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (109 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (85 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (75 papers). Benedikt R. Schmidt is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (109 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (85 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (75 papers). Benedikt R. Schmidt collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and France. Benedikt R. Schmidt's co-authors include Andrea H. Meyer, Jeff E. Houlahan, Sergius L. Kuzmin, C. Scott Findlay, Michael Schaub, Marc Kéry, Jérôme Pellet, Josh Van Buskirk, Ursina Tobler and Silviu O. Petrovan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Benedikt R. Schmidt

161 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Quantitative evidence for global amphibian population declines

2000 1.1k citations Benedikt R. Schmidt et al. profile →
Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps

2021 153 citations Yann Vitasse, Sylvain Ursenbacher et al. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benedikt R. Schmidt Switzerland	42	4.1k	3.3k	2.5k	1.8k	1.5k	166	6.5k
Neil A. Cox United States	18	3.6k 0.9×	2.1k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	26	5.2k
Janice Chanson United States	9	3.3k 0.8×	2.0k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	14	4.8k
Bruce E. Young United States	33	5.2k 1.3×	3.9k 1.2×	3.9k 1.5×	3.0k 1.7×	2.5k 1.7×	65	9.4k
Roland A. Knapp United States	37	2.8k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	2.3k 1.3×	925 0.6×	82	4.9k
Vance T. Vredenburg United States	39	5.2k 1.3×	1.7k 0.5×	2.4k 0.9×	2.1k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	99	7.0k
Maureen A. Donnelly United States	42	4.5k 1.1×	2.3k 0.7×	2.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	2.4k 1.6×	112	6.4k
Karen R. Lips United States	44	7.2k 1.8×	2.4k 0.7×	3.4k 1.3×	3.0k 1.7×	2.0k 1.3×	108	9.3k
Andrew Storfer United States	41	2.8k 0.7×	2.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	110	7.9k
Jean‐Marc Hero Australia	38	3.6k 0.9×	1.8k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	130	5.2k
Michael Veith Germany	42	3.6k 0.9×	2.1k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	2.3k 1.5×	206	7.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benedikt R. Schmidt

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schmidt, Benedikt R., Jean‐Paul Léna, Leonardo Vignoli, et al.. (2025). Frankenstein matrices: Among‐population life history variation affects the reliability and predictions of demographic models. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(3). 436–448. 1 indexed citations

Schmidt, Benedikt R., et al.. (2025). Responses of rice paddy dragonflies to fertilisation in a mesocosm experiment. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 393. 109823–109823.

Grossenbacher, Kurt, et al.. (2023). Four decades of phenology in an alpine amphibian: trends, stasis, and climatic drivers. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 4 indexed citations

Băncilă, Raluca Ioana, et al.. (2021). Food level and light conditions affect the antipredator behavior in larvae of a stream-breeding amphibian. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 75(2). 6 indexed citations

Valenzuela‐Sánchez, Andrés, M. Wilber, Stefano Canessa, et al.. (2021). Why disease ecology needs life‐history theory: a host perspective. Ecology Letters. 24(4). 876–890. 45 indexed citations

Vitasse, Yann, Sylvain Ursenbacher, Geoffrey Klein, et al.. (2021). Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 96(5). 1816–1835. 153 indexed citations breakdown →

Cayuela, Hugo, Jean‐François Lemaître, Éric Bonnaire, Julian Pichenot, & Benedikt R. Schmidt. (2020). Population position along the fast–slow life‐history continuum predicts intraspecific variation in actuarial senescence. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(4). 1069–1079. 17 indexed citations

Székely, Diana, et al.. (2020). Performance of visual vs. software-assisted photo-identification in mark-recapture studies: a case study examining different life stages of the Pacific Horned Frog (Ceratophrys stolzmanni). Amphibia-Reptilia. 42(1). 17–28. 10 indexed citations

Bozzuto, Claudio, Benedikt R. Schmidt, & Stefano Canessa. (2020). Active responses to outbreaks of infectious wildlife diseases: objectives, strategies and constraints determine feasibility and success. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1939). 20202475–20202475. 17 indexed citations

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Kafash, Anooshe, Sohrab Ashrafi, Annemarie Ohler, & Benedikt R. Schmidt. (2019). Environmental predictors for the distribution of the Caspian green lizard, Lacerta strigata Eichwald, 1831, along elevational gradients of the Elburz Mountains in northern Iran. TURKISH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY. 43(1). 106–113. 6 indexed citations

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Cayuela, Hugo, et al.. (2019). Multiple density-dependent processes shape the dynamics of a spatially structured amphibian population. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

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Cayuela, Hugo, Loïc Teulier, Íñigo Martínez‐Solano, et al.. (2018). Determinants and consequences of dispersal in vertebrates with complex life cycles: a review of pond-breeding amphibians. 5 indexed citations

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Canessa, Stefano, Claudio Bozzuto, Evan H. Campbell Grant, et al.. (2018). Decision‐making for mitigating wildlife diseases: From theory to practice for an emerging fungal pathogen of amphibians. Journal of Applied Ecology. 55(4). 1987–1996. 45 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Benedikt R., et al.. (2017). Differentiation of movement behaviour in an adaptively diverging salamander population. Molecular Ecology. 26(22). 6400–6413. 26 indexed citations

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Steinfartz, Sebastian, et al.. (2015). Linking habitat suitability to demography in a pond-breeding amphibian. Frontiers in Zoology. 12(1). 9–9. 41 indexed citations

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Pasmans, Frank, Pascale Van Rooij, Mark Blooi, et al.. (2013). Resistance to Chytridiomycosis in European Plethodontid Salamanders of the Genus Speleomantes. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e63639–e63639. 35 indexed citations

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Bosch, Jaime, Joan Antoni Oliver, Nicholas C. Grassly, et al.. (2013). Context‐dependent amphibian host population response to an invading pathogen. Ecology. 94(8). 1795–1804. 60 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Benedikt R.. (2011). Die Bedeutung der Jungtiere für die Populationsdynamik von Amphibien. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 7 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Benedikt R., et al.. (2006). A trophic polymorphism induced by both predators and prey. Evolutionary ecology research. 8(7). 1301–1309. 12 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Benedikt R.. (2003). Count data, detection probabilities, and the demography, dynamics, distribution, and decline of amphibians. Comptes Rendus Biologies. 326(S1). 119–124. 96 indexed citations

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