Jens Rolff

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
119 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Jens Rolff is a scholar working on Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jens Rolff has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Insect Science, 43 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 37 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jens Rolff's work include Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (35 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (29 papers) and Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (25 papers). Jens Rolff is often cited by papers focused on Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (35 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (29 papers) and Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (25 papers). Jens Rolff collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Jens Rolff's co-authors include Michael T. Siva‐Jothy, Brian P. Lazzaro, Michael Zasloff, Paul R. Johnston, Roland R. Regoes, Guozhi Yu, Desiree Y. Baeder, Eleanor R. Haine, Stuart E. Reynolds and Yannick Moret and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jens Rolff

116 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Antimicrobial peptides: Application informed by evolution

2020 754 citations Jens Rolff et al. profile →
Priming and memory of stress responses in organisms lacking a nervous system

2015 389 citations Jens Rolff et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jens Rolff Germany	40	2.2k	1.7k	1.5k	1.5k	1.3k	119	6.3k
Brian P. Lazzaro United States	42	2.8k 1.2×	794 0.5×	2.1k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	758 0.6×	84	5.8k
Joachim Kurtz Germany	42	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.7×	671 0.5×	225 0.2×	123	5.4k
Andreas Vilcinskas Germany	62	7.1k 3.2×	933 0.5×	3.1k 2.0×	4.8k 3.3×	2.0k 1.6×	359	12.9k
Laura Corley Lavine United States	31	2.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	117 0.1×	73	4.3k
Heiko Vogel Germany	61	6.7k 3.0×	2.3k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	5.0k 3.4×	678 0.5×	235	11.9k
Norman A. Ratcliffe United Kingdom	53	3.6k 1.6×	469 0.3×	3.5k 2.3×	1.6k 1.1×	404 0.3×	170	8.1k
Zhen Zou China	38	3.2k 1.4×	741 0.4×	1.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	154 0.1×	125	5.0k
Kirk C. Klasing United States	52	518 0.2×	2.3k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	266 0.2×	170	9.0k
Yeon Soo Han South Korea	34	1.6k 0.7×	406 0.2×	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	219 0.2×	185	4.0k
Thomas C. G. Bosch Germany	53	606 0.3×	517 0.3×	1.4k 0.9×	4.1k 2.8×	423 0.3×	189	9.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jens Rolff

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Grabe, Veit, et al.. (2024). How frequently are insects wounded in the wild? A case study using Drosophila melanogaster. Royal Society Open Science. 11(6). 240256–240256. 5 indexed citations

Elbediwi, Mohammed & Jens Rolff. (2024). Metabolic pathways and antimicrobial peptide resistance in bacteria. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 79(7). 1473–1483. 13 indexed citations

Rolff, Jens, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Charlotte Kloft, et al.. (2024). Forecasting antimicrobial resistance evolution. Trends in Microbiology. 32(8). 736–745. 14 indexed citations

Franz, Mathias, Sophie A. O. Armitage, Jens Rolff, & Roland R. Regoes. (2023). Virulence decomposition for bifurcating infections. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(1998). 20230396–20230396. 4 indexed citations

Rolff, Jens, et al.. (2023). The pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic modelling framework as a tool to predict drug resistance evolution. Microbiology. 169(7). 4 indexed citations

Johnston, Paul R., et al.. (2022). Complete metamorphosis and microbiota turnover in insects. Molecular Ecology. 32(23). 6543–6551. 20 indexed citations

Urbański, Arkadiusz, Paul R. Johnston, Maryam Keshavarz, et al.. (2022). Tachykinin-related peptides modulate immune-gene expression in the mealworm beetle Tenebrio molitor L.. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 17277–17277. 7 indexed citations

Michelet, Robin, Moreno Ursino, Mara Baldry, et al.. (2021). The Use of Translational Modelling and Simulation to Develop Immunomodulatory Therapy as an Adjunct to Antibiotic Treatment in the Context of Pneumonia. Pharmaceutics. 13(5). 601–601. 2 indexed citations

Rolff, Jens, et al.. (2021). Multi-step vs. single-step resistance evolution under different drugs, pharmacokinetics, and treatment regimens. eLife. 10. 39 indexed citations

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Li, Mingjun, Lingyan Gao, Christoph Schlaich, et al.. (2020). Correction to “Construction of Functional Coating with Durable and Broad-Spectrum Antibacterial Potential Based on Mussel-Inspired Dendritic Polyglycerol and In Situ-Formed Copper Nanoparticles”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(50). 56658–56658. 2 indexed citations

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Rodríguez-Rojas, Alexandro, Paul R. Johnston, Olga Makarova, et al.. (2020). Non-lethal exposure to H2O2 boosts bacterial survival and evolvability against oxidative stress. PLoS Genetics. 16(3). e1008649–e1008649. 76 indexed citations

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Rodríguez-Rojas, Alexandro, et al.. (2020). Antimicrobial Peptide Induced-Stress Renders Staphylococcus aureus Susceptible to Toxic Nucleoside Analogs. Frontiers in Immunology. 11. 1686–1686. 8 indexed citations

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Johnston, Paul R., et al.. (2019). Immune gene regulation in the gut during metamorphosis in a holo- versus a hemimetabolous insect. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1783). 20190073–20190073. 26 indexed citations

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Yu, Guozhi, Desiree Y. Baeder, Roland R. Regoes, & Jens Rolff. (2018). Predicting drug resistance evolution: insights from antimicrobial peptides and antibiotics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1874). 20172687–20172687. 135 indexed citations

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Khan, Imroze, Deepa Agashe, & Jens Rolff. (2017). Early-life inflammation, immune response and ageing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1850). 20170125–20170125. 52 indexed citations

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Johnston, Paul R., A. Dobson, & Jens Rolff. (2016). Genomic Signatures of Experimental Adaptation to Antimicrobial Peptides in Staphylococcus aureus. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 6(6). 1535–1539. 12 indexed citations

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Rolff, Jens & Stuart E. Reynolds. (2009). Insect Infection and Immunity: Evolution Ecology and Mechanisms. Oxford University Press eBooks. 84 indexed citations

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Haine, Eleanor R., Jens Rolff, & Michael T. Siva‐Jothy. (2006). Functional consequences of blood clotting in insects. Developmental & Comparative Immunology. 31(5). 456–464. 41 indexed citations

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Mikolajewski, Dirk J. & Jens Rolff. (2004). Benefits of morphological defence demonstrated by direct manipulation in larval dragonflies. Evolutionary ecology research. 6(4). 619–626. 35 indexed citations

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Armitage, Sophie A. O., John J. Thompson, Jens Rolff, & Michael T. Siva‐Jothy. (2003). Examining costs of induced and constitutive immune investment in Tenebrio molitor. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 16(5). 1038–1044. 142 indexed citations

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