Nathan W. Schmidt

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Nathan W. Schmidt is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan W. Schmidt has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 19 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Nathan W. Schmidt's work include Malaria Research and Control (20 papers), Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (15 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (14 papers). Nathan W. Schmidt is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (20 papers), Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities (15 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (14 papers). Nathan W. Schmidt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Uganda and China. Nathan W. Schmidt's co-authors include Gerard C. L. Wong, Ghee Hwee Lai, Abhijit Mishra, John T. Harty, Noah S. Butler, William F. DeGrado, Joshua E. Denny, Vladimir P. Badovinac, Bruk Mensa and Rafael B. Polidoro and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Nathan W. Schmidt

79 papers receiving 4.0k citations

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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.

Self-assembling dipeptide antibacterial nanostructures with membrane disrupting activity

2017 349 citations Lee Schnaider, Sayanti Brahmachari et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nathan W. Schmidt United States	30	2.1k	1.1k	905	683	465	84	4.0k
Thomas Gutsmann Germany	43	2.3k 1.1×	1.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.5×	227 0.3×	322 0.7×	141	5.1k
Fanny Guzmán Chile	33	1.9k 0.9×	837 0.8×	1.5k 1.6×	1.5k 2.1×	261 0.6×	215	4.5k
Frank G. Oppenheim United States	51	3.0k 1.4×	2.2k 2.1×	404 0.4×	417 0.6×	268 0.6×	130	7.9k
Virander S. Chauhan India	41	2.6k 1.3×	412 0.4×	925 1.0×	2.1k 3.1×	1.0k 2.2×	211	5.7k
Haipeng Liu China	41	2.4k 1.1×	506 0.5×	2.1k 2.4×	340 0.5×	149 0.3×	141	5.7k
Maria Luisa Mangoni Italy	48	3.8k 1.8×	4.6k 4.4×	1.4k 1.5×	203 0.3×	684 1.5×	146	6.3k
Dirk Linke Germany	41	2.7k 1.3×	461 0.4×	352 0.4×	227 0.3×	202 0.4×	137	5.9k
Roman I. Koning Netherlands	35	2.3k 1.1×	456 0.4×	787 0.9×	108 0.2×	244 0.5×	87	4.3k
Roland Brock Netherlands	46	5.0k 2.4×	855 0.8×	1.5k 1.6×	139 0.2×	529 1.1×	174	7.6k
Hua Zhu China	42	2.5k 1.2×	255 0.2×	345 0.4×	1.3k 1.9×	300 0.6×	311	7.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mzinza, David, Ruth Namazzi, Robert O. Opoka, et al.. (2025). Gut bacterial dysbiosis in pediatric severe malaria associates with post-discharge mortality. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9658–9658.

Alimohamadi, Haleh, Jaime de Anda, Michelle W. Lee, et al.. (2023). How Cell-Penetrating Peptides Behave Differently from Pore-Forming Peptides: Structure and Stability of Induced Transmembrane Pores. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(48). 26095–26105. 10 indexed citations

Mandal, Rabindra K., Joshua E. Denny, Ruth Namazzi, et al.. (2021). Dynamic modulation of spleen germinal center reactions by gut bacteria during Plasmodium infection. Cell Reports. 35(6). 109094–109094. 24 indexed citations

Clark, Iain C., Bruk Mensa, Christopher J. Ochs, et al.. (2021). Protein design-scapes generated by microfluidic DNA assembly elucidate domain coupling in the bacterial histidine kinase CpxA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(12). 3 indexed citations

Schmidt, Nathan W., Nicholas F. Polizzi, Lijun Liu, et al.. (2020). Allosteric cooperation in a de novo-designed two-domain protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(52). 33246–33253. 38 indexed citations

Dang, Bobo, Marco Mravic, Hailin Hu, et al.. (2019). SNAC-tag for sequence-specific chemical protein cleavage. Nature Methods. 16(4). 319–322. 36 indexed citations

Denny, Joshua E. & Nathan W. Schmidt. (2019). Oral Administration of Clinically Relevant Antimalarial Drugs Does Not Modify the Murine Gut Microbiota. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11952–11952. 6 indexed citations

Denny, Joshua E., Joshua B. Powers, Hector F. Castro, et al.. (2019). Differential Sensitivity to Plasmodium yoelii Infection in C57BL/6 Mice Impacts Gut-Liver Axis Homeostasis. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3472–3472. 28 indexed citations

Bhate, Manasi, Thomas Lemmin, Georg Kuenze, et al.. (2018). Structure and Function of the Transmembrane Domain of NsaS, an Antibiotic Sensing Histidine Kinase in Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(24). 7471–7485. 16 indexed citations

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Wu, Yibing, et al.. (2018). A long‐lived Aβ oligomer resistant to fibrillization. Biopolymers. 109(8). e23096–e23096. 21 indexed citations

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Schnaider, Lee, Sayanti Brahmachari, Nathan W. Schmidt, et al.. (2017). Self-assembling dipeptide antibacterial nanostructures with membrane disrupting activity. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1365–1365. 349 indexed citations breakdown →

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Villarino, Nicolás F., Gary R. LeCleir, Joshua E. Denny, et al.. (2016). Composition of the gut microbiota modulates the severity of malaria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(8). 2235–2240. 198 indexed citations

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Villarino, Nicolás F. & Nathan W. Schmidt. (2014). CD8<sup>+</sup> T Cell Responses to Plasmodium and Intracellular Parasites. Current Immunology Reviews. 9(3). 169–178. 12 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Nathan W., Steve H. Barr, Andrew K. Udit, et al.. (2010). Structural transitions in condensed colloidal virus phases. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2010.

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Butler, Noah S., Nathan W. Schmidt, & John T. Harty. (2010). Differential Effector Pathways Regulate Memory CD8 T Cell Immunity against Plasmodium berghei versus P . yoelii Sporozoites. The Journal of Immunology. 184(5). 2528–2538. 65 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Nathan W., Noah S. Butler, Vladimir P. Badovinac, & John T. Harty. (2010). Extreme CD8 T Cell Requirements for Anti-Malarial Liver-Stage Immunity following Immunization with Radiation Attenuated Sporozoites. PLoS Pathogens. 6(7). e1000998–e1000998. 142 indexed citations

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Abbamonte, Peter, Gerard C. L. Wong, David G. Cahill, et al.. (2010). Ultrafast Imaging and the Phase Problem for Inelastic X‐Ray Scattering. Advanced Materials. 22(10). 1141–1147. 16 indexed citations

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Sehra, Sarita, et al.. (2008). IL-4 Is a Critical Determinant in the Generation of Allergic Inflammation Initiated by a Constitutively Active Stat6. The Journal of Immunology. 180(5). 3551–3559. 39 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Nathan W., et al.. (2006). Bruton’s Tyrosine Kinase Is Required for TLR-Induced IL-10 Production. The Journal of Immunology. 177(10). 7203–7210. 71 indexed citations

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Rucker, Frances J, et al.. (2004). Accommodation with and without S–cones and chromatic aberration.. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 45(13). 1739–1739. 1 indexed citations

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