Paul Schmidt

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Paul Schmidt is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Schmidt has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Ecology, 36 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 29 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Paul Schmidt's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (33 papers), Physiological and biochemical adaptations (29 papers) and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (20 papers). Paul Schmidt is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (33 papers), Physiological and biochemical adaptations (29 papers) and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (20 papers). Paul Schmidt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Paul Schmidt's co-authors include David M. Rand, Annalise B. Paaby, Alan O. Bergland, Dmitri A. Petrov, Walter F. Eanes, Emily L. Behrman, Katherine R. O’Brien, Thomas Flatt, Luciano M. Matzkin and Subhash Rajpurohit and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Paul Schmidt

74 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Genomic Evidence of Rapid and Stable Adaptive Oscillations over Seasonal Time Scales in Drosophila

2014 359 citations Alan O. Bergland, Emily L. Behrman et al. PLoS Genetics profile →
Direct observation of adaptive tracking on ecological time scales in Drosophila

2022 98 citations Seth M. Rudman, Sharon Greenblum et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Paul Schmidt	1.9k	1.6k	1.2k	705	643	79	4.0k
Thomas Flatt	2.2k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.9×	1.1k 1.7×	86	5.7k
Robert A. Krebs	1.1k 0.6×	2.2k 1.4×	835 0.7×	974 1.4×	398 0.6×	89	3.4k
Kimberly A. Hughes	2.7k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	2.6k 2.1×	999 1.4×	456 0.7×	80	5.1k
R. Bijlsma	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	650 0.9×	295 0.5×	81	4.1k
Scott A. L. Hayward	834 0.4×	1.7k 1.0×	626 0.5×	777 1.1×	487 0.8×	54	2.6k
Anthony J. Zera	2.5k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	3.5k 2.8×	1.8k 2.6×	1.3k 2.0×	97	5.9k
Christina M. Holzapfel	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	524 0.7×	516 0.8×	64	3.4k
Damian K. Dowling	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	687 1.0×	231 0.4×	99	4.1k
Daniel A. Hahn	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	1.6k 2.3×	1.1k 1.7×	124	3.8k
Vladimı́r Košťál	1.8k 1.0×	3.1k 1.9×	1.1k 0.9×	1.9k 2.7×	2.0k 3.1×	100	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Schmidt

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Schmidt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Schmidt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Schmidt based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Paul Schmidt. Paul Schmidt is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Rhodes, Jessica A., Sharon Greenblum, Mark C. Bitter, et al.. (2025). Drosophila melanogaster pigmentation demonstrates adaptive phenotypic parallelism over multiple spatiotemporal scales. Evolution Letters. 9(4). 408–420.

Paris, Margot, Esra Durmaz Mitchell, Envel Kerdaffrec, et al.. (2025). Multiple forms of balancing selection maintain inversion polymorphism. Heredity. 135(3). 138–151.

Bitter, Mark C., et al.. (2024). Continuously fluctuating selection reveals fine granularity of adaptation. Nature. 634(8033). 389–396. 15 indexed citations

Kapun, Martin, Esra Durmaz Mitchell, Tadeusz J. Kawecki, Paul Schmidt, & Thomas Flatt. (2023). An Ancestral Balanced Inversion Polymorphism Confers Global Adaptation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(6). 16 indexed citations

Rudman, Seth M., Sharon Greenblum, Subhash Rajpurohit, et al.. (2022). Direct observation of adaptive tracking on ecological time scales in Drosophila. Science. 375(6586). eabj7484–eabj7484. 98 indexed citations breakdown →

Rajpurohit, Subhash, Esra Durmaz Mitchell, Daniel K. Fabian, et al.. (2021). Allelic polymorphism at foxo contributes to local adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Ecology. 30(12). 2817–2830. 7 indexed citations

Rajpurohit, Subhash, Vladimír Vrkoslav, Robert Hanus, et al.. (2020). Post‐eclosion temperature effects on insect cuticular hydrocarbon profiles. Ecology and Evolution. 11(1). 352–364. 17 indexed citations

Erickson, Priscilla A., et al.. (2020). Unique genetic signatures of local adaptation over space and time for diapause, an ecologically relevant complex trait, in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genetics. 16(11). e1009110–e1009110. 24 indexed citations

Rudman, Seth M., Sharon Greenblum, Rachel C. Hughes, et al.. (2019). Microbiome composition shapes rapid genomic adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(40). 20025–20032. 92 indexed citations

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Tilk, Susanne, et al.. (2019). Accurate Allele Frequencies from Ultra-low Coverage Pool-Seq Samples in Evolve-and-Resequence Experiments. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 9(12). 4159–4168. 24 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Esra Durmaz, Subhash Rajpurohit, Daniel K. Fabian, et al.. (2019). A clinal polymorphism in the insulin signaling transcription factor foxo contributes to life‐history adaptation in Drosophila *. Evolution. 73(9). 1774–1792. 16 indexed citations

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Behrman, Emily L., Virginia M. Howick, Martin Kapun, et al.. (2018). Rapid seasonal evolution in innate immunity of wild Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1870). 20172599–20172599. 52 indexed citations

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Rajpurohit, Subhash, Eran Gefen, Alan O. Bergland, et al.. (2018). Spatiotemporal dynamics and genome‐wide association analysis of desiccation tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Ecology. 27(17). 3525–3540. 24 indexed citations

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Wittmann, Meike J., Alan O. Bergland, Marcus W. Feldman, Paul Schmidt, & Dmitri A. Petrov. (2017). Seasonally fluctuating selection can maintain polymorphism at many loci via segregation lift. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(46). E9932–E9941. 81 indexed citations

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Rajpurohit, Subhash, et al.. (2016). Pigmentation and fitness trade-offs through the lens of artificial selection. Biology Letters. 12(10). 20160625–20160625. 10 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Paul, et al.. (2016). Adaptive patterns of phenotypic plasticity in laboratory and field environments in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution. 71(2). 465–474. 19 indexed citations

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Bergland, Alan O., Raymond Tobler, Josefa González, Paul Schmidt, & Dmitri A. Petrov. (2015). Secondary contact and local adaptation contribute to genome‐wide patterns of clinal variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Ecology. 25(5). 1157–1174. 99 indexed citations

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Paaby, Annalise B., Alan O. Bergland, Emily L. Behrman, & Paul Schmidt. (2014). A highly pleiotropic amino acid polymorphism in the Drosophila insulin receptor contributes to life-history adaptation. Evolution. 68(12). 3395–3409. 70 indexed citations

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Vandeghinste, Vincent, Ineke Schuurman, Στέλλα Μαρκαντωνάτου, et al.. (2008). Evaluation of a Machine Translation System for Low Resource Languages: METIS-II. Language Resources and Evaluation. 449–456. 8 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Paul, et al.. (2004). ALLES: Integrating NLP in ICALL Applications. Language Resources and Evaluation. 5 indexed citations

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