Philipp Engel

10.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
74 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Philipp Engel is a scholar working on Insect Science, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Philipp Engel has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Insect Science, 41 papers in Genetics and 38 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Philipp Engel's work include Insect and Pesticide Research (44 papers), Plant and animal studies (38 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (37 papers). Philipp Engel is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Pesticide Research (44 papers), Plant and animal studies (38 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (37 papers). Philipp Engel collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Philipp Engel's co-authors include Nancy A. Moran, Vincent G. Martinson, Kirsten Ellegaard, Waldan K. Kwong, Lucie Kešnerová, Germán Bonilla‐Rosso, Hauke Koch, Joanito Liberti, Olivier Emery and Christoph Dehio and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Philipp Engel

71 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The gut microbiota of insects – diversity in structure and function

2013 1.8k citations Philipp Engel et al. profile →
Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee

2012 651 citations Philipp Engel et al. profile →
Genomics and host specialization of honey bee and bumble bee gut symbionts

2014 303 citations Philipp Engel et al. profile →
Disentangling metabolic functions of bacteria in the honey bee gut

2017 271 citations Lucie Kešnerová, Ruben A. Mars et al. PLoS Biology profile →
Gut microbiota structure differs between honeybees in winter and summer

2019 201 citations Lucie Kešnerová, Olivier Emery et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Host-derived organic acids enable gut colonization of the honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi

2024 34 citations Andrew Quinn, Philipp Engel et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philipp Engel Switzerland	40	5.1k	3.0k	2.9k	1.0k	487	74	6.9k
Dirk C. de Graaf Belgium	39	4.1k 0.8×	2.8k 1.0×	2.7k 1.0×	553 0.5×	486 1.0×	157	5.6k
Ryuichi Koga Japan	39	5.5k 1.1×	1.3k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	539 0.5×	1.3k 2.6×	79	6.3k
Fabrice Vavre France	40	4.4k 0.9×	701 0.2×	713 0.2×	410 0.4×	907 1.9×	88	5.1k
Alistair C. Darby United Kingdom	41	2.1k 0.4×	712 0.2×	676 0.2×	1.3k 1.3×	796 1.6×	151	5.3k
Waldan K. Kwong United States	26	3.0k 0.6×	2.4k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	582 0.6×	263 0.5×	36	3.9k
Francesco Pennacchio Italy	43	5.3k 1.0×	2.4k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	2.0k 4.1×	135	6.4k
Jennifer J. Wernegreen United States	35	2.6k 0.5×	641 0.2×	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	1.0k 2.1×	54	4.1k
Brian P. Lazzaro United States	42	2.8k 0.5×	794 0.3×	1.4k 0.5×	1.5k 1.5×	645 1.3×	84	5.8k
Frédéric Delbac France	41	2.0k 0.4×	1.3k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	671 1.4×	86	5.6k
Hinrich Schulenburg Germany	45	1.1k 0.2×	614 0.2×	1.9k 0.7×	2.4k 2.3×	886 1.8×	132	6.5k

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Liberti, Joanito, Erik T. Frank, Tomas Kay, et al.. (2024). Gut microbiota influences onset of foraging-related behavior but not physiological hallmarks of division of labor in honeybees. mBio. 15(9). e0103424–e0103424. 11 indexed citations

Cabirol, Amélie, et al.. (2024). Fecal transplant allows transmission of the gut microbiota in honey bees. mSphere. 9(9). e0026224–e0026224. 4 indexed citations

Sentchilo, Vladimir, et al.. (2024). Spatial structure, chemotaxis and quorum sensing shape bacterial biomass accumulation in complex porous media. Nature Communications. 15(1). 191–191. 29 indexed citations

Nunes-Silva, Carlos Gustavo, Florent Mazel, Vincent de Bakker, et al.. (2023). Deep Divergence and Genomic Diversification of Gut Symbionts of Neotropical Stingless Bees. mBio. 14(2). e0353822–e0353822. 21 indexed citations

Cnockaert, Margo, Charlotte Peeters, Luc De Vuyst, et al.. (2023). A phylogenomic and comparative genomic analysis of Commensalibacter, a versatile insect symbiont. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 25–25. 9 indexed citations

Ellegaard, Kirsten, et al.. (2023). Turnover of strain-level diversity modulates functional traits in the honeybee gut microbiome between nurses and foragers. Genome biology. 24(1). 283–283. 10 indexed citations

Leopold‐Messer, Stefan, et al.. (2023). Integration host factor regulates colonization factors in the bee gut symbiont Frischella perrara. eLife. 12. 11 indexed citations

Liberti, Joanito, Tomas Kay, Andrew Quinn, et al.. (2022). The gut microbiota affects the social network of honeybees. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(10). 1471–1479. 49 indexed citations

Das, Sudip, Eric Bernasconi, Angela Koutsokera, et al.. (2021). A prevalent and culturable microbiota links ecological balance to clinical stability of the human lung after transplantation. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2126–2126. 39 indexed citations

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Quinn, Andrew, et al.. (2021). Niche partitioning facilitates coexistence of closely related honey bee gut bacteria. eLife. 10. 74 indexed citations

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Somerville, Vincent, Hélène Berthoud, Remo S. Schmidt, et al.. (2021). Functional strain redundancy and persistent phage infection in Swiss hard cheese starter cultures. The ISME Journal. 16(2). 388–399. 36 indexed citations

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Liberti, Joanito & Philipp Engel. (2020). The gut microbiota — brain axis of insects. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 39. 6–13. 65 indexed citations

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Ke, Weixin, Germán Bonilla‐Rosso, Philipp Engel, et al.. (2020). Suppression of High-Fat Diet–Induced Obesity by Platycodon Grandiflorus in Mice Is Linked to Changes in the Gut Microbiota. Journal of Nutrition. 150(9). 2364–2374. 22 indexed citations

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Ellegaard, Kirsten & Philipp Engel. (2019). Genomic diversity landscape of the honey bee gut microbiota. Nature Communications. 10(1). 446–446. 174 indexed citations

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Kešnerová, Lucie, et al.. (2019). Gut microbiota structure differs between honeybees in winter and summer. The ISME Journal. 14(3). 801–814. 201 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hu, Yi, Jon G. Sanders, Piotr Łukasik, et al.. (2018). Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome. Nature Communications. 9(1). 964–964. 126 indexed citations

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Jones, Julia C., Carmelo Fruciano, J. H. Marchant, et al.. (2018). The gut microbiome is associated with behavioural task in honey bees. Insectes Sociaux. 65(3). 419–429. 95 indexed citations

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Segers, Francisca H. I. D., Lucie Kešnerová, Michael Kosoy, & Philipp Engel. (2017). Genomic changes associated with the evolutionary transition of an insect gut symbiont into a blood-borne pathogen. The ISME Journal. 11(5). 1232–1244. 73 indexed citations

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Harms, Alexander, et al.. (2017). A bacterial toxin-antitoxin module is the origin of inter-bacterial and inter-kingdom effectors of Bartonella. PLoS Genetics. 13(10). e1007077–e1007077. 46 indexed citations

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Kešnerová, Lucie, et al.. (2017). Disentangling metabolic functions of bacteria in the honey bee gut. PLoS Biology. 15(12). e2003467–e2003467. 271 indexed citations breakdown →

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