Andy O Leu

2.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
22 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Andy O Leu is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andy O Leu has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 18 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Andy O Leu's work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (19 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers). Andy O Leu is often cited by papers focused on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (19 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers). Andy O Leu collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Japan. Andy O Leu's co-authors include Gene W. Tyson, Zhiguo Yuan, Shihu Hu, Donovan H. Parks, Ben J. Woodcroft, Chen Cai, Joel A. Boyd, Paul N. Evans, Neal E. Blair and Emilio Mu�oz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Andy O Leu

20 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit 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.

An evolving view of methane metabolism in the Archaea

2019 400 citations Paul N. Evans, Joel A. Boyd et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
A methanotrophic archaeon couples anaerobic oxidation of methane to Fe(III) reduction

2018 301 citations Chen Cai, Andy O Leu et al. The ISME Journal profile →
Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae

2020 236 citations Andy O Leu, Chen Cai et al. The ISME Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andy O Leu Australia	16	978	924	478	357	321	22	1.8k
Mark E. Delwiche United States	13	863 0.9×	842 0.9×	451 0.9×	228 0.6×	312 1.0×	20	1.5k
Mohamed Fauzi Haroon Saudi Arabia	15	806 0.8×	801 0.9×	421 0.9×	298 0.8×	280 0.9×	25	1.6k
Peer H. A. Timmers Netherlands	15	648 0.7×	1.0k 1.1×	541 1.1×	203 0.6×	262 0.8×	23	1.9k
Alexander Y. Merkel Russia	27	825 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	886 1.9×	139 0.4×	209 0.7×	121	2.1k
Kuk‐Jeong Chin Germany	24	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	714 1.5×	313 0.9×	340 1.1×	34	2.6k
Kjeld Ingvorsen Denmark	30	968 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	901 1.9×	165 0.5×	220 0.7×	48	2.6k
Hisaya Kojima Japan	29	846 0.9×	1.4k 1.5×	751 1.6×	183 0.5×	164 0.5×	111	2.3k
Ketil Bernt Sørensen Denmark	18	1.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.5×	675 1.4×	200 0.6×	104 0.3×	33	2.2k
Vitaly V. Kadnikov Russia	24	663 0.7×	874 0.9×	692 1.4×	107 0.3×	162 0.5×	99	1.7k
Suzanna L. Bräuer United States	22	542 0.6×	839 0.9×	274 0.6×	185 0.5×	115 0.4×	33	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Andy O Leu

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Andy O Leu's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Andy O Leu with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Andy O Leu more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Andy O Leu

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Andy O Leu. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Andy O Leu. The network helps show where Andy O Leu may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andy O Leu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andy O Leu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andy O Leu 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 Andy O Leu. Andy O Leu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Leu, Andy O, Ove Øyås, Ianina Altshuler, et al.. (2025). Protozoal populations drive system-wide variation in the rumen microbiome. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6238–6238. 1 indexed citations

Leu, Andy O, Ben J. Woodcroft, Simon Jon McIlroy, & Gene W. Tyson. (2025). Potential for aerobic hydrocarbon oxidation in archaea. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9188–9188.

Wu, Mengxiong, Jie Li, Chun-Yu Lai, et al.. (2024). Nitrate-driven anaerobic oxidation of ethane and butane by bacteria. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 16 indexed citations

Leu, Andy O, Martin Pabst, Simon Jon McIlroy, et al.. (2024). Osmoregulation in freshwater anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea under salt stress. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Xueqin, Andy O Leu, Jing Zhao, et al.. (2023). Multi-heme cytochrome-mediated extracellular electron transfer by the anaerobic methanotroph ‘Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens’. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6118–6118. 39 indexed citations

McIlroy, Simon Jon, Andy O Leu, Xueqin Zhang, et al.. (2023). Anaerobic methanotroph ‘Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens’ has a pleomorphic life cycle. Nature Microbiology. 8(2). 321–331. 31 indexed citations

Luo, Elaine, Andy O Leu, John M. Eppley, David M. Karl, & Edward F. DeLong. (2022). Diversity and origins of bacterial and archaeal viruses on sinking particles reaching the abyssal ocean. The ISME Journal. 16(6). 1627–1635. 25 indexed citations

Chadwick, Grayson L., Connor T. Skennerton, Rafael Laso-Pérez, et al.. (2022). Comparative genomics reveals electron transfer and syntrophic mechanisms differentiating methanotrophic and methanogenic archaea. PLoS Biology. 20(1). e3001508–e3001508. 87 indexed citations

Dong, Hongpo, Simon Jon McIlroy, Sean A. Crowe, et al.. (2022). Expanding the phylogenetic distribution of cytochrome b-containing methanogenic archaea sheds light on the evolution of methanogenesis. The ISME Journal. 16(10). 2373–2387. 29 indexed citations

10.

Wu, Mengxiong, Jie Li, Andy O Leu, et al.. (2022). Anaerobic oxidation of propane coupled to nitrate reduction by a lineage within the class Symbiobacteriia. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6115–6115. 38 indexed citations

11.

Leu, Andy O, John M. Eppley, Andrew Burger, & Edward F. DeLong. (2022). Diverse Genomic Traits Differentiate Sinking-Particle-Associated versus Free-Living Microbes throughout the Oligotrophic Open Ocean Water Column. mBio. 13(4). e0156922–e0156922. 36 indexed citations

12.

Yu, Hang, Connor T. Skennerton, Grayson L. Chadwick, et al.. (2021). Sulfate differentially stimulates but is not respired by diverse anaerobic methanotrophic archaea. The ISME Journal. 16(1). 168–177. 28 indexed citations

13.

Poff, Kirsten, Andy O Leu, John M. Eppley, David M. Karl, & Edward F. DeLong. (2021). Microbial dynamics of elevated carbon flux in the open ocean’s abyss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(4). 69 indexed citations

14.

Leu, Andy O, et al.. (2021). Planktonic Archaeal Ether Lipid Origins in Surface Waters of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 610675–610675. 9 indexed citations

15.

Leu, Andy O, Simon Jon McIlroy, Jun Ye, et al.. (2020). Lateral Gene Transfer Drives Metabolic Flexibility in the Anaerobic Methane-Oxidizing Archaeal Family Methanoperedenaceae. mBio. 11(3). 60 indexed citations

16.

Leu, Andy O, Chen Cai, Simon Jon McIlroy, et al.. (2020). Anaerobic methane oxidation coupled to manganese reduction by members of the Methanoperedenaceae. The ISME Journal. 14(4). 1030–1041. 236 indexed citations breakdown →

17.

Boyd, Joel A., Sean P. Jungbluth, Andy O Leu, et al.. (2019). Divergent methyl-coenzyme M reductase genes in a deep-subseafloor Archaeoglobi. The ISME Journal. 13(5). 1269–1279. 51 indexed citations

18.

Evans, Paul N., Joel A. Boyd, Andy O Leu, et al.. (2019). An evolving view of methane metabolism in the Archaea. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 17(4). 219–232. 400 indexed citations breakdown →

19.

Cai, Chen, Andy O Leu, Guo-Jun Xie, et al.. (2018). A methanotrophic archaeon couples anaerobic oxidation of methane to Fe(III) reduction. The ISME Journal. 12(8). 1929–1939. 301 indexed citations breakdown →

20.

Blair, Neal E., et al.. (1985). Carbon isotopic fractionation in heterotrophic microbial metabolism. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 50(4). 996–1001. 357 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact