Dónal Leech

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
170 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Dónal Leech is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electrochemistry and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dónal Leech has authored 170 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 88 papers in Electrochemistry and 41 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dónal Leech's work include Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (118 papers), Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (88 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (41 papers). Dónal Leech is often cited by papers focused on Electrochemical sensors and biosensors (118 papers), Electrochemical Analysis and Applications (88 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (41 papers). Dónal Leech collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, Sweden and United States. Dónal Leech's co-authors include Paul Kavanagh, Huangxian Ju, Lo Gorton, Robert Bourbonnais, Frédéric Barrière, Peter Ó Conghaile, Wolfgang Schuhmann, Michael G. Paice, Krishna P. Katuri and Susan Boland and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Dónal Leech

170 papers receiving 7.3k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dónal Leech Ireland	47	5.0k	2.7k	2.1k	1.4k	1.1k	170	7.4k
Nicolas Mano France	47	5.6k 1.1×	3.5k 1.3×	1.1k 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	986 0.9×	143	7.2k
Seiya Tsujimura Japan	42	4.2k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	983 0.7×	645 0.6×	163	5.4k
Sergey Shleev Sweden	47	5.1k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	956 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	672 0.6×	148	7.4k
Marcos Pita Spain	42	2.6k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	376 0.2×	1.6k 1.1×	631 0.6×	117	4.8k
Ronan Baron United Kingdom	27	2.0k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	631 0.3×	1.3k 0.9×	313 0.3×	48	4.2k
Élisabeth Lojou France	35	2.4k 0.5×	1.1k 0.4×	696 0.3×	925 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	126	3.8k
Yueming Tan China	38	3.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	197 0.1×	1.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	104	5.8k
Qingji Xie China	52	6.3k 1.3×	3.1k 1.1×	214 0.1×	3.3k 2.4×	1.3k 1.1×	343	11.2k
Edmond Magner Ireland	41	2.7k 0.5×	899 0.3×	239 0.1×	2.8k 2.0×	588 0.5×	123	6.7k
Alison J. Downard New Zealand	41	3.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	127 0.1×	662 0.5×	592 0.5×	140	5.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dónal Leech

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Lielpētere, Anna, Dónal Leech, Wolfgang Schuhmann, et al.. (2025). Development of flexible nanoporous gold electrodes for the detection of glucose. Bioelectrochemistry. 165. 108949–108949. 1 indexed citations

Gounel, Sébastien, Anna Lielpētere, Roland Ludwig, et al.. (2024). Effects of Sterilization on Cellobiose Dehydrogenase and Glucose Oxidase Based Glucose Biosensors. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(11). 2 indexed citations

Lielpētere, Anna, et al.. (2023). Cross-Linkable Polymer-Based Multi-layers for Protecting Electrochemical Glucose Biosensors against Uric Acid, Ascorbic Acid, and Biofouling Interferences. ACS Sensors. 8(4). 1756–1765. 25 indexed citations

Ditaranto, Nicoletta, Eleonora Macchia, Cinzia Di Franco, et al.. (2023). Water‐Based Conductive Ink Formulations for Enzyme‐Based Wearable Biosensors. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 15 indexed citations

Lielpētere, Anna, Edmond Magner, Francisco J. Plou, et al.. (2023). An oxygen-insensitive amperometric galactose biosensor based on galactose oxidase co-immobilized with an Os-complex modified redox polymer. Electrochimica Acta. 472. 143438–143438. 5 indexed citations

Leech, Dónal, et al.. (2022). An electrochemical NADH biosensor based on a nanoporous gold electrode modified with diaphorase and an osmium polymer. Sensors and Actuators Reports. 4. 100117–100117. 15 indexed citations

Xiao, Xinxin, Michael P. Ryan, Dónal Leech, Jingdong Zhang, & Edmond Magner. (2020). Antimicrobial enzymatic biofuel cells. Chemical Communications. 56(99). 15589–15592. 12 indexed citations

Katuri, Krishna P., Paul Kavanagh, Muhammad Ali, et al.. (2020). Electroactive biofilms on surface functionalized anodes: The anode respiring behavior of a novel electroactive bacterium, Desulfuromonas acetexigens. Water Research. 185. 116284–116284. 48 indexed citations

Conghaile, Peter Ó, et al.. (2020). Glucose oxidation by enzyme electrodes using genipin to crosslink chitosan, glucose oxidase and amine-containing osmium redox complexes. Electrochemistry Communications. 113. 106703–106703. 12 indexed citations

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Leech, Dónal, et al.. (2018). Cost-Effective Wireless Microcontroller for Internet Connectivity of Open-Source Chemical Devices. Journal of Chemical Education. 95(7). 1221–1225. 15 indexed citations

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Xiao, Xinxin, Peter Ó Conghaile, Dónal Leech, & Edmond Magner. (2018). Use of Polymer Coatings to Enhance the Response of Redox‐Polymer‐Mediated Electrodes. ChemElectroChem. 6(5). 1344–1349. 17 indexed citations

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Xiao, Xinxin, et al.. (2018). Nanoporous Gold-Based Biofuel Cells on Contact Lenses. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 10(8). 7107–7116. 105 indexed citations

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Leech, Dónal, et al.. (2017). Inexpensive Miniature Programmable Magnetic Stirrer from Reconfigured Computer Parts. Journal of Chemical Education. 94(6). 816–818. 16 indexed citations

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Campo, F. Javier del, et al.. (2016). Paper-based microfluidic biofuel cell operating under glucose concentrations within physiological range. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 90. 475–480. 54 indexed citations

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Patil, Sunil A., Kamrul Hasan, Dónal Leech, Cecilia Hägerhäll, & Lo Gorton. (2012). Improved microbial electrocatalysis with osmium polymer modified electrodes. Chemical Communications. 48(82). 10183–10183. 38 indexed citations

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Peterbauer, Clemens, et al.. (2012). EFFECT OF ENZYME DEGLYCOSYLATION ON THE AMPEROMETRIC DETECTION OF GLUCOSE AT PDH-MODIFIED ELECTRODE. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia. 57(4). 87–99. 3 indexed citations

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MacAodha, Domhnall, Peter Ó Conghaile, Paul Kavanagh, et al.. (2012). Comparison of Glucose Oxidation by Crosslinked Redox Polymer Enzyme Electrodes Containing Carbon Nanotubes and a Range of Glucose Oxidising Enzymes. Electroanalysis. 25(1). 94–100. 20 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Desmond, et al.. (2005). Synthesis of Benzimidazolequinone Analogue (I) of Cyclopropamitosene Antitumor Agents.. ChemInform. 36(18). 2 indexed citations

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Leech, Dónal, et al.. (1995). Electrically ‘wired’ tyrosinase enzyme inhibition electrode for the detection of respiratory poisons. Electroanalysis. 7(10). 952–957. 22 indexed citations

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Leech, Dónal & G. A. Rechnitz. (1993). Biomagnetic neurosensors. Analytical Chemistry. 65(22). 3262–3266. 3 indexed citations

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