Federico Scossa

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Federico Scossa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Federico Scossa has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Plant Science and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Federico Scossa's work include Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (13 papers), Plant Gene Expression Analysis (9 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (8 papers). Federico Scossa is often cited by papers focused on Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (13 papers), Plant Gene Expression Analysis (9 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (8 papers). Federico Scossa collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and Bulgaria. Federico Scossa's co-authors include Alisdair R. Fernie, Saleh Alseekh, Leonardo Perez de Souza, Sonia Osorio, Takayuki Tohge, Zoran Nikoloski, Youjun Zhang, Roberto Papa, Dani Zamir and Patrick Giavalisco and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Plant Cell and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

In The Last Decade

Federico Scossa

45 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry variants for metabolomics research

2021 235 citations Leonardo Perez de Souza, Saleh Alseekh et al. Nature Methods profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Federico Scossa Germany	27	1.3k	1.2k	200	192	177	46	2.1k
Leonardo Perez de Souza Germany	24	979 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	85 0.4×	290 1.5×	200 1.1×	62	2.3k
Ewa Urbańczyk-Wochniak Germany	23	2.0k 1.5×	1.9k 1.5×	122 0.6×	104 0.5×	163 0.9×	34	2.8k
Carol H. Carter‐Wientjes United States	20	689 0.5×	507 0.4×	158 0.8×	203 1.1×	225 1.3×	40	1.4k
Shouchuang Wang China	23	1.6k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	285 1.4×	382 2.0×	279 1.6×	57	2.8k
Dominique Rolin France	28	1.8k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	94 0.5×	229 1.2×	507 2.9×	71	2.6k
Brady A. Vick United States	34	2.2k 1.7×	1.5k 1.2×	208 1.0×	154 0.8×	203 1.1×	77	3.4k
Mickaël Maucourt France	27	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	83 0.4×	214 1.1×	348 2.0×	44	2.1k
Niranjan Chakraborty India	31	2.4k 1.8×	1.4k 1.2×	94 0.5×	117 0.6×	232 1.3×	108	3.0k
María Inés Zanor Argentina	26	3.1k 2.4×	2.6k 2.1×	109 0.5×	176 0.9×	140 0.8×	38	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Federico Scossa

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Bitocchi, Elena, Elisa Bellucci, Valerio Di Vittori, et al.. (2025). Agroecological genomics and participatory science: optimizing crop mixtures for agricultural diversification. Trends in Plant Science. 30(11). 1211–1225. 3 indexed citations

Kreuzer, Ines, Federico Scossa, Takayuki Tohge, Alisdair R. Fernie, & Rainer Hedrich. (2025). Venus flytraps' metabolome analysis discloses the metabolic fate of prey animal foodstock. The Plant Journal. 123(3). e70391–e70391.

Naake, Thomas, John C. D’Auria, Alisdair R. Fernie, & Federico Scossa. (2024). Phylogenomic and synteny analysis of BAHD and SCP/SCPL gene families reveal their evolutionary histories in plant specialized metabolism. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1914). 20230349–20230349. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Youjun, Saleh Alseekh, Leonardo Perez de Souza, et al.. (2023). Synthetic biology identifies the minimal gene set required for paclitaxel biosynthesis in a plant chassis. Molecular Plant. 16(12). 1951–1961. 62 indexed citations

Naake, Thomas, Feng Zhu, Saleh Alseekh, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide association studies identify loci controlling specialized seed metabolites in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 194(3). 1705–1721. 4 indexed citations

Thiele, Wolfram, Omar Saleh, Federico Scossa, et al.. (2022). Chloroplast translational regulation uncovers nonessential photosynthesis genes as key players in plant cold acclimation. The Plant Cell. 34(5). 2056–2079. 39 indexed citations

Naves, Emmanuel Rezende, Federico Scossa, Wagner L. Araújo, et al.. (2022). Heterosis for capsacinoids accumulation in chili pepper hybrids is dependent on parent-of-origin effect. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 14450–14450. 14 indexed citations

Zhang, Youjun, Federico Scossa, & Alisdair R. Fernie. (2021). The genomes of Taxus species unveil novel candidates in the biosynthesis of taxoids. Molecular Plant. 14(11). 1773–1775. 9 indexed citations

Souza, Leonardo Perez de, Saleh Alseekh, Federico Scossa, & Alisdair R. Fernie. (2021). Ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometry variants for metabolomics research. Nature Methods. 18(7). 733–746. 235 indexed citations breakdown →

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Scossa, Federico & Alisdair R. Fernie. (2021). Ancestral sequence reconstruction - An underused approach to understand the evolution of gene function in plants?. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 19. 1579–1594. 15 indexed citations

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Gill, Rafaqat A., Federico Scossa, Graham J.W. King, et al.. (2021). On the Role of Transposable Elements in the Regulation of Gene Expression and Subgenomic Interactions in Crop Genomes. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences. 40(2). 157–189. 31 indexed citations

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Karagiannis, Evangelos, Michail Michailidis, Γεωργία Τάνου, et al.. (2020). Decoding altitude-activated regulatory mechanisms occurring during apple peel ripening. Horticulture Research. 7(1). 120–120. 44 indexed citations

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Zhang, Weiyi, Cheng Luo, Federico Scossa, et al.. (2020). A phased genome based on single sperm sequencing reveals crossover pattern and complex relatedness in tea plants. The Plant Journal. 105(1). 197–208. 14 indexed citations

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Tohge, Takayuki, Federico Scossa, Regina Wendenburg, et al.. (2020). Exploiting Natural Variation in Tomato to Define Pathway Structure and Metabolic Regulation of Fruit Polyphenolics in the Lycopersicum Complex. Molecular Plant. 13(7). 1027–1046. 68 indexed citations

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Karagiannis, Evangelos, Γεωργία Τάνου, Federico Scossa, et al.. (2020). Systems-Based Approaches to Unravel Networks and Individual Elements Involved in Apple Superficial Scald. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 8–8. 29 indexed citations

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Zhang, Youjun, Corné Swart, Saleh Alseekh, et al.. (2018). The Extra-Pathway Interactome of the TCA Cycle: Expected and Unexpected Metabolic Interactions. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 177(3). 966–979. 86 indexed citations

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Τάνου, Γεωργία, Ioannis S. Minas, Federico Scossa, et al.. (2017). Exploring priming responses involved in peach fruit acclimation to cold stress. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 11358–11358. 66 indexed citations

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Schmitz, J. E., Federico Scossa, Alisdair R. Fernie, et al.. (2014). The essential role of sugar metabolism in the acclimation response of Arabidopsis thaliana to high light intensities. Journal of Experimental Botany. 65(6). 1619–1636. 57 indexed citations

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Osorio, Sonia, Federico Scossa, & Alisdair R. Fernie. (2013). Molecular regulation of fruit ripening. Frontiers in Plant Science. 4. 198–198. 205 indexed citations

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Scossa, Federico, Debbie Laudencia‐Chingcuanco, Olin D. Anderson, et al.. (2008). Comparative proteomic and transcriptional profiling of a bread wheat cultivar and its derived transgenic line overexpressing a low molecular weight glutenin subunit gene in the endosperm. PROTEOMICS. 8(14). 2948–2966. 45 indexed citations

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