John Leech

1.1k total citations
10 papers, 634 citations indexed

About

John Leech is a scholar working on Food Science, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, John Leech has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 634 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Food Science, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 1 paper in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in John Leech's work include Probiotics and Fermented Foods (6 papers), Gut microbiota and health (5 papers) and Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease (1 paper). John Leech is often cited by papers focused on Probiotics and Fermented Foods (6 papers), Gut microbiota and health (5 papers) and Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease (1 paper). John Leech collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United States and France. John Leech's co-authors include Paul D. Cotter, Aaron M. Walsh, Fabio Cumbo, Danilo Ercolini, Edoardo Pasolli, Francesca De Filippis, Nicola Segata, Fiona Crispie, Sandra Beaufort and Jalloul Bouajila and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, FEMS Microbiology Reviews and Journal of Dairy Science.

In The Last Decade

John Leech

9 papers receiving 626 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Leech Ireland	8	424	352	125	118	55	10	634
Hafiz Arbab Sakandar China	15	520 1.2×	410 1.2×	287 2.3×	60 0.5×	57 1.0×	34	872
Monique Renon Eller Brazil	15	190 0.4×	231 0.7×	38 0.3×	87 0.7×	106 1.9×	39	538
Emiliano Salvucci Argentina	16	341 0.8×	263 0.7×	273 2.2×	28 0.2×	24 0.4×	28	671
Nieke Westerik Netherlands	9	436 1.0×	305 0.9×	196 1.6×	23 0.2×	40 0.7×	12	623
Shuiquan Wang China	9	402 0.9×	309 0.9×	210 1.7×	80 0.7×	12 0.2×	15	548
Benjamin C. T. Bourrie Canada	9	342 0.8×	302 0.9×	113 0.9×	32 0.3×	16 0.3×	11	515
Heping Zhang China	11	350 0.8×	263 0.7×	137 1.1×	45 0.4×	29 0.5×	33	530
Mousumi Ray India	11	359 0.8×	229 0.7×	225 1.8×	23 0.2×	14 0.3×	17	571
Μαρία Κάζου Greece	12	541 1.3×	417 1.2×	170 1.4×	17 0.1×	40 0.7×	25	673
Hye Ji Jang South Korea	13	344 0.8×	315 0.9×	135 1.1×	21 0.2×	13 0.2×	22	524

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10 of 10 papers shown

Leech, John, et al.. (2025). The effects of offering adequate-quality or high-quality colostrum on the passive immunity, health, growth, and fecal microbiome development of dairy heifer calves. Journal of Dairy Science. 108(6). 6254–6272. 2 indexed citations

Leech, John, et al.. (2025). Application and utilization of fermentation as a processing tool to mitigate protein putrefaction in plant-based diets. Frontiers in Microbiology. 16. 1638378–1638378.

Leech, John, Rita Almeida, Fiona Crispie, et al.. (2024). Metagenomic analysis of the bacterial microbiome, resistome and virulome distinguishes Portuguese Serra da Estrela PDO cheeses from similar non-PDO cheeses: An exploratory approach. Food Research International. 189. 114556–114556. 11 indexed citations

Walsh, Aaron M., John Leech, Curtis Huttenhower, et al.. (2023). Integrated molecular approaches for fermented food microbiome research. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 47(2). 26 indexed citations

Martin, José Guilherme Prado, et al.. (2023). Seasonal variation in the Canastra cheese mycobiota. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 1076672–1076672. 9 indexed citations

Obafemi, Yemisi Dorcas, S. U. Oranusi, K. O. Ajanaku, et al.. (2022). African fermented foods: overview, emerging benefits, and novel approaches to microbiome profiling. npj Science of Food. 6(1). 15–15. 77 indexed citations

Pasolli, Edoardo, Francesca De Filippis, Fabio Cumbo, et al.. (2020). Large-scale genome-wide analysis links lactic acid bacteria from food with the gut microbiome. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2610–2610. 221 indexed citations

Bouajila, Jalloul, John Leech, Paul D. Cotter, et al.. (2020). Metabolome-microbiome signatures in the fermented beverage, Kombucha. International Journal of Food Microbiology. 333. 108778–108778. 131 indexed citations

Leech, John, Raúl Cabrera‐Rubio, Aaron M. Walsh, et al.. (2020). Fermented-Food Metagenomics Reveals Substrate-Associated Differences in Taxonomy and Health-Associated and Antibiotic Resistance Determinants. mSystems. 5(6). 126 indexed citations

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Hughes, Graham M., John Leech, Sébastien J. Puechmaille, Jose V. Lopez, & Emma C. Teeling. (2018). Is there a link between aging and microbiome diversity in exceptional mammalian longevity?. PeerJ. 6. e4174–e4174. 31 indexed citations

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