Leonardo da Costa Sousa

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
59 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Leonardo da Costa Sousa is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonardo da Costa Sousa has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 32 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Leonardo da Costa Sousa's work include Biofuel production and bioconversion (54 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (27 papers) and Catalysis for Biomass Conversion (15 papers). Leonardo da Costa Sousa is often cited by papers focused on Biofuel production and bioconversion (54 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (27 papers) and Catalysis for Biomass Conversion (15 papers). Leonardo da Costa Sousa collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Africa. Leonardo da Costa Sousa's co-authors include Venkatesh Balan, Bruce E. Dale, Shishir P. S. Chundawat, Mingjie Jin, C. Kevin Chambliss, Ming W. Lau, Xiaoyu Tang, Zeyi Xiao, Umesh P. Agarwal and Nirmal Uppugundla and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Energy & Environmental Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Leonardo da Costa Sousa

59 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Designer synthetic media for studying microbial-catalyzed biofuel production

2015 782 citations Leonardo da Costa Sousa, Mingjie Jin et al. Biotechnology for Biofuels profile →
Multi-scale visualization and characterization of lignocellulosic plant cell wall deconstruction during thermochemical pretreatment

2011 422 citations Shishir P. S. Chundawat, Leonardo da Costa Sousa et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leonardo da Costa Sousa United States	32	3.8k	2.1k	787	609	527	59	4.6k
Melvin P. Tucker United States	40	4.7k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	860 1.4×	647 1.2×	104	5.8k
Paloma Manzanares Spain	38	3.6k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	567 0.7×	512 0.8×	521 1.0×	76	4.2k
Ignacio Ballesteros Spain	40	4.0k 1.1×	2.5k 1.2×	599 0.8×	532 0.9×	581 1.1×	82	4.6k
David W. Templeton United States	10	4.5k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	725 1.2×	534 1.0×	14	5.6k
Elia Tomás‐Pejó Spain	32	4.8k 1.2×	3.2k 1.5×	684 0.9×	716 1.2×	853 1.6×	73	5.9k
Shishir P. S. Chundawat United States	34	5.2k 1.3×	2.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.8×	988 1.6×	955 1.8×	78	6.2k
Henning Jørgensen Denmark	37	4.9k 1.3×	3.0k 1.4×	946 1.2×	959 1.6×	1.2k 2.3×	85	5.9k
Alex Berlin Canada	14	3.4k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	749 1.0×	523 0.9×	642 1.2×	18	3.8k
Renata Bura United States	27	3.0k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	641 0.8×	388 0.6×	483 0.9×	54	3.5k
Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh United States	36	2.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	827 1.1×	507 0.8×	494 0.9×	75	3.9k

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Mohammadi, Maedeh, David B. Hodge, Jaya Shankar Tumuluru, et al.. (2025). High throughput pretreatment of corn stover using compacted biomass with recycled ammonia (COBRA) process. Chemical Engineering Journal. 505. 159731–159731. 2 indexed citations

Morais, Ana Rita C., David B. Hodge, Venkatesh Balan, et al.. (2022). Development of an ammonia pretreatment that creates synergies between biorefineries and advanced biomass logistics models. Green Chemistry. 24(11). 4443–4462. 20 indexed citations

Chundawat, Shishir P. S., Ramendra K. Pal, Chao Zhao, et al.. (2020). Ammonia Fiber Expansion (AFEX) Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 31 indexed citations

Chundawat, Shishir P. S., Ramendra K. Pal, Chao Zhao, et al.. (2020). Ammonia Fiber Expansion (AFEX) Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 20 indexed citations

Chundawat, Shishir P. S., Leonardo da Costa Sousa, Zhi Yang, et al.. (2019). Ammonia-salt solvent promotes cellulosic biomass deconstruction under ambient pretreatment conditions to enable rapid soluble sugar production at ultra-low enzyme loadings. Green Chemistry. 22(1). 204–218. 32 indexed citations

Sousa, Leonardo da Costa, et al.. (2018). Ethanol production potential from AFEX™ and steam-exploded sugarcane residues for sugarcane biorefineries. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 11(1). 127–127. 53 indexed citations

Jin, Mingjie, Yanping Liu, Leonardo da Costa Sousa, Bruce E. Dale, & Venkatesh Balan. (2017). Development of rapid bioconversion with integrated recycle technology for ethanol production from extractive ammonia pretreated corn stover. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 114(8). 1713–1720. 11 indexed citations

Jin, Mingjie, et al.. (2016). Empty Fruit Bunch from Date Palm Industries—A Sustainable Resource for Producing Biofuels and Industrial Solvents. Industrial Biotechnology. 12(4). 235–244. 3 indexed citations

Stoklosa, Ryan J., Leonardo da Costa Sousa, Nirmal Uppugundla, et al.. (2016). Techno-economic comparison of centralized versus decentralized biorefineries for two alkaline pretreatment processes. Bioresource Technology. 226. 9–17. 34 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Pimienta, José A., Héctor A. Ruíz, Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh, et al.. (2016). Evaluation of agave bagasse recalcitrance using AFEX™, autohydrolysis, and ionic liquid pretreatments. Bioresource Technology. 211. 216–223. 65 indexed citations

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Slininger, Patricia J., Bruce S. Dien, Cletus P. Kurtzman, et al.. (2016). Comparative lipid production by oleaginous yeasts in hydrolyzates of lignocellulosic biomass and process strategy for high titers. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 113(8). 1676–1690. 111 indexed citations

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Balan, Venkatesh, Leonardo da Costa Sousa, Christa Gunawan, et al.. (2016). Saccharification of newspaper waste after ammonia fiber expansion or extractive ammonia. AMB Express. 6(1). 18–18. 10 indexed citations

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Slininger, Patricia J., Stephanie R. Thompson, Bruce S. Dien, et al.. (2015). Evolved strains of Scheffersomyces stipitis achieving high ethanol productivity on acid- and base-pretreated biomass hydrolyzate at high solids loading. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 8(1). 60–60. 35 indexed citations

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Uppugundla, Nirmal, Michael J. Bowman, David Cavalier, et al.. (2015). Sugar loss and enzyme inhibition due to oligosaccharide accumulation during high solids-loading enzymatic hydrolysis. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 8(1). 195–195. 76 indexed citations

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Sousa, Leonardo da Costa, et al.. (2015). ANÁLISE ESPACIAL NA GESTÃO DE RECURSOS HÍDRICOS: BACIA HIDROGRÁFICA DO RIO URIBOCA, BELÉM, PARÁ. Enciclopédia Biosfera. 11(22). 1 indexed citations

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Uppugundla, Nirmal, Leonardo da Costa Sousa, Shishir P. S. Chundawat, et al.. (2014). A comparative study of ethanol production using dilute acid, ionic liquid and AFEX™ pretreated corn stover. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 7(1). 72–72. 188 indexed citations

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Uppugundla, Nirmal, et al.. (2014). Bio-oil via catalytic liquefaction of unhydrolyzed solids in aqueous medium. Biofuels. 5(4). 431–446. 7 indexed citations

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Jin, Mingjie, Patricia J. Slininger, Bruce S. Dien, et al.. (2014). Microbial lipid-based lignocellulosic biorefinery: feasibility and challenges. Trends in biotechnology. 33(1). 43–54. 256 indexed citations

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Balan, Venkatesh, Bryan Bals, Leonardo da Costa Sousa, Rebecca J. Garlock, & Bruce E. Dale. (2011). A short review on ammoniabased lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment. 2011(1). 89–114. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Chenlin, Gang Cheng, Venkatesh Balan, et al.. (2011). Influence of physico-chemical changes on enzymatic digestibility of ionic liquid and AFEX pretreated corn stover. Bioresource Technology. 102(13). 6928–6936. 184 indexed citations

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