Leonardo J. Leon

996 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 710 citations indexed

About

Leonardo J. Leon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonardo J. Leon has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 710 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Epidemiology and 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Leonardo J. Leon's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (6 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (3 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (2 papers). Leonardo J. Leon is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (6 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (3 papers) and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (2 papers). Leonardo J. Leon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Leonardo J. Leon's co-authors include Åsa B. Gustafsson, Rita H. Najor, Babette C. Hammerling, Amabel M. Orogo, Mark A. Lampert, Mark A. Sussman, Bingyan Wang, Tae-Yong Kim, Melissa Q. Cortez and Sarah E. Shires and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

In The Last Decade

Leonardo J. Leon

10 papers receiving 703 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.

Mitochondria are secreted in extracellular vesicles when lysosomal function is impaired

2023 131 citations Wenjing Liang, Shakti Sagar et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leonardo J. Leon United States	10	473	336	112	81	77	10	710
Matthew Yoke Wui Ng Norway	8	377 0.8×	249 0.7×	85 0.8×	45 0.6×	110 1.4×	9	602
Haripriya Vittal Rao United States	10	433 0.9×	250 0.7×	57 0.5×	56 0.7×	58 0.8×	19	806
Nobuko Matsushita Japan	10	599 1.3×	216 0.6×	107 1.0×	160 2.0×	156 2.0×	12	808
Beatriz Villarejo‐Zori Spain	13	402 0.8×	308 0.9×	58 0.5×	77 1.0×	62 0.8×	18	711
Ai Ling Wang United States	12	603 1.3×	170 0.5×	62 0.6×	65 0.8×	69 0.9×	17	978
Luis Carlos Tábara United Kingdom	12	467 1.0×	196 0.6×	96 0.9×	48 0.6×	168 2.2×	16	737
Mohamed A. Eldeeb Canada	16	489 1.0×	234 0.7×	77 0.7×	43 0.5×	97 1.3×	45	750
Ryota Iwasawa Spain	5	491 1.0×	152 0.5×	85 0.8×	59 0.7×	181 2.4×	7	642
Soung Jung Kim South Korea	14	400 0.8×	116 0.3×	78 0.7×	51 0.6×	49 0.6×	16	637
Jiangwei Zhang China	7	313 0.7×	218 0.6×	85 0.8×	41 0.5×	72 0.9×	17	568

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Liang, Wenjing, Shakti Sagar, Rita H. Najor, et al.. (2023). Mitochondria are secreted in extracellular vesicles when lysosomal function is impaired. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5031–5031. 131 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Ze’e, Ying Shen, Leonardo J. Leon, et al.. (2021). Cardiolipin Remodeling Defects Impair Mitochondrial Architecture and Function in a Murine Model of Barth Syndrome Cardiomyopathy. Circulation Heart Failure. 14(6). e008289–e008289. 32 indexed citations

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Shires, Sarah E., Justin M. Quiles, Rita H. Najor, et al.. (2020). Nuclear Parkin Activates the ERRα Transcriptional Program and Drives Widespread Changes in Gene Expression Following Hypoxia. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 8499–8499. 18 indexed citations

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Moyzis, Alexandra G, Wenjing Liang, Leonardo J. Leon, et al.. (2020). Mcl-1-mediated mitochondrial fission protects against stress but impairs cardiac adaptation to exercise. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 146. 109–120. 21 indexed citations

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Lampert, Mark A., Amabel M. Orogo, Rita H. Najor, et al.. (2019). BNIP3L/NIX and FUNDC1-mediated mitophagy is required for mitochondrial network remodeling during cardiac progenitor cell differentiation. Autophagy. 15(7). 1182–1198. 237 indexed citations

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Hammerling, Babette C., Sarah E. Shires, Leonardo J. Leon, Melissa Q. Cortez, & Åsa B. Gustafsson. (2017). Isolation of Rab5-positive endosomes reveals a new mitochondrial degradation pathway utilized by BNIP3 and Parkin. Small GTPases. 11(1). 69–76. 24 indexed citations

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Hammerling, Babette C., Rita H. Najor, Melissa Q. Cortez, et al.. (2017). A Rab5 endosomal pathway mediates Parkin-dependent mitochondrial clearance. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14050–14050. 149 indexed citations

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Leon, Leonardo J. & Åsa B. Gustafsson. (2015). Staying young at heart: autophagy and adaptation to cardiac aging. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 95. 78–85. 37 indexed citations

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Leon, Leonardo J., et al.. (2006). Apolipophorin III: Lipopolysaccharide binding requires helix bundle opening. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 348(4). 1328–1333. 39 indexed citations

10.

Leon, Leonardo J., et al.. (2006). Tyrosine fluorescence analysis of apolipophorin III–lipopolysaccharide interaction. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 452(1). 38–45. 22 indexed citations

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