Leonardo Oña

767 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 377 citations indexed

About

Leonardo Oña is a scholar working on Genetics, Sociology and Political Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonardo Oña has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 377 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Genetics, 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Leonardo Oña's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (7 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers) and Plant and animal studies (5 papers). Leonardo Oña is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (7 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers) and Plant and animal studies (5 papers). Leonardo Oña collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Leonardo Oña's co-authors include Christian Kost, Samir Giri, Kai M. Thormann, Katja Liebal, Linda Scheider, Bridget M. Waller, Anne M. Burrows, Shraddha Shitut, Christoph Kaleta and Silvio Waschina and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Leonardo Oña

15 papers receiving 371 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.

Disentangling microbial interaction networks

2025 20 citations Leonardo Oña, Christian Kost et al. Trends in Microbiology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leonardo Oña Germany	11	122	102	92	70	68	16	377
Mark P. Peterson United States	12	49 0.4×	114 1.1×	96 1.0×	178 2.5×	9 0.1×	17	391
Muhammad Iqbal Indonesia	8	40 0.3×	113 1.1×	16 0.2×	80 1.1×	14 0.2×	115	375
Amanda M. Hale United States	15	105 0.9×	384 3.8×	81 0.9×	397 5.7×	66 1.0×	50	657
Giovanni Forcina Italy	13	126 1.0×	156 1.5×	203 2.2×	66 0.9×	8 0.1×	41	414
Kris Descovich Australia	15	22 0.2×	161 1.6×	191 2.1×	45 0.6×	11 0.2×	41	589
Kodzue Kinoshita Japan	13	68 0.6×	116 1.1×	95 1.0×	67 1.0×	4 0.1×	42	480
Melissa H. Schmitt South Africa	12	24 0.2×	273 2.7×	52 0.6×	135 1.9×	15 0.2×	27	475
Samuel J. Tazzyman Switzerland	12	55 0.5×	62 0.6×	140 1.5×	195 2.8×	20 0.3×	13	312
Kathleen R. Smith United States	13	85 0.7×	53 0.5×	151 1.6×	397 5.7×	10 0.1×	25	831
Shyamala Ratnayeke United States	11	27 0.2×	227 2.2×	97 1.1×	84 1.2×	7 0.1×	25	400

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16 of 16 papers shown

Oña, Leonardo, et al.. (2025). Disentangling microbial interaction networks. Trends in Microbiology. 33(6). 619–634. 20 indexed citations breakdown →

Oña, Leonardo, et al.. (2023). Primate socio-ecology shapes the evolution of distinctive facial repertoires.. Journal of comparative psychology. 138(1). 32–44. 11 indexed citations

Oña, Leonardo, et al.. (2022). Obligate mutualistic cooperation limits evolvability. Nature Communications. 13(1). 337–337. 12 indexed citations

Giri, Samir, et al.. (2022). Prevalent emergence of reciprocity among cross-feeding bacteria. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 14 indexed citations

Oña, Leonardo, et al.. (2021). Obligate cross-feeding expands the metabolic niche of bacteria. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(9). 1224–1232. 93 indexed citations

Giri, Samir, Leonardo Oña, Silvio Waschina, et al.. (2021). Metabolic dissimilarity determines the establishment of cross-feeding interactions in bacteria. Current Biology. 31(24). 5547–5557.e6. 52 indexed citations

Giri, Samir, et al.. (2020). Reciprocal Fitness Feedbacks Promote the Evolution of Mutualistic Cooperation. Current Biology. 30(18). 3580–3590.e7. 57 indexed citations

Oña, Leonardo & Michael Lachmann. (2020). Signalling architectures can prevent cancer evolution. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 674–674. 3 indexed citations

Oña, Leonardo, et al.. (2019). The evolution of plant social learning through error minimization. Evolution and Human Behavior. 40(5). 447–456. 9 indexed citations

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Scheider, Linda, Bridget M. Waller, Leonardo Oña, Anne M. Burrows, & Katja Liebal. (2016). Social Use of Facial Expressions in Hylobatids. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0151733–e0151733. 40 indexed citations

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Kamiya, Tsukushi, Leonardo Oña, Bregje Wertheim, & G. Sander van Doorn. (2016). Coevolutionary feedback elevates constitutive immune defence: a protein network model. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16(1). 92–92. 13 indexed citations

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Scheider, Linda, Katja Liebal, Leonardo Oña, Anne M. Burrows, & Bridget M. Waller. (2014). A comparison of facial expression properties in five hylobatid species. American Journal of Primatology. 76(7). 618–628. 22 indexed citations

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Oña, Leonardo, et al.. (2013). Update on Certain Aspects of the Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines on Thyroid Nodules (Focused on the Diagnosis and Management of Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer). 68(1). 1–20. 1 indexed citations

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Oña, Leonardo, Roger D. Kouyos, Michael Lachmann, & Sebastian Bonhoeffer. (2013). On the role of resonance in drug failure under HIV treatment interruption. Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling. 10(1). 44–44. 1 indexed citations

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Abramson, Guillermo, et al.. (2011). The Role of Asymmetric Interactions on the Effect of Habitat Destruction in Mutualistic Networks. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e21028–e21028. 19 indexed citations

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Oña, Leonardo & Michael Lachmann. (2010). Ant aggression and evolutionary stability in plant-ant and plant-pollinator mutualistic interactions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24(3). 617–629. 10 indexed citations

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