Pedro N. Leão

2.4k total citations
68 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Pedro N. Leão is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pedro N. Leão has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Pharmacology and 21 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Pedro N. Leão's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (25 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (19 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (18 papers). Pedro N. Leão is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (25 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (19 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (18 papers). Pedro N. Leão collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United States and Germany. Pedro N. Leão's co-authors include Vı́tor Vasconcelos, Jorge Antunes, T. Vasconcelos, William H. Gerwick, Vítor Ramos, Rosário Martíns, Sara Freitas, Ralph Urbatzka, Albán R. Pereira and Raquel Castelo‐Branco and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Pedro N. Leão

65 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pedro N. Leão Portugal 27 530 478 388 360 341 68 1.7k
Rosário Martíns Portugal 25 342 0.6× 469 1.0× 281 0.7× 220 0.6× 447 1.3× 50 1.5k
Hong Kum Lee South Korea 27 832 1.6× 183 0.4× 582 1.5× 402 1.1× 297 0.9× 89 2.3k
Michelle C. Moffitt Australia 23 969 1.8× 1.5k 3.2× 574 1.5× 411 1.1× 272 0.8× 38 2.7k
Judith F. Blom Switzerland 21 305 0.6× 661 1.4× 351 0.9× 202 0.6× 142 0.4× 28 1.3k
Pavel Hrouzek Czechia 25 476 0.9× 821 1.7× 582 1.5× 272 0.8× 565 1.7× 91 2.0k
Miroslav Gantar United States 29 392 0.7× 722 1.5× 548 1.4× 97 0.3× 736 2.2× 51 2.3k
Lu Fan China 21 579 1.1× 90 0.2× 450 1.2× 285 0.8× 198 0.6× 61 1.6k
Antje Labes Germany 23 627 1.2× 88 0.2× 646 1.7× 524 1.5× 142 0.4× 47 2.0k
Adam C. Jones United States 14 339 0.6× 85 0.2× 254 0.7× 274 0.8× 106 0.3× 16 853
Matti Wahlsten Finland 31 764 1.4× 1.0k 2.2× 530 1.4× 693 1.9× 515 1.5× 73 2.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pedro N. Leão

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All Works

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Pérez‐Victoria, Ignacio, Jesús Martı́n, Lorena Rodríguez, et al.. (2025). Alichondrichlorin, a Novel Chlorohydrin‐Containing Natural Product With Tumoral Cytotoxic Activity Isolated From the Planctomycetota Bacterium Alienimonas chondri LzC2 T . Microbial Biotechnology. 18(2). e70076–e70076. 3 indexed citations
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Castelo‐Branco, Raquel, Nikoletta Szemerédi, Gabriella Spengler, et al.. (2025). Decoding Lusichelins A–E: An In-Depth Look at the Metallophores of Lusitaniella coriacea LEGE 07167–Structure, Production, and Functionality. Journal of Natural Products. 88(6). 1319–1333. 2 indexed citations
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Rego, Adriana, et al.. (2024). Actinomycetota From Macroalgae as Rich Source for Natural Products Discovery Revealed Through Culture‐Dependent and ‐Independent Approaches. Microbial Biotechnology. 17(12). e70058–e70058. 1 indexed citations
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Martı́n, Jesús, Ignacio Pérez‐Victoria, Ricardo B. Leite, et al.. (2024). Cellulamides: A New Family of Marine-Sourced Linear Peptides from the Underexplored Cellulosimicrobium Genus. Marine Drugs. 22(6). 268–268. 2 indexed citations
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Hentschke, Guilherme Scotta, João Morais, Graciliana Lopes, et al.. (2024). Polyphasic description of Ciimarium marinum gen. et sp. nov. (Prochlorococcaceae, Synechococcales): a new picocyanobacterial taxon from the Portuguese coastal ecosystem. Phytotaxa. 637(2). 133–148. 2 indexed citations
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Leão, Pedro N., et al.. (2023). Incorporation and modification of fatty acids in cyanobacterial natural products biosynthesis. Chemical Communications. 59(30). 4436–4446. 5 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Paulo, et al.. (2023). Incorporation, fate, and turnover of free fatty acids in cyanobacteria. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 47(2). 12 indexed citations
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Hentschke, Guilherme Scotta, Vítor Ramos, Aldo Barreiro, et al.. (2022). Zarconia navalis gen. nov., sp. nov., Romeriopsis navalis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Romeriopsis marina sp. nov., isolated from inter- and subtidal environments from northern Portugal. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 72(10). 4 indexed citations
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Castelo‐Branco, Raquel, Diana Sousa, Marco Preto, et al.. (2022). Discovery and Heterologous Expression of Microginins from Microcystis aeruginosa LEGE 91341. ACS Synthetic Biology. 11(10). 3493–3503. 19 indexed citations
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Rego, Adriana, Antonio Fernàndez-Guerra, Pedro Duarte, et al.. (2021). Secondary metabolite biosynthetic diversity in Arctic Ocean metagenomes. Microbial Genomics. 7(12). 13 indexed citations
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Figueiredo, Sandra A. C., et al.. (2020). BrtB is an O-alkylating enzyme that generates fatty acid-bartoloside esters. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1458–1458. 12 indexed citations
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Rego, Adriana, et al.. (2020). Diversity of Bacterial Biosynthetic Genes in Maritime Antarctica. Microorganisms. 8(2). 279–279. 13 indexed citations
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Vieira, Jorge, Cristina P. Vieira, Tao Zhu, et al.. (2020). Comparative Genomics Discloses the Uniqueness and the Biosynthetic Potential of the Marine Cyanobacterium Hyella patelloides. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 1527–1527. 5 indexed citations
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Rouger, Caroline, Nathaniel R. Glasser, Sara Freitas, et al.. (2019). Chemistry, bioactivity and biosynthesis of cyanobacterial alkylresorcinols. Natural Product Reports. 36(10). 1437–1461. 43 indexed citations
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Costa, Margarida, Raquel Castelo‐Branco, Roberta Rezende de Castro, et al.. (2019). Structure of Hierridin C, Synthesis of Hierridins B and C, and Evidence for Prevalent Alkylresorcinol Biosynthesis in Picocyanobacteria. Journal of Natural Products. 82(2). 393–402. 24 indexed citations
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Leão, Pedro N., T. Vasconcelos, & Vı́tor Vasconcelos. (2009). Allelopathic activity of cyanobacteria on green microalgae at low cell densities. European Journal of Phycology. 44(3). 347–355. 49 indexed citations

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