Roberto De Philippis

9.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
132 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

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Roberto De Philippis is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto De Philippis has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 59 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 45 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Roberto De Philippis's work include Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (75 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (58 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (45 papers). Roberto De Philippis is often cited by papers focused on Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology (75 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (58 papers) and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics (45 papers). Roberto De Philippis collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Portugal and China. Roberto De Philippis's co-authors include Federico Rossi, Massimo Vincenzini, Alessandra Adessi, Ernesto Micheletti, Claudio Sili, Giovanni Colica, Paula Tamagnini, Sara B. Pereira, Gianmarco Mugnai and Raffaella Paperi and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Bioresource Technology.

In The Last Decade

Roberto De Philippis

130 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Complexity of cyanobacterial exopolysaccharides: composition, structures, inducing factors and putative genes involved in their biosynthesis and assembly

2009 502 citations Sara B. Pereira, Roberto De Philippis et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roberto De Philippis Italy	47	3.1k	2.6k	2.3k	1.1k	1.0k	132	7.2k
Yongding Liu China	45	2.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	3.3k 1.4×	606 0.6×	905 0.9×	190	5.8k
Ulf Karsten Germany	60	4.2k 1.4×	3.8k 1.4×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	3.7k 3.6×	356	11.9k
Linda A. Lawton United Kingdom	43	1.1k 0.4×	1.2k 0.5×	3.5k 1.5×	401 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	139	5.9k
Michael A. Borowitzka Australia	50	794 0.3×	6.3k 2.4×	1.7k 0.7×	1.8k 1.7×	1.6k 1.6×	128	9.9k
Blahoslav Maršálek Czechia	40	947 0.3×	893 0.3×	3.1k 1.3×	493 0.5×	982 1.0×	141	6.8k
Stephan Pflugmacher Germany	53	2.2k 0.7×	614 0.2×	4.9k 2.1×	898 0.8×	1.7k 1.6×	193	8.9k
Koenraad Muylaert Belgium	58	459 0.1×	6.3k 2.4×	2.8k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	2.2k 2.2×	211	12.0k
Dieter Hanelt Germany	49	1.6k 0.5×	2.5k 1.0×	720 0.3×	673 0.6×	1.8k 1.7×	142	6.5k
Luz E. de‐Bashan United States	43	415 0.1×	4.1k 1.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	945 0.9×	97	9.8k
Ming Li China	42	633 0.2×	604 0.2×	1.8k 0.8×	319 0.3×	1.2k 1.2×	303	6.2k

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Pereira, Sara B., et al.. (2023). Phormidium ambiguum and Leptolyngbya ohadii Exopolysaccharides under Low Water Availability. Polymers. 15(8). 1889–1889. 9 indexed citations

Mota, Rita, Raquel T. Lima, Carlos Flores, et al.. (2023). Assessing the Antitumor Potential of Variants of the Extracellular Carbohydrate Polymer from Synechocystis ΔsigF Mutant. Polymers. 15(6). 1382–1382.

Olguín, Eugenia J., Gloria Sánchez‐Galván, Imilla I. Arias‐Olguín, et al.. (2022). Microalgae-Based Biorefineries: Challenges and Future Trends to Produce Carbohydrate Enriched Biomass, High-Added Value Products and Bioactive Compounds. Biology. 11(8). 1146–1146. 65 indexed citations

Chen, Youxin, Gongliang Yu, Federico Rossi, et al.. (2021). Multiple diversity facets of crucial microbial groups in biological soil crusts promote soil multifunctionality. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(6). 1204–1217. 22 indexed citations

Adessi, Alessandra, Roberto De Philippis, & Federico Rossi. (2021). Drought-tolerant cyanobacteria and mosses as biotechnological tools to attain land degradation neutrality. Web Ecology. 21(1). 65–78. 25 indexed citations

Adessi, Alessandra, Fabiana Ribeiro Caldara, Mattia Furlan, et al.. (2020). Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Exopolysaccharides from Phormidium sp. ETS05, the Most Abundant Cyanobacterium of the Therapeutic Euganean Thermal Muds, Using the Zebrafish Model. Biomolecules. 10(4). 582–582. 47 indexed citations

Román, Raúl, Sonia Chamizo, Beatriz Roncero‐Ramos, et al.. (2020). Overcoming field barriers to restore dryland soils by cyanobacteria inoculation. Soil and Tillage Research. 207. 104799–104799. 29 indexed citations

Chamizo, Sonia, Alessandra Adessi, Giuseppe Torzillo, & Roberto De Philippis. (2020). Exopolysaccharide Features Influence Growth Success in Biocrust-forming Cyanobacteria, Moving From Liquid Culture to Sand Microcosms. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 568224–568224. 38 indexed citations

Chamizo, Sonia, Alessandra Adessi, Giacomo Certini, & Roberto De Philippis. (2019). Cyanobacteria inoculation as a potential tool for stabilization of burned soils. Restoration Ecology. 28(S2). 39 indexed citations

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Mota, Rita, Carlos Flores, Alessandra Adessi, et al.. (2019). Cyanoflan: A cyanobacterial sulfated carbohydrate polymer with emulsifying properties. Carbohydrate Polymers. 229. 115525–115525. 40 indexed citations

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Flores, Carlos, Marina Santos, Sara B. Pereira, et al.. (2018). The alternative sigma factor SigF is a key player in the control of secretion mechanisms in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Environmental Microbiology. 21(1). 343–359. 25 indexed citations

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Mugnai, Gianmarco, Federico Rossi, Vincent J.M.N.L. Felde, et al.. (2018). The potential of the cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya ohadii as inoculum for stabilizing bare sandy substrates. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 127. 318–328. 68 indexed citations

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Adessi, Alessandra, Manuel Venturi, Francesco Candeliere, et al.. (2018). Bread wastes to energy: Sequential lactic and photo-fermentation for hydrogen production. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 43(20). 9569–9576. 65 indexed citations

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Adessi, Alessandra, Ricardo Cruz de Carvalho, Roberto De Philippis, Cristina Branquinho, & Jorge Marques da Silva. (2017). Microbial extracellular polymeric substances improve water retention in dryland biological soil crusts. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 116. 67–69. 152 indexed citations

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Adessi, Alessandra, et al.. (2017). Biotransformation of water lettuce ( Pistia stratiotes ) to biohydrogen by Rhodopseudomonas palustris. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 123(6). 1438–1446. 10 indexed citations

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Dragoni, Federico, et al.. (2016). Energy conversion of biomass crops and agroindustrial residues by combined biohydrogen/biomethane system and anaerobic digestion. Bioresource Technology. 211. 509–518. 40 indexed citations

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Philippis, Roberto De. (2015). The stability and the hydrological behavior of biological soil crusts is significantly affected by the complex nature of their polysaccharidic matrix. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 3513. 1 indexed citations

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Adessi, Alessandra & Roberto De Philippis. (2014). Photobioreactor design and illumination systems for H2 production with anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria: A review. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 39(7). 3127–3141. 113 indexed citations

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Campa‐Córdova, Ángel I., Norma Y. Hernández‐Saavedra, Roberto De Philippis, & Felipe Ascencio. (2002). Generation of superoxide anion and SOD activity in haemocytes and muscle of American white shrimp ( ) as a response to β-glucan and sulphated polysaccharide. Fish & Shellfish Immunology. 12(4). 353–366. 226 indexed citations

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Philippis, Roberto De, et al.. (1994). Cinetiche di fermentazione e caratteristiche enologiche di lieviti vinari fermentanti a bassa temperatura.. Florence Research (University of Florence).

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