Sammy Pontrelli

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sammy Pontrelli is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sammy Pontrelli has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Sammy Pontrelli's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (4 papers). Sammy Pontrelli is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (4 papers). Sammy Pontrelli collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Japan. Sammy Pontrelli's co-authors include James C. Liao, Shanshan Luo, Pei‐Ching Chang, Ethan I. Lan, Frederic Y.-H. Chen, Uwe Sauer, Sastia Prama Putri, Eiichiro Fukusaki, Walter A. Laviña and Julia Schwartzman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Sammy Pontrelli

20 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Fuelling the future: microbial engineering for the production of sustainable biofuels
    2016 430 citations James C. Liao, Sammy Pontrelli et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sammy Pontrelli United States 12 790 416 137 117 117 20 1.1k
Xiaoxia Nina Lin United States 20 970 1.2× 861 2.1× 175 1.3× 201 1.7× 199 1.7× 35 1.7k
Hiroshi Nonaka Japan 14 628 0.8× 516 1.2× 64 0.5× 177 1.5× 97 0.8× 50 1.1k
Daniel C. Volke Denmark 18 923 1.2× 250 0.6× 115 0.8× 236 2.0× 40 0.3× 37 1.2k
Lars Regestein Germany 21 697 0.9× 418 1.0× 60 0.4× 71 0.6× 43 0.4× 60 1.1k
Peter I. Benke United States 20 823 1.0× 607 1.5× 105 0.8× 145 1.2× 48 0.4× 32 1.4k
Yingfeng An China 18 493 0.6× 186 0.4× 133 1.0× 54 0.5× 189 1.6× 52 978
Swapnil R. Chhabra United States 18 1.0k 1.3× 627 1.5× 125 0.9× 140 1.2× 113 1.0× 24 1.5k
Shih‐I Tan Taiwan 19 715 0.9× 188 0.5× 44 0.3× 97 0.8× 401 3.4× 36 997
Melinda E. Clark United States 11 419 0.5× 226 0.5× 102 0.7× 55 0.5× 25 0.2× 13 668

Countries citing papers authored by Sammy Pontrelli

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sammy Pontrelli

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sammy Pontrelli. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sammy Pontrelli. The network helps show where Sammy Pontrelli may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sammy Pontrelli

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sammy Pontrelli. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sammy Pontrelli based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sammy Pontrelli. Sammy Pontrelli is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pontrelli, Sammy & Uwe Sauer. (2025). Polysaccharide quantification using microbial enzyme cocktails. Biology Methods and Protocols. 10(1). bpaf014–bpaf014. 1 indexed citations
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Pontrelli, Sammy, Andreas Sichert, Adriano Rutz, et al.. (2025). Degradation of extracellular polymeric substances shapes microbial community diversity. PLoS Biology. 23(7). e3003287–e3003287. 1 indexed citations
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Keegstra, Johannes M., Julia Schwartzman, Sammy Pontrelli, et al.. (2024). Polysaccharide breakdown products drive degradation-dispersal cycles of foraging bacteria through changes in metabolism and motility. eLife. 13. 6 indexed citations
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Landry, Zachary, et al.. (2024). High-throughput profiling of metabolic responses to exogenous nutrients in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. mSystems. 9(4). e0022724–e0022724. 3 indexed citations
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Raina, Jean‐Baptiste, Johannes M. Keegstra, Zachary Landry, et al.. (2023). Strong chemotaxis by marine bacteria towards polysaccharides is enhanced by the abundant organosulfur compound DMSP. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8080–8080. 22 indexed citations
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Amarnath, Kapil, Sammy Pontrelli, Jiajia Dong, et al.. (2023). Stress-induced metabolic exchanges between complementary bacterial types underly a dynamic mechanism of inter-species stress resistance. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3165–3165. 37 indexed citations
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Szabo, Rachel E., Sammy Pontrelli, Jacopo Grilli, et al.. (2022). Historical contingencies and phage induction diversify bacterioplankton communities at the microscale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(30). e2117748119–e2117748119. 18 indexed citations
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Pontrelli, Sammy, Rachel E. Szabo, Shaul Pollak, et al.. (2022). Metabolic cross-feeding structures the assembly of polysaccharide degrading communities. Science Advances. 8(8). eabk3076–eabk3076. 60 indexed citations
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Pontrelli, Sammy, Walter A. Laviña, Claire R. Shen, et al.. (2022). Metabolomics-Driven Identification of the Rate-Limiting Steps in 1-Propanol Production. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 871624–871624. 6 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Jen, Vicente I. Fernandez, Sammy Pontrelli, et al.. (2021). A distinct growth physiology enhances bacterial growth under rapid nutrient fluctuations. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3662–3662. 58 indexed citations
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Pontrelli, Sammy & Uwe Sauer. (2021). Salt-Tolerant Metabolomics for Exometabolomic Measurements of Marine Bacterial Isolates. Analytical Chemistry. 93(19). 7164–7171. 6 indexed citations
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Pontrelli, Sammy, Shao Thing Teoh, Walter A. Laviña, et al.. (2018). Metabolic repair through emergence of new pathways in Escherichia coli. Nature Chemical Biology. 14(11). 1005–1009. 25 indexed citations
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Putri, Sastia Prama, Yasumune Nakayama, Claire R. Shen, et al.. (2018). Identifying metabolic elements that contribute to productivity of 1-propanol bioproduction using metabolomic analysis. Metabolomics. 14(7). 96–96. 1 indexed citations
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Pontrelli, Sammy, Sastia Prama Putri, Sorel Fitz‐Gibbon, et al.. (2018). Directed strain evolution restructures metabolism for 1-butanol production in minimal media. Metabolic Engineering. 49. 153–163. 20 indexed citations
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Pontrelli, Sammy, et al.. (2018). Escherichia coli as a host for metabolic engineering. Metabolic Engineering. 50. 16–46. 278 indexed citations
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Pontrelli, Sammy, et al.. (2017). Metabolomics-driven approach to solving a CoA imbalance for improved 1-butanol production in Escherichia coli. Metabolic Engineering. 41. 135–143. 71 indexed citations
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Liao, James C., et al.. (2016). Fuelling the future: microbial engineering for the production of sustainable biofuels. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 14(5). 288–304. 430 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wernick, David G., et al.. (2016). Sustainable biorefining in wastewater by engineered extreme alkaliphile Bacillus marmarensis. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 20224–20224. 32 indexed citations

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