Scott Banta

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
135 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Scott Banta is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Banta has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Molecular Biology, 40 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 23 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Scott Banta's work include Metal Extraction and Bioleaching (30 papers), Extraction and Separation Processes (23 papers) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (20 papers). Scott Banta is often cited by papers focused on Metal Extraction and Bioleaching (30 papers), Extraction and Separation Processes (23 papers) and Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (20 papers). Scott Banta collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. Scott Banta's co-authors include Ian Wheeldon, Plamen Atanassov, Shelley D. Minteer, Scott Calabrese Barton, Alan C. West, Donald M. Cropek, Mark Blenner, Matthew S. Sigman, Elliot Campbell and Kevin Dooley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Scott Banta

128 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Substrate channelling as an approach to cascade reactions

2016 560 citations Shelley D. Minteer, Scott Banta et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott Banta United States	35	2.2k	922	891	594	457	135	3.9k
Byoung Chan Kim South Korea	43	2.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	1.6k 1.9×	1.6k 2.6×	292 0.6×	125	5.7k
Peter Gemeiner Slovakia	34	2.4k 1.1×	887 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	233 0.4×	185 0.4×	197	4.5k
Bin Deng China	35	1.5k 0.7×	875 0.9×	950 1.1×	1.2k 2.0×	106 0.2×	125	4.4k
Woo‐Seok Choe South Korea	29	989 0.4×	510 0.6×	619 0.7×	326 0.5×	280 0.6×	66	2.3k
Huajie Liu China	41	3.9k 1.8×	907 1.0×	1.9k 2.2×	1.4k 2.3×	113 0.2×	145	6.2k
Diannan Lu China	35	1.3k 0.6×	705 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	917 1.5×	69 0.2×	150	3.7k
Na Lü China	46	2.4k 1.1×	1.8k 1.9×	2.1k 2.3×	1.7k 2.8×	244 0.5×	144	6.1k
Per‐Olof Larsson Sweden	38	1.9k 0.8×	558 0.6×	752 0.8×	1.0k 1.7×	90 0.2×	98	3.9k
Matthias Franzreb Germany	30	1000 0.5×	531 0.6×	1.2k 1.4×	900 1.5×	64 0.1×	185	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Banta

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Farinato, Raymond S., et al.. (2025). The outer membrane in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans enables high tolerance to rare earth elements. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(5). e0245024–e0245024.

Wang, Zeyu, et al.. (2025). Fast and Selective Leaching of Pyrrhotite in the Presence of Pentlandite. ACS Sustainable Resource Management. 2(11). 2283–2291.

Banta, Scott, et al.. (2025). Biotechnological solutions for critical mineral recovery from unconventional feedstocks. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 95. 103336–103336.

Kucharzyk, Katarzyna H., et al.. (2025). Reducing binding site heterogeneity via truncation of the RTX domain enhances selectivity for rare earth element separation. Chemical Communications. 61(76). 14629–14632.

Jung, Heejung, et al.. (2025). Overexpression of sulfide:quinone reductase (SQR) in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans enhances sulfur, pyrite, and pyrrhotite oxidation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(4). e0017025–e0017025.

Jung, Heejung, et al.. (2024). Overexpression of a Designed Mutant Oxyanion Binding Protein ModA/WtpA in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans for the Low pH Recovery of Molybdenum and Rhenium. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(8). 2957–2965. 2 indexed citations

Donovan, Brian, et al.. (2024). Leaching Mechanism for Chalcopyrite in Electrochemically Regenerated Vanadium(II). ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 12(43). 15913–15922. 2 indexed citations

Jung, Heejung, et al.. (2023). The Reductive Leaching of Chalcopyrite by Chromium(II) Chloride for the Rapid and Complete Extraction of Copper. ChemistryOpen. 12(1). e202200196–e202200196. 5 indexed citations

Jung, Heejung, et al.. (2023). Overexpression of quorum sensing genes in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans enhances cell attachment and covellite bioleaching. Biotechnology Reports. 38. e00789–e00789. 18 indexed citations

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Farinato, Raymond S., et al.. (2022). Vanadium (II) Sulfate for the Reductive Leaching of Chalcopyrite: Replacing Smelting with Electrolysis for Copper Production. ChemElectroChem. 9(24). 6 indexed citations

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Bulutoglu, Beyza & Scott Banta. (2019). Calcium-Dependent RTX Domains in the Development of Protein Hydrogels. Gels. 5(1). 10–10. 4 indexed citations

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Bulutoglu, Beyza, Florika C. Macazo, Jacob B. Bale, et al.. (2019). Multimerization of an Alcohol Dehydrogenase by Fusion to a Designed Self-Assembling Protein Results in Enhanced Bioelectrocatalytic Operational Stability. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(22). 20022–20028. 9 indexed citations

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Lin, Xia, Khiem Nguyen, Yaovi Holade, et al.. (2017). Improving the Performance of Methanol Biofuel Cells Utilizing an Enzyme Cascade Bioanode with DNA-Bridged Substrate Channeling. ACS Energy Letters. 2(6). 1435–1438. 30 indexed citations

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Bulutoglu, Beyza & Scott Banta. (2017). Block V RTX Domain of Adenylate Cyclase from Bordetella pertussis: A Conformationally Dynamic Scaffold for Protein Engineering Applications. Toxins. 9(9). 289–289. 9 indexed citations

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Campbell, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2012). Modular exchange of substrate-binding loops alters both substrate and cofactor specificity in a member of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 26(3). 181–186. 27 indexed citations

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Szilvay, Géza R., Dmitri Ivnitski, Carol Li, et al.. (2011). Engineering of a redox protein for DNA-directed assembly. Chemical Communications. 47(26). 7464–7464. 5 indexed citations

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Simon, Melissa J., et al.. (2010). Increased delivery of TAT across an endothelial monolayer following ischemic injury. Neuroscience Letters. 486(1). 1–4. 21 indexed citations

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Chockalingam, Karuppiah, Hoang D. Lu, & Scott Banta. (2009). Development of a bacteriophage-based system for the selection of structured peptides. Analytical Biochemistry. 388(1). 122–127. 2 indexed citations

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Chockalingam, Karuppiah, Mark Blenner, & Scott Banta. (2007). Design and application of stimulus-responsive peptide systems. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 20(4). 155–161. 83 indexed citations

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Banta, Scott, Tadaaki Yokoyama, François Berthiaume, & Martin L. Yarmush. (2005). Effects of Dehydroepiandrosterone Administration on Rat Hepatic Metabolism Following Thermal Injury. Journal of Surgical Research. 127(2). 93–105. 22 indexed citations

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