Sean P. Leonard

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Sean P. Leonard is a scholar working on Genetics, Insect Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean P. Leonard has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Genetics, 14 papers in Insect Science and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sean P. Leonard's work include Insect and Pesticide Research (11 papers), Plant and animal studies (9 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (9 papers). Sean P. Leonard is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Pesticide Research (11 papers), Plant and animal studies (9 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (9 papers). Sean P. Leonard collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Canada. Sean P. Leonard's co-authors include Nancy A. Moran, J. Elijah Powell, Jeffrey E. Barrick, Erick V. S. Motta, Richard D. Horak, Hao Zheng, Margaret I. Steele, Bryan W. Davies, Peng Geng and Yiyuan Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sean P. Leonard

22 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Honey bees as models for gut microbiota research

2018 222 citations Hao Zheng, Margaret I. Steele et al. Lab Animal profile →
Engineered symbionts activate honey bee immunity and limit pathogens

2020 175 citations Sean P. Leonard, J. Elijah Powell et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean P. Leonard United States	15	812	584	520	373	86	24	1.2k
Araceli Lamelas Spain	19	684 0.8×	167 0.3×	132 0.3×	263 0.7×	230 2.7×	38	1.2k
Evelyn Zientz Germany	9	544 0.7×	410 0.7×	116 0.2×	333 0.9×	143 1.7×	9	1.0k
Tomáš Erban Czechia	26	1.3k 1.6×	524 0.9×	678 1.3×	142 0.4×	248 2.9×	79	1.6k
Carolina Concha United States	17	327 0.4×	242 0.4×	120 0.2×	399 1.1×	52 0.6×	26	972
Xingmeng Lu China	19	865 1.1×	162 0.3×	85 0.2×	326 0.9×	210 2.4×	40	1.3k
Paul A. Wilkinson United Kingdom	23	245 0.3×	652 1.1×	138 0.3×	411 1.1×	1000 11.6×	45	1.8k
Rita V. M. Rio United States	20	846 1.0×	142 0.2×	103 0.2×	216 0.6×	139 1.6×	37	1.2k
Bok Luel Lee South Korea	20	758 0.9×	147 0.3×	81 0.2×	158 0.4×	226 2.6×	26	967
Daniel Tamarit Netherlands	13	189 0.2×	156 0.3×	156 0.3×	351 0.9×	247 2.9×	22	735
Paola Varricchio Italy	20	1.7k 2.1×	952 1.6×	916 1.8×	398 1.1×	394 4.6×	26	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean P. Leonard

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20 of 20 papers shown

Navarro-Escalante, Lucio, et al.. (2025). Protecting honey bees through microbiome engineering. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 72. 101416–101416. 1 indexed citations

Leonard, Sean P., et al.. (2024). Measuring the burden of hundreds of BioBricks defines an evolutionary limit on constructability in synthetic biology. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6242–6242. 12 indexed citations

Martí, Jose Manuel, Chloe Hsu, Charlotte Rochereau, et al.. (2024). GENTANGLE: integrated computational design of gene entanglements. Bioinformatics. 40(7). 1 indexed citations

Chlebek, Jennifer L., Sean P. Leonard, Mimi C. Yung, et al.. (2023). Prolonging genetic circuit stability through adaptive evolution of overlapping genes. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(13). 7094–7108. 14 indexed citations

Leonard, Sean P., et al.. (2023). The Pathfinder plasmid toolkit for genetically engineering newly isolated bacteria enables the study of Drosophila-colonizing Orbaceae. ISME Communications. 3(1). 49–49. 5 indexed citations

Leonard, Sean P., et al.. (2023). HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: It is time to consider harm reduction care for adolescents in Canada. Paediatrics & Child Health. 28(6). 338–343.

Lariviere, Patrick J., Sean P. Leonard, Richard D. Horak, J. Elijah Powell, & Jeffrey E. Barrick. (2022). Honey bee functional genomics using symbiont-mediated RNAi. Nature Protocols. 18(3). 902–928. 25 indexed citations

Motta, Erick V. S., J. Elijah Powell, Sean P. Leonard, & Nancy A. Moran. (2022). Prospects for probiotics in social bees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1853). 20210156–20210156. 50 indexed citations

Leonard, Sean P., et al.. (2021). Engineering insects from the endosymbiont out. Trends in Microbiology. 30(1). 79–96. 28 indexed citations

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Powell, J. Elijah, et al.. (2021). Field-Realistic Tylosin Exposure Impacts Honey Bee Microbiota and Pathogen Susceptibility, Which Is Ameliorated by Native Gut Probiotics. Microbiology Spectrum. 9(1). e0010321–e0010321. 38 indexed citations

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Horak, Richard D., Sean P. Leonard, & Nancy A. Moran. (2020). Symbionts shape host innate immunity in honeybees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1933). 20201184–20201184. 91 indexed citations

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Leonard, Sean P., et al.. (2020). Rapid and assured genetic engineering methods applied to Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 genome streamlining. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(8). 4585–4600. 14 indexed citations

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Leonard, Sean P., J. Elijah Powell, Jiřı́ Perůtka, et al.. (2020). Engineered symbionts activate honey bee immunity and limit pathogens. Science. 367(6477). 573–576. 175 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tucker, Ashley T., Sean P. Leonard, Audrey Knauf, et al.. (2018). Discovery of Next-Generation Antimicrobials through Bacterial Self-Screening of Surface-Displayed Peptide Libraries. Cell. 172(3). 618–628.e13. 115 indexed citations

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Zheng, Hao, Margaret I. Steele, Sean P. Leonard, Erick V. S. Motta, & Nancy A. Moran. (2018). Honey bees as models for gut microbiota research. Lab Animal. 47(11). 317–325. 222 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leonard, Sean P., Jiřı́ Perůtka, J. Elijah Powell, et al.. (2018). Genetic Engineering of Bee Gut Microbiome Bacteria with a Toolkit for Modular Assembly of Broad-Host-Range Plasmids. ACS Synthetic Biology. 7(5). 1279–1290. 88 indexed citations

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Powell, J. Elijah, Sean P. Leonard, Waldan K. Kwong, Philipp Engel, & Nancy A. Moran. (2016). Genome-wide screen identifies host colonization determinants in a bacterial gut symbiont. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(48). 13887–13892. 112 indexed citations

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Leonard, Sean P., et al.. (2016). Rapid and Inexpensive Evaluation of Nonstandard Amino Acid Incorporation in Escherichia coli. ACS Synthetic Biology. 6(1). 45–54. 27 indexed citations

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Leonard, Sean P., et al.. (2015). Predicting the Genetic Stability of Engineered DNA Sequences with the EFM Calculator. ACS Synthetic Biology. 4(8). 939–943. 61 indexed citations

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Leonard, Sean P., Charles R. Breese, Judith Gault, et al.. (1998). Schizophrenia and nicotinic receptors: Gene expression and genetic linkage studies. European Neuropsychopharmacology. 8. S130–S131. 1 indexed citations

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