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Researcher · The University of Texas at Austin · United States

Nicholas A. Peppas

Nicholas A. Peppas publishes mostly in Biomedical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Science and Molecular Medicine, on topics such as Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications, Advanced Drug Delivery Systems and Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization.

ORCID 0000-0003-0894-5626 OpenAlex
World rank
#63,931
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#24,616
of 1,627,098
Works
534
Citations
67k
Citations per work
125.7
h-index
108
i10-index 354Top 0.1% in Biomedical Engineering
Nicholas A. Peppas

What does Nicholas A. Peppas research?

Nicholas A. Peppas's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (18%), Engineering (14%), Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (10%).

Everything else: 216 works · 40.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 169 works · 31.6% of their workEngineering: 74 works · 13.8% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 74 works · 13.8% of their workMaterials Science: 53 works · 10.0% of their workBiomaterials: 53 works · 10.0% of their workChemistry: 42 works · 7.8% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 42 works · 7.8% of their workLife Sciences: 150 works · 28.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 94 works · 17.6% of their workMolecular Medicine: 54 works · 10.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 40 works · 7.5% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 56 works · 10.4% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 56 works · 10.4% of their workTHEIR WORKNicholas A.Peppas534works
Life Sciences28%Physical Sciences32%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
  1. Everything else21640.4%
    1. Engineering7413.8%
    2. Materials Science5310.0%
    3. Chemistry427.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology9417.6%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics5610.4%
  1. 1Biomedical Engineering14% of their works
  2. 2Pharmaceutical Science10% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Medicine10% of their works
  4. 4Biomaterials10% of their works
  5. 5Organic Chemistry8% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nicholas A. Peppas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Drug Delivery, Biomedical Applications, Hydrogels, Tissue Engineering, Nanoparticles, Scaffold Design, Stimuli-Responsive Polymers and Chitosan.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Drug Delivery3073 topics
  2. Biomedical Applications2092 topics
  3. Hydrogels1962 topics
  4. Tissue Engineering1962 topics
  5. Nanoparticles1662 topics
  6. Scaffold Design1411 topic
  7. Stimuli-Responsive Polymers1411 topic
  8. Chitosan981 topic
  9. Mucosal981 topic
  10. Cancer Therapy681 topic
  11. Click Chemistry681 topic
  12. Living Radical Polymerization681 topic
  13. Nanocarriers681 topic
  14. Bioprinting551 topic
  15. Microfluidic Devices551 topic
  16. Lab-on-a-Chip421 topic
  17. Poly(dimethylsiloxane)421 topic
  18. Cyclodextrins411 topic
  19. Solid Dispersions411 topic
  20. RNA Interference391 topic
  21. siRNA Delivery391 topic

Where does Nicholas A. Peppas work?

Nicholas A. Peppas's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Texas at Austin, United States.

How many publications and citations does Nicholas A. Peppas have?

OpenAlex counts 534 works and 67,134 citations for Nicholas A. Peppas, an h-index of 108, ranking #63,931 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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