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Researcher · Purdue University West Lafayette · United States

Nikolaos A. Peppas

Nikolaos A. Peppas publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Polymers and Plastics and Molecular Medicine, on topics such as Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications, Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization and Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties.

OpenAlex
World rank
#24,872
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#9,258
of 1,627,098
Works
353
Citations
50k
Citations per work
142.8
h-index
96
i10-index 262Top 0.1% in Organic Chemistry
Nikolaos A. Peppas

What does Nikolaos A. Peppas research?

Nikolaos A. Peppas's work is mostly in Chemistry (15%), Materials Science (14%), Engineering (13%).

Physical Sciences: 146 works · 41.3% of their workChemistry: 53 works · 14.9% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 53 works · 14.9% of their workMaterials Science: 49 works · 13.8% of their workPolymers and Plastics: 49 works · 13.8% of their workEngineering: 44 works · 12.6% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 27 works · 7.7% of their workMechanical Engineering: 17 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 137 works · 38.8% of their workLife Sciences: 70 works · 19.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 37 works · 10.4% of their workMolecular Medicine: 37 works · 10.4% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 34 works · 9.5% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 34 works · 9.5% of their workTHEIR WORKNikolaos A.Peppas353works
Life Sciences20%Physical Sciences41%

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. Chemistry5314.9%
    2. Materials Science4913.8%
    3. Engineering4412.6%
  2. Everything else13738.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3710.4%
    2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics349.5%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry15% of their works
  2. 2Polymers and Plastics14% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Medicine10% of their works
  4. 4Pharmaceutical Science10% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering8% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nikolaos A. Peppas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Drug Delivery, Nanoparticles, Biomedical Applications, Micelles, Self-Assembly, Hydrogels, Tissue Engineering and Click Chemistry.

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 Delivery1422 topics
  2. Nanoparticles1283 topics
  3. Biomedical Applications1262 topics
  4. Micelles1222 topics
  5. Self-Assembly1222 topics
  6. Hydrogels1021 topic
  7. Tissue Engineering1021 topic
  8. Click Chemistry881 topic
  9. Living Radical Polymerization881 topic
  10. Nanocomposites451 topic
  11. Polymer451 topic
  12. Polymer Blends431 topic
  13. Polymer Crystallization431 topic
  14. Cyclodextrins411 topic
  15. Solid Dispersions411 topic
  16. Chitosan401 topic
  17. Mucosal401 topic
  18. Surfactants341 topic
  19. Wormlike micelles341 topic
  20. Mussel-Inspired241 topic
  21. Surface Chemistry241 topic

Where does Nikolaos A. Peppas work?

Nikolaos A. Peppas's main affiliation in the publication record is Purdue University West Lafayette, United States.

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

OpenAlex counts 353 works and 50,426 citations for Nikolaos A. Peppas, an h-index of 96, ranking #24,872 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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