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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Tzer Han Tan

Tzer Han Tan publishes mostly in Cell Biology, Condensed Matter Physics and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, Micro and Nano Robotics and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence.

ORCID 0000-0001-6246-882X OpenAlex
World rank
#2,066,612
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#625,019
of 1,627,098
Works
28
Citations
645
Citations per work
23.0
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 74% in Cell Biology
Tzer Han Tan

What does Tzer Han Tan research?

Tzer Han Tan's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (22%), Physics and Astronomy (10%), Engineering (9%).

Everything else: 13 works · 47.4% of their workLife Sciences: 9 works · 33.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 6 works · 21.8% of their workCell Biology: 4 works · 12.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 3 works · 9.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 6.4% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 works · 6.4% of their workNeuroscience: 1 works · 5.1% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 1 works · 5.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 19.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 works · 10.3% of their workCondensed Matter Physics: 3 works · 10.3% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 9.0% of their workMechanical Engineering: 3 works · 9.0% of their workTHEIR WORKTzer Han Tan28works
Life Sciences33%Physical Sciences19%

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 else1347.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology621.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences26.4%
    3. Neuroscience15.1%
    1. Physics and Astronomy310.3%
    2. Engineering39.0%
  1. 1Cell Biology13% of their works
  2. 2Condensed Matter Physics10% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology9% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  6. 6Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tzer Han Tan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colloidal Particles, Self-Assembly, Cell Mechanics, Extracellular Matrix, Hydrodynamics, Micro/Nanomotors, Modular Robots and Self-Reconfiguration.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Colloidal Particles122 topics
  2. Self-Assembly92 topics
  3. Cell Mechanics81 topic
  4. Extracellular Matrix81 topic
  5. Hydrodynamics81 topic
  6. Micro/Nanomotors81 topic
  7. Modular Robots51 topic
  8. Self-Reconfiguration51 topic
  9. Emulsions41 topic
  10. Surfactants41 topic
  11. Camouflage31 topic
  12. Cephalopods31 topic
  13. Channelrhodopsin31 topic
  14. Fluctuation Theorems31 topic
  15. Optogenetics31 topic
  16. Stochastic Thermodynamics31 topic
  17. Biological Soil Crusts21 topic
  18. Cyanobacteria21 topic

Where does Tzer Han Tan work?

Tzer Han Tan's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Tzer Han Tan have?

OpenAlex counts 28 works and 645 citations for Tzer Han Tan, an h-index of 9, ranking #2,066,612 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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