Aaron Tan

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
67 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Aaron Tan is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Surgery and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron Tan has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 18 papers in Surgery and 18 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Aaron Tan's work include Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (13 papers), Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (9 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (8 papers). Aaron Tan is often cited by papers focused on Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (13 papers), Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (9 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (8 papers). Aaron Tan collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Singapore. Aaron Tan's co-authors include Alexander M. Seifalian, Amelia Seifalian, Jayakumar Rajadas, Xing‐Jie Liang, Juan Liu, Shubin Jin, Anil Kumar, Yuran Huang, Anbu Mozhi and Yasmin Farhatnia and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Aaron Tan

65 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

pH-Sensitive nano-systems for drug delivery in cancer therapy

2013 891 citations Juan Liu, Yuran Huang et al. Biotechnology Advances profile →
Conductive Polymers: Opportunities and Challenges in Biomedical Applications

2018 736 citations Aaron Tan, Alexander M. Seifalian et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron Tan United Kingdom	31	1.7k	1.4k	918	916	646	67	4.1k
Tianqing Liu China	39	1.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	956 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	460 0.7×	166	5.0k
Ji Sun Park South Korea	35	1.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	600 0.7×	1.4k 1.5×	741 1.1×	153	4.8k
Chun Mao China	42	2.8k 1.6×	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	1.5k 1.7×	738 1.1×	189	5.9k
Yuhui Li China	34	2.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	602 0.7×	800 0.9×	849 1.3×	170	5.8k
Ying Luo China	38	1.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	1.5k 1.7×	728 1.1×	210	5.3k
Seonki Hong South Korea	26	1.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	853 0.9×	734 0.8×	1.2k 1.8×	53	5.2k
Peter Timashev Russia	36	2.3k 1.3×	1.2k 0.8×	656 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	312 0.5×	426	5.7k
Toru Maekawa Japan	27	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	987 1.1×	871 1.0×	640 1.0×	114	4.2k
Xiaozhong Qiu China	35	2.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	605 0.7×	836 0.9×	285 0.4×	124	4.1k
Lingyu Sun China	46	3.1k 1.8×	964 0.7×	799 0.9×	724 0.8×	726 1.1×	114	6.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Aaron Tan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aaron Tan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Aaron Tan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Aaron Tan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Aaron Tan. Aaron Tan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tan, Aaron, et al.. (2025). Lineage Plasticity and Histologic Transformation in EGFR-TKI Resistant Lung Cancer. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 27(1). 445–445.

Inayathullah, Mohammed, Aaron Tan, Jie Min Lam, et al.. (2016). Self-assembly and sequence length dependence on nanofibrils of polyglutamine peptides. Neuropeptides. 57. 71–83. 4 indexed citations

Farhatnia, Yasmin, et al.. (2015). Next generation covered stents made from nanocomposite materials: A complete assessment of uniformity, integrity and biomechanical properties. Nanomedicine Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine. 12(1). 1–12. 30 indexed citations

Natasha, G, et al.. (2015). Vascularisation in regenerative therapeutics and surgery. Materials Science and Engineering C. 54. 225–238. 10 indexed citations

Bartlett, Richard D., G Natasha, Marilena Loizidou, et al.. (2014). Personalized In Vitro Cancer Modeling — Fantasy or Reality?. Translational Oncology. 7(6). 657–664. 28 indexed citations

Gundogan, Buket, Aaron Tan, Yasmin Farhatnia, et al.. (2014). Bioabsorbable Stent Quo Vadis: A Case for Nano-Theranostics. Theranostics. 4(5). 514–533. 13 indexed citations

Shakib, Kaveh, Aaron Tan, Vukić Šoškić, & Alexander M. Seifalian. (2014). Regenerative nanotechnology in oral and maxillofacial surgery. British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 52(10). 884–893. 9 indexed citations

Tan, Aaron, et al.. (2014). Enhancing the electrical conductivity of a hybrid POSS–PCL/graphene nanocomposite polymer. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 435. 145–155. 37 indexed citations

Kumar, Anil, Shuaidong Huo, Xu Zhang, et al.. (2014). Neuropilin-1-Targeted Gold Nanoparticles Enhance Therapeutic Efficacy of Platinum(IV) Drug for Prostate Cancer Treatment. ACS Nano. 8(5). 4205–4220. 140 indexed citations

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Natasha, G, Buket Gundogan, Aaron Tan, et al.. (2014). Exosomes as Immunotheranostic Nanoparticles. Clinical Therapeutics. 36(6). 820–829. 89 indexed citations

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Sivanesan, Senthilkumar, Aaron Tan, & Jayakumar Rajadas. (2013). Pathogenesis of Abeta Oligomers in Synaptic Failure. Current Alzheimer Research. 10(3). 316–323. 68 indexed citations

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Liu, Juan, Yuran Huang, Anil Kumar, et al.. (2013). pH-Sensitive nano-systems for drug delivery in cancer therapy. Biotechnology Advances. 32(4). 693–710. 891 indexed citations breakdown →

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Farhatnia, Yasmin, et al.. (2013). Evolution of covered stents in the contemporary era: clinical application, materials and manufacturing strategies using nanotechnology. Biotechnology Advances. 31(5). 524–542. 75 indexed citations

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Rajadas, Jayakumar, Wenchao Sun, Hai Li, et al.. (2013). Enhanced Aβ1–40 Production in Endothelial Cells Stimulated with Fibrillar Aβ1–42. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e58194–e58194. 13 indexed citations

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Tan, Aaron, Yasmin Farhatnia, Achala de Mel, et al.. (2013). Inception to actualization: Next generation coronary stent coatings incorporating nanotechnology. Journal of Biotechnology. 164(1). 151–170. 55 indexed citations

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Tan, Aaron, Seyed Yazdan Madani, Jayakumar Rajadas, Giorgia Pastorin, & Alexander M. Seifalian. (2012). Synergistic photothermal ablative effects of functionalizing carbon nanotubes with a POSS-PCU nanocomposite polymer. Journal of Nanobiotechnology. 10(1). 34–34. 30 indexed citations

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Zhao, Chunyan, Aaron Tan, Giorgia Pastorin, & Han Kiat Ho. (2012). Nanomaterial scaffolds for stem cell proliferation and differentiation in tissue engineering. Biotechnology Advances. 31(5). 654–668. 197 indexed citations

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Tan, Aaron, Jayakumar Rajadas, & Alexander M. Seifalian. (2012). Exosomes as nano-theranostic delivery platforms for gene therapy. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 65(3). 357–367. 206 indexed citations

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Tan, Aaron, Janakiraman Balachandran, Seid Sadat, et al.. (2011). Effect of Length and Contact Chemistry on the Electronic Structure and Thermoelectric Properties of Molecular Junctions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(23). 8838–8841. 154 indexed citations

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Tan, Aaron & Robin R. Richards. (1989). Pseudo-shading technique in the two-dimensional domain: A post-processing algorithm for enhancing theZ-buffer of a three-dimensional binary image. Medical Informatics. 14(2). 149–156. 2 indexed citations

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