Aldo R. Boccaccini

88.0k total citations · 16 hit papers
1.4k papers, 69.7k citations indexed

About

Aldo R. Boccaccini is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Biomaterials and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Aldo R. Boccaccini has authored 1.4k papers receiving a total of 69.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 912 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 375 papers in Biomaterials and 263 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Aldo R. Boccaccini's work include Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (765 papers), Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes (222 papers) and Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (186 papers). Aldo R. Boccaccini is often cited by papers focused on Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (765 papers), Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes (222 papers) and Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications (186 papers). Aldo R. Boccaccini collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Italy. Aldo R. Boccaccini's co-authors include Judith A. Roether, Jonny J. Blaker, Rainer Detsch, Alexander Hoppe, Kurosch Rezwan, Sannakaisa Virtanen, Kai Zheng, Nusret S. Güldal, Viviana Mouriño and Milo S. P. Shaffer and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Aldo R. Boccaccini

1.4k papers receiving 68.4k citations

Hit Papers

Biodegradable and bioactive porous polymer/inorganic comp... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2006 2011 2012 2005 2010 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. Biodegradable and bioactive porous polymer/inorganic composite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering
    2006 3.0k citations Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. profile →
  2. A review of the biological response to ionic dissolution products from bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics
    2011 2.1k citations Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. profile →
  3. Biomedical coatings on magnesium alloys – A review
    2012 1.1k citations Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. Acta Biomaterialia profile →
  4. 45S5 Bioglass®-derived glass–ceramic scaffolds for bone tissue engineering
    2005 989 citations Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. profile →
  5. Bioactive Glass and Glass-Ceramic Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering
    2010 914 citations Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. profile →
  6. Electrophoretic deposition of biomaterials
    2010 594 citations Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. profile →
  7. Electrophoretic deposition: From traditional ceramics to nanotechnology
    2008 590 citations Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. profile →
  8. Electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotubes
    2006 577 citations Aldo R. Boccaccini, Judith A. Roether et al. profile →
  9. Regenerating bone with bioactive glass scaffolds: A review of in vivo studies in bone defect models
    2017 523 citations Judith A. Roether, Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. Acta Biomaterialia profile →
  10. Effect of Bioactive Glasses on Angiogenesis: A Review of In Vitro and In Vivo Evidences
    2009 487 citations Judith A. Roether, Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. profile →
  11. Antibacterial biohybrid nanofibers for wound dressings
    2020 486 citations Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. Acta Biomaterialia profile →
  12. Bioactive glasses beyond bone and teeth: Emerging applications in contact with soft tissues
    2014 436 citations Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. Acta Biomaterialia profile →
  13. Bone tissue engineering therapeutics: controlled drug delivery in three-dimensional scaffolds
    2009 411 citations Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. profile →
  14. Polymeric Hydrogel Systems as Emerging Biomaterial Platforms to Enable Hemostasis and Wound Healing
    2020 321 citations Sara Pourshahrestani, Ehsan Zeimaran et al. profile →
  15. Sol-gel processing of bioactive glass nanoparticles: A review
    2017 309 citations Kai Zheng, Aldo R. Boccaccini profile →
  16. Borate Bioactive Glasses (BBG): Bone Regeneration, Wound Healing Applications, and Future Directions
    2022 120 citations Kai Zheng, Aldo R. Boccaccini et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aldo R. Boccaccini Germany 118 43.1k 22.5k 14.7k 13.1k 9.7k 1.4k 69.7k
Larry L. Hench United States 99 37.2k 0.9× 8.3k 0.4× 11.5k 0.8× 12.3k 0.9× 17.1k 1.8× 432 50.4k
Tadashi Kokubo Japan 97 35.4k 0.8× 9.5k 0.4× 12.8k 0.9× 14.5k 1.1× 12.8k 1.3× 505 42.2k
Jiang Chang China 112 26.4k 0.6× 11.9k 0.5× 6.5k 0.4× 8.0k 0.6× 6.8k 0.7× 613 38.4k
María Vallet‐Regí Spain 99 24.1k 0.6× 13.9k 0.6× 19.4k 1.3× 4.2k 0.3× 5.1k 0.5× 694 45.4k
Paul K. Chu Hong Kong 138 34.5k 0.8× 15.2k 0.7× 50.7k 3.5× 6.7k 0.5× 1.8k 0.2× 2.7k 107.4k
Takashi Nakamura Japan 98 20.3k 0.5× 4.5k 0.2× 7.4k 0.5× 13.3k 1.0× 7.9k 0.8× 810 35.9k
Yufeng Zheng China 119 22.6k 0.5× 27.1k 1.2× 31.0k 2.1× 8.2k 0.6× 2.2k 0.2× 1.1k 59.7k
Antoni P. Tomsia United States 68 11.4k 0.3× 5.9k 0.3× 5.5k 0.4× 2.0k 0.2× 2.3k 0.2× 211 21.5k
Hae‐Won Kim South Korea 86 17.6k 0.4× 10.1k 0.4× 5.0k 0.3× 5.0k 0.4× 3.5k 0.4× 563 28.0k
Amit Bandyopadhyay United States 86 15.6k 0.4× 3.3k 0.1× 6.7k 0.5× 4.7k 0.4× 2.5k 0.3× 344 28.3k

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All Works

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Detsch, Rainer, et al.. (2025). Powder Aging Effects on Mechanical and Fire Properties of a Flame Retardant PA12 in Laser Powder Bed Fusion. Polymer Testing. 153. 109048–109048.
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Pourshahrestani, Sara, Irem Unalan, Ehsan Zeimaran, et al.. (2025). Tannic acid-loaded zinc- and copper-doped mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles: Potential antioxidant nanocarriers for wound healing. Bioactive Materials. 54. 71–85. 2 indexed citations
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Marović, Danijela, Matej Par, Håvard Jostein Haugen, et al.. (2024). The influence of copper-doped mesoporous bioactive nanospheres on the temperature rise during polymerization, polymer cross-linking density, monomer release and embryotoxicity of dental composites. Dental Materials. 40(7). 1078–1087. 5 indexed citations
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Müller, Ralf, et al.. (2024). Sintering and crystallization kinetics of bioactive glass 13–93. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids. 627. 122790–122790. 4 indexed citations
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Mutlu, Nurshen, Marcela Arango‐Ospina, Rainer Detsch, Dušan Galusek, & Aldo R. Boccaccini. (2024). Zinc and gallium doped borate bioactive glasses influence in-vitro angiogenesis: New evidence in cell co-culture studies. Materials Letters. 377. 137529–137529. 1 indexed citations
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Curcio, Mariangela, R. Teghil, Micaela Triunfo, et al.. (2024). Enhancing the Antibacterial Properties of Chitosan Coatings: Ag@Chitosan and Chitosan from Insects. Coatings. 14(8). 925–925. 7 indexed citations
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Zhou, Tian, Zeqian Xu, Ana M. Beltrán, et al.. (2024). Unlocking the potential of iron-containing mesoporous bioactive glasses: Orchestrating osteogenic differentiation in bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells and osteoblasts. Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 694. 134188–134188. 6 indexed citations
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Canales, Daniel, Carlos David Grande‐Tovar, Carlos Humberto Valencia-Llano, et al.. (2023). Preparation and characterization of novel poly (lactic acid)/calcium oxide nanocomposites by electrospinning as a potential bone tissue scaffold. Biomaterials Advances. 153. 213578–213578. 15 indexed citations
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Bezdička, Petr, et al.. (2023). The role of (HCO3)− ions in SBF on the interaction with bioactive glass-ceramic scaffold. Materials Today Chemistry. 28. 101367–101367. 6 indexed citations
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Nawaz, Qaisar, et al.. (2023). Flexural strength of biopolymer coated bioactive glass (45S5) sintered struts for bone tissue engineering applications. Materials Letters. 337. 133957–133957. 2 indexed citations
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Hebisch, Matthias, Katharina Wolf, Aldo R. Boccaccini, et al.. (2023). The Impact of the Cellular Environment and Aging on Modeling Alzheimer's Disease in 3D Cell Culture Models. Advanced Science. 10(8). e2205037–e2205037. 21 indexed citations
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Habtu, Nigus Gabbiye, et al.. (2023). Optimization of process parameters for the synthesis of class F fly ash-based geopolymer binders. Journal of Cleaner Production. 415. 137849–137849. 21 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhiyan, et al.. (2023). Surface engineering of mesoporous bioactive glass nanoparticles with bacteriophages for enhanced antibacterial activity. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 234. 113714–113714. 4 indexed citations
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Baştan, Fatih Erdem, et al.. (2023). Growth of hydroxyapatite plate-like nanoparticles by additive free precipitation for the deposition of aligned coatings. Ceramics International. 49(15). 25396–25404. 7 indexed citations
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Friedrich, Bernhard, Stefan Lyer, Christina Janko, et al.. (2022). Scavenging of bacteria or bacterial products by magnetic particles functionalized with a broad-spectrum pathogen recognition receptor motif offers diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Acta Biomaterialia. 141. 418–428. 17 indexed citations
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Wu, Jingjing, Kai Zheng, Xuetao Huang, et al.. (2019). Thermally triggered injectable chitosan/silk fibroin/bioactive glass nanoparticle hydrogels for in-situ bone formation in rat calvarial bone defects. Acta Biomaterialia. 91. 60–71. 160 indexed citations
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Arango‐Ospina, Marcela, et al.. (2019). Review: Silicon oxycarbide based materials for biomedical applications. Applied Materials Today. 18. 100482–100482. 45 indexed citations
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Rehman, Muhammad Atiq Ur, M.A. Munawar, Dirk W. Schubert, & Aldo R. Boccaccini. (2018). Electrophoretic deposition of chitosan/gelatin/bioactive glass composite coatings on 316L stainless steel: A design of experiment study. Surface and Coatings Technology. 358. 976–986. 72 indexed citations
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Boccaccini, Aldo R., et al.. (1993). On the Effective Young's Modulus of Elasticity for Porous Materials: Microstructure Modelling and Comparison Between Calculated and Experimental Values. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials. 4(2). 119–128. 65 indexed citations

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