Alec Wang

480 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 274 citations indexed

About

Alec Wang is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alec Wang has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 274 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Biomaterials, 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 2 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Alec Wang's work include Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (6 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (4 papers) and Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (2 papers). Alec Wang is often cited by papers focused on Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (6 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (4 papers) and Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (2 papers). Alec Wang collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Spain. Alec Wang's co-authors include Fabian Kießling, Twan Lammers, Stefan Wuttke, Quim Peña, Roger M. Pallares, Yang Shi, Josbert M. Metselaar, Orysia Zaremba, Hans W. Scheeren and Romy Ettlinger and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Functional Materials and Journal of Controlled Release.

In The Last Decade

Alec Wang

6 papers receiving 271 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.

Metallodrugs in cancer nanomedicine

2022 160 citations Quim Peña, Alec Wang et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alec Wang Germany	5	108	91	82	69	56	6	274
Zushuang Xiong China	10	159 1.5×	119 1.3×	48 0.6×	43 0.6×	90 1.6×	16	380
Quim Peña Germany	9	142 1.3×	162 1.8×	104 1.3×	143 2.1×	103 1.8×	19	470
Shaohua Song China	12	132 1.2×	131 1.4×	57 0.7×	55 0.8×	30 0.5×	20	346
Linnan Yang China	8	165 1.5×	127 1.4×	118 1.4×	25 0.4×	27 0.5×	11	382
Abhik Mallick India	9	148 1.4×	169 1.9×	95 1.2×	55 0.8×	30 0.5×	10	415
Ali Samie Iran	11	105 1.0×	161 1.8×	64 0.8×	50 0.7×	49 0.9×	22	343
Andrey Babenyshev Russia	6	188 1.7×	75 0.8×	139 1.7×	47 0.7×	21 0.4×	15	347
Dan‐Jie Zhou China	8	165 1.5×	157 1.7×	63 0.8×	19 0.3×	54 1.0×	8	387
Yanjuan Wu China	13	143 1.3×	81 0.9×	191 2.3×	24 0.3×	118 2.1×	22	377
Zexuan Ding China	9	147 1.4×	83 0.9×	59 0.7×	16 0.2×	93 1.7×	17	326

Countries citing papers authored by Alec Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alec Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alec Wang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alec Wang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alec Wang 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 Alec Wang. Alec Wang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Pallares, Roger M., Lorena Consolino, Alec Wang, et al.. (2025). Targeting metastasis with nanomedicine. Nature Reviews Bioengineering. 4(1). 47–66. 4 indexed citations

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Pallares, Roger M., Roman A. Barmin, Alec Wang, Fabian Kießling, & Twan Lammers. (2025). Clinical cancer nanomedicines. Journal of Controlled Release. 385. 113991–113991. 9 indexed citations

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Wang, Alec, Marek Weiler, Eva Miriam Buhl, et al.. (2023). Effect of Radical Polymerization Method on Pharmaceutical Properties of Π Electron-Stabilized HPMA-Based Polymeric Micelles. Biomacromolecules. 24(10). 4444–4453. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Alec, Eva Miriam Buhl, M. Pohl, et al.. (2023). Tunable polymeric micelles for taxane and corticosteroid co-delivery. Drug Delivery and Translational Research. 14(10). 2642–2654. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Alec, Romy Ettlinger, Fabian Kießling, et al.. (2023). Biomedical Metal–Organic Framework Materials: Perspectives and Challenges. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(43). 92 indexed citations

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Peña, Quim, Alec Wang, Orysia Zaremba, et al.. (2022). Metallodrugs in cancer nanomedicine. Chemical Society Reviews. 51(7). 2544–2582. 160 indexed citations breakdown →

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