Aleksandr Käkinen

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Aleksandr Käkinen is a scholar working on Physiology, Biomaterials and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aleksandr Käkinen has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Physiology, 26 papers in Biomaterials and 25 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Aleksandr Käkinen's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (37 papers), Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (14 papers) and Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (12 papers). Aleksandr Käkinen is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (37 papers), Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (14 papers) and Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials (12 papers). Aleksandr Käkinen collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and China. Aleksandr Käkinen's co-authors include Pu Chun Ke, Thomas P. Davis, Feng Ding, Anne Kahru, Angela Ivask, Ibrahim Javed, Olesja Bondarenko, Emily H. Pilkington, Yunxiang Sun and Imbi Kurvet and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Advanced Materials and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Aleksandr Käkinen

66 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Size-Dependent Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles to Bacteria, Yeast, Algae, Crustaceans and Mammalian Cells In Vitro

2014 455 citations Angela Ivask, Heiki Vija et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aleksandr Käkinen Australia	37	1.7k	1.2k	1.2k	838	781	68	3.8k
Xiaoqiong Zhang China	32	635 0.4×	796 0.6×	2.1k 1.8×	473 0.6×	1.2k 1.5×	92	4.8k
Lin Cui China	43	1.5k 0.8×	270 0.2×	2.4k 2.0×	372 0.4×	1.1k 1.4×	148	6.0k
Govindarajan T. Ramesh United States	32	927 0.5×	403 0.3×	725 0.6×	191 0.2×	593 0.8×	77	2.9k
Daniel A. Casciano United States	40	1.1k 0.6×	255 0.2×	2.2k 1.8×	402 0.5×	1.4k 1.7×	176	5.3k
Erqun Song China	43	1.3k 0.8×	161 0.1×	3.4k 2.8×	694 0.8×	2.1k 2.7×	159	6.3k
Aditya B. Pant India	34	844 0.5×	265 0.2×	998 0.8×	204 0.2×	279 0.4×	110	3.6k
Lalit Kumar Singh Chauhan India	31	643 0.4×	253 0.2×	707 0.6×	305 0.4×	481 0.6×	59	3.2k
Parimal Karmakar India	40	1.7k 1.0×	162 0.1×	2.5k 2.0×	419 0.5×	667 0.9×	172	5.2k
Jianxiu Wang China	35	1.0k 0.6×	361 0.3×	1.7k 1.4×	299 0.4×	911 1.2×	134	4.3k
Liang Gao China	39	1.6k 0.9×	161 0.1×	1.0k 0.9×	595 0.7×	1.2k 1.5×	123	4.3k

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Forgham, Helen, Amandeep Kaur, Ruirui Qiao, et al.. (2025). Amyloid Targeting-Gold Nanoparticles-Assisted X-ray Therapy Rescues Islet β-Cells from Amyloid Fibrils and Restores Insulin Homeostasis. ACS Nano. 19(5). 5460–5474. 4 indexed citations

Forgham, Helen, Aleksandr Käkinen, Ruirui Qiao, & Thomas P. Davis. (2022). Keeping up with the COVID's—Could siRNA‐based antivirals be a part of the answer?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(6). 20220012–20220012. 16 indexed citations

Bondarenko, Olesja, Monika Mortimer, Anne Kahru, et al.. (2021). Nanotoxicology and nanomedicine: The Yin and Yang of nano-bio interactions for the new decade. Nano Today. 39. 101184–101184. 87 indexed citations

Andrikopoulos, Nikolaos K., Zhiyuan Song, Alon M. Douek, et al.. (2021). Inhibition of Amyloid Aggregation and Toxicity with Janus Iron Oxide Nanoparticles. Chemistry of Materials. 33(16). 6484–6500. 34 indexed citations

Javed, Ibrahim, Jiacheng He, Aleksandr Käkinen, et al.. (2019). Probing the Aggregation and Immune Response of Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptides with Ligand-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 11(11). 10462–10471. 39 indexed citations

Javed, Ibrahim, Guotao Peng, Yanting Xing, et al.. (2019). Inhibition of amyloid beta toxicity in zebrafish with a chaperone-gold nanoparticle dual strategy. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3780–3780. 159 indexed citations

Wang, Miaoyi, Ove Gustafsson, Emily H. Pilkington, et al.. (2018). Nanoparticle–proteome in vitro and in vivo. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 6(38). 6026–6041. 20 indexed citations

Pilkington, Emily H., Ove Gustafsson, Yanting Xing, et al.. (2018). Profiling the Serum Protein Corona of Fibrillar Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide. ACS Nano. 12(6). 6066–6078. 42 indexed citations

Sun, Yunxiang, Aleksandr Käkinen, Yanting Xing, et al.. (2018). Nucleation of β-rich oligomers and β-barrels in the early aggregation of human islet amyloid polypeptide. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1865(2). 434–444. 53 indexed citations

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Xing, Yanting, Emily H. Pilkington, Miaoyi Wang, et al.. (2017). Lysophosphatidylcholine modulates the aggregation of human islet amyloid polypeptide. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19(45). 30627–30635. 14 indexed citations

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Pilkington, Emily H., Yanting Xing, Bo Wang, et al.. (2017). Effects of Protein Corona on IAPP Amyloid Aggregation, Fibril Remodelling, and Cytotoxicity. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 2455–2455. 33 indexed citations

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Ivask, Angela, Emily H. Pilkington, Thomas Blin, et al.. (2017). Uptake and transcytosis of functionalized superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles in an in vitro blood brain barrier model. Biomaterials Science. 6(2). 314–323. 38 indexed citations

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Ge, Xinwei, Aleksandr Käkinen, Esteban N. Gurzov, et al.. (2017). Zinc-coordination and C-peptide complexation: a potential mechanism for the endogenous inhibition of IAPP aggregation. Chemical Communications. 53(68). 9394–9397. 22 indexed citations

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Lin, Sijie, Monika Mortimer, Ran Chen, et al.. (2017). NanoEHS beyond toxicity – focusing on biocorona. Environmental Science Nano. 4(7). 1433–1454. 52 indexed citations

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Wang, Bo, Thomas Blin, Aleksandr Käkinen, et al.. (2017). Brushed Polyethylene Glycol and Phosphorylcholine as Promising Grafting Agents against Protein Binding. Biophysical Journal. 112(3). 350a–350a. 1 indexed citations

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Käkinen, Aleksandr, Jozef Adamčík, Bo Wang, et al.. (2017). Nanoscale inhibition of polymorphic and ambidextrous IAPP amyloid aggregation with small molecules. Nano Research. 11(7). 3636–3647. 42 indexed citations

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Käkinen, Aleksandr, et al.. (2016). Solubility-driven toxicity of CuO nanoparticles to Caco2 cells and Escherichia coli : Effect of sonication energy and test environment. Toxicology in Vitro. 36. 172–179. 18 indexed citations

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Pilkington, Emily H., Esteban N. Gurzov, Aleksandr Käkinen, et al.. (2016). Pancreatic β-Cell Membrane Fluidity and Toxicity Induced by Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide Species. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 21274–21274. 46 indexed citations

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Klauson, Deniss, et al.. (2014). Selective performance of sol-gel synthesised titanium dioxide photocatalysts in aqueous oxidation of various-type organic pollutants. Kinetics and Catalysis. 55(1). 47–55. 8 indexed citations

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Käkinen, Aleksandr, Feng Ding, Pengyu Chen, et al.. (2013). Interaction of firefly luciferase and silver nanoparticles and its impact on enzyme activity. Nanotechnology. 24(34). 345101–345101. 46 indexed citations

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