Alexander Brown

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Alexander Brown is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Brown has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Materials Chemistry, 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 5 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alexander Brown's work include Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques (3 papers), Rare-earth and actinide compounds (3 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (3 papers). Alexander Brown is often cited by papers focused on Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques (3 papers), Rare-earth and actinide compounds (3 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (3 papers). Alexander Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and South Korea. Alexander Brown's co-authors include Stig Rundqvist, Linda G. Griffith, Kenneth J. Balkus, Yves J. Chabal, Kui Tan, Juan S. Gnecco, Victor Hernandez‐Gordillo, Jorge Valdez, Paula T. Hammond and Rebecca L. Carrier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Biomaterials.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Brown

25 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Refinement of the crystal structure of black phosphorus 1965 2026 1985 2005 1965 200 400 600
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.

  1. Refinement of the crystal structure of black phosphorus
    1965 602 citations Alexander Brown, Stig Rundqvist Acta Crystallographica profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Brown United States 11 623 254 224 156 127 26 1.2k
Jan Plutnar Czechia 26 701 1.1× 363 1.4× 496 2.2× 163 1.0× 179 1.4× 60 1.8k
Sadaaki Yamamoto Japan 25 618 1.0× 262 1.0× 403 1.8× 184 1.2× 108 0.9× 81 1.8k
Xingyu Li China 23 909 1.5× 464 1.8× 216 1.0× 306 2.0× 123 1.0× 80 1.7k
Songwei Zhang China 18 469 0.8× 481 1.9× 93 0.4× 306 2.0× 83 0.7× 45 1.3k
Peter Brodersen Canada 19 999 1.6× 412 1.6× 372 1.7× 111 0.7× 559 4.4× 34 1.7k
Hiromu Watanabe Japan 19 1.1k 1.7× 438 1.7× 193 0.9× 483 3.1× 179 1.4× 65 1.9k
Matthias Friedrich Germany 14 837 1.3× 143 0.6× 161 0.7× 156 1.0× 55 0.4× 18 1.2k
Libin Gao China 17 591 0.9× 751 3.0× 124 0.6× 58 0.4× 186 1.5× 104 1.2k
Richard K. Baldwin United States 13 606 1.0× 205 0.8× 312 1.4× 62 0.4× 75 0.6× 15 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexander Brown

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexander Brown

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Brown

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Khan, Murtaza, Alexander Brown, Da‐Sol Lee, et al.. (2025). Fulvic acid‐releasing chitosan nanoparticles promote the growth and salt stress tolerance of soybean plants. Physiologia Plantarum. 177(3). e70254–e70254. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Alexander, Nkulu Rolly Kabange, Murtaza Khan, et al.. (2024). Chitosan‐fulvic acid nanoparticles enhance drought tolerance in maize via antioxidant defense and transcriptional reprogramming. Physiologia Plantarum. 176(4). 3 indexed citations
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Gnecco, Juan S., Alexander Brown, Brittany A. Goods, et al.. (2023). Organoid co-culture model of the human endometrium in a fully synthetic extracellular matrix enables the study of epithelial-stromal crosstalk. Med. 4(8). 554–579.e9. 53 indexed citations
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Rota, Christopher, Alexander Brown, Kristine Pelton, et al.. (2022). Synthetic extracellular matrices and astrocytes provide a supportive microenvironment for the cultivation and investigation of primary pediatric gliomas. Neuro-Oncology Advances. 4(1). vdac049–vdac049. 3 indexed citations
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Brown, Alexander & Kenneth J. Balkus. (2021). Critical Rare Earth Element Recovery from Coal Ash Using Microsphere Flower Carbon. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 13(41). 48492–48499. 16 indexed citations
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Brown, Alexander, et al.. (2021). Graphene-like Carbon from Calcium Hydroxide. ACS Omega. 6(46). 31066–31076. 12 indexed citations
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Brown, Alexander, et al.. (2020). A modular polymer microbead angiogenesis scaffold to characterize the effects of adhesion ligand density on angiogenic sprouting. Biomaterials. 264. 120231–120231. 10 indexed citations
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Brown, Alexander, et al.. (2020). Engineering PEG-based hydrogels to foster efficient endothelial network formation in free-swelling and confined microenvironments. Biomaterials. 243. 119921–119921. 68 indexed citations
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Hernandez‐Gordillo, Victor, Timothy Kassis, Juan S. Gnecco, et al.. (2020). Fully synthetic matrices for in vitro culture of primary human intestinal enteroids and endometrial organoids. Biomaterials. 254. 120125–120125. 126 indexed citations
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Brown, Alexander, et al.. (2018). Nanocast carbon microsphere flowers from a lanthanum-based template. Materials Letters. 234. 224–227. 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Alexander, et al.. (2018). Selective Extraction of Thorium from Rare Earth Elements Using Wrinkled Mesoporous Carbon. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(44). 14735–14739. 109 indexed citations
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Valdez, Jorge, Christi D. Cook, Caroline C. Ahrens, et al.. (2017). On-demand dissolution of modular, synthetic extracellular matrix reveals local epithelial-stromal communication networks. Biomaterials. 130. 90–103. 74 indexed citations
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Brown, Alexander, et al.. (2017). Structure and Oxidation States of Giant Unit Cell Compound Dy117+xFe57–ySn112–z. Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie. 643(23). 2038–2044. 2 indexed citations
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Brown, Alexander. (2015). Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, c.1400-1640. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 4 indexed citations
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Braun, M., S. Hultberg, Alexander Brown, Brita M. Svensson, & Sture Hogmark. (1987). Corrosion studies of ion implanted iron and carbon steel. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 19-20. 259–262. 8 indexed citations
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Brown, Alexander & Stig Rundqvist. (1965). Refinement of the crystal structure of black phosphorus. Acta Crystallographica. 19(4). 684–685. 602 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brown, Alexander. (1962). The crystal structure of two thorium germanide phases with compositions approximating to Th0.9Ge2 and ThGe2. Acta Crystallographica. 15(7). 652–656. 12 indexed citations
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Brown, Alexander, et al.. (1961). THE SYSTEM THORIUM-SILICON. 2 indexed citations
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Brown, Alexander, et al.. (1960). Thoria as a Fertile Component for a Liquid Metal Breeder Blanket. 1(3). 145–IN4. 3 indexed citations

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