Cai‐Ping Tan

13.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
105 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Cai‐Ping Tan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Cai‐Ping Tan has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Molecular Biology, 33 papers in Oncology and 29 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Cai‐Ping Tan's work include Metal complexes synthesis and properties (30 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (27 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (19 papers). Cai‐Ping Tan is often cited by papers focused on Metal complexes synthesis and properties (30 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (27 papers) and Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (19 papers). Cai‐Ping Tan collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Cai‐Ping Tan's co-authors include Zong‐Wan Mao, Liang‐Nian Ji, Liang‐Nian Ji, Liang He, Rui‐Rong Ye, Mu‐He Chen, Shuo Shi, Jianjun Cao, Wei Zhang and Yupeng Zheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Cai‐Ping Tan

101 papers receiving 6.7k 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.

A Polarity‐Sensitive Ratiometric Fluorescence Probe for Monitoring Changes in Lipid Droplets and Nucleus during Ferroptosis

2021 293 citations Cai‐Ping Tan, Zong‐Wan Mao et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cai‐Ping Tan China	49	2.8k	2.6k	2.3k	2.0k	1.8k	105	6.8k
Wee Han Ang Singapore	49	3.9k 1.4×	2.0k 0.8×	3.8k 1.7×	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	135	7.7k
Shanta Dhar United States	43	2.4k 0.9×	3.1k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	101	7.8k
Huaiyi Huang China	36	1.5k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	2.4k 1.2×	2.3k 1.3×	101	4.9k
Kogularamanan Suntharalingam United Kingdom	34	3.5k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	2.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	750 0.4×	87	6.1k
Claudia Turró United States	55	4.1k 1.5×	2.3k 0.9×	3.6k 1.6×	3.9k 2.0×	1.4k 0.8×	203	9.0k
Jim A. Thomas United Kingdom	43	3.3k 1.2×	2.8k 1.1×	2.6k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	762 0.4×	150	6.8k
Leli Zeng China	33	1.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	79	4.6k
Luca Salassa Spain	38	2.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	2.5k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	777 0.4×	121	5.0k
Timothy C. Johnstone United States	31	2.6k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	2.9k 1.3×	1.2k 0.6×	755 0.4×	80	5.9k
Petra Heffeter Austria	47	3.9k 1.4×	2.5k 1.0×	2.8k 1.2×	912 0.5×	490 0.3×	190	7.4k

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Wang, Peng, Di Zhang, Zhiyuan Li, et al.. (2025). Synergistic Copper‐Coordination/Glutathione Reduction Drives an In Situ Type II‐to‐Type I Photodynamic Switch in Iridium‐Based Photosensitizer Nanocomposites for Potentiated Cancer Immunotherapy. Advanced Materials. 37(44). e06349–e06349. 3 indexed citations

Ling, Yu‐Yi, et al.. (2025). Theranostic Rhenium Complexes as Suborganelle-Targeted Copper Ionophores To Stimulate Cuproptosis for Cancer Immunotherapy. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(10). 15237–15249. 3 indexed citations

Xie, Xuan, et al.. (2025). Rational design of copper ionophores for efficient induction of cuproptosis via simple n-alkyl modification. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 301. 118257–118257.

Wang, Peng, Zhiyuan Li, Yingying Han, et al.. (2025). Ir(III) Complexes Convert Cold to Hot Tumors via Ferroptosis/Necroptosis‐Driven Immunogenic Cell Death and Photosensitized CD47 Downregulation. Advanced Science. 13(8). e14256–e14256.

Chen, Xiaoxiao, et al.. (2025). Photodynamic-Photothermal Switching in Osmium-Ferritin Nanoplatform Activates Near Infrared-Driven Tumor Immunity Reprogramming. ACS Nano. 19(29). 26953–26967. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Jiaying, Yin Xiong, Jiawen Chen, et al.. (2025). Zinc-mediated metalloimmunotherapy with dual elimination of tumor and intratumoral bacteria in oral squamous cell carcinoma. Biomaterials. 323. 123439–123439. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Wenting, et al.. (2024). Cascade targeting strategy for antitumor transition metal complexes. Scientia Sinica Chimica. 54(9). 1471–1487.

Wang, Wenjin, Cai‐Ping Tan, & Zong‐Wan Mao. (2023). Metals and inorganic molecules in regulating protein and nucleic acid phase separation. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 74. 102308–102308. 7 indexed citations

Wang, Wenjin, Shanshan Qin, Lisi Zhan, et al.. (2022). The development of an iridium(III) complex functionalized G-quadruplex probe for the stability of G-quadruplex and lifetime image in cytoplasm. Chinese Chemical Letters. 34(2). 107517–107517. 10 indexed citations

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Zhou, Jiaying, Wenjin Wang, Chenyu Zhang, et al.. (2022). Ru(II)-modified TiO2 nanoparticles for hypoxia-adaptive photo-immunotherapy of oral squamous cell carcinoma. Biomaterials. 289. 121757–121757. 80 indexed citations

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Wang, Wenjin, Cai‐Ping Tan, Yujian Wang, et al.. (2021). Induction and Monitoring of DNA Phase Separation in Living Cells by a Light-Switching Ruthenium Complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(30). 11370–11381. 41 indexed citations

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Peng, Yanbo, Can Tao, Cai‐Ping Tan, & Ping Zhao. (2021). Mitochondrial targeted rhodium(III) complexes: Synthesis, characterized and antitumor mechanism investigation. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 218. 111400–111400. 16 indexed citations

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Cai, Chao‐Yun, Wei Zhang, Jing‐Quan Wang, et al.. (2020). Biological evaluation of non-basic chalcone CYB-2 as a dual ABCG2/ABCB1 inhibitor. Biochemical Pharmacology. 175. 113848–113848. 28 indexed citations

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Hao, Ziyang, Tong Wu, Xiaolong Cui, et al.. (2020). N6-Deoxyadenosine Methylation in Mammalian Mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Cell. 78(3). 382–395.e8. 182 indexed citations

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Ye, Rui‐Rong, et al.. (2020). Zinc-Containing Metalloenzymes: Inhibition by Metal-Based Anticancer Agents. Frontiers in Chemistry. 8. 402–402. 40 indexed citations

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Cai, Chao‐Yun, Zi‐Ning Lei, Cai‐Ping Tan, et al.. (2019). Benzoyl indoles with metabolic stability as reversal agents for ABCG2-mediated multidrug resistance. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 179. 849–862. 33 indexed citations

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Wang, Fang‐Xin, Mu‐He Chen, Rui‐Rong Ye, et al.. (2016). Ester-Modified Cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes as Mitochondria-Targeting Anticancer Agents. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 38954–38954. 56 indexed citations

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Ye, Rui‐Rong, Cai‐Ping Tan, Liang He, et al.. (2014). Cyclometalated Ir(iii) complexes as targeted theranostic anticancer therapeutics: combining HDAC inhibition with photodynamic therapy. Chemical Communications. 50(75). 10945–10945. 114 indexed citations

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Tan, Cai‐Ping, Yiying Lu, Liang‐Nian Ji, & Zong‐Wan Mao. (2014). Metallomics insights into the programmed cell death induced by metal-based anticancer compounds. Metallomics. 6(5). 978–978. 106 indexed citations

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Li, Jinming, Yuan‐Yuan Wang, Mei‐Xia Zhao, et al.. (2012). Multifunctional QD-based co-delivery of siRNA and doxorubicin to HeLa cells for reversal of multidrug resistance and real-time tracking. Biomaterials. 33(9). 2780–2790. 155 indexed citations

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