Choon Hwai Yap

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Choon Hwai Yap is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Choon Hwai Yap has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 26 papers in Epidemiology and 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Choon Hwai Yap's work include Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (33 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (23 papers) and Congenital Heart Disease Studies (22 papers). Choon Hwai Yap is often cited by papers focused on Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors (33 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (23 papers) and Congenital Heart Disease Studies (22 papers). Choon Hwai Yap collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United Kingdom and United States. Choon Hwai Yap's co-authors include Ajit P. Yoganathan, Zhe Li, Neelakantan Saikrishnan, Citra Nurfarah Zaini Mattar, Dimos Poulikakos, Athanasios Milionis, Shier Nee Saw, Arijit Biswas, Jian Zhu and Guang Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Choon Hwai Yap

91 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

  1. Superhydrophobic hemostatic nanofiber composites for fast clotting and minimal adhesion
    2019 273 citations Zhe Li, Athanasios Milionis et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Choon Hwai Yap Singapore 23 635 464 378 307 294 95 1.8k
Monica T. Hinds United States 29 239 0.4× 736 1.6× 695 1.8× 76 0.2× 241 0.8× 102 2.4k
Hwa Liang Leo Singapore 29 750 1.2× 1.2k 2.6× 771 2.0× 185 0.6× 529 1.8× 152 2.8k
Payam Akhyari Germany 31 1.1k 1.7× 1.2k 2.6× 2.0k 5.2× 386 1.3× 358 1.2× 256 3.6k
Gregory J. Wilson Canada 25 719 1.1× 414 0.9× 1.0k 2.7× 166 0.5× 410 1.4× 54 2.1k
Heleen M.M. van Beusekom Netherlands 29 1.1k 1.7× 646 1.4× 2.0k 5.3× 175 0.6× 938 3.2× 90 3.3k
Michael S. Sacks United States 25 832 1.3× 915 2.0× 1.0k 2.7× 255 0.8× 212 0.7× 57 2.4k
Joseph Megerman United States 24 628 1.0× 302 0.7× 1.2k 3.2× 103 0.3× 811 2.8× 57 2.3k
Barry J. Doyle Australia 34 817 1.3× 1.4k 2.9× 678 1.8× 59 0.2× 1.3k 4.5× 117 3.1k
Yueqi Zhu China 25 79 0.1× 451 1.0× 461 1.2× 278 0.9× 826 2.8× 151 2.2k
Zbyněk Tonar Czechia 23 165 0.3× 355 0.8× 547 1.4× 119 0.4× 350 1.2× 132 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Choon Hwai Yap

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Choon Hwai Yap

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Gang, et al.. (2024). US2Mask: Image-to-mask generation learning via a conditional GAN for cardiac ultrasound image segmentation. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 172. 108282–108282. 5 indexed citations
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Vermot, Julien, et al.. (2024). Role of tissue biomechanics in the formation and function of myocardial trabeculae in zebrafish embryos. The Journal of Physiology. 602(4). 597–617. 4 indexed citations
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Fukui, Hajime, Renée Chow, Choon Hwai Yap, & Julien Vermot. (2024). Rhythmic forces shaping the zebrafish cardiac system. Trends in Cell Biology. 35(2). 166–176. 2 indexed citations
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Pekkan, Kerem, et al.. (2023). Myocardial Biomechanics and the Consequent Differentially Expressed Genes of the Left Atrial Ligation Chick Embryonic Model of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 51(5). 1063–1078. 4 indexed citations
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Green, Laura, Aimee K. Armstrong, Andreas Tulzer, et al.. (2023). Contribution of Ventricular Motion and Sampling Location to Discrepancies in Two-Dimensional Versus Three-Dimensional Fetal Ventricular Strain Measures. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. 36(5). 543–552. 4 indexed citations
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Hasan, Md. Kamrul, et al.. (2023). A survey, review, and future trends of skin lesion segmentation and classification. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 155. 106624–106624. 80 indexed citations
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Tulzer, Andreas, et al.. (2023). Fluid Mechanical Effects of Fetal Aortic Valvuloplasty for Cases of Critical Aortic Stenosis with Evolving Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 51(7). 1485–1498. 7 indexed citations
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Tan, Justin Kok Soon, Hui Fang, Cho Yeow Koh, et al.. (2023). Antithrombotic and Flow Drag‐Reducing Material for Blood‐Contacting Medical Devices. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 10(10). 4 indexed citations
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Chow, Renée, et al.. (2022). Fluid mechanics of the zebrafish embryonic heart trabeculation. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(6). e1010142–e1010142. 11 indexed citations
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Charles, Christopher J., et al.. (2022). Morphological, functional, and biomechanical progression of LV remodelling in a porcine model of HFpEF. Journal of Biomechanics. 144. 111348–111348. 6 indexed citations
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Yap, Choon Hwai, et al.. (2022). Embryonic aortic arch material properties obtained by optical coherence tomography-guided micropipette aspiration. Journal of Biomechanics. 146. 111392–111392. 1 indexed citations
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Fukui, Hajime, Renée Chow, Jing Xie, et al.. (2021). Bioelectric signaling and the control of cardiac cell identity in response to mechanical forces. Science. 374(6565). 351–354. 61 indexed citations
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Li, Zhe, et al.. (2019). Superhydrophobic hemostatic nanofiber composites for fast clotting and minimal adhesion. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5562–5562. 273 indexed citations breakdown →
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Saw, Shier Nee, et al.. (2018). Hyperelastic Mechanical Properties of Ex Vivo Normal and Intrauterine Growth Restricted Placenta. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 46(7). 1066–1077. 9 indexed citations
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Saw, Shier Nee, et al.. (2018). Characterization of the hemodynamic wall shear stresses in human umbilical vessels from normal and intrauterine growth restricted pregnancies. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. 17(4). 1107–1117. 13 indexed citations
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Sampath, Smita, Kian Keong Poh, Mark Richards, et al.. (2017). Flow dynamics and energy efficiency of flow in the left ventricle during myocardial infarction. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. 16(5). 1503–1517. 15 indexed citations
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Saw, Shier Nee, et al.. (2016). Characterization of the in vivo wall shear stress environment of human fetus umbilical arteries and veins. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. 16(1). 197–211. 34 indexed citations
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Spinner, Erin M., et al.. (2011). The Effects of a Three-Dimensional, Saddle-Shaped Annulus on Anterior and Posterior Leaflet Stretch and Regurgitation of the Tricuspid Valve. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 40(5). 996–1005. 34 indexed citations

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