Donald A. Tomalia

12.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
87 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Donald A. Tomalia is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald A. Tomalia has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 47 papers in Molecular Biology and 33 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Donald A. Tomalia's work include Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (85 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (37 papers) and Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (25 papers). Donald A. Tomalia is often cited by papers focused on Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (85 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (37 papers) and Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (25 papers). Donald A. Tomalia collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Poland. Donald A. Tomalia's co-authors include Roseita Esfand, Sönke Svenson, Jean M. J. Fréchet, Nicholas J. Turro, Anupa R. Menjoge, Rangaramanujam M. Kannan, M. Francesca Ottaviani, Steffen Jockusch, Douglas R. Swanson and Elizabeth Nance and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Donald A. Tomalia

85 papers receiving 9.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers: from biomimicry to drug delivery and biomedical applications

2001 1.3k citations Donald A. Tomalia et al. Drug Discovery Today profile →
Birth of a new macromolecular architecture: dendrimers as quantized building blocks for nanoscale synthetic polymer chemistry

2005 881 citations Donald A. Tomalia Progress in Polymer Science profile →
Discovery of dendrimers and dendritic polymers: A brief historical perspective*

2002 692 citations Donald A. Tomalia et al. profile →
Dendrimer-based drug and imaging conjugates: design considerations for nanomedical applications

2010 613 citations Anupa R. Menjoge, Rangaramanujam M. Kannan et al. Drug Discovery Today profile →
Dendrimers in biomedical applications—reflections on the field

2012 450 citations Donald A. Tomalia et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Donald A. Tomalia United States	50	7.3k	5.1k	2.7k	2.3k	1.4k	87	10.2k
Donald A. Tomalia United States	50	11.4k 1.6×	7.0k 1.4×	5.2k 1.9×	3.8k 1.7×	1.2k 0.9×	103	15.6k
Anne‐Marie Caminade France	70	10.9k 1.5×	7.3k 1.4×	7.2k 2.6×	3.6k 1.6×	1.1k 0.8×	511	16.8k
Wolfgang H. Binder Germany	56	4.4k 0.6×	3.1k 0.6×	7.3k 2.7×	3.4k 1.5×	2.8k 2.0×	312	13.1k
Jean‐Pierre Majoral France	72	11.5k 1.6×	8.7k 1.7×	8.6k 3.2×	4.0k 1.8×	1.8k 1.3×	663	20.6k
Lajos Balogh United States	37	2.6k 0.4×	2.2k 0.4×	1.0k 0.4×	1.6k 0.7×	893 0.6×	145	6.3k
Elizabeth R. Gillies Canada	43	3.2k 0.4×	3.1k 0.6×	3.5k 1.3×	1.4k 0.6×	3.0k 2.1×	184	8.4k
Eric E. Simanek United States	43	2.4k 0.3×	4.7k 0.9×	3.1k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	134	8.4k
Zhibin Guan United States	60	7.2k 1.0×	1.5k 0.3×	8.1k 3.0×	3.0k 1.3×	3.3k 2.4×	141	14.9k
Holger Frey Germany	67	11.1k 1.5×	5.8k 1.1×	10.1k 3.7×	4.4k 1.9×	4.7k 3.3×	475	20.4k
S. Thayumanavan United States	65	3.3k 0.5×	3.5k 0.7×	6.2k 2.3×	4.4k 2.0×	4.1k 3.0×	309	14.7k

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Ni, Qianqian, et al.. (2025). Dendrimer engineering to overcome delivery challenges of nucleic acids. Nature Reviews Bioengineering. 3(10). 806–807. 2 indexed citations

Rahman, Anis & Donald A. Tomalia. (2018). Terahertz-based nanometrology: multispectral imaging of nanoparticles and nanoclusters in suspensions. Journal of Nanoparticle Research. 20(11). 2 indexed citations

Rahman, Anis, Anis Rahman, Anis Rahman, Anis Rahman, & Donald A. Tomalia. (2017). Engineering dendrimers to produce dendrimer dipole excitation based terahertz radiation sources suitable for spectrometry, molecular and biomedical imaging. Nanoscale Horizons. 2(3). 127–134. 9 indexed citations

Kannan, Ramya, Elizabeth Nance, Sujatha Kannan, & Donald A. Tomalia. (2014). Emerging concepts in dendrimer‐based nanomedicine: from design principles to clinical applications. Journal of Internal Medicine. 276(6). 579–617. 416 indexed citations

Upadhaya, Samik, Douglas R. Swanson, Donald A. Tomalia, & Ajit Sharma. (2013). Analysis of polyamidoamine dendrimers by isoelectric focusing. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 406(2). 455–458. 9 indexed citations

Menjoge, Anupa R., Rangaramanujam M. Kannan, & Donald A. Tomalia. (2010). Dendrimer-based drug and imaging conjugates: design considerations for nanomedical applications. Drug Discovery Today. 15(5-6). 171–185. 613 indexed citations breakdown →

Chauhan, Abhay Singh, et al.. (2009). Unexpected In Vivo Anti-Inflammatory Activity Observed for Simple, Surface Functionalized Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers. Biomacromolecules. 10(5). 1195–1202. 146 indexed citations

Tomalia, Donald A.. (2005). Birth of a new macromolecular architecture: dendrimers as quantized building blocks for nanoscale synthetic polymer chemistry. Progress in Polymer Science. 30(3-4). 294–324. 881 indexed citations breakdown →

Ottaviani, M. Francesca, Steffen Jockusch, Nicholas J. Turro, Donald A. Tomalia, & Antonio Barbon. (2004). Interactions of Dendrimers with Selected Amino Acids and Proteins Studied by Continuous Wave EPR and Fourier Transform EPR. Langmuir. 20(23). 10238–10245. 60 indexed citations

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Balogh, Lajos, Douglas R. Swanson, Donald A. Tomalia, Gary L. Hagnauer, & Albert T. McManus. (2000). Dendrimer−Silver Complexes and Nanocomposites as Antimicrobial Agents. Nano Letters. 1(1). 18–21. 311 indexed citations

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Li, J., Lars T. Piehler, D. Qin, et al.. (2000). Visualization and Characterization of Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers by Atomic Force Microscopy. Langmuir. 16(13). 5613–5616. 210 indexed citations

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Chen, Wei, Donald A. Tomalia, & James L. Thomas. (2000). Unusual pH-Dependent Polarity Changes in PAMAM Dendrimers: Evidence for pH-Responsive Conformational Changes. Macromolecules. 33(25). 9169–9172. 164 indexed citations

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Ottaviani, M. Francesca, et al.. (1999). An EPR Study of the Interactions between Starburst Dendrimers and Polynucleotides. Macromolecules. 32(7). 2275–2282. 66 indexed citations

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Tan, Nora C. Beck, Lajos Balogh, S. F. Treviño, Donald A. Tomalia, & Jianzhen Lin. (1999). A small angle scattering study of dendrimer–copper sulfide nanocomposites. Polymer. 40(10). 2537–2545. 37 indexed citations

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Turro, Nicholas J., et al.. (1998). Interactions between positively charged starburst dendrimers and Ru(4,7-(SO3C6H5)2-phen)3posttaggered4−. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A Chemistry. 112(1). 47–52. 9 indexed citations

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Ottaviani, M. Francesca, Paolo Matteini, Marina Brustolon, et al.. (1998). Characterization of Starburst Dendrimers and Vesicle Solutions and Their Interactions by CW- and Pulsed-EPR, TEM, and Dynamic Light Scattering. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 102(31). 6029–6039. 86 indexed citations

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Ottaviani, M. Francesca, et al.. (1997). Model for the Interactions between Anionic Dendrimers and Cationic Surfactants by Means of the Spin Probe Method. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 101(31). 6057–6065. 59 indexed citations

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Ottaviani, M. Francesca, et al.. (1996). Characterization of Starburst Dendrimers by EPR. 4. Mn(II) as a Probe of Interphase Properties. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 100(26). 11033–11042. 70 indexed citations

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Tomalia, Donald A.. (1994). Starburst/Cascade Dendrimers: Fundamental building blocks for a new nanoscopic chemistry set. Advanced Materials. 6(7-8). 529–539. 250 indexed citations

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Dubin, Paul L., et al.. (1992). Carboxylated starburst dendrimers as calibration standards for aqueous size exclusion chromatography. Analytical Chemistry. 64(20). 2344–2347. 44 indexed citations

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