Ellen M. Sletten

11.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
88 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Ellen M. Sletten is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ellen M. Sletten has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Organic Chemistry, 27 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 25 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ellen M. Sletten's work include Click Chemistry and Applications (22 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (20 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (16 papers). Ellen M. Sletten is often cited by papers focused on Click Chemistry and Applications (22 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (20 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (16 papers). Ellen M. Sletten collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Ellen M. Sletten's co-authors include Carolyn R. Bertozzi, John C. Jewett, Emily D. Cosco, Rachael A. Day, Timothy M. Swager, Oliver T. Bruns†, Justin R. Caram, Pamela V. Chang, Jeremy M. Baskin and Jennifer A. Prescher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ellen M. Sletten

84 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

Bioorthogonal Chemistry: Fishing for Selectivity in a Sea... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2011 2010 2009 2010 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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. Bioorthogonal Chemistry: Fishing for Selectivity in a Sea of Functionality
    2009 2.6k citations Ellen M. Sletten, Carolyn R. Bertozzi Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  2. From Mechanism to Mouse: A Tale of Two Bioorthogonal Reactions
    2011 902 citations Ellen M. Sletten, Carolyn R. Bertozzi Accounts of Chemical Research profile →
  3. Rapid Cu-Free Click Chemistry with Readily Synthesized Biarylazacyclooctynones
    2010 560 citations Ellen M. Sletten, Carolyn R. Bertozzi et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  4. Bioorthogonale Chemie – oder: in einem Meer aus Funktionalität nach Selektivität fischen
    2009 541 citations Ellen M. Sletten, Carolyn R. Bertozzi Angewandte Chemie profile →
  5. Copper-free click chemistry in living animals
    2010 537 citations Pamela V. Chang, Jennifer A. Prescher et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Flavylium Polymethine Fluorophores for Near‐ and Shortwave Infrared Imaging
    2017 355 citations Emily D. Cosco, Justin R. Caram et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  7. Shortwave infrared polymethine fluorophores matched to excitation lasers enable non-invasive, multicolour in vivo imaging in real time
    2020 265 citations Emily D. Cosco, Jakob G. P. Lingg et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
  8. Reactivity of Biarylazacyclooctynones in Copper-Free Click Chemistry
    2012 224 citations Ellen M. Sletten, K. N. Houk et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ellen M. Sletten United States 35 5.5k 4.9k 2.0k 1.9k 1.8k 88 9.2k
Neal K. Devaraj United States 48 4.9k 0.9× 6.1k 1.2× 1.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 1.9k 1.0× 119 9.2k
Peng Wu United States 48 6.4k 1.2× 5.1k 1.0× 666 0.3× 1.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 147 9.5k
Scott A. Hilderbrand United States 33 2.9k 0.5× 3.1k 0.6× 1.6k 0.8× 1.7k 0.9× 1.5k 0.8× 49 6.7k
Joseph M. Fox United States 49 7.7k 1.4× 4.0k 0.8× 732 0.4× 945 0.5× 1.8k 1.0× 134 9.5k
Vsevolod V. Rostovtsev United States 10 11.2k 2.0× 7.7k 1.6× 833 0.4× 1.7k 0.9× 1.8k 1.0× 11 14.1k
Luke G. Green United Kingdom 18 10.7k 1.9× 8.0k 1.6× 776 0.4× 1.5k 0.8× 1.8k 1.0× 24 13.8k
Christian W. Tornøe Denmark 9 9.8k 1.8× 6.6k 1.3× 606 0.3× 1.2k 0.6× 1.5k 0.8× 14 11.7k
Qing Lin United States 41 4.5k 0.8× 4.0k 0.8× 698 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 94 6.0k
Vladimir V. Popik United States 39 3.5k 0.6× 2.4k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 2.1k 1.1× 582 0.3× 164 6.4k
Doron Shabat Israel 62 3.2k 0.6× 5.0k 1.0× 3.5k 1.8× 3.2k 1.7× 531 0.3× 186 10.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lin, Eric Y., et al.. (2025). Exploiting Flavylium Merocyanine Dyes for Intrinsic, Multiplexed Labeling of the Endoplasmic Reticulum. Analytical Chemistry. 97(10). 5595–5604.
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Lin, Eric Y., Andriy Chmyrov, Bernardo A. Arús, et al.. (2025). High-Resolution Multicolor Shortwave Infrared Dynamic In Vivo Imaging with Chromenylium Nonamethine Dyes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(20). 17384–17393. 5 indexed citations
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Matsumoto, Masahiro, et al.. (2025). Carboranes without Cage Carbons: closo -Dodecaborate Mimics of Neutral closo -Carboranes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(29). 25478–25488.
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Sletten, Ellen M., et al.. (2025). Acid-cleavable poly(oxazoline) surfactants. Polymer Chemistry. 16(12). 1393–1399. 1 indexed citations
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Meador, William E., Eric Y. Lin, Irene Lim, et al.. (2024). Silicon-RosIndolizine fluorophores with shortwave infrared absorption and emission profiles enable in vivo fluorescence imaging. Nature Chemistry. 16(6). 970–978. 56 indexed citations
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Sletten, Ellen M., et al.. (2024). Biotin-Initiated Poly(oxazoline)s. Macromolecules. 57(13). 6354–6361. 1 indexed citations
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Sletten, Ellen M., et al.. (2024). Nonadiabatic Derivative Couplings through Multiple Franck–Condon Modes Dictate the Energy Gap Law for Near and Short-Wave Infrared Dye Molecules. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(7). 1802–1810. 8 indexed citations
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Deshmukh, Arundhati, Monica Pengshung, Timothy L. Atallah, et al.. (2023). Exploring the design of superradiant J-aggregates from amphiphilic monomer units. Nanoscale. 15(8). 3841–3849. 12 indexed citations
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Lingg, Jakob G. P., Thomas S. Bischof, Bernardo A. Arús, et al.. (2023). Shortwave‐Infrared Line‐Scan Confocal Microscope for Deep Tissue Imaging in Intact Organs. Laser & Photonics Review. 17(11). 2 indexed citations
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Sletten, Ellen M., et al.. (2023). Engineering cyanine cyclizations for new fluorogenic probes. Nature Chemistry. 16(1). 3–5. 15 indexed citations
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Yen, Shuo‐Ting, et al.. (2023). In situ quantification of osmotic pressure within living embryonic tissues. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7023–7023. 22 indexed citations
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Deshmukh, Arundhati, Niklas Geue, Timothy L. Atallah, et al.. (2022). Bridging the gap between H- and J-aggregates: Classification and supramolecular tunability for excitonic band structures in two-dimensional molecular aggregates. Chemical Physics Reviews. 3(2). 34 indexed citations
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Yen, Shuo‐Ting, et al.. (2022). Macromolecular Crowding as an Intracellular Stimulus for Responsive Nanomaterials. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(37). 16792–16798. 11 indexed citations
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Lim, Irene, Rachael A. Day, Carlos Gomez, et al.. (2020). Fluorous Soluble Cyanine Dyes for Visualizing Perfluorocarbons in Living Systems. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(37). 16072–16081. 51 indexed citations
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Wu, Taiasean, et al.. (2018). Site-specific incorporation of quadricyclane into a protein and photocleavage of the quadricyclane ligation adduct. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 26(19). 5280–5290. 6 indexed citations
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Sletten, Ellen M., et al.. (2012). Thiacycloalkynes for Copper‐Free Click Chemistry. Angewandte Chemie. 124(10). 2493–2497. 42 indexed citations
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Sletten, Ellen M., et al.. (2012). Thiacycloalkynes for Copper‐Free Click Chemistry. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(10). 2443–2447. 128 indexed citations
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Sletten, Ellen M. & Carolyn R. Bertozzi. (2011). From Mechanism to Mouse: A Tale of Two Bioorthogonal Reactions. Accounts of Chemical Research. 44(9). 666–676. 902 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chang, Pamela V., Jennifer A. Prescher, Ellen M. Sletten, et al.. (2010). Copper-free click chemistry in living animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(5). 1821–1826. 537 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chang, Pamela V., Danielle H. Dube, Ellen M. Sletten, & Carolyn R. Bertozzi. (2010). A Strategy for the Selective Imaging of Glycans Using Caged Metabolic Precursors. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132(28). 9516–9518. 83 indexed citations

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