Eric A. Appel

14.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
143 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Eric A. Appel is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Organic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric A. Appel has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Biomaterials, 40 papers in Organic Chemistry and 38 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Eric A. Appel's work include Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (31 papers), Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (20 papers) and Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (19 papers). Eric A. Appel is often cited by papers focused on Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications (31 papers), Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (20 papers) and Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (19 papers). Eric A. Appel collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. Eric A. Appel's co-authors include Róbert Langer, Oren A. Scherman, Matthew J. Webber, Xian Jun Loh, Jesús del Barrio, E. W. Meijer, Hector Lopez Hernandez, Anthony C. Yu, Abigail K. Grosskopf and Samuel T. Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Eric A. Appel

138 papers receiving 11.3k 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.

Supramolecular biomaterials

2015 1.3k citations Matthew J. Webber, Eric A. Appel et al. profile →
Supramolecular polymeric hydrogels

2012 987 citations Eric A. Appel, Oren A. Scherman et al. profile →
Translational Applications of Hydrogels

2021 775 citations Santiago Correa, Abigail K. Grosskopf et al. profile →
Mechanistic understanding of in vivo protein corona formation on polymeric nanoparticles and impact on pharmacokinetics

2017 559 citations Eric A. Appel, Róbert Langer et al. Nature Communications profile →
Injectable Self‐Healing Glucose‐Responsive Hydrogels with pH‐Regulated Mechanical Properties

2015 521 citations Matthew J. Webber, Eric A. Appel et al. profile →
Supramolecular Cross-Linked Networks via Host−Guest Complexation with Cucurbit[8]uril

2010 514 citations Eric A. Appel, Oren A. Scherman et al. profile →
Self-assembled hydrogels utilizing polymer–nanoparticle interactions

2015 464 citations Eric A. Appel, Mark W. Tibbitt et al. Nature Communications profile →
Designing spatial and temporal control of vaccine responses

2021 216 citations Gillie A. Roth, Ben S. Ou et al. profile →
Delivery of CAR-T cells in a transient injectable stimulatory hydrogel niche improves treatment of solid tumors

2022 166 citations Abigail K. Grosskopf, Gillie A. Roth et al. Science Advances profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric A. Appel United States	50	5.0k	3.2k	3.1k	2.6k	2.6k	143	11.4k
Si‐Xue Cheng China	61	5.7k 1.2×	2.9k 0.9×	5.3k 1.7×	4.3k 1.6×	2.1k 0.8×	272	13.4k
Matthew J. Webber United States	56	5.9k 1.2×	3.6k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	4.2k 1.6×	1.5k 0.6×	151	12.4k
Nicola Tirelli United Kingdom	50	3.1k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	2.6k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	197	8.8k
Cornelus F. van Nostrum Netherlands	63	7.3k 1.5×	3.9k 1.2×	4.8k 1.5×	3.5k 1.4×	3.4k 1.3×	219	15.6k
Doo Sung Lee South Korea	64	7.6k 1.5×	2.9k 0.9×	5.3k 1.7×	2.6k 1.0×	4.8k 1.8×	209	14.5k
Kazunari Akiyoshi Japan	63	4.5k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	3.3k 1.1×	5.9k 2.3×	2.2k 0.9×	347	14.0k
Linqi Shi China	63	3.7k 0.8×	3.8k 1.2×	4.7k 1.5×	4.3k 1.6×	1.1k 0.4×	356	13.7k
Lichen Yin China	56	4.5k 0.9×	1.9k 0.6×	3.5k 1.1×	5.3k 2.0×	672 0.3×	195	11.6k
Patrick S. Stayton United States	77	4.8k 1.0×	3.5k 1.1×	4.7k 1.5×	8.8k 3.4×	1.7k 0.6×	264	18.9k
Seo Young Jeong South Korea	62	6.4k 1.3×	2.2k 0.7×	4.3k 1.4×	4.8k 1.8×	994 0.4×	195	13.3k

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Grosskopf, Abigail K., Krutarth M. Kamani, Michelle S. Huang, et al.. (2025). Crosslink strength governs yielding behavior in dynamically crosslinked hydrogels. Biomaterials Science. 13(6). 1501–1511. 1 indexed citations

Appel, Eric A., et al.. (2025). The Chemistry of Henna: A Module for High School Students. Journal of Chemical Education. 102(3). 1310–1313. 1 indexed citations

Jons, Carolyn K., et al.. (2025). Highly Extensible Physically Crosslinked Hydrogels for High‐Speed 3D Bioprinting. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 14(10). e2404988–e2404988. 4 indexed citations

Jons, Carolyn K., et al.. (2025). Polyacrylamide-Based Antimicrobial Copolymers to Replace or Rescue Antibiotics. ACS Central Science. 11(3). 486–496.

Tang, Shijia, Chun‐Wan Yen, James S. Prell, et al.. (2024). Label-Free Composition Analysis of Supramolecular Polymer–Nanoparticle Hydrogels by Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography Coupled with a Charged Aerosol Detector. Analytical Chemistry. 96(15). 5860–5868. 1 indexed citations

d’Aquino, Andrea I., et al.. (2024). Biomimetic Non-ergodic Aging by Dynamic-to-covalent Transitions in Physical Hydrogels. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(25). 32599–32610. 7 indexed citations

Ou, Ben S., Olivia M. Saouaf, Jerry Yan, et al.. (2023). Broad and Durable Humoral Responses Following Single Hydrogel Immunization of SARS‐CoV‐2 Subunit Vaccine. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 12(28). e2301495–e2301495. 16 indexed citations

Stapleton, Lyndsay M., Justin M. Farry, Yuanjia Zhu, et al.. (2023). Microfluidic encapsulation of photosynthetic cyanobacteria in hydrogel microparticles augments oxygen delivery to rescue ischemic myocardium. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 135(6). 493–499. 11 indexed citations

Fu, Kaiyu, et al.. (2022). Real-time monitoring of drug pharmacokinetics within tumor tissue in live animals. Science Advances. 8(1). eabk2901–eabk2901. 62 indexed citations

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Yu, Anthony C., et al.. (2021). More than a fertilizer: wastewater-derived struvite as a high value, sustainable fire retardant. Green Chemistry. 23(12). 4510–4523. 32 indexed citations

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Jung, Ji‐Hye, Gentaro Ikeda, Yuko Tada, et al.. (2021). miR-106a–363 cluster in extracellular vesicles promotes endogenous myocardial repair via Notch3 pathway in ischemic heart injury. Basic Research in Cardiology. 116(1). 19–19. 40 indexed citations

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Yu, Anthony C., Huada Lian, Xian Kong, et al.. (2021). Physical networks from entropy-driven non-covalent interactions. Nature Communications. 12(1). 746–746. 99 indexed citations

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Grosskopf, Abigail K., et al.. (2021). Injectable Supramolecular Polymer-Nanoparticle Hydrogels for Cell and Drug Delivery Applications. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 4 indexed citations

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Maikawa, Caitlin L., Anton A. A. Smith, Lei Zou, et al.. (2020). A co-formulation of supramolecularly stabilized insulin and pramlintide enhances mealtime glucagon suppression in diabetic pigs. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 4(5). 507–517. 54 indexed citations

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Poudineh, Mahla, Caitlin L. Maikawa, Yue Ma, et al.. (2020). A fluorescence sandwich immunoassay for the real-time continuous detection of glucose and insulin in live animals. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 5(1). 53–63. 79 indexed citations

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Axpe, Eneko, Gorka Orive, Kristian Franze, & Eric A. Appel. (2020). Towards brain-tissue-like biomaterials. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3423–3423. 98 indexed citations

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Steele, Amanda N., Lyndsay M. Stapleton, Justin M. Farry, et al.. (2019). A Biocompatible Therapeutic Catheter‐Deliverable Hydrogel for In Situ Tissue Engineering. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 8(5). e1801147–e1801147. 54 indexed citations

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Tan, Cindy Soo Yun, Gillie Agmon, Ji Liu, et al.. (2017). Distinguishing relaxation dynamics in transiently crosslinked polymeric networks. Polymer Chemistry. 8(35). 5336–5343. 51 indexed citations

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Tibbitt, Mark W., Eric A. Appel, Ashwath Jayagopal, & Róbert Langer. (2016). Sustained Intravitreal Drug Delivery with Injectable Polymer-Nanoparticle Hydrogels. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 57(12). 3651–3651. 1 indexed citations

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Blaha, U., Eric A. Appel, & Helge Stanjek. (2008). Determination of Anthropogenic Boundary Depth in Industrially Polluted Soil Profiles and Semi-Quantification of Heavy Metal Loads Using Magnetic Susceptibility. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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