Erik Vrij

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 790 citations indexed

About

Erik Vrij is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik Vrij has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 790 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Erik Vrij's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (8 papers), Reproductive Biology and Fertility (6 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers). Erik Vrij is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (8 papers), Reproductive Biology and Fertility (6 papers) and Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (5 papers). Erik Vrij collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany. Erik Vrij's co-authors include Clemens van Blitterswijk, Roman Truckenmüller, Nicolas Rivron, Niels Geijsen, Jeroen Korving, Alexander van Oudenaarden, Judith Vivié, Jean-Charles Boisset, Jeroen Rouwkema and N.C. Rivron and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Erik Vrij

16 papers receiving 774 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. Blastocyst-like structures generated solely from stem cells
    2018 360 citations Nicolas Rivron, Erik Vrij et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Erik Vrij
Nicolas Rivron Austria
Lingjun Rao United States
Carolina Tarantino Spain
Leqian Yu United States
Jonathon M. Muncie United States
Timothy L. Downing United States
Ekaterina Kniazeva United States
Mehmet Girgin Switzerland
Melissa A. Kinney United States
Ganna Bilousova United States
Nicolas Rivron Austria
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Countries citing papers authored by Erik Vrij

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Fields of papers citing papers by Erik Vrij

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik Vrij

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Erik Vrij. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Erik Vrij based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Erik Vrij. Erik Vrij is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Carvalho, Daniel O., et al.. (2025). Microfluidic On-Chip Assay for Quantifying Blastoid Adhesion to Endometrial Epithelium. Methods in molecular biology. 1 indexed citations
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Coonen, Edith, et al.. (2025). Integration of Bioengineered Tools in Assisted Reproductive Technologies. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 14(21). e2500918–e2500918.
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Guo, Ge, et al.. (2024). Monochorionic Twinning in Bioengineered Human Embryo Models. Advanced Materials. 36(25). e2313306–e2313306. 2 indexed citations
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Romano, Andrea, et al.. (2024). O-097 Implantation-on-chip: precise quantification for functional implantation failure studies. Human Reproduction. 39(Supplement_1). 1 indexed citations
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Vrij, Erik, et al.. (2023). The Synergy of Electrospinning and Imprinting for Faithful Replication of Fiber Structures. Advanced Materials Technologies. 8(16). 1 indexed citations
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Blitterswijk, Clemens van, et al.. (2022). From Mice to Men: Generation of Human Blastocyst-Like Structures In Vitro. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10. 838356–838356. 12 indexed citations
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Vrij, Erik, Yvonne Scholte op Reimer, Isabel Guerreiro, et al.. (2022). A pendulum of induction between the epiblast and extra-embryonic endoderm supports post-implantation progression. Development. 149(20). 16 indexed citations
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Blitterswijk, Clemens van, et al.. (2021). From Snapshots to Development: Identifying the Gaps in the Development of Stem Cell‐based Embryo Models along the Embryonic Timeline. Advanced Science. 8(8). 2004250–2004250. 9 indexed citations
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Rivron, Nicolas, Erik Vrij, Jean-Charles Boisset, et al.. (2018). Blastocyst-like structures generated solely from stem cells. Nature. 557(7703). 106–111. 360 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Jingwei, Xiaoman Luo, Erik Vrij, et al.. (2017). Topography of calcium phosphate ceramics regulates primary cilia length and TGF receptor recruitment associated with osteogenesis. Acta Biomaterialia. 57. 487–497. 45 indexed citations
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Vrij, Erik, Markus Heilig, Alexander Kolew, et al.. (2016). 3D high throughput screening and profiling of embryoid bodies in thermoformed microwell plates. Lab on a Chip. 16(4). 734–742. 54 indexed citations
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Vrij, Erik, Jeroen Rouwkema, Vanessa L.S. LaPointe, et al.. (2016). Directed Assembly and Development of Material‐Free Tissues with Complex Architectures. Advanced Materials. 28(21). 4032–4039. 52 indexed citations
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Leferink, Anne, Dirk J. Schipper, Erik Vrij, et al.. (2014). Engineered Micro‐Objects as Scaffolding Elements in Cellular Building Blocks for Bottom‐Up Tissue Engineering Approaches. Advanced Materials. 26(16). 2592–2599. 82 indexed citations
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Rivron, Nicolas, Erik Vrij, Jeroen Rouwkema, et al.. (2012). Tissue deformation spatially modulates VEGF signaling and angiogenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(18). 6886–6891. 121 indexed citations
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Koch, Martin, Erik Vrij, Elisabeth Engel, Josep A. Planell, & Damien Lacroix. (2010). Perfusion cell seeding on large porous PLA/calcium phosphate composite scaffolds in a perfusion bioreactor system under varying perfusion parameters. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 95A(4). 1011–1018. 30 indexed citations
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Rivron, N.C., Séverine Le Gac, Erik Vrij, et al.. (2009). Microfabrication of shaped MM-scale tissues to study vascular development using modular bottom-up approach. University of Twente Research Information. 9–11. 1 indexed citations

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