Hongfan Sun

4.0k citations
50 papers · 3.5k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 30
Topics
Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (15 papers)RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (12 papers)Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (11 papers)

In The Last Decade

Hongfan Sun

50 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers

Hongfan Sun
Comparison fields: 5 of 121
  • Biomaterials 1.6k
  • Biomedical Engineering 1.4k
  • Molecular Biology 866
  • Immunology 577
  • Pharmaceutical Science 432
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Countries citing papers authored by Hongfan Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hongfan Sun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hongfan Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hongfan Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hongfan Sun 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 Hongfan Sun. Hongfan Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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5 53
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About Hongfan Sun

Hongfan Sun is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Pharmaceutical Science and Immunology, having authored 50 papers that have together received 3.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (15 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (12 papers) and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biomaterials (1.6k citations), Pharmaceutical Science (432 citations) and Biomedical Engineering (1.4k citations). Hongfan Sun has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Cunxian Song, Lin Mei, Pengyan Wang, Xiumin Cui, Xigang Leng, Deling Kong, Guilei Ma, Dunwan Zhu, Deling Kong and Chun Wang. Their work appears in journals such as Nano Letters, Biomaterials and Scientific Reports.

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