Karthik Tappa

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Karthik Tappa is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Surgery and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Karthik Tappa has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 12 papers in Surgery and 9 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Karthik Tappa's work include Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (11 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (11 papers) and Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (9 papers). Karthik Tappa is often cited by papers focused on Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (11 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (11 papers) and Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (9 papers). Karthik Tappa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Philippines and Sweden. Karthik Tappa's co-authors include Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, David K. Mills, Jeffery A. Weisman, David H. Ballard, Pamela K. Woodard, Hyunah Cho, Chester G. Wilson, Lin Sun, Prashanth Ravi and Suprateek Kundu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Materials.

In The Last Decade

Karthik Tappa

30 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Recent Advances in Biomaterials for 3D Printing and Tissue Engineering

2018 385 citations Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, Karthik Tappa Journal of Functional Biomaterials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karthik Tappa United States	19	1.2k	708	332	279	68	32	1.6k
Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka United States	18	1.1k 1.0×	680 1.0×	319 1.0×	276 1.0×	68 1.0×	32	1.6k
Heng Bo Jiang China	21	556 0.5×	242 0.3×	312 0.9×	138 0.5×	58 0.9×	59	1.5k
Jung‐Suk Han South Korea	31	1.3k 1.1×	169 0.2×	209 0.6×	408 1.5×	41 0.6×	129	3.0k
Russell Giordano United States	19	692 0.6×	389 0.5×	153 0.5×	156 0.6×	39 0.6×	44	2.0k
Jung‐Bo Huh South Korea	31	1.4k 1.2×	259 0.4×	461 1.4×	473 1.7×	153 2.3×	156	2.8k
Eui‐Seok Lee South Korea	18	458 0.4×	181 0.3×	210 0.6×	195 0.7×	16 0.2×	80	1.4k
Sang-Won Park South Korea	22	613 0.5×	329 0.5×	98 0.3×	189 0.7×	35 0.5×	118	1.6k
Elke Vorndran Germany	25	1.8k 1.6×	763 1.1×	389 1.2×	472 1.7×	6 0.1×	43	2.3k
Vinícius Rosa Singapore	33	1.5k 1.3×	225 0.3×	355 1.1×	273 1.0×	19 0.3×	102	3.1k
Nileshkumar Dubey Singapore	26	1.2k 1.0×	197 0.3×	489 1.5×	172 0.6×	12 0.2×	46	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karthik Tappa

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Kamel, M.A., et al.. (2025). Medical 3D Printing Using Material Jetting: Technology Overview, Medical Applications, and Challenges. Bioengineering. 12(3). 249–249. 5 indexed citations

Tappa, Karthik, Justin E. Bird, Elsa Arribas, & Lumarie Santiago. (2024). Multimodality Imaging for 3D Printing and Surgical Rehearsal in Complex Spine Surgery. Radiographics. 44(3). e230116–e230116. 1 indexed citations

Ganapathy, Aravinda, et al.. (2023). Reverse Engineering and 3D Printing of Medical Devices for Drug Delivery and Drug-Embedded Anatomic Implants. Polymers. 15(21). 4306–4306. 3 indexed citations

Hirase, Takashi, Karthik Tappa, Robert L. Satcher, et al.. (2023). Advances in Virtual Cutting Guide and Stereotactic Navigation for Complex Tumor Resections of the Sacrum and Pelvis: Case Series with Short-Term Follow-Up. Bioengineering. 10(12). 1342–1342.

Tappa, Karthik, et al.. (2023). Medical 3D Printing Using Desktop Inverted Vat Photopolymerization: Background, Clinical Applications, and Challenges. Bioengineering. 10(7). 782–782. 14 indexed citations

Ganapathy, Aravinda, David Chen, Karthik Tappa, et al.. (2022). Guide for starting or optimizing a 3D printing clinical service. Methods. 206. 41–52. 19 indexed citations

Ballard, David H., Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, Kathleen Meacham, et al.. (2020). Quantitative Fit Tested N95 Respirator-Alternatives Generated With CT Imaging and 3D Printing: A Response to Potential Shortages During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Academic Radiology. 28(2). 158–165. 18 indexed citations

Cho, Hyunah, Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, Karthik Tappa, et al.. (2019). 3D Printing of Poloxamer 407 Nanogel Discs and Their Applications in Adjuvant Ovarian Cancer Therapy. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 16(2). 552–560. 45 indexed citations

Ballard, David H., Jeffery A. Weisman, David J. McGee, et al.. (2018). Three-Dimensional Printing Antimicrobial and Radiopaque Constructs. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing. 5(1). 29–36. 17 indexed citations

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Mills, David K., Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, Karthik Tappa, & Jeffery A. Weisman. (2018). Studies on the cytocompatibility, mechanical and antimicrobial properties of 3D printed poly(methyl methacrylate) beads. Bioactive Materials. 3(2). 157–166. 52 indexed citations

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Ballard, David H., Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, Karthik Tappa, et al.. (2018). 3D printing of surgical hernia meshes impregnated with contrast agents: in vitro proof of concept with imaging characteristics on computed tomography. 3D Printing in Medicine. 4(1). 31 indexed citations

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Weisman, Jeffery A., David H. Ballard, Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, et al.. (2018). 3D Printed Antibiotic and Chemotherapeutic Eluting Catheters for Potential Use in Interventional Radiology. Academic Radiology. 26(2). 270–274. 58 indexed citations

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Jammalamadaka, Udayabhanu & Karthik Tappa. (2018). Recent Advances in Biomaterials for 3D Printing and Tissue Engineering. Journal of Functional Biomaterials. 9(1). 22–22. 385 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tappa, Karthik, Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, David H. Ballard, et al.. (2017). Medication eluting devices for the field of OBGYN (MEDOBGYN): 3D printed biodegradable hormone eluting constructs, a proof of concept study. PLoS ONE. 12(8). e0182929–e0182929. 90 indexed citations

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Jammalamadaka, Udayabhanu, et al.. (2017). Effect of barium-coated halloysite nanotube addition on the cytocompatibility, mechanical and contrast properties of poly(methyl methacrylate) cement. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. Volume 10. 105–114. 10 indexed citations

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Mills, David K., et al.. (2017). The Use of 3D Printing in the Fabrication of Nasal Stents. Inventions. 3(1). 1–1. 37 indexed citations

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Weisman, Jeffery A., Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, Karthik Tappa, & David K. Mills. (2017). Doped Halloysite Nanotubes for Use in the 3D Printing of Medical Devices. Bioengineering. 4(4). 96–96. 32 indexed citations

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Ballard, David H., Jeffery A. Weisman, Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, et al.. (2016). Three-dimensional printing of bioactive hernia meshes: In vitro proof of principle. Surgery. 161(6). 1479–1481. 41 indexed citations

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Jammalamadaka, Udayabhanu, et al.. (2016). Performance evaluation of nanoclay enriched anti-microbial hydrogels for biomedical applications. Heliyon. 2(2). e00072–e00072. 12 indexed citations

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Mills, David K., et al.. (2015). Antibiotic and chemotherapeutic enhanced three-dimensional printer filaments and constructs for biomedical applications. International Journal of Nanomedicine. 10. 357–357. 95 indexed citations

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