N. Döbelin

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

N. Döbelin is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, N. Döbelin has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 17 papers in Materials Chemistry and 10 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in N. Döbelin's work include Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (23 papers), Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty (9 papers) and Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes (8 papers). N. Döbelin is often cited by papers focused on Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (23 papers), Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty (9 papers) and Dental Implant Techniques and Outcomes (8 papers). N. Döbelin collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Latvia and Estonia. N. Döbelin's co-authors include Marc Bohner, Bastien Le Gars Santoni, Thomas Armbruster, Gamal Baroud, S. Tadier, C. Stähli, Andris Šutka, Noémie van Garderen, Urmas Joost and Krišjānis Šmits and has published in prestigious journals such as Biomaterials, Chemistry of Materials and Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

In The Last Decade

N. Döbelin

43 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

β-tricalcium phosphate for bone substitution: Synthesis and properties

2020 514 citations Marc Bohner, Bastien Le Gars Santoni et al. Acta Biomaterialia profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
N. Döbelin Switzerland	19	922	337	279	274	257	43	1.4k
Ľubomír Medvecký Slovakia	22	674 0.7×	609 1.8×	371 1.3×	170 0.6×	222 0.9×	127	1.6k
A.F. Lemos Portugal	21	1.3k 1.4×	351 1.0×	546 2.0×	390 1.4×	296 1.2×	33	1.7k
J. Will Germany	22	892 1.0×	838 2.5×	564 2.0×	189 0.7×	177 0.7×	32	2.1k
A.R. Boccaccini United Kingdom	24	1.2k 1.3×	634 1.9×	407 1.5×	355 1.3×	346 1.3×	72	2.1k
Hrvoje Ivanković Croatia	26	1.1k 1.1×	451 1.3×	613 2.2×	238 0.9×	175 0.7×	71	1.9k
Claus Moseke Germany	19	1.3k 1.4×	396 1.2×	477 1.7×	218 0.8×	343 1.3×	38	1.7k
Erik Adolfsson Sweden	28	968 1.0×	353 1.0×	183 0.7×	499 1.8×	232 0.9×	80	2.0k
Yasushi Suetsugu Japan	19	723 0.8×	262 0.8×	383 1.4×	159 0.6×	202 0.8×	39	1.2k
Luis M. Rodríguez‐Lorenzo Spain	24	1.8k 1.9×	405 1.2×	692 2.5×	418 1.5×	385 1.5×	67	2.3k
Rui N. Correia Portugal	21	882 1.0×	466 1.4×	255 0.9×	312 1.1×	259 1.0×	48	1.3k

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Döbelin, N., et al.. (2025). Influence of gallium doping on the thermal stability and microstructure of sintered hydroxyapatite bioceramics. Ceramics International. 51(24). 42250–42261. 1 indexed citations

Döbelin, N., Osamu Suzuki, Christophe Drouet, et al.. (2024). Workshop on the Latest Advances in Biomedical Applications of Octacalcium Phosphate. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B Applied Biomaterials. 113(1). e35500–e35500. 1 indexed citations

Rho, Hoon Suk, C. Stähli, N. Döbelin, et al.. (2024). Optimization of a tunable process for rapid production of calcium phosphate microparticles using a droplet-based microfluidic platform. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 12. 1352184–1352184. 1 indexed citations

Santoni, Bastien Le Gars, Silvia Dolder, O Loeffel, et al.. (2023). Influence of the sintering atmosphere on the physico-chemical properties and the osteoclastic resorption of β-tricalcium phosphate cylinders. Acta Biomaterialia. 169. 566–578. 2 indexed citations

Santoni, Bastien Le Gars, Silvia Dolder, O Loeffel, et al.. (2021). Effect of minor amounts of β-calcium pyrophosphate and hydroxyapatite on the physico-chemical properties and osteoclastic resorption of β-tricalcium phosphate cylinders. Bioactive Materials. 10. 222–235. 14 indexed citations

Maazouz, Yassine, et al.. (2021). Cell-free, quantitative mineralization measurements as a proxy to identify osteoinductive bone graft substitutes. Biomaterials. 275. 120912–120912. 19 indexed citations

Bohner, Marc, Bastien Le Gars Santoni, & N. Döbelin. (2020). β-tricalcium phosphate for bone substitution: Synthesis and properties. Acta Biomaterialia. 113. 23–41. 514 indexed citations breakdown →

Sadowska, Joanna M., Jordi Guillem‐Marti, Montserrat Español, et al.. (2018). In vitro response of mesenchymal stem cells to biomimetic hydroxyapatite substrates: A new strategy to assess the effect of ion exchange. Acta Biomaterialia. 76. 319–332. 42 indexed citations

Stähli, C., et al.. (2016). Hydrogen-substituted β-tricalcium phosphate synthesized in organic media. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science Crystal Engineering and Materials. 72(6). 875–884. 23 indexed citations

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Šutka, Andris, N. Döbelin, Rainer Pärna, et al.. (2015). Photocatalytic activity of anatase–nickel ferrite heterostructures. physica status solidi (a). 212(4). 796–803. 18 indexed citations

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Döbelin, N.. (2015). Interlaboratory study on the quantification of calcium phosphate phases by Rietveld refinement. Powder Diffraction. 30(3). 231–241. 18 indexed citations

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Bohner, Marc, et al.. (2015). Design of an inorganic dual-paste apatite cement using cation exchange. Journal of Materials Science Materials in Medicine. 26(2). 63–63. 21 indexed citations

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Torres, P.M.C., J.C.C. Abrantes, Ajay Kaushal, et al.. (2015). Influence of Mg-doping, calcium pyrophosphate impurities and cooling rate on the allotropic α ↔ β-tricalcium phosphate phase transformations. Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 36(3). 817–827. 60 indexed citations

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Šutka, Andris, Martin Timusk, N. Döbelin, et al.. (2015). Correction: A straightforward and “green” solvothermal synthesis of Al doped zinc oxide plasmonic nanocrystals and piezoresistive elastomer nanocomposite. RSC Advances. 5(88). 72070–72070. 1 indexed citations

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Bohner, Marc, et al.. (2013). Synthesis of spherical calcium phosphate particles for dental and orthopedic applications. PubMed. 3(2). e25103–e25103. 97 indexed citations

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Döbelin, N., Reto Luginbühl, & Marc Bohner. (2010). Synthetic Calcium Phosphate Ceramics for Treatment of Bone Fractures. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 64(10). 723–723. 24 indexed citations

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Döbelin, N., et al.. (2008). Phase Evolution of Thermally Treated Amorphous Tricalcium Phosphate Nanoparticles. Key engineering materials. 396-398. 595–598. 10 indexed citations

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Krivovichev, Sergey V., et al.. (2004). Porous titanosilicate nanorods in the structure of yuksporite, (Sr,Ba)₂K₄(Ca,Na)₁₄(□,Mn,Fe) {(Ti,Nb)₄(O,OH)₄[Si₆O₁₇]₂[Si₂O₇]₃}(H₂O,OH)_n, resolved using synchrotron radiation. American Mineralogist. 89(10). 1561–1565. 9 indexed citations

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Armbruster, Thomas, N. Döbelin, Adolf Peretti, et al.. (2004). The crystal structure of painite CaZrB[Al₉O₁₈] revisited. American Mineralogist. 89(4). 610–613. 5 indexed citations

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Armbruster, Thomas, et al.. (2002). Cu2+-acetate and Cu2+-ammine exchanged heulandite: a structural comparison. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 57(2). 121–131. 20 indexed citations

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