Nate Cira

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 816 citations indexed

About

Nate Cira is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nate Cira has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 816 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 5 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Nate Cira's work include Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (5 papers), Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies (4 papers) and Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (2 papers). Nate Cira is often cited by papers focused on Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer (5 papers), Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies (4 papers) and Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (2 papers). Nate Cira collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Switzerland. Nate Cira's co-authors include Manu Prakash, Adrien Benusiglio, Douglas B. Weibel, Megan E. Dueck, Ingmar H. Riedel‐Kruse, Seung Ah Lee, Stephen R. Quake, Shayandev Sinha, Lukas C. Gerber and Daniel T. Chiu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Nate Cira

16 papers receiving 810 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.

Vapour-mediated sensing and motility in two-component droplets

2015 354 citations Nate Cira, Adrien Benusiglio et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nate Cira United States	13	358	250	159	137	117	17	816
Haibo Ding China	23	718 2.0×	367 1.5×	214 1.3×	66 0.5×	122 1.0×	51	1.6k
M. Saad Bhamla United States	18	489 1.4×	68 0.3×	43 0.3×	91 0.7×	171 1.5×	53	1.2k
Adam Siegel United States	14	1.7k 4.7×	855 3.4×	48 0.3×	29 0.2×	477 4.1×	18	2.1k
Sung‐Eun Choi South Korea	12	663 1.9×	298 1.2×	74 0.5×	42 0.3×	146 1.2×	21	1.2k
Chi‐Hung Lee Taiwan	15	139 0.4×	155 0.6×	52 0.3×	18 0.1×	19 0.2×	62	556
Bongsu Kim South Korea	17	508 1.4×	183 0.7×	26 0.2×	16 0.1×	150 1.3×	112	1.2k
Abhishek Agarwal United States	16	792 2.2×	977 3.9×	153 1.0×	30 0.2×	67 0.6×	46	1.8k
Kamalalayam Rajan Sreejith Australia	18	389 1.1×	281 1.1×	129 0.8×	26 0.2×	128 1.1×	48	849
Junhoi Kim South Korea	11	892 2.5×	570 2.3×	146 0.9×	25 0.2×	212 1.8×	18	1.9k
Veronica Vespini Italy	22	878 2.5×	1.0k 4.0×	223 1.4×	135 1.0×	38 0.3×	83	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Nate Cira

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nate Cira

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nate Cira

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

All Works

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17 of 17 papers shown

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Cira, Nate, et al.. (2025). Structure, motion, and multiscale search of traveling networks. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1922–1922. 1 indexed citations

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Cira, Nate, et al.. (2024). High-throughput, combinatorial droplet generation by sequential spraying. Lab on a Chip. 25(6). 1502–1511. 1 indexed citations

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Sinha, Shayandev, et al.. (2022). Marangoni spreading and contracting three-component droplets on completely wetting surfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(19). e2120432119–e2120432119. 23 indexed citations

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Sinha, Shayandev, et al.. (2021). Thermal Marangoni Flow Impacts the Shape of Single Component Volatile Droplets on Thin, Completely Wetting Substrates. Physical Review Letters. 127(2). 24502–24502. 26 indexed citations

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Vasquez, Kimberly S., Lisa Willis, Nate Cira, et al.. (2021). Quantifying rapid bacterial evolution and transmission within the mouse intestine. Cell Host & Microbe. 29(9). 1454–1468.e4. 26 indexed citations

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Cira, Nate, et al.. (2020). Pac-Euglena: A Living Cellular Pac-Man Meets Virtual Ghosts. 1–13. 13 indexed citations

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Cira, Nate, et al.. (2018). Neutral and selective dynamics in a synthetic microbial community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(42). E9842–E9848. 37 indexed citations

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Gerber, Lukas C., et al.. (2017). Device and programming abstractions for spatiotemporal control of active micro-particle swarms. Lab on a Chip. 17(8). 1442–1451. 23 indexed citations

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Gerber, Lukas C., et al.. (2016). LudusScope: Accessible Interactive Smartphone Microscopy for Life-Science Education. PLoS ONE. 11(10). e0162602–e0162602. 55 indexed citations

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Benusiglio, Adrien, Nate Cira, & Manu Prakash. (2015). Dancing droplets: Contact angle, drag, and confinement. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.

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Cira, Nate, et al.. (2015). A Biotic Game Design Project for Integrated Life Science and Engineering Education. PLoS Biology. 13(3). e1002110–e1002110. 42 indexed citations

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Cira, Nate, Adrien Benusiglio, & Manu Prakash. (2015). Vapour-mediated sensing and motility in two-component droplets. Nature. 519(7544). 446–450. 354 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lee, Seung Ah, et al.. (2015). Tangible Interactive Microbiology for Informal Science Education. 273–280. 17 indexed citations

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Lee, Seung Ah, Engin Bumbacher, Nate Cira, et al.. (2015). Trap it!. 2593–2602. 53 indexed citations

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Cira, Nate, Adrien Benusiglio, & Manu Prakash. (2014). Dancing droplets: Autonomous surface tension-driven droplet motion. Physics of Fluids. 26(9). 8 indexed citations

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Cira, Nate, et al.. (2012). Rapid Identification of ESKAPE Bacterial Strains Using an Autonomous Microfluidic Device. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e41245–e41245. 19 indexed citations

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Cira, Nate, et al.. (2011). A self-loading microfluidic device for determining the minimum inhibitory concentration of antibiotics. Lab on a Chip. 12(6). 1052–1059. 118 indexed citations

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