Nick Sears

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 886 citations indexed

About

Nick Sears is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Surgery and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Sears has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 886 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 2 papers in Surgery and 2 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nick Sears's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (4 papers), Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (4 papers) and Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (2 papers). Nick Sears is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (4 papers), Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (4 papers) and Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies (2 papers). Nick Sears collaborates with scholars based in United States and Sweden. Nick Sears's co-authors include Elizabeth Cosgriff‐Hernandez, Roland Kaunas, Akhilesh K. Gaharwar, Prachi Dhavalikar, Dhruv R. Seshadri, Manish K. Jaiswal, Prachi Desai, Teena Thakur, Tyler Touchet and Alysha Kishan and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Nano, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A and Advanced Healthcare Materials.

In The Last Decade

Nick Sears

7 papers receiving 880 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.

Bioactive Nanoengineered Hydrogels for Bone Tissue Engineering: A Growth-Factor-Free Approach

2015 545 citations Teena Thakur, Prachi Desai et al. ACS Nano profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nick Sears United States	7	698	279	233	138	97	7	886
Eva Hoch Germany	10	677 1.0×	288 1.0×	259 1.1×	118 0.9×	133 1.4×	14	844
Małgorzata K. Włodarczyk‐Biegun Netherlands	20	632 0.9×	378 1.4×	249 1.1×	135 1.0×	128 1.3×	39	987
Charlotte E. Vorwald United States	9	522 0.7×	235 0.8×	152 0.7×	82 0.6×	129 1.3×	10	723
Teena Thakur United States	7	617 0.9×	327 1.2×	133 0.6×	210 1.5×	114 1.2×	10	940
Ji Min Seok South Korea	16	733 1.1×	320 1.1×	237 1.0×	72 0.5×	128 1.3×	25	933
Mingjiao Chen China	9	689 1.0×	240 0.9×	226 1.0×	65 0.5×	129 1.3×	10	890
Gabriella Lindberg New Zealand	12	617 0.9×	198 0.7×	298 1.3×	59 0.4×	79 0.8×	22	847
Nicola Contessi Negrini Italy	20	719 1.0×	540 1.9×	214 0.9×	152 1.1×	212 2.2×	30	1.2k
Anna Abbadessa Netherlands	11	558 0.8×	236 0.8×	250 1.1×	114 0.8×	99 1.0×	16	851
Shengli Mi China	13	769 1.1×	217 0.8×	282 1.2×	111 0.8×	94 1.0×	21	982

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Sears

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

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Sears, Nick, David Chimene, Eoin P. McNeill, et al.. (2020). Conditioning of 3D Printed Nanoengineered Ionic–Covalent Entanglement Scaffolds with iP‐hMSCs Derived Matrix. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 9(15). e1901580–e1901580. 22 indexed citations

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Kishan, Alysha, et al.. (2018). Winner of the society for biomaterials student award in the Ph.D. category for the annual meeting of the society for biomaterials, april 11–14, 2018, Atlanta, GA: Development of a bimodal, in situ crosslinking method to achieve multifactor release from electrospun gelatin. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 106(5). 1155–1164. 6 indexed citations

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Sears, Nick, Dhruv R. Seshadri, Prachi Dhavalikar, & Elizabeth Cosgriff‐Hernandez. (2016). A Review of Three-Dimensional Printing in Tissue Engineering. Tissue Engineering Part B Reviews. 22(4). 298–310. 274 indexed citations

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Cosgriff‐Hernandez, Elizabeth, E. Tkatchouk, Tyler Touchet, et al.. (2016). Comparison of clinical explants and accelerated hydrolytic aging to improve biostability assessment of silicone‐based polyurethanes. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 104(7). 1805–1816. 19 indexed citations

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Thakur, Teena, Prachi Desai, Manish K. Jaiswal, et al.. (2015). Bioactive Nanoengineered Hydrogels for Bone Tissue Engineering: A Growth-Factor-Free Approach. ACS Nano. 9(3). 3109–3118. 545 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sears, Nick, et al.. (2011). Synthesis of Collagenase‐Sensitive Polyureas for Ligament Tissue Engineering. Macromolecular Bioscience. 11(8). 1020–1030. 13 indexed citations

7.

Sears, Nick. (2011). 5 strategies for physician engagement.. PubMed. 65(1). 78–82. 7 indexed citations

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