Öncay Yaşa

4.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
34 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Öncay Yaşa is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Öncay Yaşa has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 22 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 10 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Öncay Yaşa's work include Micro and Nano Robotics (22 papers), Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks (12 papers) and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (9 papers). Öncay Yaşa is often cited by papers focused on Micro and Nano Robotics (22 papers), Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks (12 papers) and Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies (9 papers). Öncay Yaşa collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Türkiye and Switzerland. Öncay Yaşa's co-authors include Metin Sitti, Immihan Ceren Yasa, Yunus Alapan, Hakan Ceylan, Byung-Wook Park, Ahmet Fatih Tabak, Joshua Giltinan, Pelin Erkoc, Zhuang Jiang and Ajay Vikram Singh and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials and ACS Nano.

In The Last Decade

Öncay Yaşa

32 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

3D-Printed Biodegradable Microswimmer for Theranostic Car... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2019 2018 2018 2016 2020 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. 3D-Printed Biodegradable Microswimmer for Theranostic Cargo Delivery and Release
    2019 432 citations Hakan Ceylan, Immihan Ceren Yasa et al. ACS Nano profile →
  2. Soft erythrocyte-based bacterial microswimmers for cargo delivery
    2018 337 citations Yunus Alapan, Öncay Yaşa et al. Science Robotics profile →
  3. Light-Triggered Drug Release from 3D-Printed Magnetic Chitosan Microswimmers
    2018 332 citations Ugur Bozuyuk, Öncay Yaşa et al. ACS Nano profile →
  4. Bioengineered and biohybrid bacteria-based systems for drug delivery
    2016 310 citations Zeinab Hosseinidoust, Babak Mostaghaci et al. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews profile →
  5. Acoustically powered surface-slipping mobile microrobots
    2020 249 citations Amirreza Aghakhani, Öncay Yaşa et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Magnetically steerable bacterial microrobots moving in 3D biological matrices for stimuli-responsive cargo delivery
    2022 185 citations Mukrime Birgul Akolpoglu, Yunus Alapan et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers

Öncay Yaşa
Yunus Alapan United States
Joshua Giltinan Germany
Mariana Medina‐Sánchez Germany
Ahmet Fatih Tabak Türkiye
Xiaohui Yan China
Emil Karshalev United States
Hakan Ceylan Türkiye
Tianlong Li China
Veronika Magdanz Germany
Zhihua Lin China
Yunus Alapan United States
Öncay Yaşa
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Fields of papers citing papers by Öncay Yaşa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Öncay Yaşa

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yang, Zhengqing, Yu Xiao, Yan Li, et al.. (2025). One‐Step Printing of Heterogeneous 3D Soft Magnetic Machines. Advanced Materials Technologies. 11(4).
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Filippi, Miriam, et al.. (2024). Multidirectional Filamented Light Biofabrication Creates Aligned and Contractile Cardiac Tissues. Advanced Science. 11(47). e2404509–e2404509. 9 indexed citations
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Filippi, Miriam, et al.. (2023). Perfusable Biohybrid Designs for Bioprinted Skeletal Muscle Tissue. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 12(18). e2300151–e2300151. 15 indexed citations
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Filippi, Miriam, Öncay Yaşa, Roger D. Kamm, Ritu Raman, & Robert K. Katzschmann. (2022). Will microfluidics enable functionally integrated biohybrid robots?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(35). e2200741119–e2200741119. 28 indexed citations
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Filippi, Miriam, et al.. (2022). Microfluidic Tissue Engineering and Bio‐Actuation. Advanced Materials. 34(23). e2108427–e2108427. 69 indexed citations
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Yaşa, Öncay, Yasunori Toshimitsu, Liam Jones, et al.. (2022). An Overview of Soft Robotics. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 6(1). 1–29. 119 indexed citations
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Akolpoglu, Mukrime Birgul, et al.. (2022). Magnetically steerable bacterial microrobots moving in 3D biological matrices for stimuli-responsive cargo delivery. Science Advances. 8(28). eabo6163–eabo6163. 185 indexed citations breakdown →
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Filippi, Miriam, et al.. (2021). Engineered Magnetic Nanocomposites to Modulate Cellular Function. Small. 18(9). e2104079–e2104079. 33 indexed citations
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Aghakhani, Amirreza, Öncay Yaşa, Paul Wrede, & Metin Sitti. (2020). Acoustically powered surface-slipping mobile microrobots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(7). 3469–3477. 249 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pena‐Francesch, Abdon, Devin Sheehan, Ugur Bozuyuk, et al.. (2020). Microrobots: Zwitterionic 3D‐Printed Non‐Immunogenic Stealth Microrobots (Adv. Mater. 42/2020). Advanced Materials. 32(42). 5 indexed citations
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Yaşa, Öncay, et al.. (2020). Nanoerythrosome-functionalized biohybrid microswimmers. APL Bioengineering. 4(2). 26103–26103. 33 indexed citations
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Erkoc, Pelin, Immihan Ceren Yasa, Hakan Ceylan, et al.. (2018). Mobile Microrobots for Active Therapeutic Delivery. Advanced Therapeutics. 2(1). 181 indexed citations
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Alapan, Yunus, Öncay Yaşa, Oliver Schauer, et al.. (2018). Soft erythrocyte-based bacterial microswimmers for cargo delivery. Science Robotics. 3(17). 337 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yaşa, Öncay, Pelin Erkoc, Yunus Alapan, & Metin Sitti. (2018). Microalga‐Powered Microswimmers toward Active Cargo Delivery. Advanced Materials. 30(45). e1804130–e1804130. 205 indexed citations
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Park, Byung-Wook, Zhuang Jiang, Öncay Yaşa, & Metin Sitti. (2017). Multifunctional Bacteria-Driven Microswimmers for Targeted Active Drug Delivery. ACS Nano. 11(9). 8910–8923. 300 indexed citations
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Hosseinidoust, Zeinab, Babak Mostaghaci, Öncay Yaşa, et al.. (2016). Bioengineered and biohybrid bacteria-based systems for drug delivery. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 106(Pt A). 27–44. 310 indexed citations breakdown →
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Uzunallı, Gözde, Yasin Tümtaş, Tuncay Delibaşı, et al.. (2015). Improving pancreatic islet in vitro functionality and transplantation efficiency by using heparin mimetic peptide nanofiber gels. Acta Biomaterialia. 22. 8–18. 26 indexed citations
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Özkan, Alper D., et al.. (2012). Screening and selection of novel animal probiotics isolated from bovine chyme. Annals of Microbiology. 63(4). 1291–1300. 10 indexed citations

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