Payam Rowghanian

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 999 citations indexed

About

Payam Rowghanian is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Payam Rowghanian has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 999 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 4 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 4 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Payam Rowghanian's work include Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (5 papers), Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions (4 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (3 papers). Payam Rowghanian is often cited by papers focused on Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (5 papers), Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions (4 papers) and Micro and Nano Robotics (3 papers). Payam Rowghanian collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. Payam Rowghanian's co-authors include Otger Campàs, Alessandro Mongera, Friedhelm Serwane, Adam Lucio, David Kealhofer, Alexander Y. Grosberg, Hannah J. Gustafson, Elijah Shelton, Carl Meinhart and Georgina A. Stooke‐Vaughan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Payam Rowghanian

11 papers receiving 991 citations

Hit Papers

A fluid-to-solid jamming transition underlies vertebrate ... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 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. A fluid-to-solid jamming transition underlies vertebrate body axis elongation
    2018 456 citations Alessandro Mongera, Payam Rowghanian et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Payam Rowghanian United States 9 565 513 292 120 106 11 999
Shuji Ishihara Japan 21 778 1.4× 399 0.8× 558 1.9× 164 1.4× 132 1.2× 73 1.6k
Parag Katira United States 13 312 0.6× 347 0.7× 261 0.9× 131 1.1× 83 0.8× 33 768
Bálint Szabó Hungary 19 400 0.7× 533 1.0× 366 1.3× 190 1.6× 78 0.7× 41 1.3k
Yasuhiro Inoue Japan 19 501 0.9× 343 0.7× 237 0.8× 101 0.8× 24 0.2× 88 1.0k
Karen Alim Germany 17 280 0.5× 753 1.5× 559 1.9× 77 0.6× 35 0.3× 47 1.7k
Yonglu Che United States 9 354 0.6× 358 0.7× 390 1.3× 54 0.5× 89 0.8× 14 1.2k
Karin John France 19 518 0.9× 169 0.3× 565 1.9× 130 1.1× 92 0.9× 30 1.2k
David Gonzalez‐Rodriguez France 17 349 0.6× 330 0.6× 156 0.5× 98 0.8× 27 0.3× 36 834
Yusuke T. Maeda Japan 19 260 0.5× 329 0.6× 573 2.0× 223 1.9× 151 1.4× 53 1.3k
Emmanuel Terriac France 19 503 0.9× 315 0.6× 458 1.6× 42 0.3× 31 0.3× 34 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Payam Rowghanian

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Fields of papers citing papers by Payam Rowghanian

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Payam Rowghanian

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

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Mongera, Alessandro, Hannah J. Gustafson, Georgina A. Stooke‐Vaughan, et al.. (2022). Mechanics of the cellular microenvironment as probed by cells in vivo during zebrafish presomitic mesoderm differentiation. Nature Materials. 22(1). 135–143. 46 indexed citations
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Rowghanian, Payam, et al.. (2021). Mechanical control of tissue shape and morphogenetic flows during vertebrate body axis elongation. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 8591–8591. 34 indexed citations
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Mongera, Alessandro, Payam Rowghanian, Hannah J. Gustafson, et al.. (2018). A fluid-to-solid jamming transition underlies vertebrate body axis elongation. Nature. 561(7723). 401–405. 456 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rowghanian, Payam & Otger Campàs. (2017). Non-equilibrium Membrane Homeostasis in Expanding Cellular Domains. Biophysical Journal. 113(1). 132–137. 6 indexed citations
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Serwane, Friedhelm, Alessandro Mongera, Payam Rowghanian, et al.. (2016). In vivo quantification of spatially varying mechanical properties in developing tissues. Nature Methods. 14(2). 181–186. 256 indexed citations
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Rowghanian, Payam, Carl Meinhart, & Otger Campàs. (2016). Dynamics of ferrofluid drop deformations under spatially uniform magnetic fields. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 802. 245–262. 53 indexed citations
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Rowghanian, Payam & Alexander Y. Grosberg. (2013). Two cases of reciprocal relations for electric and hydrodynamic currents: A rigid polymer in a nano-channel and a polyelectrolyte gel. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 139(2). 24902–24902. 1 indexed citations
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Rowghanian, Payam & Alexander Y. Grosberg. (2013). Electrophoresis of a DNA coil near a nanopore. Physical Review E. 87(4). 42723–42723. 12 indexed citations
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Rowghanian, Payam & Alexander Y. Grosberg. (2013). Electrophoretic capture of a DNA chain into a nanopore. Physical Review E. 87(4). 42722–42722. 32 indexed citations
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Rowghanian, Payam & Alexander Y. Grosberg. (2012). Propagation of tension along a polymer chain. Physical Review E. 86(1). 11803–11803. 23 indexed citations
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Rowghanian, Payam & Alexander Y. Grosberg. (2011). Force-Driven Polymer Translocation through a Nanopore: An Old Problem Revisited. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 115(48). 14127–14135. 80 indexed citations

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