Prachi Desai

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Prachi Desai is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Prachi Desai has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Biomaterials, 8 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Prachi Desai's work include Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (6 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (3 papers) and Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (3 papers). Prachi Desai is often cited by papers focused on Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (6 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (3 papers) and Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (3 papers). Prachi Desai collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Prachi Desai's co-authors include Akhilesh K. Gaharwar, Manish K. Jaiswal, Nick Sears, Roland Kaunas, Teena Thakur, Elizabeth Cosgriff‐Hernandez, James K. Carrow, Daniel L. Alge, Smriti Singh and Rahul Rimal and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ACS Nano and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Prachi Desai

15 papers receiving 1.0k 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 →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Prachi Desai Germany	9	649	377	229	149	115	16	1.1k
Junzhe Lou United States	15	771 1.2×	438 1.2×	388 1.7×	183 1.2×	87 0.8×	22	1.5k
Lindsay Riley United States	7	793 1.2×	409 1.1×	368 1.6×	127 0.9×	99 0.9×	9	1.3k
Raminder Singh Germany	18	406 0.6×	371 1.0×	119 0.5×	103 0.7×	85 0.7×	26	818
Rajiv M. Desai United States	9	843 1.3×	412 1.1×	318 1.4×	241 1.6×	52 0.5×	9	1.4k
Amir Seyfoori Iran	22	806 1.2×	529 1.4×	96 0.4×	309 2.1×	86 0.7×	57	1.6k
Sebastián L. Vega United States	16	640 1.0×	281 0.7×	173 0.8×	200 1.3×	61 0.5×	34	1.2k
Oommen P. Oommen Sweden	25	602 0.9×	541 1.4×	277 1.2×	411 2.8×	57 0.5×	45	1.6k
Clara R. Correia Portugal	24	993 1.5×	550 1.5×	164 0.7×	141 0.9×	72 0.6×	56	1.6k
Meghan Cuddihy United States	10	929 1.4×	552 1.5×	84 0.4×	221 1.5×	87 0.8×	15	1.5k
Stephen J. Florczyk United States	20	1.0k 1.6×	481 1.3×	155 0.7×	226 1.5×	82 0.7×	32	1.5k

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16 of 16 papers shown

Desai, Prachi, et al.. (2025). Abstract 575: 225Ac-SSO110 as next-generation SSTR2 targeting radiopharmaceutical for small cell lung cancer. Cancer Research. 85(8_Supplement_1). 575–575.

Rimal, Rahul, Prachi Desai, Martin Möller, et al.. (2024). Vascularized 3D Human Skin Models in the Forefront of Dermatological Research. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 13(9). e2303351–e2303351. 21 indexed citations

Desai, Prachi, Anshuman Dasgupta, Alexandros Marios Sofias, et al.. (2023). Transformative Materials for Interfacial Drug Delivery. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 12(20). e2301062–e2301062. 8 indexed citations

Desai, Prachi, Rahul Rimal, Felix M. Mottaghy, et al.. (2022). Radiolabeled Nanocarriers as Theranostics—Advancement from Peptides to Nanocarriers. Small. 18(25). e2200673–e2200673. 24 indexed citations

Desai, Prachi, Rahul Rimal, Rustam A. Gumerov, et al.. (2022). Tuning the Elasticity of Nanogels Improves Their Circulation Time by Evading Immune Cells. Angewandte Chemie. 134(20). 5 indexed citations

Desai, Prachi, Rahul Rimal, Rustam A. Gumerov, et al.. (2022). Tuning the Elasticity of Nanogels Improves Their Circulation Time by Evading Immune Cells. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(20). e202116653–e202116653. 31 indexed citations

Rimal, Rahul, et al.. (2022). Cancer-associated fibroblasts: Origin, function, imaging, and therapeutic targeting. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 189. 114504–114504. 130 indexed citations

Radhakrishnan, S., et al.. (2022). Structure and Properties of PBS/PBAT blends and nanocomposites. IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering. 1248(1). 12013–12013. 6 indexed citations

Rimal, Rahul, et al.. (2021). 3-D vascularized breast cancer model to study the role of osteoblast in formation of a pre-metastatic niche. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 21966–21966. 8 indexed citations

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Singh, Smriti, Natascha Drude, Prachi Desai, et al.. (2021). Protease Responsive Nanogels for Transcytosis across the Blood−Brain Barrier and Intracellular Delivery of Radiopharmaceuticals to Brain Tumor Cells. Advanced Healthcare Materials. 10(20). e2100812–e2100812. 38 indexed citations

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Singh, Smriti, Natascha Drude, Prachi Desai, et al.. (2021). Protease Responsive Nanogels for Transcytosis across the Blood−Brain Barrier and Intracellular Delivery of Radiopharmaceuticals to Brain Tumor Cells (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 20/2021). Advanced Healthcare Materials. 10(20). 1 indexed citations

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Desai, Prachi, Rebecca Schneider, Manish K. Jaiswal, et al.. (2018). Self‐assembled, ellipsoidal polymeric nanoparticles for intracellular delivery of therapeutics. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 106(7). 2048–2058. 22 indexed citations

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Naik, Mohan, et al.. (2018). USE OF LASER IN THE TREATMENT OF COMMON ORAL PREMALIGNANTLESIONS AND CONDITIONS - A REVIEW. 5(5). 398–398. 1 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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Jaiswal, Manish K., et al.. (2015). Mechanically Stiff Nanocomposite Hydrogels at Ultralow Nanoparticle Content. ACS Nano. 10(1). 246–256. 198 indexed citations

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Desai, Prachi, et al.. (2013). Soft-Chemical Synthetic Route to Superparamagnetic FeAs@C Core–Shell Nanoparticles Exhibiting High Blocking Temperature. Chemistry of Materials. 25(9). 1510–1518. 15 indexed citations

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