Quim Peña

733 total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 470 citations indexed

About

Quim Peña is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Oncology and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Quim Peña has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 470 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 7 papers in Oncology and 7 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Quim Peña's work include Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (7 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (6 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (4 papers). Quim Peña is often cited by papers focused on Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (7 papers), Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (6 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (4 papers). Quim Peña collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Spain and Netherlands. Quim Peña's co-authors include Stefan Wuttke, Twan Lammers, Fabian Kießling, Alec Wang, Orysia Zaremba, Romy Ettlinger, Yang Shi, Hans W. Scheeren, Josbert M. Metselaar and Roger M. Pallares and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

Quim Peña

17 papers receiving 464 citations

Hit Papers

Metallodrugs in cancer nanomedicine 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150
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. Metallodrugs in cancer nanomedicine
    2022 160 citations Quim Peña, Alec Wang et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Quim Peña Germany 9 162 143 142 122 104 19 470
Silvia Alonso‐de Castro Spain 12 198 1.2× 47 0.3× 106 0.7× 118 1.0× 89 0.9× 15 549
Xue‐Quan Zhou Netherlands 13 239 1.5× 84 0.6× 210 1.5× 262 2.1× 50 0.5× 22 638
Nozomi Hashimoto Japan 9 287 1.8× 118 0.8× 72 0.5× 95 0.8× 56 0.5× 31 599
Chen‐Lun Liu Taiwan 13 288 1.8× 64 0.4× 284 2.0× 61 0.5× 208 2.0× 24 633
Alec Wang Germany 5 91 0.6× 69 0.5× 108 0.8× 50 0.4× 82 0.8× 6 274
Bhabatosh Banik India 16 248 1.5× 143 1.0× 155 1.1× 366 3.0× 122 1.2× 24 845
Jiawei Huo China 10 174 1.1× 158 1.1× 279 2.0× 35 0.3× 163 1.6× 19 554
Nikodem Kuźnik Poland 14 163 1.0× 216 1.5× 99 0.7× 97 0.8× 58 0.6× 50 809
Liubov M. Lifshits United States 14 301 1.9× 59 0.4× 297 2.1× 173 1.4× 34 0.3× 21 664
Lorena García-Fernández Spain 6 168 1.0× 153 1.1× 115 0.8× 32 0.3× 132 1.3× 6 417

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Fields of papers citing papers by Quim Peña

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Quim Peña

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Lorenzi, Federica De, Diana Moeckel, Eva Miriam Buhl, et al.. (2025). Hydrophobic ion pairing enables co-loading of water-soluble drugs in polymeric micelles. Journal of Controlled Release. 382. 113748–113748. 1 indexed citations
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Morgenroth, Agnieszka, Quim Peña, Twan Lammers, et al.. (2025). Combining PSMA-Targeted Radiopharmaceutical Therapy with Immunotherapy. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 66(10). 1522–1527. 1 indexed citations
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Peña, Quim, A. Jalila Simaan, Mercè Capdevila, et al.. (2025). Combining Experimental and Computational Tools to Unravel Copper‐Based Metallodrug Interactions With Proteins. Bioinorganic Chemistry and Applications. 2025(1).
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Chen, Junlin, Eva Miriam Buhl, Robert Pola, et al.. (2024). RGD-coated polymeric microbubbles promote ultrasound-mediated drug delivery in an inflamed endothelium-pericyte co-culture model of the blood-brain barrier. Drug Delivery and Translational Research. 14(10). 2629–2641. 3 indexed citations
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Ettlinger, Romy, Quim Peña, & Stefan Wuttke. (2024). Nano‐to‐Macroscale Reticular Materials to Address Societal Challenges (Adv. Funct. Mater. 43/2024). Advanced Functional Materials. 34(43).
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Ettlinger, Romy, Quim Peña, & Stefan Wuttke. (2024). Nano‐to‐Macroscale Reticular Materials to Address Societal Challenges. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(43). 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Alec, Marek Weiler, Eva Miriam Buhl, et al.. (2023). Effect of Radical Polymerization Method on Pharmaceutical Properties of Π Electron-Stabilized HPMA-Based Polymeric Micelles. Biomacromolecules. 24(10). 4444–4453. 2 indexed citations
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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
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Santis, Daniele De, Diana Moeckel, Leonard Kaps, et al.. (2023). Repurposing Tamoxifen for Tumor Microenvironment Priming and Enhanced Tumor‐Targeted Drug Delivery. Advanced Therapeutics. 6(11). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Alec, Eva Miriam Buhl, M. Pohl, et al.. (2023). Tunable polymeric micelles for taxane and corticosteroid co-delivery. Drug Delivery and Translational Research. 14(10). 2642–2654. 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Alec, Romy Ettlinger, Fabian Kießling, et al.. (2023). Biomedical Metal–Organic Framework Materials: Perspectives and Challenges. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(43). 92 indexed citations
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Andreo, Jacopo, Romy Ettlinger, Orysia Zaremba, et al.. (2022). Reticular Nanoscience: Bottom-Up Assembly Nanotechnology. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(17). 7531–7550. 72 indexed citations
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Peña, Quim, Alec Wang, Orysia Zaremba, et al.. (2022). Metallodrugs in cancer nanomedicine. Chemical Society Reviews. 51(7). 2544–2582. 160 indexed citations breakdown →
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Peña, Quim, A. Jalila Simaan, Mercè Capdevila, et al.. (2022). Cell-penetrating peptide-conjugated copper complexes for redox-mediated anticancer therapy. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 13. 1060827–1060827. 6 indexed citations
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Roemhild, Karolin, Wang Bi, Quim Peña, et al.. (2022). Ultrasound-directed enzyme-prodrug therapy (UDEPT) using self-immolative doxorubicin derivatives. Theranostics. 12(10). 4791–4801. 12 indexed citations
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Sofias, Alexandros Marios, Federica De Lorenzi, Quim Peña, et al.. (2021). Therapeutic and diagnostic targeting of fibrosis in metabolic, proliferative and viral disorders. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 175. 113831–113831. 20 indexed citations
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Peña, Quim, Giuseppe Sciortino, Jean‐Didier Maréchal, et al.. (2021). Copper(II) N,N,O-Chelating Complexes as Potential Anticancer Agents. Inorganic Chemistry. 60(5). 2939–2952. 56 indexed citations
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Peña, Quim, Júlia Lorenzo, Giuseppe Sciortino, et al.. (2019). Studying the reactivity of “old” Cu(II) complexes for “novel” anticancer purposes. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 195. 51–60. 15 indexed citations
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Peña, Quim, Jordi Hernando, Júlia Lorenzo, et al.. (2018). Squaramide-Based Pt(II) Complexes as Potential Oxygen-Regulated Light-Triggered Photocages. Inorganic Chemistry. 57(24). 15517–15525. 6 indexed citations

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