Rick Liao

495 total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 327 citations indexed

About

Rick Liao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomaterials and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Rick Liao has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 327 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Biomaterials and 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Rick Liao's work include Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (4 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (2 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (2 papers). Rick Liao is often cited by papers focused on Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery (4 papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (2 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (2 papers). Rick Liao collaborates with scholars based in United States and Norway. Rick Liao's co-authors include Elizabeth Nance, Thomas R. Wood, Vineeth Chandran Suja, Samir Mitragotri, Zongmin Zhao, Lydia M. Contreras, Mengying Zhang, Michael J. Palumbo, Andrea Joseph and Yongsheng Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Rick Liao

11 papers receiving 326 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease therapies in the clinic

2022 106 citations Zongmin Zhao, Samir Mitragotri et al. Bioengineering & Translational Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rick Liao United States	9	158	50	49	42	39	12	327
Tamás F. Polgár Hungary	9	95 0.6×	39 0.8×	20 0.4×	34 0.8×	36 0.9×	25	295
Ana Virel Sweden	11	159 1.0×	33 0.7×	68 1.4×	31 0.7×	36 0.9×	18	398
Ruth Starwalt United States	6	210 1.3×	71 1.4×	47 1.0×	21 0.5×	28 0.7×	6	456
Xi-xiu Xie China	11	146 0.9×	146 2.9×	125 2.6×	79 1.9×	76 1.9×	16	514
Yubo Lin China	7	99 0.6×	32 0.6×	24 0.5×	32 0.8×	89 2.3×	10	299
Kyung‐Won Park South Korea	8	183 1.2×	49 1.0×	22 0.4×	16 0.4×	75 1.9×	20	362
Min He China	12	129 0.8×	19 0.4×	52 1.1×	22 0.5×	45 1.2×	33	346
Youngsun Lee South Korea	12	117 0.7×	50 1.0×	35 0.7×	46 1.1×	34 0.9×	26	403
Sophie Sérrière France	12	104 0.7×	50 1.0×	44 0.9×	72 1.7×	49 1.3×	31	340
Renata de Moraes Maciel Brazil	13	303 1.9×	20 0.4×	21 0.4×	62 1.5×	29 0.7×	22	570

Countries citing papers authored by Rick Liao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rick Liao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rick Liao

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

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Suja, Vineeth Chandran, Jayoung Kim, Danika Rodrigues, et al.. (2025). Multiscale red blood cell hitchhiking for targeted deep tissue gene delivery in lungs. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10280–10280.

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Adebowale, Kolade, Rick Liao, Vineeth Chandran Suja, et al.. (2023). Materials for Cell Surface Engineering. Advanced Materials. 36(43). e2210059–e2210059. 24 indexed citations

3.

Zhao, Zongmin, et al.. (2022). Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease therapies in the clinic. Bioengineering & Translational Medicine. 8(1). e10367–e10367. 106 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liao, Rick, et al.. (2021). Data management schema design for effective nanoparticle formulation for neurotherapeutics. AIChE Journal. 67(12). 2 indexed citations

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Liao, Rick, Thomas R. Wood, & Elizabeth Nance. (2020). Superoxide dismutase reduces monosodium glutamate-induced injury in an organotypic whole hemisphere brain slice model of excitotoxicity. Journal of Biological Engineering. 14(1). 3–3. 27 indexed citations

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Liao, Rick, et al.. (2020). Enzymatic protection and biocompatibility screening of enzyme-loaded polymeric nanoparticles for neurotherapeutic applications. Biomaterials. 257. 120238–120238. 21 indexed citations

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Joseph, Andrea, et al.. (2020). Nanoparticle‐microglial interaction in the ischemic brain is modulated by injury duration and treatment. Bioengineering & Translational Medicine. 5(3). e10175–e10175. 20 indexed citations

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Liao, Rick, Thomas R. Wood, & Elizabeth Nance. (2020). Nanotherapeutic modulation of excitotoxicity and oxidative stress in acute brain injury. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 1754294339–1754294339. 21 indexed citations

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Smith, Josh, Kayla G. Sprenger, Rick Liao, et al.. (2017). Determining dominant driving forces affecting controlled protein release from polymeric nanoparticles. Biointerphases. 12(2). 02D412–02D412. 5 indexed citations

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Zhang, Mengying, et al.. (2016). Systems‐level thinking for nanoparticle‐mediated therapeutic delivery to neurological diseases. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology. 9(2). 26 indexed citations

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Liao, Rick, et al.. (2014). Transcriptional Analysis of Deinococcus radiodurans Reveals Novel Small RNAs That Are Differentially Expressed under Ionizing Radiation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 81(5). 1754–1764. 34 indexed citations

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Liao, Rick, et al.. (2014). Genome-Wide Analyses in Bacteria Show Small-RNA Enrichment for Long and Conserved Intergenic Regions. Journal of Bacteriology. 197(1). 40–50. 41 indexed citations

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