Ryan Fobel

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Ryan Fobel is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan Fobel has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 11 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 4 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ryan Fobel's work include Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies (11 papers), Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (9 papers) and Biosensors and Analytical Detection (5 papers). Ryan Fobel is often cited by papers focused on Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies (11 papers), Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications (9 papers) and Biosensors and Analytical Detection (5 papers). Ryan Fobel collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and India. Ryan Fobel's co-authors include Aaron R. Wheeler, Alphonsus H. C. Ng, Kihwan Choi, Christian Fobel, Steve C. C. Shih, Andrea E. Kirby, Ramin Farnood, Irena Barbulovic-Nad, Michael D. M. Dryden and Christopher Dixon and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Applied Physics Letters and Analytical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ryan Fobel

15 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Digital Microfluidics

2012 656 citations Kihwan Choi, Alphonsus H. C. Ng et al. Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan Fobel Canada	14	1.4k	1.2k	311	174	80	15	1.6k
Yves Fouillet France	19	1.1k 0.8×	882 0.8×	336 1.1×	56 0.3×	109 1.4×	55	1.3k
Peter B. Howell United States	19	1.0k 0.7×	363 0.3×	87 0.3×	110 0.6×	62 0.8×	24	1.2k
Irena Barbulovic-Nad Canada	8	971 0.7×	641 0.5×	124 0.4×	186 1.1×	48 0.6×	8	1.1k
Lidija Malic Canada	17	882 0.6×	516 0.4×	107 0.3×	267 1.5×	55 0.7×	38	1.1k
Arjun P. Sudarsan United States	7	1.0k 0.7×	550 0.5×	190 0.6×	64 0.4×	23 0.3×	10	1.2k
Javier Atencia United States	12	1.1k 0.8×	428 0.4×	71 0.2×	124 0.7×	85 1.1×	24	1.4k
Ulrike Lehmann Switzerland	10	795 0.6×	415 0.4×	57 0.2×	141 0.8×	49 0.6×	18	995
Futoshi Iwata Japan	17	545 0.4×	457 0.4×	90 0.3×	147 0.8×	76 0.9×	104	1.2k
Senol Mutlu Türkiye	15	564 0.4×	381 0.3×	99 0.3×	43 0.2×	55 0.7×	49	847
Sundaresh N. Brahmasandra United States	7	1.1k 0.8×	436 0.4×	46 0.1×	113 0.6×	27 0.3×	8	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Ryan Fobel

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan Fobel

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15 of 15 papers shown

Fobel, Ryan, et al.. (2019). Velocity Saturation in Digital Microfluidics. Langmuir. 35(15). 5342–5352. 32 indexed citations

Dryden, Michael D. M., Ryan Fobel, Christian Fobel, & Aaron R. Wheeler. (2017). Upon the Shoulders of Giants: Open-Source Hardware and Software in Analytical Chemistry. Analytical Chemistry. 89(8). 4330–4338. 76 indexed citations

Dixon, Christopher, et al.. (2016). An inkjet printed, roll-coated digital microfluidic device for inexpensive, miniaturized diagnostic assays. Lab on a Chip. 16(23). 4560–4568. 88 indexed citations

Fobel, Ryan, Andrea E. Kirby, Alphonsus H. C. Ng, Ramin Farnood, & Aaron R. Wheeler. (2014). Paper Microfluidics Goes Digital. Advanced Materials. 26(18). 2838–2843. 110 indexed citations

Au, Sam H., Ryan Fobel, Salil P. Desai, Joel Voldman, & Aaron R. Wheeler. (2013). Cellular bias on the microscale: probing the effects of digital microfluidic actuation on mammalian cell health, fitness and phenotype. Integrative Biology. 5(8). 1014–1014. 25 indexed citations

Fobel, Ryan, Christian Fobel, & Aaron R. Wheeler. (2013). DropBot: An open-source digital microfluidic control system with precise control of electrostatic driving force and instantaneous drop velocity measurement. Applied Physics Letters. 102(19). 175 indexed citations

Choi, Kihwan, Alphonsus H. C. Ng, Ryan Fobel, et al.. (2013). Automated Digital Microfluidic Platform for Magnetic-Particle-Based Immunoassays with Optimization by Design of Experiments. Analytical Chemistry. 85(20). 9638–9646. 124 indexed citations

Huynh, Elizabeth, Jonathan F. Lovell, Ryan Fobel, & Gang Zheng. (2013). Optically Controlled Pore Formation in Self‐Sealing Giant Porphyrin Vesicles. Small. 10(6). 1184–1193. 19 indexed citations

Shih, Steve C. C., et al.. (2012). Digital microfluidics with impedance sensing for integrated cell culture andanalysis. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 42. 314–320. 101 indexed citations

10.

Shih, Steve C. C., Hao Yang, Mais J. Jebrail, et al.. (2012). Dried Blood Spot Analysis by Digital Microfluidics Coupled to Nanoelectrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry. 84(8). 3731–3738. 95 indexed citations

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Choi, Kihwan, Alphonsus H. C. Ng, Ryan Fobel, & Aaron R. Wheeler. (2012). Digital Microfluidics. Annual Review of Analytical Chemistry. 5(1). 413–440. 656 indexed citations breakdown →

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Marshall, Helen, et al.. (2010). Evaluation of multicoil breast arrays for parallel imaging. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 31(2). 328–338. 18 indexed citations

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Shih, Steve C. C., et al.. (2010). A feedback control system for high-fidelity digital microfluidics. Lab on a Chip. 11(3). 535–540. 83 indexed citations

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Jebrail, Mais J., Vivienne N. Luk, Steve C. C. Shih, et al.. (2009). Digital Microfluidics for Automated Proteomic Processing. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 25 indexed citations

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Jebrail, Mais J., Vivienne N. Luk, Steve C. C. Shih, et al.. (2009). Digital Microfluidics for Automated Proteomic Processing. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 3 indexed citations

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