Sean L. Kim

866 total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 607 citations indexed

About

Sean L. Kim is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean L. Kim has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 607 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 2 papers in Surgery and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sean L. Kim's work include Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (2 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (2 papers). Sean L. Kim is often cited by papers focused on Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (2 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (2 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (2 papers). Sean L. Kim collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and China. Sean L. Kim's co-authors include Kevin Kit Parker, John F. Zimmerman, Keel Yong Lee, Herdeline Ann M. Ardoña, Luke A. MacQueen, André G. Kléber, Suji Choi, George Lauder, David G. Matthews and Qianru Jin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Circulation and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Sean L. Kim

8 papers receiving 603 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.

An autonomously swimming biohybrid fish designed with human cardiac biophysics

2022 138 citations Keel Yong Lee, David G. Matthews et al. Science profile →
Fibre-infused gel scaffolds guide cardiomyocyte alignment in 3D-printed ventricles

2023 125 citations Suji Choi, Keel Yong Lee et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean L. Kim United States	7	310	162	132	107	91	8	607
Keel Yong Lee South Korea	10	272 0.9×	116 0.7×	99 0.8×	108 1.0×	80 0.9×	17	557
Silvia Antona Germany	7	369 1.2×	117 0.7×	77 0.6×	93 0.9×	29 0.3×	9	499
Sang-Mo Koo South Korea	12	540 1.7×	180 1.1×	159 1.2×	115 1.1×	33 0.4×	27	849
Alex Jiao United States	11	642 2.1×	205 1.3×	262 2.0×	336 3.1×	58 0.6×	12	952
Elise A. Corbin United States	15	581 1.9×	127 0.8×	75 0.6×	87 0.8×	60 0.7×	38	881
Behnam Zamanian United States	7	391 1.3×	42 0.3×	146 1.1×	251 2.3×	30 0.3×	9	667
Rose T. Yin United States	12	408 1.3×	217 1.3×	56 0.4×	47 0.4×	54 0.6×	22	773
Shiyu Cheng China	13	409 1.3×	58 0.4×	101 0.8×	200 1.9×	8 0.1×	26	629
Riho Gojo Japan	6	644 2.1×	136 0.8×	180 1.4×	229 2.1×	7 0.1×	14	851
William Ronan Ireland	15	321 1.0×	48 0.3×	122 0.9×	160 1.5×	30 0.3×	42	635

Countries citing papers authored by Sean L. Kim

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean L. Kim

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean L. Kim

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Zimmerman, John F., et al.. (2025). Bioinspired design of a tissue-engineered ray with machine learning. Science Robotics. 10(99). eadr6472–eadr6472. 4 indexed citations

2.

Choi, Suji, Keel Yong Lee, Sean L. Kim, et al.. (2023). Fibre-infused gel scaffolds guide cardiomyocyte alignment in 3D-printed ventricles. Nature Materials. 22(8). 1039–1046. 125 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Kim, Sean L., Michael A. Trembley, Keel Yong Lee, et al.. (2023). Spatiotemporal cell junction assembly in human iPSC-CM models of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Stem Cell Reports. 18(9). 1811–1826. 10 indexed citations

4.

Lee, Keel Yong, David G. Matthews, Sean L. Kim, et al.. (2022). An autonomously swimming biohybrid fish designed with human cardiac biophysics. Science. 375(6581). 639–647. 138 indexed citations breakdown →

5.

Chang, Huibin, Qihan Liu, John F. Zimmerman, et al.. (2022). Recreating the heart’s helical structure-function relationship with focused rotary jet spinning. Science. 377(6602). 180–185. 84 indexed citations

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Garbern, Jessica C., Aharon Helman, Rebecca Sereda, et al.. (2019). Inhibition of mTOR Signaling Enhances Maturation of Cardiomyocytes Derived From Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells via p53-Induced Quiescence. Circulation. 141(4). 285–300. 85 indexed citations

7.

Park, Sungjin, Donghui Zhang, Qi Yan, et al.. (2019). Insights Into the Pathogenesis of Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia From Engineered Human Heart Tissue. Circulation. 140(5). 390–404. 95 indexed citations

8.

Ahn, Seungkuk, Herdeline Ann M. Ardoña, Johan Lind, et al.. (2018). Mussel-inspired 3D fiber scaffolds for heart-on-a-chip toxicity studies of engineered nanomaterials. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 410(24). 6141–6154. 66 indexed citations

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