Sungmin Nam

4.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
25 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Sungmin Nam is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Sungmin Nam has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Cell Biology, 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 5 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Sungmin Nam's work include Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (18 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (6 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (5 papers). Sungmin Nam is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (18 papers), 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (6 papers) and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (5 papers). Sungmin Nam collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Taiwan. Sungmin Nam's co-authors include Ovijit Chaudhuri, David Mooney, Ryan S. Stowers, Junzhe Lou, Yan Xia, Manish J. Butte, Kenneth H. Hu, Katrina M. Wisdom, Joanna Y. Lee and Julie Chang and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Sungmin Nam

23 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Polymeric Tissue Adhesives

2021 541 citations Sungmin Nam, David Mooney profile →
Stress relaxing hyaluronic acid-collagen hydrogels promote cell spreading, fiber remodeling, and focal adhesion formation in 3D cell culture

2017 426 citations Junzhe Lou, Ryan S. Stowers et al. Biomaterials profile →
Matrix mechanical plasticity regulates cancer cell migration through confining microenvironments

2018 318 citations Katrina M. Wisdom, Kolade Adebowale et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sungmin Nam United States	17	1.5k	1.4k	708	427	425	25	3.1k
Darinka D. Klumpers United States	9	1.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	800 1.1×	480 1.1×	394 0.9×	10	3.1k
Hong-Pyo Lee United States	10	1.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	727 1.0×	474 1.1×	380 0.9×	21	3.0k
Steven R. Caliari United States	23	2.1k 1.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	619 1.4×	701 1.6×	41	3.9k
Evi Lippens Belgium	17	1.8k 1.2×	978 0.7×	869 1.2×	447 1.0×	463 1.1×	24	3.0k
Max Darnell United States	13	2.5k 1.6×	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	685 1.6×	583 1.4×	16	4.4k
Bo Ri Seo United States	24	1.5k 1.0×	536 0.4×	629 0.9×	580 1.4×	593 1.4×	30	3.5k
Yu Suk Choi Australia	29	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	963 1.4×	870 2.0×	905 2.1×	74	3.9k
Junmin Lee United States	39	2.1k 1.4×	644 0.5×	747 1.1×	668 1.6×	422 1.0×	103	3.8k
Simone C. Rizzi Switzerland	19	2.1k 1.4×	723 0.5×	1.3k 1.9×	582 1.4×	635 1.5×	26	3.5k
Kaustabh Ghosh United States	22	1.2k 0.8×	800 0.6×	1.2k 1.7×	709 1.7×	538 1.3×	38	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sungmin Nam

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nam, Sungmin, et al.. (2026). Mechanical regulation of metabolism, epigenetics, and their interplay. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1).

Castilho, Rogério M., et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal toughness modulation in hydrogels through on-demand cross-linking. Science Advances. 11(41). eadz0440–eadz0440.

Nam, Sungmin, et al.. (2024). Dynamic injectable tissue adhesives with strong adhesion and rapid self-healing for regeneration of large muscle injury. Biomaterials. 309. 122597–122597. 9 indexed citations

Nam, Sungmin, Bo Ri Seo, Alexander J. Najibi, Stephanie L. McNamara, & David Mooney. (2022). Active tissue adhesive activates mechanosensors and prevents muscle atrophy. Nature Materials. 22(2). 249–259. 68 indexed citations

Seo, Bo Ri, Christopher J. Payne, Stephanie L. McNamara, et al.. (2021). Skeletal muscle regeneration with robotic actuation–mediated clearance of neutrophils. Science Translational Medicine. 13(614). 65 indexed citations

Nam, Sungmin, Erin Sanders, Lucy Erin O’Brien, et al.. (2021). The nature of cell division forces in epithelial monolayers. The Journal of Cell Biology. 220(8). 14 indexed citations

Adebowale, Kolade, Ze Gong, Jay Hou, et al.. (2021). Enhanced substrate stress relaxation promotes filopodia-mediated cell migration. Nature Materials. 20(9). 1290–1299. 179 indexed citations

Nam, Sungmin, Yung‐Hao Lin, Taeyoon Kim, & Ovijit Chaudhuri. (2021). Cellular Pushing Forces during Mitosis Drive Mitotic Elongation in Collagen Gels. Advanced Science. 8(4). 2000403–2000403. 14 indexed citations

Lee, Joanna Y., Jessica Chang, Antonia A. Dominguez, et al.. (2019). YAP-independent mechanotransduction drives breast cancer progression. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1848–1848. 141 indexed citations

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Nam, Sungmin, Hong-Pyo Lee, Joanna Y. Lee, et al.. (2019). Cell cycle progression in confining microenvironments is regulated by a growth-responsive TRPV4-PI3K/Akt-p27 ^Kip1 signaling axis. Science Advances. 5(8). eaaw6171–eaaw6171. 138 indexed citations

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Nam, Sungmin, Ryan S. Stowers, Junzhe Lou, Yan Xia, & Ovijit Chaudhuri. (2019). Varying PEG density to control stress relaxation in alginate-PEG hydrogels for 3D cell culture studies. Biomaterials. 200. 15–24. 229 indexed citations

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Stowers, Ryan S., Anna Shcherbina, Johnny Israeli, et al.. (2019). Matrix stiffness induces a tumorigenic phenotype in mammary epithelium through changes in chromatin accessibility. Nature Biomedical Engineering. 3(12). 1009–1019. 165 indexed citations

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Lee, Joanna Y., Antonia A. Dominguez, Sungmin Nam, et al.. (2019). Identification of cell context-dependent YAP-associated proteins reveals β1 and β4 integrin mediate YAP translocation independently of cell spreading. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17188–17188. 16 indexed citations

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Ban, Ehsan, James Franklin, Sungmin Nam, et al.. (2018). Mechanisms of Plastic Deformation in Collagen Networks Induced by Cellular Forces. Biophysical Journal. 114(2). 450–461. 117 indexed citations

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Wisdom, Katrina M., Kolade Adebowale, Julie Chang, et al.. (2018). Matrix mechanical plasticity regulates cancer cell migration through confining microenvironments. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4144–4144. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lou, Junzhe, Ryan S. Stowers, Sungmin Nam, Yan Xia, & Ovijit Chaudhuri. (2017). Stress relaxing hyaluronic acid-collagen hydrogels promote cell spreading, fiber remodeling, and focal adhesion formation in 3D cell culture. Biomaterials. 154. 213–222. 426 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nam, Sungmin, Joanna Lee, Douglas Brownfield, & Ovijit Chaudhuri. (2016). Viscoplasticity Enables Mechanical Remodeling of Matrix by Cells. Biophysical Journal. 111(10). 2296–2308. 152 indexed citations

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Nam, Sungmin, Kenneth H. Hu, Manish J. Butte, & Ovijit Chaudhuri. (2016). Strain-enhanced stress relaxation impacts nonlinear elasticity in collagen gels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(20). 5492–5497. 256 indexed citations

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Nam, Sungmin, Inhee Cho, Geunbae Lim, et al.. (2015). Experimental Verification of Overlimiting Current by Surface Conduction and Electro-Osmotic Flow in Microchannels. Physical Review Letters. 114(11). 114501–114501. 109 indexed citations

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Nam, Sungmin, et al.. (2014). Dynamic analysis during internal transition of a compliant multi-body climbing robot with magnetic adhesion. Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology. 28(12). 5175–5187. 20 indexed citations

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