Tzer Han Tan

592 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 362 citations indexed

About

Tzer Han Tan is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tzer Han Tan has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 362 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Cell Biology, 3 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Tzer Han Tan's work include Micro and Nano Robotics (3 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (3 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (2 papers). Tzer Han Tan is often cited by papers focused on Micro and Nano Robotics (3 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (3 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (2 papers). Tzer Han Tan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Tzer Han Tan's co-authors include Nikta Fakhri, Jörn Dunkel, Alexander Mietke, Peter Foster, Shreyas Gokhale, Yuchao Chen, Jinghui Liu, Pearson W. Miller, Namrata Jayanth and Ibrahim I. Cissé and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Tzer Han Tan

10 papers receiving 356 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals

2022 176 citations Tzer Han Tan, Alexander Mietke et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tzer Han Tan United States	7	146	112	69	67	51	10	362
Fridtjof Brauns Germany	11	97 0.7×	145 1.3×	50 0.7×	52 0.8×	113 2.2×	21	398
Zhihong You China	6	259 1.8×	55 0.5×	74 1.1×	101 1.5×	65 1.3×	12	373
Veikko F. Geyer Germany	9	281 1.9×	100 0.9×	121 1.8×	172 2.6×	44 0.9×	16	529
Heun Jin Lee United States	9	113 0.8×	201 1.8×	104 1.5×	47 0.7×	14 0.3×	11	500
Thomas Niedermayer Germany	6	153 1.0×	52 0.5×	94 1.4×	47 0.7×	63 1.2×	9	338
Takahiro Ohkuma Japan	11	211 1.4×	55 0.5×	111 1.6×	91 1.4×	49 1.0×	18	407
Christopher Battle Germany	7	109 0.7×	133 1.2×	113 1.6×	143 2.1×	15 0.3×	7	497
Jan Frederik Totz Germany	9	90 0.6×	64 0.6×	130 1.9×	117 1.7×	229 4.5×	16	407
Pushpita Ghosh India	12	113 0.8×	139 1.2×	99 1.4×	130 1.9×	221 4.3×	31	506
Yonit Maroudas-Sacks Israel	6	145 1.0×	72 0.6×	57 0.8×	19 0.3×	24 0.5×	8	315

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tzer Han Tan

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Liu, Jinghui, John F. Reinhard, Yu-Chen Chao, et al.. (2025). Light-induced cortical excitability reveals programmable shape dynamics in starfish oocytes. Nature Physics. 21(5). 846–855. 2 indexed citations

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Tan, Tzer Han, Irene Seijo-Barandiarán, Michael F. Staddon, et al.. (2024). Emergent chirality in active solid rotation of pancreas spheres. 2(3). 5 indexed citations

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Tan, Tzer Han, Alexander Mietke, Yuchao Chen, et al.. (2022). Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals. Nature. 607(7918). 287–293. 176 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tan, Tzer Han, et al.. (2022). Mapping and exploring the organoid state space using synthetic biology. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 141. 23–32. 6 indexed citations

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Swartz, S. Zachary, Tzer Han Tan, Margherita Perillo, et al.. (2021). Polarized Dishevelled dissolution and reassembly drives embryonic axis specification in sea star oocytes. Current Biology. 31(24). 5633–5641.e4. 7 indexed citations

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Tan, Tzer Han, Fridtjof Brauns, Jinghui Liu, et al.. (2021). A hierarchy of protein patterns robustly decodes cell shape information. Nature Physics. 17(5). 578–584. 38 indexed citations

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Tan, Tzer Han, et al.. (2020). Topological turbulence in the membrane of a living cell. Nature Physics. 16(6). 657–662. 63 indexed citations

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Cho, Won‐Ki, et al.. (2016). Super-resolution imaging of fluorescently labeled, endogenous RNA Polymerase II in living cells with CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 35949–35949. 51 indexed citations

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Tan, Tzer Han, Enas Abu‐Shah, Abhinav Sharma, et al.. (2016). Self-organization of stress patterns drives state transitions in actin cortices. arXiv (Cornell University). 2016. 3 indexed citations

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Tan, Tzer Han, Jesse L. Silverberg, Daniela S. Floß, et al.. (2015). How grow-and-switch gravitropism generates root coiling and root waving growth responses in Medicago truncatula. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(42). 12938–12943. 11 indexed citations

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