Umut A. Gürkan

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
162 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Umut A. Gürkan is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Genetics and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Umut A. Gürkan has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 59 papers in Genetics and 49 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Umut A. Gürkan's work include Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (55 papers), Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (47 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (27 papers). Umut A. Gürkan is often cited by papers focused on Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (55 papers), Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology (47 papers) and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (27 papers). Umut A. Gürkan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Türkiye and Italy. Umut A. Gürkan's co-authors include Utkan Demirci, Yunus Alapan, Ozan Akkuş, Jane A. Little, Giuseppe Strangi, Kandammathe Valiyaveedu Sreekanth, Savaş Taşoğlu, Mohamed ElKabbash, Feng Xu and Michael Hinczewski and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Umut A. Gürkan

157 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

Extreme sensitivity biosensing platform based on hyperbolic metamaterials

2016 629 citations Michael Hinczewski, Umut A. Gürkan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Umut A. Gürkan United States	44	3.2k	949	646	621	616	162	5.5k
Zi Chen China	37	2.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.5×	208 0.3×	387 0.6×	196 0.3×	256	6.5k
Michael Cho South Korea	46	1.3k 0.4×	2.3k 2.5×	157 0.2×	453 0.7×	850 1.4×	310	7.6k
Weiqiang Chen United States	42	3.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.6×	282 0.4×	174 0.3×	263 0.4×	195	6.7k
Robert J. Christy United States	40	986 0.3×	2.6k 2.8×	341 0.5×	428 0.7×	881 1.4×	126	7.4k
Masahiro Yamada Japan	47	3.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.8×	528 0.8×	168 0.3×	279 0.5×	369	10.2k
Christoph Alexiou Germany	46	4.6k 1.5×	1.6k 1.7×	394 0.6×	200 0.3×	232 0.4×	256	9.0k
Yunus Alapan United States	27	2.5k 0.8×	306 0.3×	624 1.0×	171 0.3×	241 0.4×	51	3.8k
Masato Sato Japan	41	1.2k 0.4×	661 0.7×	162 0.3×	648 1.0×	120 0.2×	333	6.6k
Sung‐Jan Lin Taiwan	44	1.7k 0.5×	986 1.0×	370 0.6×	137 0.2×	275 0.4×	167	16.6k
Xiaoming He United States	56	3.4k 1.1×	2.9k 3.0×	96 0.1×	191 0.3×	291 0.5×	207	9.0k

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Wade, Jon, Erica N Evans, Michael A. Suster, et al.. (2025). Use of the microfluidic impedance red cell assay in sickle cell disease. Blood Advances. 9(15). 4004–4015.

D’Alessandro, Angelo, David H. McKenna, Shannon N. Tessier, et al.. (2024). Reply to Kaestner et al.: Pioneering quantitative platforms for stored red blood cell assessment open the door for precision transfusion medicine. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(11). e2320521121–e2320521121. 2 indexed citations

An, Ran, et al.. (2024). Point-of-Care Diagnostic Test for Beta-Thalassemia. Biosensors. 14(2). 83–83. 5 indexed citations

Wulftange, William J., et al.. (2024). Motion blur microscopy: in vitro imaging of cell adhesion dynamics in whole blood flow. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7058–7058. 2 indexed citations

Bode, Allison, Cissy Kityo, Vivien Sheehan, et al.. (2024). A miniaturized wash-free microfluidic assay for electrical impedance-based assessment of red blood cell-mediated microvascular occlusion. Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 258. 116352–116352. 2 indexed citations

An, Ran, Yuncheng Man, Allison Bode, et al.. (2024). Rapid measurement of hemoglobin-oxygen dissociation by leveraging Bohr effect and Soret band bathochromic shift. The Analyst. 149(9). 2561–2572. 3 indexed citations

An, Ran, Yuncheng Man, Tianyi Zhang, et al.. (2023). Sickle red blood cell‐derived extracellular vesicles activate endothelial cells and enhance sickle red cell adhesion mediated by von Willebrand factor. British Journal of Haematology. 201(3). 552–563. 17 indexed citations

Kucukal, Erdem, Fang Wang, Ran An, et al.. (2023). Membrane bending and sphingomyelinase-associated, sulfatide-dependent hypoxic adhesion of sickle mature erythrocytes. Blood Advances. 7(10). 2094–2104. 6 indexed citations

Man, Yuncheng, Ran An, Peiran Wei, et al.. (2023). Microfluidic concurrent assessment of red blood cell adhesion and microcapillary occlusion: potential hemorheological biomarkers in sickle cell disease. Sensors & Diagnostics. 2(2). 457–467. 1 indexed citations

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Szpak, Dorota, Katarzyna Białkowska, Kamila Bledzka, et al.. (2023). Kindlin-3 deficiency leads to impaired erythropoiesis and erythrocyte cytoskeleton. Blood Advances. 7(9). 1739–1753. 5 indexed citations

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Battalapalli, Dheerendranath, et al.. (2023). Polyethylene Glycol-Mediated Directional Conjugation of Biological Molecules for Enhanced Immunoassays at the Point-of-Care. Polymers. 15(15). 3316–3316. 1 indexed citations

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D’Alessandro, Angelo, Susan M. Wolf, David H. McKenna, et al.. (2023). Assessment of stored red blood cells through lab-on-a-chip technologies for precision transfusion medicine. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(32). e2115616120–e2115616120. 23 indexed citations

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Gürkan, Umut A., et al.. (2023). Thermoresponsive polymers with LCST transition: synthesis, characterization, and their impact on biomedical frontiers. RSC Applied Polymers. 1(2). 158–189. 62 indexed citations

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Fraiwan, Arwa, et al.. (2023). Novel RBC Adhesion and Deformability Assays Reveal Deleterious Effect of Diabetes on RBC Health. Blood. 142(Supplement 1). 1072–1072. 1 indexed citations

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An, Ran, et al.. (2022). A Novel Approach for Glycosylated Hemoglobin Testing Using Microchip Affinity Electrophoresis. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 70(5). 1473–1480. 2 indexed citations

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Shkondin, Evgeniy, Osamu Takayama, Arwa Fraiwan, et al.. (2020). Hydrogen gas sensing using aluminum doped ZnO metasurfaces. Nanoscale Advances. 2(8). 3452–3459. 22 indexed citations

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Hasan, Muhammad Noman, Arwa Fraiwan, Jane A. Little, & Umut A. Gürkan. (2017). Hemechip: An Automated Portable Microchip Electrophoresis Platform for Point-of-Care Sickle Cell Disease Screening. Blood. 130. 3519–3519. 7 indexed citations

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Xu, Feng, et al.. (2011). Automated and Adaptable Quantification of Cellular Alignment from Microscopic Images for Tissue Engineering Applications. Tissue Engineering Part C Methods. 17(6). 641–649. 46 indexed citations

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Gürkan, Umut A., et al.. (2010). Ossifying Bone Marrow Explant Culture as a Three-Dimensional Mechanoresponsive In Vitro Model of Osteogenesis. Tissue Engineering Part A. 17(3-4). 417–428. 16 indexed citations

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Gürkan, Umut A., et al.. (2010). The Sequential Production Profiles of Growth Factors and their Relations to Bone Volume in Ossifying Bone Marrow Explants. Tissue Engineering Part A. 16(7). 2295–2306. 26 indexed citations

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