Varun Pattani

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Varun Pattani is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Varun Pattani has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Varun Pattani's work include Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (5 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (3 papers) and Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (3 papers). Varun Pattani is often cited by papers focused on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (5 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (3 papers) and Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics (3 papers). Varun Pattani collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Bulgaria. Varun Pattani's co-authors include James W. Tunnell, Matthew G. Panthani, Bonil Koo, Brian A. Korgel, Colin M. Hessel, Michael Rasch, Jay B. Shah, Anirudh Sharma, Chunfei Li and Tejal A. Desai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nano Letters, PLoS ONE and Annals of Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Varun Pattani

10 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Copper Selenide Nanocrystals for Photothermal Therapy

2011 1.3k citations Colin M. Hessel, Varun Pattani et al. Nano Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Varun Pattani United States	7	1.2k	904	446	298	285	11	1.7k
Giammarino Pugliese Italy	15	876 0.7×	718 0.8×	256 0.6×	216 0.7×	507 1.8×	21	1.4k
Jaejung Song South Korea	18	643 0.5×	501 0.6×	257 0.6×	378 1.3×	277 1.0×	32	1.3k
Daniel Vinh United States	4	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	246 0.6×	290 1.0×	455 1.6×	8	1.9k
Feiran Jiang China	8	1.1k 0.9×	982 1.1×	608 1.4×	256 0.9×	248 0.9×	10	1.8k
Xinghua Yu China	12	1.1k 0.9×	992 1.1×	102 0.2×	538 1.8×	305 1.1×	25	1.8k
An Gong China	15	627 0.5×	503 0.6×	129 0.3×	300 1.0×	227 0.8×	29	1.2k
Manjie Zhang China	16	617 0.5×	574 0.6×	137 0.3×	157 0.5×	324 1.1×	33	1.1k
Qiaoli Peng China	8	702 0.6×	418 0.5×	147 0.3×	229 0.8×	274 1.0×	9	1.0k
Yalun Wang China	17	772 0.6×	671 0.7×	186 0.4×	165 0.6×	138 0.5×	36	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Varun Pattani

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Fields of papers citing papers by Varun Pattani

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Varun Pattani

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

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Huang, Richard S.P., Michelle Green, Andrej Savol, et al.. (2025). Analytical validation (accuracy, reproducibility, limit of detection) and gene expression analysis of FoundationOneRNA assay for fusion detection in 189 clinical tumor specimens. PLoS ONE. 20(9). e0329697–e0329697.

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Lin, Douglas I., Júlia C.F. Quintanilha, Natalie Danziger, et al.. (2024). Pan-tumor validation of a NGS fraction-based MSI analysis as a predictor of response to Pembrolizumab. npj Precision Oncology. 8(1). 204–204. 6 indexed citations

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Fabrizio, David, Coren A. Milbury, Wai‐Ki Yip, et al.. (2018). Analytic validation of tumor mutational burden as a companion diagnostic for combination immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer. Annals of Oncology. 29. viii16–viii16. 9 indexed citations

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Cantu, Travis, Kyle M. Walsh, Varun Pattani, et al.. (2017). Conductive polymer-based nanoparticles for laser-mediated photothermal ablation of cancer: synthesis, characterization, and in vitro evaluation. International Journal of Nanomedicine. Volume 12. 615–632. 39 indexed citations

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Cantu, Travis, Bradley J. Rodier, Varun Pattani, et al.. (2016). Electroactive Polymer Nanoparticles Exhibiting Photothermal Properties. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 5 indexed citations

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Cantu, Travis, Bradley J. Rodier, Varun Pattani, et al.. (2016). Electroactive Polymer Nanoparticles Exhibiting Photothermal Properties. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2 indexed citations

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Pattani, Varun, et al.. (2015). Role of apoptosis and necrosis in cell death induced by nanoparticle-mediated photothermal therapy. Journal of Nanoparticle Research. 17(1). 87 indexed citations

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Pattani, Varun & James W. Tunnell. (2012). Nanoparticle‐mediated photothermal therapy: A comparative study of heating for different particle types. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. 44(8). 675–684. 178 indexed citations

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Hessel, Colin M., Varun Pattani, Michael Rasch, et al.. (2011). Copper Selenide Nanocrystals for Photothermal Therapy. Nano Letters. 11(6). 2560–2566. 1311 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yan, Chunli, Varun Pattani, James W. Tunnell, & Pengyu Ren. (2010). Temperature-induced unfolding of epidermal growth factor (EGF): Insight from molecular dynamics simulation. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. 29(1). 2–12. 20 indexed citations

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Pattani, Varun, Chunfei Li, Tejal A. Desai, & Tania Q. Vu. (2008). Microcontact printing of quantum dot bioconjugate arrays for localized capture and detection of biomolecules. Biomedical Microdevices. 10(3). 367–374. 23 indexed citations

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