William Y. Wang

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

William Y. Wang is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Y. Wang has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 15 papers in Cell Biology and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William Y. Wang's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (15 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (15 papers) and Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer (4 papers). William Y. Wang is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (15 papers), Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (15 papers) and Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer (4 papers). William Y. Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and India. William Y. Wang's co-authors include Brendon M. Baker, Christopher S. Chen, Christopher D. Davidson, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Vivek B. Shenoy, Iris L. Kim, Britta Trappmann, Jason A. Burdick, Daphne Lin and Daniel L. Matera and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Materials and Advanced Functional Materials.

In The Last Decade

William Y. Wang

21 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Cell-mediated fibre recruitment drives extracellular matrix mechanosensing in engineered fibrillar microenvironments

2015 461 citations Brendon M. Baker, Britta Trappmann et al. Nature Materials profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Y. Wang United States	15	715	500	351	229	180	22	1.2k
Hermes Taylor‐Weiner United States	8	789 1.1×	673 1.3×	252 0.7×	333 1.5×	168 0.9×	8	1.4k
Nicholas A. Kurniawan Netherlands	27	774 1.1×	571 1.1×	466 1.3×	262 1.1×	294 1.6×	67	1.8k
Ludovic G. Vincent United States	9	861 1.2×	748 1.5×	272 0.8×	417 1.8×	214 1.2×	11	1.5k
Sebastián L. Vega United States	16	640 0.9×	450 0.9×	281 0.8×	200 0.9×	143 0.8×	34	1.2k
Maureen A. Griffin United States	3	759 1.1×	656 1.3×	354 1.0×	388 1.7×	311 1.7×	6	1.4k
Daniel G.T. Strange United Kingdom	10	942 1.3×	712 1.4×	401 1.1×	242 1.1×	256 1.4×	11	1.6k
Kyle H. Vining United States	13	873 1.2×	683 1.4×	311 0.9×	511 2.2×	282 1.6×	24	1.9k
Lena P. Basta United States	7	584 0.8×	627 1.3×	171 0.5×	349 1.5×	149 0.8×	8	1.2k
Maureen A. Griffin United States	9	645 0.9×	777 1.6×	204 0.6×	194 0.8×	164 0.9×	29	1.2k
Vanessa L.S. LaPointe Netherlands	22	925 1.3×	355 0.7×	388 1.1×	575 2.5×	353 2.0×	67	1.8k

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Wang, Yao, Weijia Gong, Bo Chen, et al.. (2025). Empowering oxidation resistance of Cr-coated zirconium alloys via hydrogen-driven interface polymorphic transformation. Acta Materialia. 298. 121376–121376.

Wojasiński, Michał, et al.. (2023). Rapid Magnetically Directed Assembly of Pre‐Patterned Capillary‐Scale Microvessels. Advanced Functional Materials. 33(40). 8 indexed citations

Davidson, Christopher D., et al.. (2023). Mechanical Intercellular Communication via Matrix‐Borne Cell Force Transmission During Vascular Network Formation. Advanced Science. 11(3). e2306210–e2306210. 11 indexed citations

Matera, Daniel L., William Y. Wang, Johanna M. Buschhaus, et al.. (2022). Fiber density and matrix stiffness modulate distinct cell migration modes in a 3D stroma mimetic composite hydrogel. Acta Biomaterialia. 163. 378–391. 25 indexed citations

Kent, Robert, M.S. Said, Jingyi Xia, et al.. (2022). Physical and Soluble Cues Enhance Tendon Progenitor Cell Invasion into Injectable Synthetic Hydrogels. Advanced Functional Materials. 32(48). 2207556–2207556. 18 indexed citations

Tan, Xiaotian, Kathleen C. Day, Xuzhou Li, et al.. (2021). Quantification and immunoprofiling of bladder cancer cell-derived extracellular vesicles with microfluidic chemiluminescent ELISA. Biosensors and Bioelectronics X. 8. 100066–100066. 12 indexed citations

Wang, William Y., Robert Kent, Stephanie Huang, et al.. (2021). Direct comparison of angiogenesis in natural and synthetic biomaterials reveals that matrix porosity regulates endothelial cell invasion speed and sprout diameter. Acta Biomaterialia. 135. 260–273. 41 indexed citations

Wang, William Y., et al.. (2021). Dynamic Endothelial Stalk Cell–Matrix Interactions Regulate Angiogenic Sprout Diameter. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 9. 620128–620128. 21 indexed citations

Matera, Daniel L., William Y. Wang, & Brendon M. Baker. (2021). New directions and dimensions for bioengineered models of fibrosis. Nature Reviews Materials. 6(3). 192–195. 13 indexed citations

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Jones, Michael S., Do Hoon Kim, Johanna M. Buschhaus, et al.. (2021). Aligned Networks of Engineered Fibrillar Fibronectin Guide Cellular Orientation and Motility. Small Structures. 2(6). 11 indexed citations

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Li, Xuzhou, Wei Zhang, William Y. Wang, et al.. (2020). Optical coherence tomography and fluorescence microscopy dual-modality imaging for in vivo single-cell tracking with nanowire lasers. Biomedical Optics Express. 11(7). 3659–3659. 13 indexed citations

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Davidson, Christopher D., et al.. (2020). Myofibroblast activation in synthetic fibrous matrices composed of dextran vinyl sulfone. Acta Biomaterialia. 105. 78–86. 45 indexed citations

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Aliabouzar, Mitra, Oliver D. Kripfgans, William Y. Wang, et al.. (2020). Stable and transient bubble formation in acoustically-responsive scaffolds by acoustic droplet vaporization: theory and application in sequential release. Ultrasonics Sonochemistry. 72. 105430–105430. 28 indexed citations

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Aliabouzar, Mitra, Christopher D. Davidson, William Y. Wang, et al.. (2020). Spatiotemporal control of micromechanics and microstructure in acoustically-responsive scaffolds using acoustic droplet vaporization. Soft Matter. 16(28). 6501–6513. 17 indexed citations

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Wang, William Y., et al.. (2020). Functional angiogenesis requires microenvironmental cues balancing endothelial cell migration and proliferation. Lab on a Chip. 20(6). 1153–1166. 60 indexed citations

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Davidson, Christopher D., et al.. (2020). Fiber Crimp Confers Matrix Mechanical Nonlinearity, Regulates Endothelial Cell Mechanosensing, and Promotes Microvascular Network Formation. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 142(11). 14 indexed citations

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Wang, William Y., Christopher D. Davidson, Daphne Lin, & Brendon M. Baker. (2019). Actomyosin contractility-dependent matrix stretch and recoil induces rapid cell migration. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1186–1186. 107 indexed citations

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Davidson, Christopher D., et al.. (2019). Cell force-mediated matrix reorganization underlies multicellular network assembly. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 12–12. 99 indexed citations

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Wang, William Y., Alexander T. Pearson, Matthew L. Kutys, et al.. (2018). Extracellular matrix alignment dictates the organization of focal adhesions and directs uniaxial cell migration. APL Bioengineering. 2(4). 46107–46107. 90 indexed citations

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Baker, Brendon M., Britta Trappmann, William Y. Wang, et al.. (2015). Cell-mediated fibre recruitment drives extracellular matrix mechanosensing in engineered fibrillar microenvironments. Nature Materials. 14(12). 1262–1268. 461 indexed citations breakdown →

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