Yu Kyung Tak

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Yu Kyung Tak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu Kyung Tak has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Materials Chemistry and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yu Kyung Tak's work include Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (5 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (2 papers). Yu Kyung Tak is often cited by papers focused on Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications (5 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (2 papers). Yu Kyung Tak collaborates with scholars based in South Korea, India and United States. Yu Kyung Tak's co-authors include Joon Myong Song, Sukdeb Pal, Pravin K. Naoghare, Sabarinathan Rangasamy, Eunyoung Han, Min Jung Kim, Eung Chil Choi, Eun Jeong Yoon, Dae Gyu Kim and Ehud Razin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Analytical Chemistry and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Yu Kyung Tak

19 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Does the Antibacterial Activity of Silver Nanoparticles D... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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.

  1. Does the Antibacterial Activity of Silver Nanoparticles Depend on the Shape of the Nanoparticle? A Study of the Gram-Negative Bacterium Escherichia coli
    2007 3.2k citations Sukdeb Pal, Yu Kyung Tak et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yu Kyung Tak South Korea 12 2.9k 1.5k 408 388 381 19 3.7k
Yong-Kwon Kim South Korea 5 3.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 361 0.9× 363 0.9× 533 1.4× 26 4.0k
Young Kyung Park South Korea 14 3.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 497 1.2× 311 0.8× 530 1.4× 29 4.4k
Sukdeb Pal India 17 3.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 340 0.8× 398 1.0× 387 1.0× 51 4.1k
Gabriel Alejandro Martínez-Castañón Mexico 28 2.2k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 377 0.9× 294 0.8× 407 1.1× 94 3.8k
Hu-Jang Lee South Korea 21 3.1k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 679 1.7× 320 0.8× 556 1.5× 158 5.3k
Priscyla D. Marcato Brazil 30 3.0k 1.0× 1.9k 1.3× 572 1.4× 253 0.7× 611 1.6× 89 4.9k
Fidel Martínez‐Gutiérrez Mexico 21 1.9k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 441 1.1× 229 0.6× 341 0.9× 62 3.2k
Renata Večeřová Czechia 17 3.7k 1.3× 2.0k 1.3× 576 1.4× 594 1.5× 547 1.4× 37 5.2k
Venkataraman Deepak India 24 2.8k 1.0× 1.7k 1.2× 851 2.1× 257 0.7× 417 1.1× 42 4.3k
Kyeong Nam Yu South Korea 8 3.7k 1.3× 2.0k 1.3× 644 1.6× 490 1.3× 1.0k 2.7× 9 5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu Kyung Tak

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Tak, Yu Kyung, Sukdeb Pal, Pravin K. Naoghare, Sabarinathan Rangasamy, & Joon Myong Song. (2015). Shape-Dependent Skin Penetration of Silver Nanoparticles: Does It Really Matter?. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 16908–16908. 138 indexed citations
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Rangasamy, Sabarinathan, Yu Kyung Tak, Sun‐Hee Kim, Avijit Kumar Paul, & Joon Myong Song. (2015). Bifunctional Therapeutic High-Valence Silver-Pyridoxine Nanoparticles with Proliferative and Antibacterial Wound-Healing Activities. Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology. 12(1). 182–196. 21 indexed citations
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Pal, Sukdeb, Yu Kyung Tak, Eunyoung Han, Sabarinathan Rangasamy, & Joon Myong Song. (2014). A multifunctional composite of an antibacterial higher-valent silver metallopharmaceutical and a potent wound healing polypeptide: a combined killing and healing approach to wound care. New Journal of Chemistry. 38(8). 3889–3898. 18 indexed citations
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Tak, Yu Kyung & Joon Myong Song. (2013). Early Stage High-Content HIV Diagnosis Based on Concurrent Monitoring of Actin Cytoskeleton, CD3, CD4, and CD8. Analytical Chemistry. 85(9). 4273–4278. 6 indexed citations
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Tak, Yu Kyung, Won Young Kim, Min Jung Kim, et al.. (2012). Highly sensitive polymerase chain reaction-free quantum dot-based quantification of forensic genomic DNA. Analytica Chimica Acta. 721. 85–91. 12 indexed citations
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Tak, Yu Kyung, Pravin K. Naoghare, Byung Joo Kim, et al.. (2012). “High-content quantum dot-based subtype diagnosis and classification of breast cancer patients using hypermulticolor quantitative single cell imaging cytometry”. Nano Today. 7(4). 231–244. 27 indexed citations
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Kim, Dae Gyu, Jin Woo Choi, Jin Young Lee, et al.. (2012). Interaction of two translational components, lysyl‐tRNA synthetase and p40/37LRP, in plasma membrane promotes laminin‐dependent cell migration. The FASEB Journal. 26(10). 4142–4159. 71 indexed citations
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Naoghare, Pravin K., Yu Kyung Tak, Min Jung Kim, Eunyoung Han, & Joon Myong Song. (2011). Knock-Down of Argonaute 2 (AGO2) Induces Apoptosis in Myeloid Leukaemia Cells and Inhibits siRNA-Mediated Silencing of Transfected Oncogenes in HEK-293 Cells. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology. 109(4). 274–282. 17 indexed citations
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Tak, Yu Kyung, Pravin K. Naoghare, Eunyoung Han, & Joon Myong Song. (2010). VEGF inhibitor (Iressa) arrests histone deacetylase expression: Single‐cell cotransfection imaging cytometry for multi‐target‐multi‐drug analysis. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 226(8). 2115–2122. 6 indexed citations
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Pal, Sukdeb, Yu Kyung Tak, Joydip Joardar, et al.. (2009). Nanocrystalline Silver Supported on Activated Carbon Matrix from Hydrosol: Antibacterial Mechanism Under Prolonged Incubation Conditions. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 9(3). 2092–2103. 26 indexed citations
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Naoghare, Pravin K., Seung‐Mann Paek, Yu Kyung Tak, et al.. (2009). Simultaneous quantitative monitoring of drug-induced caspase cascade pathways in carcinoma cells. Integrative Biology. 2(1). 46–57. 11 indexed citations
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Pal, Sukdeb, Eun Jeong Yoon, Yu Kyung Tak, Eung Chil Choi, & Joon Myong Song. (2009). Synthesis of Highly Antibacterial Nanocrystalline Trivalent Silver Polydiguanide. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(44). 16147–16155. 65 indexed citations
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Tak, Yu Kyung, et al.. (2008). Green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a direct biosensor for mutation detection: Elimination of false-negative errors in target gene expression. Analytical Biochemistry. 380(1). 91–98. 5 indexed citations
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Kim, Min Jung, Sukdeb Pal, Yu Kyung Tak, et al.. (2007). Determination of the dose–depth distribution of proton beam using resazurin assay in vitro and diode laser-induced fluorescence detection. Analytica Chimica Acta. 593(2). 214–223. 14 indexed citations
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Pal, Sukdeb, Yu Kyung Tak, & Joon Myong Song. (2007). Does the Antibacterial Activity of Silver Nanoparticles Depend on the Shape of the Nanoparticle? A Study of the Gram-Negative Bacterium Escherichia coli. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73(6). 1712–1720. 3175 indexed citations breakdown →

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