Leaderboards/Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry

Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry

Last updated June 1, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1

UC San Diego Health System

99

2

Boston Children's Hospital

59

3

41

Rising Stars Papers

1

SOCS3 regulates pathological retinal angiogenesis through modulating SPP1 expression in microglia and macrophages

Molecular Therapy|2024

25 cit.

2

Droplet-based microfluidics for engineering shape-controlled hydrogels with stiffness gradient

Biofabrication|2024

13 cit.

3

Photoreceptors inhibit pathological retinal angiogenesis through transcriptional regulation of Adam17 via c-Fos

Angiogenesis|2024

8 cit.

4

The Potential of Ruthenium(II) Tris‐Bidentate Complexes as Multifunctional Photo‐Initiators

Macromolecular Materials and Engineering|2025

6 cit.

5

Light-gated integrator for highlighting kinase activity in living cells

Nature Communications|2024

4 cit.

6

Oscillatory signal decoding within the ERK cascade

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2025

0 cit.

7

Engineering Aging: Approaches to Model and Deconstruct Biological Complexity

Advanced Materials|2025

0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Papers

1

Indacenodithienothiophene-based A-D-A-type phototheranostics for immuno-phototherapy

Journal of Nanobiotechnology|2025

11 cit.

2

Photochemical synthesis of natural lipids in artificial and living cells

Nature Communications|2025

7 cit.

3

The Potential of Ruthenium(II) Tris‐Bidentate Complexes as Multifunctional Photo‐Initiators

Macromolecular Materials and Engineering|2025

6 cit.

4

A super versatile flexizyme system with phenol esters for genetic code reprogramming

Nature Communications|2025

6 cit.

5

Predicting UV-Vis Spectra of Benzothio/Dithiophene Polymers for Photodetectors by Machine-Learning-Assisted Computational Studies

Coatings|2025

5 cit.

6

Non-invasive light flickering reinstates visual plasticity in adult mice via lipocalin 2

BMC Biology|2025

3 cit.

7

Steric substitution in phenylazo indoles reveals interplay of steric and electronic effects on photophysical dynamics

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics|2025

1 cit.

8

Photoclick chemistry led to the identification of HELLS as a helicase for DNA G-quadruplexes

Nucleic Acids Research|2026

1 cit.

9

Identifying Structural Factors Governing the Photodynamic Activity of Phthalocyanines

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry|2026

1 cit.

10

Optogenetic activation of TGFβ signaling drives ligand-free chondrogenesis in hESC-derived MSCs

Stem Cells|2025

0 cit.

All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

99

2

Heidelberg University

90

3

Gonçalo J. L. Bernardes

University of Lisbon

89

4

Seoul National University

89

5

University of Geneva

83

6

Jeffrey L. Blackburn

National Laboratory of the Rockies

81

7

Nanyang Technological University

80

8

Army Medical University

76

9

Genesis Research Institute

70

10

Javier Read de Alaniz

Unknown

69

All-Time Leaders Papers

1

Inverse electron demand Diels–Alder reactions in chemical biology

Chemical Society Reviews|2017

1.1k cit.

2

Carbon‐Nanotube‐Based Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

Advanced Materials|2018

672 cit.

3

Enlightening Materials with Photoswitches

Advanced Materials|2020

565 cit.

4

Dynamic plasmonic colour display

Nature Communications|2017

559 cit.

5

Generation of functional hippocampal neurons from self-organizing human embryonic stem cell-derived dorsomedial telencephalic tissue

Nature Communications|2015

531 cit.

6

Intraparticle Molecular Orbital Engineering of Semiconducting Polymer Nanoparticles as Amplified Theranostics for <i>in Vivo</i> Photoacoustic Imaging and Photothermal Therapy

ACS Nano|2016

503 cit.

7

Semiconducting Polymer Nanobioconjugates for Targeted Photothermal Activation of Neurons

Journal of the American Chemical Society|2016

457 cit.

8

Activatable polymer nanoagonist for second near-infrared photothermal immunotherapy of cancer

Nature Communications|2021

433 cit.

9

Cell Membrane Coated Semiconducting Polymer Nanoparticles for Enhanced Multimodal Cancer Phototheranostics

ACS Nano|2018

373 cit.

10

Generation of a ciliary margin-like stem cell niche from self-organizing human retinal tissue

Nature Communications|2015

356 cit.

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