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. 2022 Jun 16;13:927219. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.927219

TABLE 3.

Top 20 highly cited publications in CPDT field.

Ranking Title Total citations Average citation per year Journal First Author Published year
1 Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer: An Update 2,944 245.33 CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS Agostinis, Patrizia 2011
2 Photodynamic therapy and anti-tumour immunity 1,712 100.71 NATURE REVIEWS CANCER Castano, Ana P 2006
3 The role of porphyrin chemistry in tumor imaging and photodynamic therapy 1,399 116.58 CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS Ethirajan, Manivannan 2011
4 The present and future role of photodynamic therapy in cancer treatment 1,318 69.37 LANCET ONCOLOGY Brown, SB 2004
5 Reactive oxygen species generating systems meeting challenges of photodynamic cancer therapy 944 134.86 CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS Zhou, Zijian 2016
6 Porphyrin and Nonporphyrin Photosensitizers in Oncology: Preclinical and Clinical Advances in Photodynamic Therapy 840 60 PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY O'Connor 2009
7 Current state, achievements, and future prospects of polymeric micelles as nanocarriers for drug and gene delivery 822 48.35 PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS Nishiyama, Nobuhiro 2006
8 Photodynamic therapy (PDT): A short review on cellular mechanisms and cancer research applications for PDT 746 53.29 JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY Robertson, C. A 2009
9 Ceramic-based nanoparticles entrapping water-insoluble photosensitizing anticancer drugs: A novel drug-carrier system for photodynamic therapy 731 36.55 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Roy, I 2003
10 Near-infrared light induced in vivo photodynamic therapy of cancer based on upconversion nanoparticles 640 53.33 BIOMATERIALS Wang, Chao 2011
11 Highly efficient drug delivery with gold nanoparticle vectors for in vivo photodynamic therapy of cancer 586 39.07 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Cheng, Yu 2008
12 H2O2-Activatable and O-2-Evolving Nanoparticles for Highly Efficient and Selective Photodynamic Therapy against Hypoxic Tumor Cells 563 70.38 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Chen, Huachao 2015
13 Photodynamic therapy in oncology 526 30.94 ONCOLOGIST Triesscheijn, Martijn 2006
14 Perfluorocarbon nanoparticles enhance reactive oxygen levels and tumour growth inhibition in photodynamic therapy 525 65.63 NATURE COMMUNICATIONS Cheng, Yuhao 2015
15 Methylene blue in photodynamic therapy: From basic mechanisms to clinical applications 525 29.17 PHOTODIAGNOSIS AND PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY Tardivo, Joao Paulo 2005
16 Photodynamic therapy - mechanisms, photosensitizers and combinations 500 100 BIOMEDICINE AND PHARMACOTHERAPY Kwiatkowski, Stanislaw 2018
17 Smart Human Serum Albumin-Indocyanine Green Nanoparticles Generated by Programmed Assembly for Dual-Modal Imaging-Guided Cancer Synergistic Phototherapy 498 55.33 ACS NANO Sheng, Zonghai 2014
18 Guidelines on the use of photodynamic therapy for nonmelanoma skin cancer: An international consensus 493 30.81 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY Braathen, Lasse R 2007
19 Photodynamic therapy of cancer. Basic principles and applications 483 32.2 CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL ONCOLOGY Juarranz, Angeles 2008
20 Transition Metal Complexes and Photodynamic Therapy from a Tumor-Centered Approach: Challenges, Opportunities, and Highlights from the Development of TLD1433 472 118 CHEMICAL REVIEWS Monro, Susan 2019

Ranking: according to the number of total citations.