Craig A. Simmons

13.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
196 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

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Craig A. Simmons is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Surgery and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Craig A. Simmons has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 54 papers in Surgery and 53 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Craig A. Simmons's work include 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (53 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (43 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (41 papers). Craig A. Simmons is often cited by papers focused on 3D Printing in Biomedical Research (53 papers), Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments (43 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (41 papers). Craig A. Simmons collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Craig A. Simmons's co-authors include Jan‐Hung Chen, Yu Sun, David Mooney, Edmond W. K. Young, Cindy Ying Yin Yip, Aaron R. Wheeler, Ruogang Zhao, Krista L. Sider, Christopher Moraes and Suthan Srigunapalan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Craig A. Simmons

191 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

Calcific Aortic Valve Disease: Not Simply a Degenerative Process

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Craig A. Simmons Canada	55	4.0k	2.4k	2.3k	2.1k	1.6k	196	9.8k
Jonathan T. Butcher United States	43	2.5k 0.6×	2.7k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	2.0k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	137	7.2k
Robert P. Mecham United States	71	1.9k 0.5×	2.6k 1.1×	2.6k 1.2×	5.8k 2.8×	1.3k 0.8×	317	18.9k
Roger R. Markwald United States	70	5.4k 1.4×	4.1k 1.7×	3.3k 1.4×	8.5k 4.1×	1.8k 1.1×	212	17.5k
Katja Schenke‐Layland Germany	51	3.1k 0.8×	837 0.4×	3.1k 1.4×	2.7k 1.3×	2.8k 1.8×	194	9.0k
George A. Truskey United States	53	2.9k 0.7×	759 0.3×	2.1k 0.9×	2.3k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	175	7.7k
K. Jane Grande‐Allen United States	43	1.4k 0.4×	3.0k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	179	6.3k
Tadanori Mammoto United States	40	2.5k 0.6×	754 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	3.5k 1.7×	547 0.3×	95	9.8k
Robert T. Tranquillo United States	59	4.1k 1.0×	860 0.4×	3.8k 1.6×	1.3k 0.6×	4.7k 2.9×	154	9.3k
Christopher A. McCulloch Canada	75	1.8k 0.5×	1.0k 0.4×	1.6k 0.7×	6.4k 3.1×	744 0.5×	298	17.6k
Kevin Kit Parker United States	72	8.2k 2.1×	1.5k 0.6×	3.2k 1.4×	3.4k 1.7×	3.1k 2.0×	162	14.8k

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Kalia, Lorraine V., et al.. (2025). Vascular models of Alzheimer's disease: An overview of recent in vitro models of the blood-brain barrier. Neurobiology of Disease. 208. 106864–106864. 2 indexed citations

Lino, Marsel, et al.. (2025). A pumpless microfluidic co-culture system to model the effects of shear flow on biological barriers. Lab on a Chip. 25(6). 1489–1501. 1 indexed citations

Mirani, Bahram, et al.. (2024). Characterization of pediatric porcine pulmonary valves as a model for tissue engineered heart valves. Acta Biomaterialia. 188. 242–252. 2 indexed citations

Quevedo, Rene, Kebria Hezaveh, Haijiao Liu, et al.. (2024). The use of a multi-metric readout screen to identify EHMT2/G9a-inhibition as a modulator of cancer-associated fibroblast activation state. Biomaterials. 314. 122879–122879.

Kinnear, Caroline, Guoliang Meng, Yimu Zhao, et al.. (2024). Myosin inhibitor reverses hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in genotypically diverse pediatric iPSC-cardiomyocytes to mirror variant correction. Cell Reports Medicine. 5(5). 101520–101520. 8 indexed citations

Zhou, Yuqing, Zahra Mirzaei, Yu Ding, et al.. (2024). Identification of congenital aortic valve malformations in juvenile natriuretic peptide receptor 2-deficient mice using high-frequency ultrasound. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 327(1). H56–H66. 2 indexed citations

Mirani, Bahram, et al.. (2024). Biomaterials and biofabrication strategies for tissue-engineered heart valves. Matter. 7(9). 2896–2940. 3 indexed citations

Mirani, Bahram, Nataly Machado Siqueira, Zahra Mirzaei, et al.. (2023). Serum- and xeno-free culture of human umbilical cord perivascular cells for pediatric heart valve tissue engineering. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 14(1). 96–96. 2 indexed citations

Mirani, Bahram, et al.. (2023). Programmable Melt Electrowriting to Engineer Soft Connective Tissues with Prescribed, Biomimetic, Biaxial Mechanical Properties. Advanced Functional Materials. 34(1). 16 indexed citations

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Holcroft, James W., et al.. (2022). An SCPPPQ1/LAM332 protein complex enhances the adhesion and migration of oral epithelial cells: Implications for dentogingival regeneration. Acta Biomaterialia. 147. 209–220. 5 indexed citations

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Baranger, Jérôme, Minh B. Nguyen, Atef Asnacios, et al.. (2022). A guide for assessment of myocardial stiffness in health and disease. Nature Cardiovascular Research. 1(1). 8–22. 45 indexed citations

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Strohm, Eric M., Emmanuel Chérin, Bahram Mirani, et al.. (2022). High-frequency quantitative ultrasound for the assessment of the acoustic properties of engineered tissues in vitro. Acta Biomaterialia. 157. 288–296. 4 indexed citations

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McFadden, Meghan J., et al.. (2021). Mitigating the non-specific uptake of immunomagnetic microparticles enables the extraction of endothelium from human fat. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1205–1205. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Haijiao, et al.. (2021). Combinatorial screen of dynamic mechanical stimuli for predictive control of MSC mechano-responsiveness. Science Advances. 7(19). 15 indexed citations

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Latifi, Neda, et al.. (2020). Porcine Umbilical Cord Perivascular Cells for Preclinical Testing of Tissue-Engineered Heart Valves. Tissue Engineering Part C Methods. 27(1). 35–46. 7 indexed citations

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Shikatani, Eric A., Rickvinder Besla, Andrew Levy, et al.. (2019). B-Cell Deficiency Lowers Blood Pressure in Mice. Hypertension. 73(3). 561–570. 27 indexed citations

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Kuzmanov, Uroš, Neal I. Callaghan, Scott P. Heximer, et al.. (2019). Nanoscale reorganization of sarcoplasmic reticulum in pressure-overload cardiac hypertrophy visualized by dSTORM. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 7867–7867. 16 indexed citations

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Simmons, Craig A., et al.. (2019). Paracrine signalling from monocytes enables desirable extracellular matrix accumulation and temporally appropriate phenotype of vascular smooth muscle cell-like cells derived from adipose stromal cells. Acta Biomaterialia. 103. 129–141. 12 indexed citations

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Leung, General, Anish Kirpalani, Stephen G. Szeto, et al.. (2017). Could MRI Be Used To Image Kidney Fibrosis? A Review of Recent Advances and Remaining Barriers. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 12(6). 1019–1028. 72 indexed citations

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Chen, Jan‐Hung, Cindy Ying Yin Yip, Eli D. Sone, & Craig A. Simmons. (2009). Identification and Characterization of Aortic Valve Mesenchymal Progenitor Cells with Robust Osteogenic Calcification Potential. American Journal Of Pathology. 174(3). 1109–1119. 162 indexed citations

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