James Smith

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

James Smith is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, James Smith has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Physiology and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in James Smith's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (6 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (4 papers). James Smith is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (6 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers) and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (4 papers). James Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. James Smith's co-authors include Frederick J. Livesey, Peter Kirwan, Yichen Shi, Hugh P. C. Robinson, Stephen N. Sansom, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Marc‐Werner Dobenecker, João D. Pereira, Daniel Graf and Stephen T. Smale and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

James Smith

21 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Human cerebral cortex development from pluripotent stem c... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2012 2006 200 400 600
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. Human cerebral cortex development from pluripotent stem cells to functional excitatory synapses
    2012 606 citations Yichen Shi, Peter Kirwan et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
  2. A role for Dicer in immune regulation
    2006 452 citations Bradley S. Cobb, Arnulf Hertweck et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Smith United Kingdom 17 1.9k 530 523 497 455 22 2.9k
Lars E. Borm Sweden 10 2.1k 1.1× 545 1.0× 281 0.5× 243 0.5× 335 0.7× 12 3.1k
Johannes Vogt Germany 25 1.4k 0.7× 556 1.0× 721 1.4× 192 0.4× 189 0.4× 47 2.6k
Joshua J. Breunig United States 26 2.1k 1.1× 821 1.5× 886 1.7× 345 0.7× 436 1.0× 56 3.5k
Ravi Jagasia Switzerland 25 2.0k 1.1× 674 1.3× 767 1.5× 226 0.5× 483 1.1× 42 3.3k
Matthew R. Sarkisian United States 32 1.7k 0.9× 1.1k 2.1× 487 0.9× 286 0.6× 187 0.4× 63 3.5k
Jean‐Christophe Deloulme France 31 2.6k 1.4× 1.4k 2.6× 645 1.2× 356 0.7× 372 0.8× 64 4.1k
Ernesto R. Bongarzone United States 36 1.8k 1.0× 474 0.9× 751 1.4× 292 0.6× 1.5k 3.2× 100 3.6k
Sarah E. Newey United Kingdom 24 2.7k 1.4× 1.4k 2.6× 391 0.7× 125 0.3× 562 1.2× 32 4.0k
Stefanie Robel United States 21 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 2.1× 588 1.1× 403 0.8× 258 0.6× 32 3.5k
Weixiang Guo China 27 1.8k 0.9× 351 0.7× 647 1.2× 552 1.1× 216 0.5× 59 2.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Smith

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Evans, Lewis, Ashley Campbell, James Smith, et al.. (2025). Tau uptake by human neurons depends on receptor LRP1 and kinase LRRK2. The EMBO Journal. 44(18). 5149–5186. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, James, Tom Campbell, J. B. Clark, et al.. (2025). A phenotypic screen for novel small molecules that correct tau‐mediated pathologies in human frontotemporal dementia neurons. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 21(9). e70620–e70620.
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Brownjohn, Philip W., James Smith, Ebba Lohmann, et al.. (2018). Functional Studies of Missense TREM2 Mutations in Human Stem Cell-Derived Microglia. Stem Cell Reports. 10(4). 1294–1307. 124 indexed citations
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Evans, Lewis, Thomas Wassmer, Graham Fraser, et al.. (2018). Extracellular Monomeric and Aggregated Tau Efficiently Enter Human Neurons through Overlapping but Distinct Pathways. Cell Reports. 22(13). 3612–3624. 139 indexed citations
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Brownjohn, Philip W., James Smith, Erik Portelius, et al.. (2017). Phenotypic Screening Identifies Modulators of Amyloid Precursor Protein Processing in Human Stem Cell Models of Alzheimer’s Disease. Stem Cell Reports. 8(4). 870–882. 51 indexed citations
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Moore, Steven, Lewis Evans, Therése Andersson, et al.. (2015). APP Metabolism Regulates Tau Proteostasis in Human Cerebral Cortex Neurons. Cell Reports. 11(5). 689–696. 144 indexed citations
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Olsson, Bob, Laurence Legros, François Guilhot, et al.. (2013). Imatinib treatment and Aβ42 in humans. Alzheimer s & Dementia. 10(5S). 16 indexed citations
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Shi, Yichen, Peter Kirwan, James Smith, Hugh P. C. Robinson, & Frederick J. Livesey. (2012). Human cerebral cortex development from pluripotent stem cells to functional excitatory synapses. Nature Neuroscience. 15(3). 477–486. 606 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shi, Yichen, Peter Kirwan, James Smith, et al.. (2012). A Human Stem Cell Model of Early Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology in Down Syndrome. Science Translational Medicine. 4(124). 124ra29–124ra29. 242 indexed citations
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Bushati, Natascha, James Smith, James Briscoe, & Christopher J. Watkins. (2011). An intuitive graphical visualization technique for the interrogation of transcriptome data. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(17). 7380–7389. 37 indexed citations
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Andersson, Therése, Stephen N. Sansom, Masahiro Kaneda, et al.. (2010). Reversible Block of Mouse Neural Stem Cell Differentiation in the Absence of Dicer and MicroRNAs. PLoS ONE. 5(10). e13453–e13453. 60 indexed citations
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Pereira, João D., Stephen N. Sansom, James Smith, et al.. (2010). Ezh2, the histone methyltransferase of PRC2, regulates the balance between self-renewal and differentiation in the cerebral cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(36). 15957–15962. 342 indexed citations
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Sansom, Stephen N., Andrea Faedo, Dirk‐Jan Kleinjan, et al.. (2009). The Level of the Transcription Factor Pax6 Is Essential for Controlling the Balance between Neural Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Neurogenesis. PLoS Genetics. 5(6). e1000511–e1000511. 310 indexed citations
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Git, Anna, Inmaculada Spiteri, Cherie Blenkiron, et al.. (2008). PMC42, a breast progenitor cancer cell line, has normal-like mRNA and microRNA transcriptomes. Breast Cancer Research. 10(3). R54–R54. 22 indexed citations
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Cobb, Bradley S., Arnulf Hertweck, James Smith, et al.. (2006). A role for Dicer in immune regulation. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 203(11). 2519–2527. 452 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sansom, Stephen N., Jean M. Hébert, James Smith, et al.. (2005). Genomic characterisation of a Fgf-regulated gradient-based neocortical protomap. Development. 132(17). 3947–3961. 64 indexed citations
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Swinbank, A. M., James Smith, R. G. Bower, et al.. (2003). Galaxies under the Cosmic Microscope: A Gemini Multiobject Spectrograph Study of Lensed Disk Galaxy 289 in A2218. The Astrophysical Journal. 598(1). 162–167. 18 indexed citations
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Smith, James, et al.. (1964). Conditioned Aversion to Saccharin Solution with High Dose Rates of X-Rays as the Unconditioned Stimulus. Radiation Research. 22(3). 507–507. 11 indexed citations

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