Jeffrey A. Simon

11.6k citations

47 papers · 9.4k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 35

Impact in

Aging top 1%
Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Cancer-related gene regulation
- RNA modifications and cancer
- DNA Repair Mechanisms
- RNA Research and Splicing

Papers in

Aging 2
Molecular Biology 44
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 30
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 25
- Cancer-related gene regulation 21
- Heat shock proteins research 7
- Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation 5
- RNA modifications and cancer 4
- Protist diversity and phylogeny 3
- Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways 3

Co-authors: Robert E. Kingston Carol A. Lange John T. Lis Michael B. O’Connor Ellen Miller Alan S. Jonason Annemarie Ziegler Douglas E. Brash
Journals: Molecular and Cellular Biology (9 papers)Cell (4 papers)Genetics (4 papers)Current Biology (2 papers)Nature (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States France Germany

In The Last Decade

Jeffrey A. Simon

47 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Occupying Chromatin: Polycomb Mechanisms for Getting to Genomic Targets, Stopping Transcriptional Traffic, and Staying Put 2013 · 538 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Molecular Cell
2009 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
2008 Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis
2002 Cell
1994 Nature

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1	Purification and Functional Characterization of SET8, a Nucleosomal Histone H4-Lysine 20-Specific Methyltransferase UNC Libraries ·Hediye Erdjument‐Bromage, Yi Zhang, Jia Fang, Jeffrey A. Simon, Feng Qin, Xia Li, Carrie S. Ketel, Hengbin Wang, Ru Cao, Paul Tempst	2021	1
2	Ultra‐Long Lifetimes of Single Quantum Emitters in Monolayer WSe ₂ /hBN Heterostructures Advanced Quantum Technologies ·Chandriker Kavir Dass, M. A. Khan, Genevieve Clark, Jeffrey A. Simon, Ricky Gibson, Shin Mou, Xiaodong Xu, Michael N. Leuenberger, Joshua R. Hendrickson	2019	17
3	A strand-specific switch in noncoding transcription switches the function of a Polycomb/Trithorax response element Nature Genetics ·Veronika A. Herzog, Adelheid Lempradl, Ruediger Vischer, 金肖兵, Theo Mang, Тетяна Юрочко, Bernd Boidol, Stefan Kubicek, Pao Vang, Karin Aumayr, Linda M. Spock, Thera Habben Jansen, Andrew Dimond, Febi Fitriana, C. Trombetti, Jeffrey A. Simon, Leonie Ringrose	2014	81
4	Occupying Chromatin: Polycomb Mechanisms for Getting to Genomic Targets, Stopping Transcriptional Traffic, and Staying Put Molecular Cell ·Jeffrey A. Simon, Robert E. Kingston Hit paper breakdown →	2013	538
5	Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier (SUMO) Conjugation Impedes Transcriptional Silencing by the Polycomb Group Repressor Sex Comb on Midleg Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Matthew D. Smith, Daniel R. Mallin, Jeffrey A. Simon, Albert J. Courey	2011	25
6	Cyclin-dependent kinases regulate epigenetic gene silencing through phosphorylation of EZH2 Nature Cell Biology ·Daiwen Chen, Laura R. Bohrer, Zulfikar Putra Arinya Nugroho, Yunqian Pan, Lu Gan, Xianzheng Zhou, Anindya Bagchi, Jeffrey A. Simon, Haojie Huang	2010	202
7	Mechanisms of Polycomb gene silencing: knowns and unknowns Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology ·Jeffrey A. Simon, Robert E. Kingston Hit paper breakdown →	2009	1056
8	Roles of the EZH2 histone methyltransferase in cancer epigenetics Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis ·Jeffrey A. Simon, Carol A. Lange Hit paper breakdown →	2008	685
9	Drosophila Histone Deacetylase-3 Controls Imaginal Disc Size through Suppression of Apoptosis PLoS Genetics ·Changqi C. Zhu, Douglas J. Bornemann, David Zhitomirsky, Ellen Miller, Michael B. O’Connor, Jeffrey A. Simon	2008	23
10	Subunit Contributions to Histone Methyltransferase Activities of Fly and Worm Polycomb Group Complexes Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Carrie S. Ketel, Erica Andersen, C. Trombetti, Jinkyo Suh, Susan Strome, Jeffrey A. Simon	2005	145
11	Polycomb group proteins Current Biology ·Jeffrey A. Simon	2003	28
12	Histone Methyltransferase Activity of a Drosophila Polycomb Group Repressor Complex Cell ·Jürg Müller, Craig M. Hart, Nicole J. Francis, C. Trombetti, Aditya K. Sengupta, Brigitte Wild, Ellen Miller, Michael B. O’Connor, Robert E. Kingston, Jeffrey A. Simon Hit paper breakdown →	2002	1249
13	Programming off and on states in chromatin: mechanisms of Polycomb and trithorax group complexes Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ·Jeffrey A. Simon, John W. Tamkun	2002	282
14	Purification and Functional Characterization of SET8, a Nucleosomal Histone H4-Lysine 20-Specific Methyltransferase Current Biology ·Jia Fang, Qin Feng, Carrie S. Ketel, Hengbin Wang, Ru Cao, Li Xia, Hediye Erdjument‐Bromage, Paul Tempst, Jeffrey A. Simon, Yi Zhang	2002	274
15	A Drosophila ESC-E(Z) Protein Complex Is Distinct from Other Polycomb Group Complexes and Contains Covalently Modified ESC Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Marc Antoine Fleurisca, Craig M. Hart, Kelly Morgan, Jeffrey A. Simon	2000	131
16	Functional Analysis of Repressor Binding Sites in the iab-2 Regulatory Region of the abdominal-A Homeotic Gene Developmental Biology ·Mary Jane Shimell, Aidan J. Peterson, John G. Burr, Jeffrey A. Simon, Michael B. O’Connor	2000	76
17	The Drosophila esc and E(z) Proteins Are Direct Partners in Polycomb Group-Mediated Repression Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Ferdinand von Boxberg, Marc Antoine Fleurisca, Aidan J. Peterson, Kelly Morgan, Jeffrey A. Simon, Richard S. Jones	1998	99
18	A Domain Shared by the Polycomb Group Proteins Scm and ph Mediates Heterotypic and Homotypic Interactions Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Aidan J. Peterson, Michael Kyba, Douglas J. Bornemann, Kelly Morgan, Hugh W. Brock, Jeffrey A. Simon	1997	124
19	The extra sex combs product contains WD40 repeats and its time of action implies a role distinct from other Polycomb group products Mechanisms of Development ·Jeffrey A. Simon, Douglas J. Bornemann, Xue Yuan-fei, Christopher Schwartz	1995	57
20	Sunburn and p53 in the onset of skin cancer Nature ·Annemarie Ziegler, Alan S. Jonason, Luciana Bonifácio, Jeffrey A. Simon, Harsh W. Sharma, Jonathan Kimmelman, Lee Ann Remington, Tyler Jacks, Douglas E. Brash Hit paper breakdown →	1994	1215

About Jeffrey A. Simon

Jeffrey A. Simon is a scholar working on Aging, Molecular Biology, Insect Science, Dermatology and Biotechnology, having authored 47 papers that have together received 9.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (30 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (25 papers), Cancer-related gene regulation (21 papers), Heat shock proteins research (7 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (5 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (4 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (3 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Aging (236 citations), Molecular Biology (7.9k citations), Dermatology (702 citations), Cancer Research (964 citations) and Oncology (1.1k citations). Jeffrey A. Simon has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Robert E. Kingston, Carol A. Lange, John T. Lis, Michael B. O’Connor, Ellen Miller, Alan S. Jonason, Annemarie Ziegler, Douglas E. Brash, Craig M. Hart and Claudia A. Sutton. Their work appears in journals such as Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cell, Genetics, Current Biology and Nature.

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