Matthew D. Simon

8.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
66 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Matthew D. Simon is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew D. Simon has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cancer Research and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Matthew D. Simon's work include RNA Research and Splicing (35 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (34 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (24 papers). Matthew D. Simon is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (35 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (34 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (24 papers). Matthew D. Simon collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Matthew D. Simon's co-authors include Robert E. Kingston, Erin E. Duffy, Michael Rutenberg-Schoenberg, Jason A. West, Kevan M. Shokat, Geeta J. Narlikar, Jeremy A. Schofield, Michael Tolstorukov, Peggy I. Wang and Ruslan I. Sadreyev and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Matthew D. Simon

66 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

m6A mRNA methylation controls T cell homeostasis by targeting the IL-7/STAT5/SOCS pathways

2017 707 citations Erin E. Duffy, Matthew D. Simon et al. Nature profile →
The Long Noncoding RNAs NEAT1 and MALAT1 Bind Active Chromatin Sites

2014 524 citations Jason A. West, Matthew D. Simon et al. Molecular Cell profile →
Innate Immune Responses Activated in Arabidopsis Roots by Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns

2010 444 citations Matthew D. Simon et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matthew D. Simon United States	30	5.0k	1.8k	708	381	238	66	5.6k
Thalia A. Farazi United States	22	3.0k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	174 0.2×	145 0.4×	377 1.6×	39	3.7k
Junwei Shi United States	35	6.2k 1.2×	808 0.5×	477 0.7×	436 1.1×	1.3k 5.6×	105	7.3k
Leighton J. Core United States	30	6.1k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	540 0.8×	761 2.0×	220 0.9×	37	6.6k
Max A. Horlbeck United States	24	5.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	266 0.4×	699 1.8×	420 1.8×	31	6.1k
Albino Bacolla United States	37	3.7k 0.7×	367 0.2×	408 0.6×	810 2.1×	270 1.1×	83	4.3k
Robert J. Sims United States	27	5.6k 1.1×	351 0.2×	325 0.5×	438 1.1×	736 3.1×	50	6.1k
Pascal Chartrand Canada	36	4.4k 0.9×	607 0.3×	419 0.6×	418 1.1×	136 0.6×	80	5.1k
Kyoko L. Yap United States	16	2.6k 0.5×	888 0.5×	296 0.4×	216 0.6×	192 0.8×	20	3.1k
Gary LeRoy United States	37	5.4k 1.1×	378 0.2×	395 0.6×	569 1.5×	431 1.8×	47	5.9k
Hervé Le Hir France	39	6.4k 1.3×	395 0.2×	383 0.5×	380 1.0×	180 0.8×	68	6.9k

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Mayday, Madeline Y., Giulia Biancon, Chen Mi, et al.. (2025). RBM15-MKL1 fusion protein promotes leukemia via m6A methylation and Wnt pathway activation. Blood. 146(9). 1096–1109. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Lizhen, Filip Šenigl, Gabriel Matos‐Rodrigues, et al.. (2025). Transcription elongation factor ELOF1 is required for efficient somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination. Molecular Cell. 85(7). 1296–1310.e7. 1 indexed citations

Moon, Michelle H., et al.. (2024). Disulfide Tethering to Map Small Molecule Binding Sites Transcriptome-wide. ACS Chemical Biology. 19(9). 2081–2086. 3 indexed citations

Brown, Courtney L., et al.. (2024). Phosphorylation of the nuclear poly(A) binding protein (PABPN1) during mitosis protects mRNA from hyperadenylation and maintains transcriptome dynamics. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(16). 9886–9903. 2 indexed citations

Boddu, Prajwal, Abhishek Gupta, Rahul Roy, et al.. (2023). Impaired Early Spliceosome Complex Assembly Underlies Gene Body Elongation Transcription Defect in SF3B1K700E. Blood. 142(Supplement 1). 714–714. 1 indexed citations

Lu-Culligan, William J., Yixuan Xie, Babatunde Ekundayo, et al.. (2023). Acetyl-methyllysine marks chromatin at active transcription start sites. Nature. 622(7981). 173–179. 20 indexed citations

Winkler, Lauren, M. Ángeles Jiménez, Joshua T. Zimmer, et al.. (2022). Functional elements of the cis-regulatory lincRNA-p21. Cell Reports. 39(3). 110687–110687. 25 indexed citations

Zimmer, Joshua T., et al.. (2021). Hyperosmotic stress alters the RNA polymerase II interactome and induces readthrough transcription despite widespread transcriptional repression. Molecular Cell. 81(3). 502–513.e4. 59 indexed citations

Canzio, Daniele, Chiamaka L. Nwakeze, Adan Horta, et al.. (2019). Antisense lncRNA Transcription Mediates DNA Demethylation to Drive Stochastic Protocadherin α Promoter Choice. Cell. 177(3). 639–653.e15. 130 indexed citations

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Schofield, Jeremy A., et al.. (2018). TimeLapse-seq: adding a temporal dimension to RNA sequencing through nucleoside recoding. Nature Methods. 15(3). 221–225. 167 indexed citations

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Wang, Peter Y., Alec N. Sexton, William J. Lu-Culligan, & Matthew D. Simon. (2018). Carbodiimide reagents for the chemical probing of RNA structure in cells. RNA. 25(1). 135–146. 42 indexed citations

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Sexton, Alec N., Martin Machyna, & Matthew D. Simon. (2016). Capture Hybridization Analysis of DNA Targets. Methods in molecular biology. 1480. 87–97. 6 indexed citations

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Simon, Matthew D.. (2015). Insight into lncRNA biology using hybridization capture analyses. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1859(1). 121–127. 26 indexed citations

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Duffy, Erin E., Michael Rutenberg-Schoenberg, Catherine Stark, et al.. (2015). Tracking Distinct RNA Populations Using Efficient and Reversible Covalent Chemistry. Molecular Cell. 59(5). 858–866. 150 indexed citations

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Fang, Rui, Walter N. Moss, Michael Rutenberg-Schoenberg, & Matthew D. Simon. (2015). Probing Xist RNA Structure in Cells Using Targeted Structure-Seq. PLoS Genetics. 11(12). e1005668–e1005668. 101 indexed citations

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Alpatov, Roman, Andrés Blanco, Shuzhen Chen, et al.. (2014). A Chromatin-Dependent Role of the Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein FMRP in the DNA Damage Response. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Simon, Matthew D. & Kevan M. Shokat. (2012). A Method to Site-Specifically Incorporate Methyl-Lysine Analogues into Recombinant Proteins. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 512. 57–69. 13 indexed citations

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Simon, Matthew D., Charlotte I. Wang, Peter V. Kharchenko, et al.. (2011). The genomic binding sites of a noncoding RNA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(51). 20497–20502. 336 indexed citations

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Canzio, Daniele, Smita Shankar, Kristopher Kuchenbecker, et al.. (2011). Chromodomain-Mediated Oligomerization of HP1 Suggests a Nucleosome-Bridging Mechanism for Heterochromatin Assembly. Molecular Cell. 41(1). 67–81. 239 indexed citations

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Li, Bing, Jessica Jackson, Matthew D. Simon, et al.. (2009). Histone H3 Lysine 36 Dimethylation (H3K36me2) Is Sufficient to Recruit the Rpd3s Histone Deacetylase Complex and to Repress Spurious Transcription. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(12). 7970–7976. 122 indexed citations

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