Peter A. Sims

14.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
111 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Peter A. Sims is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter A. Sims has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Immunology and 16 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Peter A. Sims's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (21 papers), Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (16 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers). Peter A. Sims is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (21 papers), Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (16 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (10 papers). Peter A. Sims collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Peter A. Sims's co-authors include Jinzhou Yuan, X. Sunney Xie, Bill George, Hanna Mendes Levitin, Peter Canoll, David Gergen, Erin Bush, Xiaolin Nan, Andrew N. McLean and Jeffrey N. Bruce and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Peter A. Sims

104 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Single-cell transcriptomics of human T cells reveals tissue and activation signatures in health and disease

2019 346 citations Peter A. Szabo, Hanna Mendes Levitin et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter A. Sims United States	40	2.4k	1.1k	702	609	451	111	5.0k
John J. Trombetta United States	10	5.7k 2.4×	1.4k 1.3×	1.3k 1.8×	638 1.0×	154 0.3×	12	7.5k
Insuk Lee South Korea	40	5.4k 2.3×	591 0.6×	785 1.1×	505 0.8×	100 0.2×	148	7.6k
David Lim United States	57	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	467 0.7×	1.0k 1.7×	641 1.4×	417	11.6k
Thierry Voet Belgium	42	5.5k 2.3×	755 0.7×	1.5k 2.1×	737 1.2×	243 0.5×	96	8.6k
Wendy Liu United States	35	2.2k 0.9×	375 0.4×	318 0.5×	1.6k 2.6×	126 0.3×	101	5.8k
Michael Barnett Australia	48	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	367 0.5×	783 1.3×	246 0.5×	246	9.5k
Charles A. Conrad United States	38	2.0k 0.8×	621 0.6×	879 1.3×	1.5k 2.5×	1.9k 4.3×	87	5.0k
Michael White United Kingdom	47	4.1k 1.7×	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.5×	716 1.2×	78 0.2×	159	7.6k
Susan M. Chang United States	59	2.1k 0.9×	551 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	1.6k 2.6×	4.5k 10.0×	206	10.2k
Anita Lal United States	33	2.7k 1.1×	464 0.4×	877 1.2×	809 1.3×	314 0.7×	88	5.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter A. Sims

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Xia, Shengnan, Susumu Antoku, David Chen, et al.. (2025). The spatial landscape of glial pathology and T cell response in Parkinson’s disease substantia nigra. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7146–7146. 3 indexed citations

Shin, Alice E., Kensuke Sugiura, David Cohen, et al.. (2025). LIN28B-mediated PI3K/AKT pathway activation promotes metastasis in colorectal cancer models. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 135(8). 2 indexed citations

Davis‐Porada, Julia, et al.. (2025). Lung tissue–resident memory T cells optimize protection by IL-10 regulation of innate immunity. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 223(1).

Haage, Verena, Charles C. White, Ronak Patel, et al.. (2025). HDAC inhibitors engage MITF and the disease-associated microglia signature to enhance amyloid β uptake. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 129. 279–293. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Zhouzerui, Angeliki Mela, Michael Argenziano, et al.. (2023). Single-cell analysis of 5-aminolevulinic acid intraoperative labeling specificity for glioblastoma. Journal of neurosurgery. 140(4). 968–978. 13 indexed citations

Poon, Maya M.L., Daniel P. Caron, Zicheng Wang, et al.. (2023). Tissue adaptation and clonal segregation of human memory T cells in barrier sites. Nature Immunology. 24(2). 309–319. 80 indexed citations

Sugiura, Kensuke, Kensuke Suzuki, Alice E. Shin, et al.. (2023). LIN28B promotes cell invasion and colorectal cancer metastasis via CLDN1 and NOTCH3. JCI Insight. 8(14). 11 indexed citations

Snyder, Mark E., Kaveh Moghbeli, Andrew Craig, et al.. (2022). Modulation of tissue resident memory T cells by glucocorticoids after acute cellular rejection in lung transplantation. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 219(4). 25 indexed citations

Chait, Michael, Amy Ku, Pranay Dogra, et al.. (2022). Immune and epithelial determinants of age-related risk and alveolar injury in fatal COVID-19. JCI Insight. 7(11). 6 indexed citations

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Damaghi, Mehdi, Jeffrey West, Mark Robertson‐Tessi, et al.. (2021). The harsh microenvironment in early breast cancer selects for a Warburg phenotype. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(3). 91 indexed citations

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Bayın, N. Sumru, et al.. (2021). Injury-induced ASCL1 expression orchestrates a transitory cell state required for repair of the neonatal cerebellum. Science Advances. 7(50). eabj1598–eabj1598. 9 indexed citations

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Caruso, Francesca Pia, Luciano Garofano, Fulvio D’Angelo, et al.. (2020). A map of tumor–host interactions in glioma at single-cell resolution. GigaScience. 9(10). 31 indexed citations

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Levitin, Hanna Mendes, Jinzhou Yuan, Yim Ling Cheng, et al.. (2019). De novo gene signature identification from single‐cell RNA ‐seq with hierarchical Poisson factorization. Molecular Systems Biology. 15(2). e8557–e8557. 43 indexed citations

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Snyder, Mark E., Michael O. Finlayson, Thomas J. Connors, et al.. (2019). Generation and persistence of human tissue-resident memory T cells in lung transplantation. Science Immunology. 4(33). 196 indexed citations

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Szabo, Peter A., Hanna Mendes Levitin, Michelle Miron, et al.. (2019). Single-cell transcriptomics of human T cells reveals tissue and activation signatures in health and disease. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4706–4706. 346 indexed citations breakdown →

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Martuscello, Regina T., et al.. (2019). Gene expression analysis of the cerebellar cortex in essential tremor. Neuroscience Letters. 721. 134540–134540. 13 indexed citations

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Liang, Lei, Katrina K. Bakken, Peter A. Sims, et al.. (2016). Quantitative Phosphoproteomics Reveals Wee1 Kinase as a Therapeutic Target in a Model of Proneural Glioblastoma. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 15(6). 1332–1343. 30 indexed citations

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Sonabend, Adam M., Mukesh Bansal, Paolo Guarnieri, et al.. (2014). The Transcriptional Regulatory Network of Proneural Glioma Determines the Genetic Alterations Selected during Tumor Progression. Cancer Research. 74(5). 1440–1451. 41 indexed citations

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Shiroguchi, Katsuyuki, Tony Z. Jia, Peter A. Sims, & X. Sunney Xie. (2012). Digital RNA sequencing minimizes sequence-dependent bias and amplification noise with optimized single-molecule barcodes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(4). 1347–1352. 193 indexed citations

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Sims, Peter A., et al.. (1984). The general practitioner in the inner city: a survey of a London health district.. PubMed. 34(261). 199–204. 3 indexed citations

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