Peter Sims

13.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
203 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Peter Sims is a scholar working on Cancer Research, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Sims has authored 203 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Cancer Research, 65 papers in Molecular Biology and 59 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Peter Sims's work include Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (66 papers), Free Radicals and Antioxidants (25 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (22 papers). Peter Sims is often cited by papers focused on Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment (66 papers), Free Radicals and Antioxidants (25 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (22 papers). Peter Sims collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Peter Sims's co-authors include P.L. Grover, E. Boyland, Alan Hewer, Philip L. Grover, Joan Booth, K. Pal, Alan Swaisland, Hans Marquardt, Eliezer Huberman and Charles Heidelberger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter Sims

201 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

Metabolic activation of b... 1961 2026 1982 2004 1974 1974 1961 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Metabolic activation of benzo(a)pyrene proceeds by a diol-epoxide
    1974 951 citations Peter Sims, P.L. Grover et al. profile →
  2. Epoxides in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Metabolism and Carcinogenesis
    1974 596 citations Peter Sims, P.L. Grover profile →
  3. An enzyme from rat liver catalysing conjugations with glutathione
    1961 487 citations E. Boyland, Peter Sims et al. Biochemical Journal profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Peter Sims 4.0k 3.8k 2.1k 1.8k 1.6k 203 9.2k
D. M. JERINA 3.5k 0.9× 2.3k 0.6× 3.0k 1.4× 1.6k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 130 8.1k
Donald M. Jerina 4.9k 1.2× 2.7k 0.7× 2.0k 1.0× 2.6k 1.5× 1.2k 0.8× 293 10.3k
Haruhiko Yagi 4.7k 1.2× 3.6k 1.0× 1.9k 0.9× 2.2k 1.2× 1.5k 0.9× 226 12.1k
Alexander W. Wood 3.8k 0.9× 2.5k 0.7× 1.9k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 856 0.6× 115 7.5k
Peter J. van Bladeren 4.7k 1.2× 1.6k 0.4× 2.0k 0.9× 875 0.5× 1.4k 0.9× 243 9.8k
P.L. Grover 2.1k 0.5× 2.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 864 0.5× 1.0k 0.7× 109 4.8k
Costas Ioannides 2.8k 0.7× 1.4k 0.4× 2.7k 1.3× 1.0k 0.6× 874 0.6× 283 7.6k
Ronald G. Harvey 4.4k 1.1× 2.7k 0.7× 692 0.3× 4.3k 2.4× 1.5k 1.0× 399 10.4k
M.W. Anders 4.3k 1.1× 1.1k 0.3× 1.7k 0.8× 548 0.3× 723 0.5× 173 8.9k
Brian G. Lake 3.5k 0.9× 1.7k 0.4× 4.1k 1.9× 484 0.3× 1.6k 1.0× 291 9.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Sims

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Sims

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Sims. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Sims 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 Peter Sims. Peter Sims 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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Sims, Peter, H. T. J. Bevins, Anastasia Fialkov, et al.. (2025). Rapid and late cosmic reionization driven by massive galaxies: a joint analysis of constraints from 21-cm, Lyman line, and CMB data sets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(4). 3856–3882. 1 indexed citations
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Sims, Peter, Judd D. Bowman, Steven Murray, et al.. (2025). A Bayesian approach to modelling spectrometer data chromaticity corrected using beam factors – II. Model priors and posterior odds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(2). 2340–2364. 1 indexed citations
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Bevins, H. T. J., Will Handley, Pablo Lemos, et al.. (2023). Marginal post-processing of Bayesian inference products with normalizing flows and kernel density estimators. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(3). 4613–4626. 9 indexed citations
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Bowman, Judd D., David Lewis, Matthew Kolopanis, et al.. (2023). Low-frequency Radio Recombination Lines Away from the Inner Galactic Plane. The Astronomical Journal. 167(1). 2–2. 2 indexed citations
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Sims, Peter, et al.. (2023). A general Bayesian framework to account for foreground map errors in global 21-cm experiments. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 5649–5667. 11 indexed citations
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Sims, Peter, Jonathan C. Pober, & Jonathan Sievers. (2022). A Bayesian approach to high fidelity interferometric calibration I: mathematical formalism. arXiv (Cornell University). 9 indexed citations
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Temple, V.A.K., et al.. (2004). Iodine deficiency in Papua New Guinea (sub-clinical iodine deficiency and salt iodization in the highlands of Papua New Guinea). Journal of Public Health. 27(1). 45–48. 17 indexed citations
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Cooper, Colin S., et al.. (1980). The enzyme-catalysed conversion of anti-benzo[alpyrene-7,8-diol 9,10-oxide into a glutathione conjugate. Carcinogenesis. 1(12). 1075–1080. 26 indexed citations
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Cooper, Christopher S., et al.. (1980). The metabolism of the 10,11-dihydrodiol of benz[a]-anthracene to a vicinal diol-epoxide that is not involved in metabolic activation. Carcinogenesis. 1(11). 937–943. 2 indexed citations
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Cooper, Colin S., et al.. (1980). Additional evidence for the involvement of the 3,4-diol 1,2-oxides in the metabolic activation of 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene in mouse skin. Chemico-Biological Interactions. 29(3). 357–367. 18 indexed citations
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Pal, K., Brian Tierney, Philip L. Grover, & Peter Sims. (1978). Induction of sister-chromatid exchanges in Chinese hamster ovary cells treated in vitro with non-k-region dihydrodiols of 7-methylbenz[a]anthracene and benzo[a]pyrene. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 50(3). 367–375. 27 indexed citations
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Malaveille, C., Toshio Kuroki, Peter Sims, P.L. Grover, & Helmut Bartsch. (1977). Mutagenicity of isomeric diol-epoxides of benzo[a]pyrene and benz[a]anthracene in S. typhimurium TA98 and TA100 and in V79 Chinese hamster cells. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 44(3). 313–325. 62 indexed citations
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Maher, Veronica M., et al.. (1977). Effect of DNA repair on the cytotoxicity and mutagenicity of polycyclic hydrocarbon derivatives in normal and xeroderma pigmentosum human fibroblasts. Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis. 43(1). 117–137. 75 indexed citations
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Grover, P.L., Alan Hewer, & Peter Sims. (1971). Epoxides as microsomal metabolites of polycyclic hydrocarbons. FEBS Letters. 18(1). 76–80. 127 indexed citations
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Grover, Philip L., Peter Sims, Eliezer Huberman, et al.. (1971). In Vitro Transformation of Rodent Cells by K-Region Derivatives of Polycyclic Hydrocarbons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 68(6). 1098–1101. 155 indexed citations
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Boyland, E. & Peter Sims. (1959). The biochemistry of aromatic amines. 6. The metabolism of 3:4-dimethylaniline in rats. Biochemical Journal. 73(2). 377–380. 6 indexed citations

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