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

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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.

Metabolic activation of benzo(a)pyrene proceeds by a diol-epoxide

1974 951 citations Peter Sims, P.L. Grover et al. profile →
Epoxides in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Metabolism and Carcinogenesis

1974 596 citations Peter Sims, P.L. Grover profile →
An enzyme from rat liver catalysing conjugations with glutathione

1961 487 citations Joan Booth, E. Boyland et al. Biochemical Journal profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Rapid and late cosmic reionization driven by massive galaxies: a joint analysis of constraints from 21-cm, Lyman line, and CMB data sets 2025 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Peter Sims, H. T. J. Bevins, Anastasia Fialkov, Dominic Anstey, Will Handley, Stefan Heimersheim, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Rajesh Mondal, Rennan Barkana	1
2	A Bayesian approach to modelling spectrometer data chromaticity corrected using beam factors – II. Model priors and posterior odds 2025 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Peter Sims, Judd D. Bowman, Steven Murray, John Barrett, (unknown), C. J. Lonsdale, Nivedita Mahesh, Raúl A. Monsalve, A. E. E. Rogers, (unknown), (unknown)	1
3	Marginal post-processing of Bayesian inference products with normalizing flows and kernel density estimators 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·H. T. J. Bevins, Will Handley, Pablo Lemos, Peter Sims, Eloy de Lera Acedo, Anastasia Fialkov, Justin Alsing	9
4	Low-frequency Radio Recombination Lines Away from the Inner Galactic Plane 2023 ·The Astronomical Journal ·(unknown), Judd D. Bowman, David Lewis, (unknown), Matthew Kolopanis, A. E. E. Rogers, Steven Murray, Nivedita Mahesh, Raúl A. Monsalve, Peter Sims, (unknown)	2
5	A general Bayesian framework to account for foreground map errors in global 21-cm experiments 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Peter Sims, Adrian Liu, Dominic Anstey, Will Handley, Eloy de Lera Acedo	11
6	Metabolic activation of chrysene by hamster embryo cells: evidence for the formation of a ‘bay-region’ diol-epoxide-N²-guanine adduct in RNA 1983 ·Carcinogenesis ·(unknown), Peter D. Cary, P.L. Grover, Peter Sims	7
7	The enzyme-catalysed conversion of anti-benzo[alpyrene-7,8-diol 9,10-oxide into a glutathione conjugate 1980 ·Carcinogenesis ·Colin S. Cooper, (unknown), (unknown), P.L. Grover, Peter Sims	26
8	THE METABOLIC ACTIVATION OF CHEMICAL CARCINOGENS 1980 ·British Medical Bulletin ·Peter Sims	57
9	Reactions of ‘bay-region’ and non-‘bay-region’ diol-epoxides of benz(a)anthracene with DNA: evidence indicating that the major products are hydrocarbon-N²-guanine adducts 1980 ·Carcinogenesis ·(unknown), Christopher S. Cooper, (unknown), P.L. Grover, Peter Sims	14
10	The metabolism of the 10,11-dihydrodiol of benz[a]-anthracene to a vicinal diol-epoxide that is not involved in metabolic activation 1980 ·Carcinogenesis ·Christopher S. Cooper, Alan Hewer, Alan D. MacNicoll, (unknown), P.L. Grover, Peter Sims	2
11	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 1978 ·Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis ·K. Pal, Brian Tierney, Philip L. Grover, Peter Sims	27
12	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 1977 ·Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis ·C. Malaveille, Toshio Kuroki, Peter Sims, P.L. Grover, Helmut Bartsch	62
13	Effect of DNA repair on the cytotoxicity and mutagenicity of polycyclic hydrocarbon derivatives in normal and xeroderma pigmentosum human fibroblasts 1977 ·Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis ·Veronica M. Maher, J. Justin McCormick, (unknown), Peter Sims	75
14	Epoxy derivatives of aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons. The preparation and metabolism of epoxides related to 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]-anthracene 1973 ·Biochemical Journal ·Peter Sims	33
15	The formation of “K-region” epoxides as hepatic microsomal metabolites of 7-methylbenz[a]anthracene and 7,12-dimethylbenz[a]anthracene and their 7-hydroxymethyl derivatives 1973 ·Biochemical Pharmacology ·(unknown), Joan Booth, Philip L. Grover, Alan Hewer, Peter Sims	44
16	Epoxides as microsomal metabolites of polycyclic hydrocarbons 1971 ·FEBS Letters ·P.L. Grover, Alan Hewer, Peter Sims	127
17	In Vitro Transformation of Rodent Cells by K-Region Derivatives of Polycyclic Hydrocarbons 1971 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Philip L. Grover, Peter Sims, Eliezer Huberman, Hans Marquardt, Toshio Kuroki, Charles Heidelberger	155
18	The synthesis of 8- and 9-hydroxybenzo[a]pyrene and the role of the products in benzo[a]pyrene metabolism 1968 ·Journal of the Chemical Society C Organic ·Peter Sims	14
19	The metabolism of 3-methylcholanthrene and some related compounds by rat-liver homogenates 1966 ·Biochemical Journal ·Peter Sims	93
20	Metabolism of polycyclic compounds. 11. The conversion of naphthalene into 2-hydroxy-1-naphthyl sulphate in the rabbit 1957 ·Biochemical Journal ·E. Boyland, Peter Sims	33

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