Samie R. Jaffrey

43.9k total citations · 19 hit papers
180 papers, 32.6k citations indexed

About

Samie R. Jaffrey is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Samie R. Jaffrey has authored 180 papers receiving a total of 32.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 23 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Samie R. Jaffrey's work include RNA modifications and cancer (80 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (57 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (52 papers). Samie R. Jaffrey is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (80 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (57 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (52 papers). Samie R. Jaffrey collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Samie R. Jaffrey's co-authors include Kate D. Meyer, Solomon H. Snyder, Sara Zaccara, Christopher E. Mason, Olivier Elemento, Deepak P. Patil, Yogesh Saletore, Jeremy S. Paige, Ryan J. Ries and Brian F. Pickering and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Samie R. Jaffrey

176 papers receiving 32.4k citations

Hit Papers

Comprehensive Analysis of mRNA Methylation Revea... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2012 2019 2015 2016 2001 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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. Comprehensive Analysis of mRNA Methylation Reveals Enrichment in 3′ UTRs and near Stop Codons
    2012 3.2k citations Kate D. Meyer, Yogesh Saletore et al. Cell profile →
  2. Reading, writing and erasing mRNA methylation
    2019 1.7k citations Sara Zaccara, Ryan J. Ries et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →
  3. 5′ UTR m6A Promotes Cap-Independent Translation
    2015 1.4k citations Kate D. Meyer, Deepak P. Patil et al. Cell profile →
  4. m6A RNA methylation promotes XIST-mediated transcriptional repression
    2016 1.3k citations Deepak P. Patil, Brian F. Pickering et al. Nature profile →
  5. Protein S-nitrosylation: a physiological signal for neuronal nitric oxide
    2001 1.2k citations Samie R. Jaffrey, Solomon H. Snyder et al. profile →
  6. Single-nucleotide-resolution mapping of m6A and m6Am throughout the transcriptome
    2015 1.2k citations Anthony O. Olarerin-George, Christopher E. Mason et al. profile →
  7. RNA Mimics of Green Fluorescent Protein
    2011 1.0k citations Samie R. Jaffrey et al. Science profile →
  8. Dynamic m6A mRNA methylation directs translational control of heat shock response
    2015 988 citations Samie R. Jaffrey et al. Nature profile →
  9. The N6-methyladenosine (m6A)-forming enzyme METTL3 controls myeloid differentiation of normal hematopoietic and leukemia cells
    2017 932 citations Brian F. Pickering, Sara Zaccara et al. profile →
  10. Rethinking m6A Readers, Writers, and Erasers
    2017 847 citations Kate D. Meyer, Samie R. Jaffrey profile →
  11. Reversible methylation of m6Am in the 5′ cap controls mRNA stability
    2016 826 citations Deepak P. Patil, Brian F. Pickering et al. Nature profile →
  12. The dynamic epitranscriptome: N6-methyladenosine and gene expression control
    2014 799 citations Kate D. Meyer, Samie R. Jaffrey Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →
  13. The Biotin Switch Method for the Detection of S -Nitrosylated Proteins
    2001 696 citations Samie R. Jaffrey, Solomon H. Snyder profile →
  14. Broccoli: Rapid Selection of an RNA Mimic of Green Fluorescent Protein by Fluorescence-Based Selection and Directed Evolution
    2014 569 citations Samie R. Jaffrey et al. profile →
  15. A Unified Model for the Function of YTHDF Proteins in Regulating m6A-Modified mRNA
    2020 538 citations Sara Zaccara, Samie R. Jaffrey Cell profile →
  16. m6A enhances the phase separation potential of mRNA
    2019 517 citations Ryan J. Ries, Sara Zaccara et al. Nature profile →
  17. Reading m6A in the Transcriptome: m6A-Binding Proteins
    2017 455 citations Deepak P. Patil, Brian F. Pickering et al. profile →
  18. The human 18S rRNA m6A methyltransferase METTL5 is stabilized by TRMT112
    2019 386 citations Samie R. Jaffrey et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  19. The RNA m6A Reader YTHDF2 Maintains Oncogene Expression and Is a Targetable Dependency in Glioblastoma Stem Cells
    2020 274 citations Deobrat Dixit, Briana C. Prager et al. Cancer Discovery profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Samie R. Jaffrey United States 78 29.0k 9.4k 2.9k 2.2k 1.8k 180 32.6k
Yang Shi United States 94 30.9k 1.1× 7.1k 0.8× 453 0.2× 1.0k 0.5× 878 0.5× 205 36.6k
Shigeo Murata Japan 64 10.2k 0.4× 1.3k 0.1× 861 0.3× 1.4k 0.6× 972 0.5× 215 19.1k
Jin Chen China 63 8.1k 0.3× 1.8k 0.2× 416 0.1× 744 0.3× 3.1k 1.7× 354 14.2k
Henning Urlaub Germany 83 20.3k 0.7× 2.4k 0.3× 189 0.1× 1.1k 0.5× 1.7k 0.9× 445 24.9k
Qing Dai United States 59 28.0k 1.0× 9.6k 1.0× 2.5k 0.9× 340 0.2× 159 0.1× 160 30.1k
W. Lee Kraus United States 72 11.2k 0.4× 2.0k 0.2× 1.1k 0.4× 648 0.3× 507 0.3× 161 17.1k
C. Frank Bennett United States 81 23.5k 0.8× 6.1k 0.6× 116 0.0× 1.6k 0.7× 3.5k 1.9× 227 30.1k
David L. Brautigan United States 70 12.4k 0.4× 953 0.1× 361 0.1× 1.3k 0.6× 1.6k 0.9× 249 16.5k
Jonathan A. Cooper United States 91 22.4k 0.8× 2.4k 0.3× 317 0.1× 1.7k 0.8× 3.6k 2.0× 237 32.3k
Akira Yasui Japan 63 8.7k 0.3× 1.6k 0.2× 280 0.1× 909 0.4× 1.3k 0.7× 265 12.7k

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All Works

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Ciceri, Gabriele, et al.. (2025). Sustained Epigenetic Reactivation in Fragile X Neurons with an RNA-Binding Small Molecule. Genes. 16(3). 278–278. 1 indexed citations
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Luo, Hanzhi, Michael G. Kharas, & Samie R. Jaffrey. (2025). N6-Methyladenosine: an RNA modification as a central regulator of cancer. Nature reviews. Cancer. 26(2). 118–136.
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Murakami, Shino, Paul Zumbo, Lukas E. Dow, et al.. (2024). Selenocysteine tRNA methylation promotes oxidative stress resistance in melanoma metastasis. Nature Cancer. 5(12). 1868–1884. 6 indexed citations
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Jaffrey, Samie R., et al.. (2024). A circular split nanoluciferase reporter for validating and screening putative internal ribosomal entry site elements. RNA. 30(11). rna.080008.124–rna.080008.124. 1 indexed citations
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Jaffrey, Samie R., et al.. (2023). Synthetic biology tools to promote the folding and function of RNA aptamers in mammalian cells. RNA Biology. 20(1). 198–206. 7 indexed citations
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Mirza, Aashiq H., Yaron Bram, Robert E. Schwartz, & Samie R. Jaffrey. (2023). SCARPET: site-specific quantification of methylated and nonmethylated adenosines reveals m6A stoichiometry. RNA. 30(3). 308–324. 5 indexed citations
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Lundquist, Mark R. & Samie R. Jaffrey. (2023). Gas6-Axl Signaling Induces SRF/MRTF-A Gene Transcription via MICAL2. Genes. 14(12). 2231–2231. 1 indexed citations
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Macêdo, Juan P., Mariana De Niz, Sara Silva Pereira, et al.. (2022). N6-methyladenosine in poly(A) tails stabilize VSG transcripts. Nature. 604(7905). 362–370. 45 indexed citations
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Han, Peng, Yuanchu She, Mengru Zhuang, et al.. (2022). Cbln1 regulates axon growth and guidance in multiple neural regions. PLoS Biology. 20(11). e3001853–e3001853. 6 indexed citations
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Dixit, Deobrat, Briana C. Prager, Ryan C. Gimple, et al.. (2020). The RNA m6A Reader YTHDF2 Maintains Oncogene Expression and Is a Targetable Dependency in Glioblastoma Stem Cells. Cancer Discovery. 11(2). 480–499. 274 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xi, Linghe, Thomas Carroll, Irina Matos, et al.. (2020). m6A RNA methylation impacts fate choices during skin morphogenesis. eLife. 9. 31 indexed citations
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Wang, Jin, Bing Liang Alvin Chew, Yong Lai, et al.. (2019). Quantifying the RNA cap epitranscriptome reveals novel caps in cellular and viral RNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(20). e130–e130. 132 indexed citations
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Ries, Ryan J., Sara Zaccara, Pierre Klein, et al.. (2019). m6A enhances the phase separation potential of mRNA. Nature. 571(7765). 424–428. 517 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wu, Baixing, Shichen Su, Deepak P. Patil, et al.. (2018). Molecular basis for the specific and multivariant recognitions of RNA substrates by human hnRNP A2/B1. Nature Communications. 9(1). 420–420. 312 indexed citations
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Litke, Jacob L., Mingxu You, & Samie R. Jaffrey. (2016). Developing Fluorogenic Riboswitches for Imaging Metabolite Concentration Dynamics in Bacterial Cells. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 572. 315–333. 20 indexed citations
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Meyer, Kate D. & Samie R. Jaffrey. (2014). The dynamic epitranscriptome: N6-methyladenosine and gene expression control. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 15(5). 313–326. 799 indexed citations breakdown →
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Colak, Dilek, Nikica Zaninović, Michael S. Cohen, et al.. (2014). Promoter-Bound Trinucleotide Repeat mRNA Drives Epigenetic Silencing in Fragile X Syndrome. Science. 343(6174). 1002–1005. 231 indexed citations
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Meyer, Kate D., Yogesh Saletore, Paul Zumbo, et al.. (2012). Comprehensive Analysis of mRNA Methylation Reveals Enrichment in 3′ UTRs and near Stop Codons. Cell. 149(7). 1635–1646. 3158 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fang, Ming, et al.. (2000). Dexras1. Neuron. 28(1). 183–193. 262 indexed citations

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