Séan D. Simpson

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Séan D. Simpson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Séan D. Simpson has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 9 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Séan D. Simpson's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (27 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (17 papers) and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (9 papers). Séan D. Simpson is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (27 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (17 papers) and Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production (9 papers). Séan D. Simpson collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Séan D. Simpson's co-authors include Michael Köpke, Kazuko Yamaguchi‐Shinozaki, Kazuo Shinozaki, Kazuo Nakashima, Motoaki Seki, Yoh Sakuma, Lam‐Son Phan Tran, Kyonoshin Maruyama, Yasunari Fujita and James Daniell and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Séan D. Simpson

40 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Isolation and Functional Analysis of Arabidopsis Stress-Inducible NAC Transcription Factors That Bind to a Drought-Responsivecis-Element in theearly responsive to dehydration stress 1Promoter[W]

2004 1.2k citations Lam‐Son Phan Tran, Kazuo Nakashima et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Séan D. Simpson Australia	26	3.1k	1.7k	1.4k	640	445	40	4.5k
Truus de Vrije Netherlands	31	1.7k 0.6×	737 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	891 1.4×	258 0.6×	55	3.2k
Youngsoon Um South Korea	40	2.9k 1.0×	302 0.2×	2.5k 1.8×	509 0.8×	451 1.0×	113	4.3k
Hubert Bahl Germany	39	3.2k 1.1×	634 0.4×	2.0k 1.4×	531 0.8×	258 0.6×	93	4.5k
Antonio De León‐Rodríguez Mexico	31	1.2k 0.4×	356 0.2×	1.0k 0.7×	787 1.2×	221 0.5×	121	3.2k
Leonardo da Costa Sousa United States	32	2.1k 0.7×	609 0.4×	3.8k 2.7×	313 0.5×	83 0.2×	59	4.6k
Shishir P. S. Chundawat United States	34	2.7k 0.9×	988 0.6×	5.2k 3.6×	328 0.5×	89 0.2×	78	6.2k
Esteban Marcellin Australia	30	1.9k 0.6×	127 0.1×	911 0.6×	375 0.6×	286 0.6×	113	2.9k
Shi-You Ding United States	28	2.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	5.5k 3.8×	276 0.4×	74 0.2×	46	6.9k
Yong Chen China	33	1.5k 0.5×	730 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	53 0.1×	123 0.3×	164	3.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Simpson, Séan D., et al.. (2025). Dos and don’ts for scaling up gas fermentations. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 93. 103294–103294. 4 indexed citations

Mueller, Alexander P., Robert Nogle, Séan D. Simpson, et al.. (2024). An alcove at the acetyl-CoA synthase nickel active site is required for productive substrate CO binding and anaerobic carbon fixation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(8). 107503–107503. 3 indexed citations

Valgepea, Kaspar, Gert Talbo, Nobuaki Takemori, et al.. (2022). Absolute Proteome Quantification in the Gas-Fermenting Acetogen Clostridium autoethanogenum. mSystems. 7(2). e0002622–e0002622. 18 indexed citations

Vögeli, Bastian, Luca Schulz, Shivani Garg, et al.. (2022). Cell-free prototyping enables implementation of optimized reverse β-oxidation pathways in heterotrophic and autotrophic bacteria. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3058–3058. 52 indexed citations

Nogle, Robert, Shilpa Nagaraju, Sagar M. Utturkar, et al.. (2022). Clostridium autoethanogenum isopropanol production via native plasmid pCA replicon. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 10. 932363–932363. 5 indexed citations

Karim, Ashty S., Quentin M. Dudley, Alex Juminaga, et al.. (2020). In vitro prototyping and rapid optimization of biosynthetic enzymes for cell design. Nature Chemical Biology. 16(8). 912–919. 174 indexed citations

Karim, Ashty S., Fungmin Liew, Shivani Garg, et al.. (2020). Modular cell-free expression plasmids to accelerate biological design in cells. PubMed. 5(1). ysaa019–ysaa019. 10 indexed citations

Krüger, Antje, Alexander P. Mueller, Nancy L. Engle, et al.. (2020). Development of a clostridia-based cell-free system for prototyping genetic parts and metabolic pathways. Metabolic Engineering. 62. 95–105. 42 indexed citations

Ranjan, Ravi, Christopher E. Mason, Daniel Butler, et al.. (2020). Methods to preserve individual bacteria and microbiome samples for nucleic acid analyses without altering cellular structure or integrity. PubMed Central. 31. 1 indexed citations

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Lemgruber, Renato de Souza Pinto, Kaspar Valgepea, Ryan Tappel, et al.. (2019). Systems-level engineering and characterisation of Clostridium autoethanogenum through heterologous production of poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB). Metabolic Engineering. 53. 14–23. 65 indexed citations

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Al‐Sinawi, Bakir, Christopher M. Humphreys, Klaus Winzer, et al.. (2019). Engineering of vitamin prototrophy in Clostridium ljungdahlii and Clostridium autoethanogenum. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 103(11). 4633–4648. 27 indexed citations

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Harris, Gemma, David J. Scott, Klaus Winzer, et al.. (2019). The carbonic anhydrase of Clostridium autoethanogenum represents a new subclass of β-carbonic anhydrases. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 103(17). 7275–7286. 6 indexed citations

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Valgepea, Kaspar, Renato de Souza Pinto Lemgruber, Tanus Abdalla, et al.. (2018). H2 drives metabolic rearrangements in gas-fermenting Clostridium autoethanogenum. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 11(1). 55–55. 103 indexed citations

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Valgepea, Kaspar, Renato de Souza Pinto Lemgruber, Robin Palfreyman, et al.. (2017). Maintenance of ATP Homeostasis Triggers Metabolic Shifts in Gas-Fermenting Acetogens. Cell Systems. 4(5). 505–515.e5. 132 indexed citations

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Liew, Fungmin, Anne M. Henstra, Michael Köpke, et al.. (2017). Metabolic engineering of Clostridium autoethanogenum for selective alcohol production. Metabolic Engineering. 40. 104–114. 175 indexed citations

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Tissera, Sashini De, Michael Köpke, Séan D. Simpson, et al.. (2017). Syngas Biorefinery and Syngas Utilization. Advances in biochemical engineering, biotechnology. 166. 247–280. 36 indexed citations

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Nagaraju, Shilpa, et al.. (2016). Genome editing of Clostridium autoethanogenum using CRISPR/Cas9. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 9(1). 219–219. 98 indexed citations

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Daniell, James, et al.. (2015). Low-Carbon Fuel and Chemical Production by Anaerobic Gas Fermentation. Advances in biochemical engineering, biotechnology. 156. 293–321. 18 indexed citations

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Tran, Lam‐Son Phan, Kazuo Nakashima, Yoh Sakuma, et al.. (2006). Co‐expression of the stress‐inducible zinc finger homeodomain ZFHD1 and NAC transcription factors enhances expression of the ERD1 gene in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal. 49(1). 46–63. 238 indexed citations

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Simpson, Séan D., David A. Ashford, David J. Harvey, & D. J. Bowles. (1998). Short chain oligogalacturonides induce ethylene production and expression of the gene encoding aminocyclopropane 1-carboxylic acid oxidase in tomato plants. Glycobiology. 8(6). 579–583. 72 indexed citations

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