Sheila Fisher

64.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
77 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Sheila Fisher is a scholar working on Genetics, Surgery and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sheila Fisher has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Genetics, 18 papers in Surgery and 18 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Sheila Fisher's work include Inflammatory Bowel Disease (19 papers), Mesenchymal stem cell research (10 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (8 papers). Sheila Fisher is often cited by papers focused on Inflammatory Bowel Disease (19 papers), Mesenchymal stem cell research (10 papers) and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (8 papers). Sheila Fisher collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Sheila Fisher's co-authors include Carolyn Dorée, Cathryn M. Lewis, Enca Martin‐Rendon, Anthony Mathur, Claudia N. Keilhauer, Christopher G. Mathew, Bernhard H. F. Weber, Lars G. Fritsche, Andrea Rivera and Alastair Forbes and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Sheila Fisher

75 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

Solution hybrid selection with ultra-long oligonucleotides for massively parallel targeted sequencing

2009 983 citations Sheila Fisher, Stacey Gabriel et al. profile →
Association between insertion mutation in NOD2 gene and Crohn's disease in German and British populations

2001 837 citations Jochen Hampe, Andrew Cuthbert et al. profile →
Hypothetical LOC387715 is a second major susceptibility gene for age-related macular degeneration, contributing independently of complement factor H to disease risk

2005 616 citations Andrea Rivera, Sheila Fisher et al. Human Molecular Genetics profile →
The contribution of NOD2 gene mutations to the risk and site of disease in inflammatory bowel disease

2002 523 citations Andrew Cuthbert, Sheila Fisher et al. Gastroenterology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sheila Fisher United Kingdom	37	2.4k	2.3k	1.5k	1.4k	962	77	6.9k
Masao Ôta Japan	48	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	2.4k 1.7×	2.1k 2.2×	265	7.8k
Javier Martı́n Spain	60	2.0k 0.9×	3.3k 1.5×	873 0.6×	6.6k 4.7×	2.1k 2.1×	499	15.0k
Tomohiro Morio Japan	44	2.0k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	633 0.4×	5.3k 3.8×	1.5k 1.6×	349	9.4k
Paul S. Thorner Canada	49	939 0.4×	3.5k 1.6×	1.6k 1.1×	627 0.4×	825 0.9×	321	9.1k
Alessandro Ambrosi Italy	41	1.3k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	491 0.3×	543 0.6×	121	5.6k
Anthony Meager United Kingdom	53	1.1k 0.5×	1.6k 0.7×	469 0.3×	3.5k 2.4×	1.2k 1.3×	167	8.1k
Andrew Collins United Kingdom	46	3.6k 1.5×	2.5k 1.1×	339 0.2×	726 0.5×	422 0.4×	204	7.2k
Seiamak Bahram France	49	827 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	618 0.4×	5.8k 4.1×	1.3k 1.3×	154	9.2k
Pierre Youinou France	56	1.3k 0.5×	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	5.4k 3.8×	867 0.9×	476	12.6k
Gerard J. Nuovo United States	46	773 0.3×	2.4k 1.1×	895 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	2.3k 2.4×	224	8.0k

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Fisher, Sheila, Charlotte Brierley, Carolyn Dorée, et al.. (2019). The role of vitamin D in increasing circulating T regulatory cell numbers and modulating T regulatory cell phenotypes in patients with inflammatory disease or in healthy volunteers: A systematic review. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0222313–e0222313. 119 indexed citations

Lind, Stuart E., et al.. (2019). Evaluation of intravenous direct thrombin inhibitor monitoring tests: Correlation with plasma concentrations and clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients. Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis. 49(2). 259–267. 25 indexed citations

Fortin, P, Sheila Fisher, Karen Madgwick, et al.. (2018). Interventions for improving adherence to iron chelation therapy in people with sickle cell disease or thalassaemia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2018(5). 28 indexed citations

Fisher, Sheila, Susan J Brunskill, Carolyn Dorée, et al.. (2014). Stem cell therapy for chronic ischaemic heart disease and congestive heart failure. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. CD007888–CD007888. 91 indexed citations

Costello, Maura, Trevor J. Pugh, Chip Stewart, et al.. (2013). Discovery and characterization of artifactual mutations in deep coverage targeted capture sequencing data due to oxidative DNA damage during sample preparation. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(6). e67–e67. 252 indexed citations

Fisher, Sheila, Susan J Brunskill, Carolyn Dorée, et al.. (2013). Oral deferiprone for iron chelation in people with thalassaemia. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2013(8). CD004839–CD004839. 52 indexed citations

Tanaka, Akio, Nikoletta Nagy, Mark O’Driscoll, et al.. (2012). Germline Mutation in ATR in Autosomal- Dominant Oropharyngeal Cancer Syndrome. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 90(3). 511–517. 51 indexed citations

Chapman, Juliet, Clive M. Onnie, Natalie J. Prescott, et al.. (2009). Searching for Genotype-Phenotype Structure: Using Hierarchical Log-Linear Models in Crohn Disease. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 84(2). 178–187. 6 indexed citations

Prescott, Natalie J., Sheila Fisher, Kathy Dominy, et al.. (2008). Association of a promoter variant and copy number polymorphisms at the IRGM locus with Crohn's disease. Journal of Medical Genetics. 45.

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Fisher, Sheila, Andrea Rivera, Lars G. Fritsche, et al.. (2007). Case-control genetic association study of fibulin-6 (FBLN6orHMCN1) variants in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Human Mutation. 28(4). 406–413. 25 indexed citations

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Forabosco, Paola, Mandy Ng, Emmanuelle Bouzigon, et al.. (2007). Data Acquisition for Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Linkage Studies Using the Genome Search Meta-Analysis Method. Human Heredity. 64(1). 74–81. 10 indexed citations

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King, Kathy, Richard D. Bagnall, Sheila Fisher, et al.. (2007). Identification, evolution, and association study of a novel promoter and first exon of the human NOD2 (CARD15) gene. Genomics. 90(4). 493–501. 6 indexed citations

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Prescott, Natalie J., Sheila Fisher, André Franke, et al.. (2007). A Nonsynonymous SNP in ATG16L1 Predisposes to Ileal Crohn’s Disease and Is Independent of CARD15 and IBD5. Gastroenterology. 132(5). 1665–1671. 221 indexed citations

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Onnie, Clive M., Sheila Fisher, Jochen Hampe, et al.. (2005). Multiple SNPs at the IBD5 locus contribute to the risk of Crohn's disease.. Gut. 54. 1 indexed citations

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Prescott, Natalie J., Sheila Fisher, Reenal Pattni, et al.. (2005). A general autoimmunity gene (PTPN22) is not associated with inflammatory bowel disease in a British population. Tissue Antigens. 66(4). 318–320. 28 indexed citations

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Rivera, Andrea, Sheila Fisher, Lars G. Fritsche, et al.. (2005). Hypothetical LOC387715 is a second major susceptibility gene for age-related macular degeneration, contributing independently of complement factor H to disease risk. Human Molecular Genetics. 14(21). 3227–3236. 616 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heel, David A. van, Sheila Fisher, Andrew Kirby, et al.. (2004). Inflammatory bowel disease susceptibility loci defined by genome scan meta-analysis of 1952 affected relative pairs. Human Molecular Genetics. 13(7). 763–770. 184 indexed citations

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Fisher, Sheila, Anne Marie Moody, Christopher G. Mathew, & Cathryn M. Lewis. (2002). Efficient candidate gene study design for association studies in complex diseases. Genetic Epidemiology. 23(3). 1 indexed citations

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Ogilvie, Emma, Mark Fife, Steve Thompson, et al.. (2002). TDT association study confirms the IL6-174 SNP confers susceptibility to systemic JIA.. Research Portal (King's College London). 46(9). 1 indexed citations

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Fisher, Sheila & Cathryn M. Lewis. (2001). Methods to identify population outliers using genetic markers. Research Portal (King's College London). 1(3). 125–129. 1 indexed citations

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