Simon Andrews

28.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
109 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

Simon Andrews is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Andrews has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Genetics and 19 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Simon Andrews's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (39 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (18 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 papers). Simon Andrews is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (39 papers), Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (18 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 papers). Simon Andrews collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Simon Andrews's co-authors include Felix Krueger, Wolf Reik, Wendy Dean, Gavin Kelsey, Fátima Santos, Gabriella Ficz, Stefanie Seisenberger, Len Stephens, Miguel R. Branco and Christian Popp and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Simon Andrews

108 papers receiving 15.0k citations

Hit Papers

Bismark: a flexible aligner and methylation caller for Bi... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2011 2011 2014 2012 2010 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

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. Bismark: a flexible aligner and methylation caller for Bisulfite-Seq applications
    2011 3.4k citations Felix Krueger, Simon Andrews Bioinformatics profile →
  2. Dynamic regulation of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in mouse ES cells and during differentiation
    2011 877 citations Gabriella Ficz, Miguel R. Branco et al. profile →
  3. Single-cell genome-wide bisulfite sequencing for assessing epigenetic heterogeneity
    2014 790 citations Heather Lee, Felix Krueger et al. profile →
  4. The Dynamics of Genome-wide DNA Methylation Reprogramming in Mouse Primordial Germ Cells
    2012 724 citations Simon Andrews, Felix Krueger et al. profile →
  5. Genome-wide erasure of DNA methylation in mouse primordial germ cells is affected by AID deficiency
    2010 663 citations Wendy Dean, Simon Andrews et al. profile →
  6. Mapping long-range promoter contacts in human cells with high-resolution capture Hi-C
    2015 623 citations Stefan Schoenfelder, Steven Wingett et al. profile →
  7. Preferential associations between co-regulated genes reveal a transcriptional interactome in erythroid cells
    2009 536 citations Stefan Schoenfelder, Simon Andrews et al. profile →
  8. Dynamic CpG island methylation landscape in oocytes and preimplantation embryos
    2011 500 citations Felix Krueger, Anne Segonds-Pichon et al. profile →
  9. LIPID MAPS: update to databases and tools for the lipidomics community
    2023 103 citations M.J. Conroy, Robert Andrews et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Andrews United Kingdom 54 12.4k 3.2k 1.6k 1.6k 1.4k 109 15.1k
Hiroyuki Sasaki Japan 59 9.9k 0.8× 2.7k 0.8× 2.1k 1.3× 1.4k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 192 12.5k
Dirk Schübeler Switzerland 70 17.8k 1.4× 4.3k 1.4× 1.6k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 1.8k 1.3× 113 19.9k
Oliver J. Rando United States 64 15.5k 1.3× 1.9k 0.6× 2.7k 1.7× 1.2k 0.8× 1.9k 1.4× 128 18.4k
Antoine H.F.M. Peters Switzerland 52 13.6k 1.1× 3.1k 1.0× 1.8k 1.1× 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 95 15.6k
Bradley R. Cairns United States 73 16.1k 1.3× 2.4k 0.8× 2.1k 1.3× 902 0.6× 1.2k 0.9× 141 18.4k
David I. K. Martin United States 52 9.1k 0.7× 2.8k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 953 0.6× 1.6k 1.1× 94 11.5k
En Li United States 45 16.6k 1.3× 5.7k 1.8× 992 0.6× 2.1k 1.3× 1.5k 1.0× 70 18.7k
Naomi Habib United States 20 15.6k 1.3× 3.2k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 460 0.3× 1.3k 1.0× 34 18.0k
Chad A. Shaw United States 65 7.7k 0.6× 5.7k 1.8× 1.2k 0.8× 1.4k 0.9× 1.5k 1.1× 193 13.9k
Frank Lyko Germany 67 13.3k 1.1× 2.4k 0.8× 904 0.6× 740 0.5× 2.7k 2.0× 161 16.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Andrews

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Andrews

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simon Andrews. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simon Andrews 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 Simon Andrews. Simon Andrews 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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Wang, Yang, Jingyu Li, W Mansfield, et al.. (2025). Combinatorial profiling of multiple histone modifications and transcriptome in single cells using scMTR-seq. Science Advances. 11(32). eadu3308–eadu3308.
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Galvão, António, Dario Acampora, Gianna Rossi, et al.. (2024). A maternal-effectPadi6variant causes nuclear and cytoplasmic abnormalities in oocytes, as well as failure of epigenetic reprogramming and zygotic genome activation in embryos. Genes & Development. 38(3-4). 131–150. 12 indexed citations
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Young, Katherine A., Katarzyna Wojdyła, Silvia Casanova, et al.. (2024). The receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase PTPRK promotes intestinal repair and catalysis-independent tumour suppression. Journal of Cell Science. 137(14). 2 indexed citations
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Andrews, Simon, et al.. (2023). Functions and mechanisms of the GPCR adaptor protein Norbin. Biochemical Society Transactions. 51(4). 1545–1558. 2 indexed citations
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Andrews, Simon, Christel Krueger, Maravillas Mellado-López, et al.. (2023). Mechanisms and function of de novo DNA methylation in placental development reveals an essential role for DNMT3B. Nature Communications. 14(1). 371–371. 52 indexed citations
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Conroy, M.J., Robert Andrews, Simon Andrews, et al.. (2023). LIPID MAPS: update to databases and tools for the lipidomics community. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(D1). D1677–D1682. 103 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hanna, Courtney W., Jiahao Huang, Susanne Reinhardt, et al.. (2022). Loss of histone methyltransferase SETD1B in oogenesis results in the redistribution of genomic histone 3 lysine 4 trimethylation. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(4). 1993–2004. 18 indexed citations
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Samant, Rahul S., Sílvia Batista, Mark Larance, et al.. (2022). Native Size-Exclusion Chromatography–Based Mass Spectrometry Reveals New Components of the Early Heat Shock Protein 90 Inhibition Response Among Limited Global Changes. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 22(2). 100485–100485. 4 indexed citations
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Ivanova, Elena V., et al.. (2022). Effect of Superovulation Treatment on Oocyte’s DNA Methylation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(24). 16158–16158. 8 indexed citations
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Osnato, Anna, Stephanie Brown, Christel Krueger, et al.. (2021). TGFβ signalling is required to maintain pluripotency of human naïve pluripotent stem cells. eLife. 10. 28 indexed citations
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Fiancette, Rémi, Conor M. Finlay, Claire Willis, et al.. (2021). Reciprocal transcription factor networks govern tissue-resident ILC3 subset function and identity. Nature Immunology. 22(10). 1245–1255. 53 indexed citations
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Álvarez-Jarreta, Jorge, Patrícia Rodrigues, Eoin Fahy, et al.. (2020). LipidFinder 2.0: advanced informatics pipeline for lipidomics discovery applications. Bioinformatics. 37(10). 1478–1479. 4 indexed citations
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Bevan, Steve, Stefan Schoenfelder, Robert J. Young, et al.. (2020). High‐resolution three‐dimensional chromatin profiling of the Chinese hamster ovary cell genome. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 118(2). 784–796. 2 indexed citations
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Thompson, Oliver, Ferdinand von Meyenn, Zoë Hewitt, et al.. (2020). Low rates of mutation in clinical grade human pluripotent stem cells under different culture conditions. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1528–1528. 82 indexed citations
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Hernando-Herraez, Irene, Brendan Evano, Thomas M. Stubbs, et al.. (2019). Ageing affects DNA methylation drift and transcriptional cell-to-cell variability in mouse muscle stem cells. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4361–4361. 155 indexed citations
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Leavy, Olivia C., Nicola H. Dryden, Sarah Maguire, et al.. (2018). Capture Hi-C identifies putative target genes at 33 breast cancer risk loci. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1028–1028. 72 indexed citations
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Lindsay, Yvonne, Tamara Chessa, Hervé Guillou, et al.. (2015). Localizing the lipid products of PI3Kγ in neutrophils. Advances in Biological Regulation. 60. 36–45. 11 indexed citations
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Ficz, Gabriella, Timothy A. Hore, Fátima Santos, et al.. (2013). FGF signalling inhibition in ESCs drives rapid genome-wide demethylation to the epigenetic ground state of pluripotency. Clinical Epigenetics. 5(S1). 154 indexed citations
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Krueger, Felix & Simon Andrews. (2011). Bismark: a flexible aligner and methylation caller for Bisulfite-Seq applications. Bioinformatics. 27(11). 1571–1572. 3357 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ktistaki, Eleni, Anna Garefalaki, Adam Williams, et al.. (2010). CD8 Locus Nuclear Dynamics during Thymocyte Development. The Journal of Immunology. 184(10). 5686–5695. 15 indexed citations

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