Simon Besson‐Girard

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 490 citations indexed

About

Simon Besson‐Girard is a scholar working on Immunology, Neurology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Besson‐Girard has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 490 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Immunology, 5 papers in Neurology and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Simon Besson‐Girard's work include Immune cells in cancer (5 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (5 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers). Simon Besson‐Girard is often cited by papers focused on Immune cells in cancer (5 papers), Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms (5 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers). Simon Besson‐Girard collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Slovakia and France. Simon Besson‐Girard's co-authors include Özgün Gökçe, Lu Liu, Mikael Simons, Martina Schifferer, Ludovico Cantuti‐Castelvetri, Tuğberk Kaya, Hao Ji, Garyfallia Gouna, Xianyuan Xiang and Dirk Fitzner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Neuron and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Simon Besson‐Girard

8 papers receiving 488 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.

White matter aging drives microglial diversity

2021 271 citations Shima Safaiyan, Simon Besson‐Girard et al. Neuron profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Besson‐Girard Germany	7	375	215	127	91	73	8	490
Guanglei Hu China	9	347 0.9×	213 1.0×	157 1.2×	87 1.0×	56 0.8×	21	600
Philippa Richardson United Kingdom	3	451 1.2×	271 1.3×	77 0.6×	93 1.0×	99 1.4×	4	529
Paula R. Sola Brazil	5	423 1.1×	240 1.1×	130 1.0×	59 0.6×	136 1.9×	8	545
Thais Fernanda de Almeida Galatro Brazil	7	454 1.2×	281 1.3×	158 1.2×	66 0.7×	143 2.0×	8	634
Elisa Faggiani Italy	5	242 0.6×	139 0.6×	86 0.7×	50 0.5×	77 1.1×	7	392
Tanja Zöller Germany	8	271 0.7×	180 0.8×	106 0.8×	44 0.5×	42 0.6×	8	385
Jelkje J. de Boer-Bergsma Netherlands	4	325 0.9×	186 0.9×	68 0.5×	104 1.1×	33 0.5×	4	424
Suzanne S. M. Miedema Netherlands	8	302 0.8×	139 0.6×	162 1.3×	70 0.8×	133 1.8×	12	535
Jillian C. Nissen United States	12	277 0.7×	180 0.8×	139 1.1×	52 0.6×	62 0.8×	16	497
Giedre Miskinyte Sweden	5	255 0.7×	135 0.6×	216 1.7×	90 1.0×	41 0.6×	5	492

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Besson‐Girard

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Besson‐Girard

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Besson‐Girard

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simon Besson‐Girard. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simon Besson‐Girard 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 Besson‐Girard. Simon Besson‐Girard is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Ji, Hao, Simon Besson‐Girard, Peter Androvic, et al.. (2023). High-Resolution RNA Sequencing from PFA-Fixed Microscopy Sections. Methods in molecular biology. 2616. 205–212. 1 indexed citations

2.

Androvic, Peter, Martina Schifferer, Ludovico Cantuti‐Castelvetri, et al.. (2023). Spatial Transcriptomics-correlated Electron Microscopy maps transcriptional and ultrastructural responses to brain injury. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4115–4115. 34 indexed citations

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Filser, Severin, Dániel Péter Varga, Simon Besson‐Girard, et al.. (2023). Continued dysfunction of capillary pericytes promotes no-reflow after experimental stroke in vivo. Brain. 147(3). 1057–1074. 18 indexed citations

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Besson‐Girard, Simon, Hao Ji, Heidi Noels, et al.. (2023). Pathways linking aging and atheroprotection in Mif ‐deficient atherosclerotic mice. The FASEB Journal. 37(3). e22752–e22752. 8 indexed citations

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Kaya, Tuğberk, Nicola Mattugini, Lu Liu, et al.. (2022). CD8+ T cells induce interferon-responsive oligodendrocytes and microglia in white matter aging. Nature Neuroscience. 25(11). 1446–1457. 109 indexed citations

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Benakis, Corinne, Alba Simats, Sophie Tritschler, et al.. (2022). T cells modulate the microglial response to brain ischemia. eLife. 11. 36 indexed citations

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Liu, Lu, Simon Besson‐Girard, Hao Ji, et al.. (2021). Dissociation of microdissected mouse brain tissue for artifact free single-cell RNA sequencing. STAR Protocols. 2(2). 100590–100590. 13 indexed citations

8.

Safaiyan, Shima, Simon Besson‐Girard, Tuğberk Kaya, et al.. (2021). White matter aging drives microglial diversity. Neuron. 109(7). 1100–1117.e10. 271 indexed citations breakdown →

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