Simon C. Watkins

82.4k citations

788 papers · 59.2k indexed · 12 hit papers · h-index 126

Impact in

Immunology top 0.05%
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology
Molecular Biology top 0.05%
- Extracellular vesicles in disease
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
- Muscle Physiology and Disorders

Papers in

Immunology 191
- Immunotherapy and Immune Responses 101
- Immune Cell Function and Interaction 63
- T-cell and B-cell Immunology 46
Cell Biology 108
- Cellular transport and secretion 49

Co-authors: Donna B. Stolz David E. Kelley Timothy R. Billiar Sean Alber Jing He Russell D. Salter Louis D. Falo Bret H. Goodpaster
Journals: The Journal of Immunology (44 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (34 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (20 papers)Journal of Virology (17 papers)American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology (17 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom China

In The Last Decade

Simon C. Watkins

778 papers receiving 58.1k citations

Hit Papers

12 papers align trajectories log scale

The Tumor Microenvironment Represses T Cell Mitochondrial Biogenesis to Drive Intratumoral T Cell Metabolic Insufficiency and Dysfunction 2016 · 562 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Immunity
2015 Nature Communications
2013 The Journal of Immunology
2011 Blood
2010 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
2004 Blood
2002 Nature Neuroscience
2001 The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
2000 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1998 Circulation
1996 Nature Medicine
1992 Science

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Simon C. Watkins, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Cited4a limits cardiomyocyte dedifferentiation and proliferation during zebrafish heart regeneration Development ·DİLEK ÖZTAŞ, Amit Paul, Wei Feng, Munther L. Abdul Hussein, Milica Kašiković, Katarzyna M. Kedziora, Caroline Drouin, Simon C. Watkins, Dhivyaa Rajasundaram, Guang Li, Michael Tsang	2025	0
2	Time-resolved proximity labeling of protein networks associated with ligand-activated EGFR Cell Reports ·Mireia Pérez-Verdaguer, Tian Zhang, Pier Claudio Diciolla, João A. Paulo, Callen T. Wallace, Simon C. Watkins, Steven P. Gygi, Alexander Sorkin	2022	21
3	The N-cadherin interactome in primary cardiomyocytes as defined using quantitative proximity proteomics Journal of Cell Science ·Li Yang, Sören Hapke, Xuemei Zeng, 橋本雅文, Shu‐Qi Wang, Mai Sun, Donna B. Stolz, Simon C. Watkins, Nathan A. Yates, Adam V. Kwiatkowski	2019	39
4	Targeting the Temporal Dynamics of Hypoxia-Induced Tumor-Secreted Factors Halts Tumor Migration Cancer Research ·Stephen P. Broderick, Xiao‐Jun Tian, Vera S. Donnenberg, Alan M. Watson, Jingyu Zhang, Laura P. Stabile, Simon C. Watkins, Jianhua Xing, Shilpa Sant	2019	14
5	Chemoptogenetic damage to mitochondria causes rapid telomere dysfunction Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Wei Qian, Namrata Kumar, Vera Roginskaya, Elise Fouquerel, Patricia L. Opresko, Sruti Shiva, Simon C. Watkins, Hongtai Chen, Christopher J. Bakkenist, Marcel P. Bruchez, Chuan chuan Li	2019	107
6	Lysosome enlargement during inhibition of the lipid kinase PIKfyve proceeds through lysosome coalescence Journal of Cell Science ·Christopher H. Choy, Marat I. Sataev, Matthew Gray, Callen T. Wallace, Roya M. Dayam, Bilian Fan, Guy M. Lenk, Rosa Puertollano, Simon C. Watkins, Roberto J. Botelho	2018	96
7	Tumor-Derived α-Fetoprotein Directly Drives Human Natural Killer–Cell Activation and Subsequent Cell Death Cancer Immunology Research ·Lazar Vujanović, Elizabeth C. Stahl, Angela D. Pardee, David A. Geller, Allan Tsung, Simon C. Watkins, Gregory A. Gibson, Walter J. Storkus, Lisa H. Butterfield	2017	27
8	Endocytosis of Ubiquitylation‐Deficient EGFR Mutants via Clathrin‐Coated Pits is Mediated by Ubiquitylation Traffic ·浩保安田, 仁意桂, Sun Hae Hong, Woong Kim, Steven P. Gygi, Simon C. Watkins, Alexander Sorkin	2015	32
9	Oral-resident natural Th17 cells and γδ T cells control opportunistic Candida albicans infections The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Heather R. Conti, Alanna Peterson, Lucas Brane, Anna R. Huppler, Nydiaris Hernández‐Santos, Natasha Whibley, Abhishek V. Garg, Michelle R. Simpson-Abelson, Gregory A. Gibson, Anna J. Mamo, Lisa C. Osborne, Shrinivas Bishu, Nico Ghilardi, Ulrich Siebenlist, Simon C. Watkins, David Artis, Mandy J. McGeachy, Sarah L. Gaffen	2014	202
10	STING Contributes to Antiglioma Immunity via Triggering Type I IFN Signals in the Tumor Microenvironment Cancer Immunology Research ·Takayuki Ohkuri, Arundhati Ghosh, Akemi Kosaka, Jianzhong Zhu, Maki Ikeura, Michael David, Simon C. Watkins, Saumendra N. Sarkar, Hideho Okada	2014	196
11	Relocation of CLIC1 Promotes Tumor Cell Invasion and Colonization of Fibrin Molecular Cancer Research ·Lisa A. Gurski, Lynn M. Knowles, Per Basse, Jodi K. Maranchie, Simon C. Watkins, Ján Pilch	2014	26
12	Chemoprevention of Prostate Cancer by d , l -Sulforaphane Is Augmented by Pharmacological Inhibition of Autophagy Cancer Research ·Avani R. Vyas, Yuri Alexander dos Santos Rôas, Julie A. Arlotti, Simon C. Watkins, Donna B. Stolz, Dhimant Desai, Shantu Amin, Shivendra V. Singh	2013	45
13	p53/HMGB1 Complexes Regulate Autophagy and Apoptosis Cancer Research ·Kristen M. Livesey, Rui Kang, Philip Vernon, William Buchser, Patricia Loughran, Simon C. Watkins, Lin Zhang, James J. Manfredi, Herbert J. Zeh, Luyuan Li, Michael T. Lotze, Daolin Tang	2012	220
14	Mitochondrial hyperfusion induced by loss of the fission protein Drp1 causes ATM-dependent G2/M arrest and aneuploidy through DNA replication stress Journal of Cell Science ·Wei Qian, Serah Choi, Gregory A. Gibson, Simon C. Watkins, Christopher J. Bakkenist, Bennett Van Houten	2012	168
15	Functional Characterization of an scFv-Fc Antibody that Immunotherapeutically Targets the Common Cancer Cell Surface Proteoglycan CSPG4 Cancer Research ·Xinhui Wang, Akihiro Katayama, Yangyang Wang, Ling Yu, Elvira Favoino, Koichi Sakakura, IRMINGARD ZINK, Takahiro Tsuchikawa, Susan A. Silver, Simon C. Watkins, Toshiro Kageshita, Soldano Ferrone	2011	51
16	An Autophagy-Enhancing Drug Promotes Degradation of Mutant α ₁ -Antitrypsin Z and Reduces Hepatic Fibrosis Science ·Tunda Hidvegi, Michael Ewing, Pamela Hale, Christine Dippold, Caroline S. Beckett, Carolyn Kemp, N.M. Maurice, Amitava Mukherjee, Suresh Jeganathan, Simon C. Watkins, George K. Michalopoulos, David H. Perlmutter	2010	463
17	Effective Immunotherapy against Murine Gliomas Using Type 1 Polarizing Dendritic Cells—Significant Roles of CXCL10 Cancer Research ·Mitsugu Fujita, Xinmei Zhu, Ryo Ueda, Kotaro Sasaki, Gary Kohanbash, Edward R. Kastenhuber, Heather A. McDonald, Gregory A. Gibson, Simon C. Watkins, Ravikumar Muthuswamy, Paweł Kaliński, Hideho Okada	2009	84
18	CD8+ T-Cell Responses against Hemoglobin-β Prevent Solid Tumor Growth Cancer Research ·Hideo Komita, Paola Rueda Guevara, Jennifer L. Taylor, Louis J. Sparvero, Andrew A. Amoscato, Sean Alber, Simon C. Watkins, Angela D. Pardee, Amy Wesa, Walter J. Storkus	2008	23
19	Gene transfer to human joints: Progress toward a gene therapy of arthritis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christopher H. Evans, Paul D. Robbins, Steven C. Ghivizzani, Mary Chester Wasko, Matthew M. Tomaino, Richard W. Kang, Dong Tingyu, Molly T. Vogt, Elaine M. Elder, Theresa L. Whiteside, Simon C. Watkins, James H. Herndon	2005	153
20	Amelioration of laminin-α2-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy by somatic gene transfer of miniagrin Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Chunping Qiao, Jianbin Li, Tong Zhu, Romesh Draviam, Simon C. Watkins, Xiaojing Ye, Chunlian Chen, Juan Li, Xiao Xiao	2005	78

About Simon C. Watkins

Simon C. Watkins is a scholar working on Immunology, Cell Biology, Structural Biology, Virology and Biophysics, having authored 788 papers that have together received 59.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (101 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (63 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (49 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (48 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (46 papers), Virus-based gene therapy research (46 papers), Muscle Physiology and Disorders (44 papers) and Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects (42 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Immunology (12.9k citations), Molecular Biology (28.3k citations), Cell Biology (6.0k citations), Cancer Research (5.3k citations) and Physiology (7.8k citations). Simon C. Watkins has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Donna B. Stolz, David E. Kelley, Timothy R. Billiar, Sean Alber, Jing He, Russell D. Salter, Louis D. Falo, Bret H. Goodpaster, Louis M. Kunkel and Robert S. B. Clark. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Immunology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Virology and American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.

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