Simon Forbes

33.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
46 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Simon Forbes is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Forbes has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Cancer Research and 17 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Simon Forbes's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (20 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (13 papers) and Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research (7 papers). Simon Forbes is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (20 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (13 papers) and Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research (7 papers). Simon Forbes collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Simon Forbes's co-authors include Sally Bamford, Michael R. Stratton, Nidhi Bindal, Chai Yin Kok, P. Andrew Futreal, Charlotte G. Cole, Mingming Jia, Sari Ward, Jon W. Teague and David Beare and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature reviews. Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Simon Forbes

46 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC): a resour... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2012 2010 2014 2016 2004 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC): a resource for therapeutic biomarker discovery in cancer cells
    2012 2.6k citations Wanjuan Yang, Jorge Soares et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. COSMIC: mining complete cancer genomes in the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer
    2010 1.7k citations Simon Forbes, Nidhi Bindal et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. COSMIC: exploring the world's knowledge of somatic mutations in human cancer
    2014 1.7k citations Simon Forbes, David Beare et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. COSMIC: somatic cancer genetics at high-resolution
    2016 1.3k citations Simon Forbes, David Beare et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  5. The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer) database and website
    2004 932 citations Sally Bamford, Elisabeth Dawson et al. British Journal of Cancer profile →
  6. The COSMIC Cancer Gene Census: describing genetic dysfunction across all human cancers
    2018 875 citations Zbysław Sońdka, Sally Bamford et al. Nature reviews. Cancer profile →
  7. The Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC)
    2008 658 citations Simon Forbes, Sally Bamford et al. 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 Forbes United Kingdom 21 7.6k 4.0k 2.8k 2.2k 1.4k 46 11.2k
Nidhi Bindal United Kingdom 8 5.5k 0.7× 2.9k 0.7× 2.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 885 0.6× 15 8.0k
Barry S. Taylor United States 46 5.5k 0.7× 3.0k 0.7× 3.3k 1.2× 2.7k 1.3× 933 0.6× 118 9.9k
Ultan McDermott United Kingdom 39 8.2k 1.1× 3.6k 0.9× 4.8k 1.7× 3.9k 1.8× 696 0.5× 94 13.0k
Núria López-Bigas Spain 52 7.4k 1.0× 3.6k 0.9× 1.6k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 1.8k 1.2× 125 10.5k
Zoltán Szállási United States 58 9.9k 1.3× 4.1k 1.0× 4.7k 1.7× 2.0k 0.9× 1.5k 1.1× 194 15.0k
Daniel R. Rhodes United States 35 10.1k 1.3× 4.0k 1.0× 2.9k 1.0× 4.9k 2.3× 1.4k 0.9× 50 14.5k
Sally Bamford United Kingdom 12 5.6k 0.7× 3.1k 0.8× 2.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 19 8.1k
Sarat Chandarlapaty United States 51 6.3k 0.8× 2.9k 0.7× 6.0k 2.2× 4.1k 1.9× 1.5k 1.1× 205 12.6k
Terrence R. Barrette United States 21 11.1k 1.5× 5.1k 1.3× 2.2k 0.8× 2.6k 1.2× 880 0.6× 24 14.2k
Yiling Lu United States 64 11.6k 1.5× 2.9k 0.7× 3.5k 1.3× 1.1k 0.5× 873 0.6× 209 15.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Forbes

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Forbes

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All Works

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Sońdka, Zbysław, Sally Bamford, Charlotte G. Cole, et al.. (2018). The COSMIC Cancer Gene Census: describing genetic dysfunction across all human cancers. Nature reviews. Cancer. 18(11). 696–705. 875 indexed citations breakdown →
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Forbes, Simon, David Beare, Harry Boutselakis, et al.. (2016). COSMIC: somatic cancer genetics at high-resolution. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(D1). D777–D783. 1291 indexed citations breakdown →
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Forbes, Simon, David Beare, Prasad Gunasekaran, et al.. (2014). COSMIC: exploring the world's knowledge of somatic mutations in human cancer. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(D1). D805–D811. 1693 indexed citations breakdown →
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Forbes, Simon, David Beare, Nidhi Bindal, et al.. (2014). 460: COSMIC: Exploring novel cancer biomarkers. European Journal of Cancer. 50. S111–S111. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Wanjuan, Jorge Soares, Patricia Greninger, et al.. (2012). Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC): a resource for therapeutic biomarker discovery in cancer cells. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(D1). D955–D961. 2597 indexed citations breakdown →
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Forbes, Simon, Nidhi Bindal, Sally Bamford, et al.. (2010). Abstract 93: COSMIC: The catalogue of somatic mutations in cancer receives full genome variant annotations. Cancer Research. 70(8_Supplement). 93–93. 1 indexed citations
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Forbes, Simon, Nidhi Bindal, Sally Bamford, et al.. (2009). COSMIC (the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer): a resource to investigate acquired mutations in human cancer. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(suppl_1). D652–D657. 417 indexed citations
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Forbes, Simon, Jody Clements, Elisabeth Dawson, et al.. (2006). COSMIC 2005. British Journal of Cancer. 94(2). 318–322. 261 indexed citations
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Allcock, Richard J. N., Alexey Atrazhev, Pieter J. de Jong, et al.. (2002). The MHC haplotype project: A resource for HLA–linked association studies. Tissue Antigens. 59(6). 520–521. 47 indexed citations
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Amadou, Claire, Graeme Bethel, Anke Ehlers, et al.. (2001). Characterization of Clustered MHC-Linked Olfactory Receptor Genes in Human and Mouse. Genome Research. 11(4). 519–530. 13 indexed citations
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Ehlers, Anke, Stephan Beck, Simon Forbes, et al.. (2000). MHC-Linked Olfactory Receptor Loci Exhibit Polymorphism and Contribute to Extended HLA/OR-Haplotypes. Genome Research. 10(12). 1968–1978. 7 indexed citations
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Ziegler, Andreas, Anke Ehlers, Simon Forbes, et al.. (2000). Polymorphisms in olfactory receptor genes: a cautionary note. Human Immunology. 61(12). 1281–1284. 25 indexed citations
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Forbes, Simon, et al.. (1997). Estimation of the Age of the Ancestral Arginine3500→ Glutamine Mutation in Human ApoB-100. Genomics. 45(1). 78–87. 37 indexed citations
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Udomkit, Apinunt, Simon Forbes, C. Mclean, Irina R. Arkhipova, & David Finnegan. (1996). Control of expression of the I factor, a LINE-like transposable element in Drosophila melanogaster.. The EMBO Journal. 15(12). 3174–3181. 18 indexed citations
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Forbes, Simon, Michael P. Richardson, Alison J. Coffey, et al.. (1996). Refined Mapping and YAC Contig Construction of the X-Linked Cleft Palate and Ankyloglossia Locus (CPX) Including the Proximal X–Y Homology Breakpoint within Xq21.3. Genomics. 31(1). 36–43. 26 indexed citations
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Newton, Robert, et al.. (1994). Novel RFLPs and microsatellite repeats increase informativity at four loci mapping to Xq22-q25. Human Genetics. 93(2). 218–21. 1 indexed citations
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Newton, Robert, Simon Forbes, & Gudrun E. Moore. (1992). AnMsplpolymorphism at the DXS11 locus. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(5). 1162–1162. 3 indexed citations
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Stanier, Philip, Robert Newton, Simon Forbes, Alasdair Ivens, & Gudrun E. Moore. (1991). Polymorphic dinucleotide repeat at the DXS3 locus. Nucleic Acids Research. 19(17). 4793–4793. 15 indexed citations

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