Simon H. Friedman

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Simon H. Friedman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon H. Friedman has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Materials Chemistry and 11 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Simon H. Friedman's work include Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (15 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (11 papers) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (11 papers). Simon H. Friedman is often cited by papers focused on Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (15 papers), RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (11 papers) and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (11 papers). Simon H. Friedman collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Simon H. Friedman's co-authors include George L. Kenyon, Fred Wudl, G. Srdanov, Dianne L. DeCamp, Rint P. Sijbesma, Samit Shah, Piyush Jain, Charles L. Wilkins, John A. Castoro and Yves Rubin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nucleic Acids Research and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Simon H. Friedman

39 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

Inhibition of the HIV-1 protease by fullerene derivatives: model building studies and experimental verification

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon H. Friedman United States	18	1.4k	1.3k	642	277	180	41	2.1k
Yosuke Niko Japan	20	862 0.6×	295 0.2×	352 0.5×	188 0.7×	63 0.3×	45	1.4k
Laurence Navailles France	24	623 0.4×	642 0.5×	587 0.9×	133 0.5×	49 0.3×	66	1.7k
D.M. D'Souza Germany	16	389 0.3×	2.0k 1.6×	516 0.8×	82 0.3×	61 0.3×	24	2.4k
Jana Shen United States	26	281 0.2×	241 0.2×	1.1k 1.7×	288 1.0×	159 0.9×	63	1.7k
V. A. Raghunathan India	28	397 0.3×	874 0.7×	1.2k 1.9×	191 0.7×	53 0.3×	110	2.2k
Ramkrishna Adhikary United States	20	368 0.3×	209 0.2×	561 0.9×	92 0.3×	84 0.5×	37	1.2k
Linli He China	18	420 0.3×	676 0.5×	415 0.6×	129 0.5×	15 0.1×	87	1.2k
Gareth Jenkins China	17	1.0k 0.7×	283 0.2×	595 0.9×	622 2.2×	36 0.2×	25	2.0k
Justas Barauskas Sweden	25	400 0.3×	888 0.7×	1.3k 2.1×	281 1.0×	25 0.1×	51	2.2k
Sule Oncul France	15	406 0.3×	169 0.1×	523 0.8×	168 0.6×	60 0.3×	16	1.1k

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Friedman, Simon H.. (2025). The Photoactivated Depot (PAD): Light Triggered Control of Therapeutic Protein Solubility and Release. Accounts of Chemical Research. 58(7). 1055–1064.

Friedman, Simon H., et al.. (2025). Preventing Protein Self‐Association Through Strategic Covalent Modification. Journal of Peptide Science. 31(4). e70008–e70008.

Friedman, Simon H., et al.. (2019). Chemical modification of proteins with photocleavable groups. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 624. 113–128. 7 indexed citations

Friedman, Simon H.. (2019). Replacing Pumps with Light Controlled Insulin Delivery. Current Diabetes Reports. 19(11). 122–122. 5 indexed citations

Jain, Piyush & Simon H. Friedman. (2018). The ULTIMATE Reagent: A Universal Photocleavable and Clickable Reagent for the Regiospecific and Reversible End Labeling of Any Nucleic Acid. ChemBioChem. 19(12). 1264–1270. 4 indexed citations

Jain, Nitin & Simon H. Friedman. (2017). A Tetra-Orthogonal Strategy for the Efficient Synthesis of Scaffolds Based on Cyclic Peptides. International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics. 24(4). 535–542. 3 indexed citations

Jain, Piyush, et al.. (2014). Patterning of cells through patterning of biology. Molecular BioSystems. 10(7). 1689–1692. 6 indexed citations

Jain, Piyush, et al.. (2013). The synthesis of tetra-modified RNA for the multidimensional control of gene expression via light-activated RNA interference. Nature Protocols. 9(1). 11–20. 16 indexed citations

Jain, Piyush, et al.. (2012). Construction of a Photoactivated Insulin Depot. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(5). 1404–1409. 25 indexed citations

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Jain, Nitin, et al.. (2012). Inhibition of therapeutically important polymerases with high affinity bis-intercalators. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 22(14). 4844–4848. 6 indexed citations

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Friedman, Simon H.. (2012). The four worlds of carbon. Nature Chemistry. 4(5). 426–426. 6 indexed citations

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Friedman, Simon H., et al.. (2011). Enhanced Light-Activated RNA Interference Using Phosphorothioate-Based dsRNA Precursors of siRNA. Pharmaceutical Research. 28(12). 3050–3057. 23 indexed citations

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Shah, Samit, et al.. (2009). Light-activated RNA interference using double-stranded siRNA precursors modified using a remarkable regiospecificity of diazo-based photolabile groups. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(13). 4508–4517. 70 indexed citations

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Shah, Samit & Simon H. Friedman. (2008). An ESI-MS method for characterization of native and modified oligonucleotides used for RNA interference and other biological applications. Nature Protocols. 3(3). 351–356. 25 indexed citations

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Friedman, Simon H., et al.. (2007). Design, synthesis, and evaluation of phenanthridine derivatives targeting the telomerase RNA/DNA heteroduplex. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 17(8). 2267–2273. 20 indexed citations

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Shah, Samit & Simon H. Friedman. (2007). Tolerance of RNA Interference Toward Modifications of the 5′ Antisense Phosphate of Small Interfering RNA. Oligonucleotides. 17(1). 35–43. 49 indexed citations

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Shah, Samit, et al.. (2005). Light‐Activated RNA Interference. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 44(9). 1328–1332. 185 indexed citations

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Francis, Rawle & Simon H. Friedman. (2003). An interference-free fluorescent assay of telomerase for the high-throughput analysis of inhibitors. Analytical Biochemistry. 323(1). 65–73. 6 indexed citations

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Francis, Rawle, et al.. (2001). Targeting Telomerase via Its Key RNA/DNA Heteroduplex. Bioorganic Chemistry. 29(2). 107–117. 20 indexed citations

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Francis, Rawle, et al.. (2001). Small molecule/Nucleic acid affinity chromatography: application for the identification of telomerase inhibitors which target its key RNA/DNA heteroduplex. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 11(20). 2727–2730. 18 indexed citations

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