Simón Silver

23.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
182 papers, 18.3k citations indexed

About

Simón Silver is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simón Silver has authored 182 papers receiving a total of 18.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 61 papers in Molecular Biology and 38 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Simón Silver's work include Chromium effects and bioremediation (51 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (34 papers) and Arsenic contamination and mitigation (31 papers). Simón Silver is often cited by papers focused on Chromium effects and bioremediation (51 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (34 papers) and Arsenic contamination and mitigation (31 papers). Simón Silver collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and United Kingdom. Simón Silver's co-authors include Le T. Phung, Dietrich H. Nies, Tapan K. Misra, Guanghui Ji, Barry P. Rosen, Anne O. Summers, Martha B. Baylor, Mark Walderhaug, L Chu and Amit Gupta and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Simón Silver

180 papers receiving 17.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Bacterial silver resistance: molecular biology and uses and misuses of silver compounds

2003 1.0k citations Simón Silver FEMS Microbiology Reviews profile →
BACTERIAL HEAVY METAL RESISTANCE: New Surprises

1996 989 citations Simón Silver, Le T. Phung profile →
Silver as biocides in burn and wound dressings and bacterial resistance to silver compounds

2006 582 citations Simón Silver, Le T. Phung et al. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology profile →
Microbial arsenic: from geocycles to genes and enzymes

2002 516 citations Rita Mukhopadhyay, Barry P. Rosen et al. FEMS Microbiology Reviews profile →
Antimicrobial silver: uses, toxicity and potential for resistance

2013 441 citations Simón Silver et al. BioMetals profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simón Silver United States	73	6.8k	4.7k	3.6k	3.3k	2.9k	182	18.3k
Christopher Rensing China	75	5.3k 0.8×	4.6k 1.0×	5.3k 1.5×	3.3k 1.0×	1.8k 0.6×	375	20.6k
Dietrich H. Nies Germany	52	5.3k 0.8×	2.3k 0.5×	2.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	114	11.9k
Raymond J. Turner Canada	60	1.6k 0.2×	6.1k 1.3×	1.7k 0.5×	998 0.3×	2.8k 1.0×	304	16.7k
Yongning Wu China	75	7.1k 1.0×	5.3k 1.1×	3.0k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	3.9k 1.3×	683	21.9k
J. T. Trevors Canada	69	2.7k 0.4×	5.2k 1.1×	6.0k 1.7×	1.9k 0.6×	878 0.3×	493	19.9k
Daniël van der Lelie United States	67	2.0k 0.3×	4.9k 1.0×	3.0k 0.8×	847 0.3×	1.8k 0.6×	141	15.6k
Carl E. Cerniglia United States	75	5.9k 0.9×	6.0k 1.3×	10.1k 2.8×	738 0.2×	836 0.3×	364	20.3k
Thomas Egli Switzerland	61	3.2k 0.5×	3.4k 0.7×	3.5k 1.0×	1.1k 0.3×	721 0.3×	154	12.9k
James A. Imlay United States	69	1.9k 0.3×	10.7k 2.3×	1.3k 0.4×	512 0.2×	2.1k 0.7×	122	22.2k
İbrahim M. Banat United Kingdom	79	3.3k 0.5×	8.5k 1.8×	14.4k 4.1×	2.2k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	318	27.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Simón Silver

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simón Silver

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simón Silver

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Silver, Simón. (2015). Laboratory-acquired lethal infections by potential bioweapons pathogens including Ebola in 2014. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 362(1). 1–6. 10 indexed citations

Silver, Simón. (2013). Beyond the fringe: when science moves from innovative to nonsense. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 350(1). 2–8. 2 indexed citations

Phung, Le T., W. Trimble, Folker Meyer, Jack A. Gilbert, & Simón Silver. (2012). Draft Genome Sequence of Alcaligenes faecalis subsp.faecalisNCIB 8687 (CCUG 2071). Journal of Bacteriology. 194(18). 5153–5153. 17 indexed citations

Silver, Simón & Le T. Phung. (2011). Novel expansion of living chemistry or just a serious mistake?. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 315(2). 79–80. 9 indexed citations

Silver, Simón. (2011). BioMetals: a historical and personal perspective. BioMetals. 24(3). 379–390. 7 indexed citations

Hayakawa, Takahiko, et al.. (2006). Generation of Mercury-Hyperaccumulating Plants through Transgenic Expression of the Bacterial Mercury Membrane Transport Protein MerC. Transgenic Research. 15(5). 615–625. 39 indexed citations

Silver, Simón. (2003). Bacterial silver resistance: molecular biology and uses and misuses of silver compounds. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 27(2-3). 341–353. 1018 indexed citations breakdown →

Mukhopadhyay, Rita, Barry P. Rosen, Le T. Phung, & Simón Silver. (2002). Microbial arsenic: from geocycles to genes and enzymes. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 26(3). 311–325. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

Silver, Simón. (1997). The bacterial view of the periodic table; specific functions for all elements. Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry. 35(1). 345–360. 14 indexed citations

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Cervantes, Carlos & Simón Silver. (1996). Sistemas de resistencia a metales en Pseudomonas. 38(1). 45–64. 2 indexed citations

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Inoue, Chihiro, Tomonobu Kusano, & Simón Silver. (1996). Mercuric Ion Uptake byEscherichia coliCells ProducingThiobacillus ferrooxidansMerC. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 60(8). 1289–1292. 26 indexed citations

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Nies, Dietrich H. & Simón Silver. (1995). Ion efflux systems involved in bacterial metal resistances. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 14(2). 186–199. 383 indexed citations

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Silver, Simón. (1994). Exploiting heavy metal resistance systems in bioremediation. Research in Microbiology. 145(1). 61–67. 16 indexed citations

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Ji, Guangyong, Eric A. E. Garber, Lyman G. Armes, et al.. (1994). Arsenate Reductase of Staphylococcus aureus Plasmid pI258. Biochemistry. 33(23). 7294–7299. 113 indexed citations

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Corbisier, Philippe, et al.. (1993). luxABgene fusions with the arsenic and cadmium resistance operons ofStaphylococcus aureusplasmid pI258. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 110(2). 231–238. 104 indexed citations

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Silver, Simón, Giuseppina Nucifora, & Le T. Phung. (1993). Human Menkes X‐chromosome disease and the staphylococcal cadmium‐resistance ATPase: a remarkable similarity in protein sequences. Molecular Microbiology. 10(1). 7–12. 60 indexed citations

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Rosen, Barry P., Saibal Dey, Guanghui Ji, et al.. (1992). Evolution of an Ion‐Translocating ATPase^a. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 671(1). 257–272. 36 indexed citations

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Silver, Simón, Tapan K. Misra, & Richard A. Laddaga. (1989). DNA sequence analysis of bacterial toxic heavy metal resistances. Biological Trace Element Research. 21(1). 145–163. 12 indexed citations

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Silver, Simón. (1982). Energy-dependent arsenate flux: the mechaism of plasmid-mediated resistance. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 79. 6114–6118. 43 indexed citations

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Silver, Simón. (1966). Molecular genetics of bacteria and bacteriophages. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 16. 191–240. 2 indexed citations

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