Simon Spichak

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 644 citations indexed

About

Simon Spichak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biological Psychiatry and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Spichak has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 644 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Biological Psychiatry and 2 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Simon Spichak's work include Gut microbiota and health (5 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (3 papers) and Gastrointestinal motility and disorders (2 papers). Simon Spichak is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (5 papers), Tryptophan and brain disorders (3 papers) and Gastrointestinal motility and disorders (2 papers). Simon Spichak collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, Australia and Canada. Simon Spichak's co-authors include Timothy G. Dinan, John F. Cryan, Jesutofunmi A. Omiye, Jenna Lester, Roxana Daneshjou, Veronica Rotemberg, Gerard Clarke, Minal Jaggar, Kieran Rea and Martin G. Codagnone and has published in prestigious journals such as Biological Psychiatry, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews and Human Brain Mapping.

In The Last Decade

Simon Spichak

8 papers receiving 633 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Large language models propagate race-based medicine

2023 186 citations Jesutofunmi A. Omiye, Jenna Lester et al. npj Digital Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Spichak Ireland	7	304	145	133	117	71	8	644
Laura Mählmann Switzerland	15	313 1.0×	191 1.3×	234 1.8×	5 0.0×	8 0.1×	15	701
Varsha D. Badal United States	9	314 1.0×	46 0.3×	170 1.3×	7 0.1×	38 0.5×	24	565
Bojing Liu Sweden	12	168 0.6×	39 0.3×	150 1.1×	2 0.0×	33 0.5×	28	826
Ning Yuan China	8	247 0.8×	251 1.7×	71 0.5×	2 0.0×	9 0.1×	21	625
Mihaela Fadgyas Stănculete Romania	9	65 0.2×	27 0.2×	67 0.5×	11 0.1×	7 0.1×	35	359
Xuejun Kong United States	16	278 0.9×	50 0.3×	110 0.8×	2 0.0×	4 0.1×	56	865
Min Jhon South Korea	15	19 0.1×	75 0.5×	42 0.3×	10 0.1×	40 0.6×	60	701
Merja Viikki Finland	20	143 0.5×	211 1.5×	92 0.7×	2 0.0×	15 0.2×	45	1.1k
Ziwei Teng China	13	43 0.1×	57 0.4×	23 0.2×	5 0.0×	9 0.1×	55	465
Mohamed Elsayed Germany	12	34 0.1×	11 0.1×	17 0.1×	81 0.7×	23 0.3×	49	385

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Spichak

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Spichak

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Spichak

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Omiye, Jesutofunmi A., Jenna Lester, Simon Spichak, Veronica Rotemberg, & Roxana Daneshjou. (2023). Large language models propagate race-based medicine. npj Digital Medicine. 6(1). 195–195. 186 indexed citations breakdown →

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Spichak, Simon, Thomaz F. S. Bastiaanssen, Kirsten Berding, et al.. (2021). Mining microbes for mental health: Determining the role of microbial metabolic pathways in human brain health and disease. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 125. 698–761. 90 indexed citations

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Spichak, Simon, Francisco Donoso, Gerard M. Moloney, et al.. (2021). Microbially-derived short-chain fatty acids impact astrocyte gene expression in a sex-specific manner. Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health. 16. 100318–100318. 45 indexed citations

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Jaggar, Minal, Kieran Rea, Simon Spichak, Timothy G. Dinan, & John F. Cryan. (2019). You’ve got male: Sex and the microbiota-gut-brain axis across the lifespan. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 56. 100815–100815. 139 indexed citations

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Spichak, Simon, Timothy G. Dinan, & John F. Cryan. (2019). Gut–neuroimmune interactions: the unexpected role of the immune system in brain development. The Biochemist. 41(1). 36–41. 2 indexed citations

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Codagnone, Martin G., Simon Spichak, Siobhain M. O’Mahony, et al.. (2018). Programming Bugs: Microbiota and the Developmental Origins of Brain Health and Disease. Biological Psychiatry. 85(2). 150–163. 142 indexed citations

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Spichak, Simon, Katherine E. Guzzetta, Olivia F. O’Leary, et al.. (2018). Without a bug’s life: Germ-free rodents to interrogate microbiota-gut-neuroimmune interactions. Drug Discovery Today Disease Models. 28. 79–93. 18 indexed citations

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Ameis, Stephanie H., Jason P. Lerch, Conrad Rockel, et al.. (2017). Development of short‐range white matter in healthy children and adolescents. Human Brain Mapping. 39(1). 204–217. 22 indexed citations

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