Simon T. Schafer

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Simon T. Schafer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Developmental Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon T. Schafer has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Developmental Neuroscience and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Simon T. Schafer's work include Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (8 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers). Simon T. Schafer is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (8 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (4 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (3 papers). Simon T. Schafer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Austria. Simon T. Schafer's co-authors include Fred H. Gage, J. Tiago Gonçalves, Abed AlFatah Mansour, Monique Pena, Jérôme Mertens, Apuã C.M. Paquola, Christopher K. Glass, Jinju Han, Baptiste N. Jaeger and Sara B. Linker and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Simon T. Schafer

24 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Adult Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus: From Stem Cells to Behavior

2016 800 citations J. Tiago Gonçalves, Simon T. Schafer et al. Cell profile →
An in vivo neuroimmune organoid model to study human microglia phenotypes

2023 131 citations Simon T. Schafer, Abed AlFatah Mansour et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon T. Schafer United States	14	867	745	458	276	224	24	1.7k
Zheng Wu China	16	991 1.1×	552 0.7×	851 1.9×	386 1.4×	169 0.8×	31	1.8k
Lavinia Albéri Switzerland	25	996 1.1×	385 0.5×	633 1.4×	251 0.9×	191 0.9×	47	2.0k
Julia W. Chang United States	15	573 0.7×	616 0.8×	516 1.1×	431 1.6×	177 0.8×	28	1.8k
Simon Stott United Kingdom	22	982 1.1×	289 0.4×	605 1.3×	273 1.0×	135 0.6×	34	1.9k
Shanting Zhao China	29	997 1.1×	1.1k 1.5×	1.3k 2.8×	274 1.0×	289 1.3×	83	2.6k
Mariko Sekiguchi Japan	20	1.2k 1.4×	445 0.6×	806 1.8×	143 0.5×	172 0.8×	42	2.3k
Ira Espuny-Camacho Belgium	11	1.3k 1.5×	597 0.8×	641 1.4×	171 0.6×	194 0.9×	17	1.9k
Serena Giannelli Italy	24	1.3k 1.4×	233 0.3×	516 1.1×	290 1.1×	334 1.5×	33	1.9k
Anja Scheller Germany	23	683 0.8×	534 0.7×	717 1.6×	774 2.8×	101 0.5×	65	1.9k
Stephen Minger United Kingdom	22	857 1.0×	399 0.5×	507 1.1×	282 1.0×	120 0.5×	45	1.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schafer, Simon T., et al.. (2024). Investigation of the resilience of cyclically actuated pine cone scales of Pinus jeffreyi. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 19(4). 46009–46009. 6 indexed citations

Toda, Tomohisa, Tracy A. Bedrosian, Simon T. Schafer, et al.. (2024). Long interspersed nuclear elements safeguard neural progenitors from precocious differentiation. Cell Reports. 43(2). 113774–113774. 10 indexed citations

Schafer, Simon T., Abed AlFatah Mansour, Johannes C. M. Schlachetzki, et al.. (2023). An in vivo neuroimmune organoid model to study human microglia phenotypes. Cell. 186(10). 2111–2126.e20. 131 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Meiyan, Fred H. Gage, & Simon T. Schafer. (2023). Transplantation Strategies to Enhance Maturity and Cellular Complexity in Brain Organoids. Biological Psychiatry. 93(7). 616–621. 16 indexed citations

Schafer, Simon T., et al.. (2022). Smaller, Stronger, More Stable: Peptide Variants of a SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Miniprotein. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(11). 6309–6309. 11 indexed citations

Gazi, Anastasia D., et al.. (2022). Vaccinia virus H7-protein is required for the organization of the viral scaffold protein into hexamers. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 13007–13007. 5 indexed citations

Schafer, Simon T., Olga O. Zaytseva, Anja Lux, et al.. (2021). Targeting B cells in the pre-phase of systemic autoimmunity globally interferes with autoimmune pathology. iScience. 24(9). 103076–103076. 8 indexed citations

Rund, Nicole, Asako McCloskey, Jérôme Mertens, et al.. (2021). Improved Method for Efficient Generation of Functional Neurons from Murine Neural Progenitor Cells. Cells. 10(8). 1894–1894. 3 indexed citations

Mansour, Abed AlFatah, Simon T. Schafer, & Fred H. Gage. (2020). Cellular complexity in brain organoids: Current progress and unsolved issues. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 111. 32–39. 38 indexed citations

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Herdy, Joseph R., Simon T. Schafer, Yongsung Kim, et al.. (2019). Chemical modulation of transcriptionally enriched signaling pathways to optimize the conversion of fibroblasts into neurons. eLife. 8. 36 indexed citations

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Schafer, Simon T., Apuã C.M. Paquola, Shani Stern, et al.. (2019). Pathological priming causes developmental gene network heterochronicity in autistic subject-derived neurons. Nature Neuroscience. 22(2). 243–255. 168 indexed citations

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Jaeger, Baptiste N., Sara B. Linker, Sarah Parylak, et al.. (2018). A novel environment-evoked transcriptional signature predicts reactivity in single dentate granule neurons. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3084–3084. 64 indexed citations

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Schafer, Simon T., Friederike Klempin, Bente Kiens, et al.. (2018). ATP6AP2 over-expression causes morphological alterations in the hippocampus and in hippocampus-related behaviour. Brain Structure and Function. 223(5). 2287–2302. 9 indexed citations

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Toda, Tomohisa, Jonathan Y. Hsu, Sara B. Linker, et al.. (2017). Nup153 Interacts with Sox2 to Enable Bimodal Gene Regulation and Maintenance of Neural Progenitor Cells. Cell stem cell. 21(5). 618–634.e7. 90 indexed citations

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Han, Jinju, Hyung Joon Kim, Simon T. Schafer, et al.. (2016). Functional Implications of miR-19 in the Migration of Newborn Neurons in the Adult Brain. Neuron. 91(1). 79–89. 71 indexed citations

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Gonçalves, J. Tiago, Cooper W Bloyd, Matthew Shtrahman, et al.. (2016). In vivo imaging of dendritic pruning in dentate granule cells. Nature Neuroscience. 19(6). 788–791. 66 indexed citations

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Wanka, Heike, Barbara Peters, Tim Beck, et al.. (2015). Anti-necrotic and cardioprotective effects of a cytosolic renin isoform under ischemia-related conditions. Journal of Molecular Medicine. 94(1). 61–69. 17 indexed citations

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Schafer, Simon T., et al.. (2015). The Wnt Adaptor Protein ATP6AP2 Regulates Multiple Stages of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(12). 4983–4998. 69 indexed citations

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Kim, Hyung Joon, Ahmet M. Denli, Rebecca A. Wright, et al.. (2015). REST Regulates Non–Cell-Autonomous Neuronal Differentiation and Maturation of Neural Progenitor Cells via Secretogranin II. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(44). 14872–14884. 33 indexed citations

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Schafer, Simon T., Jörg Peters, & Oliver von Bohlen und Halbach. (2013). The (pro)renin receptor / ATP6ap2 is expressed in the murine hippocampus by adult and newly generated neurons. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. 31(2). 225–231. 9 indexed citations

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