Simone Mayer

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Simone Mayer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Developmental Neuroscience and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Mayer has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Developmental Neuroscience and 4 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health. Recurrent topics in Simone Mayer's work include Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (6 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (3 papers). Simone Mayer is often cited by papers focused on Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms (6 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (4 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (3 papers). Simone Mayer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Simone Mayer's co-authors include Arnold R. Kriegstein, Mercedes F. Paredes, Dmitry Velmeshev, Eric J. Huang, Shawn F. Sorrells, Edward F. Chang, Kadellyn Sandoval, José Manuel García‐Verdugo, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla and Lucas Schirmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Simone Mayer

19 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults

2018 967 citations Shawn F. Sorrells, Mercedes F. Paredes et al. Nature profile →
Single-cell genomics identifies cell type–specific molecular changes in autism

2019 506 citations Dmitry Velmeshev, Lucas Schirmer et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Mayer Germany	12	842	709	489	389	323	22	2.0k
Tomohisa Toda United States	17	1.3k 1.6×	766 1.1×	529 1.1×	272 0.7×	173 0.5×	27	2.3k
Julia W. Chang United States	15	573 0.7×	616 0.9×	516 1.1×	431 1.1×	160 0.5×	28	1.8k
Nathan A. DeCarolis United States	12	597 0.7×	870 1.2×	557 1.1×	227 0.6×	146 0.5×	12	1.6k
Igor Jakovčevski Germany	34	1.0k 1.2×	936 1.3×	1.1k 2.3×	404 1.0×	190 0.6×	68	2.9k
Star W. Lee United States	13	542 0.6×	836 1.2×	494 1.0×	474 1.2×	186 0.6×	16	1.8k
Kadellyn Sandoval United States	6	520 0.6×	857 1.2×	457 0.9×	318 0.8×	223 0.7×	6	1.5k
Konstantin Radyushkin Germany	25	1.1k 1.3×	511 0.7×	762 1.6×	285 0.7×	644 2.0×	43	2.7k
Mi‐Hyeon Jang United States	20	1.6k 1.9×	726 1.0×	630 1.3×	246 0.6×	227 0.7×	45	2.6k
Arantxa Cebrián‐Silla Spain	18	808 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	590 1.2×	402 1.0×	145 0.4×	23	2.0k
Mercedes F. Paredes United States	25	1.4k 1.6×	1.4k 2.0×	1.1k 2.3×	499 1.3×	439 1.4×	42	3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Mayer

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mayer, Simone, et al.. (2025). Constructed growth charts and nutrition for pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 2A. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 68(1). 82–90.

Mayer, Simone, et al.. (2025). Establishing In-vivo brain microdialysis for comparing concentrations of a variety of cortical neurotransmitters in the awake rhesus macaque between different cognitive states. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 415. 110361–110361.

Hauser, Stefan, Lucia Laugwitz, Samuel Groeschel, et al.. (2024). Human organoid model of pontocerebellar hypoplasia 2a recapitulates brain region-specific size differences. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 17(7). 5 indexed citations

Mayer, Simone, et al.. (2023). Pluripotent stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells can be used to model effects of IL-6 on human neurodevelopment. Disease Models & Mechanisms. 16(11). 4 indexed citations

Mayer, Simone, et al.. (2023). Human brain organoid model of maternal immune activation identifies radial glia cells as selectively vulnerable. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(12). 5077–5089. 27 indexed citations

Velmeshev, Dmitry, Yonatan Perez, Zihan Yan, et al.. (2023). Single-cell analysis of prenatal and postnatal human cortical development. Science. 382(6667). eadf0834–eadf0834. 69 indexed citations

Mayer, Simone, et al.. (2021). The Effects of Environmental Adversities on Human Neocortical Neurogenesis Modeled in Brain Organoids. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 8. 686410–686410. 21 indexed citations

Mayer, Simone, Madeleine Fink, Norbert Schäffeler, et al.. (2021). Hope and Distress Are Not Associated With the Brain Tumor Stage. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 642345–642345. 4 indexed citations

Crouch, Elizabeth E., et al.. (2020). Human organoids to model the developing human neocortex in health and disease. Brain Research. 1742. 146803–146803. 11 indexed citations

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Kilisch, Markus, et al.. (2020). A GTPase-induced switch in phospholipid affinity of collybistin contributes to synaptic gephyrin clustering. Journal of Cell Science. 133(2). 8 indexed citations

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Velmeshev, Dmitry, Lucas Schirmer, Maximilian Haeussler, et al.. (2019). Single-cell genomics identifies cell type–specific molecular changes in autism. Science. 364(6441). 685–689. 506 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mayer, Simone, et al.. (2019). Single-cell RNA-Sequencing in Neuroscience. 25(4). 251–258. 4 indexed citations

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Sorrells, Shawn F., Mercedes F. Paredes, Dmitry Velmeshev, et al.. (2019). Immature excitatory neurons develop during adolescence in the human amygdala. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2748–2748. 97 indexed citations

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Iakovakis, Dimitrios, José Alves Diniz, Dhaval Trivedi, et al.. (2019). Early Parkinson’s Disease Detection via Touchscreen Typing Analysis using Convolutional Neural Networks. PubMed. 2019. 3535–3538. 18 indexed citations

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Sorrells, Shawn F., Mercedes F. Paredes, Arantxa Cebrián‐Silla, et al.. (2018). Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults. Nature. 555(7696). 377–381. 967 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mayer, Simone, Martin Teufel, Ulrike Keim, et al.. (2017). The need for psycho-oncological support for melanoma patients. Medicine. 96(37). e7987–e7987. 12 indexed citations

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Forschner, Andrea, Maximilian Gassenmaier, Lukas Kofler, et al.. (2017). The demand for psycho-oncological support in 820 melanoma patients: What are the determinants for the development of distress?. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 35(15_suppl). 9514–9514. 2 indexed citations

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Mayer, Simone, Rohit Kumar, Mamta Jaiswal, et al.. (2013). Collybistin activation by GTP-TC10 enhances postsynaptic gephyrin clustering and hippocampal GABAergic neurotransmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(51). 20795–20800. 36 indexed citations

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Raulf, Monika, et al.. (2008). IgG-Antikörper als Expositionsmarker bei Getreidearbeitern. Allergologie. 31(11). 484–486.

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Lesch, Klaus‐Peter, et al.. (1990). 5-HT1A receptor responsivity in unipolar depression Evaluation of ipsapirone-induced ACTH and cortisol secretion in patients and controls. Biological Psychiatry. 28(7). 620–628. 141 indexed citations

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