Simpson Joseph

10.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Simpson Joseph is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simpson Joseph has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Simpson Joseph's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (58 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (48 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (28 papers). Simpson Joseph is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (58 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (48 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (28 papers). Simpson Joseph collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Austria. Simpson Joseph's co-authors include Nathan Baker, J. Andrew McCammon, David Sept, Michael Holst, John M. Burke, Sean Studer, Kevin Y. Sanbonmatsu, Chang‐Shung Tung, Alfredo Berzal‐Herranz and Harry F. Noller and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Simpson Joseph

68 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Electrostatics of nanosystems: Application to microtubules and the ribosome

2001 6.1k citations Simpson Joseph et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simpson Joseph United States	29	6.8k	1.2k	852	582	520	70	8.7k
David Eramian United States	7	6.0k 0.9×	813 0.7×	818 1.0×	674 1.2×	488 0.9×	8	8.3k
Ben Webb United States	12	6.9k 1.0×	899 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	689 1.2×	607 1.2×	13	9.5k
M. S. Madhusudhan India	28	6.6k 1.0×	838 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	774 1.3×	547 1.1×	67	9.2k
Dmitrij Frishman Germany	36	6.0k 0.9×	884 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	392 0.7×	417 0.8×	160	7.5k
Lim Heo United States	23	6.1k 0.9×	707 0.6×	899 1.1×	773 1.3×	577 1.1×	38	8.3k
Narayanan Eswar United States	25	8.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	802 1.4×	618 1.2×	52	11.2k
Peter J. Bond Singapore	49	5.2k 0.8×	766 0.7×	519 0.6×	541 0.9×	772 1.5×	197	7.3k
Benjamin Webb United States	19	5.2k 0.8×	608 0.5×	875 1.0×	495 0.9×	427 0.8×	28	7.1k
Barry Robson United Kingdom	31	6.8k 1.0×	868 0.8×	1.3k 1.6×	499 0.9×	570 1.1×	135	9.1k
Michael C. Lawrence Australia	48	4.5k 0.7×	770 0.7×	902 1.1×	638 1.1×	392 0.8×	106	8.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Simpson Joseph

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simpson Joseph

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20 of 20 papers shown

Joseph, Simpson, et al.. (2025). FRACTIONAL-ORDER DENGUE VIRUS MODEL WITH VECTOR AND NON-VECTOR TRANSMISSION: BIFURCATION ANALYSIS AND MEMORY EFFECTS. FUDMA Journal of Sciences. 9(4). 53–65.

Joseph, Simpson, et al.. (2021). The Fragile X Proteins Differentially Regulate Translation of Reporter mRNAs with G-quadruplex Structures. Journal of Molecular Biology. 434(2). 167396–167396. 4 indexed citations

Biswas, Tapan, et al.. (2021). Discovery of a pre-mRNA structural scaffold as a contributor to the mammalian splicing code. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(12). 7103–7121. 6 indexed citations

Brea, Roberto J., Sudip Pandey, Sönke Seifert, et al.. (2021). Controlling Protein Enrichment in Lipid Sponge Phase Droplets using SNAP‐Tag Bioconjugation. ChemBioChem. 23(5). e202100624–e202100624. 4 indexed citations

Joseph, Simpson, et al.. (2020). The Human Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein Inhibits the Elongation Step of Translation through Its RGG and C-Terminal Domains. Biochemistry. 59(40). 3813–3822. 10 indexed citations

Xu, Mingzhi, et al.. (2020). A simple procedure for bacterial expression and purification of the fragile X protein family. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 15858–15858. 5 indexed citations

Joseph, Simpson, et al.. (2020). RNA-Binding Specificity of the Human Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein. Journal of Molecular Biology. 432(13). 3851–3868. 19 indexed citations

Hoernes, Thomas Philipp, Klaus Faserl, Michael Andreas Juen, et al.. (2018). Translation of non-standard codon nucleotides reveals minimal requirements for codon-anticodon interactions. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4865–4865. 34 indexed citations

Joseph, Simpson, et al.. (2015). Fragile X mental retardation protein: A paradigm for translational control by RNA-binding proteins. Biochimie. 114. 147–154. 46 indexed citations

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Sharma, Manjuli R., et al.. (2014). Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein Regulates Translation by Binding Directly to the Ribosome. Molecular Cell. 54(3). 407–417. 181 indexed citations

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Khade, Prashant K. & Simpson Joseph. (2009). Functional interactions by transfer RNAs in the ribosome. FEBS Letters. 584(2). 420–426. 18 indexed citations

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Studer, Sean & Simpson Joseph. (2007). Binding of mRNA to the Bacterial Translation Initiation Complex. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 430. 31–44. 9 indexed citations

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Joseph, Simpson, et al.. (2006). The A-site Finger in 23 S rRNA Acts as a Functional Attenuator for Translocation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(43). 32303–32309. 58 indexed citations

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Sanbonmatsu, Kevin Y., Simpson Joseph, & Chang‐Shung Tung. (2005). Simulating movement of tRNA into the ribosome during decoding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(44). 15854–15859. 220 indexed citations

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Joseph, Simpson, et al.. (2005). Non-bridging Phosphate Oxygen Atoms within the tRNA Anticodon Stem-loop are Essential for Ribosomal A Site Binding and Translocation. Journal of Molecular Biology. 349(2). 288–301. 7 indexed citations

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Małkiewicz, Andrzej, et al.. (2004). Modified Nucleotides in tRNALys and tRNAVal are Important for Translocation. Journal of Molecular Biology. 338(3). 439–444. 58 indexed citations

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Joseph, Simpson. (2003). After the ribosome structure: How does translocation work?: FIGURE 1.. RNA. 9(2). 160–164. 26 indexed citations

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Joseph, Simpson, et al.. (2002). Universally Conserved Interactions between the Ribosome and the Anticodon Stem-Loop of A Site tRNA Important for Translocation. Molecular Cell. 10(4). 799–807. 43 indexed citations

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Joseph, Simpson & Harry F. Noller. (2000). [13] Directed hydroxyl radical probing using iron(II) tethered to RNA. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 318. 175–190. 18 indexed citations

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Joseph, Simpson. (1998). EF-G-catalyzed translocation of anticodon stem-loop analogs of transfer RNA in the ribosome. The EMBO Journal. 17(12). 3478–3483. 97 indexed citations

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