Tom Smith

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Tom Smith is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, General Health Professions and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Smith has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in General Health Professions and 3 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Tom Smith's work include RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers). Tom Smith is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (5 papers). Tom Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Tom Smith's co-authors include Ian Sudbery, Andreas Heger, Kathryn S. Lilley, Anne E. Willis, Rayner M. L. Queiroz, Mariavittoria Pizzinga, Robert F. Harvey, Veronica Dezi, Laraib Malik and Rob Patro and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Tom Smith

28 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

UMI-tools: modeling sequencing errors in Unique Molecular Identifiers to improve quantification accuracy

2017 1.2k citations Tom Smith, Andreas Heger et al. Genome Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Smith United Kingdom	12	1.5k	352	184	137	130	30	2.0k
Liana F. Lareau United States	12	3.0k 2.0×	422 1.2×	147 0.8×	198 1.4×	178 1.4×	15	3.2k
Tari Parmely United States	14	1.4k 0.9×	183 0.5×	236 1.3×	183 1.3×	127 1.0×	20	2.0k
Jean‐François Lucier Canada	19	1.6k 1.0×	218 0.6×	84 0.5×	94 0.7×	336 2.6×	34	2.0k
Rubén Nogales‐Cadenas Spain	17	1.1k 0.7×	399 1.1×	187 1.0×	214 1.6×	97 0.7×	20	1.6k
John LaCava United States	21	2.2k 1.5×	194 0.6×	156 0.8×	109 0.8×	481 3.7×	49	2.5k
Sumio Sugano Japan	15	1.3k 0.9×	147 0.4×	193 1.0×	300 2.2×	133 1.0×	25	1.7k
Oliver Frings Sweden	14	981 0.6×	155 0.4×	163 0.9×	153 1.1×	124 1.0×	20	1.4k
Tatyana Goldberg Germany	15	1.1k 0.7×	102 0.3×	209 1.1×	186 1.4×	150 1.2×	22	1.7k
Sandro J. de Souza Brazil	29	2.2k 1.5×	374 1.1×	239 1.3×	358 2.6×	275 2.1×	118	2.9k
Keiichi Homma Japan	25	1.0k 0.7×	230 0.7×	85 0.5×	100 0.7×	120 0.9×	70	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Smith

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Smith, Tom, Shagun Krishna, Rui Guan, et al.. (2025). Industrial and agricultural chemicals exhibit antimicrobial activity against human gut bacteria in vitro. Nature Microbiology. 10(12). 3107–3121.

Villanueva, Eneko, Tom Smith, Mariavittoria Pizzinga, et al.. (2023). System-wide analysis of RNA and protein subcellular localization dynamics. Nature Methods. 21(1). 60–71. 29 indexed citations

Smith, Tom. (2023). Margin Variance Analysis for Informing Customer Engagement Strategy. 1. 1 indexed citations

Kafkia, Eleni, Amparo Andrés‐Pons, Kerstin Ganter, et al.. (2022). Operation of a TCA cycle subnetwork in the mammalian nucleus. Science Advances. 8(35). eabq5206–eabq5206. 48 indexed citations

Smith, Tom, Eneko Villanueva, Rayner M. L. Queiroz, et al.. (2020). Organic phase separation opens up new opportunities to interrogate the RNA-binding proteome. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 54. 70–75. 22 indexed citations

Alter, George, H. V. Jagadish, Carl Lagoze, et al.. (2020). Provenance metadata for statistical data: An introduction to Structured Data Transformation Language (SDTL). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 44(4). 2 indexed citations

Villanueva, Eneko, Tom Smith, Rayner M. L. Queiroz, et al.. (2020). Efficient recovery of the RNA-bound proteome and protein-bound transcriptome using phase separation (OOPS). Nature Protocols. 15(8). 2568–2588. 16 indexed citations

Srivastava, Avi, Laraib Malik, Tom Smith, Ian Sudbery, & Rob Patro. (2019). Alevin efficiently estimates accurate gene abundances from dscRNA-seq data. Genome biology. 20(1). 65–65. 140 indexed citations

Queiroz, Rayner M. L., Tom Smith, Eneko Villanueva, et al.. (2019). Comprehensive identification of RNA–protein interactions in any organism using orthogonal organic phase separation (OOPS). Nature Biotechnology. 37(2). 169–178. 236 indexed citations

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Geladaki, Aikaterini, Nina Kočevar Britovšek, Lisa M. Breckels, et al.. (2019). Combining LOPIT with differential ultracentrifugation for high-resolution spatial proteomics. Nature Communications. 10(1). 331–331. 133 indexed citations

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Cartier, Jessy, Tom Smith, John P. Thomson, et al.. (2018). Investigation into the role of the germline epigenome in the transmission of glucocorticoid-programmed effects across generations. Genome biology. 19(1). 50–50. 18 indexed citations

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Smith, Tom, Andreas Heger, & Ian Sudbery. (2017). UMI-tools: modeling sequencing errors in Unique Molecular Identifiers to improve quantification accuracy. Genome Research. 27(3). 491–499. 1166 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stamatopoulos, Basile, Adele Timbs, Tom Smith, et al.. (2016). Targeted deep sequencing reveals clinically relevant subclonal IgHV rearrangements in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leukemia. 31(4). 837–845. 37 indexed citations

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Glynn, Barry, et al.. (2007). P1408 Demonstration of the application of the tmRNA transcript of the bacterial ssrA gene as a molecular diagnostic target using a combination of NASBA and BiaCore technologies. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 29. S392–S392. 1 indexed citations

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Kuznetsov, F. A., Yuri F. Makogon, George J. Moridis, et al.. (2007). A Hydrate Database: Vital to the Technical Community. Data Science Journal. 6. GH1–GH5. 6 indexed citations

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Smith, Tom, et al.. (2005). Trials of labour: Can simulation make a difference to obstetric anaesthetic training?. Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care. 16(5). 289–296. 5 indexed citations

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Smith, Tom & Stephen Davies. (2004). Managing University Clinical Partnership. Higher Education Management. 16(2). 63–71. 4 indexed citations

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Smith, Tom. (2004). Culture and incentives conducive to quality and safety in health care. BMJ Quality & Safety. 13(4). 317–320. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Tom. (2003). Towards a more responsive health system?. BMJ Quality & Safety. 12(2). 156–158. 1 indexed citations

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Smith, Tom. (1978). The Surgical Treatment of Endometriosis. Clinics in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 5(3). 557–570. 3 indexed citations

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