Viesturs Simanis

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
91 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Viesturs Simanis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Viesturs Simanis has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Molecular Biology, 58 papers in Cell Biology and 16 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Viesturs Simanis's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (68 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (57 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (17 papers). Viesturs Simanis is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (68 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (57 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (17 papers). Viesturs Simanis collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and France. Viesturs Simanis's co-authors include Christian Fankhauser, Paul Nurse, Andrea Krapp, Marc Sohrmann, David P. Lane, Lorenzo Cerutti, Susanne Schmidt, Alexandre Reymond, Iain Hagan and Xavier Le Goff and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Viesturs Simanis

91 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Guide to yeast genetics and molecular biology

1992 962 citations Viesturs Simanis Trends in Cell Biology profile →
The cell cycle control gene cdc2+ of fission yeast encodes a protein kinase potentially regulated by phosphorylation

1986 438 citations Viesturs Simanis, Paul Nurse profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Viesturs Simanis Switzerland	40	5.7k	3.5k	1.0k	608	432	91	6.5k
Trisha N. Davis United States	47	6.2k 1.1×	3.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	327 0.5×	201 0.5×	133	7.2k
Christine M. Field United States	35	4.2k 0.7×	4.0k 1.1×	546 0.5×	301 0.5×	432 1.0×	57	5.9k
Marie Evangelista United States	29	5.7k 1.0×	2.5k 0.7×	412 0.4×	225 0.4×	323 0.7×	42	7.2k
Yves Barral Switzerland	41	5.5k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	807 0.8×	356 0.6×	348 0.8×	96	6.2k
Kelly Tatchell United States	50	6.6k 1.2×	1.8k 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	542 0.9×	135 0.3×	88	7.1k
Kathryn R. Ayscough United Kingdom	35	3.4k 0.6×	2.5k 0.7×	470 0.5×	237 0.4×	330 0.8×	79	4.9k
Margaret Coughlin United States	24	3.0k 0.5×	2.8k 0.8×	332 0.3×	300 0.5×	222 0.5×	32	4.6k
Daniel J. Lew United States	51	7.6k 1.3×	4.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	563 0.9×	345 0.8×	115	8.6k
Kazuma Tanaka Japan	42	4.4k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	834 0.8×	269 0.4×	226 0.5×	110	5.7k
Kerry Bloom United States	60	8.8k 1.5×	5.8k 1.6×	3.2k 3.1×	285 0.5×	147 0.3×	203	10.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hagan, Iain, Ágnes Grallert, & Viesturs Simanis. (2016). Analysis of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Cell Cycle. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2016(9). pdb.top082800–pdb.top082800. 14 indexed citations

Hagan, Iain, Ágnes Grallert, & Viesturs Simanis. (2016). Cell Cycle Synchronization of Schizosaccharomyces pombe by Lactose Gradient Centrifugation to Isolate Small Cells. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2016(6). pdb.prot091249–pdb.prot091249. 2 indexed citations

Schmitter, Daniel, Daniel Sage, Anastasia Chasapi, et al.. (2013). A 2D/3D image analysis system to track fluorescently labeled structures in rod-shaped cells: application to measure spindle pole asymmetry during mitosis. Cell Division. 8(1). 6–6. 12 indexed citations

Grallert, Ágnes, Avinash Patel, Víctor A. Tallada, et al.. (2012). Centrosomal MPF triggers the mitotic and morphogenetic switches of fission yeast. Nature Cell Biology. 15(1). 88–95. 60 indexed citations

Grallert, Ágnes, Yvonne Connolly, Duncan L. Smith, Viesturs Simanis, & Iain Hagan. (2012). The S. pombe cytokinesis NDR kinase Sid2 activates Fin1 NIMA kinase to control mitotic commitment through Pom1/Wee1. Nature Cell Biology. 14(7). 738–745. 38 indexed citations

Lattmann, Evelyn, Andrea Krapp, & Viesturs Simanis. (2009). Cytokinesis: Closure Resets Your SIN. Current Biology. 19(22). R1040–R1042. 7 indexed citations

Krapp, Andrea, Susanne Schmidt, Elena Cano, & Viesturs Simanis. (2001). S. pombe cdc11p, together with sid4p, provides an anchor for septation initiation network proteins on the spindle pole body. Current Biology. 11(20). 1559–1568. 90 indexed citations

Goff, Xavier Le, et al.. (2001). The protein phosphatase 2A B′‐regulatory subunit par1p is implicated in regulation of the S. pombe septation initiation network. FEBS Letters. 508(1). 136–142. 39 indexed citations

Salimova, Ekaterina, et al.. (2000). The S. pombe sep1 gene encodes a nuclear protein that is required for periodic expression of the cdc15 gene. FEBS Letters. 481(2). 105–108. 33 indexed citations

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Fankhauser, Christian, et al.. (2000). Periodic accumulation of cdc15 mRNA is not necessary for septation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Journal of Molecular Biology. 302(4). 751–759. 4 indexed citations

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Samuel, Jane, Nadine Fournier, Viesturs Simanis, & Jonathan Millar. (2000). spo12 is a multicopy suppressor of mcs3 that is periodically expressed in fission yeast mitosis. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 264(3). 306–316. 8 indexed citations

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Mundt, Kirsten, Joanne Porte, Johanne M. Murray, et al.. (1999). The COP9/signalosome complex is conserved in fission yeast and has a role in S phase. Current Biology. 9(23). 1427–1433. 124 indexed citations

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Sohrmann, Marc, Susanne Schmidt, Iain Hagan, & Viesturs Simanis. (1998). Asymmetric segregation on spindle poles of theSchizosaccharomyces pombeseptum-inducing protein kinase Cdc7p. Genes & Development. 12(1). 84–94. 165 indexed citations

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Fankhauser, Christian & Viesturs Simanis. (1994). Cold fission: splitting the pombe cell at room temperature. Trends in Cell Biology. 4(3). 96–101. 34 indexed citations

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Fankhauser, Christian & Viesturs Simanis. (1993). The Schizosaccharomyces pombe cdc14 gene is required for septum formation and can also inhibit nuclear division.. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 4(5). 531–539. 68 indexed citations

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Reymond, Alexandre & Viesturs Simanis. (1993). Domains of p85^cdc10required for function of the fission yeast DSC-1 factor. Nucleic Acids Research. 21(16). 3615–3621. 10 indexed citations

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Marks, John W. & Viesturs Simanis. (1992). Cloning of the gene for ribosomal protein S13 from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces Pombe. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(15). 4094–4094. 10 indexed citations

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Reymond, Alexandre, Susanne Schmidt, & Viesturs Simanis. (1992). Mutations in the cdc10 start gene of Schizosaccbaromyces pombe implicate the region of homology between cdc10 and SWl6 as important for p85cdc10 function. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 234(3). 449–456. 34 indexed citations

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Simanis, Viesturs, Jacqueline Hayles, & Paul Nurse. (1987). Control over the onset of DNA synthesis in fission yeast. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 317(1187). 507–516. 5 indexed citations

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Lane, David P., et al.. (1985). Cellular targets for SV40 Large T-antigen. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 226(1242). 25–42. 24 indexed citations

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