Simon Mead

45.9k citations

201 papers · 9.9k · 3 hit papers · h-index 53

Impact in

Neurology top 0.1%
- Neurological diseases and metabolism
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
Physiology top 0.5%
- Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Papers in

Molecular Biology 136
- Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding 128
- RNA regulation and disease 8
Neurology 58
- Neurological diseases and metabolism 57
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research 26
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments 9

Co-authors: John Collinge (100 shared papers)Jonathan D. Rohrer (31 shared papers)Nick C. Fox (32 shared papers)Tamás Révész (15 shared papers)Martin N. Rossor (27 shared papers)Jason D. Warren (27 shared papers)Peter Rudge (45 shared papers)Jon Beck (20 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (17 papers)Brain (12 papers)Neurobiology of Aging (11 papers)Acta Neuropathologica (9 papers)Neurology (8 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Australia

In The Last Decade

Simon Mead

195 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Simon Mead's Hit Papers

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Biomarkers and diagnostic guidelines for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 2021 · 189 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 The Lancet Neurology
2016 Neurology
2016 Neurology

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1	A stop-codon mutation in the BRI gene associated with familial British dementia Nature ·Rubén Vidal, Blas Frangione, Agueda Rostagno, Simon Mead, Tamás Révész, Gordon T. Plant, Jorge Ghiso	1999	406
2	Prevalence, characteristics, and survival of frontotemporal lobar degeneration syndromes Neurology ·Ian Coyle‐Gilchrist, Katrina M. Dick, Karalyn Patterson, Patricia Vázquez Rodríquez, Eileen Wehmann, Alicia Wilcox, Claire J. Lansdall, Kate Dawson, Julie Wiggins, Simon Mead, Carol Brayne, James B. Rowe Hit paper breakdown →	2016	363
3	The heritability and genetics of frontotemporal lobar degeneration Neurology ·Jonathan D. Rohrer, Rita Guerreiro, Jana Vandrovcová, James Uphill, David Reiman, Jon Beck, Adrian M. Isaacs, Astrid Authier, Raffaele Ferrari, Nick C. Fox, Ian R. Mackenzie, Jason D. Warren, R. De Silva, Janice L. Holton, Tamás Révész, John Hardy, Simon Mead, Martin N. Rossor	2009	343
4	Frontotemporal dementia with the C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat expansion: clinical, neuroanatomical and neuropathological features Brain ·Colin Mahoney, Jon Beck, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Tammaryn Lashley, Kin Y. Mok, Timothy J. Shakespeare, T. Yeatman, Elizabeth K. Warrington, Jonathan M. Schott, Nick C. Fox, Martin N. Rossor, John Hardy, J. Collinge, Tamás Révész, Simon Mead, Jason D. Warren	2012	340
5	Serum neurofilament light chain protein is a measure of disease intensity in frontotemporal dementia Neurology ·Jonathan D. Rohrer, Ione Woollacott, Katrina M. Dick, Emilie Brotherhood, Elizabeth Gordón, Alexander D. Fellows, Jamie Toombs, Ronald Druyeh, M. Jorge Cardoso, Sébastien Ourselin, Jennifer M. Nicholas, Niklas Norgren, Simon Mead, Ulf Andréasson, Kaj Blennow, Jonathan M. Schott, Nick C. Fox, Jason D. Warren, Henrik Zetterberg Hit paper breakdown →	2016	331
6	Balancing Selection at the Prion Protein Gene Consistent with Prehistoric Kurulike Epidemics Science ·Simon Mead, Michael P. H. Stumpf, Jerome Whitfield, Jonathan Beck, Mark Poulter, Tracy Campbell, James B. Uphill, David B. Goldstein, Michael P. Alpers, Elizabeth Fisher, John Collinge	2003	301
7	Kuru in the 21st century—an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation periods The Lancet ·John Collinge, Jerome Whitfield, Edward McKintosh, John S. Beck, Simon Mead, Dafydd J. Thomas, Michael P. Alpers	2006	281
8	Clinical and neuroanatomical signatures of tissue pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration Brain ·Jonathan D. Rohrer, Tammaryn Lashley, Jonathan M. Schott, Jason D. Warren, Simon Mead, Adrian M. Isaacs, J. Beck, John Hardy, Rohan de Silva, Elizabeth K. Warrington, Claire Troakes, Safa Al‐Sarraj, Andrew King, Barbara Borroni, Matthew J. Clarkson, Sébastien Ourselin, Janice L. Holton, Nick C. Fox, T. Révész, Martin N. Rossor	2011	267
9	Prion disease genetics European Journal of Human Genetics ·Simon Mead	2006	248
10	Progressive logopenic/phonological aphasia: Erosion of the language network NeuroImage ·Jonathan D. Rohrer, Gerard R. Ridgway, Sebastian J. Crutch, Julia C. Hailstone, Johanna C. Goll, Matthew J. Clarkson, Simon Mead, Jonathan Beck, Cath Mummery, Sébastien Ourselin, Elizabeth K. Warrington, Martin N. Rossor, Jason D. Warren	2009	219
11	Prevalent abnormal prion protein in human appendixes after bovine spongiform encephalopathy epizootic: large scale survey BMJ ·O Nöel Gill, Y. I. Spencer, Angela Richard-Loendt, Carole Kelly, Reza Dabaghian, L. Boyes, Jacqueline M. Linehan, Marion M. Simmons, Paul B. Webb, Peter Bellerby, Nick Andrews, David A. Hilton, James W. Ironside, J. Beck, Mark Poulter, Simon Mead, Sebastian Brandner	2013	216
12	Serum neurofilament light in familial Alzheimer disease Neurology ·Philip S.J. Weston, Teresa Poole, Natalie S. Ryan, Akshay Gopinathan Nair, Yuying Liang, Kirsty Macpherson, Ronald Druyeh, Ian B. Malone, R. Laila Ahsan, Hugh Pemberton, Jana Klímová, Simon Mead, Kaj Blennow, Martin N. Rossor, Jonathan M. Schott, Henrik Zetterberg, Nick C. Fox	2017	201
13	Biomarkers and diagnostic guidelines for sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease The Lancet Neurology ·Péter Hermann, Brian S. Appleby, Jean‐Philippe Brandel, Byron Caughey, Steven Collins, Michael D. Geschwind, Alison Green, Stéphane Haı̈k, Gábor G. Kovács, Anna Ladogana, Franc Llorens, Simon Mead, Noriyuki Nishida, Suvankar Pal, Piero Parchi, Maurizio Pocchiari, Katsuya Satoh, Gianluigi Zanusso, Inga Zerr Hit paper breakdown →	2021	189
14	A distinct clinical, neuropsychological and radiological phenotype is associated with progranulin gene mutations in a large UK series Brain ·Jon Beck, Jonathan D. Rohrer, T. Campbell, Adrian M. Isaacs, Karen Morrison, Gerald Goodall, Elizabeth K. Warrington, J. Stevens, T. Révész, Janice L. Holton, Safa Al‐Sarraj, Anna E. King, Rachael I. Scahill, Jason D. Warren, Nick C. Fox, Martin N. Rossor, John Collinge, Simon Mead	2008	182
15	C9orf72 expansions in frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis The Lancet Neurology ·Jonathan D. Rohrer, Adrian M. Isaacs, Sarah Mizielinska, Simon Mead, Tammaryn Lashley, Selina Wray, Katie Sidle, Pietro Fratta, Richard W. Orrell, John Hardy, Janice L. Holton, Tamás Révész, Martin N. Rossor, Jason D. Warren	2015	177
16	Distinct profiles of brain atrophy in frontotemporal lobar degeneration caused by progranulin and tau mutations NeuroImage ·Jonathan D. Rohrer, Gerard R. Ridgway, Marc Modat, Sébastien Ourselin, Simon Mead, Nick C. Fox, Martin N. Rossor, Jason D. Warren	2010	177
17	Detection of prion infection in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: a blood-based assay The Lancet ·Julie Ann Edgeworth, Michael Farmer, Anita Sicilia, Paul Tavares, Jonathan Beck, Tracy Campbell, Jessica Lowe, Simon Mead, Peter Rudge, John Collinge, Graham S. Jackson	2011	150
18	C9orf72 expansions are the most common genetic cause of Huntington disease phenocopies Neurology ·Davina J. Hensman Moss, Mark Poulter, Jon Beck, Jason Hehir, James M. Polke, Tracy Campbell, Garry Adamson, Ese Mudanohwo, Peter McColgan, Andrea Haworth, Edward J. Wild, Mary G. Sweeney, Henry Houlden, Simon Mead, Sarah J. Tabrizi	2013	147
19	Clinical phenotype and genetic associations in autosomal dominant familial Alzheimer’s disease: a case series The Lancet Neurology ·Natalie S. Ryan, Jennifer M. Nicholas, Philip S.J. Weston, Yuying Liang, Tammaryn Lashley, Rita Guerreiro, Gary Adamson, Janna Kenny, Jon Beck, Lucía Chávez‐Gutiérrez, Bart De Strooper, Tamás Révész, Janice L. Holton, Simon Mead, Martin N. Rossor, Nick C. Fox	2016	147
20	Review: An update on clinical, genetic and pathological aspects of frontotemporal lobar degenerations Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology ·Tammaryn Lashley, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Simon Mead, Tamás Révész	2015	140

About Simon Mead

Simon Mead is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology, Neurology, Physiology and Nutrition and Dietetics, having authored 201 papers that have together received 9.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding (128 papers), Neurological diseases and metabolism (57 papers), Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (33 papers), Trace Elements in Health (30 papers), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (26 papers), Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (11 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (9 papers) and RNA regulation and disease (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Neurology (2.8k citations), Neurology (3.0k citations), Physiology (2.5k citations), Psychiatry and Mental health (1.0k citations) and Molecular Biology (5.1k citations). Simon Mead has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include John Collinge, Jonathan D. Rohrer, Nick C. Fox, Tamás Révész, Martin N. Rossor, Jason D. Warren, Peter Rudge, Jon Beck, Jonathan M. Schott and Tammaryn Lashley. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Brain, Neurobiology of Aging, Acta Neuropathologica and Neurology.

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