Standout 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A single female-specific piRNA is the primary determiner of sex in the silkworm
    2014 369 citations Takashi Kiuchi, Hikaru Koga et al. Nature profile →

Immediate Impact

15 by Nobel laureates 35 from Science/Nature 59 hit
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Citing Papers

Past, present, and future of CRISPR genome editing technologies
2024 Hit
Emerging roles and functional mechanisms of PIWI-interacting RNAs
2022 Hit
18 intermediate papers

Works of Yuji Arai being referenced

A single female-specific piRNA is the primary determiner of sex in the silkworm
2014 HitNature
Zygotic amplification of secondary piRNAs during silkworm embryogenesis
2011
and 1 more

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Yuji Arai 3.1k 1.0k 815 659 528 156 5.4k
Stephen B. Shears 6.3k 2.0× 2.2k 2.2× 409 0.5× 853 1.3× 251 0.5× 216 9.6k
Takayuki Shindo 2.8k 0.9× 1.3k 1.3× 419 0.5× 105 0.2× 314 0.6× 117 5.7k
Masafumi Tsujimoto 6.8k 2.2× 480 0.5× 703 0.9× 311 0.5× 551 1.0× 191 11.0k
Anna Depaoli-Roach 5.9k 1.9× 441 0.4× 1.2k 1.5× 200 0.3× 1.8k 3.5× 133 8.5k
José M.P. Freije 6.1k 2.0× 405 0.4× 683 0.8× 192 0.3× 373 0.7× 97 9.1k
Hiroyoshi Ariga 5.0k 1.6× 310 0.3× 815 1.0× 284 0.4× 138 0.3× 206 9.8k
Jackie R. Vandenheede 5.0k 1.6× 307 0.3× 317 0.4× 185 0.3× 338 0.6× 109 7.3k
Kazunori Imaizumi 4.8k 1.6× 222 0.2× 561 0.7× 343 0.5× 256 0.5× 135 9.4k
Masayoshi Imagawa 6.4k 2.1× 355 0.4× 1.5k 1.9× 449 0.7× 155 0.3× 157 9.3k
T.B. Shows 4.8k 1.5× 290 0.3× 1.6k 1.9× 171 0.3× 261 0.5× 145 7.4k

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