Akio Kihara

23.3k citations
168 papers · 10.6k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 55
Topics
Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling (68 papers)Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (41 papers)Cellular transport and secretion (37 papers)

In The Last Decade

Akio Kihara

164 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers

Akio Kihara
Comparison fields: 5 of 138
  • Molecular Biology 7.5k
  • Cell Biology 3.1k
  • Epidemiology 1.9k
  • Physiology 1.3k
  • Biochemistry 1.3k
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Fields of papers citing papers by Akio Kihara

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Akio Kihara

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Akio Kihara. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Akio Kihara based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Akio Kihara. Akio Kihara is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Hetero-oligomeric interactions of an ELOVL4 mutant protein: implications in the molecular mechanism of Stargardt-3 macular dystrophy.
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About Akio Kihara

Akio Kihara is a scholar working on Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Pharmaceutical Science, having authored 168 papers that have together received 10.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling (68 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (41 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (37 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cell Biology (3.1k citations), Biochemistry (1.3k citations) and Molecular Biology (7.5k citations). Akio Kihara has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, United States and South Korea. Frequent co-authors include Yasuyuki Igarashi, Yoshinori Ohsumi, Yusuke Ohno, Yukiko Mizutani, Takayuki Sassa, Koreaki Ito, Takeshi Noda, Naotada Ishihara, Yoshinori Akiyama and Tamotsu Yoshimori. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

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