Akio Kitao

5.5k total citations
135 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Akio Kitao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Akio Kitao has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Molecular Biology, 48 papers in Materials Chemistry and 31 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Akio Kitao's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (91 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (42 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (28 papers). Akio Kitao is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (91 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (42 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (28 papers). Akio Kitao collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Akio Kitao's co-authors include Nobuhiro Gō, Steven Hayward, Fumio Hirata, Kazuhiro Takemura, Ryuhei Harada, Duy Phuoc Tran, Herman J. C. Berendsen, Yuji Sugita, Yasumasa Joti and Keiichi Namba and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Akio Kitao

129 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Akio Kitao Japan 32 3.4k 1.2k 962 722 402 135 4.3k
Katherine A. Henzler‐Wildman United States 22 4.6k 1.4× 1.5k 1.2× 574 0.6× 944 1.3× 472 1.2× 51 5.8k
Asim Okur United States 14 5.5k 1.6× 1.6k 1.3× 881 0.9× 809 1.1× 322 0.8× 17 7.1k
Florence Tama Japan 34 3.5k 1.0× 1.6k 1.3× 701 0.7× 347 0.5× 277 0.7× 92 4.8k
Willy Wriggers United States 37 4.6k 1.4× 1.8k 1.5× 852 0.9× 467 0.6× 792 2.0× 95 6.5k
Kim Palmö United States 18 3.7k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 785 0.8× 657 0.9× 279 0.7× 43 5.4k
Gunnar F. Schröder Germany 41 5.0k 1.5× 1.2k 1.0× 483 0.5× 538 0.7× 731 1.8× 87 7.4k
Alessandro Barducci Switzerland 30 3.9k 1.1× 1.5k 1.2× 986 1.0× 523 0.7× 257 0.6× 60 5.8k
Shoji Takada Japan 41 5.3k 1.6× 2.3k 1.9× 1.1k 1.1× 711 1.0× 432 1.1× 141 6.3k
Steven Hayward United Kingdom 31 3.0k 0.9× 2.0k 1.6× 556 0.6× 402 0.6× 274 0.7× 79 4.2k
Vincent J. Hilser United States 38 5.0k 1.5× 2.0k 1.6× 453 0.5× 785 1.1× 477 1.2× 97 5.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Akio Kitao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Akio Kitao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Akio Kitao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Akio Kitao 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 Kitao. Akio Kitao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Yiwei, Yoshiro Ito, Daisuke Kohda, et al.. (2025). The strategy used by naïve anti-PEG antibodies to capture flexible and featureless PEG chains. Journal of Controlled Release. 380. 396–403. 2 indexed citations
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Matsumoto, Shigeyuki, Ryo Kanada, Biao Ma, et al.. (2025). Precision spatiotemporal analysis of large-scale compound–protein interactions through molecular dynamics simulation. PNAS Nexus. 4(3). pgaf094–pgaf094.
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Matsuda, Masaya, et al.. (2025). Essential roles of mechanistic target of rapamycin in the induction of steroid resistance in group 2 innate lymphoid cells and severe asthma. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 392(11). 103744–103744.
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Palmer, Leoni I., et al.. (2025). Interactive Docking Workshop: Docking the Anticancer Drug Belinostat to Its Cellular Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Target. Journal of Chemical Education. 102(6). 2514–2521. 1 indexed citations
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Picard, Louis-Philippe, Duy Phuoc Tran, Shuya Kate Huang, et al.. (2024). Balancing G protein selectivity and efficacy in the adenosine A2A receptor. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(1). 71–79. 9 indexed citations
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Minamino, Tohru, Miki Kinoshita, Yumi Inoue, Akio Kitao, & Keiichi Namba. (2022). Conserved GYXLI Motif of FlhA Is Involved in Dynamic Domain Motions of FlhA Required for Flagellar Protein Export. Microbiology Spectrum. 10(4). e0111022–e0111022. 7 indexed citations
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Abe, Satoshi, Tadaomi Furuta, Duy Phuoc Tran, et al.. (2022). Engineering of an in-cell protein crystal for fastening a metastable conformation of a target miniprotein. Biomaterials Science. 11(4). 1350–1357. 4 indexed citations
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Tran, Duy Phuoc, et al.. (2019). Enhancing Biomolecular Sampling with Reinforcement Learning: A Tree Search Molecular Dynamics Simulation Method. ACS Omega. 4(9). 13853–13862. 22 indexed citations
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Terayama, Kei, et al.. (2019). evERdock BAI: Machine-learning-guided selection of protein-protein complex structure. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 151(21). 215104–215104. 8 indexed citations
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Hanawa‐Suetsugu, Kyoko, Yuzuru Itoh, Tamako Nishimura, et al.. (2019). Phagocytosis is mediated by two-dimensional assemblies of the F-BAR protein GAS7. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4763–4763. 25 indexed citations
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Takemura, Kazuhiro & Akio Kitao. (2019). More efficient screening of protein-protein complex model structures for reducing the number of candidates. Biophysics and Physicobiology. 16(0). 295–303. 3 indexed citations
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Takemura, Kazuhiro, Nobuyuki Matubayasi, & Akio Kitao. (2018). Binding free energy analysis of protein-protein docking model structures by evERdock. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 148(10). 105101–105101. 16 indexed citations
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Takemura, Kazuhiro, et al.. (2018). Refining evERdock: Improved selection of good protein-protein complex models achieved by MD optimization and use of multiple conformations. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 149(19). 195101–195101. 15 indexed citations
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Kitao, Akio, et al.. (2017). High quality rendering of protein dynamics in space filling mode. Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling. 78. 158–167. 4 indexed citations
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Otani, Yuko, Satoshi Watanabe, Tomohiko Ohwada, & Akio Kitao. (2016). Molecular Dynamics Study of Nitrogen-Pyramidalized Bicyclic β-Proline Oligomers: Length-Dependent Convergence to Organized Structures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121(1). 100–109. 8 indexed citations
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Yang, Lee‐Wei, et al.. (2014). Ligand-Induced Protein Responses and Mechanical Signal Propagation Described by Linear Response Theories. Biophysical Journal. 107(6). 1415–1425. 18 indexed citations
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Kitao, Akio, Koji Yonekura, Saori Maki-Yonekura, et al.. (2006). Switch interactions control energy frustration and multiple flagellar filament structures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(13). 4894–4899. 46 indexed citations
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Nakagawa, Hiroshi, Atsushi Tokuhisa, Hironari Kamikubo, et al.. (2006). Dynamical heterogeneity of protein dynamics studied by elastic incoherent neutron scattering and molecular simulations. Materials Science and Engineering A. 442(1-2). 356–360. 4 indexed citations
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Sugita, Yuji & Akio Kitao. (1998). Improved protein free energy calculation by more accurate treatment of nonbonded energy: Application to chymotrypsin inhibitor 2, V57A. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 30(4). 388–400. 31 indexed citations
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Sugita, Yuji, Akio Kitao, & Nobuhiro Gō. (1998). Computational analysis of thermal stability: effect of Ile→Val mutations in human lysozyme. PubMed. 3(3). 173–181. 13 indexed citations

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