Akira Honda

10.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
270 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Akira Honda is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Akira Honda has authored 270 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Molecular Biology, 85 papers in Surgery and 53 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Akira Honda's work include Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (63 papers), Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (44 papers) and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (31 papers). Akira Honda is often cited by papers focused on Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism (63 papers), Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms (44 papers) and Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (31 papers). Akira Honda collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Akira Honda's co-authors include Tadashi Ikegami, Yasushi Matsuzaki, Teruo Miyazaki, Julie G. Donaldson, Sarah Shefer, Guorong Xu, Ryuji Inoue, Gerald Salen, Junichi Iwamoto and Takeshi Hirayama and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Akira Honda

261 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Phosphatidylinositol 4-Phosphate 5-Kinase α Is a Downstream Effector of the Small G Protein ARF6 in Membrane Ruffle Formation

1999 687 citations Akira Honda et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Akira Honda Japan	43	3.6k	2.1k	1.2k	1.1k	852	270	7.6k
Shing‐Hwa Liu Taiwan	57	4.1k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	912 0.8×	819 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	404	11.9k
Yoshiro Saito Japan	51	3.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	806 0.7×	503 0.5×	1.3k 1.5×	306	10.4k
Judith A. Clements Australia	72	4.4k 1.2×	2.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	2.4k 2.3×	848 1.0×	329	17.5k
Shao Hui Huang Canada	50	3.3k 0.9×	3.1k 1.5×	659 0.6×	2.2k 2.1×	785 0.9×	290	11.0k
Masaaki Takahashi Japan	46	3.4k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	623 0.5×	866 0.8×	1.5k 1.7×	329	9.9k
Yunzeng Zou China	61	7.1k 2.0×	1.8k 0.9×	863 0.7×	849 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	307	13.0k
Weijun Qian United States	63	8.0k 2.2×	1.2k 0.6×	763 0.7×	790 0.7×	870 1.0×	312	13.3k
Hiroyuki Suzuki Japan	56	5.4k 1.5×	1.3k 0.6×	699 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	785 0.9×	382	11.6k
Jeffrey G. McDonald United States	43	4.2k 1.2×	2.8k 1.3×	546 0.5×	1.5k 1.4×	892 1.0×	126	8.2k
Thomas Kietzmann Germany	50	5.7k 1.6×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	876 0.8×	1.7k 2.0×	177	10.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Akira Honda

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Takeuchi, Akihito, Masanori Abe, Sachiko Furukawa, et al.. (2025). Validation of PBC‐10 in Japanese patients with primary biliary cholangitis. Hepatology Research. 55(7). 986–993.

Honda, Akira, M. Yamashita, Hidenao Noritake, et al.. (2024). High-fat diet modulates bile acid composition and gut microbiota, affecting severe cholangitis and cirrhotic change in murine primary biliary cholangitis. Journal of Autoimmunity. 148. 103287–103287. 1 indexed citations

Tsuruya, Kota, Takuma Araki, Masato Ohtsuka, et al.. (2024). Abcb4-defect cholangitis mouse model with hydrophobic bile acid composition by in vivo liver-specific gene deletion. Journal of Lipid Research. 65(9). 100616–100616. 2 indexed citations

Aoi, Wataru, Teruhide Koyama, Akira Honda, Tomohisa Takagi, & Yuji Naito. (2024). Association of Serum Bile Acid Profile with Diet and Physical Activity Habits in Japanese Middle-Aged Men. Nutrients. 16(19). 3381–3381. 2 indexed citations

Suzuki, Fumio, Shiori Amemiya, Hiroyuki Ishiura, et al.. (2023). A case of intravascular lymphoma presenting with a lesion in the splenium of the corpus callosum. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 18(5). 1929–1932. 1 indexed citations

Chu, Po–Sung, Nobuhiro Nakamoto, Yuya Hagihara, et al.. (2023). Myeloid TLR4 signaling promotes post-injury withdrawal resolution of murine liver fibrosis. iScience. 26(3). 106220–106220. 7 indexed citations

Mitsutake, Akihiko, Takashi Matsukawa, Atsushi Iwata, et al.. (2023). Favorable outcome of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in late-onset Krabbe disease. Brain and Development. 45(7). 408–412. 4 indexed citations

Bamba, Shigeki, Osamu Inatomi, Atsushi Nishida, et al.. (2021). Relationship between the gut microbiota and bile acid composition in the ileal mucosa of Crohn’s disease. Intestinal Research. 20(3). 370–380. 19 indexed citations

Yasukawa, Zenta, Ryo Inoüe, Makoto Ozeki, et al.. (2019). Effect of Repeated Consumption of Partially Hydrolyzed Guar Gum on Fecal Characteristics and Gut Microbiota: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, and Parallel-Group Clinical Trial. Nutrients. 11(9). 2170–2170. 55 indexed citations

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Nagasaka, Hironori, Haruki Komatsu, Ayano Inui, et al.. (2016). Circulating tricarboxylic acid cycle metabolite levels in citrin-deficient children with metabolic adaptation, with and without sodium pyruvate treatment. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism. 120(3). 207–212. 14 indexed citations

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Ito, Yushi, Junzo Watada, Masahiro Nakano, et al.. (2015). Effects of hot pack treatment on serum cortisol and lactate in students preparing for the national license examination. ICIC express letters. Part B, Applications. 6(5). 1329–1335. 1 indexed citations

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Uchida, Toyoyoshi, Hiromasa Goto, Takatoshi Kasai, et al.. (2014). Therapeutic effectiveness of potassium iodine in drug-naïve patients with Graves’ disease: a single-center experience. Endocrine. 47(2). 506–511. 28 indexed citations

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Honda, Akira, Teruo Miyazaki, Tadashi Ikegami, et al.. (2011). Cholesterol 25-hydroxylation activity of CYP3A. Journal of Lipid Research. 52(8). 1509–1516. 94 indexed citations

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Honda, Akira, Kouwa Yamashita, Tadashi Ikegami, et al.. (2009). Highly sensitive quantification of serum malonate, a possible marker for de novo lipogenesis, by LC-ESI-MS/MS. Journal of Lipid Research. 50(10). 2124–2130. 20 indexed citations

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Takami, Noboru, et al.. (2008). Genomic and non-genomic action of estrogen in the mouse skeletal muscle cells.. 69–69. 1 indexed citations

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Takahashi, Shinichi, Yasuhiro Kawarabayashi, Hai Lin, Akira Honda, & Ryuji Inoue. (2007). Protein kinase G (PKG)-mediated tonic inhibition of vascular transient receptor potential (TRP) channel TRPC6. 78–78. 1 indexed citations

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Honda, Akira, et al.. (2007). Highly sensitive assay of HMG-CoA reductase activity by LC-ESI-MS/MS. Journal of Lipid Research. 48(5). 1212–1220. 15 indexed citations

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Honda, Akira, et al.. (2005). Targeting of Arf-1 to the early Golgi by membrin, an ER-Golgi SNARE. The Journal of Cell Biology. 168(7). 1039–1051. 70 indexed citations

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Kurabayashi, Takumi, Hiroshi Matsushita, Hiroshi Nagata, et al.. (2004). Effect of vitamin D receptor and estrogen receptor gene polymorphism on the relationship between dietary calcium and bone mineral density in Japanese women. Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism. 22(2). 139–147. 23 indexed citations

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Honda, Akira, et al.. (1995). Accumulation of 7α-hydroxycholesterol in liver tissue of patients with cholesterol gallstones. Journal of Gastroenterology. 30(5). 651–656. 2 indexed citations

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