Akira Kitamura

357 total papers · 4.6k total citations
197 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Akira Kitamura is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Surgery and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Akira Kitamura has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Molecular Biology, 38 papers in Surgery and 22 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Akira Kitamura's work include Metallurgy and Material Forming (17 papers), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (14 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers). Akira Kitamura is often cited by papers focused on Metallurgy and Material Forming (17 papers), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (14 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers). Akira Kitamura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and South Korea. Akira Kitamura's co-authors include Masataka Kinjo, Kazuhiro Nagata, Hiroshi Kubota, Tomonobu M. Watanabe, Hayashi Yamamoto, Takayuki Sekito, Chika Kondo‐Kakuta, Rie Ichikawa, Soichiro Kakuta and Yoshinori Ohsumi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Akira Kitamura

178 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit 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.

Atg9 vesicles are an important membrane source during early steps of autophagosome formation

2012 490 citations Hayashi Yamamoto, Soichiro Kakuta et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Akira Kitamura	1.1k	651	608	357	327	197	3.2k
Toshihiko Matsuo	1.3k 1.2×	609 0.9×	237 0.4×	508 1.4×	365 1.1×	257	4.9k
Masaaki Yamamoto	1.4k 1.2×	665 1.0×	316 0.5×	545 1.5×	278 0.9×	236	4.9k
Taiichi Saito	1.4k 1.2×	536 0.8×	172 0.3×	293 0.8×	194 0.6×	181	4.2k
Robert Clark	1.1k 0.9×	404 0.6×	180 0.3×	350 1.0×	418 1.3×	107	3.9k
Hiroshi Shimizu	907 0.8×	261 0.4×	287 0.5×	510 1.4×	605 1.9×	263	4.0k
Naoyuki Yamada	1.4k 1.3×	1.3k 2.0×	530 0.9×	186 0.5×	101 0.3×	125	3.8k
Chong Hyun Won	531 0.5×	493 0.8×	427 0.7×	438 1.2×	168 0.5×	268	3.7k
Wolfgang Hartschuh	1.1k 1.0×	793 1.2×	304 0.5×	367 1.0×	461 1.4×	175	4.1k
Mari Cleide Sogayar	2.4k 2.1×	273 0.4×	273 0.4×	725 2.0×	201 0.6×	175	5.1k
Aiji Ohtsuka	1.1k 1.0×	338 0.5×	690 1.1×	758 2.1×	464 1.4×	177	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Akira Kitamura

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Fields of papers citing papers by Akira Kitamura

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Akira Kitamura. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Akira Kitamura. The network helps show where Akira Kitamura may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Akira Kitamura

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

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