Chikako Shimokawa

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Chikako Shimokawa is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Immunology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Chikako Shimokawa has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 12 papers in Immunology and 8 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Chikako Shimokawa's work include Malaria Research and Control (12 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (7 papers) and Complement system in diseases (6 papers). Chikako Shimokawa is often cited by papers focused on Malaria Research and Control (12 papers), Immune Cell Function and Interaction (7 papers) and Complement system in diseases (6 papers). Chikako Shimokawa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Israel. Chikako Shimokawa's co-authors include Hiroshi Ohno, Hajime Hisaeda, Takashi Imai, Eiji Miyauchi, Alex Steimle, Mahesh S. Desai, Kazutomo Suzue, Tomoyo Taniguchi, Shinjiro Hamano and Hiroko Okada and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Immunity and Nature reviews. Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Chikako Shimokawa

31 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

The impact of the gut microbiome on extra-intestinal autoimmune diseases

2022 232 citations Eiji Miyauchi, Chikako Shimokawa et al. Nature reviews. Immunology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chikako Shimokawa Japan	15	393	362	219	215	162	33	1.0k
Urai Chaisri Thailand	21	198 0.5×	255 0.7×	318 1.5×	174 0.8×	213 1.3×	84	1.1k
Thornik Reimer United States	11	668 1.7×	532 1.5×	224 1.0×	132 0.6×	78 0.5×	12	1.2k
Lucy A. Gildea United States	11	402 1.0×	147 0.4×	101 0.5×	167 0.8×	194 1.2×	15	937
Liliane Martins dos Santos Brazil	16	1.1k 2.7×	568 1.6×	199 0.9×	226 1.1×	161 1.0×	29	1.9k
Regina de Beer Netherlands	15	313 0.8×	533 1.5×	65 0.3×	295 1.4×	76 0.5×	21	1.1k
Adriana Flores‐Langarica United Kingdom	19	550 1.4×	182 0.5×	109 0.5×	208 1.0×	42 0.3×	28	955
Christian Timmann Germany	17	276 0.7×	382 1.1×	289 1.3×	110 0.5×	82 0.5×	36	999
Wesley Wong United States	19	275 0.7×	188 0.5×	588 2.7×	119 0.6×	122 0.8×	31	1.5k
Arup Sarkar India	18	358 0.9×	200 0.6×	279 1.3×	82 0.4×	86 0.5×	52	840
Devesha H. Kulkarni United States	15	393 1.0×	485 1.3×	67 0.3×	178 0.8×	35 0.2×	27	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chikako Shimokawa

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sekiguchi, Akiko, Chikako Shimokawa, Tamotsu Kato, et al.. (2025). Inhibition of skin fibrosis via regulation of Th17/Treg imbalance in systemic sclerosis. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 1423–1423. 4 indexed citations

Ito, Kenitiro, Yuki Tateishi, Takashi Imai, et al.. (2025). Visual Detection of Malaria Parasite-Parasitized Erythroblasts in Peripheral Blood via Immunization-Based Model. Vaccines. 13(9). 988–988.

Shimokawa, Chikako. (2024). The gut microbiome–helminth–immune axis in autoimmune diseases. Parasitology International. 104. 102985–102985. 4 indexed citations

Saito‐Nakano, Yumiko, Chikako Shimokawa, Koichi Kobayashi, et al.. (2023). Prevalence and metronidazole resistance of Trichomonas vaginalis among Japanese women in 2021. IJID Regions. 7. 130–135. 2 indexed citations

Miyauchi, Eiji, Chikako Shimokawa, Alex Steimle, Mahesh S. Desai, & Hiroshi Ohno. (2022). The impact of the gut microbiome on extra-intestinal autoimmune diseases. Nature reviews. Immunology. 23(1). 9–23. 232 indexed citations breakdown →

Sun, Jingjing, Hugo Varet, Meirav Trebicz‐Geffen, et al.. (2021). Queuine Is a Nutritional Regulator of Entamoeba histolytica Response to Oxidative Stress and a Virulence Attenuator. mBio. 12(2). 31 indexed citations

Suzue, Kazutomo, Wataru Kamitani, Hideaki Yokoo, et al.. (2021). Long-term acrylamide exposure exacerbates brain and lung pathology in a mouse malaria model. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 151. 112132–112132. 7 indexed citations

Shimokawa, Chikako, Tamotsu Kato, Tadashi Takeuchi, et al.. (2020). CD8+ regulatory T cells are critical in prevention of autoimmune-mediated diabetes. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1922–1922. 77 indexed citations

Imai, Takashi, et al.. (2020). Potential and Limitations of Cross-Protective Vaccine against Malaria by Blood-Stage Naturally Attenuated Parasite. Vaccines. 8(3). 375–375. 4 indexed citations

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Shimokawa, Chikako, et al.. (2020). IL‐33 is essential to prevent high‐fat diet–induced obesity in mice infected with an intestinal helminth. Parasite Immunology. 42(9). e12700–e12700. 8 indexed citations

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Shimokawa, Chikako, et al.. (2019). Suppression of Obesity by an Intestinal Helminth through Interactions with Intestinal Microbiota. Infection and Immunity. 87(6). 27 indexed citations

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Shimokawa, Chikako, Meirav Trebicz‐Geffen, Karen Methling, et al.. (2018). Escherichia coli mediated resistance of Entamoeba histolytica to oxidative stress is triggered by oxaloacetate. PLoS Pathogens. 14(10). e1007295–e1007295. 25 indexed citations

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Shimokawa, Chikako, Masachika Senba, Seiki Kobayashi, et al.. (2017). Intestinal Inflammation-Mediated Clearance of Amebic Parasites Is Dependent on IFN-γ. The Journal of Immunology. 200(3). 1101–1109. 7 indexed citations

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Okada, Hiroko, Kazutomo Suzue, Takashi Imai, et al.. (2015). A transient resistance to blood-stage malaria in interferon-γ-deficient mice through impaired production of the host cells preferred by malaria parasites. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 600–600. 6 indexed citations

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Imai, Takashi, Hidekazu Ishida, Kazutomo Suzue, et al.. (2013). CD8+ T cell activation by murine erythroblasts infected with malaria parasites. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 1572–1572. 27 indexed citations

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Shimokawa, Chikako, Richard Culleton, Takashi Imai, et al.. (2013). Species-Specific Immunity Induced by Infection with Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba moshkovskii in Mice. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e82025–e82025. 8 indexed citations

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Tu, Liping, Hidekazu Ishida, Takashi Imai, et al.. (2011). A critical role for phagocytosis in resistance to malaria in iron‐deficient mice. European Journal of Immunology. 41(5). 1365–1375. 22 indexed citations

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Ishida, Hidekazu, Takashi Imai, Yoshihisa Nojima, et al.. (2010). Development of experimental cerebral malaria is independent of IL-23 and IL-17. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 402(4). 790–795. 30 indexed citations

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Imai, Takashi, Jianying Shen, Bin Chou, et al.. (2010). Involvement of CD8⁺ T cells in protective immunity against murine blood‐stage infection with Plasmodium yoelii 17XL strain. European Journal of Immunology. 40(4). 1053–1061. 78 indexed citations

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Tu, Liping, Chikako Moriya, Takashi Imai, et al.. (2009). Critical role for the immunoproteasome subunit LMP7 in the resistance of mice to Toxoplasma gondii infection. European Journal of Immunology. 39(12). 3385–3394. 35 indexed citations

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