Fumitaka Osakada

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Fumitaka Osakada is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Fumitaka Osakada has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 11 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Fumitaka Osakada's work include Retinal Development and Disorders (28 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (16 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (13 papers). Fumitaka Osakada is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Development and Disorders (28 papers), Pluripotent Stem Cells Research (16 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (13 papers). Fumitaka Osakada collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Switzerland. Fumitaka Osakada's co-authors include Masayo Takahashi, Edward M. Callaway, Hanako Ohashi Ikeda, Yoshiki Sasai, Akinori Akaike, Kiichi Watanabe, Yasuhiko Hirami, Nagahisa Yoshimura, Michiko Mandai and Zi‐Bing Jin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Fumitaka Osakada

55 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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 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.

Generation of retinal cells from mouse and human induced pluripotent stem cells

2009 322 citations Yasuhiko Hirami, Fumitaka Osakada et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fumitaka Osakada Japan	26	2.9k	1.9k	812	321	299	59	4.3k
Gian Michele Ratto Italy	30	1.6k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	570 0.7×	337 1.0×	125 0.4×	73	3.2k
Wallace B. Thoreson United States	43	4.1k 1.4×	3.3k 1.7×	441 0.5×	195 0.6×	349 1.2×	141	5.0k
Ronald L. Klein United States	37	2.2k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	324 0.4×	298 0.9×	388 1.3×	93	4.3k
Sebastian Kügler Germany	47	4.1k 1.4×	2.7k 1.4×	695 0.9×	682 2.1×	211 0.7×	124	7.7k
Alexis‐Pierre Bemelmans France	28	1.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	159 0.2×	207 0.6×	354 1.2×	65	2.8k
Ning Tian China	29	1.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	333 0.4×	98 0.3×	398 1.3×	100	2.9k
Enrica Strettoi Italy	38	5.4k 1.8×	4.0k 2.1×	476 0.6×	307 1.0×	1.4k 4.7×	84	6.7k
Maureen A. McCall United States	35	2.8k 1.0×	2.3k 1.2×	380 0.5×	113 0.4×	599 2.0×	99	3.7k
Naomi Kamasawa United States	38	2.6k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	442 0.5×	84 0.3×	51 0.2×	94	3.6k
Silke Haverkamp Germany	39	4.9k 1.7×	4.2k 2.1×	619 0.8×	104 0.3×	542 1.8×	97	5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Fumitaka Osakada

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Fumitaka Osakada's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Fumitaka Osakada with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Fumitaka Osakada more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Fumitaka Osakada

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Fumitaka Osakada. 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 Fumitaka Osakada. The network helps show where Fumitaka Osakada may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fumitaka Osakada

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Watanabe, Keita, Mayu Yamano, Junki Miyamoto, et al.. (2025). Maternal progesterone and adipose mPRε in pregnancy regulate the embryonic nutritional state. Cell Reports. 44(3). 115433–115433. 1 indexed citations

Takeuchi, Ryosuke, et al.. (2024). Conversion of silent synapses to AMPA receptor-mediated functional synapses in human cortical organoids. Neuroscience Research. 212. 20–30.

Nakagawa, Reiko, Xinyue Hu, Priyanshu Bhargava, et al.. (2023). Differential second messenger signaling via dopamine neurons bidirectionally regulates memory retention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(36). e2304851120–e2304851120. 5 indexed citations

Takeuchi, Ryosuke, Keiichiro Suzuki, Hidetoshi Kassai, et al.. (2023). Modeling the marmoset brain using embryonic stem cell-derived cerebral assembloids. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 657. 119–127. 4 indexed citations

Isobe, Keisuke, et al.. (2022). Fast z-focus controlling and multiplexing strategies for multiplane two-photon imaging of neural dynamics. Neuroscience Research. 179. 15–23. 1 indexed citations

Yamaguchi, Masahiro, et al.. (2022). Monosynaptic rabies virus tracing from projection-targeted single neurons. Neuroscience Research. 178. 20–32. 7 indexed citations

Takeuchi, Ryosuke & Fumitaka Osakada. (2020). Circuit mechanisms of spatial perception and visuomotor integration. Folia Pharmacologica Japonica. 155(2). 99–106.

Padmanabhan, Krishnan, et al.. (2019). Centrifugal Inputs to the Main Olfactory Bulb Revealed Through Whole Brain Circuit-Mapping. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 12. 115–115. 32 indexed citations

Yetman, Michael J., Eric K. Washburn, Jung Ho Hyun, et al.. (2019). Intersectional monosynaptic tracing for dissecting subtype-specific organization of GABAergic interneuron inputs. Nature Neuroscience. 22(3). 492–502. 33 indexed citations

10.

Osakada, Fumitaka, et al.. (2017). Toward understanding structure and function of neural circuits in the visual system. Folia Pharmacologica Japonica. 149(6). 274–280. 1 indexed citations

11.

Faget, Lauren, Fumitaka Osakada, Reed L. Ressler, et al.. (2016). Afferent Inputs to Neurotransmitter-Defined Cell Types in the Ventral Tegmental Area. Cell Reports. 15(12). 2796–2808. 121 indexed citations

12.

Xu, Chun, Sabine Krabbe, Jan Gründemann, et al.. (2016). Distinct Hippocampal Pathways Mediate Dissociable Roles of Context in Memory Retrieval. Cell. 167(4). 961–972.e16. 188 indexed citations

13.

Osakada, Fumitaka. (2015). Opening a New Era in Neural Circuit Research. KAGAKU TO SEIBUTSU. 53(10). 673–680. 1 indexed citations

14.

Osakada, Fumitaka. (2015). From the connectome to brain function: rabies virus tools for elucidating structure and function of neural circuits. Folia Pharmacologica Japonica. 146(2). 98–105. 1 indexed citations

15.

Osakada, Fumitaka & Masayo Takahashi. (2011). Neural Induction and Patterning in Mammalian Pluripotent Stem Cells. CNS & Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets. 10(4). 419–432. 18 indexed citations

16.

Osakada, Fumitaka, Hanako Ohashi Ikeda, Yoshiki Sasai, & Masayo Takahashi. (2009). Stepwise differentiation of pluripotent stem cells into retinal cells. Nature Protocols. 4(6). 811–824. 212 indexed citations

17.

Hirami, Yasuhiko, Fumitaka Osakada, Kazutoshi Takahashi, et al.. (2009). Generation of Retinal Progenitor Cells From Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 50(13). 3063–3063. 2 indexed citations

18.

Jin, Zi‐Bing, Go Hirokawa, Le Gui, et al.. (2009). Targeted deletion of miR-182, an abundant retinal microRNA.. PubMed. 15. 523–33. 75 indexed citations

19.

Osakada, Fumitaka, Hanako Ohashi Ikeda, Michiko Mandai, et al.. (2008). Toward the generation of rod and cone photoreceptors from mouse, monkey and human embryonic stem cells. Nature Biotechnology. 26(2). 215–224. 470 indexed citations

20.

Osakada, Fumitaka, Sotaro Ooto, Tadamichi Akagi, et al.. (2007). Wnt Signaling Promotes Regeneration in the Retina of Adult Mammals. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(15). 4210–4219. 263 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact