Hiroaki Tomita

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
178 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Hiroaki Tomita is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiroaki Tomita has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Molecular Biology, 46 papers in Clinical Psychology and 34 papers in Psychiatry and Mental health. Recurrent topics in Hiroaki Tomita's work include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (24 papers), Disaster Response and Management (21 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (21 papers). Hiroaki Tomita is often cited by papers focused on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research (24 papers), Disaster Response and Management (21 papers) and Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (21 papers). Hiroaki Tomita collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Serbia. Hiroaki Tomita's co-authors include William E. Bunney, Huda Akil, Simon J. Evans, Prabhakara V. Choudary, Edward G. Jones, Marquis P. Vawter, R Myers, Stanley J. Watson, David Walsh and Jianan Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Hiroaki Tomita

163 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Altered cortical glutamatergic and GABAergic signal trans... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Altered cortical glutamatergic and GABAergic signal transmission with glial involvement in depression
    2005 513 citations Prabhakara V. Choudary, Margherita Molnar et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hiroaki Tomita Japan 30 1.8k 920 712 693 487 178 4.1k
Albert H.C. Wong Canada 38 2.0k 1.1× 1.2k 1.3× 870 1.2× 570 0.8× 328 0.7× 120 4.5k
Ru‐Band Lu Taiwan 37 977 0.6× 942 1.0× 593 0.8× 743 1.1× 594 1.2× 146 5.2k
Iiris Hovatta Finland 38 1.6k 0.9× 702 0.8× 794 1.1× 536 0.8× 243 0.5× 92 4.6k
Helge Frieling Germany 35 1.3k 0.7× 665 0.7× 406 0.6× 351 0.5× 847 1.7× 215 4.2k
Elisabet Vilella Spain 31 934 0.5× 354 0.4× 599 0.8× 512 0.7× 393 0.8× 164 3.5k
Falk W. Lohoff United States 37 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 1.2× 698 1.0× 250 0.4× 410 0.8× 142 4.1k
Daniël van den Hove Netherlands 45 2.1k 1.2× 923 1.0× 652 0.9× 811 1.2× 548 1.1× 138 5.9k
Shusuke Numata Japan 30 1.1k 0.6× 442 0.5× 558 0.8× 595 0.9× 231 0.5× 101 2.7k
Panos Roussos United States 44 2.4k 1.4× 822 0.9× 1.2k 1.7× 389 0.6× 357 0.7× 140 5.0k
Rainald Mößner Germany 37 1.6k 0.9× 2.1k 2.3× 535 0.8× 714 1.0× 487 1.0× 99 5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Hiroaki Tomita

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hiroaki Tomita

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hiroaki Tomita

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hiroaki Tomita. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hiroaki Tomita 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 Hiroaki Tomita. Hiroaki Tomita 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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Sakai, Mai, Zhiqian Yu, Taissa M. Kasahara, et al.. (2025). Experimenters' sex modulates anxiety-like behavior, contextual fear, and microglial oxytocin transcription in mice. Behavioural Brain Research. 483. 115480–115480. 1 indexed citations
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Kikuchi, Yuki, et al.. (2025). Weekly Changes in the Clozapine Concentration-to-Dose Ratio During Clozapine Titration in Japanese Patients With Schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 45(4). 345–348. 2 indexed citations
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Kikuchi, Yuki, Yuji Otsuka, Fumiaki Ito, et al.. (2024). Relationship Between Clozapine-Induced Inflammation and Eosinophilia: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Schizophrenia Bulletin. 52(1). 2 indexed citations
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Kikuchi, Yuki, Toshihiro Sato, Keiichi Murakami, et al.. (2024). Concomitant Use of Clozapine and Suvorexant Associated With Doubling of Clozapine Plasma Levels: A Case Report. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 44(2). 185–187. 2 indexed citations
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Akaishi, Tetsuya, Kunio Tarasawa, Kiyohide Fushimi, et al.. (2023). Risk Factors Associated With Peripartum Suicide Attempts in Japan. JAMA Network Open. 6(1). e2250661–e2250661. 12 indexed citations
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Takahashi, Ippei, Taku Obara, Saya Kikuchi, et al.. (2023). Association between maternal psychological distress and children's neurodevelopment in offspring aged 4 years in Japan: The Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three‐Generation Cohort Study. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 59(3). 548–554. 4 indexed citations
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Sato, Shiho, Zhiqian Yu, Mai Sakai, et al.. (2023). Decreased β‐hydroxybutyrate and ketogenic amino acid levels in depressed human adults. European Journal of Neuroscience. 57(6). 1018–1032. 2 indexed citations
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Murakami, Keiko, Mami Ishikuro, Taku Obara, et al.. (2023). Maternal social isolation and behavioral problems in preschool children: the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 33(3). 761–769. 3 indexed citations
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Hino, Mizuki, et al.. (2023). Identification of schizophrenia symptom-related gene modules by postmortem brain transcriptome analysis. Translational Psychiatry. 13(1). 144–144. 4 indexed citations
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Murakami, Keiko, Mami Ishikuro, Taku Obara, et al.. (2022). Social isolation and insomnia among pregnant women in Japan: The Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study. Sleep Health. 8(6). 714–720. 7 indexed citations
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Yamaguchi, Ryo, Hikaru Takeuchi, Tadashi Imanishi, et al.. (2022). RELN rs7341475 Associates with Brain Structure in Japanese Healthy Females. Neuroscience. 494. 38–50. 1 indexed citations
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Sakuma, Atsushi, Masahiro Katsura, Koichi Abe, et al.. (2021). Relationship Between White Matter Microstructure and Hallucination Severity in the Early Stages of Psychosis: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open. 2(1). 5 indexed citations
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Sakai, Mai, Hikaru Takeuchi, Zhiqian Yu, et al.. (2018). Polymorphisms in the microglial marker molecule CX3CR1 affect the blood volume of the human brain. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 72(6). 409–422. 8 indexed citations
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Ohno, Takashi, et al.. (2014). [Factors associated with the psychological impact of the Great East Japan earthquake on high school students 1 year and 4 months after the disaster].. PubMed. 116(7). 541–54. 9 indexed citations
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Choudary, Prabhakara V., Margherita Molnar, Simon J. Evans, et al.. (2005). Altered cortical glutamatergic and GABAergic signal transmission with glial involvement in depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(43). 15653–15658. 513 indexed citations breakdown →
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Evans, Simon J., Prabhakara V. Choudary, Charles R. Neal, et al.. (2004). Dysregulation of the fibroblast growth factor system in major depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(43). 15506–15511. 315 indexed citations
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Tomita, Hiroaki, et al.. (1993). Increase of kainate receptor mRNA in the hippocampal CA3 of amygdala-kindled rats detected by in situ hybridization. Life Sciences. 53(10). 857–864. 18 indexed citations

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