Hirofumi Sawa

18.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
362 papers, 11.4k citations indexed

About

Hirofumi Sawa is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hirofumi Sawa has authored 362 papers receiving a total of 11.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Infectious Diseases, 91 papers in Molecular Biology and 74 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Hirofumi Sawa's work include Viral Infections and Vectors (69 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (54 papers) and Polyomavirus and related diseases (44 papers). Hirofumi Sawa is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Vectors (69 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (54 papers) and Polyomavirus and related diseases (44 papers). Hirofumi Sawa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Zambia. Hirofumi Sawa's co-authors include Yasuko Orba, Kazuo Nagashima, Shinya Tanaka, Michihito Sasaki, Izumi Negishi, Keiko Nakayama, Dennis Y. Loh, Satoshi Fujii, Hideki Hasegawa and Tadaki Suzuki and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Hirofumi Sawa

350 papers receiving 11.2k 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 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.

Massive Cell Death of Immature Hematopoietic Cells and Neurons in Bcl-x-Deficient Mice

1995 969 citations Noboru Motoyama, Fanping Wang et al. Science profile →
Gold Nanoparticles as a Vaccine Platform: Influence of Size and Shape on Immunological Responses in Vitro and in Vivo

2013 524 citations Tadaki Suzuki, Shintaro Kobayashi et al. profile →

Peers

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hirofumi Sawa

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hirofumi Sawa

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

All Works

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	SARS-CoV-2 inhibition through mRNA delivery using engineered extracellular vesicles displaying the spike protein 2025 ·Biomaterials ·(unknown), Yoshimasa Kawaguchi, H. Hirose, Takao Hashiguchi, (unknown), Akitsu Hotta, Jun Kawamoto, Michihito Sasaki, Hirofumi Sawa, Shiroh Futaki	0
2	Reverse genetic approaches allowing the characterization of the rabies virus street strain belonging to the SEA4 subclade 2024 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Yukari Itakura, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Satoshi Inoue, Ken Maeda, Naoto Ito, William W. Hall, Hirofumi Sawa, Yasuko Orba, Michihito Sasaki	1
3	Phylogenetic Analysis of Newcastle Disease Virus Isolated from Poultry in Live Bird Markets and Wild Waterfowl in Zambia 2024 ·Microorganisms ·(unknown), Ngonda Saasa, Masahiro Kajihara, Naganori Nao, Ladslav Moonga, Joseph Ndebe, Akina Mori‐Kajihara, (unknown), Yoshihiro Sakoda, Hirofumi Sawa, Ayato Takada, Edgar Simulundu	4
4	Detection of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL)-Producing Enterobacteriaceae from Diseased Broiler Chickens in Lusaka District, Zambia 2024 ·Antibiotics ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Joseph Ndebe, (unknown), Chie Nakajima, Masahiro Kajihara, Hideaki Higashi, Hirofumi Sawa, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Walter Muleya, Bernard M. Hang’ombe	3
5	Structure-activity relationship studies of anti-bunyaviral cap-dependent endonuclease inhibitors 2023 ·Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters ·Yoshiyuki Taoda, Akihiko Sato, Shinsuke Toba, Yuto Unoh, Makoto Kawai, Michihito Sasaki, Yasuko Orba, Hirofumi Sawa	3
6	Prevalence and Genomic Characterization of Rotavirus A from Domestic Pigs in Zambia: Evidence for Possible Porcine–Human Interspecies Transmission 2023 ·Pathogens ·Joseph Ndebe, (unknown), Herman M. Chambaro, Michihito Sasaki, Junya Yamagishi, (unknown), (unknown), Yongjin Qiu, Masahiro Kajihara, Ayato Takada, Hirofumi Sawa, Ngonda Saasa, Edgar Simulundu	1
7	Serological characterization of lineage II insect-specific flaviviruses compared with pathogenic mosquito-borne flaviviruses 2022 ·Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Koshiro Tabata, Yukari Itakura, Shinsuke Toba, Kentaro Uemura, Mai Kishimoto, Michihito Sasaki, Jessica J. Harrison, Akihiko Sato, William W. Hall, Roy A. Hall, Hirofumi Sawa, Yasuko Orba	3
8	An unusually long Rift valley fever inter-epizootic period in Zambia: Evidence for enzootic virus circulation and risk for disease outbreak 2022 ·PLoS neglected tropical diseases ·Herman M. Chambaro, (unknown), Michihito Sasaki, (unknown), Yona Sinkala, (unknown), Walter Muleya, (unknown), (unknown), David Squarre, (unknown), Yongjin Qiu, (unknown), Yuki Eshita, Edgar Simulundu, Hirofumi Sawa, Yasuko Orba	9
9	Novel Virulent Bacteriophage ΦSG005, Which Infects Streptococcus gordonii, Forms a Distinct Clade among Streptococcus Viruses 2021 ·Viruses ·Jumpei Fujiki, Shin�ichi Yoshida, Tomohiro Nakamura, Keisuke Nakamura, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Michihito Sasaki, Tomohito Iwasaki, Hirofumi Sawa, Hitoshi Komatsuzawa, Hiroshi Hijioka, Hidetomo Iwano	11
10	Complete Genome Sequence of a Veterinary Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolate, Pa12 2021 ·Microbiology Resource Announcements ·Keisuke Nakamura, Jumpei Fujiki, (unknown), Tomohiro Nakamura, Satoshi Gondaira, Michihito Sasaki, Masaru Usui, Hidetoshi Higuchi, Hirofumi Sawa, Yutaka Tamura, Hidetomo Iwano	3
11	A Novel Combination of Prion Strain Co-Occurrence in Patients with Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 2019 ·American Journal Of Pathology ·Atsushi Kobayashi, Yasushi Iwasaki, Masaki Takao, Yuko Saito, Toru Iwaki, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Norikazu Isoda, Hirofumi Sawa, Keisuke Aoshima, Takashi Kimura, (unknown), Shirou Mohri, Tetsuyuki Kitamoto	8
12	Inhibitory effects of an M2-specific monoclonal antibody on different strains of influenza A virus. 2012 ·PubMed ·(unknown), Reiko Yoshida, Tadaki Suzuki, Shintaro Kobayashi, Hiroichi Ozaki, Daisuke Fujikura, Rashid Manzoor, Mieko Muramatsu, Ayato Takada, Takashi Kimura, Hirofumi Sawa	10
13	Novel Arenavirus, Zambia 2011 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Akihiro Ishii, Yuka Thomas, Ladslav Moonga, Ichiro Nakamura, Aiko Ohnuma, Bernard M. Hang’ombe, Ayato Takada, Aaron S. Mweene, Hirofumi Sawa	1
14	Inhibition of the SDF-1α–CXCR4 axis by the CXCR4 antagonist AMD3100 suppresses the migration of cultured cells from ATL patients and murine lymphoblastoid cells from HTLV-I Tax transgenic mice 2009 ·Blood ·Akira Kawaguchi, Yasuko Orba, Takashi Kimura, Hidekatsu Iha, Masao Ogata, Takahiro Tsuji, Akira Ainai, Tetsutaro Sata, Takashi Okamoto, William W. Hall, Hirofumi Sawa, Hideki Hasegawa	55
15	Monoclonal Antibody and siRNAs for Topoisomerase I Suppress Telomerase Activity 2009 ·Hybridoma ·Hidehiro Takahashi, Yoshinori Kitagawa, (unknown), Hideki Hasegawa, Hirofumi Sawa, Tetsutaro Sata	1
16	Transgenic expression of Helicobacter pylori CagA induces gastrointestinal and hematopoietic neoplasms in mouse 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Naomi Ohnishi, (unknown), Shinya Tanaka, Hirofumi Sawa, (unknown), (unknown), Hideaki Higashi, Manabu Musashi, Kazuya Iwabuchi, Misao Suzuki, Gen Yamada, Takeshi Azuma, Masanori Hatakeyama	468
17	Oligodendrocyte Lineage Transcription Factor 2 Inhibits the Motility of a Human Glial Tumor Cell Line by Activating RhoA 2007 ·Molecular Cancer Research ·Kouichi Tabu, Yusuke Ohba, Tadaki Suzuki, Yoshinori Makino, Taichi Kimura, Akiko Ohnishi, (unknown), Takuya Watanabe, Shinya Tanaka, Hirofumi Sawa	21
18	Adaptor Molecule Crk Is Required for Sustained Phosphorylation of Grb2-Associated Binder 1 and Hepatocyte Growth Factor–Induced Cell Motility of Human Synovial Sarcoma Cell Lines 2006 ·Molecular Cancer Research ·Takuya Watanabe, Masumi Tsuda, Yoshinori Makino, (unknown), Hirofumi Sawa, Akio Minami, Naoki Mochizuki, Kazuo Nagashima, Shinya Tanaka	53
19	Cloning and Characterization of a Rat Ortholog of MMP-23 (Matrix Metalloproteinase-23), a Unique Type of Membrane-Anchored Matrix Metalloproteinase and Conditioned Switching of Its Expression during the Ovarian Follicular Development 2001 ·Molecular Endocrinology ·Junji Ohnishi, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Hitoshi Matsui, Atsushi P. Kimura, Hirofumi Sawa, Kazuhisa Nakayama, Hiroshi Shibuyà, Kazuo Nagashima, Takayuki Takahashi	36
20	Massive Cell Death of Immature Hematopoietic Cells and Neurons in Bcl-x-Deficient Mice breakdown → 1995 ·Science ·Noboru Motoyama, Fanping Wang, Kevin A. Roth, Hirofumi Sawa, Kei-ichi Nakayama, Keiko Nakayama, Izumi Negishi, Satoru Senju, Qing Zhang, Satoshi Fujii, Dennis Y. Loh	969

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