Hirokazu Toju

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
65 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Hirokazu Toju is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Hirokazu Toju has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Plant Science, 26 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 18 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Hirokazu Toju's work include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (29 papers), Plant and animal studies (23 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (17 papers). Hirokazu Toju is often cited by papers focused on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (29 papers), Plant and animal studies (23 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (17 papers). Hirokazu Toju collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Netherlands. Hirokazu Toju's co-authors include Akifumi S. Tanabe, Hirotoshi Sato, Satoshi Yamamoto, Teiji Sota, Takema Fukatsu, Kei Hiruma, Jens M. Olesen, Paulo R. Guimarães, John N. Thompson and Masato Yamamichi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Hirokazu Toju

65 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

High-Coverage ITS Primers for the DNA-Based Identification of Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes in Environmental Samples

2012 891 citations Hirokazu Toju, Akifumi S. Tanabe et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Core microbiomes for sustainable agroecosystems

2018 639 citations Hirokazu Toju, Kabir Peay et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hirokazu Toju Japan	33	2.5k	1.1k	943	927	893	65	4.3k
Akifumi S. Tanabe Japan	23	1.4k 0.6×	754 0.7×	912 1.0×	602 0.6×	694 0.8×	40	3.2k
Sara Branco United States	23	3.6k 1.4×	1.1k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	1.4k 1.5×	1.3k 1.4×	42	5.1k
Tor Carlsen Norway	23	1.9k 0.7×	809 0.7×	854 0.9×	566 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	37	2.9k
József Geml Netherlands	32	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	610 0.6×	704 0.8×	948 1.1×	88	2.8k
Nhu Nguyen United States	30	4.0k 1.6×	1.2k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	1.7k 1.9×	1.3k 1.4×	64	5.8k
Taizo Hogetsu Japan	36	3.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	698 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	783 0.9×	136	4.4k
Irja Saar Estonia	14	2.3k 0.9×	880 0.8×	934 1.0×	770 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	41	3.7k
Linda L. Kinkel United States	38	4.0k 1.6×	726 0.6×	945 1.0×	318 0.3×	1.2k 1.3×	133	5.4k
Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse France	33	5.1k 2.0×	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	1.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	75	7.1k
Søren Rosendahl Denmark	41	4.0k 1.6×	989 0.9×	510 0.5×	1.4k 1.5×	1.4k 1.6×	93	5.2k

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Fujita, Hiroaki, Shigenobu Yoshida, Kenta Suzuki, & Hirokazu Toju. (2024). Soil prokaryotic and fungal biome structures associated with crop disease status across the Japan Archipelago. mSphere. 9(4). e0080323–e0080323. 1 indexed citations

Toju, Hirokazu, et al.. (2024). Mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi structure forest below-ground symbiosis through contrasting but interdependent assembly processes. Environmental Microbiome. 19(1). 84–84. 3 indexed citations

Fujita, Hiroaki, et al.. (2023). Core species and interactions prominent in fish-associated microbiome dynamics. Microbiome. 11(1). 53–53. 20 indexed citations

Fujita, Hiroaki, Masayuki Ushio, Kenta Suzuki, et al.. (2023). Alternative stable states, nonlinear behavior, and predictability of microbiome dynamics. Microbiome. 11(1). 63–63. 35 indexed citations

Kadowaki, Kohmei, Satoshi Yamamoto, Hirotoshi Sato, Akifumi S. Tanabe, & Hirokazu Toju. (2021). Aboveground herbivores drive stronger plant species-specific feedback than belowground fungi to regulate tree community assembly. Oecologia. 195(3). 773–784. 2 indexed citations

Toju, Hirokazu & Yu Tanaka. (2019). Consortia of anti-nematode fungi and bacteria in the rhizosphere of soybean plants attacked by root-knot nematodes. Royal Society Open Science. 6(3). 181693–181693. 25 indexed citations

Toju, Hirokazu, et al.. (2019). Leaf-associated microbiomes of grafted tomato plants. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 1787–1787. 46 indexed citations

Toju, Hirokazu, Hiroko Kurokawa, & Tanaka Kenta. (2019). Factors Influencing Leaf- and Root-Associated Communities of Bacteria and Fungi Across 33 Plant Orders in a Grassland. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 241–241. 54 indexed citations

Kadowaki, Kohmei, Satoshi Yamamoto, Hirotoshi Sato, et al.. (2018). Mycorrhizal fungi mediate the direction and strength of plant–soil feedbacks differently between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal communities. Communications Biology. 1(1). 196–196. 77 indexed citations

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Toju, Hirokazu & Hirotoshi Sato. (2018). Root-Associated Fungi Shared Between Arbuscular Mycorrhizal and Ectomycorrhizal Conifers in a Temperate Forest. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 433–433. 54 indexed citations

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Toju, Hirokazu, Hirotoshi Sato, Satoshi Yamamoto, & Akifumi S. Tanabe. (2018). Structural diversity across arbuscular mycorrhizal, ectomycorrhizal, and endophytic plant–fungus networks. BMC Plant Biology. 18(1). 292–292. 14 indexed citations

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Toju, Hirokazu, Masato Yamamichi, Paulo R. Guimarães, et al.. (2017). Species-rich networks and eco-evolutionary synthesis at the metacommunity level. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(2). 24–24. 88 indexed citations

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Peay, Kabir, Christian von Sperber, Emily Cardarelli, et al.. (2017). Convergence and contrast in the community structure of Bacteria, Fungi and Archaea along a tropical elevation–climate gradient. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 93(5). 92 indexed citations

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Toju, Hirokazu. (2015). High‐throughput DNA barcoding for ecological network studies. Population Ecology. 57(1). 37–51. 26 indexed citations

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Toju, Hirokazu, Satoshi Yamamoto, Hirotoshi Sato, & Akifumi S. Tanabe. (2013). Sharing of Diverse Mycorrhizal and Root-Endophytic Fungi among Plant Species in an Oak-Dominated Cool–Temperate Forest. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e78248–e78248. 60 indexed citations

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Toju, Hirokazu, Akifumi S. Tanabe, Satoshi Yamamoto, & Hirotoshi Sato. (2012). High-Coverage ITS Primers for the DNA-Based Identification of Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes in Environmental Samples. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e40863–e40863. 891 indexed citations breakdown →

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Toju, Hirokazu. (2011). Weevils and camellias in a Darwin's race: model system for the study of eco‐evolutionary interactions between species. Ecological Research. 26(2). 239–251. 16 indexed citations

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Toju, Hirokazu & Teiji Sota. (2009). Do arms races punctuate evolutionary stasis? Unified insights from phylogeny, phylogeography and microevolutionary processes. Molecular Ecology. 18(18). 3940–3954. 15 indexed citations

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Toju, Hirokazu. (2008). FINE-SCALE LOCAL ADAPTATION OF WEEVIL MOUTHPART LENGTH AND CAMELLIA PERICARP THICKNESS: ALTITUDINAL GRADIENT OF A PUTATIVE ARMS RACE. Evolution. 62(5). 1086–1102. 61 indexed citations

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Toju, Hirokazu & Teiji Sota. (2006). Phylogeography and the geographic cline in the armament of a seed‐predatory weevil: effects of historical events vs. natural selection from the host plant. Molecular Ecology. 15(13). 4161–4173. 48 indexed citations

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