Hiroki Oota

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Hiroki Oota is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiroki Oota has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Genetics, 32 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Hiroki Oota's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (22 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (10 papers). Hiroki Oota is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (22 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (10 papers). Hiroki Oota collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Canada. Hiroki Oota's co-authors include Mark Stoneking, Takafumi Ishida, Naruya Saitou, Wannapa Settheetham‐Ishida, Danai Tiwawech, Hajime Ishida, Ryosuke Kimura, Shoji Kawamura, Shigeki Nakagome and Shuhei Mano and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Genetics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Hiroki Oota

64 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan

2025 13 citations Takumi Tsutaya, Rikai Sawafuji et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hiroki Oota Japan	23	924	758	273	162	151	68	1.9k
Sigrún Sigurðardóttir Iceland	21	1.3k 1.5×	990 1.3×	124 0.5×	168 1.0×	105 0.7×	36	2.9k
Ömer Gökçümen United States	25	796 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	152 0.6×	139 0.9×	35 0.2×	73	2.0k
Gabriel Renaud United States	21	894 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	369 1.4×	71 0.4×	41 0.3×	43	2.6k
Marian M. de Pancorbo Spain	26	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	275 1.0×	196 1.2×	63 0.4×	209	2.6k
Anastasia Kouvatsi Greece	18	1.1k 1.1×	354 0.5×	262 1.0×	53 0.3×	89 0.6×	43	1.6k
Laure Ségurel France	22	1.5k 1.6×	997 1.3×	66 0.2×	191 1.2×	65 0.4×	36	2.7k
Pedro Moral Spain	28	2.2k 2.4×	767 1.0×	604 2.2×	201 1.2×	38 0.3×	167	3.4k
Elena Bosch Spain	31	2.3k 2.4×	866 1.1×	470 1.7×	86 0.5×	38 0.3×	77	3.2k
María Cátira Bortolini Brazil	30	1.4k 1.6×	598 0.8×	351 1.3×	80 0.5×	39 0.3×	108	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hiroki Oota

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

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Tsutaya, Takumi, Rikai Sawafuji, Alberto J. Taurozzi, et al.. (2025). A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan. Science. 388(6743). 176–180. 13 indexed citations breakdown →

Oota, Hiroki, et al.. (2025). Human dispersal into East Eurasia: ancient genome insights and the need for research on physiological adaptations. Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. 44(1). 5–5.

Nishimura, Takayuki, Hideo Toyoshima, Takafumi Katsumura, et al.. (2023). Endocrine, inflammatory and immune responses and individual differences in acute hypobaric hypoxia in lowlanders. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12659–12659. 5 indexed citations

Gelabert, Pere, Daniel Fernandes, Thomas K. Harper, et al.. (2022). Genomes from Verteba cave suggest diversity within the Trypillians in Ukraine. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 7242–7242. 4 indexed citations

Sato, Takehiro, Noboru Adachi, Ryosuke Kimura, et al.. (2021). Whole-Genome Sequencing of a 900-Year-Old Human Skeleton Supports Two Past Migration Events from the Russian Far East to Northern Japan. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(9). 1 indexed citations

Mawaribuchi, Shuuji, Kei Tamura, Masaru Matsuda, et al.. (2019). Parallel Evolution of Two dmrt1-Derived Genes, dmy and dm-W, for Vertebrate Sex Determination. iScience. 23(1). 100757–100757. 14 indexed citations

Katsumura, Takafumi, Shoji Oda, Hiroshi Mitani, & Hiroki Oota. (2018). Medaka Population Genome Structure and Demographic History Described via Genotyping-by-Sequencing. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 9(1). 217–228. 15 indexed citations

Nakagome, Shigeki, Hiroshi Chinen, Atsushi Iraha, et al.. (2017). Confounding effects of microbiome on the susceptibility of TNFSF15 to Crohn’s disease in the Ryukyu Islands. Human Genetics. 136(4). 387–397. 11 indexed citations

Katsumura, Takafumi, et al.. (2016). A comparative study on the regulatory region of the PERIOD1 gene among diurnal/nocturnal primates. Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. 35(1). 21–21.

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Nishimaki, Toshiyuki, Tetsuaki Kimura, Hiroki Oota, et al.. (2016). Transgenic medaka that overexpress growth hormone have a skin color that does not indicate the activation or inhibition of somatolactin-α signal. Gene. 584(1). 38–46. 6 indexed citations

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Nakagome, Shigeki, Takehiro Sato, Hajime Ishida, et al.. (2015). Model-Based Verification of Hypotheses on the Origin of Modern Japanese Revisited by Bayesian Inference Based on Genome-Wide SNP Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(6). 1533–1543. 25 indexed citations

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Katsumura, Takafumi, Shoji Oda, Shigeki Nakagome, et al.. (2014). Natural allelic variations of xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes affect sexual dimorphism in Oryzias latipes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 281(1797). 20142259–20142259. 9 indexed citations

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Kato, Yoshihiro, Hiroki Oota, Timothy Caulfield, et al.. (2014). Human genetic research, race, ethnicity and the labeling of populations: recommendations based on an interdisciplinary workshop in Japan. BMC Medical Ethics. 15(1). 33–33. 10 indexed citations

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Koganebuchi, Kae, Takafumi Katsumura, Shigeki Nakagome, et al.. (2012). Autosomal and Y-chromosomal STR markers reveal a close relationship between Hokkaido Ainu and Ryukyu islanders. Anthropological Science. 120(3). 199–208. 16 indexed citations

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Nakagome, Shigeki, Yasuaki Takeyama, Shuhei Mano, et al.. (2010). Population‐Specific Susceptibility to Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis; Dominant and Recessive Relative Risks in the Japanese Population. Annals of Human Genetics. 74(2). 126–136. 29 indexed citations

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Matsumoto, Yoshifumi, Hiroki Oota, Y. Asaoka, et al.. (2009). Medaka: a promising model animal for comparative population genomics. BMC Research Notes. 2(1). 88–88. 16 indexed citations

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Han, Yi, Hiroki Oota, Michael V. Osier, et al.. (2007). Evidence of Positive Selection on a Class I ADH Locus. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 80(3). 441–456. 59 indexed citations

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Oota, Hiroki, Takashi Kitano, Feng Jin, et al.. (2002). Extreme mtDNA homogeneity in continental Asian populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 118(2). 146–153. 83 indexed citations

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Wang, Li, et al.. (2000). Genetic Structure of a 2,500-Year-Old Human Population in China and Its Spatiotemporal Changes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17(9). 1396–1400. 35 indexed citations

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Nakachi, Yutaka, Toshiyuki Hayakawa, Hiroki Oota, et al.. (1997). Nucleotide compositional constraints on genomes generate alanine-, glycine-, and proline-rich structures in transcription factors. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 14(10). 1042–1049. 46 indexed citations

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