Hiromi Kato

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
138 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Hiromi Kato is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiromi Kato has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 33 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 17 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Hiromi Kato's work include Reproductive Biology and Fertility (27 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers) and Sperm and Testicular Function (13 papers). Hiromi Kato is often cited by papers focused on Reproductive Biology and Fertility (27 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (14 papers) and Sperm and Testicular Function (13 papers). Hiromi Kato collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and France. Hiromi Kato's co-authors include Yuji Nagata, Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo, Masataka Tsuda, Atsushi Toyoda, Asao Fujiyama, Ken Kurokawa, Hiroshi Mori, Fumito Maruyama, A. Iritani and Koji Murai and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Genes & Development and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Hiromi Kato

134 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Design and Experimental Application of a Novel Non-Degenerate Universal Primer Set that Amplifies Prokaryotic 16S rRNA Genes with a Low Possibility to Amplify Eukaryotic rRNA Genes

2013 455 citations Hiroshi Mori, Fumito Maruyama et al. DNA Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hiromi Kato Japan	28	854	522	433	330	307	138	2.9k
Margaret E. Smith United States	41	1.3k 1.6×	1.1k 2.1×	210 0.5×	158 0.5×	596 1.9×	183	5.2k
Tomoko Nakanishi Japan	38	1.6k 1.9×	1.0k 2.0×	754 1.7×	174 0.5×	219 0.7×	286	5.6k
Riana Bornman South Africa	35	433 0.5×	471 0.9×	436 1.0×	172 0.5×	123 0.4×	192	3.9k
David W. Lee United States	44	1.2k 1.4×	1.5k 3.0×	141 0.3×	626 1.9×	203 0.7×	134	4.8k
Joseph G. Vos Netherlands	49	795 0.9×	435 0.8×	181 0.4×	709 2.1×	115 0.4×	152	7.7k
Federica Tramer Italy	22	723 0.8×	369 0.7×	290 0.7×	160 0.5×	108 0.4×	46	2.8k
Minjian Chen China	39	1.4k 1.7×	251 0.5×	590 1.4×	97 0.3×	288 0.9×	149	5.0k
Francesco Dondero Italy	36	619 0.7×	264 0.5×	671 1.5×	423 1.3×	107 0.3×	146	4.4k
Ulrike Rolle‐Kampczyk Germany	29	2.0k 2.4×	124 0.2×	373 0.9×	104 0.3×	394 1.3×	112	4.5k
Jens‐Erik Beck Jensen Denmark	42	1.6k 1.8×	2.0k 3.8×	355 0.8×	183 0.6×	1.0k 3.3×	203	7.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Hiromi Kato

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hiromi Kato

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Tanaka, Masahiro, et al.. (2025). Determination of tritium inventory in carbon divertor tiles used in deuterium plasma experiment by induction heating method. Nuclear Materials and Energy. 42. 101876–101876.

Kato, Hiromi, et al.. (2024). Simulations of Future Trends in Welfare-Centric Egg Production Systems: Impacts on Productivity and Prices. The Journal of Poultry Science. 61(0). n/a–n/a. 1 indexed citations

Kato, Hiromi, Lijun Su, Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo, et al.. (2022). Genome evolution related to γ-hexachlorocyclohexane metabolic function in the soil microbial population. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 86(6). 800–809. 1 indexed citations

Tanaka, Masahiro, Hiromi Kato, Nobuo Suzuki, et al.. (2021). Removal of tritium from vacuum vessel by RF heated plasmas in LHD. Physica Scripta. 96(12). 124007–124007. 4 indexed citations

Sakai, Hironori, Hiromi Kato, Takayuki Horiuchi, et al.. (2020). Expression of an alcohol dehydrogenase gene in a heterotrophic bacterium induces carbon dioxide-dependent high-yield growth under oligotrophic conditions. Microbiology. 166(6). 531–545. 3 indexed citations

Ogawa, N., Hiromi Kato, Taichiro Ishige, et al.. (2019). Suppression of substrate inhibition in phenanthrene-degrading Mycobacterium by co-cultivation with a non-degrading Burkholderia strain. Microbiology. 165(6). 625–637. 3 indexed citations

Nagata, Yuji, Hiromi Kato, Yoshiyuki Ohtsubo, & Masataka Tsuda. (2019). Lessons from the genomes of lindane‐degrading sphingomonads. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 11(5). 630–644. 30 indexed citations

Yoshioka, Katsunobu, Chiharu Tateishi, Hiromi Kato, & Ko‐Ron Chen. (2018). Systemic lupus erythematosus with refractory ulcerated livedoid vasculopathy: Successful treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin and warfarin. Clinical Case Reports. 6(11). 2045–2047. 7 indexed citations

Sugawara, Tomonori, Ryo Endo, Akira Ono, et al.. (2015). Isolation of oxygenase genes for indigo-forming activity from an artificially polluted soil metagenome by functional screening using Pseudomonas putida strains as hosts. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 99(10). 4453–4470. 39 indexed citations

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Kato, Hiromi, Hiroshi Mori, Fumito Maruyama, et al.. (2015). Time-series metagenomic analysis reveals robustness of soil microbiome against chemical disturbance. DNA Research. 22(6). 413–424. 28 indexed citations

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Kato, Hiromi, et al.. (2014). Effect of neonatal hemoglobin concentration on long-term outcome of infants affected by fetomaternal hemorrhage. Early Human Development. 90(9). 431–434. 22 indexed citations

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Tokoro, Mikiko, Satoshi Nishikawa, Yuki Hatanaka, et al.. (2010). Deposition of Acetylated Histones by RNAP II Promoter Clearance May Occur at Onset of Zygotic Gene Activation in Preimplantation Mouse Embryos. Journal of Reproduction and Development. 56(6). 607–615. 13 indexed citations

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Arai, Hiromasa, Yasushi Rino, Sumitaka Yamanaka, et al.. (2008). Successful treatment of adrenocortical carcinoma with pulmonary metastasis in a child: Report of a case. Surgery Today. 38(10). 965–969. 3 indexed citations

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Ikegaki, Junichi, et al.. (2008). [Intrathecal segmental analgesia with a single dose of bupivacaine for cancer pain in the abdominal wall].. PubMed. 57(2). 182–6. 2 indexed citations

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Amano, Tomoko, Yuki Hatanaka, Tatsuya Watanabe, et al.. (2008). Expression and Functional Analyses of Circadian Genes in Mouse Oocytes and Preimplantation Embryos: Cry1 Is Involved in the Meiotic Process Independently of Circadian Clock Regulation1. Biology of Reproduction. 80(3). 473–483. 61 indexed citations

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Miura, Hirohito, et al.. (2003). Co-expression pattern of Shh with Prox1 and that of Nkx2.2 with Mash1 in mouse taste bud. Gene Expression Patterns. 3(4). 427–430. 50 indexed citations

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Sato, Noboru, et al.. (2002). Bcl‐2 rescues motoneurons from early cell death in the cervical spinal cord of the chicken embryo. Journal of Neurobiology. 53(3). 381–390. 17 indexed citations

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Minami, Naojiro, Hiromi Kato, Y. Inoue, et al.. (1994). Nonspecies-specific effects of mouse oviducts on the development of bovine IVM/IVF embryos by a serum free co-culture. Theriogenology. 41(7). 1435–1445. 8 indexed citations

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Kanaoka, Matao, et al.. (1992). Studies on the Enzyme Immunoassay of Bio-active Constituents in Oriental Medicinal Drugs. VI. Enzyme Immunoassay of Ginsenoside Rb1 from Panax ginseng.. Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 40(2). 314–317. 19 indexed citations

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Aoyagi, S, et al.. (1978). [Successful surgical correction of a type A interrupted aortic arch with ventricular septal defect and patent ductus arteriosus through the median sternotomy (author's transl)].. PubMed. 31(8). 626–30.

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