Hiro‐oki Iwakawa

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Hiro‐oki Iwakawa is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiro‐oki Iwakawa has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Plant Science, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Hiro‐oki Iwakawa's work include Plant Virus Research Studies (14 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (10 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers). Hiro‐oki Iwakawa is often cited by papers focused on Plant Virus Research Studies (14 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (10 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers). Hiro‐oki Iwakawa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Hiro‐oki Iwakawa's co-authors include Yukihide Tomari, Kazuyuki Mise, Tetsuro Okuno, Masanori Kaido, Takashi Fukaya, Hiroyuki Mizumoto, Akira Mine, Y Tajima, Hideaki Nagano and Kiwamu Hyodo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Hiro‐oki Iwakawa

26 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

The Functions of MicroRNAs: mRNA Decay and Translational ... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2021 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. The Functions of MicroRNAs: mRNA Decay and Translational Repression
    2015 564 citations Hiro‐oki Iwakawa, Yukihide Tomari Trends in Cell Biology profile →
  2. Life of RISC: Formation, action, and degradation of RNA-induced silencing complex
    2021 282 citations Hiro‐oki Iwakawa, Yukihide Tomari Molecular Cell profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hiro‐oki Iwakawa Japan 19 1.2k 869 556 162 99 26 1.8k
Constance Ciaudo Switzerland 22 1.6k 1.4× 577 0.7× 539 1.0× 36 0.2× 170 1.7× 41 2.1k
Sylvia E. J. Fischer United States 16 2.3k 1.9× 614 0.7× 859 1.5× 29 0.2× 90 0.9× 27 2.5k
Irina Mohorianu United Kingdom 20 807 0.7× 605 0.7× 269 0.5× 61 0.4× 129 1.3× 59 1.4k
Carla Klattenhoff United States 11 2.5k 2.1× 1.1k 1.3× 1000 1.8× 29 0.2× 113 1.1× 13 2.8k
Konstantin I. Ivanov Finland 17 558 0.5× 677 0.8× 66 0.1× 196 1.2× 49 0.5× 32 1.4k
Mikel Zaratiegui United States 20 1.6k 1.3× 618 0.7× 191 0.3× 31 0.2× 236 2.4× 31 2.0k
Donald Sharon United States 13 716 0.6× 185 0.2× 218 0.4× 39 0.2× 79 0.8× 15 1.0k
Alan J. Herr United States 23 1.8k 1.5× 1.6k 1.8× 285 0.5× 63 0.4× 31 0.3× 34 2.6k
Tim Rand United States 9 1.4k 1.2× 264 0.3× 539 1.0× 20 0.1× 164 1.7× 10 1.7k
Fedor V. Karginov United States 17 1.8k 1.5× 120 0.1× 827 1.5× 25 0.2× 144 1.5× 28 2.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hiro‐oki Iwakawa

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Iwakawa, Hiro‐oki, et al.. (2023). Mechanisms that regulate the production of secondary siRNAs in plants. The Journal of Biochemistry. 174(6). 491–499. 1 indexed citations
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Shoji, Keisuke, et al.. (2022). The mechanisms of siRNA selection by plant Argonaute proteins triggering DNA methylation. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(22). 12997–13010. 19 indexed citations
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Chen, Shirui, et al.. (2022). Functional specialization of monocot DCL3 and DCL5 proteins through the evolution of the PAZ domain. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(8). 4669–4684. 7 indexed citations
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Shoji, Keisuke, et al.. (2021). Cell-free reconstitution reveals the molecular mechanisms for the initiation of secondary siRNA biogenesis in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(31). 25 indexed citations
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Iwakawa, Hiro‐oki & Yukihide Tomari. (2021). Life of RISC: Formation, action, and degradation of RNA-induced silencing complex. Molecular Cell. 82(1). 30–43. 282 indexed citations breakdown →
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Iwakawa, Hiro‐oki, Akira Mine, Tomoya Fujita, et al.. (2021). Ribosome stalling caused by the Argonaute-microRNA-SGS3 complex regulates the production of secondary siRNAs in plants. Cell Reports. 35(13). 109300–109300. 40 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Mariko, Hiro‐oki Iwakawa, Hisashi Tadakuma, & Yukihide Tomari. (2017). Biochemical and single-molecule analyses of the RNA silencing suppressing activity of CrPV-1A. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(18). 10837–10844. 10 indexed citations
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Tajima, Y, Hiro‐oki Iwakawa, Kiwamu Hyodo, et al.. (2017). Requirement for eukaryotic translation initiation factors in cap-independent translation differs between bipartite genomic RNAs of red clover necrotic mosaic virus. Virology. 509. 152–158. 8 indexed citations
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Iwakawa, Hiro‐oki, et al.. (2017). The poly(A) tail blocks RDR6 from converting self mRNAs into substrates for gene silencing. Nature Plants. 3(4). 17036–17036. 54 indexed citations
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Tomari, Yukihide & Hiro‐oki Iwakawa. (2017). In Vitro Analysis of ARGONAUTE-Mediated Target Cleavage and Translational Repression in Plants. Methods in molecular biology. 1640. 55–71. 8 indexed citations
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Iwakawa, Hiro‐oki & Yukihide Tomari. (2015). The Functions of MicroRNAs: mRNA Decay and Translational Repression. Trends in Cell Biology. 25(11). 651–665. 564 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fukaya, Takashi, Hiro‐oki Iwakawa, & Yukihide Tomari. (2014). MicroRNAs Block Assembly of eIF4F Translation Initiation Complex in Drosophila. Molecular Cell. 56(1). 67–78. 95 indexed citations
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Iwakawa, Hiro‐oki & Yukihide Tomari. (2013). Molecular Insights into microRNA-Mediated Translational Repression in Plants. Molecular Cell. 52(4). 591–601. 206 indexed citations
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Iwakawa, Hiro‐oki, et al.. (2013). Arabidopsis ARGONAUTE7 selects miR390 through multiple checkpoints during RISC assembly. EMBO Reports. 14(7). 652–658. 61 indexed citations
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Tajima, Y, Hiro‐oki Iwakawa, Masanori Kaido, Kazuyuki Mise, & Tetsuro Okuno. (2011). A long-distance RNA–RNA interaction plays an important role in programmed − 1 ribosomal frameshifting in the translation of p88 replicase protein of Red clover necrotic mosaic virus. Virology. 417(1). 169–178. 37 indexed citations
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Nagano, Hideaki, Hiro‐oki Iwakawa, Hiroyuki Mizumoto, et al.. (2008). cis-Preferential requirement of a − 1 frameshift product p88 for the replication of Red clover necrotic mosaic virus RNA1. Virology. 375(1). 205–212. 31 indexed citations
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Iwakawa, Hiro‐oki, Masanori Kaido, Kazuyuki Mise, & Tetsuro Okuno. (2007). cis-Acting core RNA elements required for negative-strand RNA synthesis and cap-independent translation are separated in the 3′-untranslated region of Red clover necrotic mosaic virus RNA1. Virology. 369(1). 168–181. 32 indexed citations

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