Hiroshi Kawauchi

12.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
238 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Hiroshi Kawauchi is a scholar working on Physiology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiroshi Kawauchi has authored 238 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Physiology, 63 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems and 63 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in Hiroshi Kawauchi's work include Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species (64 papers), Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (62 papers) and Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors (61 papers). Hiroshi Kawauchi is often cited by papers focused on Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species (64 papers), Regulation of Appetite and Obesity (62 papers) and Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors (61 papers). Hiroshi Kawauchi collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Canada. Hiroshi Kawauchi's co-authors include Akiyoshi Takahashi, Kunimasa Suzuki, Shunsuke Moriyama, Penny Swanson, Yoshitaka Nagahama, Stacia A. Sower, Ichiro Kawazoe, Nobuko Naito, Masumi Nozaki and Tetsuya Hirano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Development.

In The Last Decade

Hiroshi Kawauchi

233 papers receiving 10.0k citations

Hit Papers

Characterization of melan... 1983 2026 1997 2011 1983 100 200 300 400
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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. Characterization of melanin-concentrating hormone in chum salmon pituitaries
    1983 483 citations Hiroshi Kawauchi, Ichiro Kawazoe et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hiroshi Kawauchi Japan 57 3.9k 3.2k 2.8k 2.5k 2.1k 238 10.4k
Howard A. Bern United States 63 2.8k 0.7× 4.7k 1.5× 2.3k 0.8× 633 0.3× 847 0.4× 362 15.2k
Katsumi Aida Japan 55 4.7k 1.2× 4.1k 1.3× 2.7k 1.0× 895 0.4× 2.1k 1.0× 312 10.1k
Nancy M. Sherwood Canada 51 2.6k 0.7× 1.2k 0.4× 1.9k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 4.4k 2.0× 153 8.9k
Olivier Kah France 57 4.6k 1.2× 1.6k 0.5× 3.9k 1.4× 799 0.3× 2.5k 1.2× 149 9.5k
Tetsuya Hirano Japan 51 2.4k 0.6× 4.2k 1.3× 1.0k 0.4× 891 0.4× 342 0.2× 220 7.5k
Alexander P. Scott United Kingdom 62 6.1k 1.6× 4.7k 1.5× 2.4k 0.8× 298 0.1× 1.0k 0.5× 231 11.9k
Stacia A. Sower United States 39 2.1k 0.5× 1.2k 0.4× 1.3k 0.5× 588 0.2× 2.1k 1.0× 169 5.2k
Haoran Lin China 42 1.9k 0.5× 1.4k 0.4× 2.4k 0.8× 711 0.3× 1.4k 0.6× 295 6.0k
Akiyoshi Takahashi Japan 39 939 0.2× 1.3k 0.4× 491 0.2× 1.9k 0.8× 546 0.3× 166 4.5k
Ishwar S. Parhar Malaysia 43 1.6k 0.4× 621 0.2× 1.9k 0.7× 881 0.4× 2.7k 1.3× 194 5.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hiroshi Kawauchi

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Naudé, Ryno J., Willem Oelofsen, Akiyoshi Takahashi, Masafumi Amano, & Hiroshi Kawauchi. (2006). Molecular cloning and characterization of preproopiomelanocortin (prePOMC) cDNA from the ostrich (Struthio camelus). General and Comparative Endocrinology. 146(3). 310–317. 15 indexed citations
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Takahashi, Akiyoshi, Koichiro Kako, Takafumi Sakai, et al.. (2005). Promoter activity of sea lamprey proopiocortin and proopiomelanotropin genes in AtT-20/D16v cells. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 144(2). 182–187. 4 indexed citations
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Kawauchi, Hiroshi, Hideki Endo, Hirohito M. Kondo, et al.. (2005). Regulatory expression of lipoxin A4 receptor in physiologically estrus cycle and pathologically endometriosis. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 59(6). 330–338. 29 indexed citations
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Takahashi, Akiyoshi, Takeshi Yamanome, Masafumi Amano, et al.. (2004). Possible involvement of melanin-concentrating hormone in food intake in a teleost fish, barfin flounder. Peptides. 25(10). 1613–1622. 100 indexed citations
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Moriyama, Shunsuke & Hiroshi Kawauchi. (2001). Growth regulation by growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I in teleosts. Toxicology. 26(1-2). 23–27. 4 indexed citations
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Moriyama, Shunsuke, et al.. (1999). CLONING OF LAMPREY INSULIN - LIKE GROWTH FACTOR cDNA. 14. 32. 1 indexed citations
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Koide, Yoshio, Harold Papkoff, & Hiroshi Kawauchi. (1995). THE COMPLETE AMINO ACID SEQUENCE OF LUTROPIN FROM A REPTILE, THE SEA TURTLE. 10. 24. 2 indexed citations
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Takayama, Yoshinaga, Masao Ono, Mariann Rand‐Weaver, & Hiroshi Kawauchi. (1991). Greater conservation of somatolactin, a presumed pituitary hormone of the growth hormone/prolactin family, than of growth hormone in teleost fish. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 83(3). 366–374. 53 indexed citations
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Nozaki, Masumi, Nobuko Naito, Penny Swanson, et al.. (1990). Salmonid pituitary gonadotrophs II. Ontogeny of GTH I and GTH II cells in the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri irideus). General and Comparative Endocrinology. 77(3). 358–367. 102 indexed citations
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Kariya, Yutaka, Nobuyuki Sato, Ichiro Kawazoe, et al.. (1989). Isolation and Characterization of Growth Hormone from a Marine Fish, Tuna (Thunnus albacares). Agricultural and Biological Chemistry. 53(6). 1679–1687. 1 indexed citations
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Collie, Nathan L., Jonathan P. Bolton, Hiroshi Kawauchi, & Tetsuya Hirano. (1989). Survival of salmonids in seawater and the time-frame of growth hormone action. Fish Physiology and Biochemistry. 7(1-6). 315–321. 42 indexed citations
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Swanson, Penny, et al.. (1988). Radioimmunoassay of salmon growth hormone (GH) using recombinant chum salmon GH. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 28(4). 2 indexed citations
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Kawazoe, Ichiro, et al.. (1988). Isolation and characterization of growth hormone from yellowtail Seriola quineqeradiata.. NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI. 54(3). 393–399. 24 indexed citations
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Kuwana, Yoshihisa, Tetsurō Kuga, Susumu Sekine, et al.. (1988). Cloning and expression of cDNA for salmon prolactin in Escherichia coli.. Agricultural and Biological Chemistry. 52(4). 1033–1039. 9 indexed citations
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Itoh, Hiromichi, Kunimasa Suzuki, & Hiroshi Kawauchi. (1988). The complete amino acid sequences of β-subunits of two distinc chum salmon GTHs. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 71(3). 438–451. 62 indexed citations
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Naito, Nobuko, Ichiro Kawazoe, Yasumitsu Nakai, & Hiroshi Kawauchi. (1988). Melanin-concentrating hormone-like immunoreactive material in the rat hypothalamus; characterization and subcellular localization. Cell and Tissue Research. 253(2). 291–5. 40 indexed citations
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Naito, Nobuko, Yuta Nakai, & Hiroshi Kawauchi. (1986). MCH-IMMUNOREACTIVE NERVE TERMINALS IN THE NEUROINTERMEDIATE LOBE OF RAINBOW TROUT : Endocrinology. ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 3(6). 1079. 1 indexed citations
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Yasuda, Akikazu, Hiromichi Itoh, & Hiroshi Kawauchi. (1986). Primary structure of chum salmon prolactins: Occurrence of highly conserved regions. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 244(2). 528–541. 92 indexed citations
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Muramoto, Koji, Hiroshi Kawauchi, & Katura Tuzimura. (1978). Sequence determination of peptide by the combined use of fluoresceinisothiocyanate and phenylisothiocyanate.. Agricultural and Biological Chemistry. 42(8). 1559–1563. 22 indexed citations
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Kawauchi, Hiroshi, et al.. (1977). A new imino acid, L-1,4-thiazane-3-carboxylic acid from Heterochordaria abietina.. NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI. 43(11). 1293–1297.

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