Kazuki Tainaka

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Kazuki Tainaka is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Kazuki Tainaka has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Biophysics and 6 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Kazuki Tainaka's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (18 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (17 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (9 papers). Kazuki Tainaka is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (18 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (17 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (9 papers). Kazuki Tainaka collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and France. Kazuki Tainaka's co-authors include Hiroki R. Ueda, Akimitsu Okamoto, Etsuo A. Susaki, Dimitri Perrin, Isao Saito, Akihiro Kuno, Hiroko Yukinaga, Hiroshi Kiyonari, Yoshihiro Shimizu and Shimpei I. Kubota and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Kazuki Tainaka

57 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Whole-Brain Imaging with Single-Cell Resolution Using Chemical Cocktails and Computational Analysis

2014 910 citations Etsuo A. Susaki, Kazuki Tainaka et al. profile →
Advanced CUBIC protocols for whole-brain and whole-body clearing and imaging

2015 512 citations Etsuo A. Susaki, Kazuki Tainaka et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kazuki Tainaka Japan	25	1.7k	1.1k	604	345	269	61	3.4k
Harshad D. Vishwasrao United States	19	1.2k 0.7×	603 0.6×	525 0.9×	635 1.8×	382 1.4×	30	2.6k
Ammasi Periasamy United States	34	2.3k 1.4×	1.7k 1.6×	683 1.1×	331 1.0×	289 1.1×	108	4.2k
Susana Rocha Belgium	29	1.8k 1.0×	499 0.5×	632 1.0×	282 0.8×	347 1.3×	97	3.4k
Yoshihiro Shimizu Japan	32	3.9k 2.3×	632 0.6×	650 1.1×	329 1.0×	220 0.8×	162	5.5k
Daria M. Shcherbakova United States	28	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	990 1.6×	910 2.6×	328 1.2×	62	3.5k
Christoph Biskup Germany	29	1.2k 0.7×	624 0.6×	306 0.5×	410 1.2×	167 0.6×	62	2.8k
Yongxin Zhao United States	26	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	634 1.0×	991 2.9×	255 0.9×	53	4.0k
Rinshi S. Kasai Japan	26	3.1k 1.8×	760 0.7×	598 1.0×	531 1.5×	125 0.5×	44	4.2k
Kiryl D. Piatkevich United States	28	1.8k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	560 0.9×	1.2k 3.5×	239 0.9×	73	3.4k
Gregory W. Fisher United States	25	1.3k 0.8×	385 0.4×	518 0.9×	173 0.5×	150 0.6×	47	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kazuki Tainaka

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Liu, Xin-Yi, Motokazu Uchigashima, Hitoshi Uchida, et al.. (2025). SeeThrough: a rationally designed skull clearing technique for in vivo brain imaging. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7584–7584.

Iba, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2025). Nature visible only digitally. Patterns. 6(4). 101210–101210. 1 indexed citations

Saito, Yutaro, Naoki Yamada, Masafumi Kuroda, et al.. (2025). Imaging Heterogeneous Patterns of Aminopeptidase N Activity in Hierarchical Tissue Structures Through High‐Resolution Whole‐Organ 3D Mapping. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(22). e202504668–e202504668. 1 indexed citations

Yoshioka, Nozomu, Masayuki Kurose, Hiromi Sano, et al.. (2024). Sensory-motor circuit is a therapeutic target for dystonia musculorum mice, a model of hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy 6. Science Advances. 10(30). eadj9335–eadj9335. 1 indexed citations

Saito, Yutaro, Naoki Yamada, Yoichi Takakusagi, et al.. (2024). Whole-Body and Whole-Organ 3D Imaging of Hypoxia Using an Activatable Covalent Fluorescent Probe Compatible with Tissue Clearing. ACS Nano. 18(6). 5167–5179. 10 indexed citations

Shimizu, Hiroshi, Masato Kanazawa, Jiro Idezuka, et al.. (2024). Blood–brain barrier dysfunction in multiple system atrophy: A human postmortem study. Neuropathology. 45(3). 210–222. 2 indexed citations

Saito, Yutaro, Naoki Yamada, Jumpei Morimoto, et al.. (2024). Click3D: Click reaction across deep tissues for whole-organ 3D fluorescence imaging. Science Advances. 10(29). eado8471–eado8471. 7 indexed citations

Mano, Tomoyuki, et al.. (2024). The activation of the piriform cortex to lateral septum pathway during chronic social defeat stress is crucial for the induction of behavioral disturbance in mice. Neuropsychopharmacology. 50(5). 828–840. 2 indexed citations

Nakamura, Yuka, Mami Matsumoto, Satoshi Miyashita, et al.. (2023). Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neuron tracing reveals structural and functional connectivity for locomotion in the mouse spinal cord. eLife. 12. 14 indexed citations

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Nakamori, Masayuki, et al.. (2023). Intracerebral Distribution of CAG Repeat-Binding Small Molecule Visualized by Whole-Brain Imaging. Bioconjugate Chemistry. 34(12). 2187–2193. 4 indexed citations

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Yamaguchi, Manako, Hirofumi Nakaoka, Kazuaki Suda, et al.. (2022). Spatiotemporal dynamics of clonal selection and diversification in normal endometrial epithelium. Nature Communications. 13(1). 943–943. 34 indexed citations

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Kubota, Shimpei I., Kei Takahashi, Tomoyuki Mano, et al.. (2021). Whole-organ analysis of TGF-β-mediated remodelling of the tumour microenvironment by tissue clearing. Communications Biology. 4(1). 294–294. 17 indexed citations

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Watanabe‐Takano, Haruko, Hiroki Ochi, Ayano Chiba, et al.. (2021). Mechanical load regulates bone growth via periosteal Osteocrin. Cell Reports. 36(2). 109380–109380. 43 indexed citations

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Murakami, Tatsuya C., Tomoyuki Mano, Shuhei A. Horiguchi, et al.. (2018). A three-dimensional single-cell-resolution whole-brain atlas using CUBIC-X expansion microscopy and tissue clearing. Nature Neuroscience. 21(4). 625–637. 196 indexed citations

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Shinohara, Yuta, Maki Ukai‐Tadenuma, Takatsugu Hirokawa, et al.. (2017). Temperature-Sensitive Substrate and Product Binding Underlie Temperature-Compensated Phosphorylation in the Clock. Molecular Cell. 67(5). 783–798.e20. 58 indexed citations

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Ikeda, Shuji, Kazuki Tainaka, Katsuhiko Matsumoto, et al.. (2014). Non-Enzymatic DNA Cleavage Reaction Induced by 5-Ethynyluracil in Methylamine Aqueous Solution and Application to DNA Concatenation. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e92369–e92369. 4 indexed citations

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Osakada, Yasuko, Kiyohiko Kawai, Takashi Tachikawa, et al.. (2011). Generation of Singlet Oxygen during Photosensitized One‐Electron Oxidation of DNA. Chemistry - A European Journal. 18(4). 1060–1063. 13 indexed citations

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Okamoto, Akimitsu, et al.. (2006). Simple SNP typing assay using a base-discriminating fluorescent probe. Molecular BioSystems. 2(2). 122–127. 44 indexed citations

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Tainaka, Kazuki, Kazuo Tanaka, & Akimitsu Okamoto. (2006). Development of bipyridine-modified nucleobase for methylcytosine-selective crosslink reaction. Nucleic Acids Symposium Series. 50(1). 129–130. 2 indexed citations

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Okamoto, Akimitsu, et al.. (2005). Monitoring DNA Structures by Dual Fluorescence of Pyrene Derivatives. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(38). 13128–13129. 80 indexed citations

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