Ken-ichi Noma

6.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
55 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Ken-ichi Noma is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken-ichi Noma has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Plant Science and 7 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Ken-ichi Noma's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (34 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (18 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (12 papers). Ken-ichi Noma is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (34 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (18 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (12 papers). Ken-ichi Noma collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Russia. Ken-ichi Noma's co-authors include Shiv I. S. Grewal, Ira M. Hall, C. David Allis, Hugh P. Cam, Songtao Jia, Osamu Iwasaki, Amikam Cohen, Nabieh Ayoub, Hideki Tanizawa and Martin Zofall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Ken-ichi Noma

54 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Establishment and Maintenance of a Heterochromatin Domain

2002 710 citations Ira M. Hall, Ken-ichi Noma et al. Science profile →
Transitions in Distinct Histone H3 Methylation Patterns at the Heterochromatin Domain Boundaries

2001 600 citations Ken-ichi Noma, C. David Allis et al. Science profile →
NAD+ metabolism governs the proinflammatory senescence-associated secretome

2019 282 citations Timothy Nacarelli, Lena Lau et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ken-ichi Noma United States	27	4.1k	1.6k	352	330	223	55	4.7k
André Verdel France	24	4.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	98 0.3×	302 0.9×	425 1.9×	38	4.5k
Gang Bao United States	9	4.1k 1.0×	520 0.3×	148 0.4×	895 2.7×	115 0.5×	11	4.5k
Tomoyasu Sugiyama United States	18	3.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	81 0.2×	181 0.5×	247 1.1×	23	3.3k
Claus M. Azzalin Switzerland	29	3.3k 0.8×	816 0.5×	2.0k 5.7×	295 0.9×	323 1.4×	51	4.0k
Rohinton T. Kamakaka United States	30	3.6k 0.9×	811 0.5×	68 0.2×	377 1.1×	139 0.6×	57	3.8k
Michael Bulger United States	25	3.4k 0.8×	477 0.3×	163 0.5×	448 1.4×	235 1.1×	42	3.9k
Jonathan Houseley United Kingdom	23	3.5k 0.8×	457 0.3×	86 0.2×	275 0.8×	600 2.7×	43	3.9k
Femke Simmer Netherlands	20	3.1k 0.8×	685 0.4×	129 0.4×	457 1.4×	340 1.5×	51	4.2k
Sherif Abou Elela Canada	38	4.0k 1.0×	358 0.2×	181 0.5×	227 0.7×	728 3.3×	96	4.4k
Toshio Tsukiyama United States	39	4.9k 1.2×	937 0.6×	50 0.1×	771 2.3×	179 0.8×	74	5.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken-ichi Noma

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Tanizawa, Hideki, et al.. (2026). TRF-1 Mediates PRC2 Function at Ectopic Telomere Repeats in Neurospora crassa. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 1–15.

Ohta, Shinya, Jun‐ichirou Ohzeki, Nobuko Sato, et al.. (2024). Novel role of zinc-finger protein 518 in heterochromatin formation on α-satellite DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(2). 1 indexed citations

Wang, Xuebing, Claire Chung, Hideki Tanizawa, et al.. (2024). Chemo-Senolytic Therapeutic Potential against Angiosarcoma. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 144(10). 2285–2297.e13. 3 indexed citations

Sakuno, Takeshi, Hideki Tanizawa, Osamu Iwasaki, et al.. (2022). Rec8 Cohesin-mediated Axis-loop chromatin architecture is required for meiotic recombination. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(7). 3799–3816. 11 indexed citations

Nacarelli, Timothy, Lena Lau, Takeshi Fukumoto, et al.. (2019). NAD+ metabolism governs the proinflammatory senescence-associated secretome. Nature Cell Biology. 21(3). 397–407. 282 indexed citations breakdown →

Wu, Shuai, Nail Fatkhutdinov, Leah F. Rosin, et al.. (2019). ARID1A spatially partitions interphase chromosomes. Science Advances. 5(5). eaaw5294–eaaw5294. 25 indexed citations

Tanizawa, Hideki, Kyoung-Dong Kim, Osamu Iwasaki, & Ken-ichi Noma. (2017). Architectural alterations of the fission yeast genome during the cell cycle. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 24(11). 965–976. 40 indexed citations

Aird, Katherine M., Osamu Iwasaki, Andrew V. Kossenkov, et al.. (2016). HMGB2 orchestrates the chromatin landscape of senescence-associated secretory phenotype gene loci. The Journal of Cell Biology. 215(3). 325–334. 129 indexed citations

Iwasaki, Osamu, et al.. (2016). An IF–FISH Approach for Covisualization of Gene Loci and Nuclear Architecture in Fission Yeast. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 574. 167–180. 3 indexed citations

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Iwasaki, Osamu, Christopher J. Corcoran, & Ken-ichi Noma. (2015). Involvement of condensin-directed gene associations in the organization and regulation of chromosome territories during the cell cycle. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(8). 3618–3628. 21 indexed citations

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Iwasaki, Osamu, et al.. (2015). Chromatin Immunoprecipitation to Detect DNA Replication and Repair Factors. Methods in molecular biology. 1300. 169–186. 5 indexed citations

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Tanizawa, Hideki & Ken-ichi Noma. (2011). Unravelling global genome organization by 3C-seq. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 23(2). 213–221. 14 indexed citations

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Iwasaki, Osamu & Ken-ichi Noma. (2010). Global genome organization mediated by RNA polymerase III-transcribed genes in fission yeast. Gene. 493(2). 195–200. 19 indexed citations

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Tanizawa, Hideki, Osamu Iwasaki, Atsunari Tanaka, et al.. (2010). Mapping of long-range associations throughout the fission yeast genome reveals global genome organization linked to transcriptional regulation. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(22). 8164–8177. 169 indexed citations

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Iwasaki, Osamu, Atsunari Tanaka, Hideki Tanizawa, Shiv I. S. Grewal, & Ken-ichi Noma. (2009). Centromeric Localization of Dispersed Pol III Genes in Fission Yeast. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 21(2). 254–265. 96 indexed citations

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Sugiyama, Tomoyasu, Hugh P. Cam, Rie Sugiyama, et al.. (2007). SHREC, an Effector Complex for Heterochromatic Transcriptional Silencing. Cell. 128(3). 491–504. 264 indexed citations

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Morris, Stephanie A., Yoichiro Shibata, Ken-ichi Noma, et al.. (2005). Histone H3 K36 Methylation Is Associated with Transcription Elongation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Eukaryotic Cell. 4(8). 1446–1454. 93 indexed citations

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Jia, Songtao, Ken-ichi Noma, & Shiv I. S. Grewal. (2004). RNAi-Independent Heterochromatin Nucleation by the Stress-Activated ATF/CREB Family Proteins. Science. 304(5679). 1971–1976. 273 indexed citations

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Hall, Ira M., et al.. (2002). Establishment and Maintenance of a Heterochromatin Domain. Science. 297(5590). 2232–2237. 710 indexed citations breakdown →

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Noma, Ken-ichi, C. David Allis, & Shiv I. S. Grewal. (2001). Transitions in Distinct Histone H3 Methylation Patterns at the Heterochromatin Domain Boundaries. Science. 293(5532). 1150–1155. 600 indexed citations breakdown →

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