Kenji Iwao

1.9k total citations
31 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Kenji Iwao is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenji Iwao has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Ecology, 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Kenji Iwao's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (22 papers), Marine and fisheries research (13 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (5 papers). Kenji Iwao is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (22 papers), Marine and fisheries research (13 papers) and Marine and coastal plant biology (5 papers). Kenji Iwao collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and India. Kenji Iwao's co-authors include Hironobu Fukami, Ann F. Budd, Nancy­ Knowlton­, M. Omori, Toshitaka Fujisawa, Masayuki Hatta, Antônio M. Solé‐Cava, Gustav Paulay, Chaolun Allen Chen and Takeshi Hayashibara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Kenji Iwao

31 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kenji Iwao Japan 16 1.2k 576 523 338 184 31 1.4k
Roberto Arrigoni Italy 23 1.2k 1.0× 417 0.7× 411 0.8× 514 1.5× 233 1.3× 58 1.3k
Robert A. Kinzie United States 21 1.2k 1.0× 761 1.3× 506 1.0× 423 1.3× 135 0.7× 33 1.7k
Marcelo Visentini Kitahara Brazil 25 1.6k 1.3× 672 1.2× 730 1.4× 485 1.4× 316 1.7× 94 1.9k
Frédéric Sinniger Japan 23 1.4k 1.1× 651 1.1× 453 0.9× 196 0.6× 289 1.6× 66 1.5k
Francesca Benzoni Italy 28 2.2k 1.8× 885 1.5× 774 1.5× 841 2.5× 318 1.7× 133 2.4k
Alexander M. Kerr Guam 22 933 0.8× 499 0.9× 488 0.9× 192 0.6× 78 0.4× 47 1.5k
Michel Pichon France 29 2.1k 1.7× 1.3k 2.2× 973 1.9× 527 1.6× 138 0.8× 60 2.4k
Jean‐Georges Harmelin France 22 1.4k 1.2× 781 1.4× 1.7k 3.2× 266 0.8× 130 0.7× 54 2.1k
Daniel Wagner United States 25 1.9k 1.5× 963 1.7× 1.0k 2.0× 383 1.1× 101 0.5× 75 2.2k
Bertrand Richer de Forges France 19 1.2k 1.0× 818 1.4× 575 1.1× 251 0.7× 114 0.6× 129 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Kenji Iwao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kenji Iwao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenji Iwao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kenji Iwao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kenji Iwao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kenji Iwao. Kenji Iwao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Isomura, Naoko, Nina Yasuda, Taisei Kikuchi, et al.. (2024). Effect of the frequency of multi-specific synchronous spawning on genetic introgression among three Acropora species. Coral Reefs. 43(5). 1497–1509. 1 indexed citations
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Iwao, Kenji, et al.. (2022). First evidence for backcrossing of F1 hybrids in Acropora corals under sperm competition. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 5356–5356. 3 indexed citations
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Fukami, Hironobu, Kenji Iwao, Naoki H. Kumagai, Masaya Morita, & Naoko Isomura. (2019). Maternal inheritance of F1 hybrid morphology and colony shape in the coral genus Acropora. PeerJ. 7. e6429–e6429. 7 indexed citations
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Morita, Masaya, et al.. (2019). Reproductive strategies in the intercrossing corals Acropora donei and A. tenuis to prevent hybridization. Coral Reefs. 38(6). 1211–1223. 11 indexed citations
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Isomura, Naoko, Kenji Iwao, Masaya Morita, & Hironobu Fukami. (2016). Spawning and fertility of F1 hybrids of the coral genus Acropora in the Indo-Pacific. Coral Reefs. 35(3). 851–855. 17 indexed citations
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Isomura, Naoko, Kenji Iwao, & Hironobu Fukami. (2013). Possible Natural Hybridization of Two Morphologically Distinct Species of Acropora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) in the Pacific: Fertilization and Larval Survival Rates. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e56701–e56701. 32 indexed citations
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Iwao, Kenji, et al.. (2010). 移植されたウスエダミドリイシ Acropora tenuis(Dana)が卵から養殖して4年後に生涯で初めて産卵した. 12(1). 47. 5 indexed citations
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Ōmori, Makoto & Kenji Iwao. (2009). A novel substrate (the “coral peg”) for deploying sexually propagated corals for reef restoration. Galaxea Journal of Coral Reef Studies. 11(1). 39–39. 11 indexed citations
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Fukami, Hironobu, Chaolun Allen Chen, Ann F. Budd, et al.. (2008). Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria). PLoS ONE. 3(9). e3222–e3222. 255 indexed citations
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Ōmori, Makoto, et al.. (2007). Survivorship and vertical distribution of coral embryos and planula larvae in floating rearing ponds. 8(2). 77–81. 11 indexed citations
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Harii, Saki, Kazuo Nadaoka, Masanobu Yamamoto, & Kenji Iwao. (2007). Temporal changes in settlement, lipid content and lipid composition of larvae of the spawning hermatypic coral Acropora tenuis. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 346. 89–96. 114 indexed citations
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Omori, M., Kenji Iwao, & Masato Tamura. (2007). Growth of transplanted Acropora tenuis 2 years after egg culture. Coral Reefs. 27(1). 165–165. 47 indexed citations
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Arvedlund, Michael, Akihisa Hattori, Kenji Iwao, & Akihiro Takemura. (2006). When cleanerfish become anemonefish. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 86(5). 1265–1266. 2 indexed citations
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Yuyama, Ikuko, Hideki Hayakawa, Hirotoshi Endo, et al.. (2005). Identification of symbiotically expressed coral mRNAs using a model infection system. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 336(3). 793–798. 38 indexed citations
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Saraswati, Pratul Kumar, et al.. (2005). Magnesium and strontium compositions of recent symbiont-bearing benthic foraminifera. Marine Micropaleontology. 58(1). 31–44. 40 indexed citations
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Hayashibara, Takeshi, Kenji Iwao, & Makoto Ōmori. (2004). Induction and control of spawning in Okinawan staghorn corals. Coral Reefs. 23(3). 406–409. 32 indexed citations
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Fukami, Hironobu, Ann F. Budd, Gustav Paulay, et al.. (2004). Conventional taxonomy obscures deep divergence between Pacific and Atlantic corals. Nature. 427(6977). 832–835. 274 indexed citations
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Saraswati, Pratul Kumar, et al.. (2003). Distribution of Larger Foraminifera in the Reef Sediments of Akajima, Okinawa, Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of India. 61(1). 16–21. 4 indexed citations
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Iwao, Kenji. (2002). Molecular classification of primary breast tumors possessing distinct prognostic properties. Human Molecular Genetics. 11(2). 199–206. 56 indexed citations
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Iwao, Kenji, et al.. (1996). An Ancient Chemosensory Mechanism Brings New Life to Coral Reefs. Biological Bulletin. 191(2). 149–154. 164 indexed citations

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