Kensuke Inaba

11.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
107 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Kensuke Inaba is a scholar working on Immunology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Kensuke Inaba has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Immunology, 31 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 23 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Kensuke Inaba's work include Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (30 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (28 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (23 papers). Kensuke Inaba is often cited by papers focused on Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (30 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (28 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (23 papers). Kensuke Inaba collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Switzerland. Kensuke Inaba's co-authors include Ralph M. Steinman, Shin‐ichi Muramatsu, Muneo Inaba, Susumu Ikehara, Nikolaus Romani, Masashi Deguchi, R M Steinman, Mary T. Crowley, Margit D. Witmer-Pack and Angela Granelli‐Piperno and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kensuke Inaba

104 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Generation of large numbers of dendritic cells from mouse bone marrow cultures supplemented with granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor.

1992 3.3k citations Kensuke Inaba, Muneo Inaba et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →
The tissue distribution of the B7-2 costimulator in mice: abundant expression on dendritic cells in situ and during maturation in vitro.

1994 501 citations Kensuke Inaba, Margit D. Witmer-Pack et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →
Presentation of exogenous protein antigens by dendritic cells to T cell clones. Intact protein is presented best by immature, epidermal Langerhans cells.

1989 447 citations Nikolaus Romani, Mary T. Crowley et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →
Identification of proliferating dendritic cell precursors in mouse blood.

1992 383 citations Kensuke Inaba, Ralph M. Steinman et al. The Journal of Experimental Medicine profile →
The cell surface of mouse dendritic cells: FACS analyses of dendritic cells from different tissues including thymus

1989 291 citations Mary T. Crowley, Kensuke Inaba et al. profile →
100,000-spin coherent Ising machine

2021 194 citations Toshimori Honjo, Kensuke Inaba et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kensuke Inaba Japan	36	7.1k	1.6k	931	565	537	107	9.2k
Michael Meyer‐Hermann Germany	36	2.8k 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	505 0.5×	97 0.2×	437 0.8×	158	5.3k
Grégoire Altan‐Bonnet United States	36	2.5k 0.4×	3.3k 2.0×	1.0k 1.1×	325 0.6×	352 0.7×	76	6.8k
O. Fackler Germany	54	2.7k 0.4×	2.6k 1.6×	396 0.4×	219 0.4×	1.5k 2.7×	194	8.8k
Gil Katz Israel	30	2.3k 0.3×	849 0.5×	550 0.6×	476 0.8×	497 0.9×	81	4.4k
Jean Salamero France	41	2.2k 0.3×	2.6k 1.6×	581 0.6×	82 0.1×	479 0.9×	118	6.1k
Gary D. Luker United States	53	2.6k 0.4×	4.0k 2.4×	4.3k 4.6×	83 0.1×	851 1.6×	225	11.4k
Robert H. Insall United Kingdom	50	871 0.1×	3.7k 2.3×	439 0.5×	182 0.3×	463 0.9×	181	8.6k
John L. Spouge United States	29	699 0.1×	3.0k 1.8×	154 0.2×	138 0.2×	374 0.7×	119	5.1k
Yasushi Kawaguchi Japan	55	3.1k 0.4×	2.8k 1.7×	1.4k 1.5×	319 0.6×	5.4k 10.0×	313	10.9k
E. Sally Ward United States	58	3.7k 0.5×	5.7k 3.5×	977 1.0×	403 0.7×	438 0.8×	199	11.6k

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Takesue, Hiroki, Kensuke Inaba, Toshimori Honjo, et al.. (2025). Finding independent sets in large-scale graphs with a coherent Ising machine. Science Advances. 11(7). eads7223–eads7223. 2 indexed citations

Inaba, Kensuke, Takahiro Inagaki, Yasuhiro Yamada, et al.. (2023). Experimental observation of chimera states in spiking neural networks based on degenerate optical parametric oscillators. Communications Physics. 6(1). 7 indexed citations

Inaba, Kensuke, Yasuhiro Yamada, & Hiroki Takesue. (2023). Thermodynamic quantities of two-dimensional Ising models obtained by noisy mean-field annealing and a coherent Ising machine. Physical Review Applied. 20(4).

Inaba, Kensuke, Yasuhiro Yamada, Takuya Ikuta, et al.. (2023). 10-GHz-clock time-multiplexed non-degenerate optical parametric oscillator network with a variable planar lightwave circuit interferometer. Optics Letters. 48(21). 5787–5787. 2 indexed citations

Inaba, Kensuke, Takahiro Inagaki, Koji Igarashi, et al.. (2022). Potts model solver based on hybrid physical and digital architecture. Communications Physics. 5(1). 13 indexed citations

Honjo, Toshimori, Kensuke Inaba, Takahiro Inagaki, et al.. (2022). A coherent Ising machine based on a network of 100,000 degenerate optical parametric oscillator pulses. 405–408. 4 indexed citations

Ikuta, Takuya, Takahiro Inagaki, Kensuke Inaba, et al.. (2020). Continuous and long-term stabilization of degenerate optical parametric oscillators for large-scale optical hybrid computers. Optics Express. 28(26). 38553–38553. 2 indexed citations

Inaba, Kensuke, Margit D. Witmer-Pack, Muneo Inaba, et al.. (1994). The tissue distribution of the B7-2 costimulator in mice: abundant expression on dendritic cells in situ and during maturation in vitro.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 180(5). 1849–1860. 501 indexed citations breakdown →

Inaba, Kensuke, Muneo Inaba, Nikolaus Romani, et al.. (1992). Generation of large numbers of dendritic cells from mouse bone marrow cultures supplemented with granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 176(6). 1693–1702. 3279 indexed citations breakdown →

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Inaba, Muneo, Kensuke Inaba, Yuichiro Adachi, et al.. (1990). Functional analyses of thymic CD5+ B cells. Responsiveness to major histocompatibility complex class II-restricted T blasts but not to lipopolysaccharide or anti-IgM plus interleukin 4.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 171(1). 321–326. 37 indexed citations

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Crowley, Mary T., Kensuke Inaba, & Ralph M. Steinman. (1990). Dendritic cells are the principal cells in mouse spleen bearing immunogenic fragments of foreign proteins.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 172(1). 383–386. 167 indexed citations

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Puré, Ellen, Kensuke Inaba, Mary T. Crowley, et al.. (1990). Antigen processing by epidermal Langerhans cells correlates with the level of biosynthesis of major histocompatibility complex class II molecules and expression of invariant chain.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 172(5). 1459–1469. 177 indexed citations

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Puré, Ellen, Kensuke Inaba, & Joshua P. Metlay. (1988). Lymphokine production by murine T cells in the mixed leukocyte reaction.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 168(2). 795–800. 25 indexed citations

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Inaba, Kensuke, Muneo Inaba, Tatsuo Kinashi, et al.. (1988). Macrophages phagocytose thymic lymphocytes with productively rearranged T cell receptor alpha and beta genes.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 168(6). 2279–2294. 17 indexed citations

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Hirayama, Yoshitaka, Kensuke Inaba, Keiichiro Yoshida, et al.. (1987). Accessory cell functions of dendritic cells and macrophages in the thymic T-cell response to Con A.. PubMed Central. 62(3). 393–9. 7 indexed citations

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Inaba, Kensuke, et al.. (1987). Interleukin 1 enhances T-dependent immune responses by amplifying the function of dendritic cells.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 165(2). 515–530. 184 indexed citations

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Inaba, Kensuke & Ralph M. Steinman. (1987). Monoclonal antibodies to LFA-1 and to CD4 inhibit the mixed leukocyte reaction after the antigen-dependent clustering of dendritic cells and T lymphocytes.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 165(5). 1403–1417. 117 indexed citations

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Inaba, Kensuke, et al.. (1986). Immunologic properties of purified epidermal Langerhans cells. Distinct requirements for stimulation of unprimed and sensitized T lymphocytes.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 164(2). 605–613. 195 indexed citations

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Inaba, Kensuke, M D Witmer, & Ralph M. Steinman. (1984). Clustering of dendritic cells, helper T lymphocytes, and histocompatible B cells during primary antibody responses in vitro.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 160(3). 858–876. 151 indexed citations

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Inaba, Kensuke, Angela Granelli‐Piperno, & R M Steinman. (1983). Dendritic cells induce T lymphocytes to release B cell-stimulating factors by an interleukin 2-dependent mechanism.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 158(6). 2040–2057. 91 indexed citations

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