Kentaro Arikawa

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
192 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Kentaro Arikawa is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kentaro Arikawa has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 111 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 71 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Kentaro Arikawa's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (115 papers), Plant and animal studies (100 papers) and Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (46 papers). Kentaro Arikawa is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (115 papers), Plant and animal studies (100 papers) and Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (46 papers). Kentaro Arikawa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Netherlands and United States. Kentaro Arikawa's co-authors include Doekele G. Stavenga, Michiyo Kinoshita, David S. Williams, Motohiro Wakakuwa, G. Palasantzas, Eisuke Eguchi, Almut Kelber, Yoshikazu Nishikawa, Atsuko Matsushita and Gregor Belušič and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kentaro Arikawa

190 papers receiving 6.2k 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.

Evolution of Insect Color Vision: From Spectral Sensitivity to Visual Ecology

2020 228 citations Doekele G. Stavenga, Kentaro Arikawa et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kentaro Arikawa Japan	44	3.1k	3.1k	1.9k	1.2k	884	192	6.4k
Cheryl Y. Hayashi United States	49	954 0.3×	992 0.3×	2.9k 1.5×	3.4k 2.9×	2.0k 2.3×	112	8.4k
Dan‐Eric Nilsson Sweden	41	1.7k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	864 0.5×	1.8k 1.5×	183 0.2×	133	5.4k
Guojie Zhang China	49	447 0.1×	1.5k 0.5×	3.6k 1.9×	3.6k 3.0×	1.1k 1.2×	224	8.8k
Robert D. Reed United States	36	829 0.3×	2.0k 0.6×	2.2k 1.2×	860 0.7×	409 0.5×	90	3.6k
Ingi Agnarsson United States	43	304 0.1×	2.6k 0.9×	3.8k 2.0×	1.3k 1.1×	556 0.6×	159	6.5k
Rickard Ignell Sweden	40	2.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	1.6k 0.9×	422 0.4×	2.3k 2.6×	143	4.8k
Antónia Monteiro Singapore	39	1.4k 0.4×	2.7k 0.9×	2.7k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	641 0.7×	152	5.0k
Michel C. Milinkovitch Switzerland	46	252 0.1×	1.5k 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.7×	274 0.3×	125	7.0k
Daniel Robert United Kingdom	39	1.2k 0.4×	2.6k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	184 0.2×	589 0.7×	155	4.8k
Doekele G. Stavenga Netherlands	51	3.4k 1.1×	4.1k 1.3×	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	744 0.8×	207	8.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kentaro Arikawa

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Kinoshita, Michiyo & Kentaro Arikawa. (2026). Vision in flower foraging butterflies: from functional organization of the retina to encoding in the brain. Journal of Experimental Biology. 229(Suppl_1).

Arikawa, Kentaro, et al.. (2026). The functional morphology of hawkmoth lamina monopolar cells reveals mechanisms of spatial processing in insect motion vision. Current Biology. 36(3). 773–783.e4.

Arikawa, Kentaro, et al.. (2023). Prevalence of Sapovirus and Astrovirus in Pediatric Infectious Gastroenteritis Surveillance in Kobe City, Japan, 2016–2019. Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases. 76(4). 246–250. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Pei‐Ju, Primož Pirih, Andrej Meglič, et al.. (2022). Simple and complex, sexually dimorphic retinal mosaic of fritillary butterflies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1862). 20210276–20210276. 13 indexed citations

Pirih, Primož, Andrej Meglič, Doekele G. Stavenga, Kentaro Arikawa, & Gregor Belušič. (2020). The red admiral butterfly’s living light sensors and signals. Faraday Discussions. 223. 81–97. 8 indexed citations

Pirih, Primož, et al.. (2019). Compound eyes of the small white butterfly Pieris rapae have three distinct classes of red photoreceptors. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 205(4). 553–565. 17 indexed citations

Pirih, Primož, et al.. (2018). The giant butterfly-moth Paysandisia archon has spectrally rich apposition eyes with unique light-dependent photoreceptor dynamics. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 204(7). 639–651. 18 indexed citations

Kawasaki, Masashi, Michiyo Kinoshita, Matti Weckström, & Kentaro Arikawa. (2015). Difference in dynamic properties of photoreceptors in a butterfly, Papilio xuthus: possible segregation of motion and color processing. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 201(12). 1115–1123. 10 indexed citations

Wakakuwa, Motohiro, et al.. (2014). Relationship between Action Spectrum and Spectral Sensitivity of Compound Eyes Relating Phototactic Behavior of the Western Flower Thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis. Japanese Journal of Applied Entomology and Zoology. 58(3). 177–185. 16 indexed citations

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Matsumoto, Yukiko, Motohiro Wakakuwa, Fumiko Yukuhiro, Kentaro Arikawa, & Hiroaki Noda. (2014). Attraction to Different Wavelength Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), the Compound Eye Structure, and opsin Genes in Nilaparvata lugens. Japanese Journal of Applied Entomology and Zoology. 58(2). 111–118. 12 indexed citations

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Endo, Nobuyuki, Motohiro Wakakuwa, Kentaro Arikawa, & Mantaro Hironaka. (2014). Spectral Preference in a Free-flying Condition of the Southern Green Stink Bug, Nezara viridula (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Japanese Journal of Applied Entomology and Zoology. 58(2). 163–163. 3 indexed citations

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Arikawa, Kentaro, et al.. (2009). Prevalence and Properties of Diarrheagenic <i>Escherichia coli</i> among Healthy Individuals in Osaka City, Japan. Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases. 62(4). 318–323. 26 indexed citations

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Yasui, Chikako, et al.. (2008). Evaluation of Caenorhabditis elegans as the Host in an Infection Model for Food-borne Pathogens. Japanese Journal of Food Microbiology. 25(4). 137–147. 7 indexed citations

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Kawada, Hitoshi, et al.. (2005). Comparative Study on the Nocturnal Behavior of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 56(Supplement). 46–46. 6 indexed citations

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Arikawa, Kentaro, et al.. (2004). Action spectrum of locomotor suppression at night in the cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera. 137–137. 1 indexed citations

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Qiu, Xudong, et al.. (2002). Ommatidial heterogeneity in the compound eye of the male small white butterfly, Pieris rapae crucivora. Cell and Tissue Research. 307(3). 371–379. 45 indexed citations

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Zhou, Ziwen, Junetsu Ogasawara, Yoshikazu Nishikawa, et al.. (2002). An outbreak of gastroenteritis in Osaka, Japan due to Escherichia coli serogroup O166[ratio ]H15 that had a coding gene for enteroaggregative E. coli heat-stable enterotoxin 1 (EAST1). Epidemiology and Infection. 128(3). 363–371. 54 indexed citations

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Wakakuwa, Motohiro, Koichi Ozaki, & Kentaro Arikawa. (2001). LOCALIZATION AND FUNCTION OF THE RETINOL-BINDING PROTEIN IN THE BUTTERFLY EYES(Physiology)(Proceeding of the Seventy-Third Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan). ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 18. 101. 1 indexed citations

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Matsushita, Atsuko, Kentaro Arikawa, & Eisuke Eguchi. (1991). Dynamic morphology on the rhabdom formation in the compound eye of silkworm pupae(Bombyx mori)(Physiology)(Proceedings of the Sixty-Second Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan). ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 8(6). 1029. 1 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Tatsuo, Kentaro Arikawa, & Eisuke Eguchi. (1985). The effects of light and temperature on the rhodopsin-porphyropsin visual system of the crayfish, Procambarus clarkii. ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 2(4). 455–461. 39 indexed citations

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