Kentaro Yano

12.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
204 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Kentaro Yano is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kentaro Yano has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Plant Science, 66 papers in Molecular Biology and 55 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Kentaro Yano's work include Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (46 papers), Advanced Differential Geometry Research (31 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (24 papers). Kentaro Yano is often cited by papers focused on Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (46 papers), Advanced Differential Geometry Research (31 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (24 papers). Kentaro Yano collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Switzerland. Kentaro Yano's co-authors include Samuel I. Goldberg, Kazuki Hamada, Shigeru Ishihara, Shunichi Fukuzumi, Yusuke Yamada, Makoto Matsuoka, Koichiro Aya, Masao Watanabe, Nobuhiro Tsutsumi and Masaaki Kobayashi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kentaro Yano

186 papers receiving 4.8k citations

Hit Papers

The theory of Lie derivat... 1957 2026 1980 2003 1957 100 200 300
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.

  1. The theory of Lie derivatives and its applications
    1957 322 citations Kentaro Yano profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Kentaro Yano 2.5k 1.8k 1.5k 1.2k 1.2k 204 5.7k
Changyou Wang 1.0k 0.4× 347 0.2× 2.1k 1.4× 60 0.0× 647 0.6× 280 4.2k
Yi Ling 2.3k 0.9× 1.5k 0.8× 75 0.0× 1.4k 1.2× 62 0.1× 131 4.9k
Takao Fujita 67 0.0× 464 0.3× 281 0.2× 1.7k 1.3× 1.3k 1.1× 324 7.1k
Sergei Ivanov 351 0.1× 175 0.1× 964 0.6× 270 0.2× 1.2k 1.0× 184 3.5k
Wataru Takahashi 436 0.2× 137 0.1× 1.2k 0.8× 128 0.1× 8.2k 7.1× 291 12.4k
Minoru Murata 2.7k 1.1× 2.2k 1.2× 389 0.3× 17 0.0× 35 0.0× 186 4.3k
Debra Lewis 300 0.1× 355 0.2× 86 0.1× 103 0.1× 105 0.1× 35 1.2k
Takashi Suzuki 348 0.1× 1.1k 0.6× 787 0.5× 23 0.0× 62 0.1× 248 3.1k
Alexander Grigorʼyan 55 0.0× 697 0.4× 2.2k 1.4× 223 0.2× 1.1k 1.0× 143 4.7k
Satoru Murakami 482 0.2× 816 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 6 0.0× 110 0.1× 131 2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Kentaro Yano

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kentaro Yano

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kentaro Yano

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kentaro Yano. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kentaro Yano 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 Kentaro Yano. Kentaro Yano 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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Toda, Erika, Atsuko Kinoshita, Tetsuya Higashiyama, et al.. (2025). Transcriptional dynamics during karyogamy in rice zygotes. Development. 152(2). 1 indexed citations
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Ishii, Takayoshi, et al.. (2024). Wheat Cybrid Plants, OryzaWheat, Regenerated from Wheat–Rice Hybrid Zygotes via in Vitro Fertilization System Possess Wheat–Rice Hybrid Mitochondria. Plant and Cell Physiology. 65(8). 1344–1357. 1 indexed citations
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Tanaka, Hiroyuki, Shohei Yamamoto, Atsushi Toyoda, et al.. (2023). Haplotype-resolved chromosomal-level assembly of wasabi (Eutrema japonicum) genome. Scientific Data. 10(1). 441–441. 6 indexed citations
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Takanashi, Hideki, Hiromi Kajiya‐Kanegae, Asuka Nishimura, et al.. (2022). DOMINANT AWN INHIBITOR Encodes the ALOG Protein Originating from Gene Duplication and Inhibits AWN Elongation by Suppressing Cell Proliferation and Elongation in Sorghum. Plant and Cell Physiology. 63(7). 901–918. 17 indexed citations
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Minamino, Naoki, Tomoaki Nishiyama, Mayuko Sato, et al.. (2022). Phylogenetic distribution and expression pattern analyses identified a divergent basal body assembly protein involved in land plant spermatogenesis. New Phytologist. 236(3). 1182–1196. 4 indexed citations
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Matsuda, Fumio, et al.. (2020). Drought Stress Responses in Context-Specific Genome-Scale Metabolic Models of Arabidopsis thaliana. Metabolites. 10(4). 159–159. 15 indexed citations
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Kiba, Takatoshi, Jun Inaba, Toru Kudo, et al.. (2018). Repression of Nitrogen Starvation Responses by Members of the Arabidopsis GARP-Type Transcription Factor NIGT1/HRS1 Subfamily. The Plant Cell. 30(4). 925–945. 155 indexed citations
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Nakayama, Hokuto, Kaori Igarashi, Masaki Yasugi, et al.. (2017). A GLABRA1 ortholog on LG A9 controls trichome number in the Japanese leafy vegetables Mizuna and Mibuna (Brassica rapa L. subsp. nipposinica L. H. Bailey): evidence from QTL analysis. Journal of Plant Research. 130(3). 539–550. 11 indexed citations
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Mounet, Fabien, Annick Moing, Mariusz Kowalczyk, et al.. (2012). Down-regulation of a single auxin efflux transport protein in tomato induces precocious fruit development. Journal of Experimental Botany. 63(13). 4901–4917. 73 indexed citations
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Fujita, Masahiro, Yoko Mizuta, Takahiko Kubo, et al.. (2010). Rice Expression Atlas In Reproductive Development. Plant and Cell Physiology. 51(12). 2060–2081. 125 indexed citations
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Aya, Koichiro, Miyako Ueguchi‐Tanaka, Maki Kondo, et al.. (2009). Gibberellin Modulates Anther Development in Rice via the Transcriptional Regulation of GAMYB. The Plant Cell. 21(5). 1453–1472. 308 indexed citations
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Yano, Kentaro, et al.. (2009). LQ control problem based on numerical computation with highly guaranteed accuracy using multiple-precision arithmetic. 2009 ICCAS-SICE. 1029–1034. 6 indexed citations
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Yano, Kentaro, et al.. (1981). Isometry of Kaehlerian manifolds to complex projective spaces. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 33(1). 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Bang‐Yen & Kentaro Yano. (1971). On submanifolds of submanifolds of a Riemannian manifold. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 23(3). 8 indexed citations
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Goldberg, Samuel I. & Kentaro Yano. (1970). Noninvariant hypersurfaces of almost contact manifolds. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 22(1). 14 indexed citations
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Yano, Kentaro. (1958). Harmonic and Killing tensor fields in Riemannian spaces with boundary.. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 10(4). 12 indexed citations
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Wang, Hsien-Chung & Kentaro Yano. (1955). A Class of Affinely Connected Spaces. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 80(1). 72–72. 2 indexed citations
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Yano, Kentaro, et al.. (1954). On groups of projective collineations in a space of $K$ -spreads.. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 6(2). 3 indexed citations
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Yano, Kentaro, et al.. (1952). On the projective geometry of $K$-spreads. Compositio Mathematica. 10. 286–296. 5 indexed citations
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Yano, Kentaro, et al.. (1951). Affine and Projective Geometries of System of Hypersurfaces. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 3(1). 1 indexed citations

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