Kiku Nakao

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Kiku Nakao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kiku Nakao has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and 14 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Kiku Nakao's work include Thyroid Disorders and Treatments (12 papers), Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders (11 papers) and Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide (10 papers). Kiku Nakao is often cited by papers focused on Thyroid Disorders and Treatments (12 papers), Porphyrin Metabolism and Disorders (11 papers) and Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide (10 papers). Kiku Nakao collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Ireland and Armenia. Kiku Nakao's co-authors include Osamu Wada, Toshiji Mozai, Yoshikazu Yoshino, Yuzo Yano, Fumimaro Takaku, Gumpei Urata, Masao Ikeda, Yoshiyuki Takeda, Mitsuo Miyahara and Shinichi Kimata and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Kiku Nakao

77 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Takayasu's Arteritis 1967 2026 1986 2006 1967 100 200 300 400
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. Takayasu's Arteritis
    1967 468 citations Kiku Nakao, Masao Ikeda et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kiku Nakao Japan 21 682 547 270 253 242 79 2.0k
Robert U. Simpson United States 28 640 0.9× 231 0.4× 369 1.4× 109 0.4× 101 0.4× 62 3.0k
T K Gray United States 26 595 0.9× 111 0.2× 179 0.7× 89 0.4× 87 0.4× 53 2.0k
John L. Omdahl United States 27 578 0.8× 160 0.3× 391 1.4× 131 0.5× 88 0.4× 53 3.0k
Norman Bank United States 33 803 1.2× 476 0.9× 648 2.4× 31 0.1× 114 0.5× 93 2.7k
Thomas W. Honeyman United States 28 1.3k 1.9× 771 1.4× 433 1.6× 44 0.2× 40 0.2× 73 2.4k
R. Docter Netherlands 30 936 1.4× 164 0.3× 385 1.4× 94 0.4× 58 0.2× 92 3.2k
M Déchaux France 27 849 1.2× 731 1.3× 242 0.9× 28 0.1× 96 0.4× 77 2.1k
Shiow‐Shih Tang United States 30 1.3k 1.8× 173 0.3× 408 1.5× 74 0.3× 67 0.3× 44 2.8k
Christine Waterhouse United States 27 421 0.6× 257 0.5× 799 3.0× 20 0.1× 118 0.5× 75 2.0k
Elias A. Lianos United States 28 1.1k 1.6× 182 0.3× 461 1.7× 45 0.2× 111 0.5× 110 2.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kiku Nakao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kiku Nakao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kiku Nakao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kiku Nakao 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 Kiku Nakao. Kiku Nakao 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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Takaku, Fumimaro, Yuzo Yano, Yosuke Aoki, Kiku Nakao, & Osamu Wada. (1972). δ-Aminolevulinic Acid Synthetase Activity of Human Bone Marrow Erythroid Cells in Various Hematological Disorders. The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine. 107(3). 217–228. 20 indexed citations
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Mizoguchi, Hideaki, et al.. (1971). The Effect of Erythropoietin on Human Bone Marrow Cells In Vitro. I. Studies of Nine Cases of Bone Marrow Failure. Blood. 37(6). 624–633. 8 indexed citations
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Suematsu, Hiroyuki, et al.. (1970). Effect of Plasmapheresis on Thyroid Hormone Section. Endocrinology. 86(6). 1281–1286. 1 indexed citations
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Wada, Osamu, et al.. (1969). Cholesterol biosynthesis in the liver of experimentally induced porphyric mice. Biochemical Pharmacology. 18(6). 1533–1535. 6 indexed citations
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Takaku, Fumimaro, Kiku Nakao, Tetsu Ono, & Hiroshi Terayama. (1969). Changes in histone acetylation and RNA synthesis in the spleen of polycythemic mouse after erythropoietin injection. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis. 195(2). 396–400. 26 indexed citations
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Kajinuma, Hiroshi, AKIO KANETO, Takeshi Kuzuya, & Kiku Nakao. (1968). Effects of Methacholine on Insulin Secretion in Man. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 28(9). 1384–1388. 17 indexed citations
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Takagi, Akio, et al.. (1968). Fatty acid composition of lecithin from muscles in human progressive muscular dystrophy. Clinica Chimica Acta. 20(1). 41–42. 18 indexed citations
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Ono, Tetsu, Hiroshi Terayama, Fumimaro Takaku, & Kiku Nakao. (1968). Inhibitory effects of hydrocortisone upon the phytohemagglutinin-induced RNA-synthesis in human lymphocytes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis. 161(2). 361–367. 30 indexed citations
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Nakao, Kiku, Osamu Wada, & Yuzo Yano. (1968). δ-Aminolevulinic acid dehydratase activity in erythrocytes for the evaluation of lead poisoning. Clinica Chimica Acta. 19(2). 319–325. 92 indexed citations
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Kanazawa, Yasunori, Masao Hattori, Kinori Kosaka, & Kiku Nakao. (1968). The relationship of NADH-dependent diaphorase activity and methemoglobin reduction in human erythrocytes. Clinica Chimica Acta. 19(3). 524–526. 8 indexed citations
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Hirano, Shinji, Yukio Imamura, Fumimaro Takaku, & Kiku Nakao. (1968). Brief Report: Immune Response in Mice with Plasma-Cell Tumor (X5563) Assayed by Agar Plaque Technique. Blood. 31(2). 252–257. 13 indexed citations
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Kuramoto, Kizuku, Kazuhiko Murata, Jun Fujii, et al.. (1967). Sympathetic Coronary Vasoconstriction after Adrenergic Beta Blockade. The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine. 91(1). 95–101. 6 indexed citations
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Kuramoto, Kizuku, et al.. (1966). Effect of Heart Rate on Coronary Circulation. The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine. 88(3). 235–244. 1 indexed citations
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SHIZUME, KAZUO, Yoshimasa Shishiba, Maki Sakuma, et al.. (1966). Studies on electrolyte metabolism in idiopathic and thyrotoxic periodic paralysis. Metabolism. 15(2). 138–144. 34 indexed citations
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SHIZUME, KAZUO, Yoshimasa Shishiba, Maki Sakuma, et al.. (1966). Studies on electrolytes metabolism in idiopathic and thyrotoxic periodic paralysis. Metabolism. 15(2). 145–152. 10 indexed citations
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Orimo, Hajime, Takuo Fujita, Hirotoshi Morii, & Kiku Nakao. (1965). Inactivationin Vitroof Parathyroid Hormone Activity by Kidney Slices. Endocrinology. 76(2). 255–258. 25 indexed citations
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Nakao, Kiku, et al.. (1962). A Direct Relationship between Adenosine Triphosphate-level and in vivo Viability of Erythrocytes. Nature. 194(4831). 877–878. 139 indexed citations

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