Kunihiko Kaneko

16.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
342 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Kunihiko Kaneko is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kunihiko Kaneko has authored 342 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 137 papers in Molecular Biology, 109 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 87 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Kunihiko Kaneko's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (95 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (83 papers) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (70 papers). Kunihiko Kaneko is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (95 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (83 papers) and Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation (70 papers). Kunihiko Kaneko collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Denmark. Kunihiko Kaneko's co-authors include Chikara Furusawa, Tetsuya Yomo, Wentian Li, Ichiro Tsuda, Tetsuro Konishi, James P. Crutchfield, Akiko Kashiwagi, Yuichi Togashi, Nobuto Takeuchi and Shuji Ishihara and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kunihiko Kaneko

326 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

Clustering, coding, switching, hierarchical ordering, and... 1989 2026 2001 2013 1990 1989 200 400 600
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. Clustering, coding, switching, hierarchical ordering, and control in a network of chaotic elements
    1990 673 citations Kunihiko Kaneko profile →
  2. Pattern dynamics in spatiotemporal chaos
    1989 508 citations Kunihiko Kaneko profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kunihiko Kaneko Japan 55 4.7k 3.8k 3.6k 1.5k 1.2k 342 11.5k
Lev S. Tsimring United States 56 4.1k 0.9× 3.4k 0.9× 5.5k 1.5× 1.5k 1.0× 1.2k 0.9× 175 14.5k
Eshel Ben‐Jacob Israel 72 3.1k 0.7× 4.5k 1.2× 4.6k 1.3× 1.2k 0.8× 2.1k 1.7× 325 22.3k
G. Nìcolis Belgium 47 5.4k 1.1× 3.7k 1.0× 2.0k 0.6× 452 0.3× 712 0.6× 256 12.4k
James P. Crutchfield United States 45 4.7k 1.0× 2.3k 0.6× 1.6k 0.4× 732 0.5× 1.6k 1.3× 195 11.4k
Ying‐Cheng Lai United States 60 9.4k 2.0× 5.6k 1.5× 1.5k 0.4× 942 0.6× 1.7k 1.4× 495 16.3k
John Guckenheimer United States 52 10.4k 2.2× 7.5k 2.0× 1.3k 0.4× 1.2k 0.8× 1.8k 1.5× 145 21.9k
Michael C. Mackey Canada 54 3.9k 0.8× 2.8k 0.7× 2.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 1.6k 1.3× 212 13.3k
Yuri A. Kuznetsov Russia 47 4.5k 1.0× 4.5k 1.2× 1.1k 0.3× 2.1k 1.4× 893 0.7× 254 14.4k
Claudio Castellano Italy 48 7.7k 1.6× 1.1k 0.3× 2.4k 0.7× 436 0.3× 1.9k 1.5× 290 15.1k
J. F. F. Mendes Portugal 40 8.9k 1.9× 1.9k 0.5× 1.4k 0.4× 326 0.2× 497 0.4× 157 11.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Kunihiko Kaneko

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kunihiko Kaneko

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kunihiko Kaneko

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Takeuchi, Nobuto & Kunihiko Kaneko. (2025). Generalizing the central dogma as a cross-hierarchical principle of biology. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1936). 20240296–20240296. 1 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Kunihiko. (2025). Universal Biology. Cambridge University Press eBooks.
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Takeuchi, Nobuto, et al.. (2023). Avoidance of error catastrophe via proofreading innate to template-directed polymerization. Physical Review Research. 5(1).
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Tang, Qian-Yuan, et al.. (2022). The Statistical Trends of Protein Evolution: A Lesson from AlphaFold Database. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(10). 12 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Kunihiko, et al.. (2022). Comprehensive analysis of gene regulatory dynamics, fitness landscape, and population evolution during sexual reproduction. New Journal of Physics. 24(10). 103017–103017. 1 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Kunihiko, et al.. (2022). Heterosis of fitness and phenotypic variance in the evolution of a diploid gene regulatory network. PNAS Nexus. 1(3). pgac097–pgac097. 1 indexed citations
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Sugawara, Takeshi & Kunihiko Kaneko. (2022). Chemophoresis engine: A general mechanism of ATPase-driven cargo transport. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(7). e1010324–e1010324. 2 indexed citations
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Kondo, Yohei, et al.. (2017). Fold-change detection and scale invariance of cell–cell signaling in social amoeba. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(21). E4149–E4157. 34 indexed citations
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Hatakeyama, Tetsuhiro & Kunihiko Kaneko. (2014). Kinetic Memory Based on the Enzyme-Limited Competition. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(8). e1003784–e1003784. 7 indexed citations
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Goto, Yusuke & Kunihiko Kaneko. (2013). Minimal model for stem-cell differentiation. Physical Review E. 88(3). 32718–32718. 24 indexed citations
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Feng, Yaokai, Akifumi Makinouchi, & Kunihiko Kaneko. (2007). An Estimating Model of Node Accesses for INN Search Algorithm in Multidimensional Spaces. Engineering letters. 15. 184–192.
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Kaneko, Kunihiko. (2006). Life: An Introduction to Complex Systems Biology (Understanding Complex Systems). Springer eBooks. 21 indexed citations
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Ishihara, Shuji & Kunihiko Kaneko. (2005). Magic Number7±2in Networks of Threshold Dynamics. Physical Review Letters. 94(5). 58102–58102. 12 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Kunihiko & Tetsuya Yomo. (2002). Symbiotic sympatric speciation through interaction-driven phenotype differentiation. Evolutionary ecology research. 4(3). 317–350. 4 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Kunihiko, et al.. (1999). Two Fast Algorithms for Repeated Mining of Association Rules Based on Ressource Reuse.. International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. 65–73. 1 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Kunihiko. (1998). Life as complex systems: viewpoint from intra-inter dynamics. Complexity. 3(6). 53–60. 6 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Kunihiko & Junji Suzuki. (1993). Imitation Games. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Ikegami, Takashi & Kunihiko Kaneko. (1991). Computer symbiosis-emergence of symbiotic behavior through evolution. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 235–243. 2 indexed citations
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Kaneko, Kunihiko. (1985). Complexity in Basin Structures and Information Processing by the Transition among Attractors. Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University). 574. 35–50. 1 indexed citations

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