Kuninori Suzuki

8.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
50 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Kuninori Suzuki is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kuninori Suzuki has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Epidemiology and 22 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Kuninori Suzuki's work include Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (30 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (21 papers) and Studies on Chitinases and Chitosanases (14 papers). Kuninori Suzuki is often cited by papers focused on Autophagy in Disease and Therapy (30 papers), Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease (21 papers) and Studies on Chitinases and Chitosanases (14 papers). Kuninori Suzuki collaborates with scholars based in Japan, France and Germany. Kuninori Suzuki's co-authors include Yoshinori Ohsumi, Yoshiaki Kamada, Hitoshi Nakatogawa, Takayuki Sekito, Yukiko Kabeya, Tamotsu Yoshimori, Akitsugu Yamamoto, Masahiko Hatano, Yoshinori Kobayashi and Noboru Mizushima and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Kuninori Suzuki

49 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

Dynamics and diversity in autophagy mechanisms: lessons f... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2009 2001 2001 2007 2007 400 800 1.2k
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. Dynamics and diversity in autophagy mechanisms: lessons from yeast
    2009 1.4k citations Hitoshi Nakatogawa, Kuninori Suzuki et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology profile →
  2. Dissection of Autophagosome Formation Using Apg5-Deficient Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
    2001 1.1k citations Yukiko Kabeya, Kuninori Suzuki et al. profile →
  3. The pre-autophagosomal structure organized by concerted functions of APG genes is essential for autophagosome formation
    2001 823 citations Kuninori Suzuki profile →
  4. Hierarchy of Atg proteins in pre‐autophagosomal structure organization
    2007 548 citations Kuninori Suzuki, Takayuki Sekito et al. Genes to Cells profile →
  5. Molecular machinery of autophagosome formation in yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    2007 325 citations Kuninori Suzuki, Yoshinori Ohsumi FEBS Letters profile →
  6. Atg2 mediates direct lipid transfer between membranes for autophagosome formation
    2019 321 citations Eri Hirata, Kuninori Suzuki et al. profile →
  7. Phase separation organizes the site of autophagosome formation
    2020 284 citations Yūko Fujioka, Jahangir Md. Alam et al. Nature profile →
  8. Fine mapping of autophagy-related proteins during autophagosome formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    2013 251 citations Kuninori Suzuki, Chika Kondo‐Kakuta et al. Journal of Cell Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kuninori Suzuki Japan 30 5.4k 3.5k 2.7k 774 686 50 7.1k
Hitoshi Nakatogawa Japan 37 5.5k 1.0× 4.2k 1.2× 2.7k 1.0× 845 1.1× 603 0.9× 67 7.9k
Mariko Ohsumi Japan 17 5.0k 0.9× 3.3k 0.9× 2.2k 0.8× 660 0.9× 606 0.9× 25 6.5k
Nicholas T. Ktistakis United Kingdom 47 3.8k 0.7× 4.6k 1.3× 3.5k 1.3× 935 1.2× 522 0.8× 100 8.4k
Misuzu Baba Japan 28 3.8k 0.7× 2.7k 0.8× 2.3k 0.8× 499 0.6× 458 0.7× 47 5.1k
Yukiko Kabeya Japan 17 3.8k 0.7× 2.3k 0.7× 1.6k 0.6× 561 0.7× 431 0.6× 21 4.9k
Yūko Fujioka Japan 32 3.3k 0.6× 2.6k 0.7× 1.5k 0.5× 513 0.7× 517 0.8× 55 4.8k
Claudine Kraft Austria 33 2.9k 0.5× 3.0k 0.8× 2.2k 0.8× 557 0.7× 406 0.6× 63 5.1k
Yoshiaki Kamada Japan 23 3.2k 0.6× 3.6k 1.0× 2.0k 0.7× 375 0.5× 876 1.3× 40 5.6k
Eisuke Itakura Japan 24 4.0k 0.7× 2.3k 0.6× 1.9k 0.7× 845 1.1× 207 0.3× 41 5.4k
Dale W. Hailey United States 23 2.6k 0.5× 2.4k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 598 0.8× 232 0.3× 30 5.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kuninori Suzuki

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kuninori Suzuki. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kuninori Suzuki 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 Kuninori Suzuki. Kuninori Suzuki 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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Suzuki, Kuninori, et al.. (2025). Monitoring phospholipid dynamics <i>in vivo</i> with a fluorescent dye octadecyl rhodamine B. Cell Structure and Function. 50(2). 213–221.
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Watanabe, Yasunori, et al.. (2023). Atg15 is a vacuolar phospholipase that disintegrates organelle membranes. Cell Reports. 42(12). 113567–113567. 4 indexed citations
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Hirata, Eri, et al.. (2021). Atg15 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae consists of two functionally distinct domains. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 32(8). 645–663. 12 indexed citations
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Yamasaki, Akinori, Jahangir Md. Alam, Daisuke Noshiro, et al.. (2020). Liquidity Is a Critical Determinant for Selective Autophagy of Protein Condensates. Molecular Cell. 77(6). 1163–1175.e9. 126 indexed citations
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Fujioka, Yūko, Jahangir Md. Alam, Daisuke Noshiro, et al.. (2020). Phase separation organizes the site of autophagosome formation. Nature. 578(7794). 301–305. 284 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ohnuki, Shinsuke, Hiroki Okada, Keisuke Obara, et al.. (2017). Systematic analysis of Ca2+homeostasis inSaccharomyces cerevisiaebased on chemical-genetic interaction profiles. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 28(23). 3415–3427. 9 indexed citations
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Yamasaki, Akinori, Yasunori Watanabe, Wakana Adachi, et al.. (2016). Structural Basis for Receptor-Mediated Selective Autophagy of Aminopeptidase I Aggregates. Cell Reports. 16(1). 19–27. 23 indexed citations
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Hirata, Eri, et al.. (2015). Visualization of Atg3 during Autophagosome Formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(13). 8146–8153. 24 indexed citations
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Suzuki, Kuninori, et al.. (2013). Organelle acidification is important for localisation of vacuolar proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PROTOPLASMA. 250(6). 1283–1293. 4 indexed citations
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Suzuki, Kuninori, et al.. (2013). Fine mapping of autophagy-related proteins during autophagosome formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Cell Science. 126(Pt 11). 2534–44. 251 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kobayashi, Takafumi, Kuninori Suzuki, & Yoshinori Ohsumi. (2012). Autophagosome formation can be achieved in the absence of Atg18 by expressing engineered PAS‐targeted Atg2. FEBS Letters. 586(16). 2473–2478. 24 indexed citations
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Suzuki, Kuninori. (2012). Selective autophagy in budding yeast. Cell Death and Differentiation. 20(1). 43–48. 83 indexed citations
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Suzuki, Kuninori, Chika Kondo, Mayumi Morimoto, & Yoshinori Ohsumi. (2010). Selective Transport of α-Mannosidase by Autophagic Pathways. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(39). 30019–30025. 94 indexed citations
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Kabeya, Yukiko, Nobuo N. Noda, Yūko Fujioka, et al.. (2009). Characterization of the Atg17–Atg29–Atg31 complex specifically required for starvation-induced autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 389(4). 612–615. 90 indexed citations
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Nakatogawa, Hitoshi, Kuninori Suzuki, Yoshiaki Kamada, & Yoshinori Ohsumi. (2009). Dynamics and diversity in autophagy mechanisms: lessons from yeast. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 10(7). 458–467. 1358 indexed citations breakdown →
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Suzuki, Kuninori & Yoshinori Ohsumi. (2007). Molecular machinery of autophagosome formation in yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS Letters. 581(11). 2156–2161. 325 indexed citations breakdown →
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Suzuki, Kuninori, et al.. (2007). Hierarchy of Atg proteins in pre‐autophagosomal structure organization. Genes to Cells. 12(2). 209–218. 548 indexed citations breakdown →
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Suzuki, Kuninori, Takeshi Noda, & Yoshinori Ohsumi. (2004). Interrelationships among Atg proteins during autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast. 21(12). 1057–1065. 29 indexed citations
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Shintani, Takahiro, Kuninori Suzuki, Yoshiaki Kamada, Takeshi Noda, & Yoshinori Ohsumi. (2001). Apg2p Functions in Autophagosome Formation on the Perivacuolar Structure. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(32). 30452–30460. 104 indexed citations
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Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi, et al.. (1995). Mitochondria-dividing ring: ultrastructual basis for the mechanism of mitochondrial division inCyanidioschyzon merolae. PROTOPLASMA. 186(1-2). 12–23. 24 indexed citations

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