Masakatsu Watanabe

4.1k citations
90 papers · 3.2k indexed · h-index 29
Topics
Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (32 papers)Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (28 papers)Light effects on plants (26 papers)

In The Last Decade

Masakatsu Watanabe

89 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Peers

Masakatsu Watanabe
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  • Molecular Biology 1.9k
  • Plant Science 1.4k
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 1.3k
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 442
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 415
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Fields of papers citing papers by Masakatsu Watanabe

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Masakatsu Watanabe. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Masakatsu Watanabe. The network helps show where Masakatsu Watanabe may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Masakatsu Watanabe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Masakatsu Watanabe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Masakatsu Watanabe 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 Masakatsu Watanabe. Masakatsu Watanabe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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About Masakatsu Watanabe

Masakatsu Watanabe is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Biophysics, having authored 90 papers that have together received 3.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (32 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (28 papers) and Light effects on plants (26 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (1.3k citations), Plant Science (1.4k citations) and Molecular Biology (1.9k citations). Masakatsu Watanabe has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Mineo Iseki, Shoichi Higashi, Masaki Furuya, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Shigeru Matsunaga, Akio Murakami, Norio Murata, Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev, Yoshitaka Nishiyama and Terumitsu Hori. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

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