Masato Hasegawa

39.4k total citations · 13 hit papers
315 papers, 27.9k citations indexed

About

Masato Hasegawa is a scholar working on Neurology, Physiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Masato Hasegawa has authored 315 papers receiving a total of 27.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 198 papers in Neurology, 168 papers in Physiology and 102 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Masato Hasegawa's work include Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (157 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (148 papers) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (99 papers). Masato Hasegawa is often cited by papers focused on Alzheimer's disease research and treatments (157 papers), Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments (148 papers) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (99 papers). Masato Hasegawa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and United States. Masato Hasegawa's co-authors include Michel Goedert, Takashi Nonaka, Takeshi Iwatsubo, Ross Jakes, R. Anthony Crowther, Tetsuaki Arai, Haruhiko Akiyama, Fuyuki Kametani, Maria Grazia Spillantini and Koji Takio and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Masato Hasegawa

303 papers receiving 27.6k citations

Hit Papers

α-Synuclein in filamentous inclusions of Lewy bodies from... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1998 2006 2002 1996 2013 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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. α-Synuclein in filamentous inclusions of Lewy bodies from Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies
    1998 2.5k citations R. Anthony Crowther, Ross Jakes et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. TDP-43 is a component of ubiquitin-positive tau-negative inclusions in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    2006 2.1k citations Tetsuaki Arai, Masato Hasegawa et al. profile →
  3. α-Synuclein is phosphorylated in synucleinopathy lesions
    2002 1.6k citations Hideo Fujiwara, Masato Hasegawa et al. profile →
  4. Assembly of microtubule-associated protein tau into Alzheimer-like filaments induced by sulphated glycosaminoglycans
    1996 825 citations Michel Goedert, Ross Jakes et al. Nature profile →
  5. Prion-like spreading of pathological α-synuclein in brain
    2013 639 citations Masami Masuda‐Suzukake, Takashi Nonaka et al. Brain profile →
  6. Reconsideration of Amyloid Hypothesis and Tau Hypothesis in Alzheimer's Disease
    2018 634 citations Fuyuki Kametani, Masato Hasegawa profile →
  7. Phosphorylated TDP‐43 in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    2008 592 citations Masato Hasegawa, Tetsuaki Arai et al. profile →
  8. Structures of α-synuclein filaments from multiple system atrophy
    2020 510 citations Yue‐De Yang, Airi Tarutani et al. Nature profile →
  9. Prion-like Properties of Pathological TDP-43 Aggregates from Diseased Brains
    2013 389 citations Takashi Nonaka, Masami Masuda‐Suzukake et al. profile →
  10. Novel tau filament fold in corticobasal degeneration
    2020 377 citations Airi Tarutani, Kathy L. Newell et al. Nature profile →
  11. Structures of α-synuclein filaments from human brains with Lewy pathology
    2022 262 citations Yue‐De Yang, Alexey G. Murzin et al. Nature profile →
  12. Structure of pathological TDP-43 filaments from ALS with FTLD
    2021 180 citations Diana Arseni, Masato Hasegawa et al. Nature profile →
  13. Tunnelling nanotubes between neuronal and microglial cells allow bi-directional transfer of α-Synuclein and mitochondria
    2023 83 citations Takashi Nonaka, Masato Hasegawa 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
Masato Hasegawa Japan 80 16.3k 14.0k 10.7k 6.6k 5.4k 315 27.9k
Leonard Petrucelli United States 80 12.9k 0.8× 7.1k 0.5× 11.2k 1.0× 4.7k 0.7× 3.2k 0.6× 232 23.2k
Michael K. Lee United States 61 8.0k 0.5× 7.6k 0.5× 8.0k 0.7× 5.6k 0.8× 3.2k 0.6× 155 20.0k
Henry Houlden United Kingdom 70 7.0k 0.4× 6.7k 0.5× 8.9k 0.8× 7.0k 1.1× 5.1k 0.9× 512 20.7k
Serge Przedborski United States 110 21.8k 1.3× 7.8k 0.6× 14.3k 1.3× 15.3k 2.3× 8.4k 1.5× 261 41.6k
M. Flint Beal United States 105 11.7k 0.7× 7.8k 0.6× 19.9k 1.9× 15.1k 2.3× 4.2k 0.8× 273 36.4k
Maria Grazia Spillantini United Kingdom 77 12.6k 0.8× 16.5k 1.2× 10.8k 1.0× 8.5k 1.3× 6.2k 1.1× 196 29.2k
Jeffrey D. Rothstein United States 91 12.4k 0.8× 5.0k 0.4× 15.7k 1.5× 15.0k 2.3× 8.2k 1.5× 235 37.2k
Edward Rockenstein United States 76 9.7k 0.6× 10.3k 0.7× 7.9k 0.7× 8.6k 1.3× 5.2k 1.0× 195 24.4k
Bernardino Ghetti United States 83 7.3k 0.4× 14.8k 1.1× 16.4k 1.5× 6.2k 0.9× 9.4k 1.7× 476 29.9k
Sangram S. Sisodia United States 91 4.3k 0.3× 20.9k 1.5× 15.8k 1.5× 8.4k 1.3× 4.6k 0.8× 240 33.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nonaka, Takashi, Edwige Belotti, Elisabeth Errazuriz-Cerda, et al.. (2025). Enhanced secretion of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS-associated misfolded TDP-43 mediated by the ER-ubiquitin specific peptidase USP19. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 82(1). 76–76. 1 indexed citations
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Kurihara, Masanori, Akira Arakawa, Aya M. Tokumaru, et al.. (2024). Dynamic aphasia as an early sign of corticobasal degeneration: Clinico-radio-pathological correlation. eNeurologicalSci. 37. 100526–100526. 2 indexed citations
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Shinohara, Mitsuru, Masami Masuda‐Suzukake, Atsushi Watanabe, et al.. (2024). Cerebral hypoperfusion reduces tau accumulation. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 12(1). 69–85.
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Arseni, Diana, Takashi Nonaka, Max Jacobsen, et al.. (2024). Heteromeric amyloid filaments of ANXA11 and TDP-43 in FTLD-TDP type C. Nature. 634(8034). 662–668. 38 indexed citations
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Arakawa, Akira, Mana Higashihara, Tomoyasu Matsubara, et al.. (2024). Clinicopathological study of dementia with grains presenting with parkinsonism compared with a typical case. Neuropathology. 44(5). 376–387. 2 indexed citations
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Qi, Chao, Bert M. Verheijen, Yasumasa Kokubo, et al.. (2023). Tau filaments from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism-dementia complex adopt the CTE fold. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(51). e2306767120–e2306767120. 22 indexed citations
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Tarutani, Airi, Fuyuki Kametani, Yuko Saito, et al.. (2023). Distinct tau folds initiate templated seeding and alter the post-translational modification profile. Brain. 146(12). 4988–4999. 8 indexed citations
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Mori, Kohji, Kazue Shigenobu, Goichi Beck, et al.. (2023). A heterozygous splicing variant IVS9-7A > T in intron 9 of the MAPT gene in a patient with right-temporal variant frontotemporal dementia with atypical 4 repeat tauopathy. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 11(1). 130–130.
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Arseni, Diana, Alexey G. Murzin, Sew‐Yeu Peak‐Chew, et al.. (2023). TDP-43 forms amyloid filaments with a distinct fold in type A FTLD-TDP. Nature. 620(7975). 898–903. 72 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Hiroyuki, et al.. (2022). Synthesis and Evaluation of 18F-Labeled Chalcone Analogue for Detection of α-Synuclein Aggregates in the Brain Using the Mouse Model. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 13(20). 2982–2990. 10 indexed citations
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Hasegawa, Masato, Takeo Koyama, Akio Akagi, et al.. (2022). An autopsy case of MV2K‐type sporadic Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease presenting with characteristic clinical, radiological, and neuropathological findings. Neuropathology. 42(3). 245–253. 2 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Hiroyuki, et al.. (2021). Chalcone Analogue as New Candidate for Selective Detection of α-Synuclein Pathology. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 13(1). 16–26. 13 indexed citations
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Matsumoto, Shin‐ei, Montasir Elahi, Koichi Ishiguro, et al.. (2020). Asparagine residue 368 is involved in Alzheimer's disease tau strain–specific aggregation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(41). 13996–14014. 11 indexed citations
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Vargas, Jessica, Frida Loría, Gonzalo Córdova, et al.. (2019). The Wnt/Ca 2+ pathway is involved in interneuronal communication mediated by tunneling nanotubes. The EMBO Journal. 38(23). e101230–e101230. 68 indexed citations
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Kimura, Taeko, Seiji Shiozawa, Naruhiko Sahara, et al.. (2019). Tau isoform expression and phosphorylation in marmoset brains. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(30). 11433–11444. 32 indexed citations
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Watanabe, Ryohei, Ito Kawakami, Mitsumoto Onaya, et al.. (2017). Frontotemporal dementia with trans‐activation response DNA‐binding protein 43 presenting with catatonic syndrome. Neuropathology. 38(3). 281–287. 10 indexed citations
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Ikeda, Masaki, Toshitaka Kawarai, Takeshi Kawarabayashi, et al.. (2005). Accumulation of Filamentous Tau in the Cerebral Cortex of Human Tau R406W Transgenic Mice. American Journal Of Pathology. 166(2). 521–531. 88 indexed citations
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Taniguchi, Sayuri, Norihiro Suzuki, M. Masuda, et al.. (2004). Inhibition of Heparin-induced Tau Filament Formation by Phenothiazines, Polyphenols, and Porphyrins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(9). 7614–7623. 449 indexed citations
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Takahashi, Makio, Hirotaka Kanuka, Hideo Fujiwara, et al.. (2003). Phosphorylation of α-synuclein characteristic of synucleinopathy lesions is recapitulated in α-synuclein transgenic Drosophila. Neuroscience Letters. 336(3). 155–158. 104 indexed citations
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Hasegawa, Masato, R. Anthony Crowther, Ross Jakes, & Michel Goedert. (1997). Alzheimer-like Changes in Microtubule-associated Protein Tau Induced by Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(52). 33118–33124. 173 indexed citations

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