Michihiro Nagao

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
147 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Michihiro Nagao is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michihiro Nagao has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 57 papers in Materials Chemistry and 55 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Michihiro Nagao's work include Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (50 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (45 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (43 papers). Michihiro Nagao is often cited by papers focused on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (50 papers), Material Dynamics and Properties (45 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (43 papers). Michihiro Nagao collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and France. Michihiro Nagao's co-authors include Hideki Seto, Mitsuhiro Shibayama, Paul D. Butler, Y. Torizuka, Youhei Kawabata, Elizabeth G. Kelley, Takeshi Karino, Rana Ashkar, Satoshi Okabe and Takayoshi Takeda and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Michihiro Nagao

146 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

How cholesterol stiffens unsaturated lipid membranes

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michihiro Nagao Japan	30	1.3k	927	900	801	567	147	3.4k
Victoria García Sakai United Kingdom	37	902 0.7×	888 1.0×	2.6k 2.9×	512 0.6×	603 1.1×	180	5.4k
Dietmar Paschek Germany	38	1.1k 0.9×	896 1.0×	1.6k 1.8×	433 0.5×	952 1.7×	115	4.5k
Antonio Faraone United States	35	836 0.6×	1.6k 1.7×	3.0k 3.4×	452 0.6×	1.2k 2.2×	148	8.0k
In‐Chul Yeh United States	20	614 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 1.2×	222 0.3×	1.1k 1.9×	40	3.6k
Hideki Seto Japan	26	570 0.4×	715 0.8×	665 0.7×	665 0.8×	386 0.7×	154	2.3k
Frédéric Nallet France	33	1.0k 0.8×	574 0.6×	1.5k 1.6×	2.2k 2.7×	419 0.7×	115	3.8k
Alla Oleinikova Germany	30	561 0.4×	981 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	341 0.4×	1000 1.8×	78	3.4k
Péter Krüger Japan	27	905 0.7×	952 1.0×	1.9k 2.2×	341 0.4×	556 1.0×	146	4.2k
E. W. Kaler United States	29	720 0.6×	808 0.9×	1.5k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	706 1.2×	45	3.6k
Olle Söderman Sweden	44	1.4k 1.1×	753 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	3.4k 4.2×	578 1.0×	169	6.6k

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DiPasquale, Mitchell, Jeffrey Atkinson, Mario Campana, et al.. (2025). Vitamin E Acetate Causes Softening of Pulmonary Surfactant Membrane Models. Chemical Research in Toxicology. 38(3). 400–414. 1 indexed citations

Granek, Rony, Ingo Hoffmann, Elizabeth G. Kelley, et al.. (2024). Dynamic structure factor of undulating vesicles: finite-size and spherical geometry effects with application to neutron spin echo experiments. The European Physical Journal E. 47(2). 12–12. 7 indexed citations

Nakao, Hiroyuki, Michihiro Nagao, Takeshi Yamada, et al.. (2023). Impact of transmembrane peptides on individual lipid motions and collective dynamics of lipid bilayers. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 228. 113396–113396. 3 indexed citations

Nagao, Michihiro & Hideki Seto. (2023). Neutron scattering studies on dynamics of lipid membranes. PubMed. 4(2). 21306–21306. 10 indexed citations

DiPasquale, Mitchell, Michael H. L. Nguyen, Milka Doktorova, et al.. (2022). Probing the Link between Pancratistatin and Mitochondrial Apoptosis through Changes in the Membrane Dynamics on the Nanoscale. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 19(6). 1839–1852. 4 indexed citations

Carrillo, Jan‐Michael Y., Maya K. Endoh, Takashi Taniguchi, et al.. (2021). Structural and Dynamical Roles of Bound Polymer Chains in Rubber Reinforcement. Macromolecules. 54(23). 11032–11046. 31 indexed citations

Kelley, Elizabeth G., Paul D. Butler, & Michihiro Nagao. (2021). Collective dynamics in lipid membranes containing transmembrane peptides. Soft Matter. 17(23). 5671–5681. 18 indexed citations

Luo, P., Michihiro Nagao, Kenji Nakajima, et al.. (2021). Relevance of hydrogen bonded associates to the transport properties and nanoscale dynamics of liquid and supercooled 2-propanol. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 23(12). 7220–7232. 5 indexed citations

Nagao, Michihiro, Elizabeth G. Kelley, Antonio Faraone, et al.. (2021). Relationship between Viscosity and Acyl Tail Dynamics in Lipid Bilayers. Physical Review Letters. 127(7). 78102–78102. 27 indexed citations

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Kelley, Elizabeth G., Michihiro Nagao, Paul D. Butler, Lionel Porcar, & B. Farago. (2020). Enhanced dynamics in the anomalous melting regime of DMPG lipid membranes. Structural Dynamics. 7(5). 54704–54704. 6 indexed citations

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Nagao, Michihiro, Robert Bradbury, Siyam M. Ansar, & Christopher L. Kitchens. (2020). Effect of gold nanoparticle incorporation into oil-swollen surfactant lamellar membranes. Structural Dynamics. 7(6). 65102–65102. 2 indexed citations

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Sharma, V. K., Michihiro Nagao, D.K. Rai, & Eugene Mamontov. (2019). Membrane softening by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs investigated by neutron spin echo. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(36). 20211–20218. 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Jiayu, Wei Chen, Michihiro Nagao, et al.. (2019). Tailoring Biomimetic Phosphorylcholine-Containing Block Copolymers as Membrane-Targeting Cellular Rescue Agents. Biomacromolecules. 20(9). 3385–3391. 12 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Michael H. L., Mitchell DiPasquale, Frederick A. Heberle, et al.. (2019). Transverse lipid organization dictates bending fluctuations in model plasma membranes. Nanoscale. 12(3). 1438–1447. 31 indexed citations

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Hishida, Mafumi, et al.. (2019). Interleaflet coupling of n-alkane incorporated bilayers. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(10). 5418–5426. 18 indexed citations

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Koga, Tadanori, Michihiro Nagao, Takashi Taniguchi, et al.. (2018). Interphase Structures and Dynamics near Nanofiller Surfaces in Polymer Solutions. Macromolecules. 51(23). 9462–9470. 21 indexed citations

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Motokawa, Ryuhei, T. Kobayashi, Hitoshi Endo, et al.. (2018). A Telescoping View of Solute Architectures in a Complex Fluid System. ACS Central Science. 5(1). 85–96. 58 indexed citations

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Doi, Yuya, Keita Kinoshita, Yutaka Ohta, et al.. (2018). Conformations of Ring Polystyrenes in Bulk Studied by SANS. Macromolecules. 51(4). 1539–1548. 38 indexed citations

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Nagao, Michihiro, Hideki Seto, & Norifumi L. Yamada. (2007). Interaction between droplets in a ternary microemulsion evaluated by the relative form factor method. PubMed. 75(6). 61401–61401. 10 indexed citations

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Kawabata, Youhei, Michihiro Nagao, & Setsuo Satoh. (2001). Development of the Measurement System of Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometer ISSP-NSE at JRR-3M (Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Advanced Science Research(ASR-2000), Advances in Neutron Scattering Research). Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 70. 445–447. 1 indexed citations

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