Naoko Imai

94 total papers · 2.3k total citations
39 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Naoko Imai is a scholar working on Immunology, Oncology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Naoko Imai has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Immunology, 17 papers in Oncology and 12 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Naoko Imai's work include Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (14 papers), CAR-T cell therapy research (11 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers). Naoko Imai is often cited by papers focused on Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (14 papers), CAR-T cell therapy research (11 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (8 papers). Naoko Imai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and France. Naoko Imai's co-authors include Sacha Gnjatic, Hiroaki Ikeda, Ryan Emerson, Nils-Petter Rudqvist, Silvia C. Formenti, Encouse B. Golden, Adriana Heguy, Kent Friedman, Claire Vanpouille‐Box and Tuo Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Naoko Imai

37 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Radiotherapy induces resp... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Radiotherapy induces responses of lung cancer to CTLA-4 blockade
    2018 633 citations Silvia C. Formenti, Nils-Petter Rudqvist et al. Nature Medicine profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Naoko Imai 949 734 301 288 118 39 1.6k
Kun Chen 1.1k 1.1× 714 1.0× 468 1.6× 169 0.6× 54 0.5× 30 1.6k
Khashayar Esfahani 730 0.8× 427 0.6× 368 1.2× 202 0.7× 64 0.5× 35 1.3k
Yuzhu Hou 655 0.7× 1.1k 1.5× 674 2.2× 233 0.8× 102 0.9× 42 2.0k
Xiaomei Zhang 763 0.8× 627 0.9× 703 2.3× 264 0.9× 73 0.6× 35 1.9k
Jia Xin Yu 838 0.9× 477 0.6× 359 1.2× 162 0.6× 97 0.8× 25 1.3k
Yunshan Wang 481 0.5× 339 0.5× 472 1.6× 244 0.8× 54 0.5× 55 1.5k
Caterina Ieranò 913 1.0× 462 0.6× 546 1.8× 117 0.4× 55 0.5× 34 1.4k
Matthew W. Vanneman 948 1.0× 901 1.2× 550 1.8× 219 0.8× 59 0.5× 35 1.9k
Cinzia Solinas 1.7k 1.8× 998 1.4× 412 1.4× 436 1.5× 213 1.8× 80 2.4k
Petra Herzig 1.3k 1.4× 1.0k 1.4× 274 0.9× 239 0.8× 44 0.4× 27 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Naoko Imai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Naoko Imai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Naoko Imai. 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 Naoko Imai. The network helps show where Naoko Imai may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Naoko Imai

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

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