Nobuhiro Harada

14.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
310 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

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Nobuhiro Harada is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nobuhiro Harada has authored 310 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Genetics, 69 papers in Molecular Biology and 53 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nobuhiro Harada's work include Estrogen and related hormone effects (101 papers), Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones (43 papers) and Plasma and Flow Control in Aerodynamics (39 papers). Nobuhiro Harada is often cited by papers focused on Estrogen and related hormone effects (101 papers), Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones (43 papers) and Plasma and Flow Control in Aerodynamics (39 papers). Nobuhiro Harada collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Belgium. Nobuhiro Harada's co-authors include Shin‐ichiro Honda, Jacques Balthazart, Hironobu Sasano, Agnès Foidart, Yasuyuki Takagi, Tsuneo Omura, A. Foidart, Chantal Surlemont, Julie Bakker and Noriko Yoshimura and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Nobuhiro Harada

293 papers receiving 11.5k citations

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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.

Adult male rat hippocampus synthesizes estradiol from pregnenolone by cytochromes P45017α and P450 aromatase localized in neurons

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nobuhiro Harada Japan	62	5.3k	2.8k	2.5k	2.2k	1.6k	310	11.7k
Etienne‐Emile Baulieu France	71	4.9k 0.9×	5.8k 2.1×	2.2k 0.9×	4.1k 1.8×	1.0k 0.6×	280	16.1k
Andrzej Bartke United States	79	3.4k 0.6×	6.5k 2.3×	3.7k 1.5×	7.9k 3.6×	878 0.6×	635	24.0k
Walter E. Stumpf United States	62	2.9k 0.6×	3.3k 1.2×	2.9k 1.2×	2.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	300	13.3k
Maria Dufau United States	71	3.4k 0.6×	5.1k 1.8×	7.0k 2.8×	5.6k 2.5×	686 0.4×	310	15.4k
Hitoshi Okamura Japan	74	1.3k 0.2×	5.3k 1.9×	2.7k 1.1×	957 0.4×	1.7k 1.1×	525	23.5k
Paolo Sassone‐Corsi France	118	9.1k 1.7×	23.4k 8.4×	3.9k 1.6×	2.2k 1.0×	671 0.4×	433	48.2k
Michael Brownstein United States	70	1.4k 0.3×	8.8k 3.1×	1.2k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	3.3k 2.1×	191	23.2k
Günther Schütz Germany	92	10.4k 2.0×	19.6k 7.0×	1.7k 0.7×	5.5k 2.5×	2.3k 1.5×	261	38.9k
Peter J. Munson United States	58	1.8k 0.3×	11.8k 4.3×	762 0.3×	1.8k 0.8×	791 0.5×	181	20.5k
P. Michael Conn United States	58	2.1k 0.4×	4.9k 1.8×	5.3k 2.1×	2.3k 1.0×	569 0.4×	280	10.8k

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Hayashi, Takanori, Tatsuya Kobayashi, Shizuko Nagao, et al.. (2025). Estrogen synthesized in the central nervous system enhances MC 4 R expression and reduces food intake. FEBS Journal. 292(15). 3900–3909. 1 indexed citations

Nishio, Eiji, Takanori Hayashi, Masashi Nakatani, et al.. (2019). Lack of association of ovariectomy-induced obesity with overeating and the reduction of physical activities. Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports. 20. 100671–100671. 14 indexed citations

Harada, Nobuhiro, Sumihito Tamura, Yasuhiko Sugawara, et al.. (2014). Impact of Donor and Recipient Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of IL28B rs8099917 in Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatitis C. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e90462–e90462. 4 indexed citations

Honma, Naoko, Shigehira Saji, Makiko Hirose, et al.. (2011). Sex steroid hormones in pairs of tumor and serum from breast cancer patients and pathobiological role of androstene‐3β, 17β‐diol. Cancer Science. 102(10). 1848–1854. 36 indexed citations

Honma, Naoko, Kaiyo Takubo, Motoji Sawabe, et al.. (2009). Alternative use of multiple exons 1 of aromatase gene in cancerous and normal breast tissues from women over the age of 80 years. Breast Cancer Research. 11(4). R48–R48. 4 indexed citations

Suzuki, Masayo, Hiroyuki Ishida, Yukimasa Shiotsu, et al.. (2008). Expression level of enzymes related to in situ estrogen synthesis and clinicopathological parameters in breast cancer patients. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 113(3-5). 195–201. 29 indexed citations

Sasahara, Katsunori, Hanako Shikimi, Shogo Haraguchi, et al.. (2007). Mode of Action and Functional Significance of Estrogen-Inducing Dendritic Growth, Spinogenesis, and Synaptogenesis in the Developing Purkinje Cell. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(28). 7408–7417. 106 indexed citations

Harada, Nobuhiro, et al.. (2007). Proposal of Electrode Connection on Diagonal MHD Accelerator. 6. 17–24. 1 indexed citations

Tsukahara, Kazue, Shigeru Moriwaki, Mitsuyuki Hotta, et al.. (2007). The characteristics of aromatase deficient hairless mice indicate important roles of extragonadal estrogen in the skin. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 108(1-2). 82–90. 6 indexed citations

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Harada, Nobuhiro & Shin‐ichiro Honda. (2005). Analysis of spatiotemporal regulation of aromatase in the brain using transgenic mice. The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 95(1-5). 49–55. 13 indexed citations

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Irahara, Natsumi, Yasuo Miyoshi, Tetsuya Taguchi, et al.. (2005). Possible Involvement of Aromatase Overexpression Induced by Cyclo-Oxygenase-2 in the Pathogenesis of Idiopathic Gynecomastia. Endocrine Research. 31(3). 219–227. 8 indexed citations

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Bakker, Julie, Shin‐ichiro Honda, Nobuhiro Harada, & J. Balthazart. (2004). Restoration of male sexual behavior by adult exogenous estrogens in male aromatase knockout mice. Hormones and Behavior. 46(1). 1–10. 118 indexed citations

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Evrard, HC, Évelyne Willems, Nobuhiro Harada, & Jacques Balthazart. (2003). Specific innervation of aromatase neurons by substance P fibers in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord in quail. The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 465(2). 309–318. 10 indexed citations

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Kristensen, Vessela N., Elin H. Kure, Björn Erikstein, Nobuhiro Harada, & Anne‐Lise Børresen‐Dale. (2001). Genetic susceptibility and environmental estrogen-like compounds. Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. 482(1-2). 77–82. 15 indexed citations

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Takeyama, Junji, Takashi Suzuki, Satoshi Inoue, et al.. (2001). Expression and Cellular Localization of Estrogen Receptors α and β in the Human Fetus¹. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 86(5). 2258–2262. 88 indexed citations

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Yatsui, Kiyoshi, Weihua Jiang, Hisayuki Suematsu, et al.. (2000). Pulsed power technology and its applications at EDI, Nagaoka. International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams. 1. 17–29. 1 indexed citations

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Aste, N., Giancarlo Panzica, C. Viglietti‐Panzica, Nobuhiro Harada, & Jacques Balthazart. (1998). Distribution and effects of testosterone on aromatase mRNA in the quail forebrain: A non-radioactive in situ hybridization study. Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy. 14(2). 103–115. 46 indexed citations

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Honda, Shin‐ichiro, et al.. (1998). Disruption of Sexual Behavior in Male Aromatase-Deficient Mice Lacking Exons 1 and 2 of thecyp19Gene. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 252(2). 445–449. 248 indexed citations

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Abe-Dohmae, Sumiko, Ryo Tanaka, Yasuyuki Takagi, & Nobuhiro Harada. (1996). In vitro Increase of Aromatase mRNA in Diencephalic Neurons. Neuroendocrinology. 63(1). 46–52. 16 indexed citations

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Aste, N., Giancarlo Panzica, Patrizia Aimar, et al.. (1994). Morphometric studies demonstrate that aromatase-immunoreactive cells are the main target of androgens and estrogens in the quail medial preoptic nucleus. Experimental Brain Research. 101(2). 241–252. 40 indexed citations

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