Nobuo Niimura

4.6k total citations
166 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Nobuo Niimura is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Nobuo Niimura has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Materials Chemistry, 65 papers in Molecular Biology and 65 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Nobuo Niimura's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (74 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (53 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (46 papers). Nobuo Niimura is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (74 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (53 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (46 papers). Nobuo Niimura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Nobuo Niimura's co-authors include Ichiro Tanaka, Kazuo Kurihara, Toshiyuki Chatake, Takashi Ohhara, Andreas Ostermann, Robert Bau, A. Podjarny, Katsuhiro Kusaka, Ryota Kuroki and Taro Yamada and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Nobuo Niimura

162 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nobuo Niimura Japan 31 1.9k 1.5k 637 576 461 166 3.6k
Shin‐ichi Adachi Japan 45 2.0k 1.0× 2.0k 1.4× 288 0.5× 439 0.8× 699 1.5× 208 6.3k
Dominique Bourgeois France 39 1.6k 0.8× 3.1k 2.1× 303 0.5× 488 0.8× 513 1.1× 116 5.1k
S. Della Longa Italy 31 1.2k 0.6× 755 0.5× 694 1.1× 237 0.4× 672 1.5× 117 3.3k
M. Messerschmidt United States 34 1.3k 0.7× 515 0.3× 1.1k 1.7× 245 0.4× 617 1.3× 99 3.5k
R. Fourme France 29 1.3k 0.7× 1.8k 1.2× 274 0.4× 477 0.8× 312 0.7× 92 3.3k
Marcus Lundberg Sweden 31 907 0.5× 733 0.5× 428 0.7× 191 0.3× 791 1.7× 77 2.8k
M. P. Klein United States 25 965 0.5× 946 0.6× 310 0.5× 1.0k 1.7× 681 1.5× 62 3.4k
E. Weckert Germany 28 1.4k 0.7× 533 0.4× 1.7k 2.7× 224 0.4× 710 1.5× 98 3.8k
Jae Hyuk Lee South Korea 27 1.1k 0.6× 571 0.4× 276 0.4× 213 0.4× 667 1.4× 86 2.8k
R.E. Lechner Germany 26 974 0.5× 555 0.4× 172 0.3× 467 0.8× 699 1.5× 95 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Nobuo Niimura

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nobuo Niimura

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nobuo Niimura

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

All Works

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Chiba, Kaori, Toshiyuki Chatake, Takashi Ohhara, et al.. (2023). Site‐specific relaxation of peptide bond planarity induced by electrically attracted proton/deuteron observed by neutron crystallography. Protein Science. 32(10). e4765–e4765. 2 indexed citations
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Tanaka, Ichiro, Toshiyuki Chatake, Satoru Fujiwara, et al.. (2020). Current status and near future plan of neutron protein crystallography at J-PARC. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 634. 101–123. 7 indexed citations
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Tanaka, Ichiro, Toshiyuki Chatake, Katsuhiro Kusaka, et al.. (2018). Cryoprotectant-free high-pressure cooling and dynamic nuclear polarization for more sensitive detection of hydrogen in neutron protein crystallography. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 74(8). 787–791. 3 indexed citations
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Yano, Naomine, Taro Yamada, Takaaki Hosoya, et al.. (2018). Status of the neutron time-of-flight single-crystal diffraction data-processing software STARGazer. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 74(11). 1041–1052. 17 indexed citations
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Nakamura, Akihiko, Takuya Ishida, Katsuhiro Kusaka, et al.. (2015). “Newton’s cradle” proton relay with amide–imidic acid tautomerization in inverting cellulase visualized by neutron crystallography. Science Advances. 1(7). e1500263–e1500263. 69 indexed citations
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Ohnishi, Yuki, Taro Yamada, Kazuo Kurihara, et al.. (2013). Neutron and X-ray crystallographic analysis of Achromobacter protease I at pD 8.0: Protonation states and hydration structure in the free-form. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1834(8). 1642–1647. 8 indexed citations
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Tanaka, Ichiro, Katsuhiro Kusaka, Takaaki Hosoya, et al.. (2011). Structural Study of Hydrogen and Hydration by the IBARAKI Biological Crystal Diffractometer(iBIX)/Industrial Use. RADIOISOTOPES. 60(2). 89–97.
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Tanaka, Ichiro, Katsuhiro Kusaka, Takaaki Hosoya, et al.. (2010). Neutron structure analysis using the IBARAKI biological crystal diffractometer (iBIX) at J-PARC. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 66(11). 1194–1197. 55 indexed citations
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Niimura, Nobuo, et al.. (2008). X-ray diffuse scattering from protein crystals caused by the lattice defects. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 64(a1). C242–C242. 1 indexed citations
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Ishikawa, Takuya, et al.. (2008). Crystallization and evaluation of hen egg-white lysozyme crystals for protein pH titration in the crystalline state. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 15(3). 312–315. 18 indexed citations
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Hosoya, Takaaki, Hidehiro Uekusa, Yuji Ohashi, et al.. (2006). Neutron diffraction analysis of deuterium transfer in chiral β-thiolactam formation in the crystalline state. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science. 62(1). 153–160. 11 indexed citations
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Niimura, Nobuo, Shigeki Arai, Kazuo Kurihara, et al.. (2006). Recent results on hydrogen and hydration in biology studied by neutron macromolecular crystallography. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 63(3). 285–300. 37 indexed citations
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Niimura, Nobuo. (2005). Hydrogen and hydration sensitive structural biology. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 61(a1). c98–c98. 3 indexed citations
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Arai, Shigeki, Toshiyuki Chatake, Nobuhiro Suzuki, Hiroshi Mizuno, & Nobuo Niimura. (2004). More rapid evaluation of biomacromolecular crystals for diffraction experiments. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 60(6). 1032–1039. 15 indexed citations
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Niimura, Nobuo. (2001). Neutron Protein Crystallography in JAERI (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. 396–399. 1 indexed citations
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Ohhara, Takashi, et al.. (2000). Direct observation of deuterium migration in crystalline-state reaction by single-crystal neutron diffraction. II. 3–1 Photoisomerization of a cobaloxime complex. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science. 56(2). 245–253. 17 indexed citations
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Yajima, Hirofumi, et al.. (1998). Small-angle neutron scattering and dynamic light scattering studies of N- and C-terminal fragments of ovotransferrin. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 1381(1). 68–76. 9 indexed citations
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Umetsu, Mitsuo, Kenji Yoza, Masayuki Kobayashi, et al.. (1997). A small-angle neutron scattering study on the small aggregates of bacteriochlorophylls in solutions. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1320(1). 73–82. 13 indexed citations
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Nakazato, T., M. Oyamada, Nobuo Niimura, et al.. (1990). Coherent synchrotron radiation. CERN Bulletin. 33. 141–146. 2 indexed citations

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