Nobuo Taga

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Nobuo Taga is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nobuo Taga has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Ecology, 21 papers in Oceanography and 19 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nobuo Taga's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (18 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (7 papers). Nobuo Taga is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (18 papers) and Enzyme Production and Characterization (7 papers). Nobuo Taga collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Nobuo Taga's co-authors include Kazuhiro Kogure, Usio Simidu, Tsuneo Shiba, Hiromi Kobori, Masachika Maeda, Kimio Fukami, Humitake Seki, Yuki Akagi, Chiaki Imada and Kouichi Ohwada and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Limnology and Oceanography and Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nobuo Taga

63 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

A tentative direct microscopic method for counting living... 1979 2026 1994 2010 1979 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 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. A tentative direct microscopic method for counting living marine bacteria
    1979 743 citations Kazuhiro Kogure, Nobuo Taga et al. Canadian Journal of Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nobuo Taga Japan 23 1.1k 689 586 331 289 64 2.1k
Usio Simidu Japan 28 1.1k 1.1× 1.2k 1.7× 482 0.8× 307 0.9× 669 2.3× 93 2.6k
Kouichi Ohwada Japan 23 669 0.6× 493 0.7× 338 0.6× 139 0.4× 269 0.9× 62 1.4k
Juan Iriberri Spain 25 912 0.8× 399 0.6× 552 0.9× 225 0.7× 183 0.6× 50 1.5k
Mary A. Hood United States 20 538 0.5× 422 0.6× 123 0.2× 486 1.5× 178 0.6× 31 1.6k
Fabien Joux France 29 1.5k 1.4× 702 1.0× 1.2k 2.0× 205 0.6× 401 1.4× 64 2.8k
Charles C. Remsen United States 30 761 0.7× 898 1.3× 392 0.7× 65 0.2× 394 1.4× 71 2.2k
Heinrich F. Kaspar New Zealand 28 759 0.7× 580 0.8× 587 1.0× 131 0.4× 816 2.8× 45 3.0k
Patrice Got France 25 633 0.6× 213 0.3× 497 0.8× 241 0.7× 239 0.8× 60 1.5k
Pierre Caumette France 36 1.6k 1.5× 1.0k 1.5× 528 0.9× 103 0.3× 757 2.6× 92 3.5k
Weipeng Zhang China 32 1.1k 1.0× 1.3k 1.9× 480 0.8× 420 1.3× 198 0.7× 101 3.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nobuo Taga

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nobuo Taga

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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KAGOTA, Katsumoto, et al.. (1990). Clinical and Pathological Findings of Periarthritis in Dairy Cows. Journal of the Japan Veterinary Medical Association. 43(12). 874–879. 1 indexed citations
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Kogure, Kazuhiro, et al.. (1986). Abundance and production of bacterioplankton in the Antarctic. Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research. Special issue. 40(40). 414–422. 9 indexed citations
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Imada, Chiaki, Usio Simidu, & Nobuo Taga. (1985). Isolation and characterization of marine bacteria producing alkaline protease inhibitor.. NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI. 51(5). 799–803. 24 indexed citations
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Imada, Chiaki, Nobuo Taga, & Masachika Maeda. (1985). Cultivation conditions for subtilisin inhibitor-producing bacterium and general properties of the inhibitor "Marinostatin".. NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI. 51(5). 805–810. 16 indexed citations
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Kogure, Kazuhiro, Usio Simidu, & Nobuo Taga. (1982). Chemotactic response of marine bacteria to Skeletonema costatum.. NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI. 48(2). 185–188. 3 indexed citations
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Fukami, Kimio, Usio Simidu, & Nobuo Taga. (1981). A Microbiological Study on the Decline Process of a Phytoplankton Bloom in Aburatsubo Inlet, Kanagawa, Japan. Kochi University Digital Repository for Academic Resources (Kochi University). 28(1). 33–41. 11 indexed citations
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Shiba, Tsuneo & Nobuo Taga. (1981). Effects of the extracellular products of Enteromorpha linza on its epiphytic bacterial flora.. NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI. 47(9). 1193–1197. 3 indexed citations
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Kogure, Kazuhiro, et al.. (1980). Effect of phyto- and zooplankton on the growth of marine bacteria in filtered seawater.. NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI. 46(3). 323–326. 10 indexed citations
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Taga, Nobuo, et al.. (1980). Culture of Brachionus plicatilis Muller using bacteria as food.. 46(8). 933–939. 12 indexed citations
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Shiba, Tsuneo & Nobuo Taga. (1980). Heterotrophic bacteria attached to seaweeds. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 47(3). 251–258. 44 indexed citations
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Kobori, Hiromi, Nobuo Taga, & Usio Simidu. (1979). Properties and generic composition of phosphatase-producing bacteria in coastal and oceanic seawater.. NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI. 45(11). 1429–1433. 10 indexed citations
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Shiba, Tsuneo, Usio Simidu, & Nobuo Taga. (1979). Distribution of Aerobic Bacteria Which Contain Bacteriochlorophyll a. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 38(1). 43–45. 117 indexed citations
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Kogure, Kazuhiro, et al.. (1979). A tentative direct microscopic method for counting living marine bacteria. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 25(3). 415–420. 743 indexed citations breakdown →
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Taga, Nobuo & Hiromi Kobori. (1978). Phosphatase activity in Eutrophic Tokyo Bay. Marine Biology. 49(3). 223–229. 43 indexed citations
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Simidu, Usio, et al.. (1977). Microbiological studies of Tokyo Bay. Microbial Ecology. 3(3). 173–191. 39 indexed citations
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Akagi, Yuki, Nobuo Taga, & Usio Simidu. (1977). Isolation and distribution of oligotrophic marine bacteria. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 23(8). 981–987. 40 indexed citations
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Maeda, Masachika & Nobuo Taga. (1976). Extracellular nuclease produced by a marine bacterium. II. Purification and properties of extracellular nuclease from a marine Vibrio sp.. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 22(10). 1443–1452. 17 indexed citations
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Ohwada, Kouichi, et al.. (1972). Seasonal Cycles of Vitamin B12, Thiamine and Biotin in the Surface Water of Lake Tsukui. NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI. 38(8). 817–823. 6 indexed citations
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Taga, Nobuo, et al.. (1969). East China Sea. 1968(20). 1–47. 15 indexed citations
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KADOTA, Hajime & Nobuo Taga. (1968). Proceedings of the U. S.-Japan Seminar on Marine Microbiology, 1968. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations

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