Reiya Taniguchi

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 726 citations indexed

About

Reiya Taniguchi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Reiya Taniguchi has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 726 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 3 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Reiya Taniguchi's work include RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers), Nuclear Structure and Function (3 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (3 papers). Reiya Taniguchi is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (4 papers), Nuclear Structure and Function (3 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (3 papers). Reiya Taniguchi collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Germany and France. Reiya Taniguchi's co-authors include Osamu Nureki, Hideaki Kato, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Beata Turoňová, Martin Beck, Keitaro Yamashita, Tomohiro Nishizawa, Kunio Hirata, M. Wada and Koichi Ito and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Reiya Taniguchi

9 papers receiving 721 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.

AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores

2022 200 citations Shyamal Mosalaganti, Agnieszka Obarska-Kosińska et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Reiya Taniguchi Japan	8	429	226	82	71	65	10	726
Nicholas G. James United States	17	393 0.9×	100 0.4×	12 0.1×	88 1.2×	60 0.9×	33	682
Martin Lindahl Sweden	16	814 1.9×	273 1.2×	82 1.0×	12 0.2×	16 0.2×	24	1.1k
Marcin Paduch United States	14	1.2k 2.7×	353 1.6×	46 0.6×	8 0.1×	9 0.1×	23	1.3k
Ross C. Hoffman United States	11	505 1.2×	186 0.8×	18 0.2×	26 0.4×	8 0.1×	14	737
Shigeki Iwanaga Japan	13	166 0.4×	117 0.5×	12 0.1×	17 0.2×	5 0.1×	24	502
Martin Kahms Germany	12	943 2.2×	194 0.9×	17 0.2×	7 0.1×	9 0.1×	18	1.2k
Simon Poepsel Germany	11	841 2.0×	55 0.2×	37 0.5×	11 0.2×	7 0.1×	20	1.1k
Karen K. Hedberg United States	12	315 0.7×	43 0.2×	17 0.2×	13 0.2×	28 0.4×	26	577
Linda Joosen Netherlands	10	874 2.0×	162 0.7×	64 0.8×	4 0.1×	10 0.2×	12	1.2k
Silvia Chuartzman Israel	15	912 2.1×	87 0.4×	118 1.4×	6 0.1×	9 0.1×	30	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Reiya Taniguchi

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Reiya Taniguchi

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Taniguchi, Reiya, Jan Philipp Kreysing, Vojtěch Žíla, et al.. (2025). Nuclear pores safeguard the integrity of the nuclear envelope. Nature Cell Biology. 27(5). 762–775. 7 indexed citations

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Börmel, Mandy, Sven Klumpe, Anja Becker, et al.. (2025). The small GTPase Ran defines nuclear pore complex asymmetry. Cell. 188(21). 5931–5946.e16.

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Taniguchi, Reiya, Iskander Khusainov, Jan Philipp Kreysing, et al.. (2023). Translation dynamics in human cells visualized at high resolution reveal cancer drug action. Science. 381(6653). 70–75. 50 indexed citations

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Mosalaganti, Shyamal, Agnieszka Obarska-Kosińska, Marc Siggel, et al.. (2022). AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores. Science. 376(6598). eabm9506–eabm9506. 200 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kato, T., Kaoru Kumazaki, M. Wada, et al.. (2019). Crystal structure of plant vacuolar iron transporter VIT1. Nature Plants. 5(3). 308–315. 49 indexed citations

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Oda, Kazumasa, Johannes Vierock, Silvia Rodriguez-Rozada, et al.. (2018). Crystal structure of the red light-activated channelrhodopsin Chrimson. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3949–3949. 104 indexed citations

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Taniguchi, Reiya, Asuka Inoue, Akiharu Uwamizu, et al.. (2017). Structural insights into ligand recognition by the lysophosphatidic acid receptor LPA6. Nature. 548(7667). 356–360. 98 indexed citations

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Kato, Hideaki, Motoshi Kamiya, Jumpei Ito, et al.. (2015). Atomistic design of microbial opsin-based blue-shifted optogenetics tools. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7177–7177. 71 indexed citations

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Taniguchi, Reiya, Hideaki Kato, Josep Font, et al.. (2015). Outward- and inward-facing structures of a putative bacterial transition-metal transporter with homology to ferroportin. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8545–8545. 95 indexed citations

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Ito, Shota, Hideaki Kato, Reiya Taniguchi, et al.. (2014). Water-Containing Hydrogen-Bonding Network in the Active Center of Channelrhodopsin. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136(9). 3475–3482. 52 indexed citations

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