Ryo Morimoto

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Ryo Morimoto is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryo Morimoto has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Immunology and 6 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ryo Morimoto's work include Heat shock proteins research (6 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (5 papers) and Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling (4 papers). Ryo Morimoto is often cited by papers focused on Heat shock proteins research (6 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (5 papers) and Sphingolipid Metabolism and Signaling (4 papers). Ryo Morimoto collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Ryo Morimoto's co-authors include Clayton R. Hunt, José J. Cotto, David N. Bimston, Michael Kline, Ulrich Feige, B. S. Polla, Paul E. Kroeger, Hideo Shindou, Takao Shimizu and Robert A. Holmgren and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ryo Morimoto

33 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Conserved features of eukaryotic hsp70 genes revealed by comparison with the nucleotide sequence of human hsp70.

1985 774 citations Ryo Morimoto et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryo Morimoto Japan	13	1.7k	329	289	259	246	33	2.4k
Marc-Édouard Mirault Canada	30	3.1k 1.8×	339 1.0×	261 0.9×	253 1.0×	285 1.2×	48	4.0k
Antoine W. Caron Canada	17	2.2k 1.3×	144 0.4×	507 1.8×	261 1.0×	205 0.8×	21	2.7k
Nahid F. Mivechi United States	35	3.0k 1.7×	433 1.3×	864 3.0×	374 1.4×	410 1.7×	90	3.8k
Mikkel Rohde Denmark	17	2.6k 1.5×	176 0.5×	793 2.7×	256 1.0×	358 1.5×	22	3.4k
Elisabeth Christians France	31	2.4k 1.4×	168 0.5×	480 1.7×	384 1.5×	142 0.6×	61	3.0k
L A Weber United States	15	2.3k 1.3×	346 1.1×	422 1.5×	268 1.0×	167 0.7×	16	2.6k
Kenzo Ohtsuka Japan	31	2.6k 1.5×	435 1.3×	659 2.3×	251 1.0×	324 1.3×	66	3.1k
Shawn P. Murphy United States	21	1.8k 1.1×	512 1.6×	434 1.5×	187 0.7×	381 1.5×	28	2.3k
Lee A. Weber United States	19	2.3k 1.4×	323 1.0×	492 1.7×	335 1.3×	160 0.7×	29	2.7k
Lucie Bourget Canada	14	1.5k 0.9×	101 0.3×	370 1.3×	177 0.7×	193 0.8×	16	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryo Morimoto

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

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Das, Sabyasachi, Thomas Boehm, Stephen J. Holland, et al.. (2023). Evolution of two distinct variable lymphocyte receptors in lampreys: VLRD and VLRE. Cell Reports. 42(8). 112933–112933. 10 indexed citations

Fujita, Yukio, et al.. (2023). Delivery accuracy of VMAT on two beam‐matched linacs provided by accelerated go live service. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. 24(7). e14071–e14071. 1 indexed citations

Boehm, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Genetic conflicts and the origin of self/nonself-discrimination in the vertebrate immune system. Trends in Immunology. 44(5). 372–383. 6 indexed citations

Morimoto, Ryo, et al.. (2021). Evolution of thymopoietic microenvironments. Open Biology. 11(2). 200383–200383. 8 indexed citations

Sato, Yuki, et al.. (2021). Normal skeletal pattern formation in chick limb bud with a mesenchymal hole is mediated by adjustment of cellular properties along the anterior–posterior axis in the limb bud. Developmental Biology. 483. 76–88. 1 indexed citations

Morimoto, Ryo, et al.. (2020). Co-evolution of mutagenic genome editors and vertebrate adaptive immunity. Current Opinion in Immunology. 65. 32–41. 10 indexed citations

Swann, Jeremy B., et al.. (2020). Retracing the evolutionary emergence of thymopoiesis. Science Advances. 6(48). 12 indexed citations

Shindou, Hideo, Kazuo Kumagai, Ryo Morimoto, et al.. (2014). Selective inhibitors of a PAF biosynthetic enzyme lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase 2. Journal of Lipid Research. 55(7). 1386–1396. 25 indexed citations

Funabashi, Nobusada, Ryo Morimoto, Koya Ozawa, et al.. (2014). Influence of tube voltage and heart rate on the Agatston calcium score using an in vitro, novel ECG-gated dual energy reconstruction 320 slice CT technique. International Journal of Cardiology. 180. 218–220. 6 indexed citations

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Morimoto, Ryo, et al.. (2014). Rapid Production of Platelet-activating Factor Is Induced by Protein Kinase Cα-mediated Phosphorylation of Lysophosphatidylcholine Acyltransferase 2 Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(22). 15566–15576. 28 indexed citations

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Koba, Yusuke, et al.. (2014). Basic characteristics of tissue-equivalent phantom thermoluminescence slab dosimeter using new TL phosphor Li3B7012:Cu. Radiation Measurements. 62. 15–21. 11 indexed citations

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Morimoto, Ryo, Koji Akeda, Akinobu Nishimura, et al.. (2012). Tissue Renin-Angiotensin System in the Intervertebral Disc. Spine. 38(3). E129–E136. 12 indexed citations

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Morimoto, Ryo, Hideo Shindou, Yoshiya Oda, & Takao Shimizu. (2010). Phosphorylation of Lysophosphatidylcholine Acyltransferase 2 at Ser34 Enhances Platelet-activating Factor Production in Endotoxin-stimulated Macrophages. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(39). 29857–29862. 47 indexed citations

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Shindou, Hideo, Miki Eto, Ryo Morimoto, & Takao Shimizu. (2009). Identification of membrane O-acyltransferase family motifs. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 383(3). 320–325. 43 indexed citations

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Akeda, Koji, Yuichi Kasai, Koichi Masuda, et al.. (2009). Expression of Proteinase-Activated Receptor-2 in the Intervertebral Disc. Spine. 34(5). 470–478. 10 indexed citations

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Yoneda, Yasuhiro, Kazuhisa Tamura, Hiroshi Abe, et al.. (2008). Ion-Irradiation Effects of Hydrogen Absorption in Palladium Metal. Transactions of the Materials Research Society of Japan. 33(4). 1053–1056. 1 indexed citations

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Yamashita, Kouwa, Mitsunobu Okuyama, Seijiro Honma, et al.. (2008). Development of sensitive derivatization method for aldosterone in liquid chromatography–electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry of corticosteroids. Journal of Chromatography A. 1200(2). 114–121. 48 indexed citations

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Morimoto, Ryo, Paul E. Kroeger, & José J. Cotto. (1996). The Transcriptional regulation of heat shock genes: A plethora of heat shock factors and regulatory conditions. Birkhäuser Basel eBooks. 77. 139–163. 137 indexed citations

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Beere, Helen M., et al.. (1993). Changes in HSC70 and c-myc in HL-60 [HL60] cells engaging differentiation or apoptosis. 1(3). 323–343. 4 indexed citations

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Holmgren, Robert A., Victor G. Corces, Ryo Morimoto, R. L. Blackman, & Matthew Meselson. (1981). Sequence homologies in the 5' regions of four Drosophila heat-shock genes.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 78(6). 3775–3778. 162 indexed citations

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