S. Osawa

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

S. Osawa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Osawa has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in S. Osawa's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (37 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (17 papers). S. Osawa is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (37 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (17 papers). S. Osawa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. S. Osawa's co-authors include Hidetaka Hori, Akira Muto, Thomas H. Jukes, Akira Muto, Naoyuki Iwabe, K Kuma, M. Hasegawa, Takaki Miyata, Fumiaki Yamao and K. Watanabe and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Annual Review of Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

S. Osawa

61 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Evolutionary relationship of archaebacteria, eubacteria, and eukaryotes inferred from phylogenetic trees of duplicated genes.

1989 637 citations S. Osawa et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. Osawa Japan	27	3.0k	877	850	441	235	62	3.8k
Syozo Osawa Japan	41	3.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	893 1.1×	481 1.1×	290 1.2×	152	4.8k
L. Zablen United States	13	1.6k 0.5×	831 0.9×	259 0.3×	279 0.6×	211 0.9×	17	2.4k
G. Volckaerţ Belgium	24	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	719 0.8×	632 1.4×	226 1.0×	68	3.5k
Detlef D. Leipe United States	20	3.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	886 1.0×	788 1.8×	113 0.5×	27	4.9k
Linda Bonen Canada	32	3.9k 1.3×	925 1.1×	429 0.5×	831 1.9×	58 0.2×	67	4.6k
C.A. Thomas United States	36	3.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.6×	1.2k 1.4×	494 1.1×	154 0.7×	80	4.4k
Frederick A. Eiserling United States	28	1.8k 0.6×	1.5k 1.7×	539 0.6×	248 0.6×	122 0.5×	58	2.4k
János Pósfai United States	21	3.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	590 1.3×	120 0.5×	26	4.2k
Martin Kessel United States	36	2.5k 0.8×	772 0.9×	752 0.9×	309 0.7×	113 0.5×	78	3.5k
Wayne M. Barnes United States	30	3.6k 1.2×	744 0.8×	1.3k 1.6×	869 2.0×	64 0.3×	44	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by S. Osawa

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. Osawa

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Faisal, Nadimul Haque, R.L. Reuben, Anna Paradowska, et al.. (2010). Neutron diffraction residual strain measurements in alumina coatings deposited via APS and HVOF techniques. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 251. 12051–12051. 10 indexed citations

Su, Zhi‐Hui, Osamu Tominaga, Masanori Okamoto, & S. Osawa. (1998). Origin and diversification of hindwingless Damaster ground beetles within the Japanese islands as deduced from mitochondrial ND5 gene sequences (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 15(8). 1026–1039. 64 indexed citations

Bessho, Yoshitaka, Satoru Tamura, Hidetaka Hori, et al.. (1997). Planarian mitochondria sequence heterogeneity: relationships between the type of cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene sequence, karyotype and genital organ. Molecular Ecology. 6(2). 129–136. 7 indexed citations

Jukes, Thomas H. & S. Osawa. (1996). CUG codons inCandida spp.. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 42(2). 321–322. 9 indexed citations

Osawa, S., Thomas H. Jukes, Kazuo Watanabe, & Akiyoshi Muto. (1992). Recent evidence for evolution of the genetic code.. Microbiological Reviews. 56(1). 229–264. 181 indexed citations

Yokogawa, Takashi, Tsutomu Suzuki, Takuya Ueda, et al.. (1992). Serine tRNA complementary to the nonuniversal serine codon CUG in Candida cylindracea: evolutionary implications.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 89(16). 7408–7411. 49 indexed citations

Andachi, Yoshiki, et al.. (1991). Translation in vitro of codon UGA as tryptophan in Mycoplasma capricolum. Biochimie. 73(7-8). 1109–1112. 11 indexed citations

Osawa, S., Akira Muto, Takeshi Ohama, et al.. (1990). Prokaryotic genetic code. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 46(11-12). 1097–1106. 27 indexed citations

Jukes, Thomas H. & S. Osawa. (1990). The genetic code in mitochondria and chloroplasts. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 46(11-12). 1117–1126. 70 indexed citations

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Osawa, S.. (1988). Directional mutation pressure and transfer RNA in chice of the third nucleotide of synonymous two-codon sets. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 85. 1124–1128. 1 indexed citations

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Jukes, Thomas H., S. Osawa, Akira Muto, & Niles Lehman. (1987). Evolution of Anticodons: Variations in the Genetic Code. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 52(0). 769–776. 20 indexed citations

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Hori, Hidetaka & S. Osawa. (1987). Origin and evolution of organisms as deduced from 5S ribosomal RNA sequences.. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 4(5). 445–72. 197 indexed citations

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Park, Yong-Ha, Hidetaka Hori, Ken‐ichiro Suzuki, S. Osawa, & Kazuo Komagata. (1987). Phylogenetic analysis of the coryneform bacteria by 5S rRNA sequences. Journal of Bacteriology. 169(5). 1801–1806. 34 indexed citations

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Osawa, S., Thomas H. Jukes, Akira Muto, et al.. (1987). Role of Directional Mutation Pressure in the Evolution of the Eubacterial Genetic Code. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 52(0). 777–789. 26 indexed citations

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Muto, Akira & S. Osawa. (1987). The guanine and cytosine content of genomic DNA and bacterial evolution.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 84(1). 166–169. 458 indexed citations

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Yamao, Fumiaki, Akira Muto, Yasushi Kawauchi, et al.. (1985). UGA is read as tryptophan in Mycoplasma capricolum.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 82(8). 2306–2309. 234 indexed citations

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Muto, Akira, Eiko Otaka, T. Itoh, S. Osawa, & H. G. Wittmann. (1975). Correlation of 30S ribosomal proteins of Escherichia coli fractionated on carboxymethyl-cellulose column chromatography to the standard nomenclature. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 140(1). 1–5. 2 indexed citations

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Matsubara, M, Renkichi Takata, & S. Osawa. (1972). Chromosomal loci for 16S ribosomal RNA in Escherichia coli. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 117(4). 311–317. 5 indexed citations

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Kono, Miho, Eiko Otaka, & S. Osawa. (1964). Changes in sedimentation properties of ribosomal ribonucleic acids during the course of ribosome formation in Escherichia coli. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Specialized Section on Nucleic Acids and Related Subjects. 91(4). 612–618. 27 indexed citations

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Osawa, S. & Yukito Oota. (1953). Growth and pentose nucleic acid content of bean embryo. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 9(3). 96–98. 15 indexed citations

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