Shigeru Kuratani

15.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
222 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Shigeru Kuratani is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shigeru Kuratani has authored 222 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Molecular Biology, 71 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 51 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Shigeru Kuratani's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (151 papers), Congenital heart defects research (71 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (65 papers). Shigeru Kuratani is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (151 papers), Congenital heart defects research (71 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (65 papers). Shigeru Kuratani collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and France. Shigeru Kuratani's co-authors include Shigehiro Kuraku, Shinichi Aizawa, Isao Matsuo, Shigeki Hirano, Yasunori Murakami, Kinya G. Ota, Naoki Irie, Yuichi Narita, Fumiaki Sugahara and Yasuyo Shigetani and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Shigeru Kuratani

218 papers receiving 10.3k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shigeru Kuratani Japan	59	7.5k	2.6k	2.2k	1.7k	844	222	10.6k
Brian K. Hall Canada	58	6.1k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	312 0.4×	289	13.1k
Karel F. Liem United States	43	3.0k 0.4×	1.7k 0.6×	2.9k 1.3×	1.2k 0.7×	516 0.6×	83	8.5k
Linda Z. Holland United States	52	5.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	572 0.3×	794 0.5×	803 1.0×	162	7.6k
Peter W. H. Holland United Kingdom	62	9.3k 1.2×	3.7k 1.4×	667 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.5×	217	14.0k
Clifford J. Tabin United States	87	20.0k 2.7×	7.2k 2.7×	869 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	864 1.0×	201	28.7k
Michael K. Richardson Netherlands	46	3.0k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	828 0.4×	905 0.5×	406 0.5×	131	7.2k
Corinne Cruaud France	61	8.5k 1.1×	2.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.5×	701 0.4×	848 1.0×	232	17.3k
David M. Kingsley United States	58	7.3k 1.0×	6.8k 2.6×	1.7k 0.8×	394 0.2×	346 0.4×	117	15.2k
Joachim Wittbrodt Germany	57	8.5k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	438 0.2×	395 0.2×	1.4k 1.7×	203	13.7k
R. Glenn Northcutt United States	51	3.5k 0.5×	661 0.3×	2.5k 1.1×	777 0.5×	2.5k 3.0×	181	9.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shigeru Kuratani

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kuratani, Shigeru. (2025). Homology, Recapitulation, and Experimental Embryology: Paths and Meaning of Current Evo-Devo. ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 43(1). 3–22.

Nakanishi, Yuki, Juan Pascual‐Anaya, Makiko Fukui, et al.. (2023). Comparative analysis of Hmx expression and the distribution of neuronal somata in the trigeminal ganglion in lamprey and shark: insights into the homology of the trigeminal nerve branches and the evolutionary origin of the vertebrate jaw. Zoological Letters. 9(1). 23–23. 1 indexed citations

Hirasawa, Tatsuya, et al.. (2022). Morphology of Palaeospondylus shows affinity to tetrapod ancestors. Nature. 606(7912). 109–112. 3 indexed citations

Griffin, Christopher T., Peter J. Bishop, Henry P. Tsai, et al.. (2022). The dinosaurian femoral head experienced a morphogenetic shift from torsion to growth along the avian stem. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1984). 20220740–20220740. 4 indexed citations

Pascual‐Anaya, Juan, David Osca, Ingo Braasch, et al.. (2022). Evolution of the nitric oxide synthase family in vertebrates and novel insights in gill development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1980). 20220667–20220667. 5 indexed citations

Uesaka, Masahiro, Shigeru Kuratani, & Naoki Irie. (2021). The developmental hourglass model and recapitulation: An attempt to integrate the two models. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 338(1-2). 76–86. 15 indexed citations

Kuratani, Shigeru, Masahiro Uesaka, & Naoki Irie. (2020). How can recapitulation be reconciled with modern concepts of evolution?. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 338(1-2). 28–35. 5 indexed citations

Adachi, Noritaka, et al.. (2018). Development of hypobranchial muscles with special reference to the evolution of the vertebrate neck. Zoological Letters. 4(1). 5–5. 15 indexed citations

Irie, Naoki, Noriyuki Satoh, & Shigeru Kuratani. (2018). The phylum Vertebrata: a case for zoological recognition. Zoological Letters. 4(1). 32–32. 19 indexed citations

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Sugahara, Fumiaki, Yasunori Murakami, Juan Pascual‐Anaya, & Shigeru Kuratani. (2017). Reconstructing the ancestral vertebrate brain. Development Growth & Differentiation. 59(4). 163–174. 45 indexed citations

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Hu, Hai, Masahiro Uesaka, Song Guo, et al.. (2017). Constrained vertebrate evolution by pleiotropic genes. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(11). 1722–1730. 62 indexed citations

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Kaji, Takao, et al.. (2016). Amphioxus mouth after dorso-ventral inversion. Zoological Letters. 2(1). 2–2. 32 indexed citations

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Kitazawa, Taro, Masaki Takechi, Tatsuya Hirasawa, et al.. (2015). Developmental genetic bases behind the independent origin of the tympanic membrane in mammals and diapsids. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6853–6853. 50 indexed citations

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Pascual‐Anaya, Juan, Salvatore D’Aniello, Shigeru Kuratani, & Jordi García‐Fernàndez. (2013). Evolution of Hoxgene clusters in deuterostomes. BMC Developmental Biology. 13(1). 26–26. 69 indexed citations

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Ota, Kinya G., Satoko Fujimoto, Yasuhiro Oisi, & Shigeru Kuratani. (2013). Late Development of Hagfish Vertebral Elements. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 320(3). 129–139. 18 indexed citations

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Pascual‐Anaya, Juan, Noritaka Adachi, Susana Álvarez, et al.. (2012). Broken colinearity of the amphioxus Hox cluster. EvoDevo. 3(1). 28–28. 42 indexed citations

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Kusakabe, Rie & Shigeru Kuratani. (2005). The Origin of Epaxial/Hypaxial Distinction of Trunk Skeletal Muscle : Implications from the Gene Expression Patterns in the Lamprey Embryos(Evolution of Muscle Tissues,Symposium,PROCEEDING OF THE 76^ ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN). ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 22(12). 1402. 1 indexed citations

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Wada, Hiroshi, Makiko Okuyama, Mari Kobayashi, et al.. (2004). MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF CARTILAGE(Taxonomy and Systematics,Abstracts of papers presented at the 75^ Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan) :. ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 21(12). 1274–1275. 1 indexed citations

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Uchida, Katsuhisa, Yasunori Murakami, Shigehiro Kuraku, Shigeki Hirano, & Shigeru Kuratani. (2003). Development of the adenohypophysis in the lamprey: Evolution of epigenetic patterning programs in organogenesis. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 300B(1). 32–47. 70 indexed citations

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Kuratani, Shigeru & Shigenori Tanaka. (1990). Peripheral development of avian trigeminal nerves. American Journal of Anatomy. 187(1). 65–80. 36 indexed citations

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