So Iwata

31.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
217 papers, 20.4k citations indexed

About

So Iwata is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, So Iwata has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 20.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 167 papers in Molecular Biology, 63 papers in Materials Chemistry and 31 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in So Iwata's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (59 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (40 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (39 papers). So Iwata is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (59 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (40 papers) and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (39 papers). So Iwata collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and United States. So Iwata's co-authors include James Barber, Karim Maghlaoui, Hartmut Michel, T.M. Iverson, Bernd Ludwig, Christian Ostermeier, Jeff Abramson, Bernadette Byrne, Alexander D. Cameron and H. Ronald Kaback and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

So Iwata

213 papers receiving 20.1k 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.

Architecture of the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Center

2004 2.7k citations T.M. Iverson, Karim Maghlaoui et al. Science profile →
Structure at 2.8 Å resolution of cytochrome c oxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans

1995 1.7k citations So Iwata et al. Nature profile →
Structure and Mechanism of the Lactose Permease of Escherichia coli

2003 1.1k citations Jeff Abramson, И. Н. Смирнова et al. Science profile →
Complete Structure of the 11-Subunit Bovine Mitochondrial Cytochrome bc ₁ Complex

1998 1.0k citations So Iwata et al. Science profile →
Architecture of Succinate Dehydrogenase and Reactive Oxygen Species Generation

2003 742 citations Victoria Yankovskaya, Rob Horsefield et al. Science profile →
Structure of the human histamine H1 receptor complex with doxepin

2011 659 citations Tatsuro Shimamura, Mitsunori Shiroishi et al. Nature profile →
Atg9 is a lipid scramblase that mediates autophagosomal membrane expansion

2020 298 citations Akihisa Tsutsumi, Norimichi Nomura et al. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology profile →
Structure of SARS-CoV-2 membrane protein essential for virus assembly

2022 108 citations Norimichi Nomura, Tomoko Uemura et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
So Iwata	14.7k	3.0k	2.9k	2.0k	1.8k	217	20.4k
John L. Markley	20.1k 1.4×	1.2k 0.4×	5.2k 1.8×	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	507	27.9k
J. Deisenhofer	19.4k 1.3×	3.1k 1.1×	4.4k 1.5×	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	134	27.5k
William F. DeGrado	32.1k 2.2×	2.2k 0.7×	6.7k 2.3×	1.2k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	538	43.5k
Richard A. Henderson	14.6k 1.0×	7.2k 2.4×	3.6k 1.2×	981 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	320	24.5k
Hartmut Michel	17.9k 1.2×	5.9k 2.0×	3.7k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	259	21.6k
Tomitake Tsukihara	9.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	858 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	226	13.0k
Elizabeth D. Getzoff	7.6k 0.5×	2.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	792 0.4×	1.8k 1.0×	149	14.4k
Ilme Schlichting	9.3k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	4.0k 1.4×	549 0.3×	2.3k 1.3×	174	14.8k
Andrew G. W. Leslie	23.9k 1.6×	2.8k 0.9×	5.7k 1.9×	641 0.3×	656 0.4×	97	30.8k
Robert B. Gennis	16.2k 1.1×	4.9k 1.6×	1.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	1.8k 1.0×	444	19.7k

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Wolf, Gernot, et al.. (2025). Stepwise ATP translocation into the endoplasmic reticulum by human SLC35B1. Nature. 643(8072). 855–864. 1 indexed citations

Shiimura, Yuki, Dohyun Im, Hidetsugu Asada, et al.. (2025). The structure and function of the ghrelin receptor coding for drug actions. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(3). 531–542. 3 indexed citations

Nango, Eriko & So Iwata. (2023). Recent progress in membrane protein dynamics revealed by X-ray free electron lasers: Molecular movies of microbial rhodopsins. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 81. 102629–102629. 9 indexed citations

Watanabe, Satoshi, Norimichi Nomura, Kehong Liu, et al.. (2023). Cryo-EM structures of human zinc transporter ZnT7 reveal the mechanism of Zn2+ uptake into the Golgi apparatus. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4770–4770. 21 indexed citations

Asada, Hidetsugu, Dohyun Im, Satoshi Yasuda, et al.. (2022). Molecular basis for anti-insomnia drug design from structure of lemborexant-bound orexin 2 receptor. Structure. 30(12). 1582–1589.e4. 11 indexed citations

Murakawa, T., Mamoru Suzuki, Kenji Fukui, et al.. (2022). Serial femtosecond X-ray crystallography of an anaerobically formed catalytic intermediate of copper amine oxidase. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 78(12). 1428–1438. 5 indexed citations

Suno, Ryoji, Yukihiko Sugita, Kazushi Morimoto, et al.. (2022). Structural insights into the G protein selectivity revealed by the human EP3-Gi signaling complex. Cell Reports. 40(11). 111323–111323. 14 indexed citations

Wahlgren, Weixiao Yuan, Léocadie Henry, Suraj Pandey, et al.. (2021). The three-dimensional structure of Drosophila melanogaster (6–4) photolyase at room temperature. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 77(8). 1001–1009. 6 indexed citations

Suno, Ryoji, Sangbae Lee, Shoji Maeda, et al.. (2018). Structural insights into the subtype-selective antagonist binding to the M2 muscarinic receptor. Nature Chemical Biology. 14(12). 1150–1158. 54 indexed citations

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Sánchez‐González, Álvaro, Allan S. Johnson, Ann Fitzpatrick, et al.. (2017). Coincidence timing of femtosecond optical pulses in an X-ray free electron laser. Journal of Applied Physics. 122(20). 12 indexed citations

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Hutchison, C., Violeta Cordón-Preciado, Rhodri M. L. Morgan, et al.. (2017). X-ray Free Electron Laser Determination of Crystal Structures of Dark and Light States of a Reversibly Photoswitching Fluorescent Protein at Room Temperature. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 18(9). 1918–1918. 10 indexed citations

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Yasuda, Satoshi, Yosuke Toyoda, Kazushi Morimoto, et al.. (2017). Hot-Spot Residues to be Mutated Common in G Protein-Coupled Receptors of Class A: Identification of Thermostabilizing Mutations Followed by Determination of Three-Dimensional Structures for Two Example Receptors. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121(26). 6341–6350. 25 indexed citations

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Mizutani, K., K. Suzuki, Ichiro Yamato, et al.. (2011). Structure of the rotor ring modified with N , N ^′ -dicyclohexylcarbodiimide of the Na ⁺ -transporting vacuolar ATPase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(33). 13474–13479. 35 indexed citations

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Graaf, Chris de, Albert J. Kooistra, Henry F. Vischer, et al.. (2011). Crystal Structure-Based Virtual Screening for Fragment-like Ligands of the Human Histamine H ₁ Receptor. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 54(23). 8195–8206. 162 indexed citations

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Shimamura, Tatsuro, Simone Weyand, Oliver Beckstein, et al.. (2010). Molecular Basis of Alternating Access Membrane Transport by the Sodium-Hydantoin Transporter Mhp1. Science. 328(5977). 470–473. 226 indexed citations

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Shimamura, Tatsuro, Shunsuke Yajima, Shunichi Suzuki, et al.. (2008). Structure and Molecular Mechanism of a Nucleobase–Cation–Symport-1 Family Transporter. Science. 322(5902). 709–713. 284 indexed citations

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Iverson, T.M., et al.. (2004). Architecture of the Photosynthetic Oxygen-Evolving Center. Science. 303(5665). 1831–1838. 2704 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thornton, John S., EB Cady, Alan Bainbridge, et al.. (2004). Cerebral temperature mapping by self-referenced proton spectroscopic imaging thermometry.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Yankovskaya, Victoria, Rob Horsefield, Susanna Törnroth‐Horsefield, et al.. (2003). Architecture of Succinate Dehydrogenase and Reactive Oxygen Species Generation. Science. 299(5607). 700–704. 742 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abramson, Jeff, И. Н. Смирнова, Vladimir N. Kasho, et al.. (2003). Structure and Mechanism of the Lactose Permease of Escherichia coli. Science. 301(5633). 610–615. 1138 indexed citations breakdown →

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