So Nakagawa

10.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
105 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

So Nakagawa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, So Nakagawa has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Plant Science and 25 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in So Nakagawa's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (15 papers) and Animal Virus Infections Studies (13 papers). So Nakagawa is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (15 papers) and Animal Virus Infections Studies (13 papers). So Nakagawa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. So Nakagawa's co-authors include Tomitake Tsukihara, Shoji Maeda, Takayuki Miyazawa, Eiki Yamashita, Michihiro Suga, Yoshinori Fujiyoshi, Atsunori Oshima, Kirill Kryukov, Mahoko Takahashi Ueda and Tadashi Imanishi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

So Nakagawa

101 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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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.

Structure of the connexin 26 gap junction channel at 3.5 Å resolution

2009 553 citations Shoji Maeda, So Nakagawa et al. profile →
SARS-CoV-2 ORF3b Is a Potent Interferon Antagonist Whose Activity Is Increased by a Naturally Occurring Elongation Variant

2020 312 citations So Nakagawa et al. profile →
Full-length 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis of human gut microbiota using MinION™ nanopore sequencing confers species-level resolution

2021 209 citations Yoshiyuki Matsuo, Shinnosuke Komiya et al. BMC Microbiology profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of So Nakagawa

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Birth of protein-coding exons by ancient domestication of LINE-1 retrotransposon 2025 ·Genome Research ·K. Kitao, Kenji Ichiyanagi, So Nakagawa	0
2	Molecular identification, relative prevalence, and host range of Berkeleyomyces species associated with the lettuce and other leaf vegetables in Brazil 2025 ·Tropical Plant Pathology ·(unknown), (unknown), So Nakagawa, (unknown), (unknown), Josiene Silva Veloso, M. E. N. Fonseca, L. S. Boiteux, Ailton Reis	1
3	Revised model for cell cycle regulation by iron: differential roles between transferrin and ferritin 2025 ·Redox Biology ·(unknown), Hiroko Kato, Akinori Ninomiya, Masaya Ueno, (unknown), Yuji Miyatake, Masahiro Oka, Keisuke Ishii, Tadashi Matsuura, So Nakagawa, Atsushi Hirao, Makoto Onizuka, Ai Kotani	1
4	Genes involved in the limited spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the lower respiratory airways of hamsters may be associated with adaptive evolution 2024 ·Journal of Virology ·K. Takada, Yasuko Orba, (unknown), Jiaqi Wu, Chikako Ono, Yoshiharu Matsuura, So Nakagawa, Hirofumi Sawa, Tokiko Watanabe	2
5	Metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota of hooded cranes ( Grus monacha ) on the Izumi plain in Japan 2024 ·FEBS Open Bio ·K. Takada, So Nakagawa, Kirill Kryukov, Makoto Ozawa, Tokiko Watanabe	1
6	Functional molecular evolution of a GTP sensing kinase: PI5P4Kβ 2023 ·FEBS Journal ·Koh Takeuchi, Miki Senda, Yoshiki Ikeda, Koji Okuwaki, Kaori Fukuzawa, So Nakagawa, Mika Sasaki, Atsuo T. Sasaki, Toshiya Senda	3
7	Current trends inRNAvirus detection through metatranscriptome sequencing data 2023 ·FEBS Open Bio ·So Nakagawa, Shoichi Sakaguchi, Atsushi Ogura, Katsuhiko Mineta, Toshinori Endo, Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Takashi Gojobori	5
8	Dynamic Evolution of Retroviral Envelope Genes in Egg-Laying Mammalian Genomes 2023 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·K. Kitao, (unknown), Takayuki Miyazawa, So Nakagawa	6
9	Potentially reduced fusogenicity of syncytin‐2 in New World monkeys 2023 ·FEBS Open Bio ·(unknown), K. Kitao, Takayuki Miyazawa, So Nakagawa	4
10	Nanopore direct RNA sequencing detects DUX4-activated repeats and isoforms in human muscle cells 2021 ·Human Molecular Genetics ·Satomi Mitsuhashi, So Nakagawa, (unknown), Hidetoshi Sakurai, Martin C. Frith, Hiroaki Mitsuhashi	17
11	Plasmid analysis of NDM metallo-β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales isolated in Vietnam 2021 ·PLoS ONE ·Aki Hirabayashi, Koji Yahara, Satomi Mitsuhashi, So Nakagawa, Tadashi Imanishi, (unknown), (unknown), Nguyễn Thái Sơn, Keigo Shibayama, Masato Suzuki	14
12	Full-length 16S rRNA gene amplicon analysis of human gut microbiota using MinION™ nanopore sequencing confers species-level resolution breakdown → 2021 ·BMC Microbiology ·Yoshiyuki Matsuo, Shinnosuke Komiya, Yoshiaki Yasumizu, (unknown), Katsura Mizushima, Tomohisa Takagi, Kirill Kryukov, Aisaku Fukuda, Yoshiharu Morimoto, Yuji Naito, Hidetaka Okada, Hidemasa Bono, So Nakagawa, Kiichi Hirota	209
13	Sequence Compression Benchmark (SCB) database—A comprehensive evaluation of reference-free compressors for FASTA-formatted sequences 2020 ·GigaScience ·Kirill Kryukov, Mahoko Takahashi Ueda, So Nakagawa, Tadashi Imanishi	25
14	Efficient differentiation and polarization of primary cultured neurons on poly(lactic acid) scaffolds with microgrooved structures 2020 ·Scientific Reports ·Asako Otomo, Mahoko Takahashi Ueda, Toshinori Fujie, (unknown), (unknown), Yosuke Okamura, Shinji Takeoka, Shinji Hadano, So Nakagawa	7
15	Nucleotide Archival Format (NAF) enables efficient lossless reference-free compression of DNA sequences 2019 ·Bioinformatics ·Kirill Kryukov, Mahoko Takahashi Ueda, So Nakagawa, Tadashi Imanishi	29
16	The Phylogeny of Placental Evolution Through Dynamic Integrations of Retrotransposons 2017 ·Progress in molecular biology and translational science ·Kazuhiko Imakawa, So Nakagawa	24
17	Susceptibility of domestic animals to a pseudotype virus bearing RD-114 virus envelope protein 2015 ·Gene ·(unknown), So Nakagawa, (unknown), Yuki Nakaya, (unknown), Shoichi Sakaguchi, Rokusuke Yoshikawa, Mahoko Takahashi Ueda, Takayuki Miyazawa	5
18	Construction of an infectious clone of simian foamy virus of Japanese macaque (SFVjm) and phylogenetic analyses of SFVjm isolates 2014 ·Gene ·Rokusuke Yoshikawa, So Nakagawa, Munehiro Okamoto, Takayuki Miyazawa	5
19	Aspartic Acid Residue D3 Critically Determines Cx50 Gap Junction Channel Transjunctional Voltage-Dependent Gating and Unitary Conductance 2012 ·Biophysical Journal ·Xin Li, So Nakagawa, Tomitake Tsukihara, Donglin Bai	12
20	A description of the structural determination procedures of a gap junction channel at 3.5 Å resolution 2009 ·Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·Michihiro Suga, Shoji Maeda, So Nakagawa, Eiki Yamashita, Tomitake Tsukihara	23

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