Sosaku Ichikawa

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
116 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Sosaku Ichikawa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sosaku Ichikawa has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 25 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Sosaku Ichikawa's work include Proteins in Food Systems (22 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (22 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (17 papers). Sosaku Ichikawa is often cited by papers focused on Proteins in Food Systems (22 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (22 papers) and Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (17 papers). Sosaku Ichikawa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Slovakia and Switzerland. Sosaku Ichikawa's co-authors include Mitsutoshi Nakajima, Peter Walde, Takashi Kuroiwa, Seigo Sato, Isao Kobayashi, Sukekuni Mukataka, Kunihiko Uemura, Marcos A. Neves, Qingyi Xu and Sumiyo Kanafusa and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews and Langmuir.

In The Last Decade

Sosaku Ichikawa

113 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Enzymes inside lipid vesicles: preparation, reactivity and applications

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sosaku Ichikawa Japan	29	1.2k	897	664	489	483	116	3.4k
Seunho Jung South Korea	33	865 0.7×	691 0.8×	315 0.5×	553 1.1×	603 1.2×	208	3.6k
Agnieszka Z. Wilczewska Poland	29	777 0.7×	746 0.8×	337 0.5×	720 1.5×	923 1.9×	111	3.5k
Véronique Rosilio France	31	1.1k 0.9×	659 0.7×	807 1.2×	556 1.1×	680 1.4×	104	3.2k
Richard A. Frazier United Kingdom	30	1.7k 1.4×	599 0.7×	1.3k 1.9×	449 0.9×	249 0.5×	73	4.3k
Yuriy F. Zuev Russia	27	920 0.8×	385 0.4×	569 0.9×	755 1.5×	443 0.9×	194	2.8k
Kamaljit Kaur Canada	38	2.0k 1.7×	785 0.9×	232 0.3×	341 0.7×	505 1.0×	101	3.9k
Pei Liu China	37	1.8k 1.5×	783 0.9×	306 0.5×	346 0.7×	189 0.4×	174	4.1k
Ganesan Narsimhan United States	35	664 0.6×	742 0.8×	1.7k 2.6×	502 1.0×	329 0.7×	117	3.9k
Luís P. Fonseca Portugal	36	2.2k 1.8×	1.2k 1.4×	216 0.3×	254 0.5×	382 0.8×	188	4.8k
Laurent Sagalowicz Switzerland	31	1.3k 1.1×	637 0.7×	1.0k 1.6×	1.5k 3.1×	461 1.0×	79	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Sosaku Ichikawa

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sosaku Ichikawa

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

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Kobayashi, Isao, et al.. (2025). A Review on In Vitro Evaluation of Chemical and Physical Digestion for Controlling Gastric Digestion of Food. Foods. 14(8). 1435–1435. 1 indexed citations

Nakajima, Mitsutoshi, et al.. (2024). Effect of spacer on mass transfer coefficient and calcium sulfate scaling phenomena in reverse osmosis desalination. Journal of Membrane Science. 706. 122884–122884. 3 indexed citations

Uemura, Kunihiko, et al.. (2023). Effect of mechanical properties on in vitro dynamic digestion of starch contained in hydrogels. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. 104(6). 3498–3506. 2 indexed citations

Kuroiwa, Takashi, et al.. (2023). Facilitated encapsulation of a nonionic contrast agent for X-ray computed tomography into lipid vesicles by the multiple emulsification-solvent evaporation method. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 227. 113360–113360. 1 indexed citations

Nakajima, Mitsutoshi, et al.. (2023). Improvements in Visual Aspects and Chemical, Techno-Functional and Rheological Characteristics of Cricket Powder (Gryllus bimaculatus) by Solvent Treatment for Food Utilization. Foods. 12(7). 1422–1422. 6 indexed citations

Khalid, Nauman, et al.. (2022). Efficient water removal from water-in-oil emulsions by high electric field demulsification. Separation Science and Technology. 58(1). 164–174. 2 indexed citations

Nakajima, Mitsutoshi, et al.. (2022). Analysis of Calcium Sulfate Scaling Phenomena on Reverse Osmosis Membranes by Scaling-Based Flux Model. Membranes. 12(9). 894–894. 7 indexed citations

Watanabe, Makoto M., et al.. (2021). Dewatering of microalgae suspensions by cake filtration with filter cloths. Journal of Applied Phycology. 33(4). 1977–1985. 4 indexed citations

Ichikawa, Sosaku, et al.. (2020). Dewatering of Microalgae Culture by Filtration. MEMBRANE. 45(1). 29–34. 1 indexed citations

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Ichikawa, Sosaku, et al.. (2020). Microalgae Oil Production Using Wastewater in Japan—Introducing Operational Cost Function for Sustainable Management of WWTP. Energies. 13(20). 5310–5310. 3 indexed citations

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Ossai, Emmanuel Chekwube, et al.. (2019). Lipid Vesicle Preparation Using W/O/W Multiple Emulsions Via Solvent Evaporation: The Effect of Emulsifiers on the Entrapment Yield of Hydrophilic Materials. Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society. 96(12). 1405–1416. 6 indexed citations

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Hayashi, Keita, et al.. (2019). Effect of dehydrocholic acid conjugated with a hydrocarbon on a lipid bilayer composed of 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 181. 58–65. 2 indexed citations

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Kobayashi, Isao, et al.. (2018). Formulation and Evaluation of a Satiety-inducing Carbonated Beverage that Forms a Bubble-containing Gel in the Stomach. Food Science and Technology Research. 24(3). 435–442. 5 indexed citations

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Ichikawa, Sosaku, Naofumi Shimokawa, Masahiro Takagi, Yukiya Kitayama, & Toshifumi Takeuchi. (2018). Size-dependent uptake of electrically neutral amphipathic polymeric nanoparticles by cell-sized liposomes and an insight into their internalization mechanism in living cells. Chemical Communications. 54(36). 4557–4560. 9 indexed citations

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Kuroiwa, Takashi, Hiroshi Nabetani, Mitsutoshi Nakajima, et al.. (2009). Purification of Physiologically Active Chitosan Oligosaccharides by Means of Nanofiltration Membrane. MEMBRANE. 34(6). 336–341. 3 indexed citations

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Kuroiwa, Takashi & Sosaku Ichikawa. (2008). Efficient Preparation of Material–Encapsulating Giant Vesicles and Their Utilization for Developing Intravesicular Microbioreaction Systems. MEMBRANE. 33(6). 294–299. 1 indexed citations

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Kuroiwa, Takashi, Mitsutoshi Nakajima, Seigo Sato, Sukekuni Mukataka, & Sosaku Ichikawa. (2007). Preparation of Giant Vesicles Larger than 30 μm That Entrap a Model Hydrophilic Substance Using a Size-controlled Water-in-Oil Emulsion. MEMBRANE. 32(4). 229–233. 5 indexed citations

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Kuroiwa, Takashi, et al.. (2006). Production of Chitosan Oligosaccharides at High Concentration by Immobilized Chitosanase. Food Science and Technology Research. 12(2). 85–90. 15 indexed citations

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Xu, Qingyi, Mitsutoshi Nakajima, Hiroshi Nabetani, Sosaku Ichikawa, & Xinqi Liu. (2002). Factors Affecting the Properties of Ethanol-in-Oil Emulsions.. Food Science and Technology Research. 8(1). 36–41. 9 indexed citations

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Naoe, Kazumitsu, et al.. (1993). Hydrophilic Surroundings in Reverse Micellar Organic Phase Relate to Hydrophobicity of Proteins. 421. 1 indexed citations

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