Suguru Nishijima

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 786 citations indexed

About

Suguru Nishijima is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Suguru Nishijima has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 786 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Suguru Nishijima's work include Gut microbiota and health (9 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (5 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (3 papers). Suguru Nishijima is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (9 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (5 papers) and Diet and metabolism studies (3 papers). Suguru Nishijima collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Germany and Ireland. Suguru Nishijima's co-authors include Masahira Hattori, Wataru Suda, Kenshiro Oshima, Hidetoshi Morita, Yuu Hirose, Seok-Won Kim, Mitsuru Ohsugi, Naomi Uemura, Naoyoshi Nagata and Tohru Miyoshi‐Akiyama and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Suguru Nishijima

13 papers receiving 778 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.

The gut microbiome of healthy Japanese and its microbial and functional uniqueness

2016 342 citations Suguru Nishijima, Wataru Suda et al. DNA Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Suguru Nishijima Japan	11	559	187	154	107	85	13	786
Sanzhima Garmaeva Netherlands	10	549 1.0×	176 0.9×	151 1.0×	166 1.6×	61 0.7×	16	850
Tiffany Poon United States	6	559 1.0×	266 1.4×	177 1.1×	95 0.9×	73 0.9×	13	907
M Snyder United States	2	618 1.1×	125 0.7×	130 0.8×	58 0.5×	58 0.7×	2	834
Vera Carvalho Denmark	3	539 1.0×	196 1.0×	162 1.1×	48 0.4×	47 0.6×	4	676
Niels van Best Netherlands	11	624 1.1×	186 1.0×	136 0.9×	34 0.3×	53 0.6×	22	864
Mark Davids Netherlands	19	940 1.7×	266 1.4×	243 1.6×	74 0.7×	102 1.2×	52	1.2k
Robin Shields‐Cutler United States	11	822 1.5×	293 1.6×	147 1.0×	105 1.0×	39 0.5×	21	1.1k
Maryam Tidjani Alou France	14	506 0.9×	139 0.7×	90 0.6×	83 0.8×	58 0.7×	57	790
Anat Eck Netherlands	9	543 1.0×	185 1.0×	133 0.9×	31 0.3×	93 1.1×	9	779
Simone S. Li Australia	13	1.1k 1.9×	194 1.0×	368 2.4×	163 1.5×	77 0.9×	20	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Suguru Nishijima

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Suguru Nishijima

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

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

Nishijima, Suguru, Anthony Fullam, Thomas Schmidt, Michael Kuhn, & Peer Bork. (2025). VIRE: a metagenome-derived, planetary-scale virome resource with environmental context. Nucleic Acids Research. 54(D1). D902–D911. 1 indexed citations

Akiyama, Shintaro, Suguru Nishijima, Yasushi Kojima, et al.. (2024). Multi-biome analysis identifies distinct gut microbial signatures and their crosstalk in ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10291–10291. 14 indexed citations

Nishijima, Suguru, Naoyoshi Nagata, Yuya Kiguchi, et al.. (2022). Extensive gut virome variation and its associations with host and environmental factors in a population-level cohort. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5252–5252. 64 indexed citations

Nagata, Naoyoshi, Suguru Nishijima, Tohru Miyoshi‐Akiyama, et al.. (2022). Population-level Metagenomics Uncovers Distinct Effects of Multiple Medications on the Human Gut Microbiome. Gastroenterology. 163(4). 1038–1052. 82 indexed citations

Kiguchi, Yuya, Suguru Nishijima, Naveen Kumar, Masahira Hattori, & Wataru Suda. (2021). Long-read metagenomics of multiple displacement amplified DNA of low-biomass human gut phageomes by SACRA pre-processing chimeric reads. DNA Research. 28(6). 15 indexed citations

Sato, Toyotaka, Takayuki Wada, Suguru Nishijima, et al.. (2020). Emergence of the Novel Aminoglycoside Acetyltransferase Variant aac(6′)-Ib-D179Y and Acquisition of Colistin Heteroresistance in Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Due to a Disrupting Mutation in the DNA Repair Enzyme MutS. mBio. 11(6). 13 indexed citations

Nishijima, Suguru, et al.. (2020). Revealing the microbial assemblage structure in the human gut microbiome using latent Dirichlet allocation. Microbiome. 8(1). 95–95. 28 indexed citations

Suzuki, Yoshihiko, Suguru Nishijima, Yoshikazu Furuta, et al.. (2019). Long-read metagenomic exploration of extrachromosomal mobile genetic elements in the human gut. Microbiome. 7(1). 119–119. 56 indexed citations

Suda, Wataru, Yusuke Ogata, & Suguru Nishijima. (2019). [Analysis of human microbiome using NGS.]. PubMed. 28(9). 1274–1281. 1 indexed citations

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Nagata, Naoyoshi, Mari Tohya, Fumihiko Takeuchi, et al.. (2019). Effects of storage temperature, storage time, and Cary-Blair transport medium on the stability of the gut microbiota. Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics. 13(5). 256–260. 18 indexed citations

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Nagata, Naoyoshi, Mari Tohya, Shinji Fukuda, et al.. (2019). Effects of bowel preparation on the human gut microbiome and metabolome. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 4042–4042. 79 indexed citations

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Takayasu, Lena, Wataru Suda, Erica Iioka, et al.. (2017). Circadian oscillations of microbial and functional composition in the human salivary microbiome. DNA Research. 24(3). 261–270. 73 indexed citations

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Nishijima, Suguru, Wataru Suda, Kenshiro Oshima, et al.. (2016). The gut microbiome of healthy Japanese and its microbial and functional uniqueness. DNA Research. 23(2). 125–133. 342 indexed citations breakdown →

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