Takuya Imamura

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Takuya Imamura is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Takuya Imamura has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Takuya Imamura's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (14 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (8 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Takuya Imamura is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (14 papers), Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research (8 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Takuya Imamura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and France. Takuya Imamura's co-authors include Kinichi Nakashima, Nobuhiko Hamazaki, Satoshi Tanaka, Kunio Shiota, Jun Ohgane, Naka Hattori, Masahiro Uesaka, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Go Nagamatsu and Yayoi Obata and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Takuya Imamura

45 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Reconstitution in vitro of the entire cycle of the mouse female germ line

2016 401 citations Orie Hikabe, Nobuhiko Hamazaki et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Takuya Imamura Japan	23	1.6k	478	395	350	324	50	2.2k
Zhigang Xue China	23	1.6k 1.0×	337 0.7×	347 0.9×	377 1.1×	159 0.5×	64	2.5k
Charles A. Easley United States	22	1.2k 0.7×	179 0.4×	225 0.6×	174 0.5×	200 0.6×	49	1.8k
Alexander Gow United States	28	2.1k 1.3×	339 0.7×	136 0.3×	377 1.1×	275 0.8×	72	3.9k
Muhammad Abu‐Elmagd Saudi Arabia	23	1.0k 0.7×	341 0.7×	225 0.6×	469 1.3×	292 0.9×	57	1.9k
Xiaoying Fan China	26	1.4k 0.9×	149 0.3×	114 0.3×	522 1.5×	31 0.1×	63	2.8k
Andrew L. Miller Hong Kong	33	2.0k 1.3×	250 0.5×	297 0.8×	196 0.6×	98 0.3×	144	3.3k
Michael J. Friez United States	25	1.7k 1.1×	1.6k 3.4×	250 0.6×	292 0.8×	180 0.6×	82	3.1k
Giovanna Testa Italy	18	292 0.2×	239 0.5×	227 0.6×	59 0.2×	163 0.5×	36	1.0k
Owen J. L. Rackham Singapore	18	1.4k 0.9×	160 0.3×	74 0.2×	138 0.4×	26 0.1×	40	2.0k
Claudia Consales Italy	20	392 0.3×	66 0.1×	67 0.2×	102 0.3×	78 0.2×	49	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Takuya Imamura

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Morishita, Fumihiro, et al.. (2024). Vanadium Accumulation and Reduction by Vanadium-Accumulating Bacteria Isolated from the Intestinal Contents of Ciona robusta. Marine Biotechnology. 26(2). 338–350. 1 indexed citations

Morishita, Fumihiro, et al.. (2023). Concomitant downregulation of neuropeptide genes in a marine snail with consecutive sexual maturation after a nuclear disaster in Japan. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 14. 1129666–1129666.

Suzuki, Takahiro, Go Nagamatsu, Haruka Yabukami, et al.. (2021). Generation of ovarian follicles from mouse pluripotent stem cells. Science. 373(6552). 115 indexed citations

Imamura, Takuya, et al.. (2021). The evolutionary acquisition and mode of functions of promoter-associated non-coding RNAs (pancRNAs) for mammalian development. Essays in Biochemistry. 65(4). 697–708. 6 indexed citations

Katada, Sayako, Takumi Nakagawa, Katsuhide Igarashi, et al.. (2021). Neural stem/precursor cells dynamically change their epigenetic landscape to differentially respond to BMP signaling for fate switching during brain development. Genes & Development. 35(21-22). 1431–1444. 20 indexed citations

Imamura, Takuya, et al.. (2020). Modeling of early neural development in vitro by direct neurosphere formation culture of chimpanzee induced pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cell Research. 44. 101749–101749. 10 indexed citations

Matsuda, Taito, Takashi Irie, Shutaro Katsurabayashi, et al.. (2019). Pioneer Factor NeuroD1 Rearranges Transcriptional and Epigenetic Profiles to Execute Microglia-Neuron Conversion. Neuron. 101(3). 472–485.e7. 153 indexed citations

Hamazaki, Nobuhiko, Kinichi Nakashima, Katsuhiko Hayashi, & Takuya Imamura. (2017). Detection of Bidirectional Promoter-Derived lncRNAs from Small-Scale Samples Using Pre-Amplification-Free Directional RNA-seq Method. Methods in molecular biology. 1605. 83–103. 6 indexed citations

Hamazaki, Nobuhiko, Kinichi Nakashima, & Takuya Imamura. (2017). Manipulation of Promoter-Associated Noncoding RNAs in Mouse Early Embryos for Controlling Sequence-Specific Epigenetic Status. Methods in molecular biology. 1543. 271–282. 2 indexed citations

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Uesaka, Masahiro, Kiyokazu Agata, Takao Oishi, Kinichi Nakashima, & Takuya Imamura. (2017). Evolutionary acquisition of promoter-associated non-coding RNA (pancRNA) repertoires diversifies species-dependent gene activation mechanisms in mammals. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 285–285. 16 indexed citations

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Hikabe, Orie, Nobuhiko Hamazaki, Go Nagamatsu, et al.. (2016). Reconstitution in vitro of the entire cycle of the mouse female germ line. Nature. 539(7628). 299–303. 401 indexed citations breakdown →

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Uesaka, Masahiro, Osamu Nishimura, Yasuhiro Go, et al.. (2014). Bidirectional promoters are the major source of gene activation-associated non-coding RNAs in mammals. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 35–35. 82 indexed citations

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Nakayama, Tomoki, Kei Sato, Yutaka Matsumi, et al.. (2013). Wavelength and NO _x dependent complex refractive index of SOAs generated from the photooxidation of toluene. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(2). 531–545. 123 indexed citations

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Tomikawa, Junko, Masahiro Uesaka, Naoki Yamamoto, et al.. (2011). Single-stranded Noncoding RNAs Mediate Local Epigenetic Alterations at Gene Promoters in Rat Cell Lines. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(40). 34788–34799. 30 indexed citations

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Imamura, Takuya. (2010). Epigenetic setting for long-term expression of estrogen receptor α and androgen receptor in cells. Hormones and Behavior. 59(3). 345–352. 15 indexed citations

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Bacquet, Caroline, Takuya Imamura, Claudio A. González, et al.. (2008). Epigenetic processes in a tetraploid mammal. Mammalian Genome. 19(6). 439–447. 11 indexed citations

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Imamura, Takuya, et al.. (2005). Dynamic CpG and Non-CpG Methylation of the Peg1/Mest Gene in the Mouse Oocyte and Preimplantation Embryo. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(20). 20171–20175. 90 indexed citations

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Shiota, Kunio, Yasushi Kogo, Jun Ohgane, et al.. (2002). Epigenetic marks by DNA methylation specific to stem, germ and somatic cells in mice. Genes to Cells. 7(9). 961–969. 170 indexed citations

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Imamura, Takuya, Jun Ohgane, Tomoya Ogawa, et al.. (2001). CpG Island of Rat Sphingosine Kinase-1 Gene: Tissue-Dependent DNA Methylation Status and Multiple Alternative First Exons. Genomics. 76(1-3). 117–125. 100 indexed citations

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Imamura, Takuya, Naka Hattori, Kunio Shiota, & Tomohisa Ogawa. (1998). Generation and Characterization of a Monoclonal Antibody Recognizing a Fetal Brain Enriched O-Linked Sialoglycoprotein, FOG100. The Journal of Biochemistry. 124(3). 534–539. 1 indexed citations

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