Tatsuya Tsukui

2.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
29 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Tatsuya Tsukui is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tatsuya Tsukui has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 9 papers in Immunology and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Tatsuya Tsukui's work include Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (11 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (10 papers) and Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies (8 papers). Tatsuya Tsukui is often cited by papers focused on Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (11 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (10 papers) and Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies (8 papers). Tatsuya Tsukui collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Australia. Tatsuya Tsukui's co-authors include Dean Sheppard, Paul J. Wolters, Kouji Matsushima, Satoshi Ueha, Jun Abe, Michael A. Matthay, Michio Tomura, Shigeyuki Shichino, Jonas C. Schupp and Taylor Adams and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Tatsuya Tsukui

27 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Collagen-producing lung cell atlas identifies multiple subsets with distinct localization and relevance to fibrosis

2020 400 citations Tatsuya Tsukui, Kai-Hui Sun et al. Nature Communications profile →
Alveolar fibroblast lineage orchestrates lung inflammation and fibrosis

2024 88 citations Tatsuya Tsukui, Paul J. Wolters et al. Nature profile →
RUNX2 promotes fibrosis via an alveolar-to-pathological fibroblast transition

2025 17 citations Tatsuya Tsukui, Dean Sheppard 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
Tatsuya Tsukui Japan	17	567	555	436	251	164	29	1.5k
Jean‐Marc Massé France	18	346 0.6×	296 0.5×	423 1.0×	195 0.8×	123 0.8×	36	1.6k
Thomas E. Hudson United States	11	430 0.8×	367 0.7×	968 2.2×	171 0.7×	363 2.2×	13	2.0k
Meera Ramanujam United States	26	1.3k 2.3×	234 0.4×	376 0.9×	212 0.8×	108 0.7×	42	2.2k
Alexander Rosendahl Sweden	20	562 1.0×	212 0.4×	771 1.8×	221 0.9×	177 1.1×	35	1.6k
Yasumori Izumi Japan	18	424 0.7×	177 0.3×	333 0.8×	163 0.6×	134 0.8×	88	1.1k
Shuji Sumitomo Japan	23	804 1.4×	139 0.3×	392 0.9×	339 1.4×	140 0.9×	70	1.7k
Christina Morse United States	15	798 1.4×	614 1.1×	610 1.4×	154 0.6×	186 1.1×	24	2.0k
Ningshan Liu United States	17	254 0.4×	856 1.5×	551 1.3×	148 0.6×	211 1.3×	22	1.5k
Christopher Morehouse United States	16	527 0.9×	161 0.3×	418 1.0×	279 1.1×	101 0.6×	27	1.2k
Shoichi Fukui Japan	19	557 1.0×	216 0.4×	386 0.9×	105 0.4×	126 0.8×	86	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tatsuya Tsukui

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Tsukui, Tatsuya, Imran S. Khan, Xin Ren, et al.. (2025). Clonal expansion of alveolar fibroblast progeny drives pulmonary fibrosis in mouse models. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 135(22).

Tsukui, Tatsuya & Dean Sheppard. (2025). Stromal heterogeneity in the adult lung delineated by single-cell genomics. American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology. 328(6). C1964–C1972. 2 indexed citations

Woo, Sang‐Ho, Nancy C. Allen, Tsukasa Kadota, et al.. (2025). Senolytic-sensitive p16+ fibroblasts in the tumor stroma rewire lung cancer metabolism and plasticity. Cell stem cell. 32(12). 1869–1885.e8.

Lee, Jin Young, Kenny Kean‐Hooi Ang, Paul J. Wolters, et al.. (2024). An in vivo screening platform identifies senolytic compounds that target p16INK4a+ fibroblasts in lung fibrosis. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134(9). 27 indexed citations

Khan, Imran S., Xin Ren, Vincent C. Auyeung, et al.. (2024). Impaired myofibroblast proliferation is a central feature of pathologic post-natal alveolar simplification. eLife. 13. 4 indexed citations

Tsukui, Tatsuya, Paul J. Wolters, & Dean Sheppard. (2024). Alveolar fibroblast lineage orchestrates lung inflammation and fibrosis. Nature. 631(8021). 627–634. 88 indexed citations breakdown →

Yadav, Preeti, Tatsuya Tsukui, Dean Sheppard, et al.. (2022). Macrophage Cx43 Is Necessary for Fibroblast Cytosolic Calcium and Lung Fibrosis After Injury. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 880887–880887. 12 indexed citations

Tian, Yuan, Kaori Denda‐Nagai, Tatsuya Tsukui, et al.. (2022). Mucin 21 confers resistance to apoptosis in an O-glycosylation-dependent manner. Cell Death Discovery. 8(1). 194–194. 9 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhe, Meirong Bai, Guilherme Oliveira Barbosa, et al.. (2020). Broadly conserved roles of TMEM131 family proteins in intracellular collagen assembly and secretory cargo trafficking. Science Advances. 6(7). eaay7667–eaay7667. 42 indexed citations

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Cassandras, Monica, Chaoqun Wang, Jaymin J. Kathiriya, et al.. (2020). Gli1+ mesenchymal stromal cells form a pathological niche to promote airway progenitor metaplasia in the fibrotic lung. Nature Cell Biology. 22(11). 1295–1306. 69 indexed citations

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Tsukui, Tatsuya, Kai-Hui Sun, J. Wetter, et al.. (2020). Collagen-producing lung cell atlas identifies multiple subsets with distinct localization and relevance to fibrosis. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1920–1920. 400 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shichino, Shigeyuki, et al.. (2019). Engraftment and proliferation potential of embryonic lung tissue cells in irradiated mice with emphysema. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3657–3657. 3 indexed citations

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Tsukui, Tatsuya, Satoshi Ueha, Shigeyuki Shichino, et al.. (2019). Gli signaling pathway modulates fibroblast activation and facilitates scar formation in pulmonary fibrosis. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 514(3). 684–690. 4 indexed citations

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Shichino, Shigeyuki, Satoshi Ueha, Shinichi Hashimoto, et al.. (2019). Transcriptome network analysis identifies protective role of the LXR/SREBP-1c axis in murine pulmonary fibrosis. JCI Insight. 4(1). 36 indexed citations

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Shichino, Shigeyuki, Shinichi Hashimoto, Satoshi Ueha, et al.. (2018). Lung fibroblasts express a miR-19a-19b-20a sub-cluster to suppress TGF-β-associated fibroblast activation in murine pulmonary fibrosis. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16642–16642. 24 indexed citations

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Park, Ah-Mee, K Kanai, Tatsuki Itoh, et al.. (2016). Heat Shock Protein 27 Plays a Pivotal Role in Myofibroblast Differentiation and in the Development of Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0148998–e0148998. 27 indexed citations

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Tsukui, Tatsuya, Satoshi Ueha, Shigeyuki Shichino, Yutaka Inagaki, & Kouji Matsushima. (2015). Intratracheal Cell Transfer Demonstrates the Profibrotic Potential of Resident Fibroblasts in Pulmonary Fibrosis. American Journal Of Pathology. 185(11). 2939–2948. 19 indexed citations

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Shichino, Shigeyuki, Jun Abe, Satoshi Ueha, et al.. (2015). Reduced Supply of Monocyte-Derived Macrophages Leads to a Transition from Nodular to Diffuse Lesions and Tissue Cell Activation in Silica-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis in Mice. American Journal Of Pathology. 185(11). 2923–2938. 25 indexed citations

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Kurachi, Makoto, Fumiko Suenaga, Tatsuya Tsukui, et al.. (2011). Chemokine receptor CXCR3 facilitates CD8+ T cell differentiation into short-lived effector cells leading to memory degeneration. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 208(8). 1605–1620. 150 indexed citations

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Fujita, Masayo, Sumito Ogawa, Hideoki Fukuoka, et al.. (2002). Differential expression of secreted frizzled-related protein 4 in decidual cells during pregnancy. Journal of Molecular Endocrinology. 28(3). 213–223. 26 indexed citations

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