Tomohiro Nishimura

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Tomohiro Nishimura is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomohiro Nishimura has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 24 papers in Oceanography and 24 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Tomohiro Nishimura's work include Marine Toxins and Detection Methods (28 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (20 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers). Tomohiro Nishimura is often cited by papers focused on Marine Toxins and Detection Methods (28 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (20 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (19 papers). Tomohiro Nishimura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, New Zealand and United States. Tomohiro Nishimura's co-authors include Masao Adachi, Haruo Yamaguchi, Wittaya Tawong, Hiroshi Sakanari, Shinya Sato, Lesley Rhodes, Kirsty F. Smith, Shoichiro Suda, Takeshi Yasumoto and Yasunari Shigeta and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Tomohiro Nishimura

59 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga 2024 2026 2025 2024 25 50 75
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.

  1. Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga
    2024 88 citations Tyler H. Coale, Valentina Loconte et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tomohiro Nishimura Japan 21 742 589 441 438 123 64 1.3k
Gonzalo Álvarez Spain 27 823 1.1× 633 1.1× 770 1.7× 354 0.8× 56 0.5× 78 1.9k
Kirsty F. Smith New Zealand 32 1.7k 2.3× 1.1k 1.9× 1.0k 2.4× 1.1k 2.5× 26 0.2× 115 2.7k
Mindy L. Richlen United States 19 882 1.2× 1.0k 1.7× 700 1.6× 439 1.0× 15 0.1× 34 1.7k
S. González-Gil Spain 18 650 0.9× 729 1.2× 347 0.8× 321 0.7× 63 0.5× 32 1.1k
Katerina Aligizaki Greece 16 1.1k 1.4× 783 1.3× 380 0.9× 507 1.2× 40 0.3× 21 1.4k
Christine J. Band‐Schmidt Mexico 19 768 1.0× 628 1.1× 311 0.7× 239 0.5× 39 0.3× 68 1.0k
Isabel Bravo Spain 34 1.9k 2.6× 2.0k 3.4× 967 2.2× 1.1k 2.6× 58 0.5× 78 2.8k
Shoichiro Suda Japan 18 603 0.8× 699 1.2× 632 1.4× 377 0.9× 30 0.2× 52 1.3k
Brian D. Bill United States 17 983 1.3× 970 1.6× 458 1.0× 318 0.7× 20 0.2× 27 1.5k
Mona Hoppenrath Germany 31 1.3k 1.8× 1.8k 3.0× 1.4k 3.2× 1.4k 3.3× 38 0.3× 112 2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Tomohiro Nishimura

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tomohiro Nishimura

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tomohiro Nishimura

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rhodes, Lesley, Tomohiro Nishimura, J. Sam Murray, et al.. (2024). The benthic and epiphytic marine dinoflagellates of Aotearoa New Zealand and Rangitāhua Kermadec Islands, an updated checklist from 2018 to 2024. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 59(5). 1020–1040.
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Coale, Tyler H., Valentina Loconte, Kendra A. Turk‐Kubo, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen-fixing organelle in a marine alga. Science. 384(6692). 217–222. 88 indexed citations breakdown →
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Murray, J. Sam, Lesley Rhodes, Jonathan Puddick, et al.. (2024). Targeted Metabolite Fingerprints of Thirteen Gambierdiscus, Five Coolia and Two Fukuyoa Species. Marine Drugs. 22(3). 119–119. 14 indexed citations
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Turk‐Kubo, Kendra A., Valentina Loconte, Axel Ekman, et al.. (2023). Soft X-ray Tomography Enables New Insights into the Coordinated Division of Organelle-like Symbiont in a Globally Distributed Unicellular Marine Haptophyte Alga. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 29(Supplement_1). 1165–1165. 1 indexed citations
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Rodríguez, Francisco, Alberto Amato, Begoña Ben-Gigirey, et al.. (2022). Morphology and phylogeny of Prorocentrum porosum sp. nov. (Dinophyceae): A new benthic toxic dinoflagellate from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Harmful Algae. 121. 102356–102356. 8 indexed citations
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Rhodes, Lesley, Tomohiro Nishimura, J. Sam Murray, et al.. (2021). Molecular detection and distribution of the genera Amphidoma and Azadinium (Amphidomataceae, Dinophyceae) in the coastal waters of Aotearoa/New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 57(1). 47–62. 5 indexed citations
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Hashimoto, Kana, Hajime Uchida, Tomohiro Nishimura, et al.. (2021). Determination of optimal culture conditions for toxin production by a Prorocentrum lima complex strain with high diarrhetic shellfish toxins yield. Harmful Algae. 103. 102025–102025. 16 indexed citations
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Ajani, Penelope, Arjun Verma, Jin Ho Kim, et al.. (2021). Using qPCR and high-resolution sensor data to model a multi-species Pseudo-nitzschia (Bacillariophyceae) bloom in southeastern Australia. Harmful Algae. 108. 102095–102095. 11 indexed citations
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Funaki, Hiroshi, Chetan C. Gaonkar, Tomohiro Nishimura, et al.. (2021). Horizontal and vertical distribution of Gambierdiscus spp. (Dinophyceae) including novel phylotypes in Japan identified by 18S rDNA metabarcoding. Harmful Algae. 111. 102163–102163. 12 indexed citations
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Yamaguchi, Haruo, et al.. (2020). Effects of temperature, salinity, and light intensity on the growth of the diatom Rhizosolenia setigera in Japan. Phycologia. 59(6). 551–555. 5 indexed citations
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Murray, J. Sam, Tomohiro Nishimura, Sarah C. Finch, et al.. (2020). The role of 44-methylgambierone in ciguatera fish poisoning: Acute toxicity, production by marine microalgae and its potential as a biomarker for Gambierdiscus spp.. Harmful Algae. 97. 101853–101853. 33 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu, Tomohiro Nishimura, Kentaro Chiba, et al.. (2019). A New Hadrosaurine (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Marine Deposits of the Late Cretaceous Hakobuchi Formation, Yezo Group, Japan. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 12389–12389. 27 indexed citations
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Nishimura, Tomohiro, Hajime Uchida, Ryoko Noguchi, et al.. (2019). Abundance of the benthic dinoflagellate Prorocentrum and the diversity, distribution, and diarrhetic shellfish toxin production of Prorocentrum lima complex and P. caipirignum in Japan. Harmful Algae. 96. 101687–101687. 44 indexed citations
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Lyu, Yihua, Mindy L. Richlen, Taylor R. Sehein, et al.. (2017). LSU rDNA based RFLP assays for the routine identification of Gambierdiscus species. Harmful Algae. 66. 20–28. 23 indexed citations
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Pisapia, Francesco, William C. Holland, D. Ransom Hardison, et al.. (2017). Toxicity screening of 13 Gambierdiscus strains using neuro-2a and erythrocyte lysis bioassays. Harmful Algae. 63. 173–183. 99 indexed citations
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Shigeta, Yasunari, et al.. (2016). Middle and Late Campanian (Late Cretaceous) Ammonoids from the Urakawa Area, Hokkaido, Northern Japan. Paleontological Research. 20(4). 322–366. 16 indexed citations
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Nishimura, Tomohiro, Shinya Sato, Wittaya Tawong, et al.. (2013). Genetic Diversity and Distribution of the Ciguatera-Causing Dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus spp. (Dinophyceae) in Coastal Areas of Japan. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e60882–e60882. 106 indexed citations

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