Toru Takumi

29.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
178 papers, 22.2k citations indexed

About

Toru Takumi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Toru Takumi has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 22.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Molecular Biology, 51 papers in Genetics and 42 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in Toru Takumi's work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (42 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (37 papers) and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (29 papers). Toru Takumi is often cited by papers focused on Circadian rhythm and melatonin (42 papers), Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (37 papers) and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (29 papers). Toru Takumi collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Toru Takumi's co-authors include Kota Tamada, Yasuhiro Minami, Michiru Nishita, Zhichao Wang, Gregory J. Pazour, Victor W. Hsu, Ryuju Hashimoto, Koki Kamizaki, Hiroki Otani and Seung‐Yeol Park and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Toru Takumi

173 papers receiving 21.9k 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.

Ror2 signaling regulates Golgi structure and transport through IFT20 for tumor invasiveness

2017 13.0k citations Kota Tamada, Toru Takumi et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toru Takumi Japan	54	7.5k	2.5k	2.4k	2.3k	2.3k	178	22.2k
Chen Chen China	88	19.5k 2.6×	2.4k 1.0×	4.4k 1.8×	2.5k 1.1×	3.1k 1.3×	2.5k	51.4k
Mark Longair Switzerland	6	18.7k 2.5×	838 0.3×	4.7k 2.0×	5.5k 2.3×	2.1k 0.9×	6	46.9k
Verena Kaynig United States	11	18.4k 2.5×	781 0.3×	4.8k 2.0×	4.8k 2.0×	2.2k 1.0×	15	46.8k
Tobias Pietzsch Germany	9	18.2k 2.4×	777 0.3×	4.7k 1.9×	4.7k 2.0×	2.0k 0.9×	16	45.3k
Stephan Saalfeld United States	20	19.3k 2.6×	905 0.4×	5.0k 2.1×	5.8k 2.5×	2.1k 0.9×	33	49.2k
Benjamin Schmid Germany	21	18.9k 2.5×	847 0.3×	5.4k 2.2×	5.0k 2.1×	2.2k 1.0×	44	48.7k
Daniel J. White United Kingdom	18	18.4k 2.5×	776 0.3×	4.7k 2.0×	4.7k 2.0×	2.1k 0.9×	36	45.8k
Stephan Preibisch Germany	25	20.1k 2.7×	856 0.3×	5.1k 2.1×	5.4k 2.3×	2.1k 0.9×	51	49.5k
Ignacio Arganda‐Carreras Spain	24	19.5k 2.6×	865 0.3×	5.6k 2.3×	5.4k 2.3×	2.4k 1.0×	77	52.0k
Erwin Frise United States	11	19.3k 2.6×	781 0.3×	4.6k 1.9×	4.9k 2.1×	2.0k 0.9×	14	46.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toru Takumi

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

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Sato, Masaaki, et al.. (2025). Reorganization of Social Representations in the Insular Cortex During Conspecific Familiarization and Discrimination. European Journal of Neuroscience. 62(2). e70190–e70190. 1 indexed citations

Sotani, Noriyuki, Sentaro Kusuhara, Hisashi Kuno, et al.. (2025). Transpupillary in vivo two-photon imaging reveals enhanced surveillance of retinal microglia in diabetic mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(41). e2426241122–e2426241122.

Nakamura, Takumi, Toru Yoshihara, Chiharu Tanegashima, et al.. (2024). Transcriptomic dysregulation and autistic-like behaviors in Kmt2c haploinsufficient mice rescued by an LSD1 inhibitor. Molecular Psychiatry. 29(9). 2888–2904. 2 indexed citations

Kaizuka, Takeshi, Takeo Saneyoshi, Mark O. Collins, et al.. (2024). FAM81A is a postsynaptic protein that regulates the condensation of postsynaptic proteins via liquid–liquid phase separation. PLoS Biology. 22(3). e3002006–e3002006. 2 indexed citations

Kaizuka, Takeshi, Takehiro Suzuki, Noriyuki Kishi, et al.. (2024). Remodeling of the postsynaptic proteome in male mice and marmosets during synapse development. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2496–2496. 5 indexed citations

Nakai, Nobuhiro, et al.. (2024). End-to-end deep learning approach to mouse behavior classification from cortex-wide calcium imaging. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(3). e1011074–e1011074. 1 indexed citations

Takumi, Toru, et al.. (2023). The blues and rhythm. Neuroscience Research. 211. 49–56. 1 indexed citations

Lin, Chia‐Wen, Jacob Ellegood, Kota Tamada, et al.. (2023). An old model with new insights: endogenous retroviruses drive the evolvement toward ASD susceptibility and hijack transcription machinery during development. Molecular Psychiatry. 28(5). 1932–1945. 7 indexed citations

Yoshitane, Hikari, Shunsuke Ito, Toru Takumi, et al.. (2022). mTOR-AKT Signaling in Cellular Clock Resetting Triggered by Osmotic Stress. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 37(10-12). 631–646. 8 indexed citations

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Lin, Chia‐Wen, Hsu‐Wen Chao, Mikiko Konda, et al.. (2022). A common epigenetic mechanism across different cellular origins underlies systemic immune dysregulation in an idiopathic autism mouse model. Molecular Psychiatry. 27(8). 3343–3354. 13 indexed citations

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Sato, Masaaki, et al.. (2020). Encoding of social exploration by neural ensembles in the insular cortex. PLoS Biology. 18(9). e3000584–e3000584. 21 indexed citations

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Chujo, Takeshi, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Tetsuya Kawaguchi, et al.. (2017). Unusual semi‐extractability as a hallmark of nuclear body‐associated architectural noncoding RNA s. The EMBO Journal. 36(10). 1447–1462. 102 indexed citations

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Bulayeva, Kazima, Todd Lencz, Stephen J. Glatt, et al.. (2012). [Mapping genes related to early onset major depressive disorder in Dagestan genetic isolates].. PubMed. 23(3). 161–70. 7 indexed citations

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Myung, Jihwan, Sungho Hong, Fumiyuki Hatanaka, et al.. (2012). Period Coding of Bmal1 Oscillators in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(26). 8900–8918. 57 indexed citations

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Matsui, Takaaki, Mākoto Ishibashi, Kota Tamada, et al.. (2011). The period of the somite segmentation clock is sensitive to Notch activity. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 22(18). 3541–3549. 32 indexed citations

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Mistlberger, Ralph E., Shin Yamazaki, Julie S. Pendergast, et al.. (2008). Comment on "Differential Rescue of Light- and Food-Entrainable Circadian Rhythms". Science. 322(5902). 675–675. 40 indexed citations

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Nakahata, Yasukazu, Makoto Akashi, Daniel Trcka, Akio Yasuda, & Toru Takumi. (2006). The in vitro real-time oscillation monitoring system identifies potential entrainment factors for circadian clocks. BMC Molecular Biology. 7(1). 5–5. 40 indexed citations

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Fujii, Ritsuko, Shigeo Okabe, Kiyoshi Inoue, et al.. (2005). The RNA Binding Protein TLS Is Translocated to Dendritic Spines by mGluR5 Activation and Regulates Spine Morphology. Current Biology. 15(6). 587–593. 268 indexed citations

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Inoue, Kiyoshi, Toshio Terashima, Toru Nishikawa, & Toru Takumi. (2004). Fez1 is layer‐specifically expressed in the adult mouse neocortex. European Journal of Neuroscience. 20(11). 2909–2916. 48 indexed citations

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Sugimoto, Tetsuo, Yasuto Tanabe, Ryuichi Shigemoto, et al.. (1990). Immunohistochemical study of a rat membrane protein which induces a selective potassium permeation: Its localization in the apical membrane portion of epithelial cells. The Journal of Membrane Biology. 113(1). 39–47. 84 indexed citations

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