Toshihiko Oka

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
101 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Toshihiko Oka is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Toshihiko Oka has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Cell Biology and 15 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Toshihiko Oka's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (15 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (13 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (13 papers). Toshihiko Oka is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (15 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (13 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (13 papers). Toshihiko Oka collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Australia. Toshihiko Oka's co-authors include Masamitsu Futai, Yoh Wada, Takao Toyomura, Monty Krieger, Dániel Ungár, Akihiko Nakano, Yoichiro Arata, Fumio Yagi, Wernér E.G. Müller and Takanori Nakamura and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Toshihiko Oka

101 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Oligosaccharide specificity of galectins: a search by frontal affinity chromatography

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Toshihiko Oka Japan	36	3.0k	1.0k	916	377	329	101	4.3k
Geert van den Bogaart Netherlands	38	3.4k 1.1×	810 0.8×	1.5k 1.6×	457 1.2×	217 0.7×	102	5.0k
Isabelle Rouiller Canada	27	2.5k 0.8×	419 0.4×	896 1.0×	357 0.9×	256 0.8×	56	3.8k
Christian Freund Germany	36	2.6k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	483 0.5×	202 0.5×	178 0.5×	147	4.4k
Linda K. Nicholson United States	41	3.7k 1.3×	728 0.7×	407 0.4×	386 1.0×	598 1.8×	90	5.2k
Michael Overduin United Kingdom	43	5.8k 2.0×	620 0.6×	2.1k 2.3×	432 1.1×	373 1.1×	129	7.6k
Tomohiko Taguchi Japan	36	2.7k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	182 0.5×	122 0.4×	107	4.1k
Ariel Lustig Switzerland	48	4.3k 1.5×	468 0.5×	1.5k 1.6×	433 1.1×	717 2.2×	110	6.3k
Anthony P. West United States	47	3.9k 1.3×	2.1k 2.0×	345 0.4×	475 1.3×	316 1.0×	100	9.0k
Brian K. Kay United States	48	6.0k 2.0×	888 0.9×	2.1k 2.3×	579 1.5×	254 0.8×	147	8.4k
Jacek Otlewski Poland	40	4.1k 1.4×	518 0.5×	825 0.9×	208 0.6×	464 1.4×	167	5.4k

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Imamoto, Yasushi, et al.. (2023). Role of Monomer/Tetramer Equilibrium of Rod Visual Arrestin in the Interaction with Phosphorylated Rhodopsin. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(5). 4963–4963. 1 indexed citations

Oka, Toshihiko, Yasuhisa Yamamura, Shoichi Kutsumizu, & Kazuya Saito. (2023). Aggregation structure of chiral cubic liquid crystals revealed by X-ray diffraction utilizing a new algorithm. Soft Matter. 19(6). 1194–1201. 8 indexed citations

Oka, Toshihiko. (2022). A phase retrieval algorithm for triply periodic minimal surface like structures. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances. 79(1). 51–58. 3 indexed citations

Ishida, Ryuichi, Fumihiro Motojima, Hiroshi Kubota, et al.. (2018). Physicochemical Properties of the Mammalian Molecular Chaperone HSP60. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 19(2). 489–489. 31 indexed citations

Fujita, Y., M. Yamada, Makoto Tsukahara, et al.. (2017). Spin Transport and Relaxation up to 250 K in Heavily Doped n-Type Ge Detected Using Co2FeAl0.5Si0.5 Electrodes. Physical Review Applied. 8(1). 53 indexed citations

Oka, Toshihiko. (2017). Small-Angle X-ray Crystallography on Single-Crystal Regions of Inverse Bicontinuous Cubic Phases: Lipid Bilayer Structures and Gaussian Curvature-Dependent Fluctuations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 121(50). 11399–11409. 5 indexed citations

Iwao, Yasunori, et al.. (2016). The use of surfactants to enhance the solubility and stability of the water-insoluble anticancer drug SN38 into liquid crystalline phase nanoparticles. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 515(1-2). 501–505. 22 indexed citations

Imamoto, Yasushi, et al.. (2015). Helical rearrangement of photoactivated rhodopsin in monomeric and dimeric forms probed by high-angle X-ray scattering. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 14(11). 1965–1973. 9 indexed citations

Uchino, Tomonobu, Yuiko Matsumoto, Akiko Murata, et al.. (2014). Transdermal delivery of flurbiprofen from surfactant-based vesicles: Particle characterization and the effect of water on in vitro transport. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. 464(1-2). 75–84. 18 indexed citations

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Yamamoto, Yohei, Naoki Ishiguro, Toshihiko Oka, et al.. (2013). Dissection of the ATP-Dependent Conformational Change Cycle of a Group II Chaperonin. Journal of Molecular Biology. 426(2). 447–459. 9 indexed citations

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Shi, Lei, Lei Shi, Yufeng Yao, et al.. (2010). Genetic link among Hani, Bulang and other Southeast Asian populations: evidence from HLA ‐A, ‐B, ‐C, ‐DRB1 genes and haplotypes distribution. International Journal of Immunogenetics. 37(6). 467–475. 21 indexed citations

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Dilanian, Ruben A., Connie Darmanin, J.N. Varghese, et al.. (2010). A new approach for structure analysis of two‐dimensional membrane protein crystals using X‐ray powder diffraction data. Protein Science. 20(2). 457–464. 2 indexed citations

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Nakasako, Masayoshi, Toshihiko Oka, Hideo Takahashi, et al.. (2005). Conformational Dynamics of Complementarity-determining Region H3 of an Anti-dansyl Fv Fragment in the Presence of its Hapten. Journal of Molecular Biology. 351(3). 627–640. 12 indexed citations

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Oka, Toshihiko, Yoshiko Murata, Takao Yoshimizu, et al.. (2001). a4, a Unique Kidney-specific Isoform of Mouse Vacuolar H+-ATPase Subunit a. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(43). 40050–40054. 115 indexed citations

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Oka, Toshihiko, Naoto Yagi, Tetsuro Fujisawa, et al.. (2000). Time-resolved X-ray diffraction reveals the multiple conformations in the M-N transition of bacteriorhodopsin photocycle.. Seibutsu Butsuri. 40(supplement). S40–S40. 1 indexed citations

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Matsushita, Masaki, Naoyuki Tsuchiya, Toshihiko Oka, A Yamane, & Katsushi Tokunaga. (2000). New polymorphisms of human CD80 and CD86: lack of association with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. Genes and Immunity. 1(7). 428–434. 38 indexed citations

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Uchida, Hidenobu, Lena Suzuki, Toyoaki Anai, et al.. (1999). A pair of invertedly repeated genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii encodes a zygote-specific protein whose expression is UV-sensitive. Current Genetics. 36(4). 232–240. 17 indexed citations

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Matsushita, Masaki, Naoyuki Tsuchiya, Takahiro Nakayama, et al.. (1999). Allele typing of human TNFA 5′‐flanking region using polymerase chain reaction‐preferential homoduplex formation assay (PCR‐PHFA): linkage disequilibrium with HLA class I and class II genes in Japanese. Tissue Antigens. 54(5). 478–484. 38 indexed citations

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Oka, Toshihiko, Ryûji Yamamoto, & Masamitsu Futai. (1998). Multiple Genes for Vacuolar-type ATPase Proteolipids inCaenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 273(35). 22570–22576. 41 indexed citations

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Ayabe, Hiroyoshi, et al.. (1991). Results of pulmonary angioplastic operations for cases of bronchogenic carcinoma. Lung Cancer. 7(3). 199–199. 1 indexed citations

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