Tsutomu Tanabe

170 total papers · 14.9k total citations
124 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Tsutomu Tanabe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Tsutomu Tanabe has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Molecular Biology, 52 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 21 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Tsutomu Tanabe's work include Ion channel regulation and function (52 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (21 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (21 papers). Tsutomu Tanabe is often cited by papers focused on Ion channel regulation and function (52 papers), Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias (21 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (21 papers). Tsutomu Tanabe collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Tsutomu Tanabe's co-authors include Shosaku Numa, Kurt G. Beam, Tadaaki Hirose, Masaharu Noda, Seiichi Inayama, Atsushi Mikami, Brett Adams, Yasuo Mori, Hideo Takahashi and Takashi Miyata and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Tsutomu Tanabe

122 papers receiving 10.8k 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Primary structure of the receptor for calcium channel blockers from skeletal muscle
    1987 1.1k citations Tsutomu Tanabe, Hiroshi Takeshima et al. Nature profile →
  2. Primary structure of Electrophorus electricus sodium channel deduced from cDNA sequence
    1984 1.0k citations Masaharu Noda, Shin Shimizu et al. Nature profile →
  3. Primary structure and functional expression from complementary DNA of a brain calcium channel
    1991 728 citations Yasuo Mori, Thomas Friedrich et al. Nature profile →
  4. Restoration of excitation—contraction coupling and slow calcium current in dysgenic muscle by dihydropyridine receptor complementary DNA
    1988 672 citations Tsutomu Tanabe, Kurt G. Beam et al. Nature profile →
  5. Structural homology of Torpedo californica acetylcholine receptor subunits
    1983 621 citations Masaharu Noda, Hideo Takahashi et al. Nature profile →
  6. Calcium channel β-subunit binds to a conserved motif in the I–II cytoplasmic linker of the α1-subunit
    1994 558 citations Michel De Waard, Yasuo Mori et al. Nature profile →
  7. Primary structure of α-subunit precursor of Torpedo californica acetylcholine receptor deduced from cDNA sequence
    1982 557 citations Masaharu Noda, Hideo Takahashi et al. Nature profile →
  8. Regions of the skeletal muscle dihydropyridine receptor critical for excitation–contraction coupling
    1990 512 citations Tsutomu Tanabe, Kurt G. Beam et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Tsutomu Tanabe 9.6k 5.6k 2.4k 786 717 124 11.2k
Tadaaki Hirose 10.5k 1.1× 5.5k 1.0× 1.3k 0.5× 835 1.1× 623 0.9× 58 13.4k
Walter Stühmer 11.3k 1.2× 6.3k 1.1× 3.7k 1.5× 582 0.7× 649 0.9× 148 13.9k
Keiji Imoto 8.9k 0.9× 6.3k 1.1× 1.8k 0.8× 862 1.1× 596 0.8× 107 12.1k
Alan L. Goldin 8.4k 0.9× 5.9k 1.1× 2.6k 1.1× 851 1.1× 237 0.3× 93 10.6k
Masaharu Noda 14.3k 1.5× 8.7k 1.6× 1.7k 0.7× 1.2k 1.5× 2.8k 3.9× 195 19.3k
Olaf Pongs 14.2k 1.5× 7.9k 1.4× 6.4k 2.6× 895 1.1× 790 1.1× 247 17.5k
George A. Gutman 10.1k 1.1× 4.5k 0.8× 2.7k 1.1× 1.3k 1.6× 436 0.6× 101 16.0k
Gary Yellen 11.3k 1.2× 6.7k 1.2× 4.9k 2.0× 1.2k 1.6× 438 0.6× 99 13.6k
Susan L. Hamilton 7.0k 0.7× 2.2k 0.4× 2.9k 1.2× 939 1.2× 618 0.9× 162 9.1k
Toshinori Hoshi 10.3k 1.1× 4.9k 0.9× 3.7k 1.5× 1.3k 1.6× 1.0k 1.4× 133 12.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tsutomu Tanabe

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