Wakae Awano

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Wakae Awano is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wakae Awano has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 6 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Wakae Awano's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (8 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (5 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (3 papers). Wakae Awano is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (8 papers), Cellular transport and secretion (5 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (3 papers). Wakae Awano collaborates with scholars based in Japan, India and United States. Wakae Awano's co-authors include Daisuke Yamamoto, Kei Ito, Yasushi Hiromi, Tamás Lukácsovich, Satoshi Goto, Miki Yamamoto‐Hino, Zoltán Asztalos, Kazue Usui‐Aoki, Shunzo Kondo and Ryu Ueda and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Wakae Awano

16 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

The Drosophila mushroom body is a quadruple structure of ... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 200 400 600
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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.

  1. The Drosophila mushroom body is a quadruple structure of clonal units each of which contains a virtually identical set of neurones and glial cells
    1997 676 citations Kei Ito, Wakae Awano et al. Development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wakae Awano Japan 15 865 692 372 312 240 16 1.5k
Audra L. Scully United States 12 831 1.0× 864 1.2× 212 0.6× 256 0.8× 180 0.8× 13 1.5k
Steven Robinow United States 16 1.2k 1.4× 1.1k 1.6× 302 0.8× 282 0.9× 346 1.4× 19 2.0k
Sophie Pantalacci France 16 940 1.1× 397 0.6× 547 1.5× 277 0.9× 197 0.8× 26 1.7k
Xavier Franch‐Marro Spain 21 867 1.0× 432 0.6× 359 1.0× 294 0.9× 168 0.7× 33 1.3k
John R. Nambu United States 22 1.5k 1.8× 769 1.1× 265 0.7× 404 1.3× 285 1.2× 38 2.1k
Frances Hannan United States 17 751 0.9× 970 1.4× 246 0.7× 307 1.0× 128 0.5× 21 1.8k
Patricia S. Estes United States 15 991 1.1× 670 1.0× 317 0.9× 295 0.9× 94 0.4× 19 1.6k
Cordula Schulz United States 18 1.3k 1.5× 390 0.6× 259 0.7× 435 1.4× 340 1.4× 25 1.8k
Natalia Azpiazu Spain 12 1.7k 1.9× 516 0.7× 289 0.8× 405 1.3× 213 0.9× 18 2.0k
Halyna R. Shcherbata Germany 27 1.8k 2.1× 422 0.6× 267 0.7× 280 0.9× 288 1.2× 58 2.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wakae Awano

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All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Yano, Hiroyuki, Miki Yamamoto‐Hino, Wakae Awano, et al.. (2012). Identification of Proteasome Components Required for Apical Localization of Chaoptin Using Functional Genomics. Journal of Neurogenetics. 26(1). 53–63. 6 indexed citations
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Yamamoto‐Hino, Miki, Masato Abe, Wakae Awano, et al.. (2012). Cisterna-specific Localization of Glycosylation-related Proteins to the Golgi Apparatus. Cell Structure and Function. 37(1). 55–63. 15 indexed citations
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Mukai, Akiko, Miki Yamamoto‐Hino, Wakae Awano, et al.. (2010). Balanced ubiquitylation and deubiquitylation of Frizzled regulate cellular responsiveness to Wg/Wnt. The EMBO Journal. 29(13). 2114–2125. 110 indexed citations
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Midorikawa, Ryosuke, et al.. (2010). Autophagy-Dependent Rhodopsin Degradation Prevents Retinal Degeneration inDrosophila. Journal of Neuroscience. 30(32). 10703–10719. 52 indexed citations
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Yamamoto‐Hino, Miki, Yoshimi Kanie, Wakae Awano, et al.. (2010). Identification of Genes Required for Neural-Specific Glycosylation Using Functional Genomics. PLoS Genetics. 6(12). e1001254–e1001254. 28 indexed citations
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Nakano, Yoshiro, Utako Kato, Mizuho Kaneda, et al.. (2009). Changes in Temperature Preferences and Energy Homeostasis in Dystroglycan Mutants. Science. 323(5922). 1740–1743. 55 indexed citations
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Abe, Masato, Tsubasa Tanaka, Wakae Awano, et al.. (2009). Membrane Protein Location-Dependent Regulation by PI3K (III) and Rabenosyn-5 in Drosophila Wing Cells. PLoS ONE. 4(10). e7306–e7306. 18 indexed citations
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Yano, Hiroyuki, Miki Yamamoto‐Hino, Masato Abe, et al.. (2005). Distinct functional units of the Golgi complex in Drosophila cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(38). 13467–13472. 84 indexed citations
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Lukácsovich, Tamás, Kazuya Yuge, Wakae Awano, et al.. (2003). The ken and barbie gene encoding a putative transcription factor with a BTB domain and three zinc finger motifs functions in terminalia development of Drosophila. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology. 54(2). 77–94. 21 indexed citations
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Kuniyoshi, Hisato, Kotaro Baba, Ryu Ueda, et al.. (2002). lingerer, a Drosophila Gene Involved in Initiation and Termination of Copulation, Encodes a Set of Novel Cytoplasmic Proteins. Genetics. 162(4). 1775–1789. 26 indexed citations
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Lukácsovich, Tamás, Zoltán Asztalos, Wakae Awano, et al.. (2001). Dual-Tagging Gene Trap of Novel Genes inDrosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 157(2). 727–742. 90 indexed citations
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Nakano, Yoshiro, Kazuko Fujitani, Kazue Usui‐Aoki, et al.. (2001). Mutations in the Novel Membrane Protein Spinster Interfere with Programmed Cell Death and Cause Neural Degeneration inDrosophila melanogaster. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 21(11). 3775–3788. 104 indexed citations
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Usui‐Aoki, Kazue, Hiroki Ito, Kumiko Ui‐Tei, et al.. (2000). Formation of the male-specific muscle in female Drosophila by ectopic fruitless expression. Nature Cell Biology. 2(8). 500–506. 136 indexed citations
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Nilsson, Eric, Zoltán Asztalos, Tamás Lukácsovich, et al.. (2000). Fruitlessis in the Regulatory Pathway by Which EctopicMini-WhiteandTransformerInduce Bisexual Courtship inDrosophila. Journal of Neurogenetics. 13(4). 213–232. 20 indexed citations
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Lukácsovich, Tamás, Zoltán Asztalos, Naoto Juni, Wakae Awano, & Daisuke Yamamoto. (1999). TheDrosophila melanogaster60A Chromosomal Division Is Extremely Dense with Functional Genes: Their Sequences, Genomic Organization, and Expression. Genomics. 57(1). 43–56. 21 indexed citations
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Ito, Kei, et al.. (1997). The Drosophila mushroom body is a quadruple structure of clonal units each of which contains a virtually identical set of neurones and glial cells. Development. 124(4). 761–771. 676 indexed citations breakdown →

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