Yasuko Orba

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
138 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Yasuko Orba is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yasuko Orba has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Infectious Diseases, 43 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 34 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Yasuko Orba's work include Viral Infections and Vectors (43 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (41 papers) and Polyomavirus and related diseases (25 papers). Yasuko Orba is often cited by papers focused on Viral Infections and Vectors (43 papers), Mosquito-borne diseases and control (41 papers) and Polyomavirus and related diseases (25 papers). Yasuko Orba collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Ireland. Yasuko Orba's co-authors include Hirofumi Sawa, Michihito Sasaki, William W. Hall, Tadaki Suzuki, Shintaro Kobayashi, Kazuo Nagashima, Hideki Hasegawa, Shinya Tanaka, Hiroki Yamaguchi and Yuji Sunden and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Yasuko Orba

132 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Gold Nanoparticles as a Vaccine Platform: Influence of Size and Shape on Immunological Responses in Vitro and in Vivo

2013 524 citations Shintaro Kobayashi, Yasuko Orba et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yasuko Orba	1.3k	1.2k	863	619	543	138	3.9k
Nam‐Hyuk Cho	1.3k 1.0×	984 0.8×	801 0.9×	375 0.6×	471 0.9×	127	3.9k
Jianzhong Zhu	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	1.8k 2.0×	573 0.9×	609 1.1×	137	4.2k
Thomas Wileman	1.2k 0.9×	2.7k 2.3×	2.0k 2.4×	487 0.8×	1.4k 2.5×	124	7.4k
Peter D. Burbelo	1.4k 1.1×	3.1k 2.5×	1.3k 1.5×	788 1.3×	1.3k 2.4×	180	8.2k
Herman W. Favoreel	898 0.7×	936 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	317 0.5×	1.9k 3.5×	158	4.3k
Michael B. Sherman	1.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.8×	382 0.4×	190 0.3×	299 0.6×	96	4.5k
Éric Ghigo	1.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	831 1.0×	154 0.2×	736 1.4×	101	5.0k
Raymond A. Koski	1.2k 0.9×	2.1k 1.8×	620 0.7×	952 1.5×	302 0.6×	58	4.8k
Elmars Grens	1.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	191 0.3×	2.0k 3.7×	18	5.2k
Haixue Zheng	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	149 0.2×	510 0.9×	259	4.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yasuko Orba

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Taoda, Yoshiyuki, Takao Shishido, William W. Hall, et al.. (2025). A cap-dependent endonuclease inhibitor acts as a potent antiviral agent against La Crosse virus infection. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 69(9). e0018625–e0018625. 1 indexed citations

Itakura, Yukari, Satoshi Inoue, Ken Maeda, et al.. (2024). Reverse genetic approaches allowing the characterization of the rabies virus street strain belonging to the SEA4 subclade. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 18509–18509. 1 indexed citations

Qiu, Yongjin, Michihito Sasaki, Joseph Ndebe, et al.. (2024). A first report of rotavirus B from Zambian pigs leading to the discovery of a novel VP4 genotype P[9]. Virology Journal. 21(1). 263–263. 1 indexed citations

Tabata, Koshiro, Shintaro Kobayashi, Yukari Itakura, et al.. (2024). Increased production of orthoflavivirus single-round infectious particles produced in mammalian cells at a suboptimal culture temperature of 28°C. Journal of Virological Methods. 329. 115007–115007. 2 indexed citations

Kobayashi, Hiroko, Masayuki Horie, Yasuko Orba, et al.. (2024). Neuron-associated retroelement-derived protein Arc/Arg3.1 assists in the early stages of alphaherpesvirus infection in human neuronal cells. PLoS ONE. 19(12). e0314980–e0314980.

Shishido, Takao, Naoto Ito, Satoshi Inoue, et al.. (2024). β-d-N4-hydroxycytidine, a metabolite of molnupiravir, exhibits in vitro antiviral activity against rabies virus. Antiviral Research. 229. 105977–105977.

Taoda, Yoshiyuki, Akihiko Sato, Shinsuke Toba, et al.. (2023). Structure-activity relationship studies of anti-bunyaviral cap-dependent endonuclease inhibitors. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 83. 129175–129175. 3 indexed citations

Tabata, Koshiro, Yukari Itakura, Shinsuke Toba, et al.. (2022). Serological characterization of lineage II insect-specific flaviviruses compared with pathogenic mosquito-borne flaviviruses. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 616. 115–121. 3 indexed citations

Chambaro, Herman M., Michihito Sasaki, Yona Sinkala, et al.. (2022). An unusually long Rift valley fever inter-epizootic period in Zambia: Evidence for enzootic virus circulation and risk for disease outbreak. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(6). e0010420–e0010420. 9 indexed citations

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Sasaki, Michihito, Yasuko Orba, Kosuke Okuya, et al.. (2021). Attenuated infection by a Pteropine orthoreovirus isolated from an Egyptian fruit bat in Zambia. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(9). e0009768–e0009768. 8 indexed citations

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Yoo, Ji‐Seung, Michihito Sasaki, Steven Cho, et al.. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 inhibits induction of the MHC class I pathway by targeting the STAT1-IRF1-NLRC5 axis. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6602–6602. 105 indexed citations

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Uemura, Kentaro, Haruaki Nobori, Akihiko Sato, et al.. (2021). 5-Hydroxymethyltubercidin exhibits potent antiviral activity against flaviviruses and coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2. iScience. 24(10). 103120–103120. 8 indexed citations

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Sasaki, Michihito, Kentaro Uemura, Akihiko Sato, et al.. (2021). SARS-CoV-2 variants with mutations at the S1/S2 cleavage site are generated in vitro during propagation in TMPRSS2-deficient cells. PLoS Pathogens. 17(1). e1009233–e1009233. 124 indexed citations

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Sasaki, Michihito, Bernard M. Hang’ombe, Yuki Eshita, et al.. (2020). Discoveries of Exoribonuclease-Resistant Structures of Insect-Specific Flaviviruses Isolated in Zambia. Viruses. 12(9). 1017–1017. 10 indexed citations

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Runtuwene, Lucky Ronald, Shuichi Kawashima, Josef S. B. Tuda, et al.. (2020). The Lethal(2)-Essential-for-Life [L(2)EFL] Gene Family Modulates Dengue Virus Infection in Aedes aegypti. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(20). 7520–7520. 12 indexed citations

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Sasaki, Michihito, Naoto Ito, Makoto Sugiyama, et al.. (2018). Ribavirin-related compounds exert in vitro inhibitory effects toward rabies virus. Antiviral Research. 154. 1–9. 25 indexed citations

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Ishida, Yusuke, Masumi Tsuda, Yutaka Sawamura, et al.. (2018). “Integrated diagnosis” of pilocytic astrocytoma: Molecular diagnostic procedure for an unusual case. Pathology International. 68(12). 694–699. 3 indexed citations

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Kawaguchi, Akira, Yasuko Orba, Takashi Kimura, et al.. (2009). Inhibition of the SDF-1α–CXCR4 axis by the CXCR4 antagonist AMD3100 suppresses the migration of cultured cells from ATL patients and murine lymphoblastoid cells from HTLV-I Tax transgenic mice. Blood. 114(14). 2961–2968. 55 indexed citations

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Sawa, Hirofumi, et al.. (2007). [Recent research on the JC virus].. PubMed. 59(2). 101–8. 1 indexed citations

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Orba, Yasuko, Hirofumi Sawa, & Kazuo Nagashima. (2002). [Molecular neuropathology of JC virus].. PubMed. 54(2). 101–9. 1 indexed citations

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