Yasutaka Okabe

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Yasutaka Okabe is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yasutaka Okabe has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Immunology, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Yasutaka Okabe's work include interferon and immune responses (7 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (5 papers) and Immune cells in cancer (5 papers). Yasutaka Okabe is often cited by papers focused on interferon and immune responses (7 papers), Immune Response and Inflammation (5 papers) and Immune cells in cancer (5 papers). Yasutaka Okabe collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Taiwan. Yasutaka Okabe's co-authors include Ruslan Medzhitov, Shigekazu Nagata, Kohki Kawane, Hideyuki Yoshida, Hidehiro Fukuyama, Shizuo Akira, Tadatsugu Taniguchi, Takashi Fujita, Teruyuki Sano and Wakako Suhara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Yasutaka Okabe

17 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Tissue-Specific Signals Control Reversible Program of Loc... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2015 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. Tissue-Specific Signals Control Reversible Program of Localization and Functional Polarization of Macrophages
    2014 679 citations Yasutaka Okabe, Ruslan Medzhitov Cell profile →
  2. Tissue biology perspective on macrophages
    2015 490 citations Yasutaka Okabe, Ruslan Medzhitov Nature Immunology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yasutaka Okabe Japan 12 1.8k 901 301 252 174 18 2.4k
Josephine Lum Singapore 20 1.6k 0.9× 759 0.8× 326 1.1× 262 1.0× 274 1.6× 30 2.5k
Sandrine Sarrazin France 18 1.2k 0.7× 1.3k 1.4× 240 0.8× 216 0.9× 144 0.8× 25 3.0k
Brahma V. Kumar United States 15 1.6k 0.9× 534 0.6× 467 1.6× 211 0.8× 98 0.6× 16 2.3k
Kyung Ae Ko United States 17 1.5k 0.8× 950 1.1× 207 0.7× 180 0.7× 93 0.5× 32 2.6k
Raúl Elgueta United States 20 1.6k 0.9× 676 0.8× 502 1.7× 215 0.9× 58 0.3× 28 2.6k
Gláucia C. Furtado United States 32 2.1k 1.1× 724 0.8× 552 1.8× 341 1.4× 166 1.0× 51 3.4k
Janice Chen United States 20 1.3k 0.7× 982 1.1× 443 1.5× 243 1.0× 90 0.5× 52 2.7k
Meriem Garfa‐Traoré France 15 1.4k 0.7× 568 0.6× 305 1.0× 270 1.1× 298 1.7× 21 2.3k
Andrea Reboldi United States 21 2.0k 1.1× 915 1.0× 456 1.5× 250 1.0× 344 2.0× 30 3.2k
Wei‐Jen Chua United States 6 1.9k 1.0× 649 0.7× 217 0.7× 472 1.9× 375 2.2× 6 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Yasutaka Okabe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yasutaka Okabe

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yasutaka Okabe

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Nakayama, Yuki, Miwa Sasai, Masaaki Okamoto, et al.. (2025). Targeted labeling and depletion of alveolar macrophages using VeDTR mouse technology. iScience. 28(3). 111975–111975. 2 indexed citations
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Shinjyo, Noriko, et al.. (2025). Aldehyde metabolism governs resilience of mucociliary clearance to air pollution exposure. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 135(14).
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Hirota, Keiji, Yasutaka Okabe, Junji Uehori, et al.. (2024). Aberrant RNA sensing in regulatory T cells causes systemic autoimmunity. Science Advances. 10(9). eadk0820–eadk0820. 7 indexed citations
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Okabe, Yasutaka. (2024). Development and organization of omental milky spots. Immunological Reviews. 324(1). 68–77. 2 indexed citations
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Okabe, Yasutaka, et al.. (2023). Aldh1a2 + fibroblastic reticular cells regulate lymphocyte recruitment in omental milky spots. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 220(5). 11 indexed citations
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Okabe, Yasutaka. (2021). Immune Niche Within the Peritoneal Cavity. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 434. 123–134. 9 indexed citations
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Ohteki, Toshiaki & Yasutaka Okabe. (2018). Introduction: Special Issue—The Origins of Macrophages and Their Roles Beyond Immunology. International Immunology. 30(11). 483–484. 1 indexed citations
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Okabe, Yasutaka. (2018). Molecular control of the identity of tissue-resident macrophages. International Immunology. 30(11). 485–491. 12 indexed citations
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Okabe, Yasutaka & Ruslan Medzhitov. (2015). Tissue biology perspective on macrophages. Nature Immunology. 17(1). 9–17. 490 indexed citations breakdown →
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Okabe, Yasutaka & Ruslan Medzhitov. (2014). Tissue-Specific Signals Control Reversible Program of Localization and Functional Polarization of Macrophages. Cell. 157(4). 832–844. 679 indexed citations breakdown →
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Okabe, Yasutaka, Teruyuki Sano, & Shigekazu Nagata. (2009). Regulation of the innate immune response by threonine-phosphatase of Eyes absent. Nature. 460(7254). 520–524. 132 indexed citations
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Okabe, Yasutaka, Kohki Kawane, & Shigekazu Nagata. (2008). IFN regulatory factor (IRF) 3/7‐dependent and ‐independent gene induction by mammalian DNA that escapes degradation. European Journal of Immunology. 38(11). 3150–3158. 23 indexed citations
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Nakaya, Michio, Masato Tanaka, Yasutaka Okabe, Rikinari Hanayama, & Shigekazu Nagata. (2006). Opposite Effects of Rho Family GTPases on Engulfment of Apoptotic Cells by Macrophages. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281(13). 8836–8842. 140 indexed citations
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Okabe, Yasutaka, Kohki Kawane, Shizuo Akira, Tadatsugu Taniguchi, & Shigekazu Nagata. (2005). Toll-like receptor–independent gene induction program activated by mammalian DNA escaped from apoptotic DNA degradation. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 202(10). 1333–1339. 224 indexed citations
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Yoshida, Hideyuki, Yasutaka Okabe, Kohki Kawane, Hidehiro Fukuyama, & Shigekazu Nagata. (2004). Lethal anemia caused by interferon-β produced in mouse embryos carrying undigested DNA. Nature Immunology. 6(1). 49–56. 301 indexed citations
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Takahasi, Kiyohiro, Nobuo Suzuki, Masataka Horiuchi, et al.. (2003). X-ray crystal structure of IRF-3 and its functional implications. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 10(11). 922–927. 132 indexed citations
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Iwamura, Tomokatsu, Mitsutoshi Yoneyama, Nobuo Koizumi, et al.. (2001). PACT, a Double-Stranded RNA Binding Protein Acts as a Positive Regulator for Type I Interferon Gene Induced by Newcastle Disease Virus. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 282(2). 515–523. 41 indexed citations
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Iwamura, Tomokatsu, Mitsutoshi Yoneyama, Kazumi Yamaguchi, et al.. (2001). Induction of IRF‐3/‐7 kinase and NF‐κB in response to double‐stranded RNA and virus infection: common and unique pathways. Genes to Cells. 6(4). 375–388. 238 indexed citations

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