Yuichiro Hourai

829 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 570 citations indexed

About

Yuichiro Hourai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuichiro Hourai has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 570 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Materials Chemistry and 1 paper in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Yuichiro Hourai's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (2 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (2 papers). Yuichiro Hourai is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (4 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (2 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (2 papers). Yuichiro Hourai collaborates with scholars based in Japan and United States. Yuichiro Hourai's co-authors include Zhiping Weng, Brian G. Pierce, Yutaka Ito, Takahiro Shirai, Brian O. Smith, Yutaka Akiyama, Takashi Tanaka, Tsutomu Mikawa, Tatsuya Yoshikawa and Masaki Mishima and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Yuichiro Hourai

6 papers receiving 564 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Accelerating Protein Docking in ZDOCK Using an Advanced 3D Convolution Library

2011 472 citations Brian G. Pierce, Yuichiro Hourai et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuichiro Hourai Japan	5	439	93	82	62	59	6	570
Sekhar Talluri India	13	410 0.9×	56 0.6×	88 1.1×	26 0.4×	49 0.8×	22	655
Shane Ó Conchúir United States	5	419 1.0×	57 0.6×	65 0.8×	109 1.8×	50 0.8×	6	558
Joerg Bomke Germany	6	365 0.8×	127 1.4×	56 0.7×	30 0.5×	44 0.7×	8	496
Richard A. George United Kingdom	13	725 1.7×	76 0.8×	110 1.3×	69 1.1×	39 0.7×	17	875
William A. McLaughlin United States	10	522 1.2×	145 1.6×	93 1.1×	59 1.0×	26 0.4×	22	651
Lane Votapka United States	13	614 1.4×	179 1.9×	84 1.0×	66 1.1×	29 0.5×	25	784
Shawn Witham United States	10	559 1.3×	61 0.7×	120 1.5×	34 0.5×	38 0.6×	12	738
Gabriele Pozzati Sweden	5	722 1.6×	115 1.2×	168 2.0×	51 0.8×	43 0.7×	5	842
Eric Feyfant United States	15	463 1.1×	107 1.2×	53 0.6×	60 1.0×	152 2.6×	22	795
Piotr Drabik Poland	9	385 0.9×	95 1.0×	52 0.6×	41 0.7×	28 0.5×	12	619

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuichiro Hourai

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

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6 of 6 papers shown

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O’Donovan, Daniel J., Takashi Tanaka, Takahiro Shirai, et al.. (2013). High-Resolution Heteronuclear Multidimensional NMR of Proteins in Living Insect Cells Using a Baculovirus Protein Expression System. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(5). 1688–1691. 69 indexed citations

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Pierce, Brian G., Yuichiro Hourai, & Zhiping Weng. (2011). Accelerating Protein Docking in ZDOCK Using an Advanced 3D Convolution Library. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e24657–e24657. 472 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yoshikawa, Tatsuya, Koki Tsukamoto, Yuichiro Hourai, & Kazuhiko Fukui. (2009). Improving the Accuracy of an Affinity Prediction Method by Using Statistics on Shape Complementarity between Proteins. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 49(3). 693–703. 10 indexed citations

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Yoshikawa, Tatsuya, K. Tsukamoto, Yuichiro Hourai, & Kazuhiko Fukui. (2008). Parameter tuning and evaluation of an affinity prediction using protein-protein docking. 312–317. 2 indexed citations

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Tsukamoto, Koki, Tatsuya Yoshikawa, Yuichiro Hourai, Kazuhiko Fukui, & Yutaka Akiyama. (2008). DEVELOPMENT OF AN AFFINITY EVALUATION AND PREDICTION SYSTEM BY USING THE SHAPE COMPLEMENTARITY CHARACTERISTIC BETWEEN PROTEINS. Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. 6(6). 1133–1156. 8 indexed citations

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Hourai, Yuichiro, Tatsuya Akutsu, & Yutaka Akiyama. (2004). Optimizing substitution matrices by separating score distributions. Bioinformatics. 20(6). 863–873. 9 indexed citations

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