Yūji Shimizu

9.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
238 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Yūji Shimizu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yūji Shimizu has authored 238 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 53 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and 41 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Yūji Shimizu's work include Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention (33 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (21 papers) and Nutrition and Health in Aging (20 papers). Yūji Shimizu is often cited by papers focused on Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention (33 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (21 papers) and Nutrition and Health in Aging (20 papers). Yūji Shimizu collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and India. Yūji Shimizu's co-authors include Shogo Nomura, Toshihisa Komori, Ryoko Okamoto, T Kishimoto, Yukihiko Kitamura, Hideshi Yagi, Akira Yamaguchi, Koichi Sasaki, Shusaku Yoshiki and Yun Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yūji Shimizu

227 papers receiving 6.9k 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.

Targeted Disruption of Results in a Complete Lack of Bone Formation owing to Maturational Arrest of Osteoblasts

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yūji Shimizu Japan	29	3.8k	1.4k	935	767	702	238	7.0k
Charles C. Hong United States	42	3.6k 1.0×	550 0.4×	860 0.9×	647 0.8×	540 0.8×	141	6.9k
Michael Koutsilieris Greece	51	3.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.4×	476 0.5×	422 0.6×	865 1.2×	338	9.7k
Carlos M. Isales United States	51	4.3k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	515 0.6×	505 0.7×	403 0.6×	250	8.6k
Ling‐Qing Yuan China	46	3.8k 1.0×	985 0.7×	477 0.5×	435 0.6×	517 0.7×	236	7.3k
Nobutaka Shimizu Japan	41	3.0k 0.8×	2.2k 1.5×	649 0.7×	215 0.3×	590 0.8×	224	8.0k
Suely Kazue Nagahashi Marie Brazil	42	3.4k 0.9×	520 0.4×	479 0.5×	373 0.5×	707 1.0×	261	7.0k
Maria Grano Italy	49	3.5k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	950 1.0×	207 0.3×	472 0.7×	197	7.8k
Ikuo Morita Japan	51	4.9k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	442 0.5×	342 0.4×	939 1.3×	258	10.3k
Neal S. Fedarko United States	49	3.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	2.3k 2.5×	243 0.3×	525 0.7×	108	8.2k
Eliécer Coto Spain	45	3.3k 0.9×	571 0.4×	797 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	1.6k 2.2×	304	8.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Yūji Shimizu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yūji Shimizu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shimizu, Yūji, et al.. (2025). Solitude, connection with society, low quality of life in relation to autism spectrum disorder. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 71(8). 1527–1533. 1 indexed citations

Shimizu, Yūji, et al.. (2025). Influence of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder on Risky Drinking Behavior in Relation to Satisfactory Sleep Status Among the General Population. Sleep and Vigilance. 9(2). 271–280.

Satoh, Michihiro, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Katsuyuki Miura, et al.. (2025). Long-term risk of cardiovascular mortality according to age group and blood pressure categories of the latest guideline. Hypertension Research. 48(4). 1428–1433. 1 indexed citations

Shimizu, Yūji, et al.. (2024). Association Between Asian Flush and Satisfaction of Sleep via Alcohol Consumption Status in a Sample of Japanese Participants. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12(4). 62–62. 2 indexed citations

Kubo, Toru, Yoshinori Murakami, Hironori Yamamoto, et al.. (2024). Prospective Multicenter Screening With High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T for Wild-Type Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis in Outpatient and Community-Based Settings. Circulation Journal. 89(1). 24–30. 3 indexed citations

Shimizu, Yūji, Naomi Hayashida, Hirotomo Yamanashi, et al.. (2023). Serum Concentration of Growth Differentiation Factor 15 and Atherosclerosis among General Older Japanese Individuals with Normal Weight. Biomedicines. 11(6). 1572–1572. 2 indexed citations

Shimizu, Yūji. (2023). Progression of Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Partly Indicates the Prevention of Hypertension among Older Individuals in the General Population. Life. 13(7). 1588–1588. 3 indexed citations

Shimizu, Yūji, et al.. (2023). Association between serum albumin levels and height loss in Japanese workers: a retrospective study. Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. 42(1). 21–21.

Yamagishi, Kazumasa, Koutatsu Maruyama, Chika Okada, et al.. (2022). Dietary intake of beans and risk of disabling dementia: The Circulatory Risk in Communities Study (CIRCS). European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 77(1). 65–70. 10 indexed citations

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Yin, Jie, Yanyong Kang, Aaron P. McGrath, et al.. (2022). Molecular mechanism of the wake-promoting agent TAK-925. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2902–2902. 19 indexed citations

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Kubota, Yasuhiko, Tetsuya Ohira, Yūji Shimizu, et al.. (2019). Anger Expression and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Among Urban and Rural Japanese Residents: The Circulatory Risk in Communities Study. Psychosomatic Medicine. 82(2). 215–223. 7 indexed citations

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Yukitake, Hiroshi, Tatsuhiko Fujimoto, Takashi Ishikawa, et al.. (2019). TAK-925, an orexin 2 receptor-selective agonist, shows robust wake-promoting effects in mice. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior. 187. 172794–172794. 66 indexed citations

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Yamanashi, Hirotomo, Yūji Shimizu, Jun Koyamatsu, et al.. (2017). Circulating CD34-Positive Cells Are Associated with Handgrip Strength in Japanese Older Men: The Nagasaki Islands Study.. PubMed. 6(1). 6–11. 9 indexed citations

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Shimizu, Yūji, Shimpei Sato, Jun Koyamatsu, et al.. (2015). Circulating CD34-positive cells, glomerular filtration rate and triglycerides in relation to hypertension. Atherosclerosis. 243(1). 71–76. 21 indexed citations

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Shimizu, Yūji, Mio Nakazato, Koichiro Kadota, et al.. (2014). Association between Alkaline Phosphatase and Anemia in Rural Japanese Men: The Nagasaki Islands study. Acta medica Nagasakiensia. 58(4). 125–130. 4 indexed citations

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Shimizu, Yūji, et al.. (2009). Examination of Pattern-forming Conditions in Negative-tone Reaction Development Patterning. Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology. 22(3). 407–410. 9 indexed citations

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Nagamura, Yoshiaki, Baltazar A. Antonio, Hisataka Numa, et al.. (2003). RiceBLAST: A Comprehensive Homology Search for Rice Specific Sequences. Proceedings Genome Informatics Workshop/Genome informatics. 14. 533–534. 1 indexed citations

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Numa, Hisataka, Katsumi Sakata, Yoshiaki Nagamura, et al.. (2001). RiceGAAS: An Automated Annotation System for Rice Genome. Proceedings Genome Informatics Workshop/Genome informatics. 12(12). 496–497. 2 indexed citations

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Tsukagoshi, Hideo, Yūji Shimizu, Yoshitatsu Fukabori, et al.. (1999). Regulation by Interleukin-1β of Gene Expression of Bradykinin B1 Receptor in MH-S Murine Alveolar Macrophage Cell Line. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 259(2). 476–482. 21 indexed citations

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Sakai, Kentaro, Y Morishita, Shinsuke Ishikawa, et al.. (1999). Functional FceRIa expression on human bone marrow-derived mast cells cultured with SCF+IL-6 - Essential role of IL-3 for function and granule contents. The FASEB Journal. 13(5). 995. 21 indexed citations

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