Yukihide Tomari

15.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
98 papers, 11.3k citations indexed

About

Yukihide Tomari is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yukihide Tomari has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 11.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Molecular Biology, 35 papers in Cancer Research and 30 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Yukihide Tomari's work include RNA Research and Splicing (42 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (32 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (28 papers). Yukihide Tomari is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (42 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (32 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (28 papers). Yukihide Tomari collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and France. Yukihide Tomari's co-authors include Phillip D. Zamore, Hiro‐oki Iwakawa, Tomoko Kawamata, Tsutomu Suzuki, Shintaro Iwasaki, Christian B. Matranga, Takuya Ueda, Takashi Yokogawa, Yoshihiro Shimizu and Kazuya Nishikawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Yukihide Tomari

97 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Cell-free translation reconstituted with purified components

2001 1.5k citations Yukihide Tomari, Tsutomu Suzuki et al. profile →
Passenger-Strand Cleavage Facilitates Assembly of siRNA into Ago2-Containing RNAi Enzyme Complexes

2005 860 citations Yukihide Tomari, Phillip D. Zamore et al. profile →
Perspective: machines for RNAi

2005 703 citations Yukihide Tomari, Phillip D. Zamore profile →
The Functions of MicroRNAs: mRNA Decay and Translational Repression

2015 564 citations Hiro‐oki Iwakawa, Yukihide Tomari profile →
Life of RISC: Formation, action, and degradation of RNA-induced silencing complex

2021 282 citations Hiro‐oki Iwakawa, Yukihide Tomari Molecular Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yukihide Tomari Japan	47	9.8k	3.9k	2.4k	824	687	98	11.3k
Leemor Joshua‐Tor United States	44	8.7k 0.9×	2.6k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	865 1.0×	609 0.9×	88	10.4k
Siqun Xu China	12	10.6k 1.1×	1.6k 0.4×	1.9k 0.8×	1.6k 1.9×	835 1.2×	21	13.0k
Sayda M. Elbashir United States	16	12.4k 1.3×	2.7k 0.7×	988 0.4×	2.1k 2.5×	1.3k 1.9×	26	14.2k
Elisa Izaurralde Germany	89	22.9k 2.3×	5.8k 1.5×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 1.7×	1.4k 2.1×	163	25.6k
Erik J. Sontheimer United States	45	11.9k 1.2×	2.9k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 2.1×	658 1.0×	92	13.7k
Abdullah Yalçın United States	17	11.6k 1.2×	5.4k 1.4×	866 0.4×	1.6k 1.9×	1.1k 1.6×	30	13.5k
Ji‐Joon Song South Korea	28	6.9k 0.7×	2.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	710 0.9×	369 0.5×	91	8.0k
Richard W. Carthew United States	52	13.1k 1.3×	4.8k 1.3×	2.5k 1.0×	1.8k 2.2×	1.7k 2.5×	105	17.0k
David Tollervey United Kingdom	99	26.9k 2.7×	2.5k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	2.0k 2.5×	679 1.0×	257	28.5k
Brenton R. Graveley United States	51	11.7k 1.2×	2.1k 0.5×	950 0.4×	1.3k 1.6×	623 0.9×	110	13.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yukihide Tomari

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Izumi, Natsuko, Kazuko Hanyu‐Nakamura, Mariko Yamane, et al.. (2025). Abundant piRNA production mediated by the Drosophila GTSF1 homolog Tpp ensures Aubergine localization and germ plasm assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(24). e2419375122–e2419375122. 1 indexed citations

Suzuki, Eriko, et al.. (2024). miRNA-mediated gene silencing in Drosophila larval development involves GW182-dependent and independent mechanisms. The EMBO Journal. 43(23). 6161–6179. 2 indexed citations

Izumi, Natsuko, Keisuke Shoji, Lumi Negishi, & Yukihide Tomari. (2024). The dual role of Spn-E in supporting heterotypic ping-pong piRNA amplification in silkworms. EMBO Reports. 25(5). 2239–2257. 5 indexed citations

Arakawa, Kazuharu, Tetsuro Hirose, Toshifumi Inada, et al.. (2023). Nondomain biopolymers: Flexible molecular strategies to acquire biological functions. Genes to Cells. 28(8). 539–552. 6 indexed citations

Shoji, Keisuke, et al.. (2023). The piRNA cluster torimochi is an expanding transposon in cultured silkworm cells. PLoS Genetics. 19(2). e1010632–e1010632. 5 indexed citations

Kiuchi, Takashi, Keisuke Shoji, Natsuko Izumi, Yukihide Tomari, & Susumu Katsuma. (2023). Non-gonadal somatic piRNA pathways ensure sexual differentiation, larval growth, and wing development in silkworms. PLoS Genetics. 19(9). e1010912–e1010912. 5 indexed citations

Shoji, Keisuke, et al.. (2022). The mechanisms of siRNA selection by plant Argonaute proteins triggering DNA methylation. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(22). 12997–13010. 19 indexed citations

Chen, Shirui, et al.. (2022). Functional specialization of monocot DCL3 and DCL5 proteins through the evolution of the PAZ domain. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(8). 4669–4684. 7 indexed citations

Arif, Amena, Shannon M. Bailey, Natsuko Izumi, et al.. (2022). GTSF1 accelerates target RNA cleavage by PIWI-clade Argonaute proteins. Nature. 608(7923). 618–625. 39 indexed citations

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Shoji, Keisuke, et al.. (2021). Cell-free reconstitution reveals the molecular mechanisms for the initiation of secondary siRNA biogenesis in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(31). 25 indexed citations

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Shoji, Keisuke, et al.. (2021). Dynamic subcellular compartmentalization ensures fidelity of piRNA biogenesis in silkworms. EMBO Reports. 22(7). e51342–e51342. 14 indexed citations

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Kobayashi, Hotaka & Yukihide Tomari. (2019). Identification of an AGO (Argonaute) protein as a prey of TER94/VCP. Autophagy. 16(1). 190–192. 5 indexed citations

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Nishimura, Tōru, Ippei Nagamori, Tsunetoshi Nakatani, et al.. (2018). PNLDC 1, mouse pre‐pi RNA Trimmer, is required for meiotic and post‐meiotic male germ cell development. EMBO Reports. 19(3). 66 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Mariko, Hiro‐oki Iwakawa, Hisashi Tadakuma, & Yukihide Tomari. (2017). Biochemical and single-molecule analyses of the RNA silencing suppressing activity of CrPV-1A. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(18). 10837–10844. 10 indexed citations

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Fukaya, Takashi, et al.. (2016). CCR4 and CAF1 deadenylases have an intrinsic activity to remove the post-poly(A) sequence. RNA. 22(10). 1550–1559. 18 indexed citations

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Yoda, Mayuko, Daniel Cifuentes, Natsuko Izumi, et al.. (2013). Poly(A)-Specific Ribonuclease Mediates 3′-End Trimming of Argonaute2-Cleaved Precursor MicroRNAs. Cell Reports. 5(3). 715–726. 127 indexed citations

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Izumi, Natsuko, Shinpei Kawaoka, Yutaka Suzuki, et al.. (2013). Hsp90 facilitates accurate loading of precursor piRNAs into PIWI proteins. RNA. 19(7). 896–901. 47 indexed citations

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Kawaoka, Shinpei, Keisuke Shoji, Maki Kobayashi, et al.. (2012). The comprehensive epigenome map of piRNA clusters. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(3). 1581–1590. 28 indexed citations

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Kawaoka, Shinpei, Natsuko Izumi, Susumu Katsuma, & Yukihide Tomari. (2011). 3′ End Formation of PIWI-Interacting RNAs In Vitro. Molecular Cell. 43(6). 1015–1022. 195 indexed citations

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Tomari, Yukihide & Phillip D. Zamore. (2005). MicroRNA Biogenesis: Drosha Can't Cut It without a Partner. Current Biology. 15(2). R61–R64. 121 indexed citations

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