Yukuto Sato

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Yukuto Sato is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yukuto Sato has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Yukuto Sato's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (12 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (11 papers). Yukuto Sato is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (12 papers) and Identification and Quantification in Food (11 papers). Yukuto Sato collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and Russia. Yukuto Sato's co-authors include Masaki Miya, Tetsuya Sado, Wataru Iwasaki, Toshifumi Minamoto, Satoshi Yamamoto, Michio Kondoh, Tsukasa Fukunaga, Hitoshi Araki, Mutsumi Nishida and Jan Yde Poulsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Yukuto Sato

41 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

MiFish, a set of universal PCR primers for metabarcoding environmental DNA from fishes: detection of more than 230 subtropical marine species

2015 870 citations Masaki Miya, Yukuto Sato et al. profile →
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals local fish communities in a species-rich coastal sea

2017 337 citations Satoshi Yamamoto, Reiji Masuda et al. Scientific Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yukuto Sato Japan	20	1.9k	1.6k	464	275	151	43	2.6k
Tsukasa Fukunaga Japan	15	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	574 1.2×	267 1.0×	297 2.0×	33	2.5k
Ryuji J. Machida Taiwan	19	1.5k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	200 0.4×	212 0.8×	30 0.2×	43	2.4k
Frédéric J. J. Chain Canada	24	889 0.5×	759 0.5×	218 0.5×	500 1.8×	73 0.5×	50	1.6k
Keijo Viiri Finland	17	1.7k 0.9×	841 0.5×	306 0.7×	964 3.5×	111 0.7×	34	3.7k
Margaret E. Hunter United States	25	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	391 0.8×	426 1.5×	46 0.3×	70	2.1k
Kristen L. Kuhn United States	18	966 0.5×	794 0.5×	1.0k 2.3×	548 2.0×	127 0.8×	33	2.6k
Jon J. Amberg United States	23	831 0.4×	999 0.6×	658 1.4×	376 1.4×	303 2.0×	62	1.9k
Jeffrey L. Jensen United States	14	474 0.3×	508 0.3×	287 0.6×	900 3.3×	162 1.1×	34	2.1k
Robin Floyd Canada	13	812 0.4×	966 0.6×	125 0.3×	368 1.3×	39 0.3×	18	2.0k
Urban Olsson Sweden	35	1.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	562 1.2×	1.6k 5.7×	181 1.2×	130	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Yukuto Sato

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yukuto Sato

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sato, Yukuto, et al.. (2025). DNA metabarcoding analysis revealed a silent prevalence of environmental pathogenic Leptospira in urban area of Okinawa Island, Japan. One Health. 20. 101016–101016. 1 indexed citations

Sato, Yukuto, et al.. (2024). Seasonal diet partition among top predators of a small island, Iriomote Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7727–7727. 4 indexed citations

Nishiyama, Naoya, Kohei Uechi, Yukuto Sato, et al.. (2024). Complete genome sequence of a metallo-β-lactamase-producing Aeromonas dhakensis strain, RYU-Ah62, isolated from a patient with an abdominal abscess. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(7). e0001024–e0001024.

Sato, Yukuto, et al.. (2024). A systematic survey of environmental DNA in Palau's lakes and waterfalls reveals an increase in Leptospira levels after flooding. One Health. 19. 100898–100898. 2 indexed citations

Sato, Yukuto, Jun Yasuda, & Masahiro Sakurai. (2023). Animal-sourced model of human norovirus infection predicted using environmental DNA metabarcoding analysis. Journal of Freshwater Ecology. 39(1). 1 indexed citations

Nishiyama, Naoya, Kohei Uechi, Yukuto Sato, et al.. (2023). 297. Prevalence and Genomic Analysis of Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Single Center in Japan: Insights into Virulence and Potential Clinical Implications. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 10(Supplement_2). 1 indexed citations

Fujimoto, Shingo, et al.. (2022). Population admixtures in medaka inferred by multiple arbitrary amplicon sequencing. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 19989–19989. 2 indexed citations

Sato, Yukuto, Tetsuya Kakita, Hideyuki Imai, et al.. (2022). Analysis of human clinical and environmental Leptospira to elucidate the eco-epidemiology of leptospirosis in Yaeyama, subtropical Japan. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(3). e0010234–e0010234. 13 indexed citations

Tanaka, Yukari, Junko Kawashima, Hiroshi Mori, et al.. (2022). Omics profiles of fecal and oral microbiota change in irritable bowel syndrome patients with diarrhea and symptom exacerbation. Journal of Gastroenterology. 57(10). 748–760. 22 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Tomoya, Kanto Nishikawa, Yukuto Sato, & Mamoru Toda. (2021). Development and evaluation of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay for quick identification of the Japanese salamander <i>Hynobius tokyoensis</i>. Genes & Genetic Systems. 96(5). 247–252. 1 indexed citations

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Gamage, Chandika D., Yukuto Sato, Ryosuke Kimura, Tetsu Yamashiro, & Claudia Toma. (2020). Understanding leptospirosis eco-epidemiology by environmental DNA metabarcoding of irrigation water from two agro-ecological regions of Sri Lanka. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 14(7). e0008437–e0008437. 22 indexed citations

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Sato, Yukuto, et al.. (2020). Population genetic structure and evolution of Batesian mimicry in Papilio polytes from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, analyzed by genotyping‐by‐sequencing. Ecology and Evolution. 11(2). 872–886. 4 indexed citations

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Sato, Yukuto, Masaru Mizuyama, Megumi Sato, et al.. (2019). Environmental DNA metabarcoding to detect pathogenic Leptospira and associated organisms in leptospirosis-endemic areas of Japan. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6575–6575. 42 indexed citations

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Ushio, Masayuki, Kobayashi Makoto, Osamu Kishida, et al.. (2017). Environmental DNA enables detection of terrestrial mammals from forest pond water. Molecular Ecology Resources. 17(6). e63–e75. 142 indexed citations

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Nishioka, M., Miki Bundo, Junko Ueda, et al.. (2017). Identification of somatic mutations in postmortem human brains by whole genome sequencing and their implications for psychiatric disorders. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 72(4). 280–294. 9 indexed citations

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Yamamoto, Satoshi, Reiji Masuda, Yukuto Sato, et al.. (2017). Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals local fish communities in a species-rich coastal sea. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 40368–40368. 337 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yamaguchi‐Kabata, Yumi, Naoki Nariai, Yosuke Kawai, et al.. (2015). iJGVD: an integrative Japanese genome variation database based on whole-genome sequencing. Human Genome Variation. 2(1). 15050–15050. 77 indexed citations

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Sato, Yukuto, Junya Yamagishi, Riu Yamashita, et al.. (2015). Inter-Individual Differences in the Oral Bacteriome Are Greater than Intra-Day Fluctuations in Individuals. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0131607–e0131607. 46 indexed citations

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Sato, Yukuto, Yasuyuki Hashiguchi, & Mutsumi Nishida. (2009). Evolution of multiple phosphodiesterase isoforms in stickleback involved in cAMP signal transduction pathway. BMC Systems Biology. 3(1). 23–23. 8 indexed citations

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Sato, Yukuto, Yasuyuki Hashiguchi, & Mutsumi Nishida. (2009). Temporal pattern of loss/persistence of duplicate genes involved in signal transduction and metabolic pathways after teleost-specific genome duplication. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9(1). 127–127. 54 indexed citations

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