OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B-Physical and Biological Scie is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Metabolomics of clinical samples reveal the treatment mechanism of lanthanum hydroxide on vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease	152
Clinical epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology studies with real-world databases	75
On the occasion of the 100th volume of the Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B (PJA-B)	49
Developments of GNSS buoy for a synthetic geohazard monitoring system	41
Invention of the split-anode magnetron	34
Correction to “Dynamics of the nucleoside diphosphate kinase protein DYNAMO2 correlates with the changes in the global GTP level during the cell cycle of <i>Cyanidioschyzon merolae</i>”	33
Establishment of immune suppression by cancer cells in the tumor microenvironment	27
Origin of an orbiting star around the galactic supermassive black hole	25
Cloning of human Type I interferon cDNAs	23
The potential health risks of exposure to environmental chemicals ― Global implications for future generations	23
Complementary use of visual and olfactory cues to assess capture of <i>Bactrocera dorsalis</i> (Hendel): Implementation and field verification via an IoT-based automatic monitoring system	19
Possibilities and challenges of small molecule organic compounds for the treatment of repeat diseases	19
Incorporation of photosynthetically active algal chloroplasts in cultured mammalian cells towards photosynthesis in animals	18
Bacteria with a mouth: Discovery and new insights into cell surface structure and macromolecule transport	18
Therapeutic siRNA targeting the cancer cell stemness regulator PRDI-BF1 and RIZ domain zinc finger protein 14	18
Developments of inverse analysis by Kalman filters and Bayesian methods applied to geotechnical engineering	17
Perturbed maternal microbiota shapes offspring microbiota during early colonization period in mice	17
Recent volcanic activity at the Asama volcano and long-period seismic signals	14
Kawai-type multianvil ultrahigh-pressure technology	14
Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene in <i>Thalassiosira nordenskioeldii</i> strains inhabiting in cold and warm sea waters	12
Studies on “Ascites sarcoma”	11
Optical coupling of individual air-suspended carbon nanotubes to silicon microcavities	11
Copolymerization of ethylene with non-vinyl polar monomers	10
Development of liquid crystal displays and related improvements to their performances	10
Pursuing the identity of a natural medicine licorice by Dr. Shoji Shibata that he firstly investigated half a century before	10

Erratum to “Development of liquid crystal displays and related improvements to their performances”	9
A new era of isotope ecology: Nitrogen isotope ratio of amino acids as an approach for unraveling modern and ancient food web	9
Intravenous immunoglobulin preparations attenuate lysolecithin-induced peripheral demyelination in mice and comprise anti-large myelin protein zero antibody	9
Environmental catalysts advance focused on lattice oxygen for the decomposition of harmful organic compounds	9
Implications of glutathione-S transferase P1 in MAPK signaling as a CRAF chaperone: In memory of Dr. Irving Listowsky	8
The discovery of acatalasemia (lack of catalase in the blood) and its significance in human genetics	8
Conformational dynamics and molecular interactions of natural products: unveiling functional structures in biological membranes	7
Kaonic nuclear clusters― a new paradigm of particle and nuclear physics ―	6
Recent progress in the chemistry of heavy aromatics	6
Syntheses and biological evaluation of M-COPA analogs derived from pentadienoic Weinreb amide	6
<i>f</i><sub>4</sub>-statistics-based ancestry profiling and convolutional neural network phenotyping shed new light on the structure of genetic and spike shape diversity in &l	5
Kimura’s contributions on Earth polar motion studies	5
Thirty-five years since the discovery of chemotactic cytokines, interleukin-8 and MCAF: A historical overview	5
Common and distinct features of diverse macrophage populations in the central nervous system	5
RET receptor signaling: Function in development, metabolic disease, and cancer	4
Tracing the genealogy of research on the mechanism of blue flower coloration by anthocyanin based on Keita Shibata’s work	4
Imaging-based chemogenetics for dissecting neural circuits in nonhuman primates	4
Improvement of patient care using cancer genomic profiling: SCRUM-/CIRCULATE-Japan experience	4
Thrombomodulin: A key regulator of intravascular blood coagulation, fibrinolysis, and inflammation, and a treatment for disseminated intravascular coagulation	4
Structural determination of mugineic acid, an iron(III)-chelating substance secreted from graminaceous plants for efficient iron uptake	4
Control of interface functions in solid-state biosensors for stable detection of molecular recognition	3
Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4: An attractive target for antibody-based immunotherapy	3
Research overview of L-DOPA production using a bacterial enzyme, tyrosine phenol-lyase	3
Performance comparison of complementary relationship and inverse analysis methods for evapotranspiration estimation	3
Chemical characterization of heavy actinides and light transactinides – Experimental achievements at JAEA	3
Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes in Japan and East Asian populations: Basic and clinical explorations	3
The UHRF protein family in epigenetics, development, and carcinogenesis	3
Synthesis and applications of high-performance P-chiral phosphine ligands	3
Proceedings of the Japan Academy — History, database, and trend —	3
Toward structural understanding of eukaryotic transcription elongation	2
Effect of vaccination against COVID-19 spreading	2
Mechanism of puberulic acid contamination in red yeast rice tablets that caused a serious food poisoning outbreak in Japan	2
Biomimetic polymers with phosphorylcholine groups as biomaterials for medical devices	2
The shifting paradigm of chromatin structure: from the 30-nm chromatin fiber to liquid-like organization	2
Genome-wide changes of protein translation levels for cell and organelle proliferation in a simple unicellular alga	2
Re-recognized universality of Kozai oscillation on three-body dynamics	2
Diffuse neutrino background from past core collapse supernovae	2
Radical reactions on interstellar icy dust grains: Experimental investigations of elementary processes	2
Crystals of taka-amylase A, a cornerstone of protein chemistry in Japan	2
New insights into the regulation of synaptic transmission and plasticity by the endoplasmic reticulum and its membrane contacts	2
Cellular senescence as a source of chronic microinflammation that promotes the aging process	2
Unconstrained deep learning-based sleep stage classification using cardiorespiratory and body movement activities in adults with suspected sleep apnea	2
Mechanisms of autophagosome formation	2