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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Metabolomics of clinical samples reveal the treatment mechanism of lanthanum hydroxide on vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease	161
Clinical epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology studies with real-world databases	80
On the occasion of the 100th volume of the Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B (PJA-B)	56
Invention of the split-anode magnetron	43
Developments of GNSS buoy for a synthetic geohazard monitoring system	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>”	31
Establishment of immune suppression by cancer cells in the tumor microenvironment	28
Cloning of human Type I interferon cDNAs	25
Origin of an orbiting star around the galactic supermassive black hole	24
The potential health risks of exposure to environmental chemicals ― Global implications for future generations	20
Conformational constraint in natural product synthesis	20
Possibilities and challenges of small molecule organic compounds for the treatment of repeat diseases	20
Incorporation of photosynthetically active algal chloroplasts in cultured mammalian cells towards photosynthesis in animals	19
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
Therapeutic siRNA targeting the cancer cell stemness regulator PRDI-BF1 and RIZ domain zinc finger protein 14	18
Bacteria with a mouth: Discovery and new insights into cell surface structure and macromolecule transport	18
Perturbed maternal microbiota shapes offspring microbiota during early colonization period in mice	17
Kawai-type multianvil ultrahigh-pressure technology	14
Recent volcanic activity at the Asama volcano and long-period seismic signals	14
Developments of inverse analysis by Kalman filters and Bayesian methods applied to geotechnical engineering	13
Optical coupling of individual air-suspended carbon nanotubes to silicon microcavities	12
Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene in <i>Thalassiosira nordenskioeldii</i> strains inhabiting in cold and warm sea waters	12
Studies on “Ascites sarcoma”	12
Copolymerization of ethylene with non-vinyl polar monomers	11
Pursuing the identity of a natural medicine licorice by Dr. Shoji Shibata that he firstly investigated half a century before	10

A new era of isotope ecology: Nitrogen isotope ratio of amino acids as an approach for unraveling modern and ancient food web	10
Development of liquid crystal displays and related improvements to their performances	10
Environmental catalysts advance focused on lattice oxygen for the decomposition of harmful organic compounds	9
Syntheses and biological evaluation of M-COPA analogs derived from pentadienoic Weinreb amide	8
Erratum to “Development of liquid crystal displays and related improvements to their performances”	8
Intravenous immunoglobulin preparations attenuate lysolecithin-induced peripheral demyelination in mice and comprise anti-large myelin protein zero antibody	8
Conformational dynamics and molecular interactions of natural products: unveiling functional structures in biological membranes	7
The discovery of acatalasemia (lack of catalase in the blood) and its significance in human genetics	6
Kaonic nuclear clusters― a new paradigm of particle and nuclear physics ―	6
Recent progress in the chemistry of heavy aromatics	6
Development of protein chemical synthesis using peptide thioester synthetic blocks	6
Implications of glutathione-S transferase P1 in MAPK signaling as a CRAF chaperone: In memory of Dr. Irving Listowsky	6
Kimura’s contributions on Earth polar motion studies	5
<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
Common and distinct features of diverse macrophage populations in the central nervous system	5
Thirty-five years since the discovery of chemotactic cytokines, interleukin-8 and MCAF: A historical overview	4
Structural determination of mugineic acid, an iron(III)-chelating substance secreted from graminaceous plants for efficient iron uptake	4
Improvement of patient care using cancer genomic profiling: SCRUM-/CIRCULATE-Japan experience	4
Imaging-based chemogenetics for dissecting neural circuits in nonhuman primates	4
RET receptor signaling: Function in development, metabolic disease, and cancer	4
Statistical and mechanical analysis of multi-pseudopodial locomotion in a testate amoeba, <i>Arcella</i> sp.	4
A strategy to access unprecedented reactive intermediates featuring carbenes, carbocations, biradicals, and inverted σ-bonds via hypervalent λ<sup>3</sup>-haloganes	4
Thrombomodulin: A key regulator of intravascular blood coagulation, fibrinolysis, and inflammation, and a treatment for disseminated intravascular coagulation	4
Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4: An attractive target for antibody-based immunotherapy	3
Chemical characterization of heavy actinides and light transactinides – Experimental achievements at JAEA	3
Toward structural understanding of eukaryotic transcription elongation	3
Proceedings of the Japan Academy — History, database, and trend —	3
Performance comparison of complementary relationship and inverse analysis methods for evapotranspiration estimation	3
The UHRF protein family in epigenetics, development, and carcinogenesis	3
Genome-wide changes of protein translation levels for cell and organelle proliferation in a simple unicellular alga	3
Tracing the genealogy of research on the mechanism of blue flower coloration by anthocyanin based on Keita Shibata’s work	3
Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes in Japan and East Asian populations: Basic and clinical explorations	3
Control of interface functions in solid-state biosensors for stable detection of molecular recognition	3
Research overview of L-DOPA production using a bacterial enzyme, tyrosine phenol-lyase	3
Diffuse neutrino background from past core collapse supernovae	2
Biomimetic polymers with phosphorylcholine groups as biomaterials for medical devices	2
An interpretation of COVID-19 in Tokyo using a combination of SIR models	2
The shifting paradigm of chromatin structure: from the 30-nm chromatin fiber to liquid-like organization	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
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
Re-recognized universality of Kozai oscillation on three-body dynamics	2
Mechanism of puberulic acid contamination in red yeast rice tablets that caused a serious food poisoning outbreak in Japan	2
Mechanisms of autophagosome formation	2
Aromatic micelles: toward a third-generation of micelles	2