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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Metabolomics of clinical samples reveal the treatment mechanism of lanthanum hydroxide on vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease	175
Bioorganic studies on the nyctinastic leaf-movement of plants	63
Clinical epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology studies with real-world databases	39
On the occasion of the 100th volume of the Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B (PJA-B)	37
Invention of the split-anode magnetron	35
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>”	29
Establishment of immune suppression by cancer cells in the tumor microenvironment	27
Origin of an orbiting star around the galactic supermassive black hole	23
Cloning of human Type I interferon cDNAs	23
The potential health risks of exposure to environmental chemicals ― Global implications for future generations	21
Conformational constraint in natural product synthesis	21
Incorporation of photosynthetically active algal chloroplasts in cultured mammalian cells towards photosynthesis in animals	21
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	20
Bacteria with a mouth: Discovery and new insights into cell surface structure and macromolecule transport	19
Therapeutic siRNA targeting the cancer cell stemness regulator PRDI-BF1 and RIZ domain zinc finger protein 14	16
Perturbed maternal microbiota shapes offspring microbiota during early colonization period in mice	16
Developments of inverse analysis by Kalman filters and Bayesian methods applied to geotechnical engineering	14
Cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene in <i>Thalassiosira nordenskioeldii</i> strains inhabiting in cold and warm sea waters	12
Kawai-type multianvil ultrahigh-pressure technology	12
Optical coupling of individual air-suspended carbon nanotubes to silicon microcavities	12
Recent volcanic activity at the Asama volcano and long-period seismic signals	12
Studies on “Ascites sarcoma”	11
Pursuing the identity of a natural medicine licorice by Dr. Shoji Shibata that he firstly investigated half a century before	10
Comparative sequence analysis of the mouse pseudoautosomal region from three inbred strains reveals it to be the most rapidly evolving ‘chromosome’	9
Development of liquid crystal displays and related improvements to their performances	9

Copolymerization of ethylene with non-vinyl polar monomers	9
A new era of isotope ecology: Nitrogen isotope ratio of amino acids as an approach for unraveling modern and ancient food web	8
Intravenous immunoglobulin preparations attenuate lysolecithin-induced peripheral demyelination in mice and comprise anti-large myelin protein zero antibody	7
Environmental catalysts advance focused on lattice oxygen for the decomposition of harmful organic compounds	7
Erratum to “Development of liquid crystal displays and related improvements to their performances”	7
The discovery of acatalasemia (lack of catalase in the blood) and its significance in human genetics	6
Syntheses and biological evaluation of M-COPA analogs derived from pentadienoic Weinreb amide	6
Kaonic nuclear clusters― a new paradigm of particle and nuclear physics ―	5
Development of protein chemical synthesis using peptide thioester synthetic blocks	5
Recent progress in the chemistry of heavy aromatics	5
Common and distinct features of diverse macrophage populations in the central nervous system	5
Conformational dynamics and molecular interactions of natural products: unveiling functional structures in biological membranes	5
Statistical and mechanical analysis of multi-pseudopodial locomotion in a testate amoeba, <i>Arcella</i> sp.	4
Improvement of patient care using cancer genomic profiling: SCRUM-/CIRCULATE-Japan experience	4
Kimura’s contributions on Earth polar motion studies	4
Thirty-five years since the discovery of chemotactic cytokines, interleukin-8 and MCAF: A historical overview	4
Thrombomodulin: A key regulator of intravascular blood coagulation, fibrinolysis, and inflammation, and a treatment for disseminated intravascular coagulation	4
<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	4
Tracing the genealogy of research on the mechanism of blue flower coloration by anthocyanin based on Keita Shibata’s work	4
Structural determination of mugineic acid, an iron(III)-chelating substance secreted from graminaceous plants for efficient iron uptake	4
Imaging-based chemogenetics for dissecting neural circuits in nonhuman primates	4
A strategy to access unprecedented reactive intermediates featuring carbenes, carbocations, biradicals, and inverted σ-bonds via hypervalent λ<sup>3</sup>-haloganes	4
Proceedings of the Japan Academy — History, database, and trend —	3
Highly polymorphic copy number variation in a segmental duplication in the mouse pseudoautosomal region even within inbred laboratory strains	3
Research overview of L-DOPA production using a bacterial enzyme, tyrosine phenol-lyase	3
Genome-wide changes of protein translation levels for cell and organelle proliferation in a simple unicellular alga	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
Toward structural understanding of eukaryotic transcription elongation	3
The UHRF protein family in epigenetics, development, and carcinogenesis	3
Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan 4: An attractive target for antibody-based immunotherapy	3
Performance comparison of complementary relationship and inverse analysis methods for evapotranspiration estimation	3
Control of interface functions in solid-state biosensors for stable detection of molecular recognition	3
Crystals of taka-amylase A, a cornerstone of protein chemistry in Japan	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
Diffuse neutrino background from past core collapse supernovae	2
Biomimetic polymers with phosphorylcholine groups as biomaterials for medical devices	2
Cellular senescence as a source of chronic microinflammation that promotes the aging process	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
Mechanisms of autophagosome formation	2