Akira Sawa

Active 1971–2025

157
Papers
25,775
Citations
89
h-index
150
i10-index

Citations

Citations per year for Akira Sawa1971: 1 citations1998: 2 citations1999: 10 citations2000: 39 citations2001: 61 citations2002: 71 citations2003: 76 citations2004: 104 citations2005: 127 citations2006: 222 citations2007: 222 citations2008: 224 citations2009: 284 citations2010: 310 citations2011: 405 citations2012: 293 citations2013: 287 citations2014: 222 citations2015: 281 citations2016: 219 citations2017: 285 citations2018: 223 citations2019: 767 citations2020: 867 citations2021: 855 citations2022: 737 citations2023: 574 citations2024: 848 citations2025: 395 citations2026: 15 citations1972–1997: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 3,340 citing papers, 28.4% of this breakdownChina: 1,012 citing papers, 8.6% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 869 citing papers, 7.4% of this breakdownGermany: 598 citing papers, 5.1% of this breakdownCanada: 544 citing papers, 4.6% of this breakdownItaly: 514 citing papers, 4.4% of this breakdownJapan: 474 citing papers, 4% of this breakdownAustralia: 357 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownFrance: 334 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownSpain: 291 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownNetherlands: 263 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 237 citing papers, 2% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology34.6%
  • Neuroscience31.1%
  • Medicine26.3%
  • Psychology2.3%
  • Immunology and Microbiology1.4%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.1%
  • Other3.2%

Topics

  • Tryptophan and brain disorders5.1%
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research3.5%
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment3.1%
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms2.5%
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies2.4%
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology2.1%
  • Other81.3%

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  1. Improving polygenic prediction in ancestrally diverse populations

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Se Joo Kim, Se Hyun Kim, Makoto Kinoshita, Hiroshi Kunugi, Agung Kusumawardhani, Jimmy Lee, Byung Dae Lee, Heon‐Jeong Lee, Jianjun Liu, Ruize Liu, Xiancang Ma, Woojae Myung, Shusuke Numata, Tetsuro Ohmori, Ikuo Otsuka, Yuji Ozeki, Sibylle G. Schwab, Wenzhao Shi, Kazutaka Shimoda, Kang Sim, Ichiro Sora, Jinsong Tang, Tomoko Toyota, Ming T. Tsuang, Dieter B. Wildenauer, Hong‐Hee Won, Takeo Yoshikawa, Alice X. Zheng, Feng Zhu, Lin He, Akira Sawa, Alicia R. Martin, Shengying Qin, Hailiang Huang, Tian Ge - Nature Genetics 2022 cited by 689

  2. Schizophrenia

    Authors: , , - The Lancet 2016 cited by 1,846

  3. Towards a youth mental health paradigm: a perspective and roadmap

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Vinod H. Srihari, Ezra Susser, Swapna Verma, Tsung‐Ung W. Woo, Lawrence H. Yang, Alison R. Yung, Stephen J. Wood - Molecular Psychiatry 2023 cited by 288

  4. Increased power by harmonizing structural MRI site differences with the ComBat batch adjustment method in ENIGMA

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Aleix Solanes, Anton Albajes‐Eizagirre, Erick J. Canales‐Rodríguez, Salvador Sarró, Annabella Di Giorgio, Alessandro Bertolino, Michael Stäblein, Viola Oertel, Christian Knöchel, Stefan Borgwardt, Stefan S. du Plessis, Je‐Yeon Yun, Jun Soo Kwon, Udo Dannlowski, Tim Hahn, Dominik Grotegerd, Clara Alloza, Celso Arango, Joost Janssen, Covadonga M. Díaz‐Caneja, Wenhao Jiang, Vince D. Calhoun, Stefan Ehrlich, Kun Yang, Nicola G. Cascella, Yoichiro Takayanagi, Akira Sawa, A. S. Tomyshev, И. С. Лебедева, В. Г. Каледа, Matthias Kirschner, Cyril Höschl, David Tomeček, Antonín Škoch, Thérèse van Amelsvoort, Geor Bakker, Anthony James, Adrian Preda, Andrea Weideman, Dan J. Stein, Fleur M. Howells, Anne Uhlmann, Henk Temmingh, Carlos López‐Jaramillo, Ana M. Díaz‐Zuluaga, Lydia Fortea, Eloy Martínez‐Heras, Elisabeth Solana, Sara Llufriú, Neda Jahanshad, Paul M. Thompson, Jessica A. Turner, Theo G.M. van Erp, David C. Glahn, Godfrey D. Pearlson, Elliot Hong, Axel Krug, Vaughan J. Carr, Paul A. Tooney, Gavin Cooper, Paul E. Rasser, Patricia T. Michie, Stanley V. Catts, Raquel E. Gur, Ruben C. Gur, Fude Yang, Fengmei Fan, Jingxu Chen, Hua Guo, Shuping Tan and 11 more - NeuroImage 2020 cited by 274

  5. Treatment resistant schizophrenia: Clinical, biological, and therapeutic perspectives

    Authors: , , , , - Neurobiology of Disease 2018 cited by 285

  6. Prenatal immune stress blunts microglia reactivity, impairing neurocircuitry

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature 2022 cited by 133

  7. The Insula: An Underestimated Brain Area in Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Neurology

    Authors: , , - Trends in Neurosciences 2017 cited by 466

  8. The diverse functions of GAPDH: Views from different subcellular compartments

    Authors: , , , - Cellular Signalling 2010 cited by 655

  9. Altering the course of schizophrenia: progress and perspectives

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 2016 cited by 513

  10. S-nitrosylated GAPDH initiates apoptotic cell death by nuclear translocation following Siah1 binding

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Cell Biology 2005 cited by 1,065

  11. Variability and magnitude of brain glutamate levels in schizophrenia: a meta and mega-analysis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Charles A. Kaufmann, Lawrence S. Kegeles, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Sang-Young Kim, B. King, Hiroshi Kunugi, John Lauriello, Pablo León-Ortíz, Edith J. Liemburg, Meghan McIlwain, Gemma Modinos, Elias Mouchlianitis, Jun Nakamura, Igor Nenadić, Döst Öngür, Miho Ota, Lena Palaniyappan, Christos Pantelis, Tulsi Patel, Eric Plitman, Sotirios Posporelis, Scot E. Purdon, Jürgen R. Reichenbach, Perry F. Renshaw, Francisco Reyes-Madrigal, Bruce R. Russell, Akira Sawa, Martin Schaefer, Dikoma C. Shungu, Stefan Smesny, Jeffrey A. Stanley, James Stone, Agata Szulc, Reggie Taylor, Katharine N. Thakkar, Jean Théberge, Philip G. Tibbo, Thérèse van Amelsvoort, Jerzy Walecki, Peter Williamson, Stephen J. Wood, Lijing Xin, Hidenori Yamasue, Philip McGuire, Alice Egerton, the 1H-MRS in Schizophrenia Investigators, Camilo de la Fuente-Sandoval, Thérèse van Amelsvoort, Philip K. McGuire - Molecular Psychiatry 2023 cited by 75

  12. Increased Levels of Glutamate in Brains from Patients with Mood Disorders

    Authors: , , - Biological Psychiatry 2007 cited by 605

  13. Nitric oxide-induced nuclear GAPDH activates p300/CBP and mediates apoptosis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Cell Biology 2008 cited by 404

  14. Identifying canonical and replicable multi‐scale intrinsic connectivity networks in 100k+ resting‐state fMRI datasets

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Yong Xu, Muhammad Salman, Jingyu Liu, Yuhui Du, Jing Sui (Beijing Normal University), my correct affiliation is beijing normal university, not Qingdao University of Science and Technology, please correct the current affiliation. Thank you, Tülay Adalı, Vince D. Calhoun - Human Brain Mapping 2023 cited by 71

  15. Influence of poly(I:C) variability on thermoregulation, immune responses and pregnancy outcomes in mouse models of maternal immune activation

    Authors: , , , , , , , - Brain Behavior and Immunity 2019 cited by 138

  16. KCTD13 is a major driver of mirrored neuroanatomical phenotypes of the 16p11.2 copy number variant

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature 2012 cited by 438

  17. Neuroinflammation and brain atrophy in former NFL players: An in vivo multimodal imaging pilot study

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Neurobiology of Disease 2014 cited by 247

  18. In vivo markers of inflammatory response in recent-onset schizophrenia: a combined study using [11C]DPA-713 PET and analysis of CSF and plasma

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Translational Psychiatry 2016 cited by 164

  19. Association of Age, Antipsychotic Medication, and Symptom Severity in Schizophrenia With Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Brain Glutamate Level

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Matcheri S. Keshavan, Sang-Young Kim, Hiroshi Kunugi, John Lauriello, Edith J. Liemburg, Meghan McIlwain, Gemma Modinos, Elias Mouchlianitis, Jun Nakamura, Igor Nenadić, Döst Öngür, Miho Ota, Lena Palaniyappan, Christos Pantelis, Eric Plitman, Sotirios Posporelis, Scot E. Purdon, Jürgen R. Reichenbach, Perry F. Renshaw, Bruce R. Russell, Akira Sawa, Martin Schaefer, Dikoma C. Shungu, Stefan Smesny, Jeffrey A. Stanley, James Stone, Agata Szulc, Reggie Taylor, Katy Thakkar, Jean Théberge, Philip G. Tibbo, Thérèse van Amelsvoort, Jerzy Walecki, Peter Williamson, Stephen J. Wood, Lijing Xin, Hidenori Yamasue - JAMA Psychiatry 2021 cited by 146

  20. The miR-124-AMPAR pathway connects polygenic risks with behavioral changes shared between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Neuron 2022 cited by 45

  21. Clozapine as a Model for Antipsychotic Development

    Authors: , , , - Neurotherapeutics 2017 cited by 175

  22. Improving Polygenic Prediction in Ancestrally Diverse Populations

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , - medRxiv 2021 cited by 107

  23. Reconceptualization of translocator protein as a biomarker of neuroinflammation in psychiatry

    Authors: , , , - Molecular Psychiatry 2017 cited by 148

  24. Neuronal Autophagy in Synaptic Functions and Psychiatric Disorders

    Authors: , , - Biological Psychiatry 2019 cited by 71