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Kenji Sakimura

Active 1985–2024

150
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19,161
Citations
83
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Citations

Citations per year for Kenji Sakimura1983: 1 citations1987: 1 citations1988: 1 citations1989: 1 citations1990: 3 citations1991: 10 citations1992: 58 citations1993: 106 citations1994: 160 citations1995: 130 citations1996: 122 citations1997: 121 citations1998: 162 citations1999: 114 citations2000: 110 citations2001: 118 citations2002: 98 citations2003: 114 citations2004: 95 citations2005: 113 citations2006: 107 citations2007: 97 citations2008: 101 citations2009: 91 citations2010: 118 citations2011: 179 citations2012: 142 citations2013: 165 citations2014: 122 citations2015: 136 citations2016: 128 citations2017: 152 citations2018: 163 citations2019: 468 citations2020: 613 citations2021: 700 citations2022: 495 citations2023: 413 citations2024: 577 citations2025: 270 citations2026: 3 citations1984–1986: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,323 citing papers, 30.1% of this breakdownJapan: 991 citing papers, 12.8% of this breakdownChina: 636 citing papers, 8.3% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 507 citing papers, 6.6% of this breakdownGermany: 453 citing papers, 5.9% of this breakdownFrance: 317 citing papers, 4.1% of this breakdownCanada: 283 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownItaly: 265 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 157 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownSpain: 157 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownNetherlands: 141 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdownAustralia: 125 citing papers, 1.6% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Neuroscience48.2%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology24.9%
  • Medicine23%
  • Immunology and Microbiology1.1%
  • Psychology0.8%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.6%
  • Other1.4%

Topics

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research14.7%
  • Ion channel regulation and function4.2%
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling2.9%
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms2.7%
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research2.3%
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms2.2%
  • Other71%

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  1. p62/SQSTM1-droplet serves as a platform for autophagosome formation and anti-oxidative stress response

    Authors: Shun Kageyama, Sigurður Guðmundsson, Yu‐shin Sou, Yoshinobu Ichimura, Naoki Tamura, Saiko Kazuno, Takashi Ueno, Yoshiki Miura, Daisuke Noshiro, Manabu Abe, Tsunehiro Mizushima, Nobuaki Miura, Shujiro Okuda, Hozumi Motohashi, Jin‐A Lee, Kenji Sakimura, Tomoyuki Ohe, Nobuo N. Noda, Satoshi Waguri, Eeva‐Liisa Eskelinen, Masaaki Komatsu - Nature Communications 2021 cited by 288

  2. A discrete neuronal circuit induces a hibernation-like state in rodents

    Authors: Tohru Takahashi, Genshiro A. Sunagawa, Shingo Soya, Manabu Abe, Katsuyasu Sakurai, Kiyomi Ishikawa, Masashi Yanagisawa, Hiroshi Hama, Emi Hasegawa, Atsushi Miyawaki, Kenji Sakimura, Masayo Takahashi, Takeshi Sakurai - Nature 2020 cited by 270

  3. The UFM1 system regulates ER-phagy through the ufmylation of CYB5R3

    Authors: Ryosuke Ishimura, Afnan H. El‐Gowily, Daisuke Noshiro, Satoko Komatsu‐Hirota, Yasuko Ono, Mayumi Shindo, Tomohisa Hatta, Manabu Abe, Takefumi Uemura, Hyeon‐Cheol Lee, Tarek M. Mohamed, Takehiko Yokomizo, Takashi Ueno, Kenji Sakimura, Tohru Natsume, Hiroyuki Sorimachi, Toshifumi Inada, Satoshi Waguri, Nobuo N. Noda, Masaaki Komatsu - Nature Communications 2022 cited by 93

  4. Rational Engineering of XCaMPs, a Multicolor GECI Suite for In Vivo Imaging of Complex Brain Circuit Dynamics

    Authors: Masatoshi Inoue, Atsuya Takeuchi, Satoshi Manita, Shin‐ichiro Horigane, Masayuki Sakamoto, Ryosuke Kawakami, Kazushi Yamaguchi, Kouhei Otomo, Hiroyuki Yokoyama, Ryang Kim, Tatsushi Yokoyama, Sayaka Takemoto‐Kimura, Manabu Abe, Michiko Okamura, Yayoi Kondo, Sean Quirin, Charu Ramakrishnan, Takeshi Imamura, Kenji Sakimura, Tomomi Nemoto, Masanobu Kano, Hajime Fujii, Karl Deisseroth, K. Kitamura, Haruhiko Bito - Cell 2019 cited by 270

  5. Targeting the SphK1/S1P/S1PR1 Axis That Links Obesity, Chronic Inflammation, and Breast Cancer Metastasis

    Authors: Masayuki Nagahashi, Akimitsu Yamada, Eriko Katsuta, Tomoyoshi Aoyagi, Wei‐Ching Huang, Krista P. Terracina, Nitai C. Hait, Jeremy C. Allegood, Junko Tsuchida, Kizuki Yuza, Masato Nakajima, Manabu Abe, Kenji Sakimura, Sheldon Milstien, Toshifumi Wakai, Sarah Spiegel, Kazuaki Takabe - Cancer Research 2018 cited by 223

  6. Optimizing Nervous System-Specific Gene Targeting with Cre Driver Lines: Prevalence of Germline Recombination and Influencing Factors

    Authors: Lin Luo, Mateusz C. Ambrozkiewicz, Fritz Benseler, Cui Chen, Émilie Dumontier, Susanne Falkner, Elisabetta Furlanis, Andrea M. Gomez, Naosuke Hoshina, Wei‐Hsiang Huang, Mary Anne Hutchison, Yu Itoh-Maruoka, Laura A. Lavery, Wei Li, Tomohiko Maruo, Junko Motohashi, Emily Ling-Lin Pai, Kenneth A. Pelkey, Ariane Pereira, Thomas Philips, Jennifer L. Sinclair, Jeffrey A. Stogsdill, Lisa Traunmüller, Jie‐Xin Wang, Joke Wortel, Wenjia You, Nashat Abumaria, Kevin T. Beier, Nils Brose, Harold A. Burgess, Constance L. Cepko, Jean-François Cloutier, Çağla Eroğlu, Sandra Goebbels, Pascal S. Kaeser, Jeremy N. Kay, Wei Lü, Liqun Luo, Kenji Mandai, Chris J. McBain, Klaus‐Armin Nave, Marco A. M. Prado, Vânia F. Prado, Jeffrey Rothstein, John L.R. Rubenstein, Gesine Saher, Kenji Sakimura, Joshua R. Sanes, Peter Scheiffele, Yoshimi Takai, Hisashi Umemori, Matthijs Verhage, Michisuke Yuzaki, Huda Y. Zoghbi, Hiroshi Kawabe, Ann Marie Craig - Neuron 2020 cited by 196

  7. Phosphorylation of phase‐separated p62 bodies by ULK1 activates a redox‐independent stress response

    Authors: Ryo Ikeda, Daisuke Noshiro, Hideaki Morishita, Shuhei Takada, Shun Kageyama, Yūko Fujioka, Tomoko Funakoshi, Satoko Komatsu‐Hirota, Ritsuko Arai, Elena Ryzhii, Manabu Abe, Tomoaki Koga, Hozumi Motohashi, Mitsuyoshi Nakao, Kenji Sakimura, Arata Horii, Satoshi Waguri, Yoshinobu Ichimura, Nobuo N. Noda, Masaaki Komatsu - The EMBO Journal 2023 cited by 74

  8. Trans-Synaptic Interaction of GluRδ2 and Neurexin through Cbln1 Mediates Synapse Formation in the Cerebellum

    Authors: Takeshi Uemura, Sung‐Jin Lee, Misato Yasumura, Tomonori Takeuchi, Tomoyuki Yoshida, Moonjin Ra, Ryo Taguchi, Kenji Sakimura, Masayoshi Mishina - Cell 2010 cited by 503

  9. Forward-genetics analysis of sleep in randomly mutagenized mice

    Authors: Hiromasa Funato, Chika Miyoshi, Tomoyuki Fujiyama, Takeshi Kanda, Makito Sato, Zhiqiang Wang, Jing Ma, Shin Nakane, Jun Tomita, Aya Ikkyu, Miyo Kakizaki, Noriko Hotta-Hirashima, Satomi Kanno, Haruna Komiya, Fuyuki Asano, Takato Honda, Staci Jakyong Kim, Kanako Harano, H. Muramoto, Toshiya Yonezawa, Seiya Mizuno, Shinichi Miyazaki, Linzi Connor, Vivek Kumar, Ikuo Miura, Tomohiro Suzuki, Atsushi Watanabe, Manabu Abe, Fumihiro Sugiyama, Satoru Takahashi, Kenji Sakimura, Yu Hayashi, Qinghua Liu, Kazuhiko Kume, Shigeharu Wakana, Joseph S. Takahashi, Masashi Yanagisawa - Nature 2016 cited by 343

  10. Distinct Modes of AMPA Receptor Suppression at Developing Synapses by GluN2A and GluN2B: Single-Cell NMDA Receptor Subunit Deletion In Vivo

    Authors: J.A. Gray, Yun Stone Shi, Hiroshi Usui, Matthew J. During, Kenji Sakimura, Roger A. Nicoll - Neuron 2011 cited by 298

  11. Input-Specific NMDAR-Dependent Potentiation of Dendritic GABAergic Inhibition

    Authors: Chiayu Q. Chiu, James S Martenson, Maya Yamazaki, Rie Natsume, Kenji Sakimura, Susumu Tomita, Steven J. Tavalin, Michael J. Higley - Neuron 2018 cited by 146

  12. Impaired cortico-striatal excitatory transmission triggers epilepsy

    Authors: Hiroyuki Miyamoto, Tetsuya Tatsukawa, Atsushi Shimohata, Tetsushi Yamagata, Toshimitsu Suzuki, Kenji Amano, Emi Mazaki, Matthieu Raveau, Ikuo Ogiwara, Atsuko Oba-Asaka, Takao K. Hensch, Shigeyoshi Itohara, Kenji Sakimura, Kenta Kobayashi, Kazuto Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Yamakawa - Nature Communications 2019 cited by 128

  13. Lysophospholipid Acyltransferases Mediate Phosphatidylcholine Diversification to Achieve the Physical Properties Required In Vivo

    Authors: T. HARAYAMA, Miki Eto, Hideo Shindou, Yoshihiro Kita, Eiji Otsubo, Daisuke Hishikawa, Satoshi Ishii, Kenji Sakimura, Masayoshi Mishina, Takao Shimizu - Cell Metabolism 2014 cited by 191

  14. Inverse Synaptic Tagging of Inactive Synapses via Dynamic Interaction of Arc/Arg3.1 with CaMKIIβ

    Authors: Hiroyuki Okuno, Kaori Akashi, Yuichiro Ishii, Nan Yagishita-Kyo, Kanzo Suzuki, Mio Nonaka, Takashi Kawashima, Hajime Fujii, Sayaka Takemoto‐Kimura, Manabu Abe, Rie Natsume, Shoaib Chowdhury, Kenji Sakimura, Paul F. Worley, Haruhiko Bito - Cell 2012 cited by 322

  15. The role of sphingosine‐1‐phosphate in inflammation and cancer progression

    Authors: Masayuki Nagahashi, Manabu Abe, Kenji Sakimura, Kazuaki Takabe, Toshifumi Wakai - Cancer Science 2018 cited by 124

  16. Brown adipose tissue dysfunction promotes heart failure via a trimethylamine N-oxide-dependent mechanism

    Authors: Yohko Yoshida, Ippei Shimizu, Atsuhiro Shimada, Keita Nakahara, Sachiko Yanagisawa, Minoru Kubo, Shinji Fukuda, Chiharu Ishii, Hiromitsu Yamamoto, Takamasa Ishikawa, Kuniyuki Kano, Junken Aoki, Goro Katsuumi, Masayoshi Suda, Kazuyuki Ozaki, Yutaka Yoshida, Shujiro Okuda, Shigeo Ohta, Shiki Okamoto, Yasuhiko Minokoshi, Kanako Oda, Toshikuni Sasaoka, Manabu Abe, Kenji Sakimura, Yoshiaki Kubota, Norihiko Yoshimura, Shingo Kajimura, María A. Zuriaga, Kenneth Walsh, Tomoyoshi Soga, Tohru Minamino - Scientific Reports 2022 cited by 38

  17. The Endocannabinoid 2-Arachidonoylglycerol Produced by Diacylglycerol Lipase α Mediates Retrograde Suppression of Synaptic Transmission

    Authors: Asami Tanimura, Maya Yamazaki, Yuki Hashimotodani, Motokazu Uchigashima, Shinya Kawata, Manabu Abe, Yoshihiro Kita, Kouichi Hashimoto, Takao Shimizu, Masahiko Watanabe, Kenji Sakimura, Masanobu Kano - Neuron 2010 cited by 468

  18. Atg9adeficiency causes axon-specific lesions including neuronal circuit dysgenesis

    Authors: Junji Yamaguchi, Chigure Suzuki, Tomohisa Nanao, Soichirou Kakuta, Kentarou Ozawa, Isei Tanida, Tatsuya Saitoh, Takehiko Sunabori, Masaaki Komatsu, Keiji Tanaka, Shigeki Aoki, Kenji Sakimura, Yasuo Uchiyama - Autophagy 2017 cited by 113

  19. Microglia permit climbing fiber elimination by promoting GABAergic inhibition in the developing cerebellum

    Authors: Hisako Nakayama, Manabu Abe, Chie Morimoto, Tadatsune Iida, Shigeo Okabe, Kenji Sakimura, Kouichi Hashimoto - Nature Communications 2018 cited by 103

  20. TDP-43 transports ribosomal protein mRNA to regulate axonal local translation in neuronal axons

    Authors: Seiichi Nagano, Junki Jinno, Rehab F. Abdelhamid, Yinshi Jin, Megumi Shibata, Shohei Watanabe, Sachiko Hirokawa, Masatoyo Nishizawa, Kenji Sakimura, Osamu Onodera, Hironori Okada, Takashi Okada, Yuko Saito, Junko Takahashi‐Fujigasaki, Shigeo Murayama, Shuji Wakatsuki, Hideki Mochizuki, Toshiyuki Araki - Acta Neuropathologica 2020 cited by 83

  21. Very-long-chain fatty acids are crucial to neuronal polarity by providing sphingolipids to lipid rafts

    Authors: Atsuko Honda, Motohiro Nozumi, Yasuyuki Ito, Rie Natsume, Asami Kawasaki, Fubito Nakatsu, Manabu Abe, Haruki Uchino, Natsuki Matsushita, Kazutaka Ikeda, Makoto Arita, Kenji Sakimura, Michihiro Igarashi - Cell Reports 2023 cited by 28

  22. Anterograde C1ql1 Signaling Is Required in Order to Determine and Maintain a Single-Winner Climbing Fiber in the Mouse Cerebellum

    Authors: Wataru Kakegawa, Nikolaos Mitakidis, Eriko Miura, Manabu Abe, Keiko Matsuda, Yukari H. Takeo, Kazuhisa Kohda, Junko Motohashi, Akiyo Takahashi, Soichi Nagao, Shin‐ichi Muramatsu, Masahiko Watanabe, Kenji Sakimura, A.R. Aricescu, Michisuke Yuzaki - Neuron 2015 cited by 198

  23. Impairment of Suckling Response, Trigeminal Neuronal Pattern Formation, and Hippocampal LTD in NMDA Receptor ε2 Subunit Mutant Mice

    Authors: Tatsuya Kutsuwada, Kenji Sakimura, Toshiya Manabe, Chitoshi Takayama, Nobuo Katakura, Etsuko Kushiya, Rie Natsume, Masahiko Watanabe, Yoshiro Inoue, Takeshi Yagi, Shinichi Aizawa, Masaaki Arakawa, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Yoshio Nakamura, Hisashi Mori, Masayoshi Mishina - Neuron 1996 cited by 503

  24. NMDA Receptor GluN2B (GluRε2/NR2B) Subunit Is Crucial for Channel Function, Postsynaptic Macromolecular Organization, and Actin Cytoskeleton at Hippocampal CA3 Synapses

    Authors: Kaori Akashi, Toshikazu Kakizaki, Haruyuki Kamiya, Masahiro Fukaya, Miwako Yamasaki, Manabu Abe, Rie Natsume, Masahiko Watanabe, Kenji Sakimura - Journal of Neuroscience 2009 cited by 165