2026 Akira Matsuda: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	83	3535	3256	219	203	925	22959

Overview

Akira Matsuda is affiliated with Juntendo University in Japan and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of Medicine, with 118 publications. Their work spans several subfields including Hematology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Ophthalmology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research addresses a range of topics, notably:

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Glaucoma and retinal disorders
Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
Ocular Surface and Contact Lens
IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways
Corneal surgery and disorders
Retinal Diseases and Treatments

Matsuda has contributed to several journals multiple times. The most frequent publication venues include:

Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology
Scientific Reports
British Journal of Haematology
Allergology International
Blood Advances

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Matsuda are:

The Japan Glaucoma Society guidelines for glaucoma 5th edition, 2023, Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology
Assessment of dysplasia in bone marrow smear with convolutional neural network, 2020, Scientific Reports
Efficacy and safety of romiplostim in refractory aplastic anaemia: a Phase II/III, multicentre, open-label study, 2020, British Journal of Haematology
miR103a-3p in extracellular vesicles from FcεRI-aggregated human mast cells enhances IL-5 production by group 2 innate lymphoid cells, 2021, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Executive summary: Japanese guidelines for allergic conjunctival diseases 2021, 2022, Allergology International

Their frequent co-authors include:

Shinji Nakao
Kensuke Usuki
Kinuko Mitani
Tomoya Maeda
Toshiaki Hirakata

Best Publications

Rolling Circle Translation of Circular RNA in Living Human Cells

Naoko Abe;Ken Matsumoto;Mizuki Nishihara;Yukiko Nakano

474
Citations
An Interleukin-33-Mast Cell-Interleukin-2 Axis Suppresses Papain-Induced Allergic Inflammation By Promoting Regulatory T Cell Numbers

Hideaki Morita;Ken Arae;Hirotoshi Unno;Kousuke Miyauchi

293
Citations
A novel lysine-substituted nucleoside in the first position of the anticodon of minor isoleucine tRNA from Escherichia coli.

T Muramatsu;S Yokoyama;N Horie;A Matsuda

230
Citations
Nucleosides and nucleotides. 103. 2-Alkynyladenosines: a novel class of selective adenosine A2 receptor agonists with potent antihypertensive effects.

Akira Matsuda;Misao Shinozaki;Toyofumi Yamaguchi;Hiroshi Homma

226
Citations
Functional SNPs in the distal promoter of the ST2 gene are associated with atopic dermatitis

Makiko Shimizu;Akira Matsuda;Ken Yanagisawa;Tomomitsu Hirota

220
Citations
IL-33–Mediated Innate Response and Adaptive Immune Cells Contribute to Maximum Responses of Protease Allergen–Induced Allergic Airway Inflammation

Seiji Kamijo;Haruna Takeda;Haruna Takeda;Tomoko Tokura;Mayu Suzuki;Mayu Suzuki

193
Citations
Highly α- and β-Selective Radical C-Glycosylation Reactions Using a Controlling Anomeric Effect Based on the Conformational Restriction Strategy. A Study on the Conformation−Anomeric Effect− Stereoselectivity Relationship in Anomeric Radical Reactions

Hiroshi Abe;Satoshi Shuto;Akira Matsuda

190
Citations
Nucleosides and nucleotides. 158. 1-(3-C-ethynyl-beta-D-ribo-pentofuranosyl)-cytosine, 1-(3-C-ethynyl-beta-D-ribo-pentofuranosyl)uracil, and their nucleobase analogues as new potential multifunctional antitumor nucleosides with a broad spectrum of activity.

Hideshi Hattori;Motohiro Tanaka;Masakazu Fukushima;Takuma Sasaki

185
Citations
Role of the IL-6 classic- and trans-signaling pathways in corneal sterile inflammation and wound healing.

Nobuyuki Ebihara;Akira Matsuda;Shinji Nakamura;Hironori Matsuda

165
Citations
Thermoplastic elastomer composition

Katsuyoshi Yonekura;Akira Uchiyama;Akira Matsuda

163
Citations
Nucleosides. 123. Synthesis of antiviral nucleosides: 5-substituted 1-(2-deoxy-2-halogeno-beta-D-arabinofuranosyl)cytosines and -uracils. Some structure-activity relationships.

Kyoichi A. Watanabe;Tsann Long Su;Robert S. Klein;Chung K. Chu

161
Citations
Mammalian 5-formyluracil-DNA glycosylase. 2. Role of SMUG1 uracil-DNA glycosylase in repair of 5-formyluracil and other oxidized and deaminated base lesions.

Aya Masaoka;Mayumi Matsubara;Rei Hasegawa;Tamon Tanaka

155
Citations
Nucleosides and nucleotides. 185. Synthesis and biological activities of 4'alpha-C-branched-chain sugar pyrimidine nucleosides.

Makoto Nomura;Satoshi Shuto;Motohiro Tanaka;Takuma Sasaki

154
Citations
Antiviral activities of 5-ethynyl-1-beta-D-ribofuranosylimidazole-4- carboxamide and related compounds.

E De Clercq;M Cools;J Balzarini;R Snoeck

151
Citations
Three susceptible loci associated with primary open-angle glaucoma identified by genome-wide association study in a Japanese population

Masakazu Nakano;Yoko Ikeda;Takazumi Taniguchi;Tomohito Yagi

146
Citations
A Novel Synthesis of 2‘-Modified 2‘-Deoxy-4‘-thiocytidines from d-Glucose1

Yuichi Yoshimura;Kenji Kitano;Kohei Yamada;Hiroshi Satoh

146
Citations
5-Fluorocytosine in DNA is a mechanism-based inhibitor of HhaI methylase

David G. Osterman;Gia D. DePillis;John C. Wu;Akira Matsuda

141
Citations
A facile one-step synthesis of 5'-phosphatidylnucleosides by an enzymatic two-phase reaction

Satoshi Shuto;Shigeru Ueda;Shigeyuki Imamura;Kiyofumi Fukukawa

140
Citations
Conformational Restriction by Repulsion between Adjacent Substituents on a Cyclopropane Ring: Design and Enantioselective Synthesis of 1-Phenyl-2-(1-aminoalkyl)-N,N-diethylcyclopropanecarboxamides as Potent NMDA Receptor Antagonists

Satoshi Shuto;Shizuka Ono;Yukako Hase;Noriko Kamiyama

139
Citations
A novel lysine-substituted nucleoside in the first position of the anticodon of minor isoleucine tRNA from Escherichia coli

Shigeyuki Yokoyama;T. Muramatsu;Nobuyuki Horie;K. Nishikawa

16
Citations