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2024

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D-Index
75
Citations
62950
World Ranking
1857
National Ranking
72

Asao Fujiyama publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Asao Fujiyama sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 231 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Asao Fujiyama D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Asao Fujiyama sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Asao Fujiyama is affiliated with the National Institute of Genetics in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on various areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences.

Their work spans several subfields of study, including plant science, molecular biology, genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and renewable energy, sustainability and the environment.

The scientist's main research topics encompass genomics and phylogenetic studies, plant molecular biology research, chromosomal and genetic variations, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, biocrusts and microbial ecology, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, as well as algal biology and biofuel production.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Nature Plants
  • DNA Research
  • New Phytologist
  • Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Rice

Key recent publications by Asao Fujiyama include:

  • "RNA interference-independent reprogramming of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis" (2020, Nature Plants)
  • "A divergent RWP-RK transcription factor determines mating type in heterothallic Closterium" (2022, New Phytologist)
  • "Evolution and diversity of the wild rice Oryza officinalis complex, across continents genome types, and ploidy levels" (2020, Genome Biology and Evolution)
  • "OryzaGenome2.1: Database of Diverse Genotypes in Wild Oryza Species" (2021, Rice)
  • "Comparative genomic analyses illuminate the distinct evolution of megabats within Chiroptera" (2020, DNA Research)

Collaborations have been established with several frequent co-authors, including Atsushi Toyoda, Yoshiaki Tarutani, Tetsuji Kakutani, Hideki Noguchi, and Yutaka Suzuki.

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

    Nicholas H. Putnam;Thomas Butts;David E. K. Ferrier;Rebecca F. Furlong

  • The Physcomitrella Genome Reveals Evolutionary Insights into the Conquest of Land by Plants

    Stefan A. Rensing;Daniel Lang;Andreas D. Zimmer;Astrid Terry

  • A map of rice genome variation reveals the origin of cultivated rice

    Xuehui Huang;Nori Kurata;Xinghua Wei;Zi Xuan Wang;Zi Xuan Wang

  • The DNA sequence of human chromosome 21

    M. Hattori;A. Fujiyama;T. D. Taylor;H. Watanabe

  • The medaka draft genome and insights into vertebrate genome evolution

    Masahiro Kasahara;Kiyoshi Naruse;Shin Sasaki;Yoichiro Nakatani

  • Insights into Land Plant Evolution Garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha Genome

    John L Bowman;Takayuki Kohchi;Katsuyuki T Yamato;Jerry Jenkins

  • Efficient de novo assembly of highly heterozygous genomes from whole-genome shotgun short reads

    Rei Kajitani;Kouta Toshimoto;Hideki Noguchi;Atsushi Toyoda

  • Using the Acropora digitifera genome to understand coral responses to environmental change

    Chuya Shinzato;Eiichi Shoguchi;Takeshi Kawashima;Mayuko Hamada

  • Genome evolution in the allotetraploid frog Xenopus laevis

    Adam M. Session;Adam M. Session;Yoshinobu Uno;Taejoon Kwon;Taejoon Kwon;Jarrod A. Chapman

  • A physical map of the human genome.

    John Douglas Mcpherson;Marco Marra;Marco Marra;La Deana Hillier;Robert H. Waterston

  • Identification of RNF213 as a Susceptibility Gene for Moyamoya Disease and Its Possible Role in Vascular Development

    Wanyang Liu;Daisuke Morito;Seiji Takashima;Yohei Mineharu

  • The Transgenic RNAi Project at Harvard Medical School: Resources and Validation

    Lizabeth A. Perkins;Laura Holderbaum;Rong Tao;Yanhui Hu

  • Draft Assembly of the Symbiodinium minutum Nuclear Genome Reveals Dinoflagellate Gene Structure

    Eiichi Shoguchi;Chuya Shinzato;Takeshi Kawashima;Fuki Gyoja

  • The Chara Genome: Secondary Complexity and Implications for Plant Terrestrialization.

    Tomoaki Nishiyama;Hidetoshi Sakayama;Jan de Vries;Jan de Vries;Henrik Buschmann

  • Tracing the Emergence of a Novel Sex-Determining Gene in Medaka, Oryzias luzonensis

    Taijun Myosho;Hiroyuki Otake;Haruo Masuyama;Masaru Matsuda

  • Design and experimental application of a novel non-degenerate universal primer set that amplifies prokaryotic 16S rRNA genes with a low possibility to amplify eukaryotic rRNA genes.

    Hiroshi Mori;Fumito Maruyama;Hiromi Kato;Atsushi Toyoda

  • Cloning and structural analyses of hepatitis B virus DNAs, subtype adr

    Asao Fujiyama;Atsushi Miyanohara;Chikateru Nozaki;Tetsuo Yoneyama

  • Role for piRNAs and noncoding RNA in de novo DNA methylation of the imprinted mouse Rasgrf1 locus.

    Toshiaki Watanabe;Toshiaki Watanabe;Shin Ichi Tomizawa;Shin Ichi Tomizawa;Kohzoh Mitsuya;Yasushi Totoki

  • The DNA sequence of human chromosome 21

    Masahira Hattori;A. Fujiyama;Y. Sakaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Atsushi Toyoda
Atsushi Toyoda National Institute of Genetics
Yuji Kohara
Yuji Kohara National Institute of Genetics
Masahira Hattori
Masahira Hattori Waseda University
Yoshiyuki Sakaki
Yoshiyuki Sakaki Toyohashi University of Technology
Tadasu Shin-I
Tadasu Shin-I National Institute of Genetics
Sumio Sugano
Sumio Sugano University of Tokyo
Yutaka Suzuki
Yutaka Suzuki University of Tokyo
Tetsuji Kakutani
Tetsuji Kakutani University of Tokyo
Kiyoshi Naruse
Kiyoshi Naruse National Institute for Basic Biology
Yasukazu Nakamura
Yasukazu Nakamura National Institute of Genetics

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