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Atsuo Nakata

Atsuo Nakata

D-Index & Metrics

Molecular Biology

D-Index
50
Citations
10789
World Ranking
2553
National Ranking
190

Atsuo Nakata publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Atsuo Nakata sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 99 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Atsuo Nakata D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Atsuo Nakata is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and has a body of research primarily focused on medicine, with significant contributions to economics, econometrics, and finance. Their work also spans various subfields including cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, economics and econometrics, signal processing, statistical and nonlinear physics, and physiology.

The scientist's research addresses multiple topics, with an emphasis on complex systems and time series analysis, heart rate variability and autonomic control, and time series analysis and forecasting. Additional focus areas include statistical mechanics and entropy, obstructive sleep apnea research, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, and mental health research topics.

Recent publications by Atsuo Nakata include:

  • Clinical Usefulness of New R-R Interval Analysis Using the Wearable Heart Rate Sensor WHS-1 to Identify Obstructive Sleep Apnea: OSA and RRI Analysis Using a Wearable Heartbeat Sensor, 2020, Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Detection of oriented fractal scaling components in anisotropic two-dimensional trajectories, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Assessment of long-range cross-correlations in cardiorespiratory and cardiovascular interactions, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Primary Cardiac Lymphoma Arising from Both Sides of the Heart, 2022, Internal Medicine
  • Long-range cross-correlation between heart rate and physical activity in daily life, 2020, 2020 11th Conference of the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO)

The venues where Atsuo Nakata frequently publishes include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Internal Medicine
  • 2020 11th Conference of the European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations (ESGCO)

Frequent collaborators with Atsuo Nakata are:

  • Ken Kiyono
  • Miki Kaneko
  • Chinami Taki
  • Naoko Evans
  • Taiki Shigematsu

Best Publications

  • Nucleotide sequence of the iap gene, responsible for alkaline phosphatase isozyme conversion in Escherichia coli, and identification of the gene product.

    Y Ishino;H Shinagawa;K Makino;M Amemura

  • RecA protein-dependent cleavage of UmuD protein and SOS mutagenesis

    Hideo Shinagawa;Hiroshi Iwasaki;Takesi Kato;Atsuo Nakata

  • Signal transduction in the phosphate regulon of Escherichia coli involves phosphotransfer between PhoR and PhoB proteins

    Kozo Makino;Hideo Shinagawa;Mitsuko Amemura;Takeshi Kawamoto

  • Escherichia coli RuvC protein is an endonuclease that resolves the Holliday structure.

    H Iwasaki;M Takahagi;T Shiba;A Nakata

  • Nucleotide sequence of the phoB gene, the positive regulatory gene for the phosphate regulon of Escherichia coli K-12.

    Kozo Makino;Hideo Shinagawa;Mitsuko Amemura;Atsuo Nakata

  • Evaluation and characterization of catabolite-responsive elements (cre) of Bacillus subtilis

    Yasuhiko Miwa;Atsuo Nakata;Atsushi Ogiwara;Mami Yamamoto

  • Regulation of the phosphate regulon of Escherichia coli: Activation of pstS transcription by PhoB protein in vitro

    Kozo Makino;Hideo Shinagawa;Mitsuko Amemura;Sigenobu Kimura

  • DNA binding of PhoB and its interaction with RNA polymerase.

    Kozo Makino;Mitsuko Amemura;Takeshi Kawamoto;Sigenobu Kimura

  • Role of the sigma 70 subunit of RNA polymerase in transcriptional activation by activator protein PhoB in Escherichia coli.

    K. Makino;M. Amemura;Soo-Ki Kim;A. Nakata

  • Systematic sequencing of the Escherichia coli genome: analysis of the 0 – 2.4 min region

    Takashi Yura;Hirotada Mori;Hiroki Nagai;Toshio Nagata

  • Escherichia coli RuvA and RuvB proteins specifically interact with Holliday junctions and promote branch migration.

    Hiroshi Iwasaki;Masahiko Takahagi;Atsuo Nakata;Hideo Shinagawa

  • Unusual nucleotide arrangement with repeated sequences in the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome.

    A Nakata;M Amemura;K Makino

  • Functional map of the alpha subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase: two modes of transcription activation by positive factors.

    K Igarashi;A Hanamura;K Makino;H Aiba

  • Nucleotide sequence of the phoR gene, a regulatory gene for the phosphate regulon of Escherichia coli

    Kozo Makino;Hideo Shinagawa;Mitsuko Amemura;Atsuo Nakata

  • Molecular analysis of the phoH gene, belonging to the phosphate regulon in Escherichia coli.

    Soo-Ki Kim;K. Makino;M. Amemura;H. Shinagawa

  • Two-step processing for activation of the cytolysin/hemolysin of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor: nucleotide sequence of the structural gene (hlyA) and characterization of the processed products.

    K Yamamoto;Y Ichinose;H Shinagawa;K Makino

  • SOS-inducible DNA repair proteins, RuvA and RuvB, of Escherichia coli: functional interactions between RuvA and RuvB for ATP hydrolysis and renaturation of the cruciform structure in supercoiled DNA.

    Toshikazu Shiba;Hiroshi Iwasaki;Atsuo Nakata;Hideo Shinagawa

  • Nucleotide sequence of the genes involved in phosphate transport and regulation of the phosphate regulon in Escherichia coli.

    Mitsuko Amemura;Kozo Makino;Hideo Shinagawa;Akira Kobayashi

  • Cloning and sequencing of mouse tyrosinase cDNA.

    Hiroaki Yamamoto;Sakae Takeuchi;Toshiyuki Kudo;Kozo Makino

  • Cross talk to the phosphate regulon of Escherichia coli by PhoM protein: PhoM is a histidine protein kinase and catalyzes phosphorylation of PhoB and PhoM-open reading frame 2.

    M Amemura;K Makino;H Shinagawa;A Nakata

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideo Shinagawa
Hideo Shinagawa BioAcademia
Kozo Makino
Kozo Makino Osaka University
Hiroshi Iwasaki
Hiroshi Iwasaki Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yoshizumi Ishino
Yoshizumi Ishino Kyushu University
Takeshi Kawamoto
Takeshi Kawamoto Hiroshima University
Akira Ishihama
Akira Ishihama Hosei University
Shinichi Oka
Shinichi Oka Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jean-Marie Pagès
Jean-Marie Pagès Aix-Marseille University
Hiroyuki Toh
Hiroyuki Toh Kwansei Gakuin University
Hirotada Mori
Hirotada Mori Nara Institute of Science and Technology

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