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Chikara Furusawa

Chikara Furusawa

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
49
Citations
8408
World Ranking
18047
National Ranking
1300

Chikara Furusawa publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Chikara Furusawa sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 233 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Chikara Furusawa D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Chikara Furusawa is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and focuses primarily on research within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, accumulating a total of 157 publications in this area. Their expertise spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, and Biophysics.

Their research covers a range of topics, with notable emphasis on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Gene Regulatory Network Analysis, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

Furusawa has authored several recent papers, including:

  • High-throughput laboratory evolution reveals evolutionary constraints in Escherichia coli, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Evolutionary Changes in DnaA-Dependent Chromosomal Replication in Cyanobacteria, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Analysis of the evolution of resistance to multiple antibiotics enables prediction of the Escherichia coli phenotype-based fitness landscape, 2022, PLoS Biology
  • Experimental demonstration of operon formation catalyzed by insertion sequence, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Furusawa include Saburo Tsuru, Hazuki Kotani, Atsushi Shibai, Natsue Sakata, and Tomoya Maeda.

The scientist's work has been published in a variety of venues, with a significant number of contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), totaling 21 publications. Other frequent publication venues include Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, Nature Communications, and the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY.

In addition to articles, Furusawa has also contributed to the book titled Theoretical Biology of the Cell, published by Cambridge University Press and scheduled for release in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Characterization of mesendoderm: a diverging point of the definitive endoderm and mesoderm in embryonic stem cell differentiation culture

    Shinsuke Tada;Takumi Era;Chikara Furusawa;Hidetoshi Sakurai

  • SCODE: an efficient regulatory network inference algorithm from single-cell RNA-Seq during differentiation.

    Hirotaka Matsumoto;Hisanori Kiryu;Chikara Furusawa;Minoru S H Ko

  • Zipf's law in gene expression.

    Chikara Furusawa;Kunihiko Kaneko

  • The cyclic gene Hes1 contributes to diverse differentiation responses of embryonic stem cells

    Taeko Kobayashi;Hiroaki Mizuno;Itaru Imayoshi;Chikara Furusawa

  • Comprehensive phenotypic analysis for identification of genes affecting growth under ethanol stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Katsunori Yoshikawa;Tadamasa Tanaka;Chikara Furusawa;Keisuke Nagahisa

  • Prediction of antibiotic resistance by gene expression profiles

    Shingo Suzuki;Takaaki Horinouchi;Chikara Furusawa

  • Identification of target genes conferring ethanol stress tolerance to Saccharomyces cerevisiae based on DNA microarray data analysis.

    Takashi Hirasawa;Katsunori Yoshikawa;Yuki Nakakura;Keisuke Nagahisa

  • A Dynamical-Systems View of Stem Cell Biology

    Chikara Furusawa;Kunihiko Kaneko

  • Ubiquity of log-normal distributions in intra-cellular reaction dynamics.

    Chikara Furusawa;Takao Suzuki;Akiko Kashiwagi;Tetsuya Yomo

  • Comprehensive phenotypic analysis of single-gene deletion and overexpression strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Katsunori Yoshikawa;Tadamasa Tanaka;Yoshihiro Ida;Chikara Furusawa

  • Transcriptome analysis of parallel-evolved Escherichia coli strains under ethanol stress

    Takaaki Horinouchi;Kuniyasu Tamaoka;Chikara Furusawa;Naoaki Ono

  • Development and experimental verification of a genome-scale metabolic model for Corynebacterium glutamicum

    Yohei Shinfuku;Natee Sorpitiporn;Masahiro Sono;Chikara Furusawa

  • Adaptation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells to high ethanol concentration and changes in fatty acid composition of membrane and cell size.

    Thai Nho Dinh;Keisuke Nagahisa;Takashi Hirasawa;Chikara Furusawa

  • Oscillatory Protein Expression Dynamics Endows Stem Cells with Robust Differentiation Potential

    Narito Suzuki;Chikara Furusawa;Kunihiko Kaneko

  • Comparison of sequence reads obtained from three next-generation sequencing platforms.

    Shingo Suzuki;Naoaki Ono;Chikara Furusawa;Bei-Wen Ying

  • EMERGENCE OF RULES IN CELL SOCIETY : DIFFERENTIATION, HIERARCHY, AND STABILITY

    Chikara Furusawa;Kunihiko Kaneko

  • A generic mechanism for adaptive growth rate regulation.

    Chikara Furusawa;Kunihiko Kaneko

  • Theory of Robustness of Irreversible Differentiation in a Stem Cell System: Chaos hypothesis

    Chikara Furusawa;Kunihiko Kaneko

  • OpenMebius: An Open Source Software for Isotopically Nonstationary 13C-Based Metabolic Flux Analysis

    Shuichi Kajihata;Chikara Furusawa;Fumio Matsuda;Hiroshi Shimizu

  • Emergence of multicellular organisms with dynamic differentiation and spacial pattern

    Chikara Furusawa;Kunihiko Kaneko

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Shimizu
Hiroshi Shimizu Osaka University
Tetsuya Yomo
Tetsuya Yomo East China Normal University
Hiroshi Shimizu
Hiroshi Shimizu Hokkaido University
Fumio Matsuda
Fumio Matsuda Osaka University
Minoru S.H. Ko
Minoru S.H. Ko Keio University
Akihiko Kondo
Akihiko Kondo Kobe University
Hironori Niki
Hironori Niki National Institute of Genetics
Yasushi Okada
Yasushi Okada University of Tokyo
Shin-ya Miyagishima
Shin-ya Miyagishima National Institute of Genetics
Katsuhiko Shirahige
Katsuhiko Shirahige University of Tokyo

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