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Eiki Yamashita

Eiki Yamashita

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
49
Citations
18040
World Ranking
14623
National Ranking
1142

Eiki Yamashita publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

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

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 325 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Eiki Yamashita D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

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

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Eiki Yamashita is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans a range of subfields, including molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, plant science, immunology, and infectious diseases.

The scientist has focused on various topics, with significant work related to photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, light effects on plants, mitochondrial function and pathology, circadian rhythm and melatonin, and algal biology and biofuel production.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Structure of the far-red light utilizing photosystem I of Acaryochloris marina, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Structure and function relationship of OqxB efflux pump from Klebsiella pneumoniae, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Cooperative regulation of PBI1 and MAPKs controls WRKY45 transcription factor in rice immunity, 2022, Nature Communications
  • X-ray structures of catalytic intermediates of cytochrome c oxidase provide insights into its O2 activation and unidirectional proton-pump mechanisms, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Critical roles of the CuB site in efficient proton pumping as revealed by crystal structures of mammalian cytochrome c oxidase catalytic intermediates, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry

Yamashita has published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and QJM.

Frequent collaborators in their publications include Atsushi Nakagawa, Yoshihiko Furuike, Shuji Akiyama, Atsushi Mukaiyama, and Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh.

Best Publications

  • The whole structure of the 13-subunit oxidized cytochrome c oxidase at 2.8 A.

    Tomitake Tsukihara;Hiroshi Aoyama;Eiki Yamashita;Takashi Tomizaki

  • Structures of metal sites of oxidized bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase at 2.8 A

    Tomitake Tsukihara;Hiroshi Aoyama;Eiki Yamashita;Takashi Tomizaki

  • Redox-coupled crystal structural changes in bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase.

    Shinya Yoshikawa;Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh;Ryosuke Nakashima;Rieko Yaono

  • Crystal structure of bacterial multidrug efflux transporter AcrB

    Satoshi Murakami;Ryosuke Nakashima;Eiki Yamashita;Akihito Yamaguchi

  • Crystal structures of a multidrug transporter reveal a functionally rotating mechanism

    Satoshi Murakami;Ryosuke Nakashima;Eiki Yamashita;Takashi Matsumoto

  • Structure of the connexin 26 gap junction channel at 3.5 Å resolution

    Shoji Maeda;So Nakagawa;Michihiro Suga;Eiki Yamashita

  • Structure of human monoamine oxidase A at 2.2-A resolution: The control of opening the entry for substrates/inhibitors

    Se-Young Son;Jichun Ma;Youhei Kondou;Masato Yoshimura

  • A High-Resolution Structure of the Pre-microRNA Nuclear Export Machinery

    Chimari Okada;Chimari Okada;Eiki Yamashita;Soo Jae Lee;Satoshi Shibata

  • The low-spin heme of cytochrome c oxidase as the driving element of the proton-pumping process

    Tomitake Tsukihara;Kunitoshi Shimokata;Yukie Katayama;Hideo Shimada

  • Structures and physiological roles of 13 integral lipids of bovine heart cytochrome c oxidase

    Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh;Hiroshi Aoyama;Kazumasa Muramoto;Hirohito Terada

  • Crystal structure of the DsbB-DsbA complex reveals a mechanism of disulfide bond generation.

    Kenji Inaba;Kenji Inaba;Satoshi Murakami;Satoshi Murakami;Mamoru Suzuki;Atsushi Nakagawa

  • The Structure of Importin-ß Bound to SREBP-2: Nuclear Import of a Transcription Factor

    Soo Jae Lee;Toshihiro Sekimoto;Eiki Yamashita;Emi Nagoshi

  • Determination of damage-free crystal structure of an X-ray-sensitive protein using an XFEL

    Kunio Hirata;Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh;Naomine Yano;Shuhei Takemura

  • Structure of Rat Monoamine Oxidase A and Its Specific Recognitions for Substrates and Inhibitors

    Jichun Ma;Masato Yoshimura;Eiki Yamashita;Atsushi Nakagawa

  • Structural insight into maintenance methylation by mouse DNA methyltransferase 1 (Dnmt1)

    Kohei Takeshita;Isao Suetake;Eiki Yamashita;Michihiro Suga;Michihiro Suga

  • The Q cycle of cytochrome bc complexes: a structure perspective.

    William A. Cramer;S. Saif Hasan;Eiki Yamashita

  • The structure of rat liver vault at 3.5 angstrom resolution

    Hideaki Tanaka;Koji Kato;Eiki Yamashita;Tomoyuki Sumizawa

  • X-ray crystal structure of voltage-gated proton channel

    Kohei Takeshita;Souhei Sakata;Eiki Yamashita;Yuichiro Fujiwara

  • X-ray structure of beta-carbonic anhydrase from the red alga, Porphyridium purpureum, reveals a novel catalytic site for CO(2) hydration.

    Satoshi Mitsuhashi;Tsunehiro Mizushima;Eiki Yamashita;Masaki Yamamoto

  • Structure-function of the cytochrome b6f complex

    D. Baniulis;E. Yamashita;H. Zhang;S. S. Hasan

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomitake Tsukihara
Tomitake Tsukihara University of Hyogo
Shinya Yoshikawa
Shinya Yoshikawa University of Hyogo
Atsushi Nakagawa
Atsushi Nakagawa Osaka University
William A. Cramer
William A. Cramer Purdue University West Lafayette
Masaki Yamamoto
Masaki Yamamoto University of Hyogo
Min Yao
Min Yao Hokkaido University
Takashi Ogura
Takashi Ogura University of Hyogo
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi
Yoshinori Fujiyoshi Nagoya University
Takao Kondo
Takao Kondo Nagoya University

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