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29305
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10565
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298

Fumiaki Tanaka publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

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

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 538 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Fumiaki Tanaka D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

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

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 94 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Fumiaki Tanaka is affiliated with Yokohama City University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields, including neurology, molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The main topics of Tanaka's research include genetic neurodegenerative diseases, Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments, mitochondrial function and pathology, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research, neurological diseases and metabolism, peripheral neuropathies and disorders, and neurological disorders and treatments.

Frequent publication venues for Tanaka's research are Frontiers in Neurology, Internal Medicine, Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Brain, and Molecular Brain. These journals reflect the scientist's focus on neurological and molecular studies in health and disease contexts.

Tanaka has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Hiroshi Doi, Hideyuki Takeuchi, Yuichi Higashiyama, Misako Kunii, and Mikiko Tada. These collaborations have resulted in shared contributions to the field with notable frequency.

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on neurological genetics and advanced sequencing technologies:

  • CGG expansion in NOTCH2NLC is associated with oculopharyngodistal myopathy with neurological manifestations, 2020, Acta Neuropathologica Communications
  • Rapid and comprehensive diagnostic method for repeat expansion diseases using nanopore sequencing, 2022, npj Genomic Medicine
  • Long-read sequencing identifies the pathogenic nucleotide repeat expansion in RFC1 in a Japanese case of CANVAS, 2020, Journal of Human Genetics
  • Complete sequencing of expanded SAMD12 repeats by long-read sequencing and Cas9-mediated enrichment, 2021, Brain
  • CCR2 is localized in microglia and neurons, as well as infiltrating monocytes, in the lumbar spinal cord of ALS mice, 2020, Molecular Brain

These publications highlight methods such as long-read sequencing and nanopore sequencing for diagnosing and understanding repeat expansion diseases and neurodegenerative disorders.

Best Publications

  • Long Noncoding RNA HOTAIR Regulates Polycomb-Dependent Chromatin Modification and Is Associated with Poor Prognosis in Colorectal Cancers

    Ryunosuke Kogo;Teppei Shimamura;Koshi Mimori;Kohichi Kawahara

  • Reprogramming of mouse and human cells to pluripotency using mature microRNAs.

    Norikatsu Miyoshi;Hideshi Ishii;Hideshi Ishii;Hiroaki Nagano;Naotsugu Haraguchi

  • Characterization of a side population of cancer cells from human gastrointestinal system

    Naotsugu Haraguchi;Tohru Utsunomiya;Hiroshi Inoue;Fumiaki Tanaka

  • CD13 is a therapeutic target in human liver cancer stem cells

    Naotsugu Haraguchi;Hideshi Ishii;Hideshi Ishii;Koshi Mimori;Fumiaki Tanaka

  • The wide spectrum of clinical manifestations in Sjögren's syndrome-associated neuropathy

    Keiko Mori;Masahiro Iijima;Haruki Koike;Naoki Hattori

  • 17-AAG, an Hsp90 inhibitor, ameliorates polyglutamine-mediated motor neuron degeneration.

    Masahiro Waza;Hiroaki Adachi;Masahisa Katsuno;Makoto Minamiyama

  • Aggresomes protect cells by enhancing the degradation of toxic polyglutamine-containing protein

    J. Paul Taylor;Fumiaki Tanaka;Jon Robitschek;C. Miguel Sandoval

  • Nuclear inclusions of the androgen receptor protein in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

    Mei Li;S. Miwa;Y. Kobayashi;Y. Kobayashi;D. E. Merry

  • Long-read sequencing identifies GGC repeat expansions in NOTCH2NLC associated with neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease.

    Jun Sone;Satomi Mitsuhashi;Atsushi Fujita;Takeshi Mizuguchi

  • Defined factors induce reprogramming of gastrointestinal cancer cells

    Norikatsu Miyoshi;Hideshi Ishii;Hideshi Ishii;Ken Ichi Nagai;Hiromitsu Hoshino

  • Sodium butyrate ameliorates phenotypic expression in a transgenic mouse model of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

    Makoto Minamiyama;Masahisa Katsuno;Hiroaki Adachi;Masahiro Waza

  • Natural history of spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) : a study of 223 Japanese patients

    Naoki Atsuta;Hirohisa Watanabe;Mizuki Ito;Haruhiko Banno

  • Genomic Landscape of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Japanese Population

    Genta Sawada;Genta Sawada;Atsushi Niida;Ryutaro Uchi;Hidenari Hirata

  • Pharmacological induction of heat-shock proteins alleviates polyglutamine-mediated motor neuron disease.

    Masahisa Katsuno;Chen Sang;Hiroaki Adachi;Makoto Minamiyama

  • Clinicopathological features of adult-onset neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease

    Jun Sone;Keiko Mori;Tomonori Inagaki;Ryu Katsumata

  • MicroRNA-125a-5p Is an Independent Prognostic Factor in Gastric Cancer and Inhibits the Proliferation of Human Gastric Cancer Cells in Combination with Trastuzumab

    Naohiro Nishida;Koshi Mimori;Muller Fabbri;Takehiko Yokobori

  • Gene expression profile of spinal motor neurons in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Yue-Mei Jiang;Masahiko Yamamoto;Yasushi Kobayashi;Tsuyoshi Yoshihara

  • CD133+CD44+ population efficiently enriches colon cancer initiating cells

    Naotsugu Haraguchi;Masahisa Ohkuma;Hiroyuki Sakashita;Shinji Matsuzaki

  • Plastin3 is a novel marker for circulating tumor cells undergoing the epithelial-mesenchymal transition and is associated with colorectal cancer prognosis

    Takehiko Yokobori;Hisae Iinuma;Teppei Shimamura;Seiya Imoto

  • Widespread nuclear and cytoplasmic accumulation of mutant androgen receptor in SBMA patients.

    Hiroaki Adachi;Masahisa Katsuno;Makoto Minamiyama;Masahiro Waza

Frequent Co-Authors

Gen Sobue
Gen Sobue Aichi Medical University
Masahisa Katsuno
Masahisa Katsuno Nagoya University
Hideyuki Takeuchi
Hideyuki Takeuchi Yokohama City University
Hiroaki Adachi
Hiroaki Adachi University of East Anglia
Naomichi Matsumoto
Naomichi Matsumoto Yokohama City University
Noriko Miyake
Noriko Miyake Yokohama City University
Hirotomo Saitsu
Hirotomo Saitsu Hamamatsu University
Yoshinori Tsurusaki
Yoshinori Tsurusaki Sagami Women's University
Mitsuhiro Kato
Mitsuhiro Kato Showa University
Shoji Tsuji
Shoji Tsuji University of Tokyo

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