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Hirofumi Shoun

Hirofumi Shoun

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
59
Citations
9603
World Ranking
12815
National Ranking
886

Chemistry

D-Index
56
Citations
9231
World Ranking
11845
National Ranking
879

Hirofumi Shoun 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 Hirofumi Shoun sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 234 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hirofumi Shoun 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 Hirofumi Shoun 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: 56 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Hirofumi Shoun is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their academic profile centers primarily on their position within this institution, with a focus on scientific research as reflected by available data.

There are no recorded recent papers by Hirofumi Shoun listed, nor any information about frequent co-authors or frequent publication venues. Similarly, there are no records of book publications or specific awards attributed to this researcher.

Their main fields of study, subfields, and the main topics of their work are not detailed in the available information, which limits insight into the particular academic areas they contribute to.

From the data provided, it is evident that Hirofumi Shoun is an active researcher with association to a major Japanese university, but further specifics about their research output, collaborations, and scholarly focus are not publicly documented in the source data.

Best Publications

  • Thermacetogenium phaeum gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, thermophilic, syntrophic acetate-oxidizing bacterium.

    Satoshi Hattori;Yoichi Kamagata;Satoshi Hanada;Hirofumi Shoun

  • Aerobic Denitrifying Bacteria That Produce Low Levels of Nitrous Oxide

    Naoki Takaya;Maria Antonina B. Catalan-Sakairi;Yasushi Sakaguchi;Isao Kato

  • Fungal denitrification and nitric oxide reductase cytochrome P450nor

    Hirofumi Shoun;Shinya Fushinobu;Li Jiang;Sang-Wan Kim

  • Nitrous oxide emission from nitrifying activated sludge dependent on denitrification by ammonia-oxidizing bacteria.

    Sang-Wan Kim;Morio Miyahara;Shinya Fushinobu;Takayoshi Wakagi

  • Crystal structure of nitric oxide reductase from denitrifying fungus Fusarium oxysporum.

    S Y Park;H Shimizu;S Adachi;A Nakagawa

  • Cytochrome P-450 55A1 (P-450dNIR) acts as nitric oxide reductase employing NADH as the direct electron donor.

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  • Spectroscopic and Kinetic Studies on Reaction of Cytochrome P450nor with Nitric Oxide IMPLICATION FOR ITS NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTION MECHANISM

    Yoshitsugu Shiro;Motoyasu Fujii;Tetsutaro Iizuka;Shin-ichi Adachi

  • Ammonia fermentation, a novel anoxic metabolism of nitrate by fungi.

    Zhemin Zhou;Naoki Takaya;Akira Nakamura;Masashi Yamaguchi

  • Oxygen requirement for denitrification by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum.

    Zhemin Zhou;Naoki Takaya;Maria Antonina C. Sakairi;Hirofumi Shoun

  • Denitrification, a Novel Type of Respiratory Metabolism in Fungal Mitochondrion

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  • Trimeric crystal structure of the glycoside hydrolase family 42 β-galactosidase from Thermus thermophilus A4 and the structure of its complex with galactose

    Masafumi Hidaka;Shinya Fushinobu;Naomi Ohtsu;Hidemasa Motoshima

  • Denitrification by the fungus Cylindrocarpon tonkinense: anaerobic cell growth and two isozyme forms of cytochrome P-450nor.

    K. Usuda;N. Toritsuka;Y. Matsuo;Du-Hyun Kim

  • Potential of Aerobic Denitrification by Pseudomonas stutzeri TR2 To Reduce Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Wastewater Treatment Plants

    Morio Miyahara;Sang-Wan Kim;Shinya Fushinobu;Koki Takaki

  • Nitric oxide reductase (P450nor) from Fusarium oxysporum.

    Andreas Daiber;Hirofumi Shoun;Volker Ullrich

  • Structural and thermodynamic analyses of solute-binding Protein from Bifidobacterium longum specific for core 1 disaccharide and lacto-N-biose I.

    Ryuichiro Suzuki;Jun Wada;Jun Wada;Takane Katayama;Shinya Fushinobu

  • Proton delivery in NO reduction by fungal nitric-oxide reductase. Cryogenic crystallography, spectroscopy, and kinetics of ferric-NO complexes of wild-type and mutant enzymes

    Hideaki Shimizu;Eiji Obayashi;Yuki Gomi;Hiroshi Arakawa

  • Chitobiose Phosphorylase from Vibrio proteolyticus, a Member of Glycosyl Transferase Family 36, Has a Clan GH-L-like (α/α)6 Barrel Fold

    Masafumi Hidaka;Yuji Honda;Motomitsu Kitaoka;Satoru Nirasawa

  • The Copper-containing Dissimilatory Nitrite Reductase Involved in the Denitrifying System of the Fungus Fusarium oxysporum

    Michiyoshi Kobayashi;Hirofumi Shoun

  • Fungal Ammonia Fermentation, a Novel Metabolic Mechanism That Couples the Dissimilatory and Assimilatory Pathways of Both Nitrate and Ethanol: ROLE OF ACETYL CoA SYNTHETASE IN ANAEROBIC ATP SYNTHESIS *

    Kazuto Takasaki;Hirofumi Shoun;Masashi Yamaguchi;Kanji Takeo

  • Crystal Structure of a Family 54 α-l-Arabinofuranosidase Reveals a Novel Carbohydrate-binding Module That Can Bind Arabinose

    Akimasa Miyanaga;Takuya Koseki;Hiroshi Matsuzawa;Takayoshi Wakagi

  • Unique binding of nitric oxide to ferric nitric oxide reductase from Fusarium oxysporum elucidated with infrared, resonance Raman, and X-ray absorption spectroscopies

    Eiji Obayashi;Koki Tsukamoto;Shin Ichi Adachi;Satoshi Takahashi

  • Isotope effects and intermediates in the reduction of NO by P450NOR

    A. Daiber;T. Nauser;N. Takaya;T. Kudo

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinya Fushinobu
Shinya Fushinobu University of Tokyo
Motomitsu Kitaoka
Motomitsu Kitaoka Niigata University
Kenji Yamamoto
Kenji Yamamoto Ishikawa Prefectural University
Yoshitsugu Shiro
Yoshitsugu Shiro University of Hyogo
Volker Ullrich
Volker Ullrich University of Konstanz
Andreas Daiber
Andreas Daiber Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Haruo Ikeda
Haruo Ikeda Kitasato University
Hiroshi Nishimasu
Hiroshi Nishimasu University of Tokyo
Toshio Omori
Toshio Omori Shibaura Institute of Technology
Hideaki Nojiri
Hideaki Nojiri University of Tokyo

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