2026 Hisao Nishijo: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	64	3306	3024	89	85	416	12794

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Overview

Hisao Nishijo is affiliated with the University of Toyama in Japan and has a research profile spanning numerous publications across fields primarily focused on neuroscience and medicine.

The main areas of study for Nishijo include:

Neuroscience
Medicine

Within these broader disciplines, their work delves into several subfields such as:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Physiology

The research topics covered by Nishijo show a focused engagement with:

Neural dynamics and brain function
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Primate Behavior and Ecology
Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Stress Responses and Cortisol

Nishijo's recent significant papers include:

"MacaquePose: A Novel "In the Wild" Macaque Monkey Pose Dataset for Markerless Motion Capture," 2021, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
"Canonical versus non-canonical transsynaptic signaling of neuroligin 3 tunes development of sociality in mice," 2021, Nature Communications
"Chemogenetic activation of nigrostriatal dopamine neurons in freely moving common marmosets," 2021, iScience
"Astaxanthin Ameliorated Parvalbumin-Positive Neuron Deficits and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Pathological Progression in the Hippocampus of AppNL-G-F/NL-G-F Mice," 2020, Frontiers in Pharmacology
"A Prototypical Template for Rapid Face Detection Is Embedded in the Monkey Superior Colliculus," 2020, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Frequent publication venues where Nishijo's research appears include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Toxics
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
Frontiers in Neuroscience

Key collaborators who have coauthored multiple papers with Nishijo include:

Jumpei Matsumoto
Hiroshi Nishimaru
Taketoshi Ono
Tsuyoshi Setogawa
Muneko Nishijo

Best Publications

Single neuron responses in amygdala of alert monkey during complex sensory stimulation with affective significance

H Nishijo;T Ono;H Nishino

458
Citations
Developmental trajectories of amygdala and hippocampus from infancy to early adulthood in healthy individuals.

Akiko Uematsu;Mie Matsui;Chiaki Tanaka;Tsutomu Takahashi

420
Citations
Retrospective and prospective coding for predicted reward in the sensory thalamus

Yutaka Komura;Ryoi Tamura;Teruko Uwano;Hisao Nishijo

385
Citations
Pulvinar neurons reveal neurobiological evidence of past selection for rapid detection of snakes

Quan Van Le;Lynne A. Isbell;Jumpei Matsumoto;Minh Nguyen

301
Citations
Neuronal responsiveness to various sensory stimuli, and associative learning in the rat amygdala

T. Uwano;H. Nishijo;T. Ono;R. Tamura

247
Citations
Task-Dependent Representations in Rat Hippocampal Place Neurons

Tsuneyuki Kobayashi;Hisao Nishijo;Masaji Fukuda;Jan Bures

217
Citations
Topographic distribution of modality-specific amygdalar neurons in alert monkey

H Nishijo;T Ono;H Nishino

208
Citations
Monkey hippocampal neurons related to spatial and nonspatial functions

T. Ono;K. Nakamura;H. Nishijo;S. Eifuku

207
Citations
Gustatory and multimodal neuronal responses in the amygdala during licking and discrimination of sensory stimuli in awake rats.

Hisao Nishijo;Teruko Uwano;Ryoi Tamura;Taketoshi Ono

189
Citations
Spatial- and Task-Dependent Neuronal Responses during Real and Virtual Translocation in the Monkey Hippocampal Formation

Nobuhisa Matsumura;Hisao Nishijo;Ryoi Tamura;Satoshi Eifuku

186
Citations
Neuronal correlates of face identification in the monkey anterior temporal cortical areas.

Satoshi Eifuku;Wania C. De Souza;Ryoi Tamura;Hisao Nishijo

177
Citations
Rat amygdaloid neuron responses during auditory discrimination

K. Muramoto;T. Ono;H. Nishijo;M. Fukuda

177
Citations
Amygdala role in conditioned associative learning

Taketoshi Ono;Hisao Nishijo;Teruko Uwano

166
Citations
Specific acupuncture sensation correlates with EEGs and autonomic changes in human subjects

Shigekazu Sakai;Etsuro Hori;Katsumi Umeno;Nobuhide Kitabayashi

159
Citations
Auditory thalamus integrates visual inputs into behavioral gains

Yutaka Komura;Ryoi Tamura;Teruko Uwano;Hisao Nishijo

157
Citations
Generators of visual evoked potentials for faces and eyes in the human brain as determined by dipole localization.

Takashi Shibata;Hisao Nishijo;Ryoi Tamura;Keiichi Miyamoto

152
Citations
Autonomic responses during inhalation of natural fragrance of Cedrol in humans.

Samantha Dayawansa;Katsumi Umeno;Hiromasa Takakura;Etsuro Hori

141
Citations
Differential characteristics of face neuron responses within the anterior superior temporal sulcus of macaques.

Wania C. De Souza;Satoshi Eifuku;Ryoi Tamura;Hisao Nishijo

133
Citations
Hypothalamic neuron involvement in integration of reward, aversion, and cue signals

T. Ono;K. Nakamura;H. Nishijo;M. Fukuda

127
Citations
Responses from parabrachial gustatory neurons in behaving rats.

H. Nishijo;R. Norgren

127
Citations