The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hitoshi Nakatogawa sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 89 publications — 7th percentile
7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hitoshi Nakatogawa sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 42 D-Index — 3rd percentile
3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.
Hitoshi Nakatogawa is a researcher affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their work primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus also on medicine. Within these broader disciplines, their research involves epidemiology, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.
Their main research topics emphasize autophagy in disease and therapy, cellular transport and secretion, endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease, nuclear structure and function, mosquito-borne diseases and control, Toxoplasma gondii research, and RNA interference and gene delivery.
Notable recent publications by Nakatogawa include:
Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nakatogawa are Tetsuya Kotani, Nobuo N. Noda, Hiromi Kirisako, Keisuke Mochida, and Chika Kakuta.
Their work is often published in established academic venues, with repeated publications in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, The Journal of Cell Biology, Nature Communications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Autophagy.
Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif
Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham
Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin
Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Kuninori Suzuki;Yoshiaki Kamada;Yoshinori Ohsumi
Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Yoshinobu Ichimura;Yoshinori Ohsumi
Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin
Keisuke Mochida;Yu Oikawa;Yayoi Kimura;Hiromi Kirisako
Hitoshi Nakatogawa
Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Koreaki Ito
Nobuo N. Noda;Hiroyuki Kumeta;Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Kenji Satoo
Kazuaki Matoba;Tetsuya Kotani;Akihisa Tsutsumi;Takuma Tsuji
Takuo Osawa;Tetsuya Kotani;Tatsuya Kawaoka;Eri Hirata
Hitoshi Nakatogawa
Tetsuya Kotani;Hiromi Kirisako;Michiko Koizumi;Yoshinori Ohsumi
Naonobu Fujita;Eiji Morita;Takashi Itoh;Atsushi Tanaka
Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin
Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Junko Ishii;Eri Asai;Yoshinori Ohsumi
Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Koreaki Ito
Hiroki Muto;Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Koreaki Ito
Nobuo N. Noda;Kenji Satoo;Yuko Fujioka;Hiroyuki Kumeta
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