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Ichiro Nakagawa

Ichiro Nakagawa

Kyoto University
Japan

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
27699
World Ranking
6510
National Ranking
425

Ichiro Nakagawa publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ichiro Nakagawa sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 349 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Ichiro Nakagawa D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ichiro Nakagawa sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ichiro Nakagawa is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has made contributions predominantly in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research covers various subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's work addresses several main topics such as Streptococcal Infections and Treatments, Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus, Autophagy in Disease and Therapy, Neonatal and Maternal Infections, Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies, Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management, and general Microbial infections and disease research.

Frequent publication venues for Ichiro Nakagawa include Microbiology Resource Announcements, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Scientific Reports, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, and Nature Communications.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Ichiro Nakagawa are:

  • TBC1D9 regulates TBK1 activation through Ca2+ signaling in selective autophagy, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Autophagy Receptor Tollip Facilitates Bacterial Autophagy by Recruiting Galectin-7 in Response to Group A Streptococcus Infection, 2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • An In Vitro Mixed Infection Model With Commensal and Pathogenic Staphylococci for the Exploration of Interspecific Interactions and Their Impacts on Skin Physiology, 2021, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • FBXO2/SCF ubiquitin ligase complex directs xenophagy through recognizing bacterial surface glycan, 2021, EMBO Reports
  • Intracellular Group A Streptococcus Induces Golgi Fragmentation To Impair Host Defenses through Streptolysin O and NAD-Glycohydrolase, 2021, mBio

Their frequent co-authors are Takashi Nozawa, Kazunori Murase, Chihiro Aikawa, Atsuko Minowa-Nozawa, and Makoto Nakakido.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Autophagy defends cells against invading group A Streptococcus.

    Ichiro Nakagawa;Atsuo Amano;Noboru Mizushima;Akitsugu Yamamoto

  • Infrared absorption spectra of aquo complexes and the nature of co-ordination bonds

    Ichiro Nakagawa;Takehiko Shimanouchi

  • Listeria monocytogenes ActA-mediated escape from autophagic recognition

    Yuko Yoshikawa;Michinaga Ogawa;Torsten Hain;Mitsutaka Yoshida

  • Genome Sequence of an M3 Strain of Streptococcus pyogenes Reveals a Large-Scale Genomic Rearrangement in Invasive Strains and New Insights into Phage Evolution

    Ichiro Nakagawa;Ken Kurokawa;Atsushi Yamashita;Masanobu Nakata

  • Variations of Porphyromonas gingivalis fimbriae in relation to microbial pathogenesis

    Atsuo Amano;Ichiro Nakagawa;Nobuo Okahashi;Nobushiro Hamada

  • Prevalence of Specific Genotypes of Porphyromonas gingivalis fimA and Periodontal Health Status

    A Amano;M Kuboniwa;I Nakagawa;S Akiyama

  • Distribution of Porphyromonas gingivalis strains with fimA genotypes in periodontitis patients.

    Atsuo Amano;Ichiro Nakagawa;Kosuke Kataoka;Ichijiro Morisaki

  • Far infra-red spectra and metal—ligand force constants of acetylacetonates of transition metals

    M. Mikami;I. Nakagawa;T. Shimanouchi

  • Fba, a novel fibronectin-binding protein from Streptococcus pyogenes, promotes bacterial entry into epithelial cells, and the fba gene is positively transcribed under the Mga regulator.

    Yutaka Terao;Shigetada Kawabata;Eiji Kunitomo;Jumpei Murakami

  • The collagen-binding protein of Streptococcus mutans is involved in haemorrhagic stroke

    Kazuhiko Nakano;Kazuya Hokamura;Naho Taniguchi;Koichiro Wada

  • Mechanisms for Mucosal Immunogenicity and Adjuvancy of Escherichia coli Labile Enterotoxin

    Ichiro Takahashi;Mariarosaria Marinaro;Hiroshi Kiyono;Raymond J. Jackson

  • Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin induces activation of the proapoptotic proteins Bax and Bak, leading to cytochrome c release and cell death, independent of vacuolation.

    Eiki Yamasaki;Eiki Yamasaki;Akihiro Wada;Akihiro Wada;Atsushi Kumatori;Ichiro Nakagawa

  • The importance of fimbriae in the virulence and ecology of some oral bacteria.

    S. Hamada;A. Amano;S. Kimura;I. Nakagawa

  • Functional Differences among FimA Variants of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Their Effects on Adhesion to and Invasion of Human Epithelial Cells

    Ichiro Nakagawa;Atsuo Amano;Masae Kuboniwa;Takayuki Nakamura

  • Demonstration of Streptococcus mutans with a Cell Wall Polysaccharide Specific to a New Serotype, k, in the Human Oral Cavity

    Kazuhiko Nakano;Ryota Nomura;Ichiro Nakagawa;Shigeyuki Hamada

  • Molecular Characterization of a Novel Fibronectin-binding Protein of Streptococcus pyogenes Strains Isolated from Toxic Shock-like Syndrome Patients*

    Yutaka Terao;Yutaka Terao;Shigetada Kawabata;Shigetada Kawabata;Masanobu Nakata;Ichiro Nakagawa

  • Identification of a new variant of fimA gene of Porphyromonas gingivalis and its distribution in adults and disabled populations with periodontitis.

    I. Nakagawa;A. Amano;Y. Ohara-Nemoto;N. Endoh

  • Dynamics of the Quasi‐Linear Molecule

    Walter R. Thorson;Ichiro Nakagawa

  • Intraindividual variation in core microbiota in peri-implantitis and periodontitis

    Noriko Maruyama;Fumito Maruyama;Yasuo Takeuchi;Chihiro Aikawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Shigeyuki Hamada
Shigeyuki Hamada Osaka University
Atsuo Amano
Atsuo Amano Osaka University
Shigetada Kawabata
Shigetada Kawabata Osaka University
Takehiko Shimanouchi
Takehiko Shimanouchi University of Tokyo
Takashi Ooshima
Takashi Ooshima Osaka University
Tamotsu Yoshimori
Tamotsu Yoshimori Osaka University
Ichiro Takahashi
Ichiro Takahashi Hiroshima University
Ken Kurokawa
Ken Kurokawa National Institute of Genetics
Tatsuo Miyazawa
Tatsuo Miyazawa University of Tokyo
Hitomi Mimuro
Hitomi Mimuro Osaka University

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