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57
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11402
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3583
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141

Ikuya Yano publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

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

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 250 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Ikuya Yano D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

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

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This scientist: 57 D-Index — 36th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ikuya Yano is affiliated with Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, and Medicine, with a focus on related subfields such as Immunology, Neurology, Surgery, Epidemiology, and Infectious Diseases.

Their scientific contributions address several main topics including:

  • Inflammation biomarkers and pathways
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Immune Response and Inflammation
  • Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Immune cells in cancer
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis

Some of Ikuya Yano's recent publications include:

  • "TREM2 is a receptor for non-glycosylated mycolic acids of mycobacteria that limits anti-mycobacterial macrophage activation," 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • "The liposome of trehalose dimycolate extracted from M. bovis BCG induces antitumor immunity via the activation of dendritic cells and CD8+ T cells," 2021, Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy
  • "The rough colony morphotype of Mycobacterium avium exhibits high virulence in human macrophages and mice," 2020, Journal of Medical Microbiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ikuya Yano include:

  • Hideyasu Kiyohara
  • Sho Yamasaki
  • Ei'ichi Iizasa
  • Yasushi Chuma
  • Takayuki Uematsu

The scientist has published in key venues such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy
  • Journal of Medical Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Proposal of Burkholderia gen. nov. and Transfer of Seven Species of the Genus Pseudomonas Homology Group II to the New Genus, with the Type Species Burkholderia cepacia (Palleroni and Holmes 1981) comb. nov.

    Eiko Yabuuchi;Yoshimasa Kosako;Hiroshi Oyaizu;Ikuya Yano

  • Proposals of Sphingomonas paucimobilis gen. nov. and comb. nov., Sphingomonas parapaucimobilis sp. nov., Sphingomonas yanoikuyae sp. nov., Sphingomonas adhaesiva sp. nov., Sphingomonas capsulata comb, nov., and Two Genospecies of the Genus Sphingomonas

    Eiko Yabuuchi;Ikuya Yano;Hiroshi Oyaizu;Yasuhiro Hashimoto

  • Transfer of two Burkholderia and an Alcaligenes species to Ralstonia gen. Nov.: Proposal of Ralstonia pickettii (Ralston, Palleroni and Doudoroff 1973) comb. Nov., Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith 1896) comb. Nov. and Ralstonia eutropha (Davis 1969) comb. Nov

    Eiko Yabuuchi;Yoshimasa Kosako;Ikuya Yano;Hisako Hotta

  • Sphingobacterium gen. nov., Sphingobacterium spiritivorum comb. nov., Sphingobacterium multivorum comb. nov., Sphingobacterium mizutae sp. nov., and Flavobacterium indologenes sp. nov.: Glucose-Nonfermenting Gram-Negative Rods in CDC Groups IIK-2 and IIb

    Eiko Yabuuchi;Takichi Kaneko;Ikuya Yano;C. Wayne Moss

  • Immunological properties of trehalose dimycolate (cord factor) and other mycolic acid-containing glycolipids--a review.

    Roland Ryll;Yoshio Kumazawa;Ikuya Yano

  • Extracellular Vesicle Formation and Biosurfactant Production by Serratia marcescens

    Tohey Matsuyama;Tsukasa Murakami;Masashi Fujita;Shigeru Fujita

  • Trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate (cord factor) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis induces foreign-body- and hypersensitivity-type granulomas in mice.

    Hirokazu Yamagami;Takayuki Matsumoto;Nagatoshi Fujiwara;Tetsuo Arakawa

  • Lipid profile of Helicobacter spp.: presence of cholesteryl glucoside as a characteristic feature.

    Mahmudul Haque;Yoshikazu Hirai;Kenji Yokota;Noriko Mori

  • Pulmonary Collectins Enhance Phagocytosis of Mycobacterium avium through Increased Activity of Mannose Receptor

    Kazumi Kudo;Hitomi Sano;Hiroki Takahashi;Koji Kuronuma

  • Proposal of Sphingomonas suberifaciens (van Bruggen, Jochimsen and Brown 1990) Comb. Nov., Sphingomonas natatoria (Sly 1985) Comb. Nov., Sphingomonas ursincola (Yurkov et al. 1997) Comb. Nov., and Emendation of the Genus Sphingomonas

    Eiko Yabuuchi;Yoshimasa Kosako;Takashi Naka;Shinnichiro Suzuki

  • Highly Selective Antibacterial Activity of Novel Alkyl Quinolone Alkaloids from a Chinese Herbal Medicine, Gosyuyu (Wu-Chu-Yu), against Helicobacter pylori In Vitro

    Norio Hamasaki;Eiji Ishii;Kazunari Tominaga;Yasuhiro Tezuka

  • Cutting Edge: Major CD8 T Cell Response to Live Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Is Mediated by CD1 Molecules

    Tetsuo Kawashima;Yoshihiko Norose;Yoshiyuki Watanabe;Yutaka Enomoto

  • Molecular cloning and characterization of the chromosomal gene for human lactoperoxidase

    Tadashi Ueda;Kazuhiro Sakamaki;Tetsuo Kuroki;Ikuya Yano

  • Intact molecular characterization of cord factor (trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate) from nine species of mycobacteria by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.

    Yukiko Fujita;Takashi Naka;Michael R. McNeil;Ikuya Yano

  • Separation and analysis of molecular species of mycolic acids in Nocardia and related taxa by gas chromatography mass spectrometry.

    Ikuya Yano;Katsuhiro Kageyama;Yoshimi Ohno;Masamiki Masui

  • Whole genome sequence analysis of Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Tokyo 172: a comparative study of BCG vaccine substrains.

    Masaaki Seki;Ikuro Honda;Isao Fujita;Ikuya Yano

  • In vivo induction of apoptosis in the thymus by administration of mycobacterial cord factor (trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate).

    Y Ozeki;K Kaneda;N Fujiwara;M Morimoto

  • Macrophage activation by bacterial cell walls and related synthetic compounds.

    Haruhiko Takada;Masachika Tsujimoto;Keijiro Kato;Shozo Kotani

  • Description of Achromobacter xylosoxidans Yabuuchi and Ohyama 1971

    Eiko Yabuuchi;Ikuya Yano;Sachiko Goto;Eiki Tanimura

  • Serodiagnosis of Pulmonary Disease Due to Mycobacterium avium Complex with an Enzyme Immunoassay that Uses a Mixture of Glycopeptidolipid Antigens

    Seigo Kitada;Ryoji Maekura;Naomi Toyoshima;Nagatoshi Fujiwara

  • Use of Glycopeptidolipid Core Antigen for Serodiagnosis of Mycobacterium avium Complex Pulmonary Disease in Immunocompetent Patients

    Seigo Kitada;Ryoji Maekura;Naomi Toyoshima;Takashi Naka

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuo Kobayashi
Kazuo Kobayashi National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Hideyoshi Harashima
Hideyoshi Harashima Hokkaido University
Sho Yamasaki
Sho Yamasaki Osaka University
Toshinori Nakayama
Toshinori Nakayama Chiba University
Shozo Kotani
Shozo Kotani Osaka University
Takayuki Yoshino
Takayuki Yoshino University of Tsukuba
Shoichi Kusumoto
Shoichi Kusumoto Osaka University
Takayuki Ezaki
Takayuki Ezaki Gifu University
Satoshi Uematsu
Satoshi Uematsu Osaka Metropolitan University
Ichiro Takahashi
Ichiro Takahashi Hiroshima University

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