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Keiji Tanaka

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Neuroscience

D-Index
51
Citations
19569
World Ranking
5428
National Ranking
168

Keiji Tanaka publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

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

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 161 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Keiji Tanaka D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 44th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

Keiji Tanaka is affiliated with the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and medicine, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, cell biology, neurology, and molecular biology.

Their work covers a range of main topics including neural dynamics and brain function, neural and behavioral psychology studies, memory and neural mechanisms, diabetes treatment and management, autophagy in disease and therapy, visual perception and processing mechanisms, and diabetes management and research.

Keiji Tanaka has published papers in several notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Neuron
  • Communications Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • The Proceedings of Conference of Kansai Branch
  • Neural Networks

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Meta-learning, social cognition and consciousness in brains and machines," 2021, Neural Networks
  • "International Brain Initiative: An Innovative Framework for Coordinated Global Brain Research Efforts," 2020, Neuron
  • "Optineurin provides a mitophagy contact site for TBK1 activation," 2024, The EMBO Journal
  • "The rare sugar d-tagatose protects plants from downy mildews and is a safe fungicidal agrochemical," 2020, Communications Biology
  • "Multi-modal brain magnetic resonance imaging database covering marmosets with a wide age range," 2023, Scientific Data

Keiji Tanaka works collaboratively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Farshad A. Mansouri
  • Hiroshi Abe
  • Tetsuo Yamamori
  • Hideyuki Okano
  • Noriyuki Matsuda

Best Publications

  • Inferotemporal cortex and object vision.

    Keiji Tanaka

  • Matching Categorical Object Representations in Inferior Temporal Cortex of Man and Monkey

    Nikolaus Kriegeskorte;Marieke Mur;Marieke Mur;Douglas A. Ruff;Roozbeh Kiani

  • Neuronal selectivities to complex object features in the ventral visual pathway of the macaque cerebral cortex

    Eucaly Kobatake;Keiji Tanaka

  • Coding visual images of objects in the inferotemporal cortex of the macaque monkey.

    Unknown

  • Columns for visual features of objects in monkey inferotemporal cortex

    Ichiro Fujita;Keiji Tanaka;Minami Ito;Kang Cheng

  • Integration of direction signals of image motion in the superior temporal sulcus of the macaque monkey

    Unknown

  • Conflict-induced behavioural adjustment: a clue to the executive functions of the prefrontal cortex

    Farshad Alizadeh Mansouri;Keiji Tanaka;Mark J Buckley

  • Object Category Structure in Response Patterns of Neuronal Population in Monkey Inferior Temporal Cortex

    Roozbeh Kiani;Hossein Esteky;Koorosh Mirpour;Keiji Tanaka

  • SIZE AND POSITION INVARIANCE OF NEURONAL RESPONSES IN MONKEY INFEROTEMPORAL CORTEX

    Minami Ito;Hiroshi Tamura;Ichiro Fujita;Keiji Tanaka

  • Neuronal mechanisms of object recognition.

    Unknown

  • Neuronal correlates of goal-based motor selection in the prefrontal cortex.

    Kenji Matsumoto;Wataru Suzuki;Keiji Tanaka

  • Medial prefrontal cell activity signaling prediction errors of action values.

    Madoka Matsumoto;Kenji Matsumoto;Hiroshi Abe;Hiroshi Abe;Keiji Tanaka;Keiji Tanaka

  • Effects of shape-discrimination training on the selectivity of inferotemporal cells in adult monkeys

    Eucaly Kobatake;Gang Wang;Gang Wang;Keiji Tanaka

  • Human Ocular Dominance Columns as Revealed by High-Field Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Kang Cheng;R.Allen Waggoner;Keiji Tanaka

  • Optical imaging of functional organization in the monkey inferotemporal cortex.

    Gang Wang;Keiji Tanaka;Manabu Tanifuji

  • Functional Division Among Monkey Prefrontal Areas in Goal-Directed Behavior

    Keiji Tanaka;Kenji Matsumoto;Farshad A Mansouri;Mark J Buckley

  • Dissociable Components of Rule-Guided Behavior Depend on Distinct Medial and Prefrontal Regions

    Mark J. Buckley;Farshad A. Mansouri;Hassan Hoda;Majid Mahboubi

  • Columns for complex visual object features in the inferotemporal cortex: clustering of cells with similar but slightly different stimulus selectivities.

    Unknown

  • Polysensory properties of neurons in the anterior bank of the caudal superior temporal sulcus of the macaque monkey.

    Unknown

  • Mechanisms of visual object recognition: monkey and human studies

    Keiji Tanaka

  • Divergent Projections from the Anterior Inferotemporal Area TE to the Perirhinal and Entorhinal Cortices in the Macaque Monkey

    K. S. Saleem;K. Tanaka

  • Mnemonic Function of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Conflict-Induced Behavioral Adjustment

    Farshad A. Mansouri;Farshad A. Mansouri;Farshad A. Mansouri;Mark J. Buckley;Mark J. Buckley;Mark J. Buckley;Keiji Tanaka;Keiji Tanaka;Keiji Tanaka

  • Contrast adaptation and representation in human early visual cortex.

    Justin L. Gardner;Justin L. Gardner;Pei Sun;R. Allen Waggoner;Kenichi Ueno

  • Attention But Not Awareness Modulates the BOLD Signal in the Human V1 During Binocular Suppression

    Masataka Watanabe;Masataka Watanabe;Masataka Watanabe;Kang Cheng;Yusuke Murayama;Kenichi Ueno

  • Prefrontal Cell Activities Related to Monkeys' Success and Failure in Adapting to Rule Changes in a Wisconsin Card Sorting Test Analog

    Farshad A. Mansouri;Kenji Matsumoto;Keiji Tanaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Buckley
Mark J. Buckley University of Oxford
Jun Tani
Jun Tani Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Ichiro Fujita
Ichiro Fujita Osaka University
Roozbeh Kiani
Roozbeh Kiani New York University
Pietro Pietrini
Pietro Pietrini IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Tsutomu Hashikawa
Tsutomu Hashikawa RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Emiliano Ricciardi
Emiliano Ricciardi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca
Kathleen S. Rockland
Kathleen S. Rockland Boston University
Edward G. Jones
Edward G. Jones University of California, Davis
Andrzej Cichocki
Andrzej Cichocki Systems Research Institute

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