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Kensaku Mori

Kensaku Mori

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Neuroscience

D-Index
79
Citations
24405
World Ranking
1674
National Ranking
36

Kensaku Mori 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 Kensaku Mori sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 295 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kensaku Mori 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 Kensaku Mori sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kensaku Mori is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience with particular attention to olfactory and sensory function studies. The scientist's work extends to several subfields, including sensory systems, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, nutrition and dietetics, and biomedical engineering.

Their recent research outputs cover a range of topics related to neurobiology, biochemical analysis, memory, and neural mechanisms, as well as advanced chemical sensor technologies and neural dynamics associated with brain function. These topics reflect Kensaku Mori's multidisciplinary approach combining sensory perception, neural circuitry, and physiological processes.

Some notable recent publications include:

  • The claustrum coordinates cortical slow-wave activity (2020, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Olfactory Circuitry and Behavioral Decisions (2020, Annual Review of Physiology)
  • Processing of Odor Information During the Respiratory Cycle in Mice (2022, Frontiers in Neural Circuits)
  • Neural Circuitry for Stress Information of Environmental and Internal Odor Worlds (2022, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience)
  • Circuit formation and sensory perception in the mouse olfactory system (2024, Frontiers in Neural Circuits)

Kensaku Mori frequently publishes in:

  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Annual Review of Physiology
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

The scientist often collaborates with several co-authors including:

  • Hitoshi Sakano
  • Kimiya Narikiyo
  • Rumiko Mizuguchi
  • Ayako Ajima
  • Momoko Shiozaki

Best Publications

  • Roles of continuous neurogenesis in the structural and functional integrity of the adult forebrain

    Itaru Imayoshi;Masayuki Sakamoto;Toshiyuki Ohtsuka;Keizo Takao;Keizo Takao

  • The Olfactory Bulb: Coding and Processing of Odor Molecule Information

    Kensaku Mori;Hiroshi Nagao;Yoshihiro Yoshihara

  • Functional expression and tissue distribution of a novel receptor for vasoactive intestinal polypeptide

    Takeshi Ishihara;Takeshi Ishihara;Ryuichi Shigemoto;Kensaku Mori;Kenji Takahashi

  • Refinement of odor molecule tuning by dendrodendritic synaptic inhibition in the olfactory bulb.

    Mineto Yokoi;Kensaku Mori;Shigetada Nakanishi

  • Essential Roles of Notch Signaling in Maintenance of Neural Stem Cells in Developing and Adult Brains

    Itaru Imayoshi;Masayuki Sakamoto;Masahiro Yamaguchi;Kensaku Mori

  • Innate versus learned odour processing in the mouse olfactory bulb

    Ko Kobayakawa;Reiko Kobayakawa;Hideyuki Matsumoto;Yuichiro Oka

  • Structure and expression of a human oxytocin receptor

    Tadashi K. Kimura;Osamu Tanizawa;Kensaku Mori;Michael J. Brownstein

  • Odor maps in the mammalian olfactory bulb: domain organization and odorant structural features

    Naoshige Uchida;Yuji K. Takahashi;Manabu Tanifuji;Kensaku Mori

  • Visualization of neurogenesis in the central nervous system using nestin promoter-GFP transgenic mice.

    Masahiro Yamaguchi;Harumi Saito;Misao Suzuki;Kensaku Mori

  • How Is the Olfactory Map Formed and Interpreted in the Mammalian Brain

    Kensaku Mori;Hitoshi Sakano

  • Membrane and synaptic properties of identified neurons in the olfactory bulb

    Kensaku Mori

  • Maps of odorant molecular features in the Mammalian olfactory bulb.

    Kensaku Mori;Yuji K. Takahashi;Kei M. Igarashi;Masahiro Yamaguchi

  • Parallel Mitral and Tufted Cell Pathways Route Distinct Odor Information to Different Targets in the Olfactory Cortex

    Kei M. Igarashi;Nao Ieki;Myungho An;Yukie Yamaguchi

  • Distribution of dendrites of mitral, displaced mitral, tufted, and granule cells in the rabbit olfactory bulb

    Kensaku Mori;Kiyoshi Kishi;Hisayuki Ojima

  • Critical period for sensory experience-dependent survival of newly generated granule cells in the adult mouse olfactory bulb

    Masahiro Yamaguchi;Kensaku Mori

  • Molecular cloning and tissue distribution of a receptor for pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide

    Hitoshi Hashimoto;Hitoshi Hashimoto;Takeshi Ishihara;Ryuichi Shigemoto;Kensaku Mori

  • Brn-1 and Brn-2 share crucial roles in the production and positioning of mouse neocortical neurons.

    Yoshinobu Sugitani;Shigeyasu Nakai;Osamu Minowa;Miyuki Nishi

  • OCAM: A New Member of the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule Family Related to Zone-to-Zone Projection of Olfactory and Vomeronasal Axons

    Yoshihiro Yoshihara;Miwa Kawasaki;Atsushi Tamada;Hiroko Fujita

  • Molecular recognition and olfactory processing in the mammalian olfactory system.

    Kensaku Mori;Yoshihiro Yoshihara

  • Distribution of the mRNA for a pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide receptor in the rat brain: An in situ hybridization study

    Hitoshi Hashimoto;Hiroyuki Nogi;Kensaku Mori;Hitoshi Ohishi

  • Coding of odor molecules by mitral/tufted cells in rabbit olfactory bulb. II. Aromatic compounds

    Kazuyuki Imamura;Nobuko Mataga;Kensaku Mori

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroyuki Kagamiyama
Hiroyuki Kagamiyama Osaka Medical College
Yasuyoshi Watanabe
Yasuyoshi Watanabe Osaka Metropolitan University
Gordon M. Shepherd
Gordon M. Shepherd Yale School of Medicine
Shigekazu Nagata
Shigekazu Nagata Osaka University
Osamu Hayaishi
Osamu Hayaishi Osaka Bioscience Institute
Kazuto Kobayashi
Kazuto Kobayashi Fukushima Medical University
Itaru Imayoshi
Itaru Imayoshi Kyoto University
Ryoichiro Kageyama
Ryoichiro Kageyama Kyoto University
Kunihiko Obata
Kunihiko Obata The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI

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