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Masaaki Murakami

Masaaki Murakami

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
63
Citations
21008
World Ranking
2680
National Ranking
100

Masaaki Murakami 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 Masaaki Murakami sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 246 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Masaaki Murakami 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 Masaaki Murakami sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Masaaki Murakami is a researcher affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan, specializing primarily in the fields of Medicine and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, notably Immunology, Neurology, Mechanical Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Infectious Diseases.

Their research topics include:

  • Vagus Nerve Stimulation Research
  • Heat Transfer and Optimization
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • Heat Transfer and Boiling Studies
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • T-cell and B-cell Immunology

Murakami has published extensively, with a notable presence in venues such as International Immunology, where they have 12 publications. Other frequent publication venues include Blood, SSRN Electronic Journal, Frontiers in Immunology, and Inflammation and Regeneration.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "COVID-19: A New Virus, but a Familiar Receptor and Cytokine Release Syndrome" (2020), Immunity
  • "How COVID-19 induces cytokine storm with high mortality" (2020), Inflammation and Regeneration
  • "Antibody feedback contributes to facilitating the development of Omicron-reactive memory B cells in SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccinees" (2022), The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • "Enhancement of the critical heat flux of saturated pool boiling by the breathing phenomenon induced by lotus copper in combination with a grooved heat transfer surface" (2021), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
  • "Increased urinary exosomal SYT17 levels in chronic active antibody-mediated rejection after kidney transplantation via the IL-6 amplifier" (2020), International Immunology

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Yuki Tanaka
  • Rie Hasebe
  • Kaoru Murakami
  • Shimpei I. Kubota
  • Shintaro Hojyo

Best Publications

  • Molecular cloning and expression of an IL-6 signal transducer, gp130

    Masahiko Hibi;Masaaki Murakami;Mikiyoshi Saito;Toshio Hirano

  • Control of Homeostasis of CD8+ Memory T Cells by Opposing Cytokines

    Chia Chi Ku;Masaaki Murakami;Akemi Sakamoto;John Kappler

  • IL-6-induced homodimerization of gp130 and associated activation of a tyrosine kinase

    Masaaki Murakami;Masahiko Hibi;Naoko Nakagawa;Toshimasa Nakagawa

  • IL-6 induces an anti-inflammatory response in the absence of SOCS3 in macrophages.

    Hideo Yasukawa;Masanobu Ohishi;Hiroyuki Mori;Masaaki Murakami

  • COVID-19: A New Virus, but a Familiar Receptor and Cytokine Release Syndrome.

    Toshio Hirano;Masaaki Murakami

  • Critical cytoplasmic region of the interleukin 6 signal transducer gp130 is conserved in the cytokine receptor family.

    Masaaki Murakami;Masashi Narazaki;Masahiko Hibi;Hideo Yawata

  • Zinc homeostasis and signaling in health and diseases: Zinc signaling

    Toshiyuki Fukada;Satoru Yamasaki;Keigo Nishida;Masaaki Murakami

  • Interleukin-17 Promotes Autoimmunity by Triggering a Positive-Feedback Loop via Interleukin-6 Induction

    Hideki Ogura;Masaaki Murakami;Yuko Okuyama;Mineko Tsuruoka

  • How COVID-19 induces cytokine storm with high mortality

    Shintaro Hojyo;Mona Uchida;Kumiko Tanaka;Rie Hasebe

  • IL-6 Regulates In Vivo Dendritic Cell Differentiation through STAT3 Activation

    Sung Joo Park;Takayuki Nakagawa;Hidemitsu Kitamura;Toru Atsumi

  • Pleiotropy and Specificity: Insights from the Interleukin 6 Family of Cytokines

    Masaaki Murakami;Daisuke Kamimura;Toshio Hirano

  • CD44 Variants but not CD44s Cooperate with β1-containing Integrins to Permit Cells to Bind to Osteopontin Independently of Arginine-glycine-aspartic Acid, thereby Stimulating Cell Motility and Chemotaxis

    Yohko U. Katagiri;Jonathan Sleeman;Hideki Fujii;Peter Herrlich

  • Toll-like receptor-mediated regulation of zinc homeostasis influences dendritic cell function.

    Hidemitsu Kitamura;Hideyuki Morikawa;Hokuto Kamon;Megumi Iguchi

  • Intracellular zinc homeostasis and zinc signaling.

    Masaaki Murakami;Toshio Hirano

  • Homeostasis of alpha beta TCR+ T cells.

    Philippa Marrack;Jeremy Bender;David Hildeman;Michael Jordan

  • Regional Neural Activation Defines a Gateway for Autoreactive T Cells to Cross the Blood-Brain Barrier

    Yasunobu Arima;Masaya Harada;Daisuke Kamimura;Jin Haeng Park

  • IL-6-gp130-STAT3 in T cells directs the development of IL-17+ Th with a minimum effect on that of Treg in the steady state.

    Mika Nishihara;Hideki Ogura;Naoko Ueda;Mineko Tsuruoka

  • Roles of zinc and zinc signaling in immunity: zinc as an intracellular signaling molecule.

    Toshio Hirano;Masaaki Murakami;Toshiyuki Fukada;Keigo Nishida

  • CD25+CD4+ T cells contribute to the control of memory CD8+ T cells

    Masaaki Murakami;Akemi Sakamoto;Jeremy Bender;John Kappler

  • Structure-function analysis of human IL-6 receptor: dissociation of amino acid residues required for IL-6-binding and for IL-6 signal transduction through gp130.

    H Yawata;K Yasukawa;S Natsuka;M Murakami

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshio Hirano
Toshio Hirano National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
Toshimitsu Uede
Toshimitsu Uede Hokkaido University
Hiroshi Kawamura
Hiroshi Kawamura Tohoku University
Toshimitsu Uede
Toshimitsu Uede Hokkaido University
Tadamitsu Kishimoto
Tadamitsu Kishimoto Osaka University
Yoichiro Iwakura
Yoichiro Iwakura Tokyo University of Science
Satoru Todo
Satoru Todo Hokkaido University
Masahiko Hibi
Masahiko Hibi Nagoya University
Toshiyuki Fukada
Toshiyuki Fukada Tokushima Bunri University
Akihiko Yoshimura
Akihiko Yoshimura Keio University

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