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Masaki Yamamoto

Masaki Yamamoto

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
64
Citations
22691
World Ranking
7910
National Ranking
527

Masaki Yamamoto publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

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

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 364 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Masaki Yamamoto D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

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

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Masaki Yamamoto is affiliated with the University of Hyogo in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. The researcher's work predominantly focuses on Molecular Biology, with notable investigations also in Materials Chemistry, Radiation, Infectious Diseases, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's research topics address various aspects of enzyme structure and function, protein structure and dynamics, advanced X-ray imaging techniques, plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, and receptor mechanisms and signaling.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Masaki Yamamoto include:

  • Kunio Hirata
  • Naoki Sakai
  • Go Ueno
  • Yoshiaki Kawano
  • Hiroaki Matsuura

Common publication venues for the scientist's work are diverse, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
  • Nature Communications

Recent scientific papers authored or coauthored by Yamamoto comprise:

  • StayGold variants for molecular fusion and membrane-targeting applications, 2023, Nature Methods
  • Structure of the bile acid transporter and HBV receptor NTCP, 2022, Nature
  • CRISPR-Cas3-based diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus, 2022, iScience
  • Structural analysis reveals TLR7 dynamics underlying antagonism, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Cryo-EM Structure of the Prostaglandin E Receptor EP4 Coupled to G Protein, 2020, Structure

Best Publications

  • Crystal Structure of Rhodopsin: A G Protein-Coupled Receptor

    Krzysztof Palczewski;T. Kumasaka;T. Hori;C. A. Behnke

  • Structural basis of glutamate recognition by a dimeric metabotropic glutamate receptor

    Naoki Kunishima;Yoshimi Shimada;Yuji Tsuji;Toshihiro Sato

  • Native structure of photosystem II at 1.95 Å resolution viewed by femtosecond X-ray pulses.

    Michihiro Suga;Fusamichi Akita;Kunio Hirata;Go Ueno

  • Light-induced structural changes and the site of O=O bond formation in PSII caught by XFEL.

    Michihiro Suga;Fusamichi Akita;Fusamichi Akita;Michihiro Sugahara;Minoru Kubo

  • Structure of the bacterial flagellar protofilament and implications for a switch for supercoiling.

    Fadel A. Samatey;Katsumi Imada;Shigehiro Nagashima;Ferenc Vonderviszt

  • Curved EFC/F-BAR-Domain Dimers Are Joined End to End into a Filament for Membrane Invagination in Endocytosis

    Atsushi Shimada;Hideaki Niwa;Kazuya Tsujita;Shiro Suetsugu;Shiro Suetsugu

  • Molecular basis of ligand recognition and transport by glucose transporters

    Dong Deng;Pengcheng Sun;Chuangye Yan;Meng Ke

  • In silico discovery of small-molecule Ras inhibitors that display antitumor activity by blocking the Ras-effector interaction.

    Fumi Shima;Yoko Yoshikawa;Min Ye;Mitsugu Araki

  • An oxyl/oxo mechanism for oxygen-oxygen coupling in PSII revealed by an x-ray free-electron laser

    Michihiro Suga;Michihiro Suga;Fusamichi Akita;Fusamichi Akita;Keitaro Yamashita;Yoshiki Nakajima

  • KAMO: towards automated data processing for microcrystals.

    Keitaro Yamashita;Kunio Hirata;Masaki Yamamoto

  • Determination of damage-free crystal structure of an X-ray-sensitive protein using an XFEL

    Kunio Hirata;Kyoko Shinzawa-Itoh;Naomine Yano;Shuhei Takemura

  • Structural Basis of the Substrate-specific Two-step Catalysis of Long Chain Fatty Acyl-CoA Synthetase Dimer

    Yuko Hisanaga;Hideo Ago;Noriko Nakagawa;Keisuke Hamada

  • Crystal structures of the human adiponectin receptors

    Hiroaki Tanabe;Yoshifumi Fujii;Miki Okada-Iwabu;Masato Iwabu;Masato Iwabu

  • Mechanism of c-Myb–C/EBPβ Cooperation from Separated Sites on a Promoter

    Tahir H. Tahirov;Ko Sato;Emi Ichikawa-Iwata;Motoko Sasaki

  • ZOO: an automatic data-collection system for high-throughput structure analysis in protein microcrystallography.

    Kunio Hirata;Keitaro Yamashita;Go Ueno;Yoshiaki Kawano

  • X-ray structure of beta-carbonic anhydrase from the red alga, Porphyridium purpureum, reveals a novel catalytic site for CO(2) hydration.

    Satoshi Mitsuhashi;Tsunehiro Mizushima;Eiki Yamashita;Masaki Yamamoto

  • Structural basis for conformational dynamics of GTP-bound Ras protein

    Fumi Shima;Yuichi Ijiri;Shin Muraoka;Jingling Liao

  • Small‐angle X‐ray scattering station at the SPring‐8 RIKEN beamline

    T. Fujisawa;K. Inoue;T. Oka;H. Iwamoto

  • Polymerization of phenylacetylene by rhodium complexes within a discrete space of apo-ferritin.

    Satoshi Abe;Kunio Hirata;Takafumi Ueno;Kazuhide Morino

  • A High-Speed Data-Collection System for Large-Unit-Cell Crystals using an Imaging Plate as a Detector

    M. Sato;M. Yamamoto;K. Imada;Y. Katsube

  • Crystal structure of N-carbamyl-D-amino acid amidohydrolase with a novel catalytic framework common to amidohydrolases.

    Takahisa Nakai;Tomokazu Hasegawa;Tomokazu Hasegawa;Eiki Yamashita;Masaki Yamamoto

  • Cloning of the pka1 gene encoding the catalytic subunit of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

    T. Maeda;Y. Watanabe;H. Kunitomo;M. Yamamoto

  • Crystal structure of a repair enzyme of oxidatively damaged DNA, MutM (Fpg), from an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus HB8.

    Mitsuaki Sugahara;Tsutomu Mikawa;Takashi Kumasaka;Masaki Yamamoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomitake Tsukihara
Tomitake Tsukihara University of Hyogo
Eiki Yamashita
Eiki Yamashita Osaka University
So Iwata
So Iwata Kyoto University
Sachihiro Matsunaga
Sachihiro Matsunaga Tokyo University of Science
Mikako Shirouzu
Mikako Shirouzu RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research
Atsushi Nakagawa
Atsushi Nakagawa Osaka University
Shinya Yoshikawa
Shinya Yoshikawa University of Hyogo
Takaho Terada
Takaho Terada University of Tokyo

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