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Masami Yokota Hirai

Masami Yokota Hirai

RIKEN
Japan

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
17200
World Ranking
13589
National Ranking
950

Masami Yokota Hirai publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masami Yokota Hirai sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 209 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Masami Yokota Hirai D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masami Yokota Hirai sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Masami Yokota Hirai is affiliated with RIKEN in Japan and has a scientific focus that spans several interconnected fields within biological sciences. Their primary research areas include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's work delves deeply into subfields such as Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, and Cell Biology.

The main topics of their research explore various aspects of plant biology, including:

  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Gene Expression Analysis
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress

Masami Yokota Hirai has contributed frequently to notable scientific venues such as Frontiers in Plant Science, Plant and Cell Physiology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Metabolites, and Plant Biotechnology.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Muneo Sato, Hiromitsu Tabeta, Yuji Sawada, Hiroyoshi Iwata, and Toru Fujiwara.

Recent publications illustrate the range and depth of their research focus:

  • Retrograde sulfur flow from glucosinolates to cysteine in Arabidopsis thaliana, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Roles of Functional Amino Acids in Plant Growth and Development, 2023, Plant and Cell Physiology
  • Metabolism and Regulatory Functions of O-Acetylserine, S-Adenosylmethionine, Homocysteine, and Serine in Plant Development and Environmental Responses, 2021, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Identification of a Unique Type of Isoflavone O-Methyltransferase, GmIOMT1, Based on Multi-Omics Analysis of Soybean under Biotic Stress, 2020, Plant and Cell Physiology
  • Ethanol-Mediated Novel Survival Strategy against Drought Stress in Plants, 2022, Plant and Cell Physiology

Best Publications

  • MassBank: a public repository for sharing mass spectral data for life sciences.

    Hisayuki Horai;Masanori Arita;Masanori Arita;Shigehiko Kanaya;Yoshito Nihei

  • Functional genomics by integrated analysis of metabolome and transcriptome of Arabidopsis plants over-expressing an MYB transcription factor.

    Takayuki Tohge;Yasutaka Nishiyama;Yasutaka Nishiyama;Masami Yokota Hirai;Mitsuru Yano

  • Integration of transcriptomics and metabolomics for understanding of global responses to nutritional stresses in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Masami Yokota Hirai;Mitsuru Yano;Dayan B. Goodenowe;Shigehiko Kanaya

  • Omics-based identification of Arabidopsis Myb transcription factors regulating aliphatic glucosinolate biosynthesis

    Masami Yokota Hirai;Kenjiro Sugiyama;Yuji Sawada;Takayuki Tohge

  • The AtGenExpress hormone and chemical treatment data set: experimental design, data evaluation, model data analysis and data access.

    Hideki Goda;Eriko Sasaki;Kenji Akiyama;Akiko Maruyama-Nakashita

  • Elucidation of Gene-to-Gene and Metabolite-to-Gene Networks in Arabidopsis by Integration of Metabolomics and Transcriptomics

    Masami Yokota Hirai;Marion Klein;Yuuta Fujikawa;Mitsuru Yano

  • Decoding genes with coexpression networks and metabolomics - 'majority report by precogs'.

    Kazuki Saito;Masami Y. Hirai;Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara

  • Coordinated activation of metabolic pathways for antioxidants and defence compounds by jasmonates and their roles in stress tolerance in Arabidopsis

    Yuko Sasaki-Sekimoto;Nozomi Taki;Takeshi Obayashi;Mitsuko Aono

  • Effects of Sulfur Nutrition on Expression of the Soybean Seed Storage Protein Genes in Transgenic Petunia

    Toru Fujiwara;Masami Yokota Hirai;Mitsuo Chino;Yoshibumi Komeda

  • RIKEN tandem mass spectral database (ReSpect) for phytochemicals: a plant-specific MS/MS-based data resource and database.

    Yuji Sawada;Ryo Nakabayashi;Yutaka Yamada;Makoto Suzuki

  • Global expression profiling of sulfur-starved Arabidopsis by DNA macroarray reveals the role of O-acetyl-l-serine as a general regulator of gene expression in response to sulfur nutrition.

    Masami Yokota Hirai;Toru Fujiwara;Motoko Awazuhara;Tomoko Kimura

  • Widely targeted metabolomics based on large-scale MS/MS data for elucidating metabolite accumulation patterns in plants.

    Yuji Sawada;Kenji Akiyama;Akane Sakata;Ayuko Kuwahara

  • Os-GIGANTEA Confers Robust Diurnal Rhythms on the Global Transcriptome of Rice in the Field

    Takeshi Izawa;Motohiro Mihara;Yuji Suzuki;Meenu Gupta

  • Role of camalexin, indole glucosinolates, and side chain modification of glucosinolate-derived isothiocyanates in defense of Arabidopsis against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.

    Henrik U. Stotz;Yuji Sawada;Yukihisa Shimada;Masami Y. Hirai

  • AtMetExpress Development: A Phytochemical Atlas of Arabidopsis Development

    Fumio Matsuda;Masami Y. Hirai;Eriko Sasaki;Kenji Akiyama

  • PRIMe: a Web site that assembles tools for metabolomics and transcriptomics.

    Kenji Akiyama;Eisuke Chikayama;Hiroaki Yuasa;Yukihisa Shimada

  • A Chloroplastic UDP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase from Arabidopsis Is the Committed Enzyme for the First Step of Sulfolipid Biosynthesis

    Yozo Okazaki;Mie Shimojima;Yuji Sawada;Kiminori Toyooka

  • A new class of plant lipid is essential for protection against phosphorus depletion

    Yozo Okazaki;Hitomi Otsuki;Tomoko Narisawa;Makoto Kobayashi

  • Role of O-acetyl-l-serine in the coordinated regulation of the expression of a soybean seed storage-protein gene by sulfur and nitrogen nutrition.

    Hoyeun Kim;Masami Yokota Hirai;Hiroaki Hayashi;Mitsuo Chino

  • Plant lipidomics based on hydrophilic interaction chromatography coupled to ion trap time-of-flight mass spectrometry

    Yozo Okazaki;Yukiko Kamide;Masami Yokota Hirai;Kazuki Saito

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuki Saito
Kazuki Saito RIKEN
Toru Fujiwara
Toru Fujiwara University of Tokyo
Akira Oikawa
Akira Oikawa Kyoto University
Shigehiko Kanaya
Shigehiko Kanaya Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Satoshi Naito
Satoshi Naito Hokkaido University
Hirokazu Tsukaya
Hirokazu Tsukaya University of Tokyo
Fumio Matsuda
Fumio Matsuda Osaka University
Mitsuo Chino
Mitsuo Chino Akita Prefectural University
Tetsuya Sakurai
Tetsuya Sakurai Kōchi University
Kan Tanaka
Kan Tanaka Tokyo Institute of Technology

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