2026 Masaru Taniguchi: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	92	1004	33	348	31982
Medicine	93	10861	308	357	32989

Masaru Taniguchi publication distribution in Immunology in 2026

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

62 publications 807+

This scientist: 348 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 807 publications or more.

Masaru Taniguchi D-index placement in Immunology in 2026

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

40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 92 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 157 D-Index or more.

Overview

Masaru Taniguchi was affiliated with RIKEN in Japan and contributed research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work focused on several subfields including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Taniguchi's research covered a range of topics related to plant biology and sleep research. The main topics of their work included:

Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
Plant Molecular Biology Research
Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Plant Diversity and Evolution
Sleep and Related Disorders
Circadian Rhythm and Melatonin

Their publication record shows involvement with diverse scientific venues. Journals where Taniguchi published multiple papers included:

Sleep Medicine
Flora
New England Journal of Medicine
Plant Cell & Environment
Plants

Some representative recent papers authored by Taniguchi or associated with their research group are as follows:

Salt tolerance in relation to elemental concentrations in leaf cell vacuoles and chloroplasts of a C₄ monocotyledonous halophyte (2022, Plant Cell & Environment)
Oveporexton, an Oral Orexin Receptor 2-Selective Agonist, in Narcolepsy Type 1 (2025, New England Journal of Medicine)
Extracellular Vesicle-Mediated Secretion of Protochlorophyllide in the Cyanobacterium Leptolyngbya boryana (2022, Plants)
Relationships between respiratory and oromotor events differ between motor phenotypes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (2023, Frontiers in Neurology)
Aggregative movement of mesophyll chloroplasts occurs in a wide variety of C4 plant species (2022, Flora)

Taniguchi frequently collaborated with other researchers including Takao Oi, Yuta Kato, Koji Yamane, Yoshikatsu Sato, and Naohisa Uchimura. Among these, Takao Oi was a prominent co-author with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

CD1d-restricted and TCR-mediated activation of valpha14 NKT cells by glycosylceramides.

Tetsu Kawano;Junqing Cui;Yasuhiko Koezuka;Isao Toura

3857
Citations
Requirement for Vα14 NKT Cells in IL-12-Mediated Rejection of Tumors

Junqing Cui;Tahiro Shin;Tetsu Kawano;Hiroshi Sato

1926
Citations
Differential tumor surveillance by natural killer (NK) and NKT cells

Mark J. Smyth;Kevin Y. T. Thia;Shayna E.A. Street;Erika Cretney

1108
Citations
Tracking the response of natural killer T cells to a glycolipid antigen using CD1d tetramers.

Jennifer L. Matsuda;Jennifer L. Matsuda;Olga V. Naidenko;Laurent Gapin;Toshinori Nakayama

1059
Citations
Chimaerischer monoklonaler antikoerper und verfahren zu seiner herstellung.

Masaru Chiba-Shi Chiba-Ken Jp Taniguchi;Yoshikazu Lions Mansion Showa-Ku Nagoya-Shi Aichi-Ken Jp Kurosawa;Kou-Zou Nagoya-Shi Aichi-Ken Jp Sugita

930
Citations
Natural killer-like nonspecific tumor cell lysis mediated by specific ligand-activated Vα14 NKT cells

Tetsu Kawano;Junqing Cui;Yasuhiko Koezuka;Isao Toura

726
Citations
Augmentation of Vα14 Nkt Cell–Mediated Cytotoxicity by Interleukin 4 in an Autocrine Mechanism Resulting in the Development of Concanavalin a–Induced Hepatitis

Yoshikatsu Kaneko;Michishige Harada;Tetsu Kawano;Masakatsu Yamashita

606
Citations
Disruption of the Bcl6 Gene Results in an Impaired Germinal Center Formation

Tetsuya Fukuda;Takehiko Yoshida;Seiji Okada;Masahiko Hatano

512
Citations
Selective ability of mouse CD1 to present glycolipids: alpha-galactosylceramide specifically stimulates V alpha 14+ NK T lymphocytes.

Nicolas Burdin;Laurent Brossay;Yasuhiko Koezuka;Stephen T. Smiley

476
Citations
Selective reduction of T cells bearing invariant V alpha 24J alpha Q antigen receptor in patients with systemic sclerosis.

T Sumida;A Sakamoto;H Murata;Y Makino

449
Citations
Selective reduction of V alpha 14+ NK T cells associated with disease development in autoimmune-prone mice.

M A Mieza;T Itoh;J Q Cui;Y Makino

437
Citations
Tissue-specific segregation of CD1d-dependent and CD1d-independent NK T cells

G Eberl;R Lees;S T Smiley;M Taniguchi

425
Citations
The Anti-Tumor Activity of IL-12: Mechanisms of Innate Immunity That Are Model and Dose Dependent

Mark J. Smyth;Masaru Taniguchi;Shayna E. A. Street

419
Citations
Cutting edge: inhibition of experimental tumor metastasis by dendritic cells pulsed with alpha-galactosylceramide.

Isao Toura;Tetsu Kawano;Yasunori Akutsu;Toshinori Nakayama

390
Citations
Antitumor Cytotoxicity Mediated by Ligand-activated Human Vα24 NKT Cells

Tetsu Kawano;Toshinori Nakayama;Noriaki Kamada;Yoshikatsu Kaneko

381
Citations
Predominant expression of invariant Vα14+ TCR α chain in NK1.1+ T cell populations

Yasuhiko Makino;Rieko Kanno;Toshihiro Ito;Kazuko Higashino

378
Citations
The NKT cell system: bridging innate and acquired immunity

Masaru Taniguchi;Ken-Ichiro Seino;Toshinori Nakayama

359
Citations
α-Galactosylceramide-activated Vα14 natural killer T cells mediate protection against murine malaria.

Gloria Gonzalez-Aseguinolaza;Camila de Oliveira;Margaret Tomaska;Seokmann Hong

347
Citations
A role for mel-18, a Polycomb group-related vertebrate gene, during theanteroposterior specification of the axial skeleton.

Takeshi Akasaka;Masamoto Kanno;Rudi Balling;Marco Antonio Mieza

338
Citations
NKT cells are phenotypically and functionally diverse.

Kirsten J. L. Hammond;Sonja B. Pelikan;Nadine Y. Crowe;Elise Randle-Barrett

334
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshinori Nakayama Chiba University

Haruhiko Koseki RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences

Takeshi Tokuhisa Chiba University

Takayuki Sumida University of Tsukuba

Kenji Mori University of Tokyo

Tomio Tada University of Tokyo

Ko Okumura Juntendo University

Masakatsu Yamashita Ehime University

Takashi Suzuki Tohoku University

Takashi Saito Nagoya City University

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