2026 Minoru Kanehisa: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	99	760	716	24	23	415	156881

Discipline name

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Genetics

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156881

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Minoru Kanehisa is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and is active in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Ecology, and Organic Chemistry.

Their work addresses various main topics such as:

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Transgenic Plants and Applications
Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Kanehisa's publication record includes several papers in well-known venues. Some recent publications are:

KEGG for taxonomy-based analysis of pathways and genomes, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
KEGG: integrating viruses and cellular organisms, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
KEGG: biological systems database as a model of the real world, 2024, Nucleic Acids Research
KEGG mapping tools for uncovering hidden features in biological data, 2021, Protein Science
KEGG tools for classification and analysis of viral proteins, 2023, Protein Science

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include:

Yoko Sato
Miho Furumichi
Masayuki Kawashima
Mari Ishiguro-Watanabe
Mao Tanabe

Common publication venues for Kanehisa include:

Nucleic Acids Research
Protein Science
Glycobiology

Best Publications

KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes

Minoru Kanehisa;Susumu Goto

32970
Citations
KEGG: new perspectives on genomes, pathways, diseases and drugs

Minoru Kanehisa;Miho Furumichi;Mao Tanabe;Yoko Sato

7539
Citations
KEGG for linking genomes to life and the environment

Minoru Kanehisa;Michihiro Araki;Susumu Goto;Masahiro Hattori

7343
Citations
KEGG as a reference resource for gene and protein annotation

Minoru Kanehisa;Yoko Sato;Masayuki Kawashima;Miho Furumichi

6362
Citations
The KEGG resource for deciphering the genome

Minoru Kanehisa;Susumu Goto;Shuichi Kawashima;Yasushi Okuno

5238
Citations
KEGG for integration and interpretation of large-scale molecular data sets

Minoru Kanehisa;Susumu Goto;Yoko Sato;Miho Furumichi

5189
Citations
KAAS: an automatic genome annotation and pathway reconstruction server

Yuki Moriya;Masumi Itoh;Shujiro Okuda;Akiyasu C. Yoshizawa

4426
Citations
From genomics to chemical genomics: new developments in KEGG

Minoru Kanehisa;Susumu Goto;Masahiro Hattori;Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita

3855
Citations
Data, information, knowledge and principle: back to metabolism in KEGG

Minoru Kanehisa;Susumu Goto;Yoko Sato;Masayuki Kawashima

3328
Citations
BlastKOALA and GhostKOALA: KEGG Tools for Functional Characterization of Genome and Metagenome Sequences.

Minoru Kanehisa;Yoko Sato;Kanae Morishima

3220
Citations
Toward understanding the origin and evolution of cellular organisms.

Minoru Kanehisa

2993
Citations
KEGG: integrating viruses and cellular organisms.

Minoru Kanehisa;Miho Furumichi;Yoko Sato;Mari Ishiguro-Watanabe

2701
Citations
KEGG for representation and analysis of molecular networks involving diseases and drugs

Minoru Kanehisa;Susumu Goto;Miho Furumichi;Mao Tanabe

2654
Citations
Whole genome sequencing of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Makoto Kuroda;Toshiko Ohta;Ikuo Uchiyama;Tadashi Baba

2556
Citations
A knowledge base for predicting protein localization sites in eukaryotic cells

Kenta Nakai;Minoru Kanehisa

1866
Citations
The KEGG databases at GenomeNet

Minoru Kanehisa;Susumu Goto;Shuichi Kawashima;Akihiro Nakaya

1786
Citations
New approach for understanding genome variations in KEGG.

Minoru Kanehisa;Yoko Sato;Miho Furumichi;Kanae Morishima

1671
Citations
AAindex: amino acid index database, progress report 2008

Shuichi Kawashima;Piotr Pokarowski;Maria Pokarowska;Andrzej Kolinski

1307
Citations
The KEGG database.

Minoru Kanehisa

1287
Citations
KofamKOALA: KEGG Ortholog assignment based on profile HMM and adaptive score threshold.

Takuya Aramaki;Romain Blanc-Mathieu;Hisashi Endo;Koichi Ohkubo;Koichi Ohkubo

1246
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Susumu Goto Osaka University

Yoshihiro Yamanishi Nagoya University

Shuichi Kawashima Kyushu University

Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University

Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita Soka University of America

Tatsuya Akutsu Kyoto University

Hiroshi Mamitsuka Kyoto University

Charles DeLisi Boston University

Craig E. Wheelock Karolinska Institute

Takaaki Nishioka Kyoto University

External Links

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