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Minoru Kanehisa

Minoru Kanehisa

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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Japan
2024

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
99
Citations
156881
World Ranking
760
National Ranking
24

Minoru Kanehisa publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

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

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 415 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Minoru Kanehisa D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 99 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

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

  • KEGG: new perspectives on genomes, pathways, diseases and drugs

    Minoru Kanehisa;Miho Furumichi;Mao Tanabe;Yoko Sato

  • KEGG for linking genomes to life and the environment

    Minoru Kanehisa;Michihiro Araki;Susumu Goto;Masahiro Hattori

  • KEGG as a reference resource for gene and protein annotation

    Minoru Kanehisa;Yoko Sato;Masayuki Kawashima;Miho Furumichi

  • The KEGG resource for deciphering the genome

    Minoru Kanehisa;Susumu Goto;Shuichi Kawashima;Yasushi Okuno

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

    Minoru Kanehisa;Susumu Goto;Yoko Sato;Miho Furumichi

  • KAAS: an automatic genome annotation and pathway reconstruction server

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

  • From genomics to chemical genomics: new developments in KEGG

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

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

    Minoru Kanehisa;Susumu Goto;Yoko Sato;Masayuki Kawashima

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

    Minoru Kanehisa;Yoko Sato;Kanae Morishima

  • Toward understanding the origin and evolution of cellular organisms.

    Minoru Kanehisa

  • KEGG: integrating viruses and cellular organisms.

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

  • KEGG for representation and analysis of molecular networks involving diseases and drugs

    Minoru Kanehisa;Susumu Goto;Miho Furumichi;Mao Tanabe

  • Whole genome sequencing of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Makoto Kuroda;Toshiko Ohta;Ikuo Uchiyama;Tadashi Baba

  • A knowledge base for predicting protein localization sites in eukaryotic cells

    Kenta Nakai;Minoru Kanehisa

  • The KEGG databases at GenomeNet

    Minoru Kanehisa;Susumu Goto;Shuichi Kawashima;Akihiro Nakaya

  • New approach for understanding genome variations in KEGG.

    Minoru Kanehisa;Yoko Sato;Miho Furumichi;Kanae Morishima

  • AAindex: amino acid index database, progress report 2008

    Shuichi Kawashima;Piotr Pokarowski;Maria Pokarowska;Andrzej Kolinski

  • The KEGG database.

    Minoru Kanehisa

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Susumu Goto
Susumu Goto Osaka University
Yoshihiro Yamanishi
Yoshihiro Yamanishi Nagoya University
Shuichi Kawashima
Shuichi Kawashima Kyushu University
Hiroyuki Ogata
Hiroyuki Ogata Kyoto University
Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita
Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita Soka University of America
Tatsuya Akutsu
Tatsuya Akutsu Kyoto University
Hiroshi Mamitsuka
Hiroshi Mamitsuka Kyoto University
Charles DeLisi
Charles DeLisi Boston University
Craig E. Wheelock
Craig E. Wheelock Karolinska Institute
Takaaki Nishioka
Takaaki Nishioka Kyoto University

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