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Ecology and Evolution
Japan
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
86
Citations
22367
World Ranking
615
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Mutsumi Nishida is affiliated with the University of the Ryukyus in Japan and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Infectious Diseases, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Oncology, and Epidemiology. Their work spans various specialized topics, including SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, COVID-19 diagnosis using artificial intelligence, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, biosensors and analytical detection, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, and cardiovascular function and risk factors.

The scientist has contributed to several research papers published in notable venues. Some recent works include:

  • "Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 detection in nasopharyngeal swab and saliva" (2020) published in Journal of Infection
  • "Mass Screening of Asymptomatic Persons for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Using Saliva" (2020) published in Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "Artificial intelligence (AI) models for the ultrasonographic diagnosis of liver tumors and comparison of diagnostic accuracies between AI and human experts" (2022) published in Journal of Gastroenterology
  • "Mass screening of asymptomatic persons for SARS-CoV-2 using saliva" (2020) published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Efficacy of a novel SARS-CoV-2 detection kit without RNA extraction and purification" (2020) published in International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nishida include:

  • Takanori Teshima
  • Junichi Sugita
  • Shinichi Fujisawa
  • Isao Yokota
  • Takahito Iwai

The most common publication venues for Nishida's research are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Hematology
  • Journal of Medical Ultrasonics
  • Journal of Infection

The main research topics addressed in Nishida's work include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors

Best Publications

  • Major patterns of higher teleostean phylogenies: a new perspective based on 100 complete mitochondrial DNA sequences.

    Masaki Miya;Hirohiko Takeshima;Hiromitsu Endo;Naoya B Ishiguro

  • MitoFish and MitoAnnotator: A Mitochondrial Genome Database of Fish with an Accurate and Automatic Annotation Pipeline

    Wataru Iwasaki;Tsukasa Fukunaga;Ryota Isagozawa;Koichiro Yamada

  • Mitogenomic Exploration of Higher Teleostean Phylogenies: A Case Study for Moderate-Scale Evolutionary Genomics with 38 Newly Determined Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

    Masaki A. Miya;Akira Kawaguchi;Mutsumi Nishida

  • Mitogenomic evolution and interrelationships of the Cypriniformes (Actinopterygii: Ostariophysi): the first evidence toward resolution of higher-level relationships of the world's largest freshwater fish clade based on 59 whole mitogenome sequences.

    K. Saitoh;T. Sado;R. L. Mayden;N. Hanzawa

  • Use of Mitogenomic Information in Teleostean Molecular Phylogenetics: A Tree-Based Exploration under the Maximum-Parsimony Optimality Criterion

    Masaki Miya;Mutsumi Nishida

  • Sequence evolution of mitochondrial tRNA genes and deep-branch animal phylogenetics

    Yoshinori Kumazawa;Mutsumi Nishida;Mutsumi Nishida

  • Organization of the Mitochondrial Genome of a Deep-Sea Fish, Gonostoma gracile (Teleostei: Stomiiformes): First Example of Transfer RNA Gene Rearrangements in Bony Fishes.

    Masaki Miya;Mutsumi Nishida

  • Phylogeographic relationships within the Mediterranean turbot inferred by mitochondrial DNA haplotype variation

    N. Suzuki;M. Nishida;K. Yoseda;C. Üstündag

  • Basal actinopterygian relationships: a mitogenomic perspective on the phylogeny of the "ancient fish".

    Jun G Inoue;Masaki Miya;Katsumi Tsukamoto;Mutsumi Nishida

  • Complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of the green turtle and blue-tailed mole skink: statistical evidence for archosaurian affinity of turtles.

    Y Kumazawa;M Nishida

  • Structure and variation of the mitochondrial genome of fishes.

    Takashi P. Satoh;Takashi P. Satoh;Masaki Miya;Kohji Mabuchi;Mutsumi Nishida;Mutsumi Nishida

  • The Complete Nucleotide Sequence of a Snake (Dinodon semicarinatus) Mitochondrial Genome With Two Identical Control Regions

    Yoshinori Kumazawa;Hidetoshi Ota;Mutsumi Nishida;Tomowo Ozawa

  • A mitogenomic perspective on the basal teleostean phylogeny: resolving higher-level relationships with longer DNA sequences.

    Jun G. Inoue;Masaki Miya;Katsumi Tsukamoto;Mutsumi Nishida

  • Mitochondrial Genomics of Ostariophysan Fishes: Perspectives on Phylogeny and Biogeography

    Kenji Saitoh;Masaki Miya;Jun G. Inoue;Naoya B. Ishiguro

  • Gene rearrangements in snake mitochondrial genomes: highly concerted evolution of control-region-like sequences duplicated and inserted into a tRNA gene cluster.

    Y Kumazawa;H Ota;M Nishida;T Ozawa

  • Basal euteleostean relationships: a mitogenomic perspective on the phylogenetic reality of the "Protacanthopterygii".

    Naoya B Ishiguro;Masaki Miya;Mutsumi Nishida

  • Phylogenetic Relationships and Ancient Incomplete Lineage Sorting Among Cichlid Fishes in Lake Tanganyika as Revealed by Analysis of the Insertion of Retroposons

    Kazuhiko Takahashi;Yohey Terai;Mutsumi Nishida;Norihiro Okada

  • Evolutionary history of Otophysi (Teleostei), a major clade of the modern freshwater fishes: Pangaean origin and Mesozoic radiation

    Masanori Nakatani;Masaki Miya;Kohji Mabuchi;Kenji Saitoh

  • Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the freshwater eels genus Anguilla based on the whole mitochondrial genome sequences.

    Yuki Minegishi;Jun Aoyama;Jun G. Inoue;Masaki Miya

  • Body plan convergence in the evolution of skates and rays (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea)

    Neil C. Aschliman;Mutsumi Nishida;Masaki Miya;Jun G. Inoue

Frequent Co-Authors

Masaki Miya
Masaki Miya Natural History Museum and Institute
Katsumi Tsukamoto
Katsumi Tsukamoto University of Tokyo
Takanori Teshima
Takanori Teshima Hokkaido University
Hiroyuki Tsutsui
Hiroyuki Tsutsui Kyushu University
Jun Aoyama
Jun Aoyama University of Tokyo
Norihiro Okada
Norihiro Okada National Cheng Kung University
Shugo Watabe
Shugo Watabe Kitasato University
Hidetoshi Ota
Hidetoshi Ota University of Hyogo
Richard L. Mayden
Richard L. Mayden Saint Louis University
Tatsuya Atsumi
Tatsuya Atsumi Hokkaido University

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