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Nobuyoshi Esaki

Nobuyoshi Esaki

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
69
Citations
13840
World Ranking
6343
National Ranking
412

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
69
Citations
13861
World Ranking
7550
National Ranking
513

Nobuyoshi Esaki publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

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

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 406 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Nobuyoshi Esaki D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Nobuyoshi Esaki is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan. Their academic career is linked primarily to this institution, indicating a strong connection to the Japanese research community.

No recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, main fields or subfields of study, or main topics of work are listed.

There are no recorded awards or honors attributed to Nobuyoshi Esaki in the available data.

Given the limited available information, the profile centers on the scientist's association with Kyoto University, without additional details on research contributions, collaborations, or academic influence.

Best Publications

  • Bacterial cysteine desulfurases: their function and mechanisms

    H. Mihara;N. Esaki

  • A Cold-Adapted Lipase of an Alaskan Psychrotroph,Pseudomonas sp. Strain B11-1: Gene Cloning and Enzyme Purification and Characterization

    Dong-Won Choo;Tatsuo Kurihara;Takeshi Suzuki;Kenji Soda

  • CYSTEINE SULFINATE DESULFINASE, A NIFS-LIKE PROTEIN OF ESCHERICHIA COLI WITH SELENOCYSTEINE LYASE AND CYSTEINE DESULFURASE ACTIVITIES : GENE CLONING, PURIFICATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL PYRIDOXAL ENZYME

    Hisaaki Mihara;Tatsuo Kurihara;Tohru Yoshimura;Kenji Soda

  • Crystal Structure of L-2-Haloacid Dehalogenase from Pseudomonas sp. YL: AN α/β HYDROLASE STRUCTURE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THE α/β HYDROLASE FOLD

    Tamao Hisano;Yasuo Hata;Tomomi Fujii;Ji-Quan Liu

  • Synthesis of optically active amino acids from alpha-keto acids with Escherichia coli cells expressing heterologous genes.

    A Galkin;L Kulakova;T Yoshimura;K Soda

  • Properties of L-methionine gamma-lyase from Pseudomonas ovalis.

    Hidehiko Tanaka;Nobuyoshi Esaki;Kenji Soda

  • Kinetic and Mutational Studies of Three NifS Homologs from Escherichia coli: Mechanistic Difference between L-Cysteine Desulfurase and L-Selenocysteine Lyase Reactions

    Hisaaki Mihara;Tatsuo Kurihara;Tohru Yoshimura;Nobuyoshi Esaki

  • Characterization of a NifS-like chloroplast protein from Arabidopsis. Implications for its role in sulfur and selenium metabolism.

    Elizabeth A.H. Pilon-Smits;Gulnara F. Garifullina;Salah Abdel-Ghany;Shin-Ichiro Kato

  • Reaction mechanism of alanine racemase from Bacillus stearothermophilus: x-ray crystallographic studies of the enzyme bound with N-(5'-phosphopyridoxyl)alanine.

    Akira Watanabe;Tohru Yoshimura;Bunzo Mikami;Hideyuki Hayashi

  • ENZYMATIC SYNTHESIS OF SELENOCYSTEINE IN RAT LIVER

    Nobuyoshi Esaki;Takeshi Nakamura;Hidehiko Tanaka;Tetsuya Suzuki

  • Cys-328 of IscS and Cys-63 of IscU are the sites of disulfide bridge formation in a covalently bound IscS/IscU complex: implications for the mechanism of iron-sulfur cluster assembly.

    Shin-ichiro Kato;Hisaaki Mihara;Tatsuo Kurihara;Yasuhiro Takahashi

  • A nifS-like gene, csdB, encodes an Escherichia coli counterpart of mammalian selenocysteine lyase. Gene cloning, purification, characterization and preliminary x-ray crystallographic studies.

    Hisaaki Mihara;Masaki Maeda;Tomomi Fujii;Tatsuo Kurihara

  • Biosynthetic alanine racemase of Salmonella typhimurium: purification and characterization of the enzyme encoded by the alr gene

    Nobuyoshi Esaki;Christopher T. Walsh

  • Purification and properties of a new enzyme, DL-2-haloacid dehalogenase, from Pseudomonas sp.

    K Motosugi;N Esaki;K Soda

  • Cold-active esterase from Psychrobacter sp. Ant300: gene cloning, characterization, and the effects of Gly→Pro substitution near the active site on its catalytic activity and stability

    Ljudmila Kulakova;Andrey Galkin;Toru Nakayama;Tokuzo Nishino

  • Network of protein-protein interactions among iron-sulfur cluster assembly proteins in Escherichia coli

    Umechiyo Tokumoto;Shinobu Nomura;Yoshiko Minami;Hisaaki Mihara

  • A versatile bacterial enzyme: l-methionine γ-lyase

    Hidehiko Tanaka;Nobuyoshi Esaki;Kenji Soda

  • Cold-active serine alkaline protease from the psychrotrophic bacterium Shewanella strain ac10: gene cloning and enzyme purification and characterization.

    Ljudmila Kulakova;Andrey Galkin;Tatsuo Kurihara;Tohru Yoshimura

  • Crystal structures of reaction intermediates of L-2-haloacid dehalogenase and implications for the reaction mechanism.

    Yong-Fu Li;Yasuo Hata;Tomomi Fujii;Tamao Hisano

  • Enhanced Selenium Tolerance and Accumulation in Transgenic Arabidopsis Expressing a Mouse Selenocysteine Lyase

    Marinus Pilon;Jennifer D. Owen;Gulnara F. Garifullina;Tatsuo Kurihara

Frequent Co-Authors

Tatsuo Kurihara
Tatsuo Kurihara Kyoto University
Kenji Soda
Kenji Soda Kansai University
Toru Nakayama
Toru Nakayama Tohoku University
Ken Hirotsu
Ken Hirotsu Osaka Metropolitan University
Susumu Tsunasawa
Susumu Tsunasawa Osaka University
Tokuzo Nishino
Tokuzo Nishino Tohoku University
Edith Wilson Miles
Edith Wilson Miles National Institutes of Health
Bunzo Mikami
Bunzo Mikami Kyoto University
Christopher T. Walsh
Christopher T. Walsh Stanford University
Ikunoshin Kato
Ikunoshin Kato Fujita Health University

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