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2026

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D-Index
80
Citations
20277
World Ranking
1593
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Norihiro Okada is a researcher affiliated with National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, specializing in Medicine with a focus on several subfields including Molecular Biology, Hematology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Ecology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Okada's work encompasses a diverse range of topics within biomedical and ecological sciences. The primary themes in their research include RNA Research and Splicing, Tryptophan and brain disorders, Physiological and biochemical adaptations, Hemophilia Treatment and Research, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Adipose Tissue and Metabolism, and Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms.

Their recent notable publications are as follows:

  • Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation reduces heart failure rehospitalization in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, 2020, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology
  • Behavioral and brain- transcriptomic synchronization between the two opponents of a fighting pair of the fish Betta splendens, 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • Long-term safety and efficacy of emicizumab for up to 5.8 years and patients' perceptions of symptoms and daily life: A phase 1/2 study in patients with severe haemophilia A, 2020, Haemophilia
  • Vascular imaging of patients with refractory Takayasu arteritis treated with tocilizumab: post hoc analysis of a randomized controlled trial, 2021, Lara D. Veeken
  • Genomic Signatures for Species-Specific Adaptation in Lake Victoria Cichlids Derived from Large-Scale Standing Genetic Variation, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Okada include:

  • Kenshiro Oshima (17 collaborations)
  • Akiko Maruko (12 collaborations)
  • Trieu-Duc Vu (11 collaborations)
  • Yuki Iwasaki (10 collaborations)
  • Masato Nikaido (7 collaborations)

Okada's publications frequently appear in the following venues:

  • Gene (4 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • BMC Genomics (2 publications)
  • Data in Brief (2 publications)
  • Blood (2 publications)

Okada has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2000.

Best Publications

  • The genomic substrate for adaptive radiation in African cichlid fish

    David Brawand;David Brawand;Catherine E. Wagner;Catherine E. Wagner;Yang I. Li;Milan Malinsky;Milan Malinsky

  • Phylogenetic relationships among cetartiodactyls based on insertions of short and long interpersed elements: hippopotamuses are the closest extant relatives of whales.

    Masato Nikaido;Alejandro P. Rooney;Norihiro Okada

  • SINE insertions: powerful tools for molecular systematics.

    Andrew M. Shedlock;Norihiro Okada

  • Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones

    Tadashi Imanishi;Takeshi Itoh;Yutaka Suzuki;Claire O'Donovan

  • Towards Resolving the Interordinal Relationships of Placental Mammals

    Peter J. Waddell;Norihiro Okada;Masami Hasegawa

  • LINEs Mobilize SINEs in the Eel through a Shared 3′ Sequence

    Masaki Kajikawa;Norihiro Okada

  • SINEs and LINEs Share Common 3' Sequences: A Review

    Norihiro Okada;Mitsuhiro Hamada;Ikuo Ogiwara;Kazuhiko Ohshima

  • Pegasoferae, an unexpected mammalian clade revealed by tracking ancient retroposon insertions.

    Hidenori Nishihara;Masami Hasegawa;Norihiro Okada

  • Retroposon analysis of major cetacean lineages : the monophyly of toothed whales and the paraphyly of river dolphins

    Masato Nikaido;Fumio Matsuno;Healy Hamilton;Robert L. Brownell

  • Functional noncoding sequences derived from SINEs in the mammalian genome

    Hidenori Nishihara;Arian F.A. Smit;Norihiro Okada

  • Conflict among individual mitochondrial proteins in resolving the phylogeny of eutherian orders.

    Ying Cao;Axel Janke;Peter J. Waddell;Michael Westerman

  • 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

  • Determination of the phylogenetic relationships among Pacific salmonids by using short interspersed elements (SINEs) as temporal landmarks of evolution

    Shigenori Murata;Nobuyoshi Takasaki;Masako Saitoh;Norihiro Okada

  • Divergent Selection on Opsins Drives Incipient Speciation in Lake Victoria Cichlids

    Yohey Terai;Ole Seehausen;Takeshi N. Sasaki;Kazuhiko Takahashi

  • Alternative Tertiary Structure of tRNA for Recognition by a Posttranscriptional Modification Enzyme

    Ryuichiro Ishitani;Osamu Nureki;Nobukazu Nameki;Norihiro Okada

  • The 3' ends of tRNA-derived short interspersed repetitive elements are derived from the 3' ends of long interspersed repetitive elements.

    K Ohshima;M Hamada;Y Terai;N Okada

  • Development of the embryo, larva and early juvenile of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (Pisces: Cichlidae). Developmental staging system

    Koji Fujimura;Norihiro Okada

  • SINEs of speciation: tracking lineages with retroposons

    Andrew M. Shedlock;Kazuhiko Takahashi;Norihiro Okada;Norihiro Okada

  • Seasonal change in bacterial flora and biomass in mountain snow from the Tateyama Mountains, Japan, analyzed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and real-time PCR.

    Takahiro Segawa;Koji Miyamoto;Kazunari Ushida;Kiyokazu Agata

  • Possible involvement of SINEs in mammalian-specific brain formation

    Takeshi Sasaki;Hidenori Nishihara;Mika Hirakawa;Koji Fujimura

Frequent Co-Authors

Masami Hasegawa
Masami Hasegawa The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Susumu Nishimura
Susumu Nishimura University of Tsukuba
Ole Seehausen
Ole Seehausen University of Bern
Takashi Gojobori
Takashi Gojobori King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Naoki Kobayashi
Naoki Kobayashi University of Tokyo
Mutsumi Nishida
Mutsumi Nishida University of the Ryukyus
Yuji Kohara
Yuji Kohara National Institute of Genetics
Asao Fujiyama
Asao Fujiyama National Institute of Genetics
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh Uppsala University
Sumio Sugano
Sumio Sugano University of Tokyo

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