The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shigeo Okabe sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 205 publications — 52nd percentile
52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shigeo Okabe sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 57 D-Index — 31st percentile
31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.
Shigeo Okabe is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and neuroscience. Their research spans 37 publications in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology and 36 in neuroscience, with significant focus on subfields such as molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biophysics, cognitive neuroscience, and neurology.
The topics of their work include:
Okabe has frequently published in venues such as Microscopy and the Journal of Visualized Experiments, each hosting four of their papers. Other key publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with three papers, Neuron and Nature Communications with two papers each.
Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Okabe are:
Okabe has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Hisato Maruoka and Shinji Urata, each having six joint publications with them, as well as Ryosuke Kamei with five publications, and Keizo Takao and Katsuhiko Tabuchi, each contributing to four joint works.
Hirofumi Nakatomi;Toshihiko Kuriu;Shigeo Okabe;Shin ichi Yamamoto
Shuo Chen;Adam Z. Weitemier;Xiao Zeng;Linmeng He
Shigeo Okabe;Karin Forsberg-Nilsson;A. Cyril Spiro;Menahem Segal
A. Harada;K. Oguchi;S. Okabe;J. Kuno
N Hirokawa;Y Shiomura;S Okabe
R Takemura;S Okabe;T Umeyama;Y Kanai
O. Brustle;A. C. Spiro;K. Karram;K. Choudhary
Shigeo Okabe;Akiko Miwa;Haruo Okado
Ritsuko Fujii;Shigeo Okabe;Shigeo Okabe;Tomoe Urushido;Kiyoshi Inoue
Shigeo Okabe;Hong-Duck Kim;Akiko Miwa;Toshihiko Kuriu
Hideko Nishida;Shigeo Okabe
Shigeo Okabe
Toshihiko Kuriu;Akihiro Inoue;Haruhiko Bito;Kenji Sobue
Shigeo Okabe;Akiko Miwa;Haruo Okado
Yoshiko Sugiyama;Izumi Kawabata;Kenji Sobue;Shigeo Okabe
Shigeo Okabe;Nobutaka Hirokawa
Atsushi Yoshimura;Ritsuko Fujii;Yasuhito Watanabe;Yasuhito Watanabe;Shigeo Okabe
Shigeo Okabe;Nobutaka Hirokawa
R. Josephson;T. Muller;J. Pickel;S. Okabe
Yoko Yamagata;Shizuka Kobayashi;Tatsuya Umeda;Akihiro Inoue
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