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Shota Nakamura

Shota Nakamura

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
20239
World Ranking
6252
National Ranking
403

Shota Nakamura publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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 Shota Nakamura sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 533 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Shota Nakamura D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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 Shota Nakamura sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Shota Nakamura is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and has made significant contributions in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their main research subfields include Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Surgery, and Immunology. The research topics addressed primarily focus on gut microbiota and health, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, tuberculosis research and epidemiology, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, oral microbiology and periodontitis research, as well as infectious diseases and mycology.

The following are some of the recent representative papers authored or co-authored by Shota Nakamura:

  • Gut Microbiota-Derived Short-Chain Fatty Acids Promote Prostate Cancer Growth via IGF1 Signaling, 2021, Cancer Research
  • Engineered ACE2 Receptor Therapy Overcomes Mutational Escape of SARS-CoV-2, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Benchmark of 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequencing Using Japanese Gut Microbiome Data from the V1-V2 and V3-V4 Primer Sets, 2021, BMC Genomics
  • Regulatory T Cell-Specific Epigenomic Region Variants Are a Key Determinant of Susceptibility to Common Autoimmune Diseases, 2020, Immunity
  • Whole Gut Virome Analysis of 476 Japanese Revealed a Link Between Phage and Autoimmune Disease, 2021, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Shota Nakamura has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Daisuke Motooka (121 collaborations)
  • Yuki Matsumoto (25 collaborations)
  • Kiyoshi Takeda (21 collaborations)
  • Atsushi Kumanogoh (19 collaborations)
  • Hiroya Oki (14 collaborations)

The scientist's work has been published in a variety of journals, with multiple publications occurring in the following venues:

  • Scientific Reports (7 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (7 publications)
  • PLoS ONE (4 publications)
  • International Immunology (4 publications)
  • Cancer Research (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth masses through gravitational microlensing

    J.-P. Beaulieu;D. P. Bennett;P. Fouqué;A. Williams

  • Dysbiosis contributes to arthritis development via activation of autoreactive T cells in the intestine

    Yuichi Maeda;Takashi Kurakawa;Eiji Umemoto;Daisuke Motooka

  • Serine palmitoyltransferase is the primary target of a sphingosine-like immunosuppressant, ISP-1/myriocin.

    Y. Miyake;Y. Kozutsumi;S. Nakamura;T. Fujita

  • Unbound or distant planetary mass population detected by gravitational microlensing

    T. Sumi;K. Kamiya;D. P. Bennett

  • Oral pathobiont induces systemic inflammation and metabolic changes associated with alteration of gut microbiota.

    Kei Arimatsu;Hitomi Yamada;Haruna Miyazawa;Takayoshi Minagawa

  • The Lipid Mediator Protectin D1 Inhibits Influenza Virus Replication and Improves Severe Influenza

    Masayuki Morita;Keiji Kuba;Akihiko Ichikawa;Mizuho Nakayama

  • Discovery of a Jupiter/Saturn Analog with Gravitational Microlensing

    B. S. Gaudi;D. P. Bennett;A. Udalski;A. Gould

  • Neurite outgrowth of PC12 cells is suppressed by wortmannin, a specific inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase.

    K Kimura;S Hattori;Y Kabuyama;Y Shizawa

  • Guidance of regulatory T cell development by Satb1-dependent super-enhancer establishment

    Yohko Kitagawa;Naganari Ohkura;Yujiro Kidani;Alexis Vandenbon

  • Vitrification of human blastocysts using cryoloops: clinical outcome of 223 cycles*

    T. Mukaida;S. Nakamura;T. Tomiyama;S. Wada

  • Direct Metagenomic Detection of Viral Pathogens in Nasal and Fecal Specimens Using an Unbiased High-Throughput Sequencing Approach

    Shota Nakamura;Cheng-Song Yang;Naomi Sakon;Mayo Ueda

  • OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, THE MOST MASSIVE M DWARF PLANETARY COMPANION?

    Subo Dong;Andrew Gould;Andrzej Udalski;Jay Anderson

  • Gut microbiota of healthy and malnourished children in bangladesh.

    Shirajum Monira;Shota Nakamura;Kazuyoshi Gotoh;Kaori Izutsu

  • OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M-Dwarf Planetary Companion?

    Subo Dong;Andrew Gould;Andrzej Udalski;Jay Anderson

  • THE AFFERENT PATHWAYS OF DISCOGENIC LOW-BACK PAIN: EVALUATION OF L2 SPINAL NERVE INFILTRATION

    Nakamura Si;Takahashi K;Takahashi Y;Yamagata M

  • Plasmodium cynomolgi genome sequences provide insight into Plasmodium vivax and the monkey malaria clade

    Shin Ichiro Tachibana;Steven A. Sullivan;Satoru Kawai;Shota Nakamura

  • gyrA and gyrB mutations in quinolone-resistant strains of Escherichia coli.

    S Nakamura;M Nakamura;T Kojima;H Yoshida

  • Metagenomic Analysis Reveals Dynamic Changes of Whole Gut Microbiota in the Acute Phase of Intensive Care Unit Patients

    Masahiro Ojima;Daisuke Motooka;Kentaro Shimizu;Kazuyoshi Gotoh

  • Lypd8 promotes the segregation of flagellated microbiota and colonic epithelia

    Ryu Okumura;Takashi Kurakawa;Takashi Nakano;Hisako Kayama;Hisako Kayama

  • Masses and Orbital Constraints for the OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb,c Jupiter/Saturn Analog Planetary System

    D. P. Bennett;S. H. Rhie;S. Nikolaev;B. S. Gaudi

Frequent Co-Authors

Tetsuya Iida
Tetsuya Iida Osaka University
Susumu Uchiyama
Susumu Uchiyama Osaka University
Kensaku Mori
Kensaku Mori Nagoya University
Kiyoshi Takeda
Kiyoshi Takeda Osaka University
Toshihiro Horii
Toshihiro Horii Osaka University
Takaaki Nakaya
Takaaki Nakaya Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Hisao Ogawa
Hisao Ogawa Kumamoto University
Michihiro Yoshimura
Michihiro Yoshimura Jikei University School of Medicine
Hirofumi Yasue
Hirofumi Yasue Kumamoto University
Grzegorz Pietrzyński
Grzegorz Pietrzyński Polish Academy of Sciences

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