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Takayuki Ezaki

Takayuki Ezaki

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
64
Citations
20537
World Ranking
2570
National Ranking
94

Takayuki Ezaki publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

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

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 256 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Takayuki Ezaki D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Takayuki Ezaki is affiliated with Gifu University in Japan. Their research spans several fields within biology and medicine, with a focus on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. This multidisciplinary approach addresses topics related to molecular biology, pathology and forensic medicine, food science, public health, environmental and occupational health, and nutrition and dietetics.

The scientist's recent publications reflect a strong interest in gut microbiota and health, phytoestrogen effects, probiotics and fermented foods, nutritional studies and diet, nutrition, health and food behavior, electron spin resonance studies, and porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Takayuki Ezaki include:

  • Quantitative assessment of urinary equol levels, equol-producing bacteria, and the faecal microbiota in healthy Japanese individuals (2023) in Beneficial Microbes
  • Milk and dairy product intakes, intestinal bacteria, and respiratory infections in children of elementary school age and older in Japan (2023) in Nutrition
  • Synthesis and Structures of Oxygen-Bridged Triphenylamine in Neutral, Radical Cation, and Dication States (2025) in Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authorship with:

  • Masanari Kodera
  • Kohei Nakamura
  • Tohru Suzuki
  • Shin-ichiro Yokoyama
  • Michiyo Yamakawa

Takayuki Ezaki has published in various scientific venues, with notable contributions to:

  • Beneficial Microbes
  • Nutrition
  • Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry

The scientist's work covers a balanced mix of basic and applied sciences, focusing on the interplay between diet, microbiota, and health outcomes, as well as chemical and structural studies related to organic compounds. This interdisciplinary approach reflects the diversity of their publication topics and venues.

Best Publications

  • Fluorometric Deoxyribonucleic Acid-Deoxyribonucleic Acid Hybridization in Microdilution Wells as an Alternative to Membrane Filter Hybridization in which Radioisotopes Are Used To Determine Genetic Relatedness among Bacterial Strains

    Takayuki Ezaki;Yasuhiro Hashimoto;Eiko Yabuuchi

  • Proposal of Burkholderia gen. nov. and Transfer of Seven Species of the Genus Pseudomonas Homology Group II to the New Genus, with the Type Species Burkholderia cepacia (Palleroni and Holmes 1981) comb. nov.

    Eiko Yabuuchi;Yoshimasa Kosako;Hiroshi Oyaizu;Ikuya Yano

  • Proposals of Sphingomonas paucimobilis gen. nov. and comb. nov., Sphingomonas parapaucimobilis sp. nov., Sphingomonas yanoikuyae sp. nov., Sphingomonas adhaesiva sp. nov., Sphingomonas capsulata comb, nov., and Two Genospecies of the Genus Sphingomonas

    Eiko Yabuuchi;Ikuya Yano;Hiroshi Oyaizu;Yasuhiro Hashimoto

  • Crystal Structure of the Potassium Channel KirBac1.1 in the Closed State

    Anling Kuo;Jacqueline M. Gulbis;Jennifer F. Antcliff;Tahmina Rahman

  • Determination of 16S rRNA sequences of Streptococcus mitis and Streptococcus gordonii and phylogenetic relationships among members of the genus Streptococcus

    Yoshiaki Kawamura;Xiao-Gang Hou;Ferdousi Sultana;Hiroaki Miura

  • Quantitative study of changes in intestinal morphology and mucus gel on total parenteral nutrition in rats.

    K. Sakamoto;H. Hirose;A. Onizuka;M. Hayashi

  • Differentiation of Phylogenetically Related Slowly Growing Mycobacteria by Their gyrB Sequences

    Hiroaki Kasai;Takayuki Ezaki;Shigeaki Harayama

  • Proposal of Mycobacterium peregrinum sp. nov., nom. rev., and elevation of Mycobacterium chelonae subsp. abscessus (Kubica et al.) to species status: Mycobacterium abscessus comb. nov.

    Shinji Kusunoki;Takayuki Ezaki

  • Laboratory investigation of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O untypeable:H10 associated with a massive outbreak of gastrointestinal illness.

    Yoshihiro Itoh;Isao Nagano;Miyuki Kunishima;Takayuki Ezaki

  • Proposal of the genera Anaerococcus gen. nov., Peptoniphilus gen. nov. and Gallicola gen. nov. for members of the genus Peptostreptococcus.

    Takayuki Ezaki;Yoshiaki Kawamura;Na Li;Zhi-Yu Li

  • Emergence and Spread of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Clinical Isolates Harboring Mosaic-Like Structure of Penicillin-Binding Protein 2 in Central Japan

    Masayasu Ito;Takashi Deguchi;Koh-Suke Mizutani;Mitsuru Yasuda

  • Transfer of Streptococcus adjacens and Streptococcus defectivus to Abiotrophia gen. nov. as Abiotrophia adiacens comb. nov. and Abiotrophia defectiva comb. nov., Respectively

    Yoshiaki Kawamura;Xiao-Gang Hou;Ferdousi Sultana;Shujun Liu

  • Simple genetic method to identify viridans group streptococci by colorimetric dot hybridization and fluorometric hybridization in microdilution wells.

    T. Ezaki;Y. Hashimoto;N. Takeuchi;H. Yamamoto

  • Application of colorimetric microdilution plate hybridization for rapid genetic identification of 22 Mycobacterium species.

    S Kusunoki;T Ezaki;M Tamesada;Y Hatanaka

  • Transfer of Peptococcus indolicus, Peptococcus asaccharolyticus, Peptococcus prevotii, and Peptococcus magnus to the Genus Peptostreptococcus and Proposal of Peptostreptococcus tetradius sp. nov.

    Takayuki Ezaki;Naoki Yamamoto;Keiu Ninomiya;Shoichiro Suzuki

  • Intact motility as a Salmonella typhi invasion-related factor.

    Shu-Lin Liu;Takayuki Ezaki;Hiroaki Miura;Kouji Matsui

  • Quinolone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae: correlation of alterations in the GyrA subunit of DNA gyrase and the ParC subunit of topoisomerase IV with antimicrobial susceptibility profiles.

    T Deguchi;M Yasuda;M Nakano;S Ozeki

  • Borrelia sinica sp. nov., a lyme disease-related Borrelia species isolated in China.

    Toshiyuki Masuzawa;Nobuhiro Takada;Midori Kudeken;Takako Fukui

  • dnaJ gene sequence-based assay for species identification and phylogenetic grouping in the genus Staphylococcus.

    Mohammad Monir Shah;Hirotoshi Iihara;Makiko Noda;Sun Xiao Song

  • Selective Amplification of tyv (rfbE), prt (rfbS), viaB, and fliC Genes by Multiplex PCR for Identification of Salmonella enterica Serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A

    Kenji Hirose;Ken-Ichiro Itoh;Hiroshi Nakajima;Takayuki Kurazono

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshiaki Kawamura
Yoshiaki Kawamura Aichi Gakuin University
Takashi Deguchi
Takashi Deguchi Gifu University
Hiroyuki Yamamoto
Hiroyuki Yamamoto St. Marianna University School of Medicine
Huaxi Xu
Huaxi Xu Jiangsu University
Kazuo Komagata
Kazuo Komagata University of Tokyo
Kazuo Kobayashi
Kazuo Kobayashi National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Shigeru Kohno
Shigeru Kohno Nagasaki University
Naoki Inagaki
Naoki Inagaki Gifu Pharmaceutical University
Haruo Watanabe
Haruo Watanabe National Institutes of Health
Shin-ichi Yoshida
Shin-ichi Yoshida Kyushu University

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