2026 Taro Kawai: Immunology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Immunology	95	870	792	29	27	175	112397

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Taro Kawai is a researcher affiliated with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these disciplines, their studies frequently concentrate on Immunology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Ophthalmology as subfields.

The main topics covered in their work include interferon and immune responses, immune response and inflammation, inflammasome and immune disorders, immunotherapy and immune responses, CRISPR and genetic engineering, immune cell function and interaction, and immune cells in cancer.

Taro Kawai has published extensively in academic journals, with frequent contributions appearing in the following venues:

International Immunology
Frontiers in Immunology
iScience
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Their recent papers include:

"Decoding Toll-like receptors: Recent insights and perspectives in innate immunity" (2024), published in Immunity
"Signaling Through Nucleic Acid Sensors and Their Roles in Inflammatory Diseases" (2021), published in Frontiers in Immunology
"Exploration of Pattern Recognition Receptor Agonists as Candidate Adjuvants" (2021), published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
"SARS-CoV-2 infection initiates interleukin-17-enriched transcriptional response in different cells from multiple organs" (2021), published in Scientific Reports
"Antigen Presentation in the Lung" (2022), published in Frontiers in Immunology

Frequent coauthors of Taro Kawai include:

Daisuke Ori (13 collaborations)
Takumi Kawasaki (10 collaborations)
Norisuke Kano (8 collaborations)
Moe Ikegawa (7 collaborations)
Ken J. Ishii (7 collaborations)

Best Publications

The role of pattern-recognition receptors in innate immunity: update on Toll-like receptors

Taro Kawai;Shizuo Akira

10861
Citations
A Toll-like receptor recognizes bacterial DNA.

Hiroaki Hemmi;Osamu Takeuchi;Taro Kawai;Tsuneyasu Kaisho

8443
Citations
Erratum A Toll-like receptor recognizes bacterial DNA

Hiroaki Hemmi;Osamu Takeuchi;Taro Kawai;Tsuneyasu Kaisho

6783
Citations
Cutting edge: Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4)-deficient mice are hyporesponsive to lipopolysaccharide: evidence for TLR4 as the Lps gene product.

Katsuaki Hoshino;Osamu Takeuchi;Taro Kawai;Hideki Sanjo

4717
Citations
Differential roles of MDA5 and RIG-I helicases in the recognition of RNA viruses

Hiroki Kato;Osamu Takeuchi;Shintaro Sato;Mitsutoshi Yoneyama

4575
Citations
Toll-like Receptors and Their Crosstalk with Other Innate Receptors in Infection and Immunity

Taro Kawai;Shizuo Akira

4325
Citations
Differential roles of TLR2 and TLR4 in recognition of gram-negative and gram-positive bacterial cell wall components.

Osamu Takeuchi;Katsuaki Hoshino;Taro Kawai;Hideki Sanjo

4277
Citations
Toll-like receptor signaling pathways.

Takumi Kawasaki;Taro Kawai

3677
Citations
IPS-1, an adaptor triggering RIG-I- and Mda5-mediated type I interferon induction

Taro Kawai;Ken Takahashi;Ken Takahashi;Shintaro Sato;Cevayir Coban

3191
Citations
Targeted Disruption of the MyD88 Gene Results in Loss of IL-1- and IL-18-Mediated Function

Osamu Adachi;Taro Kawai;Kiyoshi Takeda;Makoto Matsumoto

3118
Citations
Signaling to NF-κB by Toll-like receptors

Taro Kawai;Shizuo Akira

3113
Citations
Pathogen Recognition by the Innate Immune System

Himanshu Kumar;Taro Kawai;Shizuo Akira

2809
Citations
Innate immune recognition of viral infection.

Taro Kawai;Shizuo Akira

2747
Citations
Unresponsiveness of MyD88-Deficient Mice to Endotoxin

Taro Kawai;Osamu Adachi;Tomohiko Ogawa;Kiyoshi Takeda

2420
Citations
Loss of the autophagy protein Atg16L1 enhances endotoxin-induced IL-1beta production.

Tatsuya Saitoh;Naonobu Fujita;Myoung Ho Jang;Satoshi Uematsu

2325
Citations
The roles of TLRs, RLRs and NLRs in pathogen recognition

Taro Kawai;Shizuo Akira

2238
Citations
TLR signaling

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1740
Citations
Discrimination of bacterial lipoproteins by Toll-like receptor 6

Osamu Takeuchi;Taro Kawai;Peter F. Mühlradt;Michael Morr

1697
Citations
Lipopolysaccharide stimulates the MyD88-independent pathway and results in activation of IFN-regulatory factor 3 and the expression of a subset of lipopolysaccharide-inducible genes.

Taro Kawai;Osamu Takeuchi;Takashi Fujita;Jun-ichiro Inoue

1626
Citations
Toll-like receptors and innate immunity

Himanshu Kumar;Taro Kawai;Shizuo Akira

1568
Citations
Toll-like Receptor and RIG-1-like Receptor Signaling

Taro Kawai;Shizuo Akira

1328
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Shizuo Akira Osaka University

Osamu Takeuchi Kyoto University

Ken J. Ishii University of Tokyo

Shintaro Sato Osaka University

Kiyoshi Takeda Osaka University

Tatsuya Saitoh Osaka University

Masahiro Yamamoto Osaka University

Satoshi Uematsu Osaka Metropolitan University

Katsuaki Hoshino Kagawa University

Yoshiharu Matsuura Osaka University

External Links

Personal website of Taro Kawai

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