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Tetsuya Yanagida

Tetsuya Yanagida

D-Index & Metrics

Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
34
Citations
3817
World Ranking
1902
National Ranking
17

Tetsuya Yanagida publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tetsuya Yanagida sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 94 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Tetsuya Yanagida D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tetsuya Yanagida sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 77+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tetsuya Yanagida is affiliated with Yamaguchi University in Japan and focuses primarily on research within the fields of immunology and microbiology, with a specific emphasis on parasitology. Their work spans topics such as parasitic infections and diagnostics, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, and the biology and host interactions of parasites.

The scientist has contributed to subfields including parasitology, immunology, ecology, cancer research, and pathology and forensic medicine. Their research topics extend to parasitic infections in humans and animals, invertebrate immune response mechanisms, and aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior.

Yanagida has published extensively in venues that include:

  • Parasitology International
  • Fish Pathology
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Parasitology
  • Microbes and Infection

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Yanagida illustrate their focus on parasite biology and related areas. These include:

  • Origin of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium in Bali and Papua, Indonesia (2021), Parasitology International
  • Molecular and morphological description of a novel microsporidian Inodosporus fujiokai n. sp. infecting both salmonid fish and freshwater prawns (2022), Parasitology

Other notable coauthors frequently collaborating with Yanagida include:

  • Kazuhiro Sugahara
  • Sho Shirakashi
  • Hiroshi Yokoyama
  • Michitaka Yamamoto
  • Karina Midori Kawano

The scientist's work features in multidisciplinary research addressing parasitic infections, aquatic species health, and host-parasite interactions. Their publications document studies on taeniasis risk factors and geographic origins of parasites, molecular characterizations of novel microsporidians, and investigations into bat parasites in Japan.

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic systematics of the genus Echinococcus (Cestoda: Taeniidae)

    Minoru Nakao;Antti Lavikainen;Tetsuya Yanagida;Akira Ito

  • Geographic pattern of genetic variation in the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis.

    Minoru Nakao;Ning Xiao;Munehiro Okamoto;Tetsuya Yanagida

  • State-of-the-art Echinococcus and Taenia: phylogenetic taxonomy of human-pathogenic tapeworms and its application to molecular diagnosis.

    Minoru Nakao;Tetsuya Yanagida;Munehiro Okamoto;Jenny Knapp

  • Mitochondrial phylogeny of the genus Echinococcus (Cestoda: Taeniidae) with emphasis on relationships among Echinococcus canadensis genotypes.

    Minoru Nakao;Tetsuya Yanagida;Sergey Konyaev;Antti Lavikainen

  • Genetic polymorphisms of Echinococcus tapeworms in China as determined by mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

    Minoru Nakao;Tiaoying Li;Tiaoying Li;Xiumin Han;Xiumin Ma;Xiumin Ma;Xiumin Ma

  • Phylogenetic relationships within Echinococcus and Taenia tapeworms (Cestoda: Taeniidae): An inference from nuclear protein-coding genes

    Jenny Knapp;Minoru Nakao;Tetsuya Yanagida;Munehiro Okamoto

  • Genetic polymorphisms of Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto in the Middle East.

    Tetsuya Yanagida;Tahereh Mohammadzadeh;Shaden Kamhawi;Minoru Nakao

  • Genetic diversity of Echinococcus spp. in Russia

    Sergey V. Konyaev;Tetsuya Yanagida;Minoru Nakao;Galina M. Ingovatova

  • Evaluation of a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method Using Fecal Specimens for Differential Detection of Taenia Species from Humans

    Agathe Nkouawa;Yasuhito Sako;Tiaoying Li;Xingwang Chen

  • Multiplex PCR for Differential Identification of Broad Tapeworms (Cestoda: Diphyllobothrium) Infecting Humans

    Barbara Wicht;Tetsuya Yanagida;Tomáš Scholz;Akira Ito

  • Usefulness of pumpkin seeds combined with areca nut extract in community-based treatment of human taeniasis in northwest Sichuan Province, China.

    Tiaoying Li;Akira Ito;Xingwang Chen;Changping Long

  • Neurocysticercosis: assessing where the infection was acquired from.

    Tetsuya Yanagida;Izumi Yuzawa;Durga D. Joshi;Yasuhito Sako

  • Histopathological, serological, and molecular confirmation of indigenous alveolar echinococcosis cases in Mongolia.

    Akira Ito;Gurbadam Agvaandaram;Oyun-Erdene Bat-Ochir;Batsaikhan Chuluunbaatar

  • Cystic echinococcoses in Mongolia: molecular identification, serology and risk factors.

    Akira Ito;Temuulen Dorjsuren;Anu Davaasuren;Tetsuya Yanagida

  • Molecular identification of human echinococcosis in the Altai region of Russia.

    Sergey V. Konyaev;Tetsuya Yanagida;Galina M. Ingovatova;Yakov N. Shoikhet

  • Molecular identification of unilocular hydatid cysts from domestic ungulates in Ethiopia: implications for human infections.

    Zerihun Hailemariam;Minoru Nakao;Sissay Menkir;Antti Lavikainen

  • Genetic characterization of Moniezia species in Senegal and Ethiopia.

    Gora Diop;Tetsuya Yanagida;Zerihun Hailemariam;Sissay Menkir

  • Taenia solium, Taenia saginata, Taenia asiatica, their hybrids and other helminthic infections occurring in a neglected tropical diseases' highly endemic area in Lao PDR.

    Marcello Otake Sato;Megumi Sato;Tetsuya Yanagida;Jitra Waikagul

  • Recent advances and perspectives in molecular epidemiology of Taenia solium cysticercosis.

    Akira Ito;Tetsuya Yanagida;Tetsuya Yanagida;Minoru Nakao

  • Rare Case of Disseminated Cysticercosis and Taeniasis in a Japanese Traveler after Returning from India

    Ken-ichiro Kobayashi;Fukumi Nakamura-Uchiyama;Takeshi Nishiguchi;Kenichi Isoda

  • Molecular identification of species of Taenia causing bovine cysticercosis in Ethiopia

    Z. Hailemariam;M. Nakao;S. Menkir;A. Lavikainen

Frequent Co-Authors

Akira Ito
Akira Ito Asahikawa Medical University
Minoru Nakao
Minoru Nakao Asahikawa Medical University
Munehiro Okamoto
Munehiro Okamoto Kyoto University
Toni Wandra
Toni Wandra Universitas Sari Mutiara Indonesia - (USM-Indonesia)
Patrick Giraudoux
Patrick Giraudoux University of Franche-Comté
Philip S. Craig
Philip S. Craig University of Salford
Antti Lavikainen
Antti Lavikainen University of Helsinki
Hiroshi Yokoyama
Hiroshi Yokoyama Kent State University
Francis Raoul
Francis Raoul University of Franche-Comté
Marcello Otake Sato
Marcello Otake Sato Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences

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