2026 Tomoko Ohta: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	33	12405	12043	194	185	72	8346

Overview

Tomoko Ohta is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant concentration in Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Biochemistry, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The topics covered in their work include:

Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Radioactive contamination and transfer
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
Semantic Web and Ontologies
Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism
Sulfur Compounds in Biology

Frequent publication venues for Tomoko Ohta's work include:

Scientific Reports
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Bioinformatics
Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society

Some of their recent papers are:

Differential mode of cholesterol inclusion with 2-hydroxypropyl-cyclodextrins increases safety margin in treatment of Niemann-Pick disease type C (2021, British Journal of Pharmacology)
S1000: a better taxonomic name corpus for biomedical information extraction (2023, Bioinformatics)
Ataxic phenotype and neurodegeneration are triggered by the impairment of chaperone-mediated autophagy in cerebellar neurons (2020, Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology)
Therapeutic potential of d-cysteine against in vitro and in vivo models of spinocerebellar ataxia (2021, Experimental Neurology)
STRING-ing together protein complexes: corpus and methods for extracting physical protein interactions from the biomedical literature (2024, Bioinformatics)

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Tomoko Ohta are:

Katerina Nastou
Lars Juhl Jensen
Sampo Pyysalo
Jouni Luoma
Yasunori Mahara

Best Publications

GENIA corpus—a semantically annotated corpus for bio-textmining

Jin-Dong Kim;Tomoko Ohta;Yuka Tateisi;Jun'ichi Tsujii

1535
Citations
brat: a Web-based Tool for NLP-Assisted Text Annotation

Pontus Stenetorp;Sampo Pyysalo;Goran Topić;Tomoko Ohta

1254
Citations
Overview of BioNLP'09 Shared Task on Event Extraction

Jin-Dong Kim;Tomoko Ohta;Sampo Pyysalo;Yoshinobu Kano

799
Citations
Introduction to the bio-entity recognition task at JNLPBA

Jin-Dong Kim;Tomoko Ohta;Yoshimasa Tsuruoka;Yuka Tateisi

705
Citations
Developing a robust part-of-speech tagger for biomedical text

Yoshimasa Tsuruoka;Yuka Tateishi;Jin-Dong Kim;Tomoko Ohta

631
Citations
Corpus annotation for mining biomedical events from literature

Jin Dong Kim;Tomoko Ohta;Jun'ichi Tsujii;Jun'ichi Tsujii

478
Citations
The GENIA corpus: an annotated research abstract corpus in molecular biology domain

Tomoko Ohta;Yuka Tateisi;Jin-Dong Kim

421
Citations
Overview of BioNLP Shared Task 2013

Claire Nédellec;Robert Bossy;Jin-Dong Kim;Jung-Jae Kim

234
Citations
Overview of BioNLP Shared Task 2011

Jin-Dong Kim;Sampo Pyysalo;Tomoko Ohta;Robert Bossy

223
Citations
Event extraction across multiple levels of biological organization

Sampo Pyysalo;Tomoko Ohta;Makoto Miwa;Han-Cheol Cho

163
Citations
Syntax Annotation for the GENIA Corpus

Yuka Tateisi;Akane Yakushiji;Tomoko Ohta;Jun'ichi Tsujii

142
Citations
Semantic Retrieval for the Accurate Identification of Relational Concepts in Massive Textbases

Yusuke Miyao;Tomoko Ohta;Katsuya Masuda;Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

127
Citations
The GENIA project: corpus-based knowledge acquisition and information extraction from genome research papers

Nigel Collier;Hyun Seok Park;Norihiro Ogata;Yuka Tateishi

113
Citations
Overview of the ID, EPI and REL tasks of BioNLP Shared Task 2011

Sampo Pyysalo;Tomoko Ohta;Rafal Rak;Daniel E. Sullivan

93
Citations
Overview of the Cancer Genetics and Pathway Curation tasks of BioNLP Shared Task 2013

Sampo Pyysalo;Tomoko Ohta;Rafal Rak;Andrew Rowley

85
Citations
BioCause: Annotating and analysing causality in the biomedical domain

Claudiu Mihăilă;Tomoko Ohta;Sampo Pyysalo;Sophia Ananiadou

84
Citations
New challenges for text mining: mapping between text and manually curated pathways.

Kanae Oda;Jin-Dong Kim;Tomoko Ohta;Daisuke Okanohara

84
Citations
Open-domain Anatomical Entity Mention Detection

Tomoko Ohta;Sampo Pyysalo;Jun'ichi Tsujii;Sophia Ananiadou

64
Citations
EXTRACTING BIO‐MOLECULAR EVENTS FROM LITERATURE—THE BIONLP’09 SHARED TASK

Jin-Dong Kim;Tomoko Ohta;Sampo Pyysalo;Yoshinobu Kano

64
Citations
Overview of the Pathway Curation (PC) task of BioNLP Shared Task 2013

Tomoko Ohta;Sampo Pyysalo;Rafal Rak;Andrew Rowley

60
Citations
Overview of the Cancer Genetics (CG) task of BioNLP Shared Task 2013

Sampo Pyysalo;Tomoko Ohta;Sophia Ananiadou

41
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun'ichi Tsujii University of Manchester

Sampo Pyysalo University of Turku

Sophia Ananiadou University of Manchester

Makoto Miwa Toyota Technological Institute

Yusuke Miyao University of Tokyo

Nigel Collier University of Cambridge

Yves Van de Peer Ghent University

Yoshimasa Tsuruoka University of Tokyo

Filip Ginter University of Turku

Bruno W. S. Sobral Virginia Tech

External Links

Wikipedia of Tomoko Ohta Google Scholar page

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