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Yasuhiko Saito

Yasuhiko Saito

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
46
Citations
8508
World Ranking
3648
National Ranking
8

Yasuhiko Saito publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yasuhiko Saito sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 158 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Yasuhiko Saito D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yasuhiko Saito sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Yasuhiko Saito is affiliated with Nihon University in Japan, focusing on research within the field of neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields, including cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and endocrine and autonomic systems.

The main themes explored in Saito's research include neuroscience and neuropharmacology, neuroscience of respiration and sleep, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, mitochondrial function and pathology, vestibular and auditory disorders, and tryptophan and brain disorders.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Saito include:

  • Manabu Makinodan
  • Kazuhiko Yamamuro
  • Taishiro Kishimoto
  • Taketoshi Sugimura
  • Kazuya Okamura

Publication venues where Saito's research frequently appears include:

  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
  • eNeuro

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Yasuhiko Saito are:

  • Brainstem Organoids From Human Pluripotent Stem Cells (2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience)
  • Brain-derived neurotrophic factor from microglia regulates neuronal development in the medial prefrontal cortex and its associated social behavior (2024, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Juvenile Social Isolation Enhances the Activity of Inhibitory Neuronal Circuits in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex (2020, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience)
  • Maternal Immune Activation Affects Hippocampal Excitatory and Inhibitory Synaptic Transmission in Offspring From an Early Developmental Period to Adulthood (2020, Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience)
  • Developmental dysregulation of excitatory-to-inhibitory GABA-polarity switch may underlie schizophrenia pathology: A monozygotic-twin discordant case analysis in human iPS cell-derived neurons (2021, Neurochemistry International)

Best Publications

  • Trends in healthy life expectancy in the United States, 1970-1990: gender, racial, and educational differences.

    Eileen M Crimmins;Yasuhiko Saito

  • Changing Mortality and Morbidity Rates and the Health Status and Life Expectancy of the Older Population

    Eileen M. Crimmins;Mark D. Hayward;Yasuhiko Saito

  • Spirituality, religiosity, aging and health in global perspective: A review

    Zachary Zimmer;Carol Jagger;Chi Tsun Chiu;Mary Beth Ofstedal

  • Changes in life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy in the United States

    Eileen M. Crimmins;Yasuhiko Saito;Dominique Ingegneri

  • Differentials in Active Life Expectancy in the Older Population of the United States

    Eileen M. Crimmins;Mark D. Hayward;Yasuhiko Saito

  • Further Evidence on Recent Trends in the Prevalence and Incidence of Disability among Older Americans from Two Sources: The LSOA and the NHIS

    Eileen M. Crimmins;Yasuhiko Saito;Sandra L. Reynolds

  • Trends in disability-free life expectancy in the United States 1970-90.

    Eileen M. Crimmins;Yasuhiko Saito;Dominique Ingegneri

  • Change in Disability-Free Life Expectancy for Americans 70 Years Old and Older

    Eileen M. Crimmins;Mark D. Hayward;Aaron Hagedorn;Yasuhiko Saito

  • The Impact of Obesity on Active Life Expectancy in Older American Men and Women

    Sandra L. Reynolds;Yasuhiko Saito;Eileen M. Crimmins

  • Getting Better and Getting Worse Transitions in Functional Status among Older Americans

    Eileen M. Crimmins;Yasuhiko Saito

  • Association between Depression and Insomnia Subtypes: A Longitudinal Study on the Elderly in Japan

    Eise Yokoyama;Yoshitaka Kaneita;Yasuhiko Saito;Makoto Uchiyama

  • Trends Over 4 Decades in Disability-Free Life Expectancy in the United States.

    Eileen M. Crimmins;Yuan Zhang;Yasuhiko Saito

  • The methods and materials of health expectancy

    Yasuhiko Saito;Jean-Marie Robine;Eileen M Crimmins

  • Cross-national comparison of sex differences in health and mortality in Denmark, Japan and the US

    Anna Oksuzyan;Anna Oksuzyan;Eileen Crimmins;Yasuhiko Saito;Angela O’Rand

  • Trends in Health Expectancies

    Jean-Marie Robine;Carol Jagger;Eileen M. Crimmins;Yasuhiko Saito

  • Change in the prevalence of diseases among older Americans: 1984-1994.

    Eileen M. Crimmins;Yasuhiko Saito

  • Estimation of multi-state life table functions and their variability from complex survey data using the SPACE program

    Liming Cai;Mark D. Hayward;Yasuhiko Saito;James Lubitz

  • Trends in Health and Ability to Work Among the Older Working-Age Population

    Eileen M. Crimmins;Sandra L. Reynolds;Yasuhiko Saito

  • Educational Differences in the Prevalence of Dementia and Life Expectancy with Dementia: Changes from 2000 to 2010.

    Eileen M Crimmins;Yasuhiko Saito;Jung Ki Kim;Yuan S Zhang

  • Trends in healthy life expectancy in Japan: 1986 - 2004

    Vanessa Yong;Yasuhiko Saito

  • Preference changes among American youth: family work and goods aspirations 1976-86.

    Eileen M. Crimmins;Richard A. Easterlin;Yasuhiko Saito

Frequent Co-Authors

Eileen M. Crimmins
Eileen M. Crimmins University of Southern California
Angelique Chan
Angelique Chan Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Carol Jagger
Carol Jagger Newcastle University
Zachary Zimmer
Zachary Zimmer Mount Saint Vincent University
Mark Hayward
Mark Hayward University of Sussex
Mary Beth Ofstedal
Mary Beth Ofstedal University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
François Herrmann
François Herrmann University of Geneva
David B. Matchar
David B. Matchar Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Truls Østbye
Truls Østbye Duke University

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