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 Yasuko Rikihisa sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 311 publications — 91st percentile
91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.
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 Yasuko Rikihisa sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 82 D-Index — 98th percentile
98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.
Yasuko Rikihisa is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology as well as Medicine, with a focus on parasitology, infectious diseases, and immunology among other subfields.
The scientist has published extensively on topics related to vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and vectors, toxin mechanisms and immunotoxins, vector-borne animal diseases, mosquito-borne diseases and control, antimicrobial peptides and their activities, and invertebrate immune response mechanisms.
Notable recent papers include:
Frequent coauthors who have collaborated extensively with Rikihisa include:
Their work has appeared repeatedly in several scientific journals, most notably:
Yasuko Rikihisa's contributions to the scientific community have been recognized through several honors, including election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005, membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, and designation as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2014.
Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif
Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin
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Julie C Dunning Hotopp;Mingqun Lin;Ramana Madupu;Jonathan Crabtree
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Harold Neimark;Karl-Erik Johansson;Yasuko Rikihisa;Joseph G. Tully
Miriam Perez;Mairim Bodor;Chunbin Zhang;Qingmin Xiong
Makoto Kawahara;Yasuko Rikihisa;Quan Lin;Emiko Isogai
Mingqun Lin;Yasuko Rikihisa
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Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin
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Makoto Kawahara;Yasuko Rikihisa;Emiko Isogai;Mamoru Takahashi
Bohai Wen;Yasuko Rikihisa;Jason M. Mott;Russell Greene
Norio Ohashi;Ning Zhi;Yilan Zhang;Yasuko Rikihisa
Harold Neimark;Karl Erik Johansson;Yasuko Rikihisa;Joseph G. Tully
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Mingqun Lin;Amke den Dulk-Ras;Paul J J Hooykaas;Yasuko Rikihisa
Kiyotaka Yoshiie;Hyung-Yong Kim;Jason Mott;Yasuko Rikihisa
Norio Ohashi;Ahmet Unver;Ning Zhi;Yasuko Rikihisa
Shin Ichiro Shibata;Makoto Kawahara;Yasuko Rikihisa;Hiromi Fujita
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