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Biology and Biochemistry

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134
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98050
World Ranking
356
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13

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647
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Yoshinori Ohsumi publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yoshinori Ohsumi sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 318 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Yoshinori Ohsumi D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yoshinori Ohsumi sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
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This scientist: 134 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2017 - Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for elucidating autophagy, the recycling system that cells use to generate nutrients from their own inessential or damaged components.
  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2016 - Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research, Johnson & Johnson for his pioneering discoveries in the field of autophagy.
  • 2016 - Nobel Prize for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy
  • 2015 - Canada Gairdner International Award
  • 2015 - Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2012 - Kyoto Prize in Life sciences Outstanding Contribution to Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms and Physiological Significance of Autophagy, a Cellular Adaptive System to Environment

Overview

Yoshinori Ohsumi is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on autophagy, a cellular recycling system that breaks down and reuses internal components. This topic dominates much of their scholarly output and is linked closely with related areas such as cellular transport and secretion and endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease.

Their recent publications include significant contributions to understanding the mechanisms and biological roles of autophagy. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Atg9 is a lipid scramblase that mediates autophagosomal membrane expansion" (2020), published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • "Phase separation organizes the site of autophagosome formation" (2020), published in Nature
  • "Liquidity Is a Critical Determinant for Selective Autophagy of Protein Condensates" (2020), published in Molecular Cell
  • "Membrane perturbation by lipidated Atg8 underlies autophagosome biogenesis" (2021), published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • "TORC1 inactivation stimulates autophagy of nucleoporin and nuclear pore complexes" (2020), published in The Journal of Cell Biology

Yoshinori Ohsumi frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Alexander I. May
  • Hitoshi Nakatogawa
  • Nobuo N. Noda
  • Tomoko Kawamata
  • Tetsuya Kotani

The researcher's work is often published in well-regarded scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Nihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi

Their main fields of study are biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Subfields covered include epidemiology, molecular biology, cell biology, plant science, and physiology. The core topics investigated encompass:

  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA modifications and cancer

Yoshinori Ohsumi's research achievements have been recognized through several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017
  • Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (2017) for elucidating autophagy
  • Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research, Johnson & Johnson (2016)
  • Nobel Prize (2016) for discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy
  • Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan (2015)
  • Canada Gairdner International Award (2015)
  • Kyoto Prize in Life Sciences (2012) for contributions to the molecular mechanisms and physiological significance of autophagy

Best Publications

  • LC3, a mammalian homologue of yeast Apg8p, is localized in autophagosome membranes after processing

    Yukiko Kabeya;Noboru Mizushima;Noboru Mizushima;Takashi Ueno;Akitsugu Yamamoto

  • The role of autophagy during the early neonatal starvation period

    Akiko Kuma;Masahiko Hatano;Makoto Matsui;Makoto Matsui;Akitsugu Yamamoto

  • The Role of Atg Proteins in Autophagosome Formation

    Noboru Mizushima;Tamotsu Yoshimori;Yoshinori Ohsumi

  • In Vivo Analysis of Autophagy in Response to Nutrient Starvation Using Transgenic Mice Expressing a Fluorescent Autophagosome Marker

    Noboru Mizushima;Akitsugu Yamamoto;Makoto Matsui;Makoto Matsui;Tamotsu Yoshimori

  • Promotion of tumorigenesis by heterozygous disruption of the beclin 1 autophagy gene

    Xueping Qu;Jie Yu;Govind Bhagat;Norihiko Furuya

  • Impairment of starvation-induced and constitutive autophagy in Atg7-deficient mice

    Masaaki Komatsu;Satoshi Waguri;Takashi Ueno;Junichi Iwata

  • Isolation and characterization of autophagy-defective mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Miki Tsukada;Yoshinori Ohsumi

  • A ubiquitin-like system mediates protein lipidation

    Yoshinobu Ichimura;Takayoshi Kirisako;Takayoshi Kirisako;Toshifumi Takao;Yoshinori Satomi

  • A protein conjugation system essential for autophagy

    Noboru Mizushima;Takeshi Noda;Tamotsu Yoshimori;Yae Tanaka

  • Dynamics and diversity in autophagy mechanisms: lessons from yeast

    Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Kuninori Suzuki;Yoshiaki Kamada;Yoshinori Ohsumi

  • Molecular dissection of autophagy: two ubiquitin-like systems.

    Yoshinori Ohsumi

  • Dissection of Autophagosome Formation Using Apg5-Deficient Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells

    Noboru Mizushima;Noboru Mizushima;Akitsugu Yamamoto;Masahiko Hatano;Yoshinori Kobayashi;Yoshinori Kobayashi

  • LC3, GABARAP and GATE16 localize to autophagosomal membrane depending on form-II formation.

    Yukiko Kabeya;Noboru Mizushima;Noboru Mizushima;Akitsugu Yamamoto;Satsuki Oshitani-Okamoto

  • Atg8, a Ubiquitin-like Protein Required for Autophagosome Formation, Mediates Membrane Tethering and Hemifusion

    Hitoshi Nakatogawa;Yoshinobu Ichimura;Yoshinori Ohsumi

  • A Unified Nomenclature for Yeast Autophagy-Related Genes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;James M. Cregg;William A Dunn;Scott D. Emr

  • Autophagy in yeast demonstrated with proteinase-deficient mutants and conditions for its induction

    Kazuhiko Takeshige;Misuzu Baba;Shigeru Tsuboi;Takeshi Noda

  • Tor, a Phosphatidylinositol Kinase Homologue, Controls Autophagy in Yeast

    Takeshi Noda;Yoshinori Ohsumi

  • Tor-Mediated Induction of Autophagy via an Apg1 Protein Kinase Complex

    Yoshiaki Kamada;Tomoko Funakoshi;Takahiro Shintani;Kazuya Nagano

  • Historical landmarks of autophagy research

    Yoshinori Ohsumi

  • The Atg12-Atg5 conjugate has a novel E3-like activity for protein lipidation in autophagy.

    Takao Hanada;Nobuo N. Noda;Yoshinori Satomi;Yoshinobu Ichimura

  • Two distinct Vps34 phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase complexes function in autophagy and carboxypeptidase Y sorting in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Akio Kihara;Takeshi Noda;Naotada Ishihara;Yoshinori Ohsumi

Frequent Co-Authors

Fuyuhiko Inagaki
Fuyuhiko Inagaki Hokkaido University
Noboru Mizushima
Noboru Mizushima University of Tokyo
Hitoshi Nakatogawa
Hitoshi Nakatogawa Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takeshi Noda
Takeshi Noda Osaka University
Tamotsu Yoshimori
Tamotsu Yoshimori Osaka University
Yasuhiro Anraku
Yasuhiro Anraku University of Tokyo
Yoh Wada
Yoh Wada Osaka University
Daniel J. Klionsky
Daniel J. Klionsky University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Akitsugu Yamamoto
Akitsugu Yamamoto Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology
Hisashi Hirano
Hisashi Hirano Yokohama City University

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