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Yoshitoshi Ogura

Yoshitoshi Ogura

Kurume University
Japan

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
49
Citations
13543
World Ranking
17853
National Ranking
1290

Yoshitoshi Ogura 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 Yoshitoshi Ogura sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 213 publications — 55th percentile

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

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

Yoshitoshi Ogura 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 Yoshitoshi Ogura sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 316 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 899 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,025 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,149 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,235 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,162 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,130 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,031 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 714 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: 71 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
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Yoshitoshi Ogura is affiliated with Kurume University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on Medicine. The scientist's work includes subfields such as Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Ecology, Molecular Medicine, and Infectious Diseases.

Ogura's recent publications cover a variety of microbiological and genomic topics. Notable papers include:

  • Insights into the acquisition of the pks island and production of colibactin in the Escherichia coli population (2021, Microbial Genomics)
  • Comprehensive Comparative Genomics and Phenotyping of Methylobacterium Species (2021, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • A bacterial small RNA regulates the adaptation of Helicobacter pylori to the host environment (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Platanus_B: an accurate de novo assembler for bacterial genomes using an iterative error-removal process (2020, DNA Research)
  • Differential dynamics and impacts of prophages and plasmids on the pangenome and virulence factor repertoires of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O145:H28 (2020, Microbial Genomics)

The following co-authors have frequently collaborated with Ogura:

  • Tetsuya Hayashi
  • Yasuhiro Gotoh
  • Miki Okuno
  • Keiji Nakamura
  • Atsushi Toyoda

Ogura's work is regularly published in specific scientific venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Microbial Genomics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • Communications Biology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Escherichia coli research studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Enterobacteriaceae and Cronobacter Research

Best Publications

  • Metagenomic and metabolomic analyses reveal distinct stage-specific phenotypes of the gut microbiota in colorectal cancer

    Shinichi Yachida;Sayaka Mizutani;Hirotsugu Shiroma;Satoshi Shiba

  • Efficient de novo assembly of highly heterozygous genomes from whole-genome shotgun short reads

    Rei Kajitani;Kouta Toshimoto;Hideki Noguchi;Atsushi Toyoda

  • Comparative Metagenomics Revealed Commonly Enriched Gene Sets in Human Gut Microbiomes

    Ken Kurokawa;Takehiko Itoh;Tomomi Kuwahara;Kenshiro Oshima

  • Bile acid is a host factor that regulates the composition of the cecal microbiota in rats

    K.B.M. Saiful Islam;Satoru Fukiya;Masahito Hagio;Nobuyuki Fujii

  • Comparative genomics reveal the mechanism of the parallel evolution of O157 and non-O157 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

    Yoshitoshi Ogura;Tadasuke Ooka;Atsushi Iguchi;Hidehiro Toh

  • Complete Genome Sequence and Comparative Genome Analysis of Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O127:H6 Strain E2348/69

    Atsushi Iguchi;Nicholas R. Thomson;Yoshitoshi Ogura;David L Saunders

  • Updating the Vibrio clades defined by multilocus sequence phylogeny: Proposal of eight new clades, and the description of Vibrio tritonius sp. nov.

    Tomoo Sawabe;Yoshitoshi Ogura;Yuta Matsumura;Gao Feng

  • The defective prophage pool of Escherichia coli O157: prophage-prophage interactions potentiate horizontal transfer of virulence determinants.

    Asadulghani;Yoshitoshi Ogura;Tadasuke Ooka;Takehiko Itoh;Takehiko Itoh

  • Genomic diversity of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 revealed by whole genome PCR scanning

    Makoto Ohnishi;Jun Terajima;Ken Kurokawa;Keisuke Nakayama

  • The genomic basis of parasitism in the Strongyloides clade of nematodes

    Vicky L Hunt;Isheng J Tsai;Avril Coghlan;Adam J Reid

  • The Whole-genome Sequencing of the Obligate Intracellular Bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi Revealed Massive Gene Amplification During Reductive Genome Evolution

    Keisuke Nakayama;Atsushi Yamashita;Ken Kurokawa;Takuya Morimoto

  • Is bile acid a determinant of the gut microbiota on a high-fat diet?

    Atsushi Yokota;Satoru Fukiya;K B M Saiful Islam;Tadasuke Ooka

  • Clinical significance of Escherichia albertii

    Tadasuke Ooka;Kazuko Seto;Kimiko Kawano;Hideki Kobayashi

  • ppGpp with DksA controls gene expression in the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity island of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli through activation of two virulence regulatory genes.

    Noriko Nakanishi;Hiroyuki Abe;Yoshitoshi Ogura;Tetsuya Hayashi

  • Genome Evolution and Plasticity of Serratia marcescens, an Important Multidrug-Resistant Nosocomial Pathogen

    Atsushi Iguchi;Yutaka Nagaya;Elizabeth Pradel;Tadasuke Ooka

  • A complete view of the genetic diversity of the Escherichia coli O-antigen biosynthesis gene cluster

    Atsushi Iguchi;Sunao Iyoda;Taisei Kikuchi;Yoshitoshi Ogura

  • A precise reconstruction of the emergence and constrained radiations of Escherichia coli O157 portrayed by backbone concatenomic analysis

    Shana R. Leopold;Vincent Magrini;Nicholas J. Holt;Nurmohammad Shaikh

  • Functional characterization of flavobacteria rhodopsins reveals a unique class of light-driven chloride pump in bacteria

    Susumu Yoshizawa;Yohei Kumagai;Hana Kim;Hana Kim;Yoshitoshi Ogura

  • Extensive genomic diversity and selective conservation of virulence-determinants in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli strains of O157 and non-O157 serotypes

    Yoshitoshi Ogura;Tadasuke Ooka;Asadulghani;Jun Terajima

  • Inference of the impact of insertion sequence (IS) elements on bacterial genome diversification through analysis of small-size structural polymorphisms in Escherichia coli O157 genomes

    Tadasuke Ooka;Yoshitoshi Ogura;Asadulghani;Makoto Ohnishi

Frequent Co-Authors

Tetsuya Hayashi
Tetsuya Hayashi Kyushu University
Ken Kurokawa
Ken Kurokawa National Institute of Genetics
Atsushi Toyoda
Atsushi Toyoda National Institute of Genetics
Takehiko Itoh
Takehiko Itoh Tokyo Institute of Technology
Makoto Ohnishi
Makoto Ohnishi National Institutes of Health
Masahira Hattori
Masahira Hattori Waseda University
Jacques Mainil
Jacques Mainil University of Liège
Hitomi Mimuro
Hitomi Mimuro Osaka University
Tomoo Sawabe
Tomoo Sawabe Hokkaido University
Kenshiro Oshima
Kenshiro Oshima University of Tokyo

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