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Yuchio Yanagawa

Yuchio Yanagawa

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
85
Citations
25258
World Ranking
1340
National Ranking
23

Yuchio Yanagawa publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yuchio Yanagawa sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 461 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Yuchio Yanagawa D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yuchio Yanagawa sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Yuchio Yanagawa is affiliated with Gunma University in Japan and specializes primarily in the field of Neuroscience, with a focused expertise in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Developmental Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Neurology. Their research portfolio includes work on neuroscience and neuropharmacology, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, tryptophan and brain disorders, GABA-related studies, memory and neural mechanisms, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, and nerve injury and regeneration.

Yanagawa has contributed to numerous recent papers, including:

  • FoxG1 regulates the formation of cortical GABAergic circuit during an early postnatal critical period resulting in autism spectrum disorder-like phenotypes (2021, Nature Communications)
  • BDNF Expression in Cortical GABAergic Interneurons (2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • DSCAM regulates delamination of neurons in the developing midbrain (2020, Science Advances)
  • Direct reprogramming of oligodendrocyte precursor cells into GABAergic inhibitory neurons by a single homeodomain transcription factor Dlx2 (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • CRISPR/Cas9-engineered Gad1 elimination in rats leads to complex behavioral changes: implications for schizophrenia (2020, Translational Psychiatry)

Frequent co-authors with whom Yanagawa has collaborated include Kazuyuki Fujihara, Toshikazu Kakizaki, Shigeo Miyata, Masahiko Watanabe, and Kenji Sakimura.

Yanagawa has published multiple works in leading journals and venues such as Scientific Reports, FEBS Open Bio, Journal of Neurochemistry, and the Proceedings for the Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society, as well as preprints hosted on Research Square.

Best Publications

  • Green fluorescent protein expression and colocalization with calretinin, parvalbumin, and somatostatin in the GAD67-GFP knock-in mouse.

    Nobuaki Tamamaki;Yuchio Yanagawa;Ryohei Tomioka;Jun Ichi Miyazaki

  • Nav1.1 Localizes to Axons of Parvalbumin-Positive Inhibitory Interneurons: A Circuit Basis for Epileptic Seizures in Mice Carrying an Scn1a Gene Mutation

    Ikuo Ogiwara;Hiroyuki Miyamoto;Noriyuki Morita;Nafiseh Atapour

  • Hardwiring the brain: endocannabinoids shape neuronal connectivity.

    Paul Berghuis;Ann M. Rajnicek;Yury M. Morozov;Ruth A. Ross

  • Molecular interrogation of hypothalamic organization reveals distinct dopamine neuronal subtypes

    Roman A Romanov;Amit Zeisel;Joanne Bakker;Fatima Girach

  • Lhx6 Activity Is Required for the Normal Migration and Specification of Cortical Interneuron Subtypes

    Petros Liodis;Myrto Denaxa;Marirena Grigoriou;Cynthia Akufo-Addo

  • Integration of electrophysiological recordings with single-cell RNA-seq data identifies neuronal subtypes

    János Fuzik;János Fuzik;Amit Zeisel;Zoltán Máté;Daniela Calvigioni;Daniela Calvigioni

  • Preferential labeling of inhibitory and excitatory cortical neurons by endogenous tropism of adeno-associated virus and lentivirus vectors.

    Jason L Nathanson;Yuchio Yanagawa;Kunihiko Obata;Edward M Callaway

  • A Top-Down Cortical Circuit for Accurate Sensory Perception.

    Satoshi Manita;Takayuki Suzuki;Chihiro Homma;Takashi Matsumoto

  • A specialized subclass of interneurons mediates dopaminergic facilitation of amygdala function.

    Anne Marowsky;Yuchio Yanagawa;Kunihiko Obata;Kaspar Emanuel Vogt

  • A subpopulation of olfactory bulb GABAergic interneurons is derived from Emx1- and Dlx5/6-expressing progenitors.

    Minoree Kohwi;Magdalena A. Petryniak;Jason E. Long;Marc Ekker

  • GABAergic Neurons Are Less Selective to Stimulus Orientation than Excitatory Neurons in Layer II/III of Visual Cortex, as Revealed by In Vivo Functional Ca2+ Imaging in Transgenic Mice

    Kazuhiro Sohya;Katsuro Kameyama;Yuchio Yanagawa;Kunihiko Obata

  • Demonstration of long-range GABAergic connections distributed throughout the mouse neocortex

    Ryohei Tomioka;Keiko Okamoto;Takahiro Furuta;Fumino Fujiyama

  • Quantitative Chemical Composition of Cortical GABAergic Neurons Revealed in Transgenic Venus-Expressing Rats

    Masakazu Uematsu;Yasuharu Hirai;Fuyuki Karube;Satoe Ebihara

  • Aire controls the differentiation program of thymic epithelial cells in the medulla for the establishment of self-tolerance

    Masashi Yano;Noriyuki Kuroda;Hongwei Han;Makiko Meguro-Horike

  • Mammalian motor neurons corelease glutamate and acetylcholine at central synapses

    Hiroshi Nishimaru;Carlos Ernesto Restrepo;Jesper Ryge;Yuchio Yanagawa

  • Postnatal Differentiation of Basket Cells from Slow to Fast Signaling Devices

    Daniel Doischer;Jonas Aurel Hosp;Yuchio Yanagawa;Kunihiko Obata

  • Genetic manipulation of autonomic nerve fiber innervation and activity and its effect on breast cancer progression.

    Atsunori Kamiya;Atsunori Kamiya;Yohsuke Hayama;Shigeki Kato;Akihiko Shimomura

  • Molecular identity of periglomerular and short axon cells

    Emi Kiyokage;Yu Zhen Pan;Zuoyi Shao;Kazuto Kobayashi

  • Increased LIS1 expression affects human and mouse brain development

    Weimin Bi;Tamar Sapir;Oleg A. Shchelochkov;Feng Zhang

  • The Fraction of Cortical GABAergic Neurons Is Constant from Near the Start of Cortical Neurogenesis to Adulthood

    Setsuko Sahara;Yuchio Yanagawa;Dennis D M O'Leary;Charles F Stevens

  • RGS2 modulates coupling between GABAB receptors and GIRK channels in dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area.

    Gwenaël Labouèbe;Marta Lomazzi;Hans G Cruz;Cyril Creton

Frequent Co-Authors

Kunihiko Obata
Kunihiko Obata The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Atsuo Fukuda
Atsuo Fukuda Hamamatsu University
Masahiko Watanabe
Masahiko Watanabe Hokkaido University
Tadashi Isa
Tadashi Isa Kyoto University
Nobuaki Tamamaki
Nobuaki Tamamaki Kumamoto University
Tibor Harkany
Tibor Harkany Medical University of Vienna
Kenji Sakimura
Kenji Sakimura Niigata University
Takeshi Kaneko
Takeshi Kaneko Kyoto University
Hiroyuki Sakagami
Hiroyuki Sakagami Kitasato University

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