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D-Index
53
Citations
12013
World Ranking
4063
National Ranking
166

Yuji Sekiguchi publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

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

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 152 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Yuji Sekiguchi D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yuji Sekiguchi is affiliated with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Within these fields, they have contributed notably to subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, Infectious Diseases, and Oncology.

Sekiguchi's work focuses on topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Gut Microbiota and Health, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies.

The scientist has a record of publishing in several venues where they have multiple papers, including Microbiology Resource Announcements, Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Microbiology Spectrum, and Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.

Frequent collaborators with Sekiguchi include Dieter M. Tourlousse, Akiko Ohashi, Mayu Hamajima, Koji Narita, and Mitsuo Sakamoto. These collaborations reflect ongoing research networks within microbiology and molecular biology fields.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Sekiguchi include:

  • Validation and standardization of DNA extraction and library construction methods for metagenomics-based human fecal microbiome measurements, 2021, Microbiome
  • Characterization and Demonstration of Mock Communities as Control Reagents for Accurate Human Microbiome Community Measurements, 2022, Microbiology Spectrum
  • Genomic and Physiological Characteristics of a Novel Nitrite-Oxidizing Nitrospira Strain Isolated From a Drinking Water Treatment Plant, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Physiological and genomic characterization of a new ' Candidatus Nitrotoga' isolate, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • Microbiota-driven antitumour immunity mediated by dendritic cell migration, 2025, Nature

Best Publications

  • Anaerolinea thermolimosa sp. nov., Levilinea saccharolytica gen. nov., sp. nov. and Leptolinea tardivitalis gen. nov., sp. nov., novel filamentous anaerobes, and description of the new classes Anaerolineae classis nov. and Caldilineae classis nov. in the bacterial phylum Chloroflexi.

    Takeshi Yamada;Takeshi Yamada;Yuji Sekiguchi;Yuji Sekiguchi;Satoshi Hanada;Hiroyuki Imachi

  • Fluorescence in situ hybridization using 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotides reveals localization of methanogens and selected uncultured bacteria in mesophilic and thermophilic sludge granules

    Yuji Sekiguchi;Yoichi Kamagata;Kazunori Nakamura;Akiyoshi Ohashi

  • Gemmatimonas aurantiaca gen. nov., sp. nov., a gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism, the first cultured representative of the new bacterial phylum Gemmatimonadetes phyl. nov.

    Hui Zhang;Hui Zhang;Yuji Sekiguchi;Satoshi Hanada;Philip Hugenholtz

  • Bellilinea caldifistulae gen. nov., sp. nov. and Longilinea arvoryzae gen. nov., sp. nov., strictly anaerobic, filamentous bacteria of the phylum Chloroflexi isolated from methanogenic propionate-degrading consortia.

    Takeshi Yamada;Takeshi Yamada;Hiroyuki Imachi;Hiroyuki Imachi;Akiyoshi Ohashi;Hideki Harada;Hideki Harada

  • Anaerolinea thermophila gen. nov., sp. nov. and Caldilinea aerophila gen. nov., sp. nov., novel filamentous thermophiles that represent a previously uncultured lineage of the domain Bacteria at the subphylum level

    Yuji Sekiguchi;Takeshi Yamada;Satoshi Hanada;Akiyoshi Ohashi

  • Phylogenetic diversity of mesophilic and thermophilic granular sludges determined by 16s rRNA gene analysis

    Yuji Sekiguchi;Yoichi Kamagata;Kazuaki Syutsubo;Akiyoshi Ohashi

  • Comparative analysis of bacterial diversity in freshwater sediment of a shallow eutrophic lake by molecular and improved cultivation-based techniques.

    Hideyuki Tamaki;Yuji Sekiguchi;Satoshi Hanada;Kazunori Nakamura

  • An expanded genomic representation of the phylum cyanobacteria.

    Rochelle M. Soo;Connor T. Skennerton;Yuji Sekiguchi;Michael Imelfort

  • Syntrophorhabdus aromaticivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., the First Cultured Anaerobe Capable of Degrading Phenol to Acetate in Obligate Syntrophic Associations with a Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen

    Yan Ling Qiu;Satoshi Hanada;Akiyoshi Ohashi;Hideki Harada

  • Cultivation of uncultured chloroflexi subphyla: significance and ecophysiology of formerly uncultured chloroflexi 'subphylum i' with natural and biotechnological relevance.

    Takeshi Yamada;Yuji Sekiguchi

  • Diversity, Localization, and Physiological Properties of Filamentous Microbes Belonging to Chloroflexi Subphylum I in Mesophilic and Thermophilic Methanogenic Sludge Granules

    Takeshi Yamada;Takeshi Yamada;Yuji Sekiguchi;Yuji Sekiguchi;Hiroyuki Imachi;Yoichi Kamagata;Yoichi Kamagata

  • Pelotomaculum thermopropionicum gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermophilic, syntrophic propionate-oxidizing bacterium.

    Hiroyuki Imachi;Yuji Sekiguchi;Yoichi Kamagata;Satoshi Hanada

  • Microbial communities in anaerobic digestion processes for waste and wastewater treatment: a microbiological update.

    Takashi Narihiro;Yuji Sekiguchi

  • Comparison of Electrode Reduction Activities of Geobacter sulfurreducens and an Enriched Consortium in an Air-Cathode Microbial Fuel Cell

    Shun'ichi Ishii;Kazuya Watanabe;Soichi Yabuki;Bruce E. Logan

  • Lentimicrobium saccharophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium representing a new family in the phylum Bacteroidetes, and proposal of Lentimicrobiaceae fam. nov

    Liwei Sun;Liwei Sun;Mayu Toyonaga;Akiko Ohashi;Dieter M. Tourlousse

  • Methanolinea tarda gen. nov., sp. nov. a methane-producing archaeon isolated from a methanogenic digester sludge

    Hiroyuki Imachi;Sanae Sakai;Yuji Sekiguchi;Yuji Sekiguchi;Satoshi Hanada

  • Syntrophothermus lipocalidus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, syntrophic, fatty-acid-oxidizing anaerobe which utilizes isobutyrate.

    Yuji Sekiguchi;Yoichi Kamagata;Kazunori Nakamura;Akiyoshi Ohashi

  • Synthetic spike-in standards for high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing.

    Dieter M Tourlousse;Satowa Yoshiike;Akiko Ohashi;Satoko Matsukura

  • Non-sulfate-reducing, syntrophic bacteria affiliated with desulfotomaculum cluster I are widely distributed in methanogenic environments.

    Hiroyuki Imachi;Yuji Sekiguchi;Yuji Sekiguchi;Yoichi Kamagata;Yoichi Kamagata;Alexander Loy

  • In Situ Detection, Isolation, and Physiological Properties of a Thin Filamentous Microorganism Abundant in Methanogenic Granular Sludges: a Novel Isolate Affiliated with a Clone Cluster, the Green Non-Sulfur Bacteria, Subdivision I

    Yuji Sekiguchi;Yuji Sekiguchi;Hiroki Takahashi;Yoichi Kamagata;Akiyoshi Ohashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoichi Kamagata
Yoichi Kamagata National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Hideki Harada
Hideki Harada Tohoku University
Akiyoshi Ohashi
Akiyoshi Ohashi Hiroshima University
Satoshi Tsuneda
Satoshi Tsuneda Waseda University
Hiroyuki Imachi
Hiroyuki Imachi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Philip Hugenholtz
Philip Hugenholtz University of Queensland
Kohji Moriishi
Kohji Moriishi University of Yamanashi
Moriya Ohkuma
Moriya Ohkuma National Presto Industries
Wen-Tso Liu
Wen-Tso Liu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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