Hiroki Oota

4.2k citations

73 papers · 2.3k · 1 hit paper · h-index 24

Impact in

Genetics top 2%
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Race, Genetics, and Society
Periodontics top 2%
- Oral microbiology and periodontitis research

Papers in

Genetics 42
- Forensic and Genetic Research 25
- Genetic diversity and population structure 13
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research 6
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 5
Archeology 11
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies 10

Co-authors: Stoneking Mark (5 shared papers)Takafumi Ishida (3 shared papers)Hajime Ishida (14 shared papers)Wannapa Settheetham‐Ishida (2 shared papers)Danai Tiwawech (2 shared papers)Naruya Saitou (5 shared papers)Ryosuke Kimura (10 shared papers)Shoji Kawamura (16 shared papers)
Journals: Anthropological Science (9 papers)Molecular Biology and Evolution (6 papers)PLoS ONE (5 papers)Gene (4 papers)Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (3 papers)
Partner nations: Japan United States Canada

In The Last Decade

Hiroki Oota

70 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hiroki Oota's Hit Papers

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A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan 2025 · 23 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

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1	Dysbiosis of Salivary Microbiota in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Its Association With Oral Immunological Biomarkers DNA Research ·Heba Shehta Said, Wataru Suda, Shigeki Nakagome, Hiroshi Chinen, Kenshiro Oshima, Sujin Kim, Ryosuke Kimura, Atsushi Iraha, Hajime Ishida, Jiro Fujita, Shuhei Mano, Hidetoshi Morita, Taeko Dohi, Hiroki Oota, Masahira Hattori	2013	328
2	Human mtDNA and Y-chromosome variation is correlated with matrilocal versus patrilocal residence Nature Genetics ·Hiroki Oota, Wannapa Settheetham‐Ishida, Danai Tiwawech, Takafumi Ishida, Stoneking Mark	2001	247
3	A Common Variation in EDAR Is a Genetic Determinant of Shovel-Shaped Incisors The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Ryosuke Kimura, Tetsutaro Yamaguchi, Mayako Takeda, Osamu Kondo, Takashi Toma, Kuniaki Haneji, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Hirotaka Matsukusa, Shoji Kawamura, Koutaro Maki, Motoki Osawa, Hajime Ishida, Hiroki Oota	2009	141
4	The evolution and population genetics of theALDH2locus: random genetic drift, selection, and low levels of recombination Annals of Human Genetics ·Hiroki Oota, ANDREW J. PAKSTIS, Batsheva Bonné‐Tamir, David A Goldman, Elena L. Grigorenko, Sylvester L.B. Kajuna, Nganyirwa J. Karoma, Selemani Kungulilo, Ru‐Band Lu, Kunle O. Odunsi, Friday Ebhodaghe Okonofua, Olga Valerevna Zhukova, Judith R. Kidd, Kenneth K. Kídd	2004	140
5	The history of human populations in the Japanese Archipelago inferred from genome-wide SNP data with a special reference to the Ainu and the Ryukyuan populations Journal of Human Genetics ·Timothy Jinam, N Saitou, Nao Nishida, K Tokunaga, Momoki Hirai, Shoji Kawamura, Hiroki Oota, Kazuo Umetsu, Ryosuke Kimura, Jun Ohashi, Atsushi Tajima, Toshimichi Yamamoto, Hideyuki Tanabe, Shuhei Mano, Yumiko Suto, Tadashi Kaname, Kenji Naritomi, Kumiko Yanagi, Norio Niikawa, Keiichi Omoto	2012	93
6	Evidence of Positive Selection on a Class I ADH Locus The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Yi Han, Sheng Gu, Hiroki Oota, Michael V. Osier, ANDREW J. PAKSTIS, William C. Speed, Judith R. Kidd, Kenneth K. Kídd	2007	87
7	Extreme mtDNA homogeneity in continental Asian populations American Journal of Physical Anthropology ·Hiroki Oota, Takashi Kitano, Feng Jin, Isao Yuasa, Li Wang, Shintaroh Ueda, Naruya Saitou, Stoneking Mark	2002	86
8	A genetic study of 2,000‐year‐old human remains from Japan using mitochondrial DNA sequences American Journal of Physical Anthropology ·Hiroki Oota, Naruya Saitou, Takayuki Matsushita, Shintaroh Ueda	1995	75
9	Origin and dispersal of atypical aldehyde dehydrogenase ALDH2⁎487Lys Gene ·Huai‐Rong Luo, Gui-Sheng Wu, ANDREW J. PAKSTIS, Tong Li, Hiroki Oota, Kenneth K. Kídd, Ya‐Ping Zhang	2009	73
10	An Explicit Signature of Balancing Selection for Color-Vision Variation in New World Monkeys Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Tomohide Hiwatashi, Yoji Okabe, Takaaki Tsutsui, Chihiro Hiramatsu, Amanda Dawn Melin, Hiroki Oota, Colleen M. Schaffner, Filippo Aureli, Linda Marie Fedigan, Hideki Innan, Shoji Kawamura	2009	68
11	Effects of an Asian-specific nonsynonymous EDAR variant on multiple dental traits Journal of Human Genetics ·Jeong-Heuy Park, Tetsutaro Yamaguchi, Chiaki Watanabe, Akira Kawaguchi, Kuniaki Haneji, Mayako Takeda, Yong‐Il Kim, Yoko Tomoyasu, Miyuki Watanabe, Hiroki Oota, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Hajime Ishida, Koutaro Maki, Soo‐Byung Park, Ryosuke Kimura	2012	66
12	Molecular Genetic Analysis of Remains of a 2,000-Year-Old Human Population in China—and Its Relevance for the Origin of the Modern Japanese Population The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Hiroki Oota, Naruya Saitou, Takayuki Matsushita, Shintaroh Ueda	1999	65
13	Chemotactic responses to an attractant and a repellent by the polar and lateral flagellar systems of Vibrio alginolyticus Microbiology ·M. Homma, Hiroki Oota, Seiji Kojima, Ikuro Kawagishi, Yasuo Imae	1996	61
14	Recent Origin and Cultural Reversion of a Hunter–Gatherer Group PLoS Biology ·Hiroki Oota, Brigitte Pakendorf, Günter Weiß, Arndt von Haeseler, Surin Pookajorn, Wannapa Settheetham‐Ishida, Danai Tiwawech, Takafumi Ishida, Stoneking Mark	2005	50
15	Genome-Wide SNP Analysis Reveals Population Structure and Demographic History of the Ryukyu Islanders in the Southern Part of the Japanese Archipelago Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Takehiro K. Sato, Shigeki Nakagome, Chiaki Watanabe, Kyoko Yamaguchi, Akira Kawaguchi, Kae Koganebuchi, Kuniaki Haneji, Tetsutaro Yamaguchi, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Ken Yamamoto, Hajime Ishida, Shuhei Mano, Ryosuke Kimura, Hiroki Oota	2014	47
16	Nucleotide compositional constraints on genomes generate alanine-, glycine-, and proline-rich structures in transcription factors Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Yutaka Nakachi, Toshiyuki Hayakawa, Hiroki Oota, Kenta Sumiyama, Lihui Wang, Shintaroh Ueda	1997	44
17	Genetic Structure of a 2,500-Year-Old Human Population in China and Its Spatiotemporal Changes Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Li Wang, Hiroki Oota, Naruya Saitou, Feng Jin, Takayuki Matsushita, Shintaroh Ueda	2000	39
18	Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia Science Advances ·Hiromi Matsumae, Peter Ranacher, Patrick E. Savage, Damián Ezequiel Blasi, Thomas E. Currie, Kae Koganebuchi, Nao Nishida, Takehiro K. Sato, Hideyuki Tanabe, Atsushi Tajima, Steven Brown, Stoneking Mark, Kentaro K. Shimizu, Hiroki Oota, Balthasar Bickel	2021	37
19	Conservative evolution in duplicated genes of the primate Class I ADH cluster Gene ·Hiroki Oota, Casey W. Dunn, William C. Speed, ANDREW J. PAKSTIS, Meg A. Palmatier, Judith R. Kidd, Kenneth K. Kídd	2006	35
20	Population‐Specific Susceptibility to Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis; Dominant and Recessive Relative Risks in the Japanese Population Annals of Human Genetics ·Shigeki Nakagome, Yasuaki Takeyama, Shuhei Mano, Shotaro Sakisaka, Toshiyuki Matsui, Shoji Kawamura, Hiroki Oota	2010	33

About Hiroki Oota

Hiroki Oota is a scholar working on Genetics, Archeology, Molecular Biology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, having authored 73 papers that have together received 2.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Forensic and Genetic Research (25 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (13 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (10 papers), Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (6 papers), Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (6 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (5 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (1.0k citations), Periodontics (139 citations), Archeology (307 citations), Paleontology (109 citations) and Molecular Biology (734 citations). Hiroki Oota has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Stoneking Mark, Takafumi Ishida, Hajime Ishida, Wannapa Settheetham‐Ishida, Danai Tiwawech, Naruya Saitou, Ryosuke Kimura, Shoji Kawamura, Shuhei Mano and Shigeki Nakagome. Their work appears in journals such as Anthropological Science, Molecular Biology and Evolution, PLoS ONE, Gene and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

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