Masaki Imai

ORCID: 0000-0001-6988-1975

Also affiliated with National Institute of Infectious Diseases, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Kobe University, The University of Tokyo

Medicine

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An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 3 indexed papers attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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Papers

Driven by 18 papers. Top paper: “Characterization and antiviral susceptibility of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2”.

Characterization and antiviral susceptibility of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-04856-1

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10.7DataRank · unranked

293 citations

Maki Kiso, Shun Iida, Masaki Imai, Emi Takashita, Makoto Kuroda +64 more

The SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 Omicron virus causes attenuated infection and disease in mice and hamsters

Research Square(2021)10.21203/rs.3.rs-1211792/v1

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8.4DataRank · unranked

87 citations

Peter Halfmann, Tadashi Maemura, Kiyoko Iwatsuki‐Horimoto, Shun Iida, Maki Kiso +60 more

Characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.621 (Mu) variant

Science Translational Medicine(2022)10.1126/scitranslmed.abm4908

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1.9DataRank · unranked

38 citations

Makoto Kuroda, Tammy Armbrust, James Theiler, Ariane Balaram, Gage K. Moreno +25 more

Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2.75 clinical isolates

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.08.26.505450

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1.0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Shun Iida, Peter Halfmann, Seiya Yamayoshi, Yuichiro Hirata, Kiyoko Iwatsuki‐Horimoto +25 more

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron virus causes attenuated disease in mice and hamsters

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-04441-6

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0.983DataRank · unranked

700 citations

Shun Iida, Kiyoko Iwatsuki‐Horimoto, Tadashi Maemura, Maki Kiso, Suzanne M. Scheaffer +77 more

Enhanced fusogenicity and pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2 Delta P681R mutation

Nature(2021)10.1038/s41586-021-04266-9

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0.980DataRank · unranked

688 citations

Takashi Irie, Rigel Suzuki, Tadashi Maemura, Hesham Nasser, Keiya Uriu +51 more

A Role for the C Terminus of Mopeia Virus Nucleoprotein in Its Incorporation into Z Protein-Induced Virus-Like Particles

Journal of Virology(2010)10.1128/jvi.02417-09

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0.598DataRank · unranked

53 citations

Masaki Imai, Hideo Goto, Igor S. Lukashevich, Gabriele Neumann, Tokiko Watanabe +2 more

Effectiveness of HEPA Filters at Removing Infectious SARS-CoV-2 from the Air

mSphere(2022)10.1128/msphere.00086-22

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0.515DataRank · unranked

30 citations

Michiko Ujie, Yosuke Komori, Tatsuo Kato, Masaki Imai, Yoshihiro Kawaoka +1 more

Highly pathogenic avian H5N1 influenza A virus replication in ex vivo cultures of bovine mammary gland and teat tissues

Emerging Microbes & Infections(2025)10.1080/22221751.2025.2450029

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0.483DataRank · unranked

24 citations

Hiroshi Ueki, Mutsumi Ito, Kiyoko Iwatsuki-Horimoto, Maki Kiso, Asim Biswas +7 more

Therapeutic efficacy of monoclonal antibodies and antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 in Syrian hamsters

Nature Microbiology(2022)10.1038/s41564-022-01170-4

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0DataRank · unranked

39 citations

Maki Kiso, Masaki Imai, Seiya Yamayoshi, Mutsumi Ito, Seiichiro Fujisaki +10 more

Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 isolates in rodents

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-05482-7

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0DataRank · unranked

110 citations

Peter Halfmann, Shun Iida, Seiya Yamayoshi, Yuri Furusawa, Maki Kiso +21 more

Efficacy of Antibodies and Antiviral Drugs against Omicron BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 Subvariants

New England Journal of Medicine(2022)10.1056/nejmc2207519

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0DataRank · unranked

323 citations

Seiya Yamayoshi, Viviana Simon, Harm van Bakel, Emilia Mia Sordillo, Andrew Pekosz +11 more

Identification of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro inhibitors containing P1’ 4-fluorobenzothiazole moiety highly active against SARS-CoV-2

Nature Communications(2023)10.1038/s41467-023-36729-0

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0DataRank · unranked

45 citations

Kohei Tsuji, Hironori Hayashi, Haydar Bulut, Maki Kiso, Masaki Imai +30 more

Efficacy of antivirals and mRNA vaccination against an XBF clinical isolate

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific(2023)10.1016/j.lanwpc.2023.100777

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Mutsumi Ito, Maki Kiso, Seiya Yamayoshi, Kiyoko Iwatsuki‐Horimoto, Yuko Sakai‐Tagawa +15 more

Co-administration of Favipiravir and the Remdesivir Metabolite GS-441524 Effectively Reduces SARS-CoV-2 Replication in the Lungs of the Syrian Hamster Model

UNC Libraries(2024)10.17615/k6vy-x708

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Noriaki Nakajima, Masaru Okuda, Makoto Kiso, Baric R.S, Thomas Armbrust +13 more

Plasticity of the Influenza Virus H5 HA Protein

mBio(2021)10.1128/mbio.03324-20

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0DataRank · unranked

17 citations

David F. Burke, Tiago José da Silva Lopes, K. Takada, Masaki Imai, Gongxun Zhong +7 more

Highly Neutralizing COVID-19 Convalescent Plasmas Potently Block SARS-CoV-2 Replication and Pneumonia in Syrian Hamsters

Journal of Virology(2021)10.1128/jvi.01551-21

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0DataRank · unranked

26 citations

Masaki Imai, Kenji Maeda, Noriko Nakajima, Nobuyo Higashi‐Kuwata, Kiyoko Iwatsuki‐Horimoto +9 more

Characterization of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant that emerged in Brazil

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2021)10.1073/pnas.2106535118

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0DataRank · unranked

87 citations

Peter Halfmann, Seiya Yamayoshi, Kiyoko Iwatsuki‐Horimoto, S. Chiba, Tokiko Watanabe +54 more