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Atsushi Masamune

Atsushi Masamune

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
79
Citations
21727
World Ranking
17614
National Ranking
560

Atsushi Masamune publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

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

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 761 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Atsushi Masamune D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

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

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Atsushi Masamune is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with substantial contributions in surgery, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, oncology, epidemiology, and genetics.

The scientist has a body of work centered around several main topics, including:

  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
  • Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances
  • Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments

Atsushi Masamune has published frequently in various academic journals. The venues where they have the most publications include:

  • Gastroenterology
  • Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  • Digestive Endoscopy
  • Clinical Journal of Gastroenterology

Their recent published papers include:

  • Genetic architecture of the inflammatory bowel diseases across East Asian and European ancestries, 2023, Nature Genetics
  • Prediction model of bleeding after endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer: BEST-J score, 2020, Gut
  • Variants That Affect Function of Calcium Channel TRPV6 Are Associated With Early-Onset Chronic Pancreatitis, 2020, Gastroenterology
  • Amendment of the Japanese consensus guidelines for autoimmune pancreatitis, 2020, 2022, Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Identification of two major autoantigens negatively regulating endothelial activation in Takayasu arteritis, 2020, Nature Communications

Collaboratively, Atsushi Masamune has frequently coauthored with researchers including:

  • Waku Hatta
  • Tomoyuki Koike
  • Yoichi Kakuta
  • Hisashi Shiga
  • Rintaro Moroi

Best Publications

  • Vitamin D Receptor-Mediated Stromal Reprogramming Suppresses Pancreatitis and Enhances Pancreatic Cancer Therapy

    Mara H. Sherman;Ruth T. Yu;Dannielle D. Engle;Ning Ding

  • Expression of survivin is correlated with cancer cell apoptosis and is involved in the development of human pancreatic duct cell tumors.

    Kennichi Satoh;Kenzo Kaneko;Morihisa Hirota;Atsushi Masamune

  • StellaTUM: current consensus and discussion on pancreatic stellate cell research

    Mert Erkan;Guido Adler;Minoti V. Apte;Max G. Bachem

  • Variants in CPA1 are strongly associated with early onset chronic pancreatitis

    Heiko Witt;Sebastian Beer;Jonas Rosendahl;Jian Min Chen;Jian Min Chen

  • Hypoxia stimulates pancreatic stellate cells to induce fibrosis and angiogenesis in pancreatic cancer.

    Atsushi Masamune;Kazuhiro Kikuta;Takashi Watanabe;Kennichi Satoh

  • Roles of Pancreatic Stellate Cells in Pancreatic Inflammation and Fibrosis

    Atsushi Masamune;Takashi Watanabe;Kazuhiro Kikuta;Tooru Shimosegawa

  • Induction of Apoptosis by Sphingosine in Human Leukemic HL-60 Cells: A Possible Endogenous Modulator of Apoptotic DNA Fragmentation Occurring during Phorbol Ester-induced Differentiation

    Hideki Ohta;Elizabeth A. Sweeney;Atsushi Masamune;Yutaka Yatomi

  • Signal transduction in pancreatic stellate cells

    Atsushi Masamune;Tooru Shimosegawa

  • Meflin-positive cancer-associated fibroblasts inhibit pancreatic carcinogenesis

    Yasuyuki Mizutani;Hiroki Kobayashi;Hiroki Kobayashi;Tadashi Iida;Naoya Asai

  • Multicenter study of early pancreatic cancer in Japan

    Atsushi Kanno;Atsushi Masamune;Keiji Hanada;Hiroyuki Maguchi

  • Pancreatic stellate cells promote epithelial-mesenchymal transition in pancreatic cancer cells

    Kazuhiro Kikuta;Atsushi Masamune;Takashi Watanabe;Hiroyuki Ariga

  • Pancreatic Stellate Cells Radioprotect Pancreatic Cancer Cells through β1-Integrin Signaling

    Tine S. Mantoni;Serena Lunardi;Osama Al-Assar;Atsushi Masamune

  • Sphingosine and its methylated derivative N,N-dimethylsphingosine (DMS) induce apoptosis in a variety of human cancer cell lines.

    Elizabeth A. Sweeney;Chouhei Sakakura;Tsutomu Shirahama;Atsushi Masamune

  • Prevalence of IgG4-Related Disease in Japan Based on Nationwide Survey in 2009.

    Kazushige Uchida;Atsushi Masamune;Tooru Shimosegawa;Kazuichi Okazaki

  • International consensus for the treatment of autoimmune pancreatitis

    Kazuichi Okazaki;Suresh T. Chari;Luca Frulloni;Markus M. Lerch

  • Inhibition of nuclear factor-κB activation improves the survival of rats with taurocholate pancreatitis

    A Satoh;T Shimosegawa;M Fujita;K Kimura

  • Randomised controlled trial of long-term maintenance corticosteroid therapy in patients with autoimmune pancreatitis.

    Atsushi Masamune;Isao Nishimori;Kazuhiro Kikuta;Ichiro Tsuji

  • Pancreatic ischemia associated with vasospasm in the early phase of human acute necrotizing pancreatitis.

    Kazunori Takeda;Yukio Mikami;Shoji Fukuyama;Shinichi Egawa

  • MiR-126 acts as a tumor suppressor in pancreatic cancer cells via the regulation of ADAM9.

    Shin Hamada;Kennichi Satoh;Wataru Fujibuchi;Morihisa Hirota

  • Recent advances in autoimmune pancreatitis

    Terumi Kamisawa;Taku Tabata;Seiichi Hara;Sawako Kuruma

Frequent Co-Authors

Tooru Shimosegawa
Tooru Shimosegawa Tohoku University
Michiaki Unno
Michiaki Unno Tohoku University
Kazuichi Okazaki
Kazuichi Okazaki Kansai Medical University
Mitsuhiro Fujishiro
Mitsuhiro Fujishiro University of Tokyo
Ichiro Tsuji
Ichiro Tsuji Tohoku University
Takao Itoi
Takao Itoi Tokyo Medical University
Terumi Kamisawa
Terumi Kamisawa Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital
Shigeyuki Kawa
Shigeyuki Kawa Matsumoto Dental University
Masayuki Yamamoto
Masayuki Yamamoto Tohoku University
Yoko Aoki
Yoko Aoki Tohoku University

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