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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Molecular Biology 48 2683 2431 201 180 144 8734

Hiroki Sasaki publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Hiroki Sasaki between 1979 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Hiroki Sasaki published across 47 years, from 1979 to 2025, averaging 4.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 21 publications in 2023. 8 of the 221 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1979 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 21. Peak 21 publications in 2023. 1979: 1 publication 1980: 1 publication 1981: 0 publications 1982: 2 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 1 publication 1986: 0 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 0 publications 1990: 2 publications 1991: 2 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 5 publications 1995: 4 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 6 publications 1998: 4 publications 1999: 5 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 6 publications 2004: 8 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 7 publications 2011: 6 publications 2012: 15 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 5 publications 2017: 7 publications 2018: 7 publications 2019: 3 publications 2020: 6 publications 2021: 5 publications 2022: 11 publications 2023: 21 publications 2024: 5 publications 2025: 3 publications
1979 2025

221 publications in total across all disciplines

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Hiroki Sasaki: publications per year, 1979 to 2025
Year Publications
1979 1
1980 1
1981 0
1982 2
1983 0
1984 0
1985 1
1986 0
1987 0
1988 0
1989 0
1990 2
1991 2
1992 2
1993 2
1994 5
1995 4
1996 0
1997 6
1998 4
1999 5
2000 3
2001 3
2002 4
2003 6
2004 8
2005 5
2006 9
2007 5
2008 5
2009 4
2010 7
2011 6
2012 15
2013 7
2014 13
2015 11
2016 5
2017 7
2018 7
2019 3
2020 6
2021 5
2022 11
2023 21
2024 5
2025 3
Total 221
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Hiroki Sasaki publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hiroki Sasaki sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 53 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 564+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 177. Most scientists, 177, have 117–126 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 137–146 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 7 scientists 57–66 publications: 17 scientists 67–76 publications: 65 scientists 77–86 publications: 90 scientists 87–96 publications: 125 scientists 97–106 publications: 131 scientists 107–116 publications: 162 scientists 117–126 publications: 177 scientists 127–136 publications: 158 scientists 137–146 publications: 158 scientists 147–156 publications: 146 scientists 157–166 publications: 159 scientists 167–176 publications: 131 scientists 177–186 publications: 110 scientists 187–196 publications: 112 scientists 197–206 publications: 100 scientists 207–216 publications: 89 scientists 217–226 publications: 98 scientists 227–236 publications: 74 scientists 237–246 publications: 72 scientists 247–256 publications: 63 scientists 257–266 publications: 53 scientists 267–276 publications: 54 scientists 277–286 publications: 49 scientists 287–296 publications: 52 scientists 297–306 publications: 43 scientists 307–316 publications: 46 scientists 317–326 publications: 41 scientists 327–336 publications: 42 scientists 337–346 publications: 31 scientists 347–356 publications: 28 scientists 357–366 publications: 29 scientists 367–376 publications: 26 scientists 377–386 publications: 24 scientists 387–396 publications: 24 scientists 397–406 publications: 14 scientists 407–416 publications: 13 scientists 417–426 publications: 20 scientists 427–436 publications: 12 scientists 437–446 publications: 20 scientists 447–456 publications: 11 scientists 457–466 publications: 10 scientists 467–476 publications: 14 scientists 477–486 publications: 14 scientists 487–496 publications: 10 scientists 497–506 publications: 13 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 2 scientists 527–536 publications: 4 scientists 537–546 publications: 6 scientists 547–556 publications: 8 scientists 557–563 publications: 6 scientists 564+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 publications 564+

This scientist: 144 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

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Number of Molecular Biology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,076 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
47–56 7
57–66 17
67–76 65
77–86 90
87–96 125
97–106 131
107–116 162
117–126 177
127–136 158
137–146 158 144
147–156 146
157–166 159
167–176 131
177–186 110
187–196 112
197–206 100
207–216 89
217–226 98
227–236 74
237–246 72
247–256 63
257–266 53
267–276 54
277–286 49
287–296 52
297–306 43
307–316 46
317–326 41
327–336 42
337–346 31
347–356 28
357–366 29
367–376 26
377–386 24
387–396 24
397–406 14
407–416 13
417–426 20
427–436 12
437–446 20
447–456 11
457–466 10
467–476 14
477–486 14
487–496 10
497–506 13
507–516 13
517–526 2
527–536 4
537–546 6
547–556 8
557–563 6
564+ 100
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Hiroki Sasaki D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

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

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100 125
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 145+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 131. Most scientists, 131, have 64–65 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 48–49 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 36 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 115 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 121 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 118 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 130 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 106 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 116 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 113 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 129 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 120 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 105 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 131 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 97 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 106 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 83 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 89 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 77 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 70 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 73 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 60 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 48 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 45 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 50 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 31 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 51 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 43 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 39 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 41 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 29 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 33 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 35 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 20 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 38 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 19 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 28 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 13 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 23 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 15 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 11 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 21 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 13 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 14 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 9 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 16 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 7 scientists 144 D-Index: 7 scientists 145+ D-Index: 100 scientists
40–41 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 14th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

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Number of Molecular Biology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,076 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 36
42–43 101
44–45 115
46–47 121
48–49 118 48
50–51 130
52–53 106
54–55 116
56–57 113
58–59 129
60–61 120
62–63 105
64–65 131
66–67 95
68–69 97
70–71 106
72–73 83
74–75 89
76–77 77
78–79 70
80–81 73
82–83 60
84–85 48
86–87 45
88–89 50
90–91 31
92–93 51
94–95 43
96–97 38
98–99 39
100–101 41
102–103 29
104–105 33
106–107 35
108–109 20
110–111 38
112–113 19
114–115 28
116–117 13
118–119 23
120–121 16
122–123 15
124–125 11
126–127 21
128–129 7
130–131 13
132–133 14
134–135 17
136–137 9
138–139 8
140–141 16
142–143 7
144 7
145+ 100
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Overview

Hiroki Sasaki is affiliated with the National Cancer Centre in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their scientific work primarily spans the fields of molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, oncology, cancer research, and surgery.

The research topics covered by Sasaki include interstitial lung diseases and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, esophageal cancer research and treatment, sarcoidosis and beryllium toxicity research, RNA modifications and cancer, cancer-related gene regulation, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, and cancer cells and metastasis.

Recent publications by Sasaki include:

  • Multi-omic profiling of peritoneal metastases in gastric cancer identifies molecular subtypes and therapeutic vulnerabilities, 2021, Nature Cancer
  • Molecular Network Profiling in Intestinal- and Diffuse-Type Gastric Cancer, 2020, Cancers
  • ARHGAP-RhoA signaling provokes homotypic adhesion-triggered cell death of metastasized diffuse-type gastric cancer, 2022, Oncogene
  • The potential utility of anterior upper lobe honeycomb-like lesion in interstitial lung disease associated with connective tissue disease, 2020, Respiratory Medicine
  • Report of the use of patient-derived xenograft models in the development of anticancer drugs in Japan, 2020, Cancer Science

Frequent co-authors of Sasaki include Hiroshi Yokozaki, Sabina Quader, Ryuichi Ono, Horacio Cabral, and Kazuhiko Aoyagi.

Key venues where Sasaki has published multiple works include the Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Preprints.org, Cancers, and Oncogene.

Best Publications

  • Relation between microRNA expression and progression and prognosis of gastric cancer: a microRNA expression analysis

    Tetsuya Ueda;Tetsuya Ueda;Stefano Volinia;Stefano Volinia;Hiroshi Okumura;Hiroshi Okumura;Masayoshi Shimizu

  • Genetic variation in PSCA is associated with susceptibility to diffuse-type gastric cancer.

    Hiromi Sakamoto;Kimio Yoshimura;Norihisa Saeki

  • Integrative genomics identifies LMO1 as a neuroblastoma oncogene

    Kai Wang;Kai Wang;Sharon J. Diskin;Haitao Zhang;Edward F. Attiyeh

  • Distinctive expression and function of four GSDM family genes (GSDMA-D) in normal and malignant upper gastrointestinal epithelium.

    Norihisa Saeki;Takebumi Usui;Kazuhiko Aoyagi;Dal Ho Kim

  • Gasdermin (Gsdm) localizing to mouse Chromosome 11 is predominantly expressed in upper gastrointestinal tract but significantly suppressed in human gastric cancer cells.

    Norihisa Saeki;Yoshitaka Kuwahara;Hiroki Sasaki;Hajime Satoh

  • Direct hepatic fate specification from mouse embryonic stem cells

    Takumi Teratani;Hanako Yamamoto;Kazuhiko Aoyagi;Hiroki Sasaki

  • NRF2 Mutation Confers Malignant Potential and Resistance to Chemoradiation Therapy in Advanced Esophageal Squamous Cancer

    Tatsuhiro Shibata;Akiko Kokubu;Shigeru Saito;Mako Narisawa-Saito

  • Discovery of Aberrant Expression of R-RAS by Cancer-Linked DNA Hypomethylation in Gastric Cancer Using Microarrays

    Michiko Nishigaki;Kazuhiko Aoyagi;Inaho Danjoh;Masahide Fukaya

  • Absence of endothelial cells, central necrosis, and fibrosis are associated with aggressive inflammatory breast cancer.

    Kazuo Shirakawa;Hitoshi Tsuda;Yuji Heike;Kazunori Kato

  • Podoplanin-Positive Fibroblasts Enhance Lung Adenocarcinoma Tumor Formation: Podoplanin in Fibroblast Functions for Tumor Progression

    Ayuko Hoshino;Genichiro Ishii;Takashi Ito;Kazuhiko Aoyagi

  • AZD2171 Shows Potent Antitumor Activity Against Gastric Cancer Over-Expressing Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 2/Keratinocyte Growth Factor Receptor

    Masayuki Takeda;Tokuzo Arao;Hideyuki Yokote;Teruo Komatsu

  • Hedgehog Signal Activation in Gastric Pit Cell and in Diffuse-Type Gastric Cancer

    Masahide Fukaya;Noriyuki Isohata;Hiroyuki Ohta;Kazuhiko Aoyagi

  • Biological properties and gene expression associated with metastatic potential of human osteosarcoma

    Tetsuhiro Nakano;Masachika Tani;Yasunori Ishibashi;Kenji Kimura

  • Genes preferentially expressed in embryo stomach are predominantly expressed in gastric cancer.

    Masamitsu Tanaka;Hiroki Sasaki;Isamu Kino;Takashi Sugimura

  • A Functional Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Mucin 1, at Chromosome 1q22, Determines Susceptibility to Diffuse-Type Gastric Cancer

    Norihisa Saeki;Akira Saito;Il Ju Choi;Keitaro Matsuo

  • A faithful method for PCR-mediated global mRNA amplification and its integration into microarray analysis on laser-captured cells.

    Kazuhiko Aoyagi;Takeshi Tatsuta;Michiko Nishigaki;Shingo Akimoto

  • Evaluation of a whole-genome amplification method based on adaptor-ligation PCR of randomly sheared genomic DNA.

    Chikako Tanabe;Kazuhiko Aoyagi;Tokuki Sakiyama;Takashi Kohno

  • High miR‐21 expression from FFPE tissues is associated with poor survival and response to adjuvant chemotherapy in colon cancer

    Naohide Oue;Katsuhiro Anami;Aaron J. Schetter;Markus Moehler

  • Mutation Frequency of the p16/CDKN2 Gene in Primary Cancers in the Upper Digestive Tract

    Hiroyasu Igaki;Hiroki Sasaki;Yuji Tachimori;Hoichi Kato

  • Gene amplification profiling of esophageal squamous cell carcinomas by DNA array CGH.

    Tomoki Ishizuka;Chikako Tanabe;Hiromi Sakamoto;Kazuhiko Aoyagi

Frequent Co-Authors

Teruhiko Yoshida
Teruhiko Yoshida National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Masaaki Terada
Masaaki Terada National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Hiromi Sakamoto
Hiromi Sakamoto National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Atsushi Ochiai
Atsushi Ochiai University of Tokyo
Wataru Yasui
Wataru Yasui Hiroshima University
Takashi Sugimura
Takashi Sugimura National Cancer Centre
Takahiro Ochiya
Takahiro Ochiya Tokyo Medical University
Takashi Ito
Takashi Ito Kyushu University
Jun Yokota
Jun Yokota National Cancer Centre
Hitoshi Katai
Hitoshi Katai Juntendo University

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