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Hitoshi Katai

Hitoshi Katai

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
75
Citations
19209
World Ranking
19164
National Ranking
614

Hitoshi Katai 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 Hitoshi Katai sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 364 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hitoshi Katai 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 Hitoshi Katai sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Hitoshi Katai is affiliated with Juntendo University in Japan and specializes primarily in the field of medicine, with a focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, surgery, oncology, and molecular biology. Their research covers a broad range of topics related to cancer, particularly gastric cancer management and outcomes, metastasis and carcinoma case studies, gastrointestinal tumor research and treatment, cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer studies, colorectal cancer treatments and studies, esophageal and gastrointestinal pathology, and cancer-related molecular mechanisms research.

The scientist has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • Gastrectomy with or without neoadjuvant S-1 plus cisplatin for type 4 or large type 3 gastric cancer (JCOG0501): an open-label, phase 3, randomized controlled trial (2020, Gastric Cancer)
  • International Retrospective Cohort Study of Conversion Therapy for Stage IV Gastric Cancer 1 (CONVO-GC-1) (2021, Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery)
  • A retrospective 5-year survival analysis of surgically resected gastric cancer cases from the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association nationwide registry (2001-2013) (2022, Gastric Cancer)
  • Impact of preoperative chemotherapy as initial treatment for advanced gastric cancer with peritoneal metastasis limited to positive peritoneal lavage cytology (CY1) or localized peritoneal metastasis (P1a): a multi-institutional retrospective study (2020, Gastric Cancer)
  • Multiancestry genomic and transcriptomic analysis of gastric cancer (2023, Nature Genetics)

Katai frequently publishes in scientific journals such as:

  • Gastric Cancer
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • European Journal of Surgical Oncology
  • BMC Surgery
  • Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Collaborations are a notable element of Katai's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Takaki Yoshikawa
  • Yukinori Yamagata
  • Sho Otsuki
  • Takeyuki Wada
  • Tsutomu Hayashi

Their work encompasses significant volumes of research related to gastric cancer management and outcomes, contributing to the understanding of surgical interventions, chemotherapy approaches, and molecular analyses at a genomic and transcriptomic level. The subfield expertise ranges from the clinical management of respiratory and gastroenterological cancers to the underlying molecular biology influencing cancer development and progression.

Best Publications

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Five-Year Outcomes of a Randomized Phase III Trial Comparing Adjuvant Chemotherapy With S-1 Versus Surgery Alone in Stage II or III Gastric Cancer

    Mitsuru Sasako;Shinichi Sakuramoto;Hitoshi Katai;Taira Kinoshita

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

    Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

  • Gastric cancer treated in 2002 in Japan: 2009 annual report of the JGCA nationwide registry

    Atsushi Nashimoto;Kohei Akazawa;Yoh Isobe;Isao Miyashiro

  • Five-year survival analysis of surgically resected gastric cancer cases in Japan: a retrospective analysis of more than 100,000 patients from the nationwide registry of the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (2001–2007)

    Hitoshi Katai;Takashi Ishikawa;Kohei Akazawa;Yoh Isobe

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

    Hiromi Sakamoto;Kimio Yoshimura;Norihisa Saeki

  • Safety and feasibility of laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy with suprapancreatic nodal dissection for clinical stage I gastric cancer: a multicenter phase II trial (JCOG 0703).

    Hitoshi Katai;Mitsuru Sasako;Haruhiko Fukuda;Kenichi Nakamura

  • Short-term surgical outcomes from a phase III study of laparoscopy-assisted versus open distal gastrectomy with nodal dissection for clinical stage IA/IB gastric cancer: Japan Clinical Oncology Group Study JCOG0912

    Hitoshi Katai;Junki Mizusawa;Hiroshi Katayama;Masakazu Takagi

  • Gastric cancer treatment in Japan: 2008 annual report of the JGCA nationwide registry

    Yoh Isobe;Atsushi Nashimoto;Kohei Akazawa;Ichiro Oda

  • Pancreas-preserving total gastrectomy for proximal gastric cancer.

    Keiichi Maruyama;Mitsuru Sasako;Taira Kinoshita;Takeshi Sano

  • Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate Splenectomy in Total Gastrectomy for Proximal Gastric Carcinoma.

    Takeshi Sano;Mitsuru Sasako;Junki Mizusawa;Seiichiro Yamamoto

  • Gastric cancer treated in 1991 in Japan: data analysis of nationwide registry.

    Keiichi Maruyama;Michio Kaminishi;Ken-ichi Hayashi;Yoh Isobe

  • Changing trends in the proportion of adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction in a large tertiary referral center in Japan

    Chika Kusano;Takuji Gotoda;Christopher J Khor;Hitoshi Katai

  • Survival outcomes after laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy versus open distal gastrectomy with nodal dissection for clinical stage IA or IB gastric cancer (JCOG0912): a multicentre, non-inferiority, phase 3 randomised controlled trial.

    Hitoshi Katai;Junki Mizusawa;Hiroshi Katayama;Shinji Morita

  • Impact of expression of human epidermal growth factor receptors EGFR and ERBB2 on survival in stage II/III gastric cancer.

    Masanori Terashima;Koji Kitada;Atsushi Ochiai;Wataru Ichikawa

  • Evaluation of the necessity for gastrectomy with lymph node dissection for patients with submucosal invasive gastric cancer

    T Gotoda;M Sasako;H Ono;H Katai

  • Adipocytokine levels in gastric cancer patients: resistin and visfatin as biomarkers of gastric cancer

    Takako Eguchi Nakajima;Yasuhide Yamada;Tetsutaro Hamano;Koh Furuta

  • Favorable indications for hepatectomy in patients with liver metastasis from gastric cancer.

    Yoshihiro Sakamoto;Takeshi Sano;Kazuaki Shimada;Minoru Esaki

  • Endoscopic evaluation of the remnant stomach after gastrectomy: proposal for a new classification.

    Makoto Kubo;Mitsuru Sasako;Takuji Gotoda;Hiroyuki Ono

  • Immunohistochemically detected micrometastases of the lymph nodes in patients with gastric carcinoma.

    Takeo Fukagawa;Mitsuru Sasako;Gregory Bruce Mann;Takeshi Sano

Frequent Co-Authors

Mitsuru Sasako
Mitsuru Sasako Hyogo College of Medicine
Narikazu Boku
Narikazu Boku St. Marianna University School of Medicine
Takuji Gotoda
Takuji Gotoda Nihon University
Atsushi Ochiai
Atsushi Ochiai University of Tokyo
Yutaka Saito
Yutaka Saito Aoyama Gakuin University
Toshikazu Ushijima
Toshikazu Ushijima National Cancer Centre
Hiromi Sakamoto
Hiromi Sakamoto National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Teruhiko Yoshida
Teruhiko Yoshida National Cancer Research Institute, UK
Hitoshi Tsuda
Hitoshi Tsuda National Defense Medical College
Yasuhiro Kodera
Yasuhiro Kodera Nagoya University

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