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 Masaki Kitajima sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 1,008 publications — 94th percentile
94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masaki Kitajima sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 87 D-Index — 34th percentile
34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.
Masaki Kitajima was affiliated with Keio University in Japan and contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology throughout their career. Their research primarily focused on neurology, pathology and forensic medicine, molecular biology, immunology, and genetics, with a notable emphasis on neurological disorders.
The scientist's work covered various main topics, including:
Among their recent papers were:
Kitajima collaborated frequently with a core group of researchers. These frequent co-authors included Noriko Isobe, Jun-ichi Kira, Mitsuru Watanabe, Ryo Yamasaki, and Takuya Matsushita.
The body of their work was often published in reputable scientific venues, some of which they contributed to multiple times. These frequent publication venues included European Urology, Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, Scientific Reports, Clinical and Experimental Neuroimmunology, and Neurology.
Throughout their career, Kitajima's research addressed mechanisms underlying neuroinflammation, demyelination conditions such as multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica, and the molecular biology processes connected to immunological responses in the nervous system.
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Akira Matsui;Tadashi Ikeda;Kohji Enomoto;Kanae Hosoda
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M. Ohgami;Y. Otani;K. Kumai;T. Kubota
Chih-Horng Shih;Soji Ozawa;Nobutoshi Ando;Masakazu Ueda
Nobuhiro Nitori;Yoshinori Ino;Yukihiro Nakanishi;Tesshi Yamada
Yutaka Shimoyama;Gozoh Tsujimoto;Masaki Kitajima;Michiya Natori
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