2026 Masaru Kitsuregawa: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	49	5894	5727	79	74	595	9580

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Japan Leader Award
2012 - ACM Fellow For contributions to high performance database systems.

Overview

Masaru Kitsuregawa is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research spans across multiple fields, primarily focusing on computer science and medicine.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Computer Science
Medicine

Within these domains, their subfields focus on:

Computer Networks and Communications
Artificial Intelligence
Information Systems
General Health Professions
Health

Their research topics cover a range of areas such as:

Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Data Management and Algorithms
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
Topic Modeling

Recent scholarly publications by Kitsuregawa include:

"Projecting prevalence of frailty and dementia and the economic cost of care in Japan from 2016 to 2043: a microsimulation modelling study," 2022, The Lancet Public Health
"Automatic detection of different types of small-bowel lesions on capsule endoscopy images using a newly developed deep convolutional neural network," 2020, Endoscopy
"Evolution of Public Opinion on COVID-19 Vaccination in Japan: Large-Scale Twitter Data Analysis," 2022, Journal of Medical Internet Research
"Clinical practice guidelines for telesurgery 2022," 2024, Surgery Today
"Prevalence of hypertensive diseases and treated hypertensive patients in Japan: A nationwide administrative claims database study," 2022, Hypertension Research

Kitsuregawa has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

Kazuo Goda
Masashi Toyoda
Jumpei Sato
Naohiro Mitsutake
Tomoki Ishikawa

Their publications have appeared in diverse venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Water
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser B1 (Hydraulic Engineering)
Communications of the ACM

In 2012, they were recognized as an ACM Fellow for contributions to high performance database systems.

Best Publications

Application of hash to data base machine and its architecture

Masaru Kitsuregawa;Hidehiko Tanaka;Tohru Moto-Oka

449
Citations
Keyword Search in Spatial Databases: Towards Searching by Document

Dongxiang Zhang;Yeow Meng Chee;Anirban Mondal;Anthony K. H. Tung

420
Citations
Building Lexicon for Sentiment Analysis from Massive Collection of HTML Documents

Nobuhiro Kaji;Masaru Kitsuregawa

373
Citations
Hash based parallel algorithms for mining association rules

T. Shintani;M. Kitsuregawa

197
Citations
Frontiers of WWW Research and Development - APWeb 2006

Xiaofang Zhou;Jianzhong Li;Heng Tao Shen;Masaru Kitsuregawa

197
Citations
Bucket Spreading Parallel Hash: A New, Robust, Parallel Hash Join Method for Data Skew in the Super Database Computer (SDC)

Masaru Kitsuregawa;Yasushi Ogawa

190
Citations
P2PR-Tree: an R-tree-based spatial index for peer-to-peer environments

Anirban Mondal;Yi Lifu;Masaru Kitsuregawa

179
Citations
Creating a Web community chart for navigating related communities

Masashi Toyoda;Masaru Kitsuregawa

173
Citations
Storage system having means for acquiring execution information of database management system

Kazuhiko Mogi;Takashi Oeda;Masaru Kitsuregawa

164
Citations
An Overview of The System Software of A Parallel Relational Database Machine GRACE

Shinya Fushimi;Masaru Kitsuregawa;Hidehiko Tanaka

163
Citations
A Graph Based Approach to Extract a Neighborhood Customer Community for Collaborative Filtering

P. Krishna Reddy;Masaru Kitsuregawa;P. Sreekanth;S. Srinivasa Rao

160
Citations
Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2005

Anne H. H. Ngu;Masaru Kitsuregawa;Erich J. Neuhold;Jen-Yao Chung

152
Citations
Extracting evolution of web communities from a series of web archives

Masashi Toyoda;Masaru Kitsuregawa

125
Citations
Method and apparatus for relocating data related to database management system

Kazuhiko Mogi;Takashi Oeda;Masaru Kitsuregawa

119
Citations
Hash-Partitioned Join Method Using Dynamic Destaging Strategy

Masaya Nakayama;Masaru Kitsuregawa;Mikio Takagi

114
Citations
Dynamic adaptation strategies for long-term and short-term user profile to personalize search

Lin Li;Zhenglu Yang;Botao Wang;Masaru Kitsuregawa

112
Citations
Evaluating contents-link coupled web page clustering for web search results

Yitong Wang;Masaru Kitsuregawa

111
Citations
LAPIN-SPAM: An Improved Algorithm for Mining Sequential Pattern

Zhenglu Yang;M. Kitsuregawa

110
Citations
Fast and exact top-k search for random walk with restart

Yasuhiro Fujiwara;Makoto Nakatsuji;Makoto Onizuka;Masaru Kitsuregawa

108
Citations
Link Based Clustering of Web Search Results

Yitong Wang;Masaru Kitsuregawa

105
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshio Koike University of Tokyo

Guandong Xu University of Technology Sydney

Yanchun Zhang Victoria University

Hiroshi Imai University of Tokyo

Xiaofang Zhou Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Keqiu Li Tianjin University

Hong Shen Sun Yat-sen University

Philippe Fournier-Viger Shenzhen University

Beng Chin Ooi National University of Singapore

Taikan Oki University of Tokyo

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