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Shigenobu Kanba

Shigenobu Kanba

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
90
Citations
28583
World Ranking
12237
National Ranking
363

Shigenobu Kanba 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 Shigenobu Kanba sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 481 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shigenobu Kanba 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 Shigenobu Kanba sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 90 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Shigenobu Kanba is affiliated with Kyushu University in Japan and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of medicine and psychology. Their work covers a broad range of topics, including clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, education, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main fields of study for Kanba include medicine, with 29 publications, and psychology, comprising 26 publications. Within these domains, Kanba has focused on subfields such as clinical psychology (18 publications), psychiatry and mental health (14 publications), cognitive neuroscience (11 publications), education (10 publications), and experimental and cognitive psychology (6 publications).

Kanba's research spans several key topics, notably:

  • Child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development
  • Youth substance use and school attendance
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Functional brain connectivity studies
  • Bipolar disorder and treatment
  • Mental health research topics
  • Homelessness and social issues

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kanba include Takahiro A. Kato (25 publications), Seon-Cheol Park (9 publications), Yu-Tao Xiang (9 publications), Mian-Yoon Chong (9 publications), and Ajit Avasthi (9 publications).

Kanba's research has been published in various scientific venues, with multiple contributions to Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (6 publications), Journal of Personalized Medicine (3 publications), Journal of Affective Disorders (2 publications), Biological Psychiatry (2 publications), and Frontiers in Psychiatry (2 publications).

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Kanba include:

  • Defining pathological social withdrawal: proposed diagnostic criteria for hikikomori, 2020, World Psychiatry
  • Study design and baseline characteristics of a population-based prospective cohort study of dementia in Japan: the Japan Prospective Studies Collaboration for Aging and Dementia (JPSC-AD), 2020, Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) recommendations for the management of patients with bipolar disorder with mixed presentations, 2021, Bipolar Disorders
  • Social withdrawal in major depressive disorder: a case-control study of hikikomori in Japan, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Auditory Cortex Volume and Gamma Oscillation Abnormalities in Schizophrenia, 2020, Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

Best Publications

  • Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) and International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) 2018 guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder

    Lakshmi N Yatham;Sidney H Kennedy;Sagar V Parikh;Ayal Schaffer

  • The International Society for bipolar Disorders (ISBD) task force report on antidepressant use in bipolar disorders

    Isabella Pacchiarotti;David J. Bond;Ross J. Baldessarini;Willem A. Nolen

  • Innovations and changes in the ICD-11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders

    Geoffrey M. Reed;Michael B. First;Cary S. Kogan;Steven E. Hyman

  • The International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) Task Force report on the nomenclature of course and outcome in bipolar disorders

    Mauricio Tohen;Mauricio Tohen;Ellen Frank;Charles L. Bowden;Francesc Colom

  • Cytokines and schizophrenia: Microglia hypothesis of schizophrenia.

    Akira Monji;Takahiro Kato;Shigenobu Kanba

  • Glucose tolerance status and risk of dementia in the community: The Hisayama Study

    T. Ohara;Y. Doi;T. Ninomiya;Y. Hirakawa

  • Insulin resistance is associated with the pathology of Alzheimer disease. The Hisayama Study

    T. Matsuzaki;K. Sasaki;Y. Tanizaki;J. Hata

  • Brain activation of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder during neuropsychological and symptom provocation tasks before and after symptom improvement: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

    Tomohiro Nakao;Akiko Nakagawa;Akiko Nakagawa;Takashi Yoshiura;Eriko Nakatani

  • Interleukin-1 beta augments release of norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin in the rat anterior hypothalamus

    F Shintani;S Kanba;T Nakaki;M Nibuya

  • Comparative efficacy and tolerability of pharmacological treatments in the maintenance treatment of bipolar disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

    Tomofumi Miura;Hisashi Noma;Toshi A Furukawa;Hiroshi Mitsuyasu

  • Neuroinflammation in schizophrenia especially focused on the role of microglia.

    Akira Monji;Takahiro A. Kato;Yoshito Mizoguchi;Hideki Horikawa

  • Deficiency of theory of mind in patients with remitted mood disorder

    Yumiko Inoue;Yuji Tonooka;Kazuo Yamada;Shigenobu Kanba;Shigenobu Kanba

  • Does the ‘hikikomori’ syndrome of social withdrawal exist outside Japan? A preliminary international investigation

    Takahiro A. Kato;Masaru Tateno;Naotaka Shinfuku;Daisuke Fujisawa

  • Midlife and late-life blood pressure and dementia in Japanese elderly: the Hisayama study

    Toshiharu Ninomiya;Tomoyuki Ohara;Yoichiro Hirakawa;Daigo Yoshida

  • Elevated plasma nitrate levels in depressive states

    Eiji Suzuki;Gohei Yagi;Toshio Nakaki;Shigenobu Kanba

  • Involvement of interleukin-1 in immobilization stress-induced increase in plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone and in release of hypothalamic monoamines in the rat

    Futoshi Shintani;Toshio Nakaki;Shigenobu Kanba;Koichi Sato

  • Antidepressants inhibit interferon-γ-induced microglial production of IL-6 and nitric oxide

    Sadayuki Hashioka;Andis Klegeris;Akira Monji;Takahiro Kato

  • Assessment of the dexamethasone/CRH test as a state-dependent marker for hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis abnormalities in major depressive episode: a Multicenter Study.

    Hiroshi Kunugi;Itsuro Ida;Toshimi Owashi;Mahito Kimura

  • Neurobiological model of obsessive–compulsive disorder: Evidence from recent neuropsychological and neuroimaging findings

    Tomohiro Nakao;Kayo Okada;Shigenobu Kanba

  • No association between genotype of the promoter region of serotonin transporter gene and serotonin transporter binding in human brain measured by PET.

    Kunihiko Shioe;Tetsuya Ichimiya;Tetsuya Suhara;Akihiro Takano

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshiaki Onitsuka
Toshiaki Onitsuka Kyushu University
Norman Sartorius
Norman Sartorius World Psychiatric Association
Toshiharu Ninomiya
Toshiharu Ninomiya Kyushu University
Yutaka Kiyohara
Yutaka Kiyohara Kyushu University
Ryuichi Kato
Ryuichi Kato Keio University
Tadafumi Kato
Tadafumi Kato Juntendo University
Yu-Tao Xiang
Yu-Tao Xiang University of Macau
Mauricio Tohen
Mauricio Tohen University of New Mexico
Helen F.K. Chiu
Helen F.K. Chiu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kazuo Yamada
Kazuo Yamada RIKEN Center for Brain Science

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