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Shoji Natsugoe

Shoji Natsugoe

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
80
Citations
22385
World Ranking
17163
National Ranking
547

Shoji Natsugoe 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 Shoji Natsugoe sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 720 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shoji Natsugoe 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 Shoji Natsugoe sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Shoji Natsugoe is affiliated with Kagoshima University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily focuses on surgery, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and cancer-related topics including oncology and molecular biology.

The scientist's work covers a range of significant topics including:

  • Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Esophageal and GI Pathology
  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations

Natsugoe's frequent co-authors include:

  • Yota Kawasaki (5 publications)
  • Satoshi Iino (5 publications)
  • Kosei Maemura (4 publications)
  • Hiroshi Kurahara (4 publications)
  • Yuko Mataki (3 publications)

The main venues where Natsugoe's research appears include:

  • Surgical Case Reports (2 publications)
  • International Journal of Surgery Case Reports (2 publications)
  • General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (1 publication)
  • Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology (1 publication)
  • Medicina (1 publication)

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Shoji Natsugoe are:

  • "Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeries in Japan during 2018," 2020, General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
  • "Generation and Characterization of Patient-Derived Head and Neck, Oral, and Esophageal Cancer Organoids," 2020, Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology
  • "Malignant perivascular epithelioid cell neoplasm in the liver: report of a pediatric case," 2021, Surgical Case Reports
  • "Implicit Motor Learning Strategies Benefit Dual-Task Performance in Patients with Stroke," 2023, Medicina
  • "Retroperitoneal schwannoma sandwiched between abdominal aorta and inferior vena cava. A case report," 2020, International Journal of Surgery Case Reports

Best Publications

  • Significance of M2-Polarized Tumor-Associated Macrophage in Pancreatic Cancer

    Hiroshi Kurahara;Hiroyuki Shinchi;Yuko Mataki;Kousei Maemura

  • Improved survival of gastric cancer with tumour Epstein-Barr virus positivity: an international pooled analysis.

    M. Constanza Camargo;Woo Ho Kim;Anna Maria Chiaravalli;Kyoung Mee Kim

  • Sentinel Node Mapping for Gastric Cancer: A Prospective Multicenter Trial in Japan

    Yuko Kitagawa;Hiroya Takeuchi;Yu Takagi;Shoji Natsugoe

  • Genomic Landscape of Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in a Japanese Population

    Genta Sawada;Genta Sawada;Atsushi Niida;Ryutaro Uchi;Hidenari Hirata

  • CD133 expression is correlated with lymph node metastasis and vascular endothelial growth factor-C expression in pancreatic cancer

    S Maeda;H Shinchi;H Kurahara;Y Mataki

  • Predictive risk factors for clinically relevant pancreatic fistula analyzed in 1,239 patients with pancreaticoduodenectomy: multicenter data collection as a project study of pancreatic surgery by the Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

    Manabu Kawai;Satoshi Kondo;Hiroki Yamaue;Keita Wada

  • Slug Expression in the E-cadherin preserved tumors is related to prognosis in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

    Yasuto Uchikado;Shoji Natsugoe;Hiroshi Okumura;Tetsuro Setoyama

  • Trans-Oral Video-Assisted Neck Surgery (TOVANS). A new transoral technique of endoscopic thyroidectomy with gasless premandible approach

    Akihiro Nakajo;Hideo Arima;Munetsugu Hirata;Tadao Mizoguchi

  • Sox2 Cooperates with Inflammation-Mediated Stat3 Activation in the Malignant Transformation of Foregut Basal Progenitor Cells

    Kuancan Liu;Ming Jiang;Yun Lu;Hao Chen

  • Tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) infiltration in gastric cancer.

    Sumiya Ishigami;Shoji Natsugoe;Koki Tokuda;Akihiro Nakajo

  • Interplay between Notch1 and Notch3 promotes EMT and tumor initiation in squamous cell carcinoma.

    Mitsuteru Natsuizaka;Kelly A. Whelan;Shingo Kagawa;Koji Tanaka

  • Combined neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio and platelet-lymphocyte ratio predicts chemotherapy response and prognosis in patients with advanced gastric cancer.

    Tetsushi Hirahara;Takaaki Arigami;Shigehiro Yanagita;Daisuke Matsushita

  • Efficacy of anatomic resection vs nonanatomic resection for small nodular hepatocellular carcinoma based on gross classification.

    Shinichi Ueno;Fumitake Kubo;Masahiko Sakoda;Kiyokazu Hiwatashi

  • Multicenter, phase II clinical trial of cancer vaccination for advanced esophageal cancer with three peptides derived from novel cancer-testis antigens.

    Koji Kono;Hisae Iinuma;Yasunori Akutsu;Hiroaki Tanaka

  • Significant host- and tumor-related factors for predicting prognosis in patients with esophageal carcinoma

    Masanori Ikeda;Shoji Natsugoe;Shinichi Ueno;Masamichi Baba

  • Human papillomavirus detected in female breast carcinomas in Japan.

    N A Khan;A Castillo;C Koriyama;Y Kijima

  • Strong interaction between the effects of alcohol consumption and smoking on oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma among individuals with ADH1B and/or ALDH2 risk alleles

    Fumiaki Tanaka;Ken Yamamoto;Sadao Suzuki;Hiroshi Inoue

  • MicroRNA in pancreatic cancer.

    Keiichi Yonemori;Hiroshi Kurahara;Kosei Maemura;Shoji Natsugoe

  • Clinical impact of intratumoral natural killer cell and dendritic cell infiltration in gastric cancer.

    Sumiya Ishigami;Shoji Natsugoe;Koki Tokuda;Akihiro Nakajo

  • Evaluation of sentinel node concept in gastric cancer based on lymph node micrometastasis determined by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.

    Takaaki Arigami;Shoji Natsugoe;Yoshikazu Uenosono;Yuko Mataki

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideo Baba
Hideo Baba Kumamoto University
Yoshihiko Maehara
Yoshihiko Maehara Kyushu University
Koshi Mimori
Koshi Mimori Kyushu University
Masaki Mori
Masaki Mori Kyushu University
Naohiko Seki
Naohiko Seki Chiba University
Andres J. P. Klein-Szanto
Andres J. P. Klein-Szanto Fox Chase Cancer Center
Yuichiro Doki
Yuichiro Doki Osaka University
Ken Shirabe
Ken Shirabe Gunma University
Hidetoshi Eguchi
Hidetoshi Eguchi Osaka University
Anil K. Rustgi
Anil K. Rustgi Columbia University

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