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Shunichi Yamashita

Shunichi Yamashita

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
89
Citations
27712
World Ranking
12738
National Ranking
372

Shunichi Yamashita 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 Shunichi Yamashita sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 679 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shunichi Yamashita 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 Shunichi Yamashita sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 89 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Shunichi Yamashita is affiliated with Nagasaki University in Japan and specializes in medicine, with a particular focus on radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. Their research encompasses multiple subfields including endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, global and planetary change, oncology, and genetics.

The scientist's work centers primarily on thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment, radiation dose and imaging, and the study of radioactive contamination and its transfer. Other research topics include risk perception and management, effects of radiation exposure, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, and the application of radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging.

Frequent publication venues for Shunichi Yamashita include:

  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Health Physics
  • Endocrine Journal
  • Cancers
  • Journal of Radiation Research

They have contributed extensively to scholarly articles, including recent papers such as:

  • "Hypothyroidism after radiation exposure: brief narrative review" (2020) in Journal of Neural Transmission
  • "A Search for Causes of Rising Incidence of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Children and Adolescents after Chernobyl and Fukushima: Comparison of the Clinical Features and Their Relevance for Treatment and Prognosis" (2021) in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "The Clinicopathological Results of Thyroid Cancer With BRAF V600E Mutation in the Young Population of Fukushima" (2020) in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • "Experiences of crisis communication during radiation emergency and risk communication for recovery of the community in Fukushima" (2020) in Journal of Radiation Research
  • "Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in Ukraine After Chernobyl and in Japan After Fukushima: Different Histopathological Scenarios" (2020) in Thyroid

Collaborations have been formed with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Vladimir Saenko
  • Norisato Mitsutake
  • Tatiana Rogounovitch
  • Masahiro Ito
  • Liudmyla Zurnadzhy

Shunichi Yamashita's research contributes to the understanding of the health effects of radiation exposure, particularly in contexts related to nuclear accidents such as those in Chernobyl and Fukushima. Their work spans multidisciplinary approaches involving clinical endocrinology, radiation safety, and public health communication.

Best Publications

  • Management Guidelines for Children with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

    Gary L. Francis;Steven G. Waguespack;Andrew J. Bauer;Peter Angelos

  • Clinical Implication of Hot Spot BRAF Mutation, V599E, in Papillary Thyroid Cancers

    Hiroyuki Namba;Masahiro Nakashima;Tomayoshi Hayashi;Naomi Hayashida

  • Risk of Thyroid Cancer After Exposure to 131I in Childhood

    Elisabeth Cardis;Ausrele Kesminiene;Victor Ivanov;Irina Malakhova

  • Study protocol for the Fukushima Health Management Survey.

    Seiji Yasumura;Mitsuaki Hosoya;Shunichi Yamashita;Kenji Kamiya;Kenji Kamiya

  • Three DNA Polymerases, Recruited by Different Mechanisms, Carry Out NER Repair Synthesis in Human Cells

    Tomoo Ogi;Siripan Limsirichaikul;Siripan Limsirichaikul;René M. Overmeer;Marcel Volker

  • Corrigendum to "Evacuation after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident is a cause of diabetes: results from the Fukushima health management survey"

    Hiroaki Satoh;Tetsuya Ohira;Mitsuaki Hosoya;Akira Sakai

  • Insulin-like growth factor I action on rat anterior pituitary cells: suppression of growth hormone secretion and messenger ribonucleic acid levels.

    Shunichi Yamashita;Shlomo Melmed

  • Cancer consequences of the Chernobyl accident: 20 years on

    Elisabeth Cardis;Geoffrey Howe;Elaine Ron;Vladimir Bebeshko

  • Characterization of side population in thyroid cancer cell lines: cancer stem-like cells are enriched partly but not exclusively.

    Norisato Mitsutake;Atsuhiko Iwao;Kazuhiro Nagai;Hiroyuki Namba

  • Comprehensive clinical assessment of 740 cases of surgically treated thyroid cancer in children of Belarus.

    Yuri E. Demidchik;Eugene P. Demidchik;Christoph Reiners;Johannes Biko

  • Oncogenic role of miR-17-92 cluster in anaplastic thyroid cancer cells.

    Shu Takakura;Norisato Mitsutake;Masahiro Nakashima;Hiroyuki Namba

  • Health effects of radiation and other health problems in the aftermath of nuclear accidents, with an emphasis on Fukushima

    Arifumi Hasegawa;Koichi Tanigawa;Akira Ohtsuru;Hirooki Yabe

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AFTER THE GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKE AND FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT: RESULTS OF A MENTAL HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE SURVEY THROUGH THE FUKUSHIMA HEALTH MANAGEMENT SURVEY IN FY2011 AND FY2012

    Hirooki Yabe;Yuriko Suzuki;Hirobumi Mashiko;Yoko Nakayama;Yoko Nakayama

  • MiR-195, miR-455-3p and miR-10a* are implicated in acquired temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma multiforme cells

    Kenta Ujifuku;Norisato Mitsutake;Shu Takakura;Michiko Matsuse

  • Malfunction of nuclease ERCC1-XPF results in diverse clinical manifestations and causes Cockayne syndrome, xeroderma pigmentosum, and Fanconi anemia.

    Kazuya Kashiyama;Yuka Nakazawa;Daniela T. Pilz;Chaowan Guo

  • 15 years after Chernobyl: new evidence of thyroid cancer.

    Yoshisada Shibata;Shunichi Yamashita;Vladimir B Masyakin;Galina D Panasyuk

  • Mutations in UVSSA cause UV-sensitive syndrome and impair RNA polymerase IIo processing in transcription-coupled nucleotide-excision repair

    Yuka Nakazawa;Kensaku Sasaki;Norisato Mitsutake;Michiko Matsuse

  • The FOXE1 locus is a major genetic determinant for radiation-related thyroid carcinoma in Chernobyl

    Meiko Takahashi;Vladimir A. Saenko;Tatiana I. Rogounovitch;Takahisa Kawaguchi

  • Long Exposure to High Glucose Concentration Impairs the Responsive Expression of γ-Glutamylcysteine Synthetase by Interleukin-1β and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α in Mouse Endothelial Cells

    Yoshishige Urata;Hidefumi Yamamoto;Shinji Goto;Hideki Tsushima

  • Insulinlike growth factor I regulation of growth hormone gene transcription in primary rat pituitary cells.

    S Yamashita;S Melmed

Frequent Co-Authors

Shlomo Melmed
Shlomo Melmed Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Masami Niwa
Masami Niwa Nagasaki University
Akira Miyauchi
Akira Miyauchi Tokai University
Yasufumi Kaneda
Yasufumi Kaneda Osaka University
Shigeru Kohno
Shigeru Kohno Nagasaki University
Kazuo Umezawa
Kazuo Umezawa Aichi Medical University

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