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Toshi A. Furukawa

Toshi A. Furukawa

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
101
Citations
45632
World Ranking
7865
National Ranking
195

Toshi A. Furukawa 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 Toshi A. Furukawa sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 673 publications — 79th percentile

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

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Toshi A. Furukawa 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 Toshi A. Furukawa sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Toshi A. Furukawa is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and is an active researcher predominantly within the fields of Medicine and Psychology. Their research output reflects significant contributions to Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Pharmacology.

Their scholarly work extensively covers several main topics including Mental Health Research, Treatment of Major Depression, Meta-analysis and Systematic Reviews, Digital Mental Health Interventions, Health Systems and Economic Evaluations, Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, and aspects related to Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, and Cognitive Processes.

Among recent publications attributed to Furukawa are notable papers such as:

  • Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression, 2021, published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • A network meta-analysis of the effects of psychotherapies, pharmacotherapies and their combination in the treatment of adult depression, 2020, World Psychiatry
  • Major depressive disorder, 2023, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Comparative efficacy and acceptability of antidepressants, psychotherapies, and their combination for acute treatment of children and adolescents with depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis, 2020, The Lancet Psychiatry
  • The effects of psychotherapies for depression on response, remission, reliable change, and deterioration: A meta-analysis, 2021, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Furukawa frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Andrea Cipriani
  • Pim Cuijpers
  • Georgia Salanti
  • Yan Luo
  • Masatsugu Sakata

Their research is regularly published in various scientific venues, with a high volume of contributions appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • JAMA Psychiatry
  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • BMJ Open

Best Publications

  • Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

    Andrea Cipriani;Andrea Cipriani;Toshi A Furukawa;Georgia Salanti;Anna Chaimani;Anna Chaimani;Anna Chaimani

  • The performance of the K6 and K10 screening scales for psychological distress in the Australian National Survey of Mental Health and Well-Being.

    T. A. Furukawa;R. C. Kessler;T. Slade;G. Andrews

  • Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative

    Ronald C Kessler;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J Gruber;Nancy A. Sampson

  • The performance of the Japanese version of the K6 and K10 in the World Mental Health Survey Japan

    Toshi A. Furukawa;Norito Kawakami;Mari Saitoh;Yutaka Ono

  • Imputing missing standard deviations in meta-analyses can provide accurate results.

    Toshi A. Furukawa;Corrado Barbui;Andrea Cipriani;Paolo Brambilla

  • Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression: A Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Network Meta-analysis.

    Eirini Karyotaki;Eirini Karyotaki;Eirini Karyotaki;Orestis Efthimiou;Orestis Efthimiou;Clara Miguel;Clara Miguel;Frederic Maas Genannt Bermpohl

  • GRADE guidelines: 13. Preparing Summary of Findings tables and evidence profiles—continuous outcomes

    Gordon H. Guyatt;Kristian Thorlund;Andrew D. Oxman;Stephen D. Walter

  • Advances in the GRADE approach to rate the certainty in estimates from a network meta-analysis

    Romina Brignardello-Petersen;Ashley Bonner;Paul E Alexander;Reed A Siemieniuk

  • Waiting list may be a nocebo condition in psychotherapy trials: A contribution from network meta‐analysis.

    T A Furukawa;H Noma;D M Caldwell;M Honyashiki

  • Effectiveness and Acceptability of Cognitive Behavior Therapy Delivery Formats in Adults With Depression: A Network Meta-analysis.

    Pim Cuijpers;Hisashi Noma;Eirini Karyotaki;Andrea Cipriani;Andrea Cipriani

  • A network meta-analysis of the effects of psychotherapies, pharmacotherapies and their combination in the treatment of adult depression.

    Pim Cuijpers;Hisashi Noma;Eirini Karyotaki;Christiaan H. Vinkers

  • Escitalopram versus other antidepressive agents for depression

    Andrea Cipriani;Claudio Santilli;Toshi A Furukawa;Alessandra Signoretti

  • Supported employment for adults with severe mental illness.

    Yoshihiro Kinoshita;Toshi A Furukawa;Kuni Kinoshita;Mina Honyashiki

  • Which is more generalizable, powerful and interpretable in meta-analyses, mean difference or standardized mean difference?

    Nozomi Takeshima;Takashi Sozu;Aran Tajika;Yusuke Ogawa

  • 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

  • Dose equivalents of antidepressants: Evidence-based recommendations from randomized controlled trials

    Yu Hayasaka;Marianna Purgato;Laura R Magni;Yusuke Ogawa

  • Imputing response rates from means and standard deviations in meta-analyses

    Toshi A. Furukawa;Andrea Cipriani;Corrado Barbui;Paolo Brambilla

  • Sertraline versus other antidepressive agents for depression

    Norio Watanabe;Ichiro M Omori;Atsuo Nakagawa;Andrea Cipriani

  • Antidepressants plus benzodiazepines for major depression

    Toshi A Furukawa;David Streiner;L. Trevor Young;Yoshihiro Kinoshita

  • Screening for serious mental illness in the general population with the K6 screening scale: results from the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) survey initiative: Screening for Serious Mental Illness

    Ronald C. Kessler;Jennifer Greif Green;Michael J. Gruber;Nancy A. Sampson

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Cipriani
Andrea Cipriani University of Oxford
Tatsuo Akechi
Tatsuo Akechi Nagoya City University
Stefan Leucht
Stefan Leucht Technical University of Munich
Pim Cuijpers
Pim Cuijpers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Corrado Barbui
Corrado Barbui University of Verona
Eirini Karyotaki
Eirini Karyotaki Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rachel Churchill
Rachel Churchill University of York
John R. Geddes
John R. Geddes University of Oxford
Gordon H. Guyatt
Gordon H. Guyatt McMaster University
Toshinori Kitamura
Toshinori Kitamura Kitamura Institute of Mental Health Tokyo

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