Akira Kawai

21.5k total citations
503 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Akira Kawai is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Rheumatology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Akira Kawai has authored 503 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 384 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 166 papers in Rheumatology and 130 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Akira Kawai's work include Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment (361 papers), Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments (128 papers) and Cardiac tumors and thrombi (77 papers). Akira Kawai is often cited by papers focused on Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment (361 papers), Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments (128 papers) and Cardiac tumors and thrombi (77 papers). Akira Kawai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Akira Kawai's co-authors include Akihiko Yoshida, John H. Healey, Koichi Ogura, Eisuke Kobayashi, Cristina R. Antonescu, Marc Ladanyi, Toshifumi Ozaki, Yasuo Beppu, James M. Woodruff and Tadashi Kondo and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Communications and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Akira Kawai

468 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Akira Kawai Japan	54	7.4k	3.3k	3.1k	2.6k	2.1k	503	11.5k
Tadashi Hasegawa Japan	55	5.0k 0.7×	3.6k 1.1×	2.5k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	432	10.9k
Philippe Terrier France	56	7.6k 1.0×	4.1k 1.2×	2.4k 0.8×	985 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	190	10.4k
John H. Healey United States	83	13.1k 1.8×	6.8k 2.1×	6.6k 2.2×	4.4k 1.7×	6.4k 3.0×	422	22.6k
Stephen J. Qualman United States	49	4.7k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	2.2k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	140	8.0k
Eva Wardelmann Germany	51	4.1k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	856 0.3×	1.4k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	292	10.5k
Allen M. Gown United States	68	3.8k 0.5×	6.4k 1.9×	839 0.3×	5.0k 1.9×	2.2k 1.1×	191	16.1k
Anthony Montag United States	53	1.8k 0.2×	2.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.3×	3.0k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	146	9.2k
Frederick S. Kaplan United States	64	6.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	9.7k 3.2×	3.1k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	285	15.0k
Tom Böhling Finland	42	2.1k 0.3×	2.5k 0.8×	903 0.3×	1.7k 0.7×	660 0.3×	187	6.7k
Caterina Giannini United States	76	5.1k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	5.1k 2.0×	1.7k 0.8×	398	19.8k

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Tsukushi, Satoshi, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Toshiyuki Kunisada, et al.. (2025). Clinicopathological background of local recurrence in high grade sarcoma of the extremity with preoperative chemotherapy: a supplementary analysis of JCOG0304. Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology. 55(6). 603–609.

Morii, Takeshi, et al.. (2024). Infection of surgery for bone and soft tissue sarcoma with biological reconstruction: Data from the Japanese nationwide bone tumor registry. Journal of Orthopaedic Science. 30(2). 390–396.

Kawai, Akira, Tatsunori Shimoi, Eisuke Kobayashi, et al.. (2024). Histological diagnostic discrepancy and its clinical impact in bone and soft tissue tumors referred to a sarcoma center. Cancer Science. 115(8). 2831–2838. 1 indexed citations

Asano, Naofumi, Hirohiko Totsuka, Sachiyo Mitani, et al.. (2024). Early separation and parallel clonal selection of dedifferentiated and well-differentiated components in dedifferentiated liposarcoma. Neoplasia. 59. 101074–101074.

Li, Weimin, et al.. (2022). Spatio-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks via View Fusion for Trajectory Data Analytics. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 24(4). 4608–4620. 22 indexed citations

Kobayashi, Eisuke, Jun Nishio, Yu Toda, et al.. (2022). Prognostic Factors of Pulmonary Metastasectomy for Soft Tissue Sarcomas Arising in the Trunk Wall and Extremities. Cancers. 14(14). 3329–3329. 3 indexed citations

Araki, Yoshihiro, Norio Yamamoto, Takahiro Higashi, et al.. (2022). Family cancer history and smoking habit associated with sarcoma in a Japanese population study. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 17129–17129. 4 indexed citations

Hagiwara, Yoko, Shintaro Iwata, Koichi Ogura, et al.. (2021). Clinical analysis of multimodal treatment for localized synovial sarcoma: A multicenter retrospective study. Journal of Orthopaedic Science. 28(1). 261–266. 3 indexed citations

Fukushima, Takashi, Koichi Ogura, T. Akiyama, Katsushi Takeshita, & Akira Kawai. (2021). Soft tissue sarcoma in adolescent and young adult patients: a retrospective study using a nationwide bone and soft tissue tumor registry in Japan. Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology. 51(7). 1080–1087. 4 indexed citations

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Kawashima, Hiroyuki, et al.. (2020). Effectiveness of doxorubicin-based and liposomal doxorubicin chemotherapies for patients with extra-abdominal desmoid-type fibromatosis: a systematic review. Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology. 50(11). 1274–1281. 5 indexed citations

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Nishida, Yoshihiro, Shunsuke Hamada, Akira Kawai, et al.. (2020). Risk factors of local recurrence after surgery in extraabdominal desmoid‐type fibromatosis: A multicenter study in Japan. Cancer Science. 111(8). 2935–2942. 14 indexed citations

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Wada, Saho, Yutaka Matsuoka, Yosuke Uchitomi, et al.. (2020). Yokukansan for Treatment of Preoperative Anxiety and Prevention of Postoperative Delirium in Cancer Patients Undergoing Highly Invasive Surgery. J-SUPPORT 1605 (ProD Study): A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 61(1). 71–80. 14 indexed citations

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Harada, Miyuki, Chisato Kunitomi, Gentaro Izumi, et al.. (2019). A Japanese nationwide survey on the cryopreservation of embryos, oocytes and ovarian tissue for cancer patients. Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology research. 45(10). 2021–2028. 16 indexed citations

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Kanazawa, Hidenori, et al.. (2018). Comparison of Time-intensity Curve with Gadobenatedimeglumine and Gadobutrol on Multiphase Contrast-enhanced Breast MRI. Japanese Journal of Radiological Technology. 74(4). 368–374. 1 indexed citations

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Ohara, Akira, Tatsuro Furui, Chikako Shimizu, et al.. (2018). Current situation of cancer among adolescents and young adults in Japan. International Journal of Clinical Oncology. 23(6). 1201–1211. 17 indexed citations

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Iwata, Shintaro, Kosuke Uehara, Koichi Ogura, et al.. (2016). Reliability and Validity of a Japanese-language and Culturally Adapted Version of the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society Scoring System for the Lower Extremity. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 474(9). 2044–2052. 26 indexed citations

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Kobayashi, Eisuke, Mari Masuda, Robert Nakayama, et al.. (2010). Reduced Argininosuccinate Synthetase Is a Predictive Biomarker for the Development of Pulmonary Metastasis in Patients with Osteosarcoma. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 9(3). 535–544. 97 indexed citations

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Kikuta, Kazutaka, Naobumi Tochigi, Tadakazu Shimoda, et al.. (2009). Nucleophosmin as a Candidate Prognostic Biomarker of Ewing's Sarcoma Revealed by Proteomics. Clinical Cancer Research. 15(8). 2885–2894. 43 indexed citations

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Yamaguchi, Umio, Robert Nakayama, Kazufumi Honda, et al.. (2008). Distinct Gene Expression–Defined Classes of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 26(25). 4100–4108. 97 indexed citations

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Yamaguchi, Kazuhiro, et al.. (1997). Inhomogeneities of Ventilation and the Diffusing Capacity to Perfusion in Various Chronic Lung Diseases. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 156(1). 86–93. 27 indexed citations

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