Hiroshi Nishi

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
72 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Hiroshi Nishi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nephrology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiroshi Nishi has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Nephrology and 16 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Hiroshi Nishi's work include Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (8 papers), Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (7 papers) and Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (7 papers). Hiroshi Nishi is often cited by papers focused on Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes (8 papers), Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies (7 papers) and Cell Adhesion Molecules Research (7 papers). Hiroshi Nishi collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Taiwan. Hiroshi Nishi's co-authors include Reiko Inagi, Masaomi Nangaku, Tanya N. Mayadas, Toshiro Fujita, T Higashihara, Tetsuhiro Tanaka, Daisuke Inoue, Fumiyoshi Ishidate, Yosuke Tanaka and Tzu‐Ming Jao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Investigation, Blood and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Hiroshi Nishi

71 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Mitochondrial Damage Causes Inflammation via cGAS-STING Signaling in Acute Kidney Injury

2019 419 citations Hiroshi Maekawa, Tsuyoshi Inoue et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hiroshi Nishi Japan	20	744	675	373	230	225	72	2.0k
Chang‐Youh Tsai Taiwan	32	1.2k 1.6×	812 1.2×	310 0.8×	282 1.2×	69 0.3×	190	3.3k
Hanna Wald Israel	31	882 1.2×	1.0k 1.5×	235 0.6×	126 0.5×	101 0.4×	104	2.7k
Kathleen Haines United States	26	664 0.9×	502 0.7×	207 0.6×	218 0.9×	60 0.3×	44	2.0k
Mette Kristiansen Denmark	8	379 0.5×	823 1.2×	131 0.4×	395 1.7×	580 2.6×	8	2.1k
Beatriz Suárez-Álvarez Spain	32	1.2k 1.6×	1.2k 1.7×	474 1.3×	166 0.7×	51 0.2×	70	2.9k
Tom Pettersson Finland	28	375 0.5×	909 1.3×	130 0.3×	227 1.0×	254 1.1×	107	2.5k
Christine Piètrement France	23	298 0.4×	572 0.8×	342 0.9×	123 0.5×	93 0.4×	62	1.6k
Hiromichi Suzuki Japan	32	256 0.3×	1.4k 2.1×	465 1.2×	294 1.3×	137 0.6×	129	3.2k
Florin Niculescu United States	37	2.5k 3.3×	1.0k 1.5×	307 0.8×	335 1.5×	83 0.4×	77	4.0k
Katherine Spokes United States	36	498 0.7×	1.7k 2.6×	895 2.4×	570 2.5×	319 1.4×	76	4.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hiroshi Nishi

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Hagiwara, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2025). Association of Obesity, Visceral Fat Accumulation, and Dyslipidemia with the Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease. Internal Medicine. 64(19). 2823–2828. 1 indexed citations

Nishi, Hiroshi, Masaomi Nangaku, Tadashi Sofue, Tatsuo Kagimura, & Ichiei Narita. (2024). N-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide and Cardiorenal Outcome in Patients with Anaemia in Chronic Kidney Disease. ESC Heart Failure. 12(2). 848–858. 3 indexed citations

Li, Qi, et al.. (2023). Chronic kidney disease prevalence and awareness in middle age and young old: Regional comparative study in Japan. Nephrology. 28(7). 379–386. 3 indexed citations

Nishi, Hiroshi, Jui Wang, Yoshihiro Ônishi, & Masaomi Nangaku. (2023). Infectious Risk and Variability of Hemoglobin Level in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis. Kidney International Reports. 8(9). 1752–1760. 4 indexed citations

Oda, Yasuhiro, Hiroshi Nishi, & Masaomi Nangaku. (2023). Regional Variation in the Use of Percutaneous Kidney Biopsy in Japan. The Nephron journals/Nephron journals. 148(6). 357–366. 1 indexed citations

Saito, Suguru, Narihito Tatsumoto, Duo‐Yao Cao, et al.. (2022). Overexpressed angiotensin-converting enzyme in neutrophils suppresses glomerular damage in crescentic glomerulonephritis. American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology. 323(4). F411–F424. 2 indexed citations

Yoshida, Yoko & Hiroshi Nishi. (2022). The role of the complement system in kidney glomerular capillary thrombosis. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 981375–981375. 8 indexed citations

Nishi, Hiroshi, et al.. (2020). Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Kidney Disease and Uremic Sarcopenia. Frontiers in Physiology. 11. 565023–565023. 43 indexed citations

Usui, Tomoko, et al.. (2019). Diagnostic accuracy of urine dipstick for proteinuria category in Japanese workers. Clinical and Experimental Nephrology. 24(2). 151–156. 13 indexed citations

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Maekawa, Hiroshi, Reiko Inagi, Masaomi Nangaku, et al.. (2019). SUN-155 Mitochondrial DNA leakage causes inflammation via the cGAS-STING axis in cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury. Kidney International Reports. 4(7). S222–S222. 2 indexed citations

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Inoue, Daisuke, Hiroshi Nishi, Tetsuhiro Tanaka, & Masaomi Nangaku. (2019). Regional variance in patterns of prescriptions for chronic kidney disease in Japan. Clinical and Experimental Nephrology. 23(6). 859–864. 12 indexed citations

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Nishi, Hiroshi, et al.. (2019). SUN-285 PHD inhibitor and hypoxia influence on skeletal muscle glucose metabolism. Kidney International Reports. 4(7). S278–S278. 1 indexed citations

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Nishi, Hiroshi, Kazuhiro Furuhashi, Xavier Culleré, et al.. (2017). Neutrophil FcγRIIA promotes IgG-mediated glomerular neutrophil capture via Abl/Src kinases. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 127(10). 3810–3826. 50 indexed citations

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Li, Xun, Xavier Culleré, Hiroshi Nishi, et al.. (2016). PKC-δ activation in neutrophils promotes fungal clearance. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 100(3). 581–588. 23 indexed citations

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Rosetti, Florencia, Naotake Tsuboi, Kan Chen, et al.. (2012). Human Lupus Serum Induces Neutrophil-Mediated Organ Damage in Mice That Is Enabled by Mac-1 Deficiency. The Journal of Immunology. 189(7). 3714–3723. 45 indexed citations

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Nishi, Hiroshi, Yugo Shibagaki, Katsuya Hirano, et al.. (2010). Laboratory and imaging features of kidney involvement in autoimmune pancreatitis: incidence, correlation, and steroid therapy response. Clinical Nephrology. 73(4). 253–259. 6 indexed citations

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Kojima, Ichiro, Tetsuhiro Tanaka, Reiko Inagi, et al.. (2009). Metallothionein is upregulated by hypoxia and stabilizes hypoxia-inducible factor in the kidney. Kidney International. 75(3). 268–277. 44 indexed citations

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Inagi, Reiko, Takanori Kumagai, Hiroshi Nishi, et al.. (2008). Preconditioning with Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Ameliorates Mesangioproliferative Glomerulonephritis. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. 19(5). 915–922. 96 indexed citations

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Takeuchi, Tōru, et al.. (1983). Exercise parameters for the prediction of post-training increase in exercise tolerance in patient with stable angina pectoris.. Japanese Circulation Journal. 47(6). 711–722. 1 indexed citations

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Tanaka, Hideyuki, Yasuhiro Miyazaki, & Hiroshi Nishi. (1982). Metabolism of Collagen and Muscle Protein of Young Rats in Protein Depletion. Agricultural and Biological Chemistry. 46(10). 2547–2554. 1 indexed citations

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