Kei Ito

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Kei Ito is a scholar working on Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Kei Ito has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Surgery, 27 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 23 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Kei Ito's work include Management of metastatic bone disease (37 papers), Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (19 papers) and Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (15 papers). Kei Ito is often cited by papers focused on Management of metastatic bone disease (37 papers), Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (19 papers) and Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques (15 papers). Kei Ito collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Kei Ito's co-authors include M. A. Mojid, Masateru Senge, Mohammad Abdul Kader, Katsuyuki Karasawa, Hiroaki Ogawa, Y. Nakajima, Junji Suzumiya, Ritsuro Suzuki, T. Yoshino and Keiji Nihei and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cancer and British Journal of Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Kei Ito

97 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

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Peers

Kei Ito

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S Meli Italy

Árpád Illés Hungary

John F. Stone United States

Jinbin Chen China

Anurag Saxena Canada

Xiangling Wang China

Jiang Zhu China

Zhijun Li China

Shicheng He China

Kejing Wang China

S Meli Italy

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185 ×0.4

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194 ×0.5

PFM

729 ×2.3

ONCOL

81 ×0.3

64 ×0.3

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Countries citing papers authored by Kei Ito

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kei Ito

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kei Ito

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kei Ito. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kei Ito based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kei Ito. Kei Ito is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Wasa, Junji, Hirohisa Katagiri, Hideki Murata, et al.. (2025). Ifosfamide, Carboplatin, and Etoposide as Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type I-related Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors. In Vivo. 39(4). 2267–2276.

Michikawa, Takehiro, Kei Ito, Hiroki Takeda, et al.. (2024). Predictors of Patient Dissatisfaction after Lumbar Spinal Canal Stenosis Surgery: A Multicenter Retrospective Study. Spine Surgery and Related Research. 8(3). 322–329.

Kawabata, Soya, Takehiro Michikawa, Kei Ito, et al.. (2024). Possible negative impact of polypharmacy on surgical outcomes in older patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. Geriatrics and gerontology international. 25(1). 31–37. 1 indexed citations

Kawabata, Soya, Kei Ito, H. Takeda, et al.. (2024). Intradiscal administration of autologous platelet‐rich plasma in patients with Modic type 1 associated low back pain: A prospective pilot study. JOR Spine. 7(1). e1320–e1320. 5 indexed citations

Ito, Kei, Kazuteru Nonomura, Keishi Tada, et al.. (2023). Spectral Splitting Solar Cells Consisting of a Mesoscopic Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cell and an Inverted Narrow-Bandgap Perovskite Solar Cell. ACS Omega. 9(2). 3028–3034. 3 indexed citations

Ito, Kei, Satoshi Suzuki, Hiroki Takeda, et al.. (2023). Potential Involvement of Oxidative Stress in Ligamentum Flavum Hypertrophy. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(3). 808–808. 4 indexed citations

Sekii, Shuhei, Tetsuo Saito, Takashi Kosugi, et al.. (2023). Who should receive single-fraction palliative radiotherapy for gastric cancer bleeding?: An exploratory analysis of a multicenter prospective observational study (JROSG 17-3). Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology. 42. 100657–100657. 2 indexed citations

Ogawa, Hiroaki, Kei Ito, & Katsuyuki Karasawa. (2022). Clinical Outcomes and Prognostic Factors of Fractionated Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases ≥20 mm as a Potential Alternative to Surgery. World Neurosurgery. 162. e141–e146. 1 indexed citations

Ito, Kei & Hiroaki Ogawa. (2021). Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Patients With Sacral Chordoma Who Previously Received Carbon Ion Therapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. 110(5). 1263–1264.

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Ito, Kei, Y. Nakajima, Takahiro Hozumi, et al.. (2021). Electron beam intraoperative radiotherapy for metastatic epidural spinal cord compression: a prospective observational study. Clinical & Experimental Metastasis. 38(2). 219–225. 2 indexed citations

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Kubota, Hikaru, Naoki Nakamura, Naoto Shikama, et al.. (2020). Practice patterns for postoperative radiation therapy in patients with metastases to the long bones: a survey of the Japanese Radiation Oncology Study Group. Journal of Radiation Research. 62(2). 356–363. 2 indexed citations

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Ito, Kei, et al.. (2019). Appropriate endpoints for stereotactic body radiotherapy for bone metastasis: Classification into five treatment groups. Reports of Practical Oncology & Radiotherapy. 25(1). 150–153. 14 indexed citations

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Ito, Kei, et al.. (2018). Sacral insufficiency fracture after stereotactic body radiation therapy for sacral metastasis. Clinical Case Reports. 6(11). 2293–2294. 3 indexed citations

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Horaguchi, Jun, Naotaka Fujita, Yutaka Noda, et al.. (2008). MALIGNANT BILIARY STRICTURE TREATED WITH PREOPERATIVE BILIARY DECOMPRESSION BY ENDOSONOGRAPHY-GUIDED BILIARY DRAINAGE : A CASE REPORT. Acta gastro-enterologica belgica. 50(5). 1332–1337. 2 indexed citations

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Ito, Kei. (1999). [Post-transfusion graft-vs-host disease].. PubMed. 88(3). 532–6. 1 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Yasuhiro, Kei Ito, Sachiko Iwaki-Egawa, Rie Shigetomi Yamaguchi, & Yukio Fujimoto. (1998). Aminopeptidase N in Sera of Healthy Subjects Is a Different N-Terminal Processed Derivative from the One Obtained from Maternal Serum. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism. 63(4). 289–294. 16 indexed citations

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Seto, Minoru, Kazutoshi Shindo, Kei Ito, & Yasuharu Sasaki. (1995). Selective inhibition of myosin phosphorylation and tension of hyperplastic arteries by the kinase inhibitor HA1077. European Journal of Pharmacology. 276(1-2). 27–33. 23 indexed citations

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Matsuzawa, Tomohiko, Haruki Fukuda, Yasuhiro Abe, et al.. (1985). Current and Future Aspects of Cancer Diagnosis with Positron Emission Tomography: Biological and Clinical Aspect. 1985. 159–190. 5 indexed citations

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Fukuda, Hiromu, Tomohiko Matsuzawa, Yasuhiro Abe, et al.. (1983). Clinical Evaluation of Cancer Diagnosis with 18F-2-Deoxy-2-Fluoro(18F)-D-Glucose: Its Usefulness in Liver and Pancreatic Cancers. 1983(1983). 244–249. 2 indexed citations

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Ito, Kei. (1962). Studies on the minor tremor,3.. Yonago acta medica. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

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