Kenji Yamashiro

13.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
206 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Kenji Yamashiro is a scholar working on Ophthalmology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenji Yamashiro has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 172 papers in Ophthalmology, 119 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 22 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kenji Yamashiro's work include Retinal Diseases and Treatments (147 papers), Glaucoma and retinal disorders (94 papers) and Retinal Imaging and Analysis (90 papers). Kenji Yamashiro is often cited by papers focused on Retinal Diseases and Treatments (147 papers), Glaucoma and retinal disorders (94 papers) and Retinal Imaging and Analysis (90 papers). Kenji Yamashiro collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Singapore. Kenji Yamashiro's co-authors include Akitaka Tsujikawa, Nagahisa Yoshimura, Sotaro Ooto, Akio Oishi, Hiroshi Tamura, Masahiro Miyake, Hideo Nakanishi, Isao Nakata, Susumu Ishida and Naoko Ueda‐Arakawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Kenji Yamashiro

199 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

IMI Pathologic Myopia

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kenji Yamashiro Japan	50	6.5k	4.6k	1.4k	826	445	206	8.0k
Akitaka Tsujikawa Japan	56	9.9k 1.5×	6.8k 1.5×	1.6k 1.2×	703 0.9×	333 0.7×	440	11.2k
Susan B. Bressler United States	51	9.5k 1.5×	7.5k 1.6×	1.7k 1.3×	661 0.8×	183 0.4×	130	10.5k
Kiyoshi Suzuma Japan	42	2.9k 0.5×	1.9k 0.4×	2.8k 2.0×	304 0.4×	403 0.9×	123	6.8k
Fumi Gomi Japan	39	4.5k 0.7×	3.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	650 0.8×	195 0.4×	183	6.5k
Tom A. Gardiner United Kingdom	44	3.4k 0.5×	1.9k 0.4×	3.0k 2.2×	276 0.3×	424 1.0×	133	7.0k
Florian Sennlaub France	45	3.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.3×	2.5k 1.8×	407 0.5×	1.0k 2.3×	127	6.1k
Dennis M. Marcus United States	34	4.9k 0.8×	3.8k 0.8×	888 0.6×	196 0.2×	146 0.3×	105	5.8k
Taiji Nagaoka Japan	34	2.7k 0.4×	2.1k 0.4×	537 0.4×	205 0.2×	93 0.2×	145	3.6k
Tsunehiko Ikeda Japan	31	2.1k 0.3×	1.2k 0.3×	1.0k 0.8×	153 0.2×	180 0.4×	247	3.5k
Junichi Kiryu Japan	29	1.8k 0.3×	1.0k 0.2×	962 0.7×	226 0.3×	325 0.7×	85	3.0k

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Tsutsui, Hiroko, et al.. (2025). A Case of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease: Diagnosis Based on the Presence of Vitiligo and Sunset Glow Fundus Without Ocular Symptoms. Cureus. 17(1). e78209–e78209.

Yamashiro, Kenji, et al.. (2025). Switching to faricimab from aflibercept during maintenance treatment period for age-related macular degeneration. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 33100–33100.

Fukuda, Ken, et al.. (2024). Reactivation of herpes simplex virus 2 presenting as recurrent acute retinal necrosis following COVID-19 vaccination. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 147. 107170–107170.

Fukuda, Ken, et al.. (2023). Cavernous Hemangioma of the Retina and Brain. Ophthalmology. 131(12). 1473–1473.

Fukuda, Ken, et al.. (2023). Staphylococcus aureus-derived virulent phenol-soluble modulin α triggers alarmin release to drive IL-36-dependent corneal inflammation. Microbes and Infection. 26(1-2). 105237–105237. 3 indexed citations

Ooto, Sotaro, Manabu Miyata, Naoko Ueda‐Arakawa, et al.. (2021). Effects of Intravitreous Aflibercept Injection in Pachychoroid Neovasculopathy: Comparison with Typical Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Clinical ophthalmology. Volume 15. 1539–1549. 13 indexed citations

Nakano, Eri, Masahiro Miyake, Yoshikatsu Hosoda, et al.. (2020). Relationship between Intraocular Pressure and Coffee Consumption in a Japanese Population without Glaucoma. Ophthalmology Glaucoma. 4(3). 268–276. 4 indexed citations

Miyake, Masahiro, Yoshikatsu Hosoda, Eri Nakano, et al.. (2020). Myopia Prevalence and Ocular Biometry Features in a General Japanese Population. Ophthalmology. 128(4). 522–531. 44 indexed citations

Hosoda, Yoshikatsu, Masahiro Miyake, Kenji Yamashiro, et al.. (2020). Deep phenotype unsupervised machine learning revealed the significance of pachychoroid features in etiology and visual prognosis of age-related macular degeneration. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 18423–18423. 37 indexed citations

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Miyake, Masahiro, Yoshikatsu Hosoda, Kenji Yamashiro, et al.. (2019). Choroidal neovascularization classification system based on machine learning to distinguish pachychoroid neovasculopathy from age-related macular degeneration.. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 60(9). 2217–2217. 1 indexed citations

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Yamashiro, Kenji, Munemitsu Yoshikawa, Masahiro Miyake, et al.. (2018). Prevalence of posterior staphyloma and factors associated with its shape in the Japanese population. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 4594–4594. 31 indexed citations

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Takahashi, Ayako, Sotaro Ooto, Kenji Yamashiro, et al.. (2017). Pachychoroid Geographic Atrophy. Ophthalmology Retina. 2(4). 295–305. 48 indexed citations

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Kumagai, Kyoko, Kenji Yamashiro, Masahiro Miyake, et al.. (2014). Genome-wide analysis for loci associated with the bilaterality of age-related macular degeneration. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 55(13). 2219–2219.

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Miyake, Masahiro, Kenji Yamashiro, Hideo Nakanishi, et al.. (2013). Heritability Estimation of Axial Length and Refractive Error Explained by Genome-Wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 54(15). 1734–1734. 2 indexed citations

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Ueda‐Arakawa, Naoko, Sotaro Ooto, Isao Nakata, et al.. (2012). Prevalence and Genomic Association of Reticular Pseudodrusen in Age-Related Macular Degeneration. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 155(2). 260–269.e2. 106 indexed citations

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Ueda‐Arakawa, Naoko, Akitaka Tsujikawa, Kenji Yamashiro, et al.. (2012). Visual prognosis of eyes with submacular hemorrhage associated with exudative age-related macular degeneration. Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology. 56(6). 589–598. 12 indexed citations

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Nakata, Isao, Kenji Yamashiro, Hideo Nakanishi, et al.. (2011). C2/CFB Gene Variants and Japanese Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 52(14). 5225–5225. 1 indexed citations

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Ieki, Yoshiaki, Junichi Kiryu, Mihori Kita, et al.. (2004). Pars plana vitrectomy for vitreous opacity associated with ocular sarcoidosis resistant to medical treatment. Ocular Immunology and Inflammation. 12(1). 35–43. 18 indexed citations

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Ishida, Susumu, Kenji Yamashiro, Tomohiko Usui, et al.. (2003). Leukocytes mediate retinal vascular remodeling during development and vaso-obliteration in disease. Nature Medicine. 9(6). 781–788. 188 indexed citations

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Ishida, Susumu, Tomohiko Usui, Kenji Yamashiro, et al.. (2003). VEGF164-mediated Inflammation Is Required for Pathological, but Not Physiological, Ischemia-induced Retinal Neovascularization. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 198(3). 483–489. 339 indexed citations

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