Mamoru Kato

14.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Mamoru Kato is a scholar working on Cancer Research, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mamoru Kato has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Cancer Research, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Mamoru Kato's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (20 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (7 papers) and Genomics and Rare Diseases (6 papers). Mamoru Kato is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (20 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (7 papers) and Genomics and Rare Diseases (6 papers). Mamoru Kato collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and United States. Mamoru Kato's co-authors include Tatsuhiro Shibata, Hiromi Nakamura, Yasushi Totoki, Natsuko Hama, Kazuaki Shimada, Takuji Okusaka, Nobuyoshi Hiraoka, Yasuhito Arai, Fumie Hosoda and Asmaa Elzawahry and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Genetics and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Mamoru Kato

51 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Genomic spectra of biliary tract cancer

2015 853 citations Hiromi Nakamura, Yasuhito Arai et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mamoru Kato Japan	20	961	864	853	744	503	54	2.2k
Hakan Alakus Germany	29	763 0.8×	900 1.0×	743 0.9×	518 0.7×	925 1.8×	113	2.3k
Björn Nodin Sweden	32	1.5k 1.5×	479 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	594 0.8×	579 1.2×	118	2.8k
Hui‐Zi Chen United States	12	1.1k 1.2×	377 0.4×	1.4k 1.6×	774 1.0×	656 1.3×	25	2.6k
Tchao Méatchi France	17	2.1k 2.2×	846 1.0×	432 0.5×	426 0.6×	341 0.7×	37	3.2k
Nagahide Matsubara Japan	27	1.2k 1.2×	485 0.6×	944 1.1×	491 0.7×	375 0.7×	106	2.3k
Xiaomao Guo China	28	769 0.8×	447 0.5×	502 0.6×	633 0.9×	731 1.5×	115	2.2k
Daniele Calistri Italy	33	1.2k 1.3×	593 0.7×	1.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	1.2k 2.4×	133	3.1k
I. J. Christensen Denmark	24	1.2k 1.2×	481 0.6×	460 0.5×	930 1.3×	285 0.6×	49	2.2k
Yuan‐Tzu Lan Taiwan	30	1.5k 1.5×	680 0.8×	814 1.0×	544 0.7×	833 1.7×	108	2.6k
Melanie A. Krook United States	14	937 1.0×	391 0.5×	837 1.0×	667 0.9×	618 1.2×	30	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Mamoru Kato

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mamoru Kato

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mamoru Kato. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mamoru Kato 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 Mamoru Kato. Mamoru Kato is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Umemura, Masanari, Tomoko Akiyama, Momoko Nagai, et al.. (2025). Focal Adhesion Kinase-Dependent Reprogramming of IFN-γ Signaling through PYK2 Coinhibition Sensitizes Melanoma to Immune Checkpoint Blockade. Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 1 indexed citations

Kato, Mamoru, Jo Nishino, Momoko Nagai, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive analysis of prognosis markers with molecular features derived from pan-cancer whole-genome sequences. Human Genomics. 19(1). 39–39.

Sunami, Kuniko, Takashi Kubo, Hitoshi Ichikawa, et al.. (2024). Leveraging non‐coding regions to guarantee the accuracy of small‐sized panel‐based tumor mutational burden estimates. Cancer Science. 115(12). 4045–4053.

Saito-Adachi, Mihoko, Natsuko Hama, Yasushi Totoki, et al.. (2023). Oncogenic structural aberration landscape in gastric cancer genomes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3688–3688. 6 indexed citations

Ueno, Toshihide, Masanaka Sugiyama, Shinya Kojima, et al.. (2023). Promoter swapping of truncated PDGFRB drives Ph-like acute lymphoblastic leukemia. npj Precision Oncology. 7(1). 132–132. 1 indexed citations

Hattori, Naoko, Naoko Iida, Yuichi Shiraishi, et al.. (2023). Sleeping Beauty transposon mutagenesis identified genes and pathways involved in inflammation-associated colon tumor development. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6514–6514. 6 indexed citations

Kohno, Takashi, Mamoru Kato, Shinji Kohsaka, et al.. (2022). C-CAT: The National Datacenter for Cancer Genomic Medicine in Japan. Cancer Discovery. 12(11). 2509–2515. 94 indexed citations

Satoh, Hironori, Yasuhito Arai, Eisaku Furukawa, et al.. (2022). Genomic landscape of chemical-induced lung tumors under Nrf2 different expression levels. Carcinogenesis. 43(7). 613–623. 2 indexed citations

Shiokawa, Daisuke, Hiroaki Sakai, Hirokazu Ohata, et al.. (2020). Slow-Cycling Cancer Stem Cells Regulate Progression and Chemoresistance in Colon Cancer. Cancer Research. 80(20). 4451–4464. 60 indexed citations

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Itahashi, Kota, Shunsuke Kondo, Takashi Kubo, et al.. (2018). Evaluating Clinical Genome Sequence Analysis by Watson for Genomics. Frontiers in Medicine. 5. 305–305. 18 indexed citations

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Sekine, Shigeki, Taisuke Mori, Reiko Ogawa, et al.. (2017). Mismatch repair deficiency commonly precedes adenoma formation in Lynch Syndrome-Associated colorectal tumorigenesis. Modern Pathology. 30(8). 1144–1151. 53 indexed citations

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Nakatsuka, T., Keisuke Tateishi, Yotaro Kudo, et al.. (2017). Impact of histone demethylase KDM3A-dependent AP-1 transactivity on hepatotumorigenesis induced by PI3K activation. Oncogene. 36(45). 6262–6271. 40 indexed citations

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Takai, Erina, Yasushi Totoki, Hiromi Nakamura, et al.. (2016). Clinical Utility of Circulating Tumor DNA for Molecular Assessment and Precision Medicine in Pancreatic Cancer. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 924. 13–17. 24 indexed citations

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Saito, Motonobu, Yoko Shimada, Kouya Shiraishi, et al.. (2015). Development of Lung Adenocarcinomas with Exclusive Dependence on Oncogene Fusions. Cancer Research. 75(11). 2264–2271. 29 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Hiromi, Yasuhito Arai, Yasushi Totoki, et al.. (2015). Genomic spectra of biliary tract cancer. Nature Genetics. 47(9). 1003–1010. 853 indexed citations breakdown →

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Suenaga, Yusuke, Yoshiki Kaneko, Mamoru Kato, et al.. (2014). NCYM, a Cis-Antisense Gene of MYCN, Encodes a De Novo Evolved Protein That Inhibits GSK3β Resulting in the Stabilization of MYCN in Human Neuroblastomas. PLoS Genetics. 10(1). e1003996–e1003996. 80 indexed citations

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Kato, Mamoru, Yusuke Nakamura, & Tatsuhiko Tsunoda. (2008). An Algorithm for Inferring Complex Haplotypes in a Region of Copy-Number Variation. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 83(2). 157–169. 19 indexed citations

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Kato, Mamoru, et al.. (2007). Three Non-Bayesian Methods of Spam Filtration: CRM114 at TREC 2007.. Text REtrieval Conference. 1 indexed citations

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Kato, Mamoru, Akihiro Sekine, Yozo Ohnishi, et al.. (2006). Linkage disequilibrium of evolutionarily conserved regions in the human genome. BMC Genomics. 7(1). 326–326. 11 indexed citations

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Kato, Mamoru, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, & Toshihisa Takagi. (2001). Lag Analysis of Genetic Networks in the Cell Cycle of Budding Yeast. Proceedings Genome Informatics Workshop/Genome informatics. 12. 266–267. 16 indexed citations

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