Masayuki Fujii

6.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
49 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Masayuki Fujii is a scholar working on Oncology, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Masayuki Fujii has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Oncology, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Masayuki Fujii's work include Cancer Cells and Metastasis (13 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (7 papers) and Digestive system and related health (6 papers). Masayuki Fujii is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Cells and Metastasis (13 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (7 papers) and Digestive system and related health (6 papers). Masayuki Fujii collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Russia. Masayuki Fujii's co-authors include Toshiro Sato, Mami Matano, Yuki Ohta, Takanori Kanai∥, Ai Takano, Mariko Shimokawa, Shoichi Date, Kosaku Nanki, Shinya Sugimoto and Kohta Toshimitsu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Masayuki Fujii

46 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Modeling colorectal cancer using CRISPR-Cas9–mediated engineering of human intestinal organoids

2015 848 citations Mami Matano, Shoichi Date et al. profile →
A Colorectal Tumor Organoid Library Demonstrates Progressive Loss of Niche Factor Requirements during Tumorigenesis

2016 599 citations Masayuki Fujii, Mariko Shimokawa et al. Cell stem cell profile →
Visualization and targeting of LGR5+ human colon cancer stem cells

2017 525 citations Mariko Shimokawa, Yuki Ohta et al. Nature profile →
Human Pancreatic Tumor Organoids Reveal Loss of Stem Cell Niche Factor Dependence during Disease Progression

2018 452 citations Takashi Seino, Shintaro Kawasaki et al. Cell stem cell profile →
Human Intestinal Organoids Maintain Self-Renewal Capacity and Cellular Diversity in Niche-Inspired Culture Condition

2018 358 citations Masayuki Fujii, Mami Matano et al. Cell stem cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Masayuki Fujii Japan	18	2.5k	1.7k	1.1k	875	511	49	4.1k
Mami Matano Japan	18	2.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	843 1.0×	517 1.0×	29	4.0k
Joost van Gorp Netherlands	22	2.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	859 0.8×	854 1.0×	503 1.0×	42	4.2k
Ai Takano Japan	10	1.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	683 0.6×	581 0.7×	312 0.6×	10	2.6k
Jarno Drost Netherlands	24	2.8k 1.1×	4.1k 2.4×	1.4k 1.2×	2.3k 2.7×	458 0.9×	61	7.1k
Elisabetta Marangoni France	37	1.5k 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	341 0.3×	887 1.0×	294 0.6×	111	3.4k
Viola Heinzelmann‐Schwarz Switzerland	29	1.8k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	361 0.3×	1.0k 1.2×	202 0.4×	120	4.2k
Wouter R. Karthaus United States	14	1.3k 0.5×	2.1k 1.2×	405 0.4×	592 0.7×	437 0.9×	25	3.5k
Pierre Cordelier France	36	1.9k 0.8×	2.5k 1.4×	189 0.2×	1.6k 1.8×	451 0.9×	104	4.5k
Stéphane Depil France	29	2.4k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	549 0.5×	319 0.4×	495 1.0×	70	4.0k
Francisco M. Barriga United States	15	1.3k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	282 0.3×	469 0.5×	419 0.8×	29	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Masayuki Fujii

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fujii, Masayuki, et al.. (2025). Ongoing shift toward earlier RSV season in children: the case of Saitama after COVID-19 pandemic. Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases. 1 indexed citations

Sugimoto, Shinya, et al.. (2025). Understanding the Differentiation Pathway to Bestrophin 4-Positive Cells in Human Colonic Epithelium. Gastroenterology. 169(1). 154–157.e5. 2 indexed citations

Igarashi, Ryo, Mayumi Oda, Ryo Okada, et al.. (2025). Generation of human adult hepatocyte organoids with metabolic functions. Nature. 641(8065). 1248–1257. 12 indexed citations

Sugimoto, Shinya, Eiji Kobayashi, Masayuki Fujii, et al.. (2021). An organoid-based organ-repurposing approach to treat short bowel syndrome. Nature. 592(7852). 99–104. 113 indexed citations

Ebisudani, Toshiki, Shinya Sugimoto, Kei Haga, et al.. (2021). Direct derivation of human alveolospheres for SARS-CoV-2 infection modeling and drug screening. Cell Reports. 35(10). 109218–109218. 41 indexed citations

Sato, Taku, Jumpei Asano, Masayuki Fujii, et al.. (2020). Regulated IFN signalling preserves the stemness of intestinal stem cells by restricting differentiation into secretory-cell lineages. Nature Cell Biology. 22(8). 919–926. 25 indexed citations

Sugimoto, Shinya, Masayuki Fujii, & Toshiro Sato. (2020). Organoid Derivation and Orthotopic Xenotransplantation for Studying Human Intestinal Stem Cell Dynamics. Methods in molecular biology. 2171. 303–320. 6 indexed citations

Seino, Takashi, Shintaro Kawasaki, Mariko Shimokawa, et al.. (2018). Human Pancreatic Tumor Organoids Reveal Loss of Stem Cell Niche Factor Dependence during Disease Progression. Cell stem cell. 22(3). 454–467.e6. 452 indexed citations breakdown →

Fujii, Masayuki, Mami Matano, Kosaku Nanki, & Toshiro Sato. (2018). Author Correction: Efficient genetic engineering of human intestinal organoids using electroporation. Nature Protocols. 14(8). 2595–2595. 5 indexed citations

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Shinkai, Yasuhiro, Hirofumi Fujii, Yojiro Kotake, et al.. (2017). Silencing of BCR/ABL Chimeric Gene in Human Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Cell Line K562 by siRNA-Nuclear Export Signal Peptide Conjugates. Nucleic Acid Therapeutics. 27(3). 168–175. 7 indexed citations

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Sugimoto, Shinya, Yuki Ohta, Masayuki Fujii, et al.. (2017). Reconstruction of the Human Colon Epithelium In Vivo. Cell stem cell. 22(2). 171–176.e5. 147 indexed citations

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Fujii, Masayuki & Toshiro Sato. (2017). Defining the role of Lgr5+ stem cells in colorectal cancer: from basic research to clinical applications. Genome Medicine. 9(1). 66–66. 13 indexed citations

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Kamata, Ryo, Masayuki Fujii, Koichi Yoshimura, et al.. (2016). Osteoprotegerin Prevents Development of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0147088–e0147088. 18 indexed citations

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Kohno, Tadasu, et al.. (2015). Three-Port Thoracoscopic Middle Lobectomy in a Patient After Left Pneumonectomy. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 99(4). 1422–1425. 4 indexed citations

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Shimizu, Seiji, et al.. (2013). Study of Tidal Stream Electricity Generation for Obatake Strait. The Twenty-third International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference. 1 indexed citations

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Yano, Hajime, Takayuki Hirai, Chisato Okamoto, et al.. (2013). Heliocentric Variation of Cosmic Dust Flux Measured by the IKAROS-ALADDIN Between the Earth and Venus. LPI. 2743. 1 indexed citations

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Fujii, Masayuki, et al.. (1998). Observation of High Energy Cosmic-ray Primaries by Japanese-Russo Joint Balloon Experiment. 1572–1577.

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Takahashi, Takashi, et al.. (1994). A STUDY ON THE SPACE COGNITION OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN : Diversity and characteristic of the architectural space "viewing"-. Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ). 59(455). 87–96. 4 indexed citations

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Onodera, Sukeo, Yoko Usui, Masayuki Fujii, & Shizuo Suzuki. (1982). Chemical Changes of Some Organic Compounds in Chlorinated Water. V.D Mutagenicity of Ether Extractable Products obtained by the Reaction of Naphthols and Hypochlorite in Dilute Aqueous Solution. Eisei kagaku. 28(3). 160–163. 2 indexed citations

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Honda, Toshio, et al.. (1981). . Kanzo. 22(7). 943–952. 1 indexed citations

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