Moritaka Suga

8.7k citations

116 papers · 6.3k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 42

Impact in

Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine top 0.5%
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Medical Imaging and Pathology Studies
- Occupational and environmental lung diseases
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
Physiology top 1%
- Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research

Papers in

Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 60
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis 33
- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms 13
- Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery 8
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 9

Co-authors: Masayuki Ando Kazuya Ichikado Shoji Kudoh Takaaki Akaike Mitsuhiro Matsumoto Atsuhiko Sato Hiroshi Maeda Arata Azuma
Journals: Respirology (6 papers)American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (6 papers)Respiratory Research (4 papers)Radiology (4 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (4 papers)
Partner nations: Japan United States Sweden

In The Last Decade

Moritaka Suga

114 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial of Pirfenidone in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis 2005 · 681 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2005 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

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Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Moritaka Suga, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Smoking history and underlying lung disease are associated with poor outcome in patients developing interstitial pneumonia during low‐dose amiodarone therapy SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Masatsugu Nozoe, Toshihiro Honda, 一雄東家, Kazuya Ichikado, Moritaka Suga, Kōichi Nakao	2012	1
2	Interstitial Lung Disease in Japanese Patients with Lung Cancer American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Shoji Kudoh, Harubumi Kato, Yutaka Nishiwaki, Masahiro Fukuoka, Kouichiro Nakata, Yukito Ichinose, Masahiro Tsuboi, Soichiro Yokota, Kazuhiko Nakagawa, Moritaka Suga, Haiyi Jiang, Y. Itoh, Alison Armour, Claire Watkins, Tim Higenbottam, Fredrik Nyberg	2008	365
3	Computed Tomography Findings in Pathological Usual Interstitial Pneumonia American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Hiromitsu Sumikawa, Takeshi Johkoh, Thomas V. Colby, Kazuya Ichikado, Moritaka Suga, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Yasuhiro Kondoh, Takashi Ogura, Hiroaki Arakawa, Kiminori Fujimoto, Atsuo Inoue, Naoki Mihara, Osamu Honda, Noriyuki Tomiyama, Hironobu Nakamura, Néstor L. Müller	2007	267
4	Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Trial of Pirfenidone in Patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Arata Azuma, Toshihiro Nukiwa, Eiyasu Tsuboi, Moritaka Suga, Shosaku Abe, Koichiro Nakata, Yoshio Taguchi, Sonoko Nagai, Harumi Itoh, Motoharu Ohi, Atsuhiko Sato, Shoji Kudoh, (unknown) Hit paper breakdown →	2005	681
5	Expression of constitutively activated EGFRvlll in non‐small cell lung cancer Cancer Science ·Isamu Okamoto, Lawrence C. Kenyon, David R. Emlet, Takeshi Mori, Semen S. Tenishchev, Susumu Hirosako, Yasuko Ichikawa, Hiroto Kishi, Andrew K. Godwin, Masakazu Yoshioka, Moritaka Suga, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Albert J. Wong	2003	107
6	Acute Interstitial Pneumonia: Comparison of High-Resolution Computed Tomography Findings between Survivors and Nonsurvivors American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Kazuya Ichikado, Moritaka Suga, Néstor L. Müller, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Yasuhiro Kondoh, Masanori Akira, Takeshi Johkoh, Naoki Mihara, Hironobu Nakamura, Mutsumasa Takahashi, Masayuki Ando	2002	147
7	Characteristic Elevation of Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity in Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Moritaka Suga, Kazuhiro Iyonaga, Tatsuya Okamoto, Yasuhiro Gushima, Hisako Miyakawa, Takaaki Akaike, Masayuki Ando	2000	185
8	A new look at hypersensitivity pneumonitis Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine ·Masayuki Ando, Moritaka Suga, Wen-Lung Wu	1999	25
9	Regulated CD44 Cleavage under the Control of Protein Kinase C, Calcium Influx, and the Rho Family of Small G Proteins Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Isamu Okamoto, Yoshiaki Kawano, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Moritaka Suga, Kozo Kaibuchi, Masayuki Ando, Hideyuki Saya	1999	90
10	Induction of Cell Shape Changes through Activation of the Interleukin-3 Common β Chain Receptor by the RON Receptor-type Tyrosine Kinase Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Hüseyin Alparslan ŞAHİN, Moritaka Suga, Masayuki Ando, Toshio Suda, Naoto Yamaguchi	1999	38
11	Therapeutic Effect of Erythromycin on Influenza Virus-induced Lung Injury in Mice American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Keizo Sato, Moritaka Suga, Takaaki Akaike, Shigemoto Fujii, Hiroyuki Muranaka, Jiang Xingyu, Hiroshi Maeda, Masayuki Ando	1998	87
12	Significant Correlation of Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity and p53 Gene Mutation in Stage I Lung Adenocarcinoma Japanese Journal of Cancer Research ·Hisao Fujimoto, Semen S. Tenishchev, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Moritaka Suga, Yukio Ando, Richard Iggo, Mitsuhiro Tada, Hideyuki Saya, Takahiro SHUKUTA	1998	48
13	Molecular Detection of Cancer Cells by Competitive Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction Analysis of Specific CD44 Variant RNAs JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute ·Isamu Okamoto, Ji-ichiro Sasaki, E. Yu. Rakhimov, Hideyuki Saya, H. Miyake, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Moritaka Suga, Takahiro SHUKUTA	1998	56
14	Down regulation of a harmful variant protein by replacement of its normal protein Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Basis of Disease ·Yukio Ando, Taro Yamashita, Masaaki Nakamura, Yoshiya Tanaka, Sunil Bansal, Kazuhiro Tashima, Ole B. Suhr, Yahiro Uemura, 大本照憲, Anggi Marya Putri Arivia, Moritaka Suga, Makoto Uchino, Masayuki Ando	1997	18
15	Nitric Oxide Generation from Hydroxyurea via Copper‐catalyzed Peroxidation and Implications for Pharmacological Actions of Hydroxyurea Japanese Journal of Cancer Research ·Keizo Sato, Takaaki Akaike, Tomohiro Sawa, Yoichi Miyamoto, Moritaka Suga, Masayuki Ando, Hiroshi Maeda	1997	42
16	Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity in Human Lung Cancer Japanese Journal of Cancer Research ·Hisao Fujimoto, Yukio Ando, Nerea Millán, Anggi Marya Putri Arivia, Yoshiya Tanaka, Jiichiro Sasaki, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Moritaka Suga, Takahiro SHUKUTA	1997	74
17	NY-198 in respiratory tract infections Chemotherapy ·Moritaka Suga, Kiyotaka Ito, Masayuki Ando, Mineharu Sugimoto, Shukuro Araki	1988	3
18	Cefotiam hexetil in respiratory tract infections Chemotherapy ·Moritaka Suga, Masayuki Ando, Kiyotaka Ito, Fujiho Tanaka, Mineharu Sugimoto, 曲桂娟	1988	3
19	A Case of Systemic Trichosporon Infection Associated with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Kansenshogaku zasshi ·Kelly E. Loughridge, Minmin He, Faiz Ahmed Khondaker, Masahiko S. Satoh, Yasuo Sasaki, Masayuki Ando, Moritaka Suga, Yao Huimin, Kalyani Ainikkara Praful, Kazuko Yoshida	1987	1
20	Studies on Morphology and Function of Alveolar Macrophages Obtained by Bronchoalveolar Lavage from Smokers and Nonsmokers Mineharu Sugimoto, Jarno Sinjaga, Masayuki Ando, Hyoungjee Kim, Hirotsugu Kohrogi, Kelly E. Loughridge, Moritaka Suga, Hironori Nakashima, Shukuro Araki	1984	1

About Moritaka Suga

Moritaka Suga is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Physiology, Epidemiology and Immunology and Allergy, having authored 116 papers that have together received 6.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (33 papers), Respiratory Support and Mechanisms (13 papers), Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research (10 papers), Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections (10 papers), Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment (9 papers), Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects (8 papers), Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery (8 papers) and Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (3.5k citations), Physiology (1.4k citations), Oncology (1.0k citations), Rheumatology (497 citations) and Immunology and Allergy (197 citations). Moritaka Suga has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, United States and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Masayuki Ando, Kazuya Ichikado, Shoji Kudoh, Takaaki Akaike, Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Atsuhiko Sato, Hiroshi Maeda, Arata Azuma, Toshihiro Nukiwa and Yoshio Taguchi. Their work appears in journals such as Respirology, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Research, Radiology and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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