Motoji Sawabe

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
232 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Motoji Sawabe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Motoji Sawabe has authored 232 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 50 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 49 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Motoji Sawabe's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (19 papers), Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (18 papers) and Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (14 papers). Motoji Sawabe is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (19 papers), Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (18 papers) and Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (14 papers). Motoji Sawabe collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Motoji Sawabe's co-authors include Tomio Arai, Kaiyo Takubo, Shigeo Murayama, Yuko Saito, Naoko Honma, Takayuki Hosoi, Noriko Tanaka, Hiroshi Yamanouchi, Junko Aida and Kenichi Nakamura and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

In The Last Decade

Motoji Sawabe

226 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Motoji Sawabe Japan	42	1.6k	1.5k	1.4k	1.2k	1.1k	232	6.7k
John J. Kelly United States	52	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.3×	1.9k 1.6×	929 0.9×	225	8.5k
C. Mary Beard United States	48	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	1.8k 1.5×	669 0.6×	85	8.2k
Carolina Di Somma Italy	62	1.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.4×	520 0.4×	385 0.4×	228	10.5k
Hideo Sasaki Japan	39	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	737 0.5×	610 0.5×	589 0.6×	282	6.3k
Giovanni Vitale Italy	46	897 0.6×	1.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.8×	403 0.3×	409 0.4×	168	6.2k
Tomio Arai Japan	48	2.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.4×	2.2k 1.6×	1.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.8×	397	10.7k
Wei Zhu China	42	516 0.3×	2.3k 1.5×	878 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	765 0.7×	291	6.8k
Stephen J. Ryan United States	64	3.6k 2.3×	3.7k 2.4×	779 0.6×	758 0.6×	1.6k 1.5×	331	13.2k
Monica C. Skarulis United States	52	1.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.5×	883 0.7×	532 0.5×	134	8.7k
Joan M. Bathon United States	61	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	268 0.2×	670 0.6×	174	12.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Motoji Sawabe

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Tejada‐Strop, Alexandra, et al.. (2022). Dried blood spot is the feasible matrix for detection of some but not all hepatitis B virus markers of infection. BMC Research Notes. 15(1). 287–287. 3 indexed citations

Ihara, Kensuke, Tetsuo Sasano, Yuichi Hiraoka, et al.. (2020). A missense mutation in the RSRSP stretch of Rbm20 causes dilated cardiomyopathy and atrial fibrillation in mice. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 17894–17894. 28 indexed citations

Matsuda, Yoko, Toshiyuki Ishiwata, Nobuo Kanazawa, et al.. (2019). Clinicopathological characteristics of gastric cancer with carbohydrate antigen 19‐9 expression occurring in elderly individuals: An autopsy study. Pathology International. 70(2). 92–100. 4 indexed citations

Mieno, Makiko, et al.. (2019). Subtypes of Breast Cancer in Lao P.D.R.: A Study in a Limited-Resource Setting. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. 20(2). 589–594. 5 indexed citations

Matsuda, Yoko, M. Tanaka, Motoji Sawabe, et al.. (2017). Relationship between pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasias, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas, and single nucleotide polymorphisms in autopsied elderly patients. Genes Chromosomes and Cancer. 57(1). 12–18. 6 indexed citations

Matsuda, Yoko, Tan Wang, Junko Aida, et al.. (2017). Clinicopathological characteristics of distant metastases of adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and urothelial carcinoma: An autopsy study of older Japanese patients. Geriatrics and gerontology international. 18(2). 211–215. 4 indexed citations

Terai, Masanori, Naotaka Izumiyama‐Shimomura, Junko Aida, et al.. (2013). Association of telomere shortening in myocardium with heart weight gain and cause of death. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 2401–2401. 34 indexed citations

Kimura, Yurika, et al.. (2013). RNA analysis of inner ear cells from formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) archival human temporal bone section using laser microdissection – A technical report. Hearing Research. 302. 26–31. 7 indexed citations

Sawabe, Motoji, Masashi Tanaka, Kouji Chida, et al.. (2011). Mitochondrial Haplogroups A and M7a Confer a Genetic Risk for Coronary Atherosclerosis in the Japanese Elderly: An Autopsy Study of 1,536 Patients. Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis. 18(2). 166–175. 26 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Motofumi, Miao Liu, Tomio Arai, et al.. (2011). Association of rs6983561 Polymorphism at 8q24 With Prostate Cancer Mortality in a Japanese Population. Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. 9(1). 46–52. 14 indexed citations

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Honma, Naoko, Kaiyo Takubo, Motoji Sawabe, et al.. (2009). Alternative use of multiple exons 1 of aromatase gene in cancerous and normal breast tissues from women over the age of 80 years. Breast Cancer Research. 11(4). R48–R48. 4 indexed citations

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Ikeda, Shinobu, et al.. (2008). Lymphotoxin-alpha polymorphisms and presence of cancer in 1,536 consecutive autopsy cases. BMC Cancer. 8(1). 235–235. 20 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Motofumi, et al.. (2007). The Val158Met polymorphism of the catechol‐O‐methyltransferase gene is not associated with the risk of sporadic or latent prostate cancer in Japanese men. International Journal of Urology. 14(9). 800–804. 11 indexed citations

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Takubo, Kaiyo, Junko Aida, Motoji Sawabe, et al.. (2007). Early squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus: the Japanese viewpoint. Histopathology. 51(6). 733–742. 95 indexed citations

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Sawabe, Motoji, et al.. (2006). FRS-111 The Correlation between Serum Lipid Levels and Atherosclerotic Degrees is Different in Each Arterial System(Clinical Aspects of Atherosclerosis (H) FRS23,Featured Research Session (English),The 70th Anniversary Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Circulation Society). Japanese Circulation Journal-english Edition. 70. 141–142. 3 indexed citations

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Takubo, Kaiyo, Michael Vieth, Gopi Aryal, et al.. (2005). Islands of squamous epithelium and their surrounding mucosa in columnar-lined esophagus: a pathognomonic feature of Barrett's esophagus?. Human Pathology. 36(3). 269–274. 25 indexed citations

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Tsuchiya, Kuniaki, Hideki Ishizu, Imaharu Nakano, et al.. (2001). Distribution of basal ganglia lesions in generalized variant of Pick's disease: a clinicopathological study of four autopsy cases. Acta Neuropathologica. 102(5). 441–448. 11 indexed citations

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Esaki, Yukiyoshi, et al.. (1999). Pathologic Evaluation of the Main Cause of Death in Japanese Centenarians.. Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi Japanese Journal of Geriatrics. 36(2). 116–121. 8 indexed citations

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Nagayama, Kazuyoshi, Namiki Izumi, Yuji Hoshino, et al.. (1996). Two cases of autoimmune hepatitis in elderly women with positive HLA-DR2 and negative HLA-DR4.. Kanzo. 37(5). 268–275.

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Sawabe, Motoji, et al.. (1987). A case of triple lung cancer including "in situ" adenocarcinoma arising from the segmental bronchus of the lung.. Haigan. 27(2). 201–206. 1 indexed citations

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