Norihiro Kokudo

46.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
727 papers, 26.0k citations indexed

About

Norihiro Kokudo is a scholar working on Hepatology, Surgery and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Norihiro Kokudo has authored 727 papers receiving a total of 26.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 460 papers in Hepatology, 415 papers in Surgery and 192 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Norihiro Kokudo's work include Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis (309 papers), Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (176 papers) and Liver Disease and Transplantation (174 papers). Norihiro Kokudo is often cited by papers focused on Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis (309 papers), Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes (176 papers) and Liver Disease and Transplantation (174 papers). Norihiro Kokudo collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Norihiro Kokudo's co-authors include Masatoshi Makuuchi, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Yasuhiko Sugawara, Taku Aoki, Takeaki Ishizawa, Yoshihiro Sakamoto, Hiroshi Imamura, Tadatoshi Takayama, Yutaka Matsuyama and Junichi Kaneko and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Norihiro Kokudo

690 papers receiving 25.5k 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.

Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Japan: Consensus-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines Proposed by the Japan Society of Hepatology (JSH) 2010 Updated Version

2011 672 citations Masatoshi Kudo, Namiki Izumi et al. profile →
Real‐time identification of liver cancers by using indocyanine green fluorescent imaging

2009 624 citations Takeaki Ishizawa, Sumihito Tamura et al. profile →
Neither Multiple Tumors Nor Portal Hypertension Are Surgical Contraindications for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

2008 557 citations Takeaki Ishizawa, Kiyoshi Hasegawa et al. profile →
Prognostic Impact of Anatomic Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

2005 516 citations Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Norihiro Kokudo et al. Annals of Surgery profile →
Guidelines for Perioperative Care for Liver Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Recommendations

2016 416 citations Norihiro Kokudo et al. World Journal of Surgery profile →
Managing synchronous liver metastases from colorectal cancer: A multidisciplinary international consensus

2015 376 citations Norihiro Kokudo et al. profile →
A Snapshot of the Effective Indications and Results of Surgery for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Tertiary Referral Centers

2013 356 citations Norihiro Kokudo, Tadatoshi Takayama et al. Annals of Surgery profile →
Survival benefit of liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma associated with portal vein invasion

2016 335 citations Takashi Kokudo, Kiyoshi Hasegawa et al. profile →
Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: expert consensus statement

2015 313 citations Norihiro Kokudo et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Norihiro Kokudo Japan	80	16.4k	12.5k	7.3k	7.2k	5.8k	727	26.0k
Wan Yee Lau China	65	10.8k 0.7×	8.0k 0.6×	5.4k 0.7×	5.7k 0.8×	4.3k 0.7×	440	19.1k
Thomas M. van Gulik Netherlands	80	7.1k 0.4×	15.0k 1.2×	8.9k 1.2×	4.9k 0.7×	8.3k 1.4×	611	23.4k
Timothy M. Pawlik United States	87	9.0k 0.5×	13.5k 1.1×	14.9k 2.1×	5.4k 0.7×	8.7k 1.5×	689	28.9k
Kiyoshi Hasegawa Japan	60	9.9k 0.6×	6.2k 0.5×	3.8k 0.5×	5.3k 0.7×	2.9k 0.5×	550	15.9k
Michaël Abécassis United States	74	15.5k 0.9×	10.2k 0.8×	2.6k 0.4×	8.3k 1.1×	3.2k 0.5×	333	23.8k
Daniel Azoulay France	72	13.5k 0.8×	10.0k 0.8×	8.2k 1.1×	4.9k 0.7×	3.9k 0.7×	443	20.4k
Mitsuo Shimada Japan	70	7.7k 0.5×	9.9k 0.8×	5.9k 0.8×	4.1k 0.6×	4.2k 0.7×	847	20.5k
Jean‐Luc Raoul France	56	11.6k 0.7×	5.9k 0.5×	12.1k 1.7×	9.4k 1.3×	5.8k 1.0×	342	26.4k
Laura Kulik United States	61	15.9k 1.0×	5.7k 0.5×	2.8k 0.4×	8.4k 1.2×	3.6k 0.6×	149	20.1k
William R. Jarnagin United States	109	16.3k 1.0×	22.7k 1.8×	22.0k 3.0×	6.4k 0.9×	13.1k 2.3×	638	39.1k

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Kokudo, Takashi & Norihiro Kokudo. (2025). Evolving Indications for Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Following the Milan Criteria. Cancers. 17(3). 507–507. 1 indexed citations

Kokudo, Takashi, Nobuyuki Takemura, Fuyuki Inagaki, et al.. (2023). Laparoscopic minor liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma. Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology. 53(11). 1087–1090. 1 indexed citations

Nakamura, Yuki, et al.. (2023). Percutaneous Transhepatic Gallbladder Intervention as a Bridge to Cholecystectomy: Aspiration or Drainage?. World Journal of Surgery. 47(7). 1721–1728. 3 indexed citations

Asaoka, Yoshinari, Ryosuke Tateishi, Yasuhide Yamada, et al.. (2023). Real world data of systemic therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma in Japan: HERITAGE study.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 41(4_suppl). 510–510. 2 indexed citations

Kawaguchi, Yoshikuni, Yoshinori Inagaki, Kyoji Ito, et al.. (2022). Assessment of liver function-related mRNA expression and fluorescence imaging in outflow-obstructed regions in rats. Surgery Today. 53(4). 513–521. 1 indexed citations

Yamada, Takahiro, et al.. (2021). Profiling of tumour-associated microbiota in human hepatocellular carcinoma. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 10589–10589. 72 indexed citations

Ito, Kyoji, et al.. (2021). Pheochromocytoma Crisis Rescued by Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy. The American Surgeon. 89(6). 2857–2860. 3 indexed citations

Omichi, Kiyohiko, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Hiraku Kumamaru, et al.. (2021). Association between age and short-term outcomes of gastroenterological surgeries in older patients: an analysis using the National Clinical Database in Japan. Langenbeck s Archives of Surgery. 406(8). 2827–2836. 6 indexed citations

Kawaguchi, Yoshikuni, Akihiko Ichida, Masaru Matsumura, et al.. (2019). Evaluation of preoperative nutritional variables to predict postoperative complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy. Nutrition. 67-68. 100006–100006. 6 indexed citations

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Aoki, Taku, Keiichi Kubota, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, et al.. (2019). Significance of the surgical hepatic resection margin in patients with a single hepatocellular carcinoma. British journal of surgery. 107(1). 113–120. 59 indexed citations

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Takemura, Nobuyuki, Taku Aoki, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, et al.. (2019). Hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma after perioperative management of portal hypertension. British journal of surgery. 106(8). 1066–1074. 16 indexed citations

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Shirata, Chikara, Yoshikuni Kawaguchi, Kosuke Kobayashi, et al.. (2018). Usefulness of indocyanine green‐fluorescence imaging for real‐time visualization of pancreas neuroendocrine tumor and cystic neoplasm. Journal of Surgical Oncology. 118(6). 1012–1020. 19 indexed citations

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Takayasu, Kenichi, Shigeki Arii, Michiie Sakamoto, et al.. (2017). Impact of resection and ablation for single hypovascular hepatocellular carcinoma ≤2 cm analysed with propensity score weighting. Liver International. 38(3). 484–493. 30 indexed citations

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Tani, Keigo, Junichi Shindoh, Nobuhisa Akamatsu, et al.. (2017). Management of disappearing lesions after chemotherapy for colorectal liver metastases: Relation between detectability and residual tumors. Journal of Surgical Oncology. 117(2). 191–197. 26 indexed citations

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Okinaga, Hiroko, Hideo Yasunaga, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Kiyohide Fushimi, & Norihiro Kokudo. (2017). Short-Term Outcomes following Hepatectomy in Elderly Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma: An Analysis of 10,805 Septuagenarians and 2,381 Octo- and Nonagenarians in Japan. Liver Cancer. 7(1). 55–64. 39 indexed citations

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Hasegawa, Kiyoshi, Taku Aoki, Takeaki Ishizawa, et al.. (2014). Comparison of the Therapeutic Outcomes Between Surgical Resection and Percutaneous Ablation for Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 21(S3). 348–355. 26 indexed citations

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Hasegawa, Kiyoshi, Masatoshi Makuuchi, Norihiro Kokudo, et al.. (2013). Impact of Histologically Confirmed Lymph Node Metastases on Patient Survival After Surgical Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Annals of Surgery. 259(1). 166–170. 48 indexed citations

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Sugawara, Yasuhiko, Masatoshi Makuuchi, Sumihito Tamura, et al.. (2006). Portal vein reconstruction in adult living donor liver transplantation using cryopreserved vein grafts. Liver Transplantation. 12(8). 1233–1236. 49 indexed citations

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Hashimoto, Takuya, Yasuhiko Sugawara, Yoji Kishi, et al.. (2005). Reconstruction of the middle hepatic vein tributary in a right lateral sector graft. Liver Transplantation. 11(3). 309–313. 15 indexed citations

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Kishi, Yoji, Yasuhiko Sugawara, Nobuhisa Akamatsu, et al.. (2005). Splenectomy and preemptive interferon therapy for hepatitis C patients after living‐donor liver transplantation. Clinical Transplantation. 19(6). 769–772. 42 indexed citations

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