Tomonori Okamura

25.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
634 papers, 16.4k citations indexed

About

Tomonori Okamura is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomonori Okamura has authored 634 papers receiving a total of 16.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 189 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 150 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 131 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Recurrent topics in Tomonori Okamura's work include Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (101 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (97 papers) and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (82 papers). Tomonori Okamura is often cited by papers focused on Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (101 papers), Nutritional Studies and Diet (97 papers) and Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies (82 papers). Tomonori Okamura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Russia. Tomonori Okamura's co-authors include Hirotsugu Ueshima, Akira Okayama, Takashi Kadowaki, Katsuyuki Miura, Noboru Toda, Yoshikuni Kita, Makoto Watanabe, Takehito Hayakawa, Yasuyuki Nakamura and Yoshitaka Murakami and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Tomonori Okamura

617 papers receiving 16.0k 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.

Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Factors in Asia

2008 549 citations Hirotsugu Ueshima, Akira Sekikawa et al. Circulation profile →
A simple method to estimate populational 24-h urinary sodium and potassium excretion using a casual urine specimen

2002 520 citations Tomonori Okamura, Katsuyuki Miura et al. profile →
Executive Summary of the Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases in Japan ^|^mdash;2012 Version

2013 378 citations Tomonori Okamura et al. Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis profile →
Vegetarian Diets and Blood Pressure

2014 332 citations Kunihiro Nishimura, Akira Sekikawa et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tomonori Okamura Japan	61	5.1k	3.4k	3.3k	3.2k	3.1k	634	16.4k
Hüseyin Kurt Türkiye	5	4.4k 0.9×	4.6k 1.4×	3.3k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	16	18.7k
Ömer Toprak Türkiye	14	4.5k 0.9×	4.6k 1.4×	3.3k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	2.7k 0.9×	31	19.4k
Cihat Şarkış Türkiye	6	4.4k 0.9×	4.6k 1.4×	3.3k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	10	18.7k
Yasin Sarı Türkiye	3	4.4k 0.9×	4.6k 1.4×	3.3k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	7	18.7k
Johan Sundström Sweden	72	6.9k 1.3×	3.1k 0.9×	2.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	2.6k 0.9×	363	17.0k
Hirotsugu Ueshima Japan	73	6.9k 1.3×	3.6k 1.0×	3.5k 1.1×	5.8k 1.8×	2.2k 0.7×	567	19.6k
Jacqueline C.M. Witteman Netherlands	69	5.4k 1.0×	2.1k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	170	16.2k
Ali Kırık Türkiye	6	4.4k 0.9×	4.6k 1.4×	3.3k 1.0×	2.2k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	14	18.7k
Mika Kähönen Finland	64	7.3k 1.4×	2.8k 0.8×	3.1k 1.0×	3.6k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	577	18.6k
Stephan J. L. Bakker Netherlands	75	4.2k 0.8×	4.5k 1.3×	4.2k 1.3×	2.5k 0.8×	3.2k 1.0×	889	24.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tomonori Okamura

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

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Satoh, Michihiro, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Katsuyuki Miura, et al.. (2025). Long-term risk of cardiovascular mortality according to age group and blood pressure categories of the latest guideline. Hypertension Research. 48(4). 1428–1433. 1 indexed citations

Nishi, Nobuo, Kaori Kitaoka, Keiko Kondo, et al.. (2023). Trends in Mortality from Major Causes and Lifestyle Factors by Per Capita Prefectural Income: Ecological Panel Data Analysis from 1995 to 2016 in Japan. SSRN Electronic Journal.

Kadowaki, Sayaka, Takashi Kadowaki, Atsushi Hozawa, et al.. (2020). Differences between home blood pressure and strictly measured office blood pressure and their determinants in Japanese men. Hypertension Research. 44(1). 80–87. 5 indexed citations

Kuwabara, Kazuyo, Aya Higashiyama, Daisuke Sugiyama, et al.. (2020). [The search for a predictor of deterioration of the nonspecific stress index K6 among urban residents: The KOBE study].. PubMed. 67(8). 509–517. 1 indexed citations

Ogata, Soshiro, Kunihiro Nishimura, Maria Guzman-Castillo, et al.. (2019). Explaining the decline in coronary heart disease mortality rates in Japan: Contributions of changes in risk factors and evidence-based treatments between 1980 and 2012. International Journal of Cardiology. 291. 183–188. 26 indexed citations

Nakamura, Tomiyo, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Shigeyuki Saitoh, et al.. (2018). Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and the Prevalence of Underweight, Overweight or Obesity in a General Japanese Population: NIPPON DATA2010. Journal of Epidemiology. 28(Supplement_III). S10–S16. 32 indexed citations

Ueshima, Hirotsugu, et al.. (2018). 日本におけるKeysスコア,食事脂質,血清総コレステロール間の関係における時間関連変化-NIPPON DATA80/90/2010-. Circulation. 83(1). 147–155. 1 indexed citations

Li, Yuanying, Hiroyasu Iso, Renzhe Cui, et al.. (2016). Serum γ-glutamyltransferase and Mortality due to Cardiovascular Disease in Japanese Men and Women. Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis. 23(7). 792–799. 10 indexed citations

Kokubo, Yoshihiro, Hironori Imano, Jun Hata, et al.. (2016). Abstract 17692: The Development of a Risk Score for Incident Atrial Fibrillation in Japanese General Population Cohorts: a Collaborative Meta-analysis. Circulation. 1 indexed citations

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Ito, Takahiro, Hisatomi Arima, Akira Fujiyoshi, et al.. (2016). Relationship between non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and the long-term mortality of cardiovascular diseases: NIPPON DATA 90. International Journal of Cardiology. 220. 262–267. 24 indexed citations

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Harada, Sei, Toru Takebayashi, Ayako Kurihara, et al.. (2015). Metabolomic profiling reveals novel biomarkers of alcohol intake and alcohol-induced liver injury in community-dwelling men. Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine. 21(1). 18–26. 73 indexed citations

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Sekikawa, Akira, Takashi Kadowaki, J. David Curb, et al.. (2010). Circulating Levels of 8 Cytokines and Marine n-3 Fatty Acids and Indices of Obesity in Japanese, White, and Japanese American Middle-Aged Men. Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research. 30(7). 541–548. 17 indexed citations

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Ueshima, Hirotsugu, Aya Kadota, Atsushi Hozawa, et al.. (2008). 糖尿病男性でアルコール摂取は制限すべきか:NIPPON DATA80. Circulation. 72. 202. 1 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Koshi, Tomonori Okamura, Takehito Hayakawa, et al.. (2007). The Proportion of Individuals with Alcohol-Induced Hypertension among Total Hypertensives in a General Japanese Population: NIPPON DATA90. Hypertension Research. 30(8). 663–668. 46 indexed citations

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Hozawa, Atsushi, Yoshitaka Murakami, Tomonori Okamura, et al.. (2006). Relation of Adult Height With Stroke Mortality in Japan. Stroke. 38(1). 22–26. 42 indexed citations

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Kanda, Hideyuki, Koshi Nakamura, Takehito Hayakawa, Tomonori Okamura, & Hirotsugu Ueshima. (2005). [The influence of alcohol drinking on medical care expenditures among National Health Insurance beneficiaries].. PubMed. 40(3). 171–80. 3 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Yasuyuki, Shinji Tamaki, Tomonori Okamura, et al.. (2002). Genetic variation in aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 and the effect of alcohol consumption on cholesterol levels. Atherosclerosis. 164(1). 171–177. 52 indexed citations

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Ohira, Tetsuya, Hiroyasu Iso, Takeshi Tanigawa, et al.. (2000). Validity and Reliability of the Japanese Version of the Selected Anger Expression Scale and Age, Sex, Occupation and Regional Differences in Anger Expression Among Japanese. Journal of Epidemiology. 10(2). 118–123. 8 indexed citations

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Takeuchi, Tōru, et al.. (1992). Hormonal influences on the physiological fluctuation of sex hormone binding globulin. 37(3). 491–496. 1 indexed citations

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Okamura, Tomonori, Mayako Yamazaki, & Noboru Toda. (1991). Responses to dopamine of isolated human and monkey veins compared with those of the arteries.. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 258(1). 275–279. 12 indexed citations

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