Yo Kato

11.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
107 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Yo Kato is a scholar working on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yo Kato has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Surgery, 49 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 49 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Yo Kato's work include Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes (39 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (25 papers) and Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (21 papers). Yo Kato is often cited by papers focused on Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes (39 papers), Genetic factors in colorectal cancer (25 papers) and Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research (21 papers). Yo Kato collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and India. Yo Kato's co-authors include Akio Yanagisawa, Tadakazu Shimoda, Hiroyuki Ono, Yukihiro Nakanishi, Mitsuru Sasako, Takuji Gotoda, Akira Horii, Ronald J. Schlemper, Manfred Stolte and Hirotoshi Ohta and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Yo Kato

105 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit 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.

Incidence of lymph node metastasis from early gastric cancer: estimation with a large number of cases at two large centers

2000 1.4k citations Akio Yanagisawa, Yo Kato et al. profile →
An Illustrated Consensus on the Classification of Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms

2004 761 citations Ralph H. Hruban, Kyoichi Takaori et al. The American Journal of Surgical Pathology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yo Kato Japan	37	3.6k	3.5k	3.4k	1.5k	1.3k	107	7.4k
Kyoung‐Mee Kim South Korea	49	4.0k 1.1×	3.4k 1.0×	2.4k 0.7×	1.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	313	8.3k
Shigeki Sekine Japan	47	1.8k 0.5×	2.3k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	583 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	188	6.2k
Salah‐Eddin Al‐Batran Germany	39	3.3k 0.9×	3.2k 0.9×	1.9k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	637 0.5×	214	5.6k
Geneviève Monges France	30	1.2k 0.3×	3.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.4×	382 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	77	4.3k
Magali Svrcek France	36	1.2k 0.3×	3.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.4×	450 0.3×	1.2k 0.9×	132	4.8k
Kiyoshi Kawano Japan	22	2.4k 0.7×	714 0.2×	1.9k 0.5×	2.7k 1.8×	509 0.4×	89	5.1k
Nobumasa Mizuno Japan	43	2.7k 0.8×	4.4k 1.3×	4.3k 1.3×	456 0.3×	376 0.3×	259	6.7k
Jonathan C. Trent United States	48	5.1k 1.4×	2.5k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	3.5k 2.3×	778 0.6×	283	8.2k
David Tougeron France	36	1.4k 0.4×	2.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.4×	384 0.3×	1.0k 0.8×	223	3.9k
Agnieszka Woźniak Belgium	38	3.4k 1.0×	1.6k 0.4×	1.2k 0.3×	2.0k 1.3×	466 0.4×	188	5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yo Kato

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Yo Kato's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Yo Kato with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Yo Kato more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Yo Kato

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yo Kato. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yo Kato. The network helps show where Yo Kato may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yo Kato

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Seki, Makoto, Yu Takahashi, Yosuke Inoue, et al.. (2023). Clinicopathological study of surgically treated non-neoplastic diseases of the pancreas with special reference to autoimmune pancreatitis. Langenbeck s Archives of Surgery. 408(1). 223–223. 1 indexed citations

Yamaguchi, Koji, Shuichi Kanemitsu, Takashi Hatori, et al.. (2011). Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Derived From IPMN and Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Concomitant With IPMN. Pancreas. 40(4). 571–580. 188 indexed citations

Oku, Yoshimasa, Katsunari Takifuji, Tsukasa Hotta, et al.. (2008). Identification of the Molecular Mechanisms for Dedifferentiation at the Invasion Front of Colorectal Cancer by a Gene Expression Analysis. Clinical Cancer Research. 14(22). 7215–7222. 25 indexed citations

Ikeda, Masaki, Akio Yanagisawa, Makoto Seki, et al.. (2007). The early state of invasive pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas: Characteristics of the Low papillary type and Flat type Intraductal Carcinoma. Suizo. 22(1). 85–87. 1 indexed citations

Seto, Yasuyuki, Keisho Chìn, Kotaro Gomi, et al.. (2007). Treatment of thoracic esophageal carcinoma invading adjacent structures. Cancer Science. 98(7). 937–942. 43 indexed citations

Noda, Hiroshi, Yo Kato, Hirohide Yoshikawa, et al.. (2005). Microsatellite Instability Caused by <i>hMLH1</i> Promoter Methylation Increases with Tumor Progression in Right-Sided Sporadic Colorectal Cancer. Oncology. 69(4). 354–362. 13 indexed citations

Mashima, Tetsuo, Tomoko Oh‐hara, Shigeo Sato, et al.. (2005). p53-Defective Tumors With a Functional Apoptosome-Mediated Pathway: A New Therapeutic Target. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 97(10). 765–777. 98 indexed citations

Seki, Makoto, Akio Yanagisawa, Hirotoshi Ohta, et al.. (2005). Clinicopathology of pancreaticobiliary maljunction: relationship between alterations in background biliary epithelium and neoplastic development. Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery. 12(3). 254–262. 30 indexed citations

Hruban, Ralph H., Kyoichi Takaori, David S. Klimstra, et al.. (2004). An Illustrated Consensus on the Classification of Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms. The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 28(8). 977–987. 761 indexed citations breakdown →

10.

Egashira, Hideto, Akio Yanagisawa, & Yo Kato. (2004). PREDICTIVE VALUE OF DROPLET INFILTRATION IN INVASIVE FRONTS FOR LYMPH NODE METASTASES FROM ESOPHAGEAL CANCERS PENETRATING TO THE MUSCULARIS MUCOSAE. Acta gastro-enterologica belgica. 46(9). 2086–2094.

11.

Sato, Takahiro, Shigekazu Ohyama, Mitsukuni Suenaga, et al.. (2003). Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome and duodenal hemorrhage. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 58(5). 756–757. 3 indexed citations

12.

Kokudo, Norihiro, Yoshio Miki, Sachiko Sugai, et al.. (2002). Genetic and Histological Assessment of Surgical Margins in Resected Liver Metastases From Colorectal Carcinoma. Archives of Surgery. 137(7). 833–40. 201 indexed citations

13.

Lauwers, Gregory Y., Pelayo Correa, Robert H. Riddell, et al.. (1999). Evaluation of Gastric Biopsies for Neoplasia. The American Journal of Surgical Pathology. 23(5). 511–518. 54 indexed citations

14.

Goto, Akiteru, Hiroaki Kanda, Yuichi Ishikawa, et al.. (1998). Association of Loss of Heterozygosity at the p53 Locus with Chemoresistance in Osteosarcomas. Japanese Journal of Cancer Research. 89(5). 539–547. 44 indexed citations

15.

Abe, Tadayoshi, Hong Ouyang, Yo Kato, et al.. (1996). The somatic mutation frequency of the transforming growth factor β receptor type II gene varies widely among different cancers with microsatellite instability. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 22(5). 474–477. 39 indexed citations

16.

Shimada, Mamoru, Akira Horii, Shin Sasaki, et al.. (1995). Infrequent Replication Errors at Microsatellite Loci in Tumors of Patients with Multiple Primary Cancers of the Esophagus and Various Other Tissues. Japanese Journal of Cancer Research. 86(6). 511–515. 19 indexed citations

17.

Rubio-Terrés, Carlos, Yo Kato, & Tomoyuki Kitagawa. (1994). Frequency of Atypical Mitosis in Intestinal Metaplasia of the Gastric Mucosa in Japanese Patients. Japanese Journal of Cancer Research. 85(3). 284–289. 5 indexed citations

18.

Nakajima, Toshifusa, Hirotoshi Ohta, Hirofumi Yamada, et al.. (1993). Clinicopathological Study of Gastric Mucosal Cancer with Lymph Node Metastasis.. The Japanese Journal of Gastroenterological Surgery. 26(3). 796–802. 2 indexed citations

19.

Yanagisawa, Akio, Kazuhiko Ohashi, Masaharu Hori, et al.. (1993). Ductectatic‐type Mucinous Cystadenoma and Cystadenocarcinoma of the Human Pancreas: A Novel Clinicopathological Entity. Japanese Journal of Cancer Research. 84(4). 474–479. 53 indexed citations

20.

Ohta, Hirotoshi, et al.. (1981). STUDIES OF THE 1000 CASES OF EARLY GASTRIC CANCER. The Japanese Journal of Gastroenterological Surgery. 14(10). 1399–1408. 11 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact