Yoh Zen

34.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
358 papers, 19.5k citations indexed

About

Yoh Zen is a scholar working on Surgery, Epidemiology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yoh Zen has authored 358 papers receiving a total of 19.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 217 papers in Surgery, 130 papers in Epidemiology and 115 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Yoh Zen's work include IgG4-Related and Inflammatory Diseases (94 papers), Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies (78 papers) and Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances (69 papers). Yoh Zen is often cited by papers focused on IgG4-Related and Inflammatory Diseases (94 papers), Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies (78 papers) and Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances (69 papers). Yoh Zen collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and United States. Yoh Zen's co-authors include John H. Stone, Vikram Deshpande, Yasuni Nakanuma, Yasuni Nakanuma, Kenichi Harada, Osamu Matsui, Terumi Kamisawa, Yasunori Sato, Motoko Sasaki and Shiv Pillai and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yoh Zen

345 papers receiving 19.1k citations

Hit Papers

IgG4-Related Disease 2007 2026 2013 2019 2012 2014 2013 2007 2010 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. IgG4-Related Disease
    2012 1.8k citations Yoh Zen et al. profile →
  2. IgG4-related disease
    2014 794 citations Yoh Zen et al. profile →
  3. IgG4-Related Disease
    2013 504 citations Yoh Zen et al. profile →
  4. Th2 and regulatory immune reactions are increased in immunoglobin G4-related sclerosing pancreatitis and cholangitis
    2007 496 citations Yoh Zen, Takahiko Fujii et al. Hepatology profile →
  5. IgG4-Related Disease
    2010 420 citations Yoh Zen et al. profile →
  6. The 2019 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for IgG4-related disease
    2019 409 citations Yoh Zen et al. profile →
  7. IgG4-Related Disease
    2015 306 citations Yoh Zen et al. profile →

Peers

Yoh Zen
Kazuichi Okazaki Japan
Yasuni Nakanuma Japan
Vikram Deshpande United States
Terumi Kamisawa Japan
Kenichi Harada Japan
Yasuni Nakanuma Japan
Lizhi Zhang United States
Shigeyuki Kawa Japan
Yoshinao Oda Japan
Paulette Bioulac‐Sage France
Kazuichi Okazaki Japan
Yoh Zen
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Countries citing papers authored by Yoh Zen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yoh Zen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yoh Zen

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Adsay, Volkan, Daniela Allende, Sarah M. Jenkins, et al.. (2025). Mucinous cystic neoplasm in men: a comparative study. Histopathology. 87(4). 548–556.
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Zamalloa, Ane, Nigel Heaton, Krishna Menon, et al.. (2024). WED-542-YI Unravelling bacterial metabolites using high-resolution magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in intact hepatocellular carcinoma liver tissue. Journal of Hepatology. 80. S281–S281. 1 indexed citations
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Tyraskis, Athanasios, Yoh Zen, Sandra Strautnieks, et al.. (2024). High Frequency of CTNNB1 Variants Associated with Benign and Malignant Liver Tumors in Patients with Congenital Porto-Systemic Shunts. Liver Cancer. 14(4). 408–419.
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Kondou, Hiroki, Satoshi Nakano, Tadahaya Mizuno, et al.. (2024). Clinical symptoms, biochemistry, and liver histology during the native liver period of progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis type 2. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. 19(1). 57–57.
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Clouston, Andrew D., Annette S.H. Gouw, Dina Tiniakos, et al.. (2024). Severe acute liver disease in adults: Contemporary role of histopathology. Histopathology. 85(4). 549–561. 5 indexed citations
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Rushbrook, Simon, Timothy J. Kendall, Yoh Zen, et al.. (2023). British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines for the diagnosis and management of cholangiocarcinoma. Gut. 73(1). 16–46. 33 indexed citations
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Mizuno, Tadahaya, Seiya Mizuno, Satoshi Nakano, et al.. (2023). Intestinal Atp8b1 dysfunction causes hepatic choline deficiency and steatohepatitis. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6763–6763. 6 indexed citations
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Berry, Philip, Yoh Zen, Sophie Papa, et al.. (2022). Immune checkpoint inhibitor‐related cholangiopathy: Novel clinicopathological description of a multi‐centre cohort. Liver International. 43(1). 147–154. 27 indexed citations
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Zen, Yoh, et al.. (2022). P14 Drug induced autoimmune hepatitis from a single centre experience. Abstracts. A41–A42. 1 indexed citations
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Meijenfeldt, Fien A. von, R. Todd Stravitz, Jingwen Zhang, et al.. (2021). Generation of neutrophil extracellular traps in patients with acute liver failure is associated with poor outcome. Hepatology. 75(3). 623–633. 44 indexed citations
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D’Angelo, Edoardo, Dipa Natarajan, Francesca Sensi, et al.. (2020). Patient-Derived Scaffolds of Colorectal Cancer Metastases as an Organotypic 3D Model of the Liver Metastatic Microenvironment. Cancers. 12(2). 364–364. 50 indexed citations
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Sawada, Ryuichiro, Masayuki Akita, Kyoko Otani, et al.. (2018). Interleukin‐33 overexpression reflects less aggressive tumour features in large‐duct type cholangiocarcinomas. Histopathology. 73(2). 259–272. 15 indexed citations
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Fujikura, Kohei, et al.. (2017). Mucinous cystic neoplasms of the liver and pancreas: relationship between KRAS driver mutations and disease progression. Histopathology. 71(4). 591–600. 24 indexed citations
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Jimbo, Naoe, Kohei Fujikura, Hirotaka Shinomiya, et al.. (2017). Epigenetic down‐regulation of SOX2 is an independent poor prognostic factor for hypopharyngeal cancers. Histopathology. 72(5). 826–837. 11 indexed citations
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Kuwatani, Masaki, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yoh Zen, et al.. (2014). Difference from bile duct cancer and relationship between bile duct wall thickness and serum IgG/IgG4 levels in IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis.. PubMed. 61(135). 1852–6. 6 indexed citations
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Zen, Yoh, Dimitrios P. Bogdanos, & Shigeyuki Kawa. (2011). Type 1 autoimmune pancreatitis. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. 6(1). 82–82. 32 indexed citations
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Yamashita, Taro, Masao Honda, Kouki Nio, et al.. (2010). Oncostatin M Renders Epithelial Cell Adhesion Molecule–Positive Liver Cancer Stem Cells Sensitive to 5-Fluorouracil by Inducing Hepatocytic Differentiation. Cancer Research. 70(11). 4687–4697. 77 indexed citations
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Ooi, Akishi, Yoh Zen, Itasu Ninomiya, et al.. (2010). Gene amplification of ERBB2 and EGFR in adenocarcinoma in situ and intramucosal adenocarcinoma of Barrett's esophagus. Pathology International. 60(6). 466–471. 5 indexed citations
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Itatsu, Keita, Takahiko Fujii, Motoko Sasaki, Yoh Zen, & Yasuni Nakanuma. (2007). Intraductal papillary cholangiocarcinoma and atypical biliary epithelial lesions confused with intrabiliary extension of metastatic colorectal carcinoma.. PubMed. 54(75). 677–80. 9 indexed citations

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