Yusuke Sakai

770 total citations
34 papers, 571 citations indexed

About

Yusuke Sakai is a scholar working on Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yusuke Sakai has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 571 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Surgery, 17 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 5 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in Yusuke Sakai's work include Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (15 papers), Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (13 papers) and Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment (10 papers). Yusuke Sakai is often cited by papers focused on Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (15 papers), Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (13 papers) and Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment (10 papers). Yusuke Sakai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and United Kingdom. Yusuke Sakai's co-authors include Takashi Kaito, Takahiro Makino, Shota Takenaka, Hideki Yoshikawa, Hiroyasu Fujiwara, Masafumi Kashii, Motoki Iwasaki, Junichi Kushioka, Hideki Yoshikawa and Satoru Otsuru and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Spine.

In The Last Decade

Yusuke Sakai

32 papers receiving 565 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yusuke Sakai Japan 15 385 304 134 83 53 34 571
Baoge Liu China 14 440 1.1× 386 1.3× 102 0.8× 54 0.7× 69 1.3× 46 624
Jianyuan Jiang China 14 288 0.7× 345 1.1× 84 0.6× 85 1.0× 179 3.4× 58 716
Mikito Tsushima Japan 21 646 1.7× 366 1.2× 84 0.6× 77 0.9× 73 1.4× 81 1.1k
Birender Balain United Kingdom 15 492 1.3× 377 1.2× 95 0.7× 120 1.4× 79 1.5× 33 770
Aikeremujiang Muheremu China 14 311 0.8× 220 0.7× 98 0.7× 58 0.7× 22 0.4× 39 516
Takeshi Sainoh Japan 16 440 1.1× 542 1.8× 86 0.6× 329 4.0× 62 1.2× 44 762
Mitsunori Yoshimoto Japan 18 429 1.1× 505 1.7× 174 1.3× 350 4.2× 35 0.7× 71 817
Akira Dezawa Japan 16 513 1.3× 503 1.7× 73 0.5× 285 3.4× 25 0.5× 44 714
Krzysztof Siemionow United States 15 409 1.1× 270 0.9× 78 0.6× 109 1.3× 112 2.1× 40 650

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yusuke Sakai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yusuke Sakai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yusuke Sakai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yusuke Sakai 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 Yusuke Sakai. Yusuke Sakai 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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Ukon, Yuichiro, Shota Takenaka, Hiromasa Hirai, et al.. (2025). Establishment of Scoring to Predict Severe Complication After Pyogenic Spondylodiscitis Surgery. Clinical Spine Surgery A Spine Publication. 38(8). 353–359. 1 indexed citations
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Sakai, Yusuke, Shota Takenaka, Takahiro Makino, & Takashi Kaito. (2022). Postoperative improvement in leg length discrepancy in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis differs between right and left legs. North American Spine Society Journal (NASSJ). 10. 100114–100114. 1 indexed citations
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Ukon, Yuichiro, Masahiro Nishida, Kazuhito Sakamoto, et al.. (2022). Prostaglandin EP4 Selective Agonist AKDS001 Enhances New Bone Formation by Minimodeling in a Rat Heterotopic Xenograft Model of Human Bone. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 10. 845716–845716. 2 indexed citations
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Takenaka, Shota, Masafumi Kashii, Yuichiro Ukon, et al.. (2020). Direct Involvement of Concomitant Foraminotomy for Radiculomyelopathy in Postoperative Upper Limb Palsy in Cervical Laminoplasty. World Neurosurgery. 146. e14–e21. 2 indexed citations
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Takenaka, Shota, Shigeyuki Kan, Ben Seymour, et al.. (2020). Resting-state Amplitude of Low-frequency Fluctuation is a Potentially Useful Prognostic Functional Biomarker in Cervical Myelopathy. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 478(7). 1667–1680. 26 indexed citations
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Sakai, Yusuke, Shota Takenaka, Takahiro Makino, Hideki Yoshikawa, & Takashi Kaito. (2020). Postoperative T1 tilt is a risk factor for postoperative distal adding-on in Lenke type 1 adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Medicine. 99(21). e19983–e19983. 5 indexed citations
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Makino, Takahiro, Takashi Kaito, Yusuke Sakai, Shota Takenaka, & Hideki Yoshikawa. (2019). Health-related Quality of Life and Postural Changes of Spinal Alignment in Female Adolescents Associated With Back Pain in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis. Spine. 44(14). E833–E840. 23 indexed citations
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Kushioka, Junichi, Takashi Kaito, Ryota Chijimatsu, et al.. (2019). A novel and efficient method for culturing mouse nucleus pulposus cells. The Spine Journal. 19(9). 1573–1583. 12 indexed citations
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Kushioka, Junichi, Shota Takenaka, Takahiro Makino, et al.. (2019). Risk factors for in-hospital mortality after spine surgery: a matched case-control study using a multicenter database. The Spine Journal. 20(3). 321–328. 12 indexed citations
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Okada, Rintaro, Takashi Kaito, Junichi Kushioka, et al.. (2019). Assessment of effects of rhBMP-2 on interbody fusion with a novel rat model. The Spine Journal. 20(5). 821–829. 9 indexed citations
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Takenaka, Shota, Takahiro Makino, Yusuke Sakai, et al.. (2019). Dural tear is associated with an increased rate of other perioperative complications in primary lumbar spine surgery for degenerative diseases. Medicine. 98(1). e13970–e13970. 46 indexed citations
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Kaito, Takashi, Seido Yarimitsu, Kunihiko Hashimoto, et al.. (2019). Intervertebral disc regeneration with an adipose mesenchymal stem cell-derived tissue-engineered construct in a rat nucleotomy model. Acta Biomaterialia. 87. 118–129. 51 indexed citations
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Kaito, Takashi, Kunihiko Hashimoto, Junichi Kushioka, et al.. (2019). Administration of ONO-2506 suppresses neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury by inhibition of astrocytic activation. The Spine Journal. 19(8). 1434–1442. 10 indexed citations
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Takenaka, Shota, Shigeyuki Kan, Ben Seymour, et al.. (2019). Towards prognostic functional brain biomarkers for cervical myelopathy: A resting-state fMRI study. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 10456–10456. 25 indexed citations
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Kaito, Takashi, Shiro Ohshima, Hiroyasu Fujiwara, et al.. (2018). Predictors for progression of two different types of cervical lesions in rheumatoid arthritis treated with biologic agents. Journal of Orthopaedic Science. 24(2). 214–218. 10 indexed citations
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Sakai, Yusuke, Shota Takenaka, Yohei Matsuo, et al.. (2018). Hounsfield unit of screw trajectory as a predictor of pedicle screw loosening after single level lumbar interbody fusion. Journal of Orthopaedic Science. 23(5). 734–738. 65 indexed citations
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Makino, Takahiro, Takashi Kaito, Yusuke Sakai, Shota Takenaka, & Hideki Yoshikawa. (2018). Computed tomography color mapping for evaluation of bone ongrowth on the surface of a titanium-coated polyetheretherketone cage in vivo. Medicine. 97(37). e12379–e12379. 14 indexed citations
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Makino, Takahiro, Yusuke Sakai, Masafumi Kashii, et al.. (2017). Differences in vertebral morphology around the apical vertebrae between neuromuscular scoliosis and idiopathic scoliosis in skeletally immature patients: a three-dimensional morphometric analysis. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 18(1). 459–459. 6 indexed citations
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Makino, Takahiro, Takashi Kaito, Hiroyasu Fujiwara, et al.. (2017). Risk Factors for Poor Patient-Reported Quality of Life Outcomes After Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusion. Spine. 42(19). 1502–1510. 41 indexed citations

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