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Researcher · Tokyo National Hospital · Japan

Shigehisa Kitano

Shigehisa Kitano publishes mostly in Oncology, Immunology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, Immune cells in cancer and CAR-T cell therapy research.

ORCID 0000-0002-4041-8298 OpenAlex
World rank
#817,393
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#39,516
of 114,622
Works
50
Citations
68
Citations per work
1.4

What does Shigehisa Kitano research?

Oncology: 40.0%Immunology: 24.6%Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 7.7%Surgery: 7.7%other fields: 20.0%40%top field
Oncology40.0%Immunology24.6%Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine7.7%Surgery7.7%other fields20.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Oncology40% of their works
  2. 2Immunology25% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine8% of their works
  4. 4Surgery8% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology3% of their works
  6. 6Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shigehisa Kitano's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Immune Checkpoint Blockade, PD-1 and PD-L1, Immunity, Immunotherapy, Activation, Cancer Immunotherapy, Macrophage and CAR T Cells.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Immune Checkpoint Blockade171 topic
  2. PD-1 and PD-L1171 topic
  3. Immunity82 topics
  4. Immunotherapy72 topics
  5. Activation61 topic
  6. Cancer Immunotherapy62 topics
  7. Macrophage61 topic
  8. CAR T Cells41 topic
  9. Chimeric Antigen Receptor41 topic
  10. Bladder Cancer31 topic
  11. NK Cell Recognition31 topic
  12. Natural Killer Cells31 topic
  13. Urothelial Carcinoma31 topic
  14. Antigen Presentation21 topic
  15. Biosimilars21 topic
  16. Dendritic Cells21 topic
  17. EGFR Mutations21 topic
  18. Immunogenicity21 topic
  19. Targeted Therapy21 topic

Where does Shigehisa Kitano work?

Shigehisa Kitano's main affiliation in the publication record is Tokyo National Hospital, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Shigehisa Kitano have?

Science Explorer counts 50 works and 68 citations for Shigehisa Kitano, ranking #817,393 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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