Journal of Gastroenterology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Gastroenterology is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Revisiting the relationship between thyroid function and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in the era of resmetirom130
Bifidobacterium bifidum CIP-01 attenuates metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease induced by high-alcohol-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae83
Correlation between mismatch repair and survival of patients with gastric cancer after 5-FU-based adjuvant chemotherapy80
Alpha-fetoprotein combined with initial tumor shape irregularity in predicting the survival of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treated with immune-checkpoint inhibitors: a retrospectiv78
Reelin level in serum-derived extracellular vesicles predicts regression of M2BPGi-defined liver fibrosis following hepatitis C virus eradication by direct-acting antiviral agents72
Clinical features and oncological outcomes of intestinal cancers associated with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease60
Integrated analysis of tertiary lymphoid structures in relation to tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and patient survival in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma60
Risk of gastric and oesophageal adenocarcinoma following discontinuation of long-term proton-pump inhibitor therapy57
High-risk population of progressive hepatic fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B patients on antiviral therapy52
Induction of ferroptosis by photodynamic therapy and enhancement of antitumor effect with ferroptosis inducers44
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in patients with morbid obesity: the gut microbiota axis as a potential pathophysiology mechanism43
Three-dimensional chromatin landscapes in hepatocellular carcinoma associated with hepatitis B virus42
Corynoline protects chronic pancreatitis via binding to PSMA2 and alleviating pancreatic fibrosis41
Managing radiation safety and protection in gastroenterology in Japan: insights from the REX-GI study39
Clinicopathological features and prognosis of primary small bowel adenocarcinoma: a large multicenter analysis of the JSCCR database in Japan38
Associations between excessive supragastric belching and esophageal reflux factors in patients with PPI-refractory GERD in Japan38
Considerations for evaluating antibiotic prophylaxis in cirrhotic patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding in real-world data37
Pathophysiology, assessment, and treatment of pain in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma35
Regional disparities in pancreaticoduodenectomy mortality: more than just rurality?35
Hic-5 deficiency attenuates MAFLD by inhibiting neutrophils migration via the CXCL1-CXCR2 axis35
Single-cell transcriptomics unveils the immunologic landscape of anti-PD-1-associated indirect drug-induced liver injury35
Clinical factors to predict changes of esophagogastric varices after sustained viral response with direct-acting antiviral therapy34
Novel subharmonic-aided pressure estimation for identifying high-risk esophagogastric varices32
Reply to: Minocycline versus tetracycline in bismuth-containing quadruple therapy for Helicobacter pylori rescue treatment: a multicentre, randomized controlled trial32
Diagnostic performance of droplet digital PCR for KRAS mutation analysis in pancreatic cancer cytology specimens32
Association between homologous recombination deficiency and time to treatment failure to platinum-based chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer by using the C-CAT database31
Clinicopathological features of localized-type IgG4-related cholecystitis: a nationwide multicenter study in Japan31
Clinical practice guidelines for duodenal cancer 202130
Immunity in digestive diseases: new drugs for inflammatory bowel disease treatment—insights from Phase II and III trials30
Induction therapy with hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy enhances the efficacy of lenvatinib and pd1 inhibitors in treating hepatocellular carcinoma patients with portal vein tumor thrombosis30
Persistent body-weight change on achalasia and peroral endoscopic myotomy: a multicenter cohort study27
Acknowledgements27
Expert consensus on vaccination in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Japan26
Trends of hepatitis B virus genotype distribution in chronic hepatitis B patients in Japan25
Current status and trends in ERCP and post-ERCP pancreatitis in Japan: a nationwide observational study24
What is the appropriate method of pathological specimen collection for cholangiocarcinoma detection in primary sclerosing cholangitis?24
Correction: Optimising carotegrast methyl use in ulcerative colitis: patient profiling, predictive biomarkers, and timing of efficacy evaluation (ASPECT study)24
Clinical significance of gadoxetate sodium-enhanced MRI for detecting liver metastasis in patients with pancreatic cancer: decadal real-world data analysis in Japan24
Body mass index and survival among patients with advanced biliary tract cancer: a single-institutional study with nationwide data-based validation23
Correction: Fungal mycobiome dysbiosis in choledocholithiasis concurrent with cholangitis23
Clinical relevance of the identification of the distal end of the palisade vessel in cases with columnar-lined esophagus: a comment on the study by Hatta et al.22
Evaluating liver reserve in direct-acting antiviral-treated hepatitis C patients: do we have better surrogate markers?22
Anxiety and behavioral changes in Japanese patients with inflammatory bowel disease due to COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey22
SEVs-carried ENPP1 regulates DCs’ activation and inhibits the formation of tertiary lymphoid structures in gastric cancer21
Comment on: Real-world outcomes of ustekinumab, vedolizumab, and tumor necrosis factor inhibitors in very-early-onset inflammatory bowel disease21
Optimising carotegrast methyl use in ulcerative colitis: patient profiling, predictive biomarkers, and timing of efficacy evaluation (ASPECT study)21
Clinical characteristics of acute pancreatitis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a nationwide survey in Japan21
Letter to “Increasing age at diagnosis raises malignancy risk and aminosalicylate intolerance influences therapeutic strategies in ulcerative colitis”21
Dependence-related screening positivity among regular stimulant-laxative users with chronic constipation: a multicenter prospective observational study20
Alcohol-associated liver disease increases the risk of muscle loss and mortality in patients with cirrhosis20
Treatment escalation and de-escalation decisions in Crohn’s disease: Delphi consensus recommendations from Japan, 202120
Inhibiting METTL3 synergizes with Notch blockade to treat ESCC by targeting cancer stemness via m6A-JAG219
Hypoxia-mediated chromatin accessibility reprogramming of CA9 induces treatment resistance in colorectal mucinous adenocarcinoma19
Is it necessary for endoscopic surveillance for achalasia patients?19
Circulating miR-485-3p as a biomarker for VEGF-associated therapeutic response to atezolizumab plus bevacizumab in hepatocellular carcinoma19
Real-world efficacy and safety of glecaprevir/pibrentasvir in Japanese adolescents with chronic hepatitis C: a prospective multicenter study19
Proton pump inhibitor use and risk of pneumonia: a self-controlled case series study18
Nationwide cohort study identifies clinical outcomes of angioectasia in patients with acute hematochezia18
RTP4 silencing provokes tumor-intrinsic resistance to immune checkpoint blockade in colorectal cancer17
Volatomics-based biomarkers for non-invasive diagnosis and monitoring of inflammatory bowel disease17
Discrepancies in reported gastrointestinal symptoms in Japanese hospitalized patients with COVID-1917
Reply to “Considerations for evaluating antibiotic prophylaxis in cirrhotic patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding in real-world data”17
“Pathologist-independent” strategy for T1 colorectal cancer after endoscopic resection16
Extracellular vesicle-encapsulated microRNA-425 promotes tumor development and serves as a biomarker for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma16
VPS45 promotes the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma by recycling β1 integrin to the cell membrane via the endocytic pathway16
Letter to the editor to ‘‘Serum zinc levels as predictors of covert hepatic encephalopathy in patients with liver cirrhosis’’16
An interpretable machine learning model for predicting survival in pancreatic cancer via SHAP: a multicenter study16
Clinicopathological features and prognosis of metastatic tumors in the small bowel: a large multicenter analysis of the JSCCR database in Japan16
The longstanding issue of the benefit of ursodeoxycholic acid in primary sclerosing cholangitis: a long-term population-based study16
Checking the shape of hepatocellular carcinoma: how irregular is irregular?15
Clinical applications of gut microbiome for non-invasive diagnosis of colorectal neoplasia15
Molecular imaging of gastrointestinal stromal tumor using anti-c-KIT antibody and its fragments15
Effect of blood product transfusion on the prognosis of patients undergoing hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma: a propensity score matching analysis15
Conditional accuracy after lesion preselection: comment on Minakata et al.15
Management of MASLD/MASH: challenges, innovations, and the future of patient-centered care in Japan15
Clinical trajectory of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms progressing to pancreatic carcinomas during long-term surveillance: a prospective series of 100 carcinoma cases15
Identification of novel plasma proteins as promising noninvasive biomarker for early diagnosis and surveillance of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma15
Cancer pathways in serrated polyposis syndrome: is conventional more crucial than serrated?15
Conversion surgery for unresectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma with liver metastasis at initial diagnosis: a nationwide multicenter study15
Neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in patients over 80 years old based on a nationwide clinical database15
Reply to “promising modality for severe ulcerative colitis: infliximab and plant-based diet as first-line (IPF) therapy”15
Correction: Partial splenic embolization combined with endoscopic therapies and vasoconstrictive drugs reduces rebleeding in cirrhosis patients with acute variceal bleeding and hypersplenism: a multic15
Frequency of lymph node metastasis according to tumor location in clinical T1 early gastric cancer: supplementary analysis of the Japan Clinical Oncology Group study (JCOG0912)15
HLA-DQB1*03:01 and HLA-DQA1*05:05 as key genetic determinants of infliximab response and immunogenicity in Japanese patients with inflammatory bowel disease14
Characteristics, outcomes, and risk factors of surgery for acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding: nationwide cohort study of 10,342 hematochezia cases14
AI-assisted diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection: strengths, limitations, and future directions14
Impact of ursodeoxycholic acid treatment on Fontan-associated liver disease14
Standard versus delayed initiation of S-1 adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery for pancreatic cancer: a secondary analysis of a nationwide cohort by the Japan Pancreas Society14
Quantitative measurements of M2BPGi depend on liver fibrosis and inflammation14
The epidemiology of rare types of hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancer from national cancer registry14
Nationwide estimates of patient numbers and prevalence rates of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease in Japan in 202314
Correction: Urinary dipeptidase 1 and trefoil factor 1 are promising biomarkers for early diagnosis of colorectal cancer13
Acute kidney injury development is associated with mortality in Japanese patients with cirrhosis: impact of amino acid imbalance13
Risk of gastric and oesophageal adenocarcinomas following discontinuation of long-term proton-pump inhibitor therapy13
The external validation of Dallas Steatosis Index among Asian population: a useful tool for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease identification and prevention13
Development of a novel oncolytic adenovirus controlled by CDX2 promoter for esophageal adenocarcinoma therapy13
The role of stromal BMP/CXCL12 signaling axis in serrated polyp development13
Clinical outcome after cessation of nucleos(t)ide analog treatment in chronic hepatitis B patients who achieved HBsAg seroclearance13
Reply to “Comment on: Long-term evaluation of Helicobacter pylori screening in school health checkups: an 11-year study in Japan”12
Validation of novel scoring systems for acute decompensated cirrhosis identifies PBC as an independent poor prognostic factor: a single-center Japanese cohort study12
Nationwide epidemiological survey of autoimmune pancreatitis in Japan in 202112
Serum zinc levels as predictors of covert hepatic encephalopathy in patients with liver cirrhosis12
Prevalence of colonoscopy in Japan using a large-scale health claims data compared to esophagogastroduodenoscopy12
Novel scale for evaluating the therapeutic efficacy of per-oral endoscopic myotomy in achalasia12
Proposal of discontinuation criteria of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab after curative conversion therapy for unresectable early-to-intermediate-stage hepatocellular carcinoma: a multicenter proof-of-co11
Correction: Nrf2/ASPM axis regulated vasculogenic mimicry formation in hepatocellular carcinoma under hypoxia11
The biochemical pattern defines MASLD phenotypes linked to distinct histology and prognosis11
Post-marketing surveillance of tofacitinib in patients with ulcerative colitis in Japan: a final report of safety and effectiveness data11
Efficacy, tolerability, and safety of oral sulfate tablet versus 2 L-polyethylene glycol/ascorbate for bowel preparation in older patients: prospective, multicenter, investigator single-blinded, rando11
Chemotherapy-induced cell cycle arrest is associated with increased claudin-18 isoform 2 expression and enhanced zolbetuximab-mediated cytotoxicity in gastric cancer11
Nrf2/ASPM axis regulated vasculogenic mimicry formation in hepatocellular carcinoma under hypoxia11
Serum IL-6 concentration is a useful biomarker to predict the efficacy of atezolizumab plus bevacizumab in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma11
Treatment strategy after noncurative endoscopic resection for early gastric cancers in patients aged ≥ 85 years: a multicenter retrospective study in a highly aged area of Japan11
Acknowledgements11
Comment on “Risk of extraintestinal cancer in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a multicenter retrospective cohort study in Japan”11
Publisher Correction: Anti-integrin αvβ6 antibody as a biomarker for diagnosing ulcerative colitis: a nationwide multicenter validation study11
Comment on “A novel artificial intelligence-based endoscopic ultrasonography diagnostic system for diagnosing the invasion depth of early gastric cancer”11
Adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors associated with higher recurrence-free survival in postoperative hepatocellular carcinoma (PREVENT): a prospective, multicentric cohort study11
Efficacy of endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue acquisition for solid pancreatic lesions 20 mm or less in diameter suspected as neuroendocrine tumors or requiring differentiation11
Definitive-dose adjuvant radiotherapy following endoscopic submucosal dissection for superficial esophageal cancer11
Clinical development of a blood biomarker using apolipoprotein-A2 isoforms for early detection of pancreatic cancer10
Targeting the ZDHHC9-mediated STAT1 palmitoylation-phosphorylation conversion inhibits gastric cancer progression10
Reply to “Discrepancies in reported gastrointestinal symptoms in Japanese hospitalized patients with COVID-19”10
Urinary dipeptidase 1 and trefoil factor 1 are promising biomarkers for early diagnosis of colorectal cancer10
Response to letter to the editor regarding: “Alcohol-associated liver disease increases the risk of muscle reduction and mortality in patients with cirrhosis”10
Anti-integrin αvβ6 antibody as a biomarker for diagnosing ulcerative colitis: a nationwide multicenter validation study10
Estimating cancer risk in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases exposed to varying doses of tumour necrosis factor inhibitors10
Correction to: Epigenetic regulation of pancreatic adenocarcinoma in the era of cancer immunotherapy10
Hepatocyte-specific yes-associated protein knockout exacerbates non-alcoholic steatohepatitis by upregulating PCSK910
Anti-integrin αvβ6 autoantibodies in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis10
Pro- and anti-inflammatory roles of interleukin (IL)-33, IL-36, and IL-38 in inflammatory bowel disease10
Letter to "The potential of an artificial intelligence for diagnosing MRI images in rectal cancer: multicenter collaborative trial"10
The antiferroptotic effect of indigo on ulcerative colitis10
Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease affects the development of hepatocellular carcinoma after sustained virologic response in chronic hepatitis C patients9
FGFR2 fusions assessed by NGS, FISH, and immunohistochemistry in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma9
Association of ulcerative colitis symptom severity and proctocolectomy with multidimensional patient-reported outcomes: a cross-sectional study9
Current status of type 1 (IgG4-related) autoimmune pancreatitis9
Identification of the distal end of the palisade vessels under sedation: a multicenter prospective study in Japan9
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the diagnosis, stage, and treatment of esophagogastric cancer9
Prognostic value of functional assessment in sarcopenia among pancreatic cancer patients9
Posttreatment serum CXCL10 level stratifies survival in compensated and decompensated cirrhotic patients due to chronic hepatitis C virus infection after direct-acting antiviral therapy9
Optimal direct oral anticoagulant for upper gastrointestinal endoscopic submucosal dissection9
Acknowledgements9
Comment on “Escherichia coli as a gut microbial marker of obesity and its reduction following bariatric treatment”: ecological and functional perspectives8
Severity of surgical histopathological fibrosis predicted postoperative recurrence in Crohn’s disease: a multi-center retrospective cohort study8
Differences in adult eosinophilic esophagitis between Japan and Western countries8
Growing evidence on the highly sensitive iTACT assay of hepatitis B core-related antigen for predicting hepatitis B virus reactivation8
Single-cell transcriptomics reveals hypoxia-driven iCAF_PLAU is associated with stemness and immunosuppression in anorectal malignant melanoma8
Serum FGF19 combined with GGT and other biomarkers predicted native liver survival following Kasai portoenterostomy in early biliary atresia8
Global, regional, and national burden of liver cancer due to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, 1990–2019: a decomposition and age–period–cohort analysis8
Publisher Correction: CRAFITY score as a predictive marker for refractoriness to atezolizumab plus bevacizumab therapy in hepatocellular carcinoma: a multicenter retrospective study8
Predictors of lymph node metastases, recurrence, and survival in patients with pedunculated-type T1 colorectal cancer8
Change in systemic steroid use and surgery rate in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a Japanese real-world database analysis8
RNF207 promotes colorectal cancer growth by regulating the Hippo–YAP pathway via enhanced MST1 ubiquitination and degradation8
Posttreatment liver function, but not baseline liver function stratifies patient survival after direct-acting antiviral treatment in decompensated cirrhosis with hepatitis C virus8
Correction to: Sorafenib as adjuvant therapy following radiofrequency ablation for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma within Milan criteria: a multicenter analysis8
HOXC9 enhances cholesterol metabolism and malignancy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma through ITGA10/FAK/PI3K/CREB-dependent HMGCR activation8
Reply to “Reappraisal of the MASLD predictive factors: insights beyond the surface”8
Reply to “IL-6 as a biomarker in atezolizumab plus bevacizumab in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma”8
Cost-effectiveness analysis of nivolumab plus chemotherapy vs chemotherapy for patients with unresectable advanced or metastatic HER2-negative gastric or gastroesophageal junction or esophageal adenoc8
Clarifying diagnostic scope and future perspectives in AI-assisted diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection8
Cost–utility analysis of treatment strategies for chronic constipation in Japan8
Development of a capsule endoscopy scoring system for the early diagnosis of small bowel Crohn’s disease8
METTL3/YTHDF1 drives M1 macrophage polarization and aggravates ulcerative colitis progression by regulating m6A modification of SerpinB5 mRNA and FBXO32-dependent NF-κB pathway8
Effects of luseogliflozin on suspected MASLD in patients with diabetes: a pooled meta-analysis of phase III clinical trials8
Correction: Molecular insights into HER2/ERBB2 amplification and carcinogenesis in gallbladder cancer associated with pancreaticobiliary maljunction8
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