Mapping Two Decades of Research on Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection in Esophageal Cancer: A Bibliometric and Visual Analysis

14 June 2026 : Clinical Research

Changxiong Wang^{AE 1}, Jianye Wu^{CEF 1}, Leyi Zhang^{CEF 1}, Xinrong Fan^{BE 1*}, Zhaohuan Lou^{BE 2}, Xianbao Lu^{CEF 1}

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.951916

Med Sci Monit 2026; 32:e951916

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Table 3 Publication and citation profiles of the top 20 high-impact authors.

Rank	Author	h_index	g_index	m_index	PY_start	TP	TP_frac	TP_rank	TC	TC_rank
1	Ishihara R	10	16	0.526	2008	16	1.99	1	1279	1
2	Fujishiro M	8	13	0.381	2006	13	1.50	3	936	2
3	Fujiwara Y	8	11	0.533	2012	11	0.74	5	238	9
4	Tanaka S	8	14	0.500	2011	14	1.62	2	240	8
5	Tanigawa T	8	8	0.533	2012	8	0.59	13	225	13
6	Uedo N	8	13	0.421	2008	13	0.86	3	697	4
7	Watanabe T	8	9	0.533	2012	9	0.65	11	230	12
8	Arakawa T	7	7	0.467	2012	7	0.52	17	211	15
9	Fukunaga S	7	8	0.636	2016	8	0.52	13	176	19
10	Kato M	7	10	0.368	2008	10	0.81	6	855	3
11	Minamino H	7	7	0.467	2012	7	0.52	17	211	15
12	Nakamura T	7	10	0.412	2010	10	0.86	6	371	5
13	Ominami M	7	8	0.636	2016	8	0.53	13	171	20
14	Ono H	7	9	0.583	2015	9	0.73	11	265	7
15	Sato H	7	10	0.500	2013	10	0.94	6	325	6
16	Sugimori S	7	7	0.467	2012	7	0.52	17	211	15
17	Suzuki S	7	10	0.412	2010	10	0.83	6	233	11
18	Takizawa K	7	8	0.583	2015	8	0.65	13	236	10
19	Tanaka M	7	10	0.583	2015	10	0.93	6	224	14
20	Tominaga K	7	7	0.467	2012	7	0.52	17	211	15
h_index – measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications. It is important to note that the h-index reported here is calculated based only on the 512 articles included in this specific study, not the authors; entire career output; g_index – gives more weight to highly-cited articles; m_index – the h-index divided by the number of years since the first published paper; PY_start – publication year start; TP – total publications; TP_frac – fractional total publications; TP_rank – rank of total publications; TC – total citations. TC_rank – rank of total citations.

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