Masaaki Kitajima

Masaaki Kitajima

Hokkaido University

H-index: 51

Asia-Japan

About Masaaki Kitajima

Masaaki Kitajima, With an exceptional h-index of 51 and a recent h-index of 40 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Hokkaido University, specializes in the field of Environmental Virology.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Simultaneous extraction and detection of DNA and RNA from viruses, prokaryotes, and eukaryotes in wastewater using a modified COPMAN

Risk Mapping of COVID-19 to Create a Common Operating Picture Using Data from Wastewater Monitoring

Quantitative analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater and evaluation of sampling frequency during the downward period of a COVID-19 wave in Japan

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and Omicron variant RNA in wastewater samples from Manila, Philippines

COVID-19 infection risk assessment and management at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games: A scoping review

Detection of enteroviruses related to hand foot and mouth disease in wastewater of Asian communities

Quantification of multiple respiratory viruses in wastewater in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Potential implications of wastewater-based epidemiology for community disease …

The growing need to establish a global wastewater surveillance consortium for future pandemic preparedness

Masaaki Kitajima Information

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Citations(all)

11242

Citations(since 2020)

9483

Cited By

4523

hIndex(all)

51

hIndex(since 2020)

40

i10Index(all)

109

i10Index(since 2020)

97

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Masaaki Kitajima Skills & Research Interests

Environmental Virology

Top articles of Masaaki Kitajima

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Publication Date

Simultaneous extraction and detection of DNA and RNA from viruses, prokaryotes, and eukaryotes in wastewater using a modified COPMAN

Science of The Total Environment

Yuka Adachi Katayama

Shin Hayase

Ryo Iwamoto

Tomohiro Kuroita

Tomohiko Okuda

...

2024/1/10

Risk Mapping of COVID-19 to Create a Common Operating Picture Using Data from Wastewater Monitoring

Journal of Disaster Research

Tomoko Takeda

Kazushiro Yoshimori

Eiji Haramoto

Shingo Toride

Masaaki Kitajima

2024/4/1

Quantitative analysis of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater and evaluation of sampling frequency during the downward period of a COVID-19 wave in Japan

Science of the Total Environment

Tomohiro Kuroita

Akimasa Yoshimura

Ryo Iwamoto

Hiroki Ando

Satoshi Okabe

...

2024/1/1

Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and Omicron variant RNA in wastewater samples from Manila, Philippines

Science of The Total Environment

Jessamine Gail M Inson

Bikash Malla

Divina M Amalin

Thaddeus M Carvajal

Ma Luisa D Enriquez

...

2024/4/1

COVID-19 infection risk assessment and management at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games: A scoping review

Michio Murakami

Kenkichi Fujii

Wataru Naito

Masashi Kamo

Masaaki Kitajima

...

2024/4/1

Detection of enteroviruses related to hand foot and mouth disease in wastewater of Asian communities

Science of The Total Environment

Sadhana Shrestha

Bikash Malla

Jatuwat Sangsanont

Kwanrawee Sirikanchana

Huong Thi Thuy Ngo

...

2024/2/20

Quantification of multiple respiratory viruses in wastewater in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Potential implications of wastewater-based epidemiology for community disease …

Science of The Total Environment

Sunayana Raya

Bikash Malla

Sadhana Shrestha

Niva Sthapit

Hari Kattel

...

2024/2/8

The growing need to establish a global wastewater surveillance consortium for future pandemic preparedness

Journal of Travel Medicine

Michio Murakami

Masaaki Kitajima

Noriko Endo

Warish Ahmed

Bernd Manfred Gawlik

2023/10

Near full-automation of COPMAN using a LabDroid enables high-throughput and sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater as a leading indicator

Science of The Total Environment

Shin Hayase

Yuka Adachi Katayama

Tomohisa Hatta

Ryo Iwamoto

Tomohiro Kuroita

...

2023/7/10

Wastewater monitoring in tourist cities as potential sentinel sites for near real-time dynamics of imported SARS-CoV-2 variants

Science of The Total Environment

Jatuwat Sangsanont

Surapong Rattanakul

Prasert Makkaew

Nopadol Precha

Pratchaya Rukthanapitak

...

2023/2/20

Influence of membrane pore-size on the recovery of endogenous viruses from wastewater using an adsorption-extraction method

Journal of Virological Methods

Warish Ahmed

Wendy JM Smith

Kwanrawee Sirikanchana

Masaaki Kitajima

Aaron Bivins

...

2023/7/1

Identification of SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater using targeted amplicon sequencing during a low COVID-19 prevalence period in Japan

Science of The Total Environment

Ryo Iwamoto

Kiyoshi Yamaguchi

Kotoe Katayama

Hiroki Ando

Ken-ichi Setsukinai

...

2023/8/20

COPMAN: A novel high-throughput and highly sensitive method to detect viral nucleic acids including SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater

Science of the Total Environment

Yuka Adachi Katayama

Shin Hayase

Yoshinori Ando

Tomohiro Kuroita

Kazuya Okada

...

2023/1/15

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of influenza A and respiratory syncytial viruses elucidated by wastewater-based epidemiology

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Ria Garg

Sophie A Kitchen

Siyu Men

Tonya J Campbell

Nikki Bozinoff

...

2022/7/1

Haliovirga abyssi gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic fermentative bacterium isolated from the Iheya North hydrothermal field, and proposal of Haliovirgaceae fam. nov.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Urara Miyazaki

Akihiro Tame

Junichi Miyazaki

Ken Takai

Shigeki Sawayama

...

2023/8/4

Tracking the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on viral gastroenteritis through wastewater-based retrospective analyses

Science of The Total Environment

Hiroki Ando

Warish Ahmed

Satoshi Okabe

Masaaki Kitajima

2023/12/20

Correlation between SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentration in wastewater and COVID-19 cases in community: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Xuan Li

Shuxin Zhang

Samendra Sherchan

Gorka Orive

Unax Lertxundi

...

2023/1/5

Moving forward with COVID-19: future research prospects of wastewater-based epidemiology methodologies and applications

Guangming Jiang

Yanchen Liu

Song Tang

Masaaki Kitajima

Eiji Haramoto

...

2023/6/1

Economic evaluation of wastewater surveillance combined with clinical COVID-19 screening tests, Japan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Byung-Kwang Yoo

Ryo Iwamoto

Ungil Chung

Tomoko Sasaki

Masaaki Kitajima

2023/8

Pyrofollis japonicus gen. nov. sp. nov., a novel member of the family Pyrodictiaceae isolated from the Iheya North hydrothermal field

Extremophiles

Urara Miyazaki

Masaru Sanari

Akihiro Tame

Masaaki Kitajima

Akihiro Okamoto

...

2023/12

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Co-Authors

H-index: 82
Satoshi Okabe

Satoshi Okabe

Hokkaido University

H-index: 58
Kyle Bibby

Kyle Bibby

University of Notre Dame

H-index: 43
Eiji Haramoto

Eiji Haramoto

University of Yamanashi

H-index: 33
Daisuke Sano

Daisuke Sano

Tohoku University

H-index: 33
Aaron Bivins

Aaron Bivins

University of Notre Dame

H-index: 14
Bikash Malla, PhD

Bikash Malla, PhD

University of Yamanashi

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