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Researcher · Yakult Central Institute · Japan

Akemi Imaoka

Akemi Imaoka publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Food Science and Genetics, on topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Probiotics and Fermented Foods and Gastrointestinal motility and disorders.

OpenAlex
World rank
#611,482
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#6,757
of 383,136
Works
32
Citations
13k
Citations per work
412.0
h-index
22
i10-index 23Top 28% in Molecular Biology
Akemi Imaoka

What does Akemi Imaoka research?

Akemi Imaoka's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (38%), Medicine (15%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (14%).

Life Sciences: 20 works · 62.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 works · 38.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 8 works · 26.1% of their workGenetics: 4 works · 12.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 14.1% of their workFood Science: 5 works · 14.1% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 works · 9.8% of their workImmunology: 3 works · 9.8% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 22.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 15.2% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 15.2% of their workGastroenterology: 3 works · 8.7% of their workInfectious Diseases: 2 works · 6.5% of their workTHEIR WORKAkemi Imaoka32works
Life Sciences62%Health Sciences15%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1238.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences514.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology39.8%
  2. Everything else722.8%
    1. Medicine515.2%
  1. 1Molecular Biology26% of their works
  2. 2Food Science14% of their works
  3. 3Genetics12% of their works
  4. 4Immunology10% of their works
  5. 5Gastroenterology9% of their works
  6. 6Infectious Diseases6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Akemi Imaoka's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gut Microbiota, Microbial Communities, Microbiota, Probiotics, Lactic Acid Bacteria, Prebiotics, Epidemiology and Gastrointestinal Disorders.

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. Gut Microbiota231 topic
  2. Microbial Communities231 topic
  3. Microbiota202 topics
  4. Probiotics202 topics
  5. Lactic Acid Bacteria131 topic
  6. Prebiotics131 topic
  7. Epidemiology92 topics
  8. Gastrointestinal Disorders71 topic
  9. Irritable Bowel Syndrome71 topic
  10. Genetic Adaptation61 topic
  11. Lactase Persistence61 topic
  12. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea51 topic
  13. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation51 topic
  14. Crohn's Disease41 topic
  15. Inflammatory Bowel Disease41 topic
  16. NK Cell Recognition41 topic
  17. Natural Killer Cells41 topic
  18. Escherichia coli21 topic
  19. Pathogenicity21 topic

Where does Akemi Imaoka work?

Akemi Imaoka's main affiliation in the publication record is Yakult Central Institute, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Akemi Imaoka have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 13,183 citations for Akemi Imaoka, an h-index of 22, ranking #611,482 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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