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Researcher · National Institute for Environmental Studies · Japan

Akio Imai

Akio Imai publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Oceanography and Environmental Chemistry, on topics such as Maritime Ports and Logistics, Marine and coastal ecosystems and Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,313,910
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#19,737
of 383,136
Works
307
Citations
8.1k
Citations per work
26.3
h-index
45
i10-index 105Top 1.1% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
Akio Imai

What does Akio Imai research?

Akio Imai's work is mostly in Engineering (24%), Environmental Science (21%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%).

Physical Sciences: 170 works · 55.4% of their workEngineering: 74 works · 24.2% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 62 works · 20.1% of their workBuilding and Construction: 13 works · 4.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 65 works · 21.3% of their workEnvironmental Chemistry: 27 works · 8.7% of their workEcology: 26 works · 8.6% of their workWater Science and Technology: 12 works · 4.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 30 works · 9.9% of their workOceanography: 30 works · 9.9% of their workEverything else: 137 works · 44.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAkio Imai307works
Physical Sciences55%

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. Engineering7424.2%
    2. Environmental Science6521.3%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences309.9%
  2. Everything else13744.6%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering20% of their works
  2. 2Oceanography10% of their works
  3. 3Environmental Chemistry9% of their works
  4. 4Ecology9% of their works
  5. 5Building and Construction4% of their works
  6. 6Water Science and Technology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Akio Imai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Eutrophication, Harmful Algal Blooms, Heuristic Algorithms, Container Terminals, Operations Research, Dissolved Organic Matter, Oceanic Carbon Cycle and Tabu Search.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Eutrophication1152 topics
  2. Harmful Algal Blooms1152 topics
  3. Heuristic Algorithms752 topics
  4. Container Terminals731 topic
  5. Operations Research731 topic
  6. Dissolved Organic Matter671 topic
  7. Oceanic Carbon Cycle671 topic
  8. Tabu Search541 topic
  9. Vehicle Routing Problem541 topic
  10. Cyanobacteria481 topic
  11. Nutrient Control481 topic
  12. City Logistics301 topic
  13. Last Mile Delivery301 topic
  14. Marine Microbes251 topic
  15. Microbial Biogeography251 topic
  16. Stable Isotopes251 topic
  17. Trophic Position251 topic
  18. Cutting211 topic
  19. Packing211 topic

Where does Akio Imai work?

Akio Imai's main affiliation in the publication record is National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Akio Imai have?

OpenAlex counts 307 works and 8,081 citations for Akio Imai, an h-index of 45, ranking #1,313,910 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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