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Akira Hirano

Akira Hirano publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Optical Network Technologies, Advanced Photonic Communication Systems and Advanced Optical Network Technologies.

World rank
#17,121
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#211
of 114,622
Works
59
Citations
454
Citations per work
7.7

What does Akira Hirano research?

Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 72.3%Computer Networks and Communications: 7.7%History and Philosophy of Science: 3.1%Control and Systems Engineering: 1.5%other fields: 15.4%72%top field
Electrical and Electronic Engineering72.3%Computer Networks and Communications7.7%History and Philosophy of Science3.1%Control and Systems Engineering1.5%other fields15.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering72% of their works
  2. 2Computer Networks and Communications8% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science3% of their works
  4. 4Control and Systems Engineering2% of their works
  5. 5Media Technology2% of their works
  6. 6Hardware and Architecture2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Akira Hirano's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Coherent Detection, Optical Fiber, Elastic Optical Networks, Microwave Photonics, Optical Networks, Photonic Signal Processing, Education and Healthcare.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Coherent Detection141 topic
  2. Optical Fiber141 topic
  3. Elastic Optical Networks121 topic
  4. Microwave Photonics121 topic
  5. Optical Networks121 topic
  6. Photonic Signal Processing121 topic
  7. Education32 topics
  8. Healthcare21 topic
  9. Optical Modulators21 topic
  10. Research21 topic
  11. Silicon Photonics21 topic
  12. Distributed Systems11 topic
  13. Grid Computing11 topic
  14. Intrusion Detection11 topic
  15. Learning Environments11 topic
  16. Network Security11 topic
  17. Robotics Programming11 topic

Where does Akira Hirano work?

Akira Hirano's main affiliation in the publication record is NTT (Japan), Japan.

How many publications and citations does Akira Hirano have?

Science Explorer counts 59 works and 454 citations for Akira Hirano, ranking #17,121 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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