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Researcher · University of Washington · United States

Akira Ishimaru

Akira Ishimaru publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis, Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis and Random lasers and scattering media.

OpenAlex
World rank
#452,225
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#158,798
of 1,627,098
Works
517
Citations
16k
Citations per work
31.4
h-index
56
i10-index 174Top 0.1% in Aerospace Engineering
Akira Ishimaru

What does Akira Ishimaru research?

Akira Ishimaru's work is mostly in Engineering (32%), Physics and Astronomy (17%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (6%).

Physical Sciences: 291 works · 56.2% of their workEngineering: 168 works · 32.5% of their workAerospace Engineering: 63 works · 12.2% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 54 works · 10.4% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 51 works · 9.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 89 works · 17.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 59 works · 11.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 31 works · 5.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 33 works · 6.4% of their workOceanography: 33 works · 6.4% of their workEverything else: 226 works · 43.8% of their workTHEIR WORKAkira Ishimaru517works
Physical Sciences56%

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. Engineering16832.5%
    2. Physics and Astronomy8917.3%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences336.4%
  2. Everything else22643.8%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering12% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics11% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering10% of their works
  4. 4Biomedical Engineering10% of their works
  5. 5Oceanography6% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Akira Ishimaru's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Electromagnetic Scattering, Integral Equation Methods, Remote Sensing, Breast Cancer Detection, Microwave Imaging, Light Propagation, Random Lasers and Acoustic Techniques.

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. Electromagnetic Scattering761 topic
  2. Integral Equation Methods761 topic
  3. Remote Sensing682 topics
  4. Breast Cancer Detection571 topic
  5. Microwave Imaging571 topic
  6. Light Propagation551 topic
  7. Random Lasers551 topic
  8. Acoustic Techniques521 topic
  9. Seafloor Mapping521 topic
  10. Ground-Penetrating Radar391 topic
  11. Sedimentology391 topic
  12. Aerosols351 topic
  13. Climate351 topic
  14. Imaging Spectroscopy331 topic
  15. Polarimetry331 topic
  16. Antenna Arrays311 topic
  17. Optimization311 topic

Where does Akira Ishimaru work?

Akira Ishimaru's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Washington, United States.

How many publications and citations does Akira Ishimaru have?

OpenAlex counts 517 works and 16,250 citations for Akira Ishimaru, an h-index of 56, ranking #452,225 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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