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Researcher · Railway Technical Research Institute · Japan

Akira Namura

Akira Namura publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Mechanics of Materials, on topics such as Railway Engineering and Dynamics, Civil and Geotechnical Engineering Research and Engineering Applied Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,124,435
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#39,696
of 383,136
Works
29
Citations
374
Citations per work
12.9
h-index
8
i10-index 8Top 59% in Mechanical Engineering
Akira Namura

What does Akira Namura research?

Akira Namura's work is mostly in Engineering (91%), Chemistry (3%).

Physical Sciences: 27 works · 93.8% of their workEngineering: 26 works · 91.3% of their workMechanical Engineering: 13 works · 44.4% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 works · 17.3% of their workMechanics of Materials: 4 works · 13.6% of their workGeneral Engineering: 4 works · 12.3% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 1 works · 3.7% of their workChemistry: 1 works · 2.5% of their workSpectroscopy: 1 works · 2.5% of their workEverything else: 2 works · 6.2% of their workTHEIR WORKAkira Namura29works
Physical Sciences94%

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. Engineering2691.3%
    2. Chemistry12.5%
  2. Everything else26.2%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering44% of their works
  2. 2Civil and Structural Engineering17% of their works
  3. 3Mechanics of Materials14% of their works
  4. 4General Engineering12% of their works
  5. 5Automotive Engineering4% of their works
  6. 6Spectroscopy2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Akira Namura's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Rolling Contact Fatigue, Ground Vibration, Railway Dynamics, Numerical Simulation, Analysis, Engineering, Research and Design Optimization.

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. Rolling Contact Fatigue302 topics
  2. Ground Vibration271 topic
  3. Railway Dynamics271 topic
  4. Numerical Simulation172 topics
  5. Analysis162 topics
  6. Engineering101 topic
  7. Research101 topic
  8. Design Optimization71 topic
  9. Structural Analysis71 topic
  10. Finite Element Simulation61 topic
  11. Fretting Wear61 topic
  12. Seismic61 topic
  13. Tunnel61 topic
  14. Adhesion31 topic
  15. Gear Dynamics31 topic
  16. Gecko31 topic
  17. Mesh Stiffness31 topic
  18. Automotive Brake21 topic
  19. Friction Materials21 topic

Where does Akira Namura work?

Akira Namura's main affiliation in the publication record is Railway Technical Research Institute, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Akira Namura have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 374 citations for Akira Namura, an h-index of 8, ranking #2,124,435 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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