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Researcher · The University of Osaka · Japan

Akira Sasakawa

Akira Sasakawa publishes mostly in Immunology, Hepatology and Epidemiology, on topics such as Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses and Hepatitis B Virus Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,703,169
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#201,287
of 383,136
Works
21
Citations
377
Citations per work
18.0
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 80% in Immunology
Akira Sasakawa

What does Akira Sasakawa research?

Akira Sasakawa's work is mostly in Medicine (42%), Immunology and Microbiology (33%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (7%).

Health Sciences: 9 works · 41.9% of their workMedicine: 9 works · 41.9% of their workHepatology: 4 works · 20.0% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 10.9% of their workOncology: 1 works · 5.5% of their workSurgery: 1 works · 5.5% of their workLife Sciences: 8 works · 40.0% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 7 works · 32.7% of their workImmunology: 7 works · 32.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 7.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 2 works · 7.3% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 18.1% of their workTHEIR WORKAkira Sasakawa21works
Life Sciences40%Health Sciences42%

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. Medicine941.9%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology732.7%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology27.3%
  3. Everything else418.1%
  1. 1Immunology33% of their works
  2. 2Hepatology20% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology11% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology7% of their works
  5. 5Oncology6% of their works
  6. 6Surgery6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Akira Sasakawa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Antiviral Therapy, Liver Disease, Epidemiology, Dendritic Cells, Immunity, Natural Killer Cells, NK Cell Recognition and Chronic Hepatitis B.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Antiviral Therapy102 topics
  2. Liver Disease102 topics
  3. Epidemiology82 topics
  4. Dendritic Cells61 topic
  5. Immunity61 topic
  6. NK Cell Recognition61 topic
  7. Natural Killer Cells61 topic
  8. Chronic Hepatitis B51 topic
  9. Hepatitis B Virus51 topic
  10. Hepatitis C Virus51 topic
  11. Inflammation52 topics
  12. Toll-like Receptors52 topics
  13. Treatment51 topic
  14. Innate Antiviral Responses41 topic
  15. Pattern Recognition Receptors41 topic
  16. Hepatitis E Virus31 topic
  17. Zoonotic Transmission31 topic
  18. Antiretroviral Therapy21 topic
  19. HIV Infection21 topic
  20. Hyaluronan11 topic
  21. Proteoglycans11 topic

Where does Akira Sasakawa work?

Akira Sasakawa's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Osaka, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Akira Sasakawa have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 377 citations for Akira Sasakawa, an h-index of 9, ranking #5,703,169 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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