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Researcher · Kyoto Medical Center · Japan

Akira Shimatsu

Akira Shimatsu publishes mostly in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Molecular Biology and Surgery, on topics such as Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments, Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors and Adrenal Hormones and Disorders.

ORCID 0000-0002-9688-006X OpenAlex
World rank
#767,743
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#9,322
of 383,136
Works
474
Citations
22k
Citations per work
45.9
h-index
66
i10-index 238Top 1.3% in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Akira Shimatsu

What does Akira Shimatsu research?

Akira Shimatsu's work is mostly in Medicine (50%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%).

Health Sciences: 236 works · 49.7% of their workMedicine: 236 works · 49.7% of their workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 134 works · 28.3% of their workSurgery: 31 works · 6.6% of their workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 25 works · 5.3% of their workEpidemiology: 23 works · 4.8% of their workPhysiology: 22 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 184 works · 38.8% of their workLife Sciences: 55 works · 11.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 55 works · 11.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 55 works · 11.5% of their workTHEIR WORKAkira Shimatsu474works
Life Sciences12%Health Sciences50%

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. Medicine23649.7%
  2. Everything else18438.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5511.5%
  1. 1Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism28% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology12% of their works
  3. 3Surgery7% of their works
  4. 4Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine5% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology5% of their works
  6. 6Physiology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Akira Shimatsu's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Growth Hormone, Cushing's Syndrome, Pituitary Adenomas, IGF-1, Insulin-like Growth Factors, Genetic Mutations, Adrenal Insufficiency and Corticosteroid Therapy.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Growth Hormone2102 topics
  2. Cushing's Syndrome1061 topic
  3. Pituitary Adenomas1061 topic
  4. IGF-11041 topic
  5. Insulin-like Growth Factors1041 topic
  6. Genetic Mutations722 topics
  7. Adrenal Insufficiency451 topic
  8. Corticosteroid Therapy451 topic
  9. Neuropeptides401 topic
  10. Paraganglioma401 topic
  11. Pheochromocytoma401 topic
  12. Receptors401 topic
  13. Thyroid Dysfunction361 topic
  14. Thyroid Hormone361 topic
  15. Neuroendocrine Tumors321 topic
  16. Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors321 topic
  17. Aldosterone251 topic
  18. Primary Aldosteronism251 topic

Where does Akira Shimatsu work?

Akira Shimatsu's main affiliation in the publication record is Kyoto Medical Center, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Akira Shimatsu have?

OpenAlex counts 474 works and 21,774 citations for Akira Shimatsu, an h-index of 66, ranking #767,743 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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