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Researcher · Toyota Technological Institute · Japan

Akira Yamakata

Akira Yamakata publishes mostly in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques, TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar Cells and Copper-based nanomaterials and applications.

ORCID 0000-0003-3179-7588 OpenAlex
World rank
#175,828
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#1,289
of 383,136
Works
293
Citations
13k
Citations per work
45.9
h-index
58
i10-index 168Top 1.9% in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Akira Yamakata

What does Akira Yamakata research?

Akira Yamakata's work is mostly in Energy (38%), Materials Science (24%), Engineering (14%).

Physical Sciences: 252 works · 85.9% of their workEnergy: 110 works · 37.6% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 110 works · 37.6% of their workMaterials Science: 71 works · 24.1% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 71 works · 24.1% of their workEngineering: 41 works · 14.1% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 41 works · 14.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 12 works · 4.0% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 12 works · 4.0% of their workChemistry: 9 works · 3.1% of their workElectrochemistry: 9 works · 3.1% of their workChemical Engineering: 9 works · 3.0% of their workCatalysis: 9 works · 3.0% of their workEverything else: 41 works · 14.1% of their workTHEIR WORKAkira Yamakata293works
Physical Sciences86%

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. Energy11037.6%
    2. Materials Science7124.1%
    3. Engineering4114.1%
    4. Physics and Astronomy124.0%
    5. Chemistry93.1%
    6. Chemical Engineering93.0%
  2. Everything else4114.1%
  1. 1Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment38% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry24% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering14% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  5. 5Electrochemistry3% of their works
  6. 6Catalysis3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Akira Yamakata's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Nanomaterials, Visible Light, Water Splitting, Photocatalyst, Semiconductor, Nanostructures, Efficiency and Semiconductors.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Nanomaterials2813 topics
  2. Visible Light2532 topics
  3. Water Splitting2532 topics
  4. Photocatalyst1871 topic
  5. Semiconductor1871 topic
  6. Nanostructures1393 topics
  7. Efficiency1082 topics
  8. Semiconductors702 topics
  9. Photocatalysis661 topic
  10. Solar Cells661 topic
  11. CuO451 topic
  12. Nanocrystals451 topic
  13. Organometal Halide Perovskites421 topic
  14. Perovskite Solar Cells421 topic
  15. Oxide Interfaces321 topic
  16. Two-Dimensional Electron Gases321 topic
  17. Catalysis311 topic
  18. Nanoparticles311 topic
  19. Gas Sensors281 topic
  20. Metal Oxide281 topic
  21. Detection241 topic
  22. Electrochemical241 topic

Where does Akira Yamakata work?

Akira Yamakata's main affiliation in the publication record is Toyota Technological Institute, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Akira Yamakata have?

OpenAlex counts 293 works and 13,456 citations for Akira Yamakata, an h-index of 58, ranking #175,828 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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