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Researcher · Sony Computer Science Laboratories · Japan

Hiroaki Kitano

Hiroaki Kitano publishes mostly in Mechanical Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Signal Processing, on topics such as Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems, Phase Change Materials Research and Speech and Audio Processing.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,134,727
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#164,847
of 383,136
Works
50
Citations
643
Citations per work
12.9
h-index
6
i10-index 5Top 74% in Mechanical Engineering
Hiroaki Kitano

What does Hiroaki Kitano research?

Hiroaki Kitano's work is mostly in Engineering (25%), Computer Science (15%), Energy (14%).

Physical Sciences: 27 works · 54.9% of their workEngineering: 13 works · 25.2% of their workMechanical Engineering: 9 works · 18.9% of their workAerospace Engineering: 3 works · 6.3% of their workComputer Science: 8 works · 15.3% of their workSignal Processing: 4 works · 9.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 3 works · 6.3% of their workEnergy: 7 works · 14.4% of their workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 7 works · 14.4% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 40.6% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 4.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 4.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 2 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKHiroaki Kitano50works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences55%

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. Engineering1325.2%
    2. Computer Science815.3%
    3. Energy714.4%
  2. Everything else2040.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology24.5%
  1. 1Mechanical Engineering19% of their works
  2. 2Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment14% of their works
  3. 3Signal Processing9% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  5. 5Aerospace Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hiroaki Kitano's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Phase Change Materials, Deep Learning, Energy Efficiency, Photovoltaic/Thermal Hybrid Technology, Solar Thermal Collectors, Heat Transfer, Thermal Energy Storage and Audio Signal Classification.

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. Phase Change Materials162 topics
  2. Deep Learning102 topics
  3. Energy Efficiency102 topics
  4. Photovoltaic/Thermal Hybrid Technology91 topic
  5. Solar Thermal Collectors91 topic
  6. Heat Transfer71 topic
  7. Thermal Energy Storage71 topic
  8. Audio Signal Classification51 topic
  9. Audio-Visual Speech Recognition51 topic
  10. Music Information Retrieval51 topic
  11. Speech Enhancement51 topic
  12. Adsorption Refrigeration31 topic
  13. Building Energy Consumption31 topic
  14. Cryogenic Storage31 topic
  15. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)31 topic
  16. Thermal Comfort31 topic
  17. Thermochemical Heat Storage31 topic
  18. Functional–Structural Plant Modelling21 topic
  19. Plant Architecture21 topic

Where does Hiroaki Kitano work?

Hiroaki Kitano's main affiliation in the publication record is Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Hiroaki Kitano have?

OpenAlex counts 50 works and 643 citations for Hiroaki Kitano, an h-index of 6, ranking #5,134,727 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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