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Researcher · Tochigi Cancer Center · Japan

Hirofumi Shirakawa

Hirofumi Shirakawa publishes mostly in Surgery, Oncology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, on topics such as Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies and Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,245,457
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#43,116
of 383,136
Works
84
Citations
2k
Citations per work
23.9
h-index
21
i10-index 29Top 15% in Surgery
Hirofumi Shirakawa

What does Hirofumi Shirakawa research?

Hirofumi Shirakawa's work is mostly in Medicine (77%), Immunology and Microbiology (4%).

Health Sciences: 65 works · 76.9% of their workMedicine: 65 works · 76.9% of their workSurgery: 25 works · 30.3% of their workOncology: 23 works · 26.9% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 8 works · 9.6% of their workHepatology: 4 works · 5.3% of their workEpidemiology: 4 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 19.3% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 3.8% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 works · 3.8% of their workImmunology: 3 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKHirofumiShirakawa84works
Life Sciences4%Health Sciences77%

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. Medicine6576.9%
  2. Everything else1619.3%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology33.8%
  1. 1Surgery30% of their works
  2. 2Oncology27% of their works
  3. 3Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine10% of their works
  4. 4Hepatology5% of their works
  5. 5Epidemiology5% of their works
  6. 6Immunology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hirofumi Shirakawa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, Tumor Microenvironment, Cholangiocarcinoma, Pancreatic Cancer, Surgical Complications, Biliary Tract Cancer, Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma and Acute Pancreatitis.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology442 topics
  2. Tumor Microenvironment432 topics
  3. Cholangiocarcinoma392 topics
  4. Pancreatic Cancer381 topic
  5. Surgical Complications381 topic
  6. Biliary Tract Cancer261 topic
  7. Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma261 topic
  8. Acute Pancreatitis181 topic
  9. Chronic Pancreatitis181 topic
  10. Cholecystitis131 topic
  11. ERCP131 topic
  12. Immunity112 topics
  13. Hepatocellular Carcinoma81 topic
  14. Liver Cancer81 topic
  15. Cancer Genomics71 topic
  16. Mutational Signatures71 topic
  17. Cancer Immunotherapy61 topic
  18. Dendritic Cells61 topic
  19. Cancer51 topic
  20. Inflammation51 topic

Where does Hirofumi Shirakawa work?

Hirofumi Shirakawa's main affiliation in the publication record is Tochigi Cancer Center, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Hirofumi Shirakawa have?

OpenAlex counts 84 works and 2,004 citations for Hirofumi Shirakawa, an h-index of 21, ranking #2,245,457 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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