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Researcher · Akita Prefectural University · Japan

Ikou Kaku

Ikou Kaku publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management Information Systems and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms, Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization and Assembly Line Balancing Optimization.

OpenAlex
World rank
#152,297
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#1,068
of 383,136
Works
127
Citations
3.6k
Citations per work
28.1
h-index
33
i10-index 53Top 3.4% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
Ikou Kaku

What does Ikou Kaku research?

Ikou Kaku's work is mostly in Engineering (34%), Business, Management and Accounting (11%), Physics and Astronomy (8%).

Physical Sciences: 57 works · 45.1% of their workEngineering: 43 works · 33.7% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 43 works · 33.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 10 works · 8.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 10 works · 8.1% of their workComputer Science: 4 works · 3.3% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 4 works · 3.3% of their workEverything else: 49 works · 38.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 21 works · 16.7% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 14 works · 11.4% of their workManagement Information Systems: 10 works · 8.1% of their workStrategy and Management: 4 works · 3.3% of their workDecision Sciences: 7 works · 5.3% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 7 works · 5.3% of their workTHEIR WORKIkou Kaku127works
Physical Sciences45%Social Sciences17%

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. Engineering4333.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy108.1%
    3. Computer Science43.3%
  2. Everything else4938.2%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting1411.4%
    2. Decision Sciences75.3%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering34% of their works
  2. 2Management Information Systems8% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics8% of their works
  4. 4Management Science and Operations Research5% of their works
  5. 5Strategy and Management3% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ikou Kaku's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Genetic Algorithm, Manufacturing, Scheduling, Order Picking, Warehouse Design, Assembly Line Balancing, Information Sharing and Optimization Methods.

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. Genetic Algorithm422 topics
  2. Manufacturing341 topic
  3. Scheduling341 topic
  4. Order Picking311 topic
  5. Warehouse Design311 topic
  6. Assembly Line Balancing241 topic
  7. Information Sharing241 topic
  8. Optimization Methods241 topic
  9. Supply Chain Coordination241 topic
  10. Heuristic Algorithms192 topics
  11. Binary Black Hole141 topic
  12. Gravitational Waves141 topic
  13. Tabu Search111 topic
  14. Vehicle Routing Problem111 topic
  15. Assembly Planning101 topic
  16. Design for Manufacture101 topic
  17. Cutting81 topic
  18. Packing81 topic

Where does Ikou Kaku work?

Ikou Kaku's main affiliation in the publication record is Akita Prefectural University, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Ikou Kaku have?

OpenAlex counts 127 works and 3,569 citations for Ikou Kaku, an h-index of 33, ranking #152,297 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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