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Researcher · The University of Tokyo · Japan

Ikuo Towhata

Ikuo Towhata publishes mostly in Civil and Structural Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Geophysics, on topics such as Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures and Geotechnical Engineering and Soil Stabilization.

ORCID 0000-0001-7814-685X OpenAlex
World rank
#232,171
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#1,804
of 383,136
Works
319
Citations
7k
Citations per work
22.0
h-index
46
i10-index 117Top 1.1% in Civil and Structural Engineering
Ikuo Towhata

What does Ikuo Towhata research?

Ikuo Towhata's work is mostly in Engineering (73%), Environmental Science (10%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 278 works · 87.0% of their workEngineering: 232 works · 72.8% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 202 works · 63.3% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 13 works · 4.1% of their workMechanics of Materials: 9 works · 2.8% of their workMechanical Engineering: 8 works · 2.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 32 works · 10.1% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 32 works · 10.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 13 works · 4.1% of their workGeophysics: 13 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 41 works · 13.0% of their workTHEIR WORKIkuo Towhata319works
Physical Sciences87%

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. Engineering23272.8%
    2. Environmental Science3210.1%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences134.1%
  2. Everything else4113.0%
  1. 1Civil and Structural Engineering63% of their works
  2. 2Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law10% of their works
  3. 3Geophysics4% of their works
  4. 4Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality4% of their works
  5. 5Mechanics of Materials3% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ikuo Towhata's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Soil Reinforcement, Liquefaction Resistance, Particle Shape Effects, Seismic, Tunnel, Fiber Reinforcement, Geosynthetics and Hazard.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Soil Reinforcement1662 topics
  2. Liquefaction Resistance1571 topic
  3. Particle Shape Effects1571 topic
  4. Seismic1531 topic
  5. Tunnel1531 topic
  6. Fiber Reinforcement1471 topic
  7. Geosynthetics1471 topic
  8. Hazard901 topic
  9. Landslide901 topic
  10. Slope Stability Analysis351 topic
  11. Spatial Variability351 topic
  12. Earthquakes191 topic
  13. Embankment Dams191 topic
  14. Internal Erosion191 topic
  15. Root Reinforcement191 topic
  16. Slope Stability191 topic
  17. Subduction191 topic

Where does Ikuo Towhata work?

Ikuo Towhata's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Tokyo, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Ikuo Towhata have?

OpenAlex counts 319 works and 7,030 citations for Ikuo Towhata, an h-index of 46, ranking #232,171 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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