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Researcher · KAN Research Institute · Japan

Ken Sasai

Ken Sasai publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Oncology and Immunology, on topics such as Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation and Cancer Cells and Metastasis.

ORCID 0000-0001-6068-051X OpenAlex
World rank
#1,711,910
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#28,980
of 383,136
Works
79
Citations
2.8k
Citations per work
35.0
h-index
18
i10-index 21Top 39% in Molecular Biology
Ken Sasai

What does Ken Sasai research?

Ken Sasai's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (36%), Medicine (21%), Immunology and Microbiology (9%).

Life Sciences: 36 works · 45.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 29 works · 36.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 25 works · 31.8% of their workCell Biology: 4 works · 4.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 7 works · 9.1% of their workImmunology: 7 works · 9.1% of their workEverything else: 27 works · 33.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 16 works · 20.8% of their workMedicine: 16 works · 20.8% of their workOncology: 10 works · 12.7% of their workSurgery: 4 works · 4.5% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKKen Sasai79works
Life Sciences45%Health Sciences21%

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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2936.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology79.1%
  2. Everything else2733.8%
    1. Medicine1620.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology32% of their works
  2. 2Oncology13% of their works
  3. 3Immunology9% of their works
  4. 4Surgery4% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ken Sasai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Immunotherapy, Cancer Stem Cells, DNA Methylation, Glycans, Glycosylation and Histone Modification.

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. Cancer163 topics
  2. Pancreatic Cancer92 topics
  3. Immunotherapy72 topics
  4. Cancer Stem Cells61 topic
  5. DNA Methylation61 topic
  6. Glycans61 topic
  7. Glycosylation61 topic
  8. Histone Modification61 topic
  9. Tumor Metastasis61 topic
  10. Development51 topic
  11. Galectins51 topic
  12. Hedgehog Signaling51 topic
  13. Immune Regulation51 topic
  14. Gemcitabine41 topic
  15. Glycosidase Inhibitors41 topic
  16. Oligosaccharide Synthesis41 topic
  17. Surgical Complications41 topic
  18. Bacterial Therapy31 topic
  19. Tumor Targeting31 topic

Where does Ken Sasai work?

Ken Sasai's main affiliation in the publication record is KAN Research Institute, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Ken Sasai have?

OpenAlex counts 79 works and 2,767 citations for Ken Sasai, an h-index of 18, ranking #1,711,910 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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