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Researcher · Niigata University · Japan

Kenji Sakimura

Kenji Sakimura publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Ion channel regulation and function and Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms.

ORCID 0000-0002-8091-8879 OpenAlex
World rank
#400,402
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#3,742
of 383,136
Works
603
Citations
27k
Citations per work
44.2
h-index
85
i10-index 328Top 0.5% in Molecular Biology
Kenji Sakimura

What does Kenji Sakimura research?

Kenji Sakimura's work is mostly in Neuroscience (33%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (30%), Medicine (4%).

Life Sciences: 376 works · 62.3% of their workNeuroscience: 198 works · 32.8% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 134 works · 22.3% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 39 works · 6.5% of their workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 24 works · 4.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 178 works · 29.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 156 works · 25.8% of their workCell Biology: 22 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 204 works · 33.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 23 works · 3.8% of their workMedicine: 23 works · 3.8% of their workPhysiology: 23 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKKenji Sakimura603works
Life Sciences62%Health Sciences4%

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. Neuroscience19832.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology17829.5%
  2. Everything else20433.9%
    1. Medicine233.8%
  1. 1Molecular Biology26% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience22% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience6% of their works
  4. 4Developmental Neuroscience4% of their works
  5. 5Physiology4% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kenji Sakimura's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Neurotransmission, Synaptic Plasticity, Cell Signaling, Brain Development, Ion Channels, Voltage-Gated Channels, Memory and Adult Stem Cells.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Neurotransmission2451 topic
  2. Synaptic Plasticity2451 topic
  3. Cell Signaling1182 topics
  4. Brain Development882 topics
  5. Ion Channels791 topic
  6. Voltage-Gated Channels791 topic
  7. Memory662 topics
  8. Adult Stem Cells531 topic
  9. Neurogenesis531 topic
  10. Crystal Structure391 topic
  11. G-Protein-Coupled Receptors391 topic
  12. Hippocampus351 topic
  13. Microglia351 topic
  14. Navigation351 topic
  15. Neuroinflammation351 topic
  16. Consolidation311 topic
  17. Sleep311 topic
  18. Channelrhodopsin291 topic
  19. Optogenetics291 topic

Where does Kenji Sakimura work?

Kenji Sakimura's main affiliation in the publication record is Niigata University, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Kenji Sakimura have?

OpenAlex counts 603 works and 26,679 citations for Kenji Sakimura, an h-index of 85, ranking #400,402 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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