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Researcher · Kirin (Japan) · Japan

Makoto Kakitani

Makoto Kakitani publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology, on topics such as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering and Viral Infectious Diseases and Gene Expression in Insects.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,534,454
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#24,693
of 383,136
Works
35
Citations
5.4k
Citations per work
155.4
h-index
16
i10-index 17Top 46% in Molecular Biology
Makoto Kakitani

What does Makoto Kakitani research?

Makoto Kakitani's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (58%), Medicine (10%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (6%).

Life Sciences: 24 works · 68.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 20 works · 58.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 17 works · 47.5% of their workGenetics: 4 works · 10.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 5.9% of their workPlant Science: 2 works · 5.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 works · 4.0% of their workImmunology: 1 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 21.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 9.9% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 9.9% of their workOncology: 2 works · 5.9% of their workNephrology: 1 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKMakoto Kakitani35works
Life Sciences68%Health Sciences10%

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 Biology2058.4%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences25.9%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology14.0%
  2. Everything else821.8%
    1. Medicine39.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology48% of their works
  2. 2Genetics11% of their works
  3. 3Oncology6% of their works
  4. 4Plant Science6% of their works
  5. 5Immunology4% of their works
  6. 6Nephrology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Makoto Kakitani's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer, Epigenetic Regulation, Ribosome, Translation, Genome Engineering, RNA-Guided, FGF23 and Mammalian 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. 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. Cancer72 topics
  2. Epigenetic Regulation62 topics
  3. Ribosome61 topic
  4. Translation61 topic
  5. Genome Engineering51 topic
  6. RNA-Guided51 topic
  7. FGF2341 topic
  8. Mammalian Cells41 topic
  9. Recombinant Protein41 topic
  10. Wnt Signaling41 topic
  11. phosphate41 topic
  12. ß-Catenin41 topic
  13. Arginine Methylation31 topic
  14. Bacterial Physiology31 topic
  15. Gene Regulation31 topic
  16. Genomic Imprinting31 topic
  17. Parental Influence31 topic
  18. Protein Arginine Methyltransferases31 topic

Where does Makoto Kakitani work?

Makoto Kakitani's main affiliation in the publication record is Kirin (Japan), Japan.

How many publications and citations does Makoto Kakitani have?

OpenAlex counts 35 works and 5,439 citations for Makoto Kakitani, an h-index of 16, ranking #1,534,454 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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