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Researcher · Hakodate Central General Hospital · Japan

Masahiro Kanayama

Masahiro Kanayama publishes mostly in Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Hepatology, on topics such as Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology, Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy and Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment.

ORCID 0000-0001-6925-8673 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,538,108
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#24,783
of 383,136
Works
149
Citations
3.3k
Citations per work
22.5
h-index
34
i10-index 57Top 4.7% in Surgery
Masahiro Kanayama

What does Masahiro Kanayama research?

Masahiro Kanayama's work is mostly in Medicine (74%), Engineering (3%).

Health Sciences: 110 works · 73.7% of their workMedicine: 110 works · 73.7% of their workSurgery: 59 works · 39.4% of their workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 29 works · 19.2% of their workHepatology: 10 works · 6.7% of their workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 7 works · 4.9% of their workPharmacology: 5 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 34 works · 23.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 3.2% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 3.2% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 5 works · 3.2% of their workTHEIR WORKMasahiro Kanayama149works
Physical Sciences3%Health Sciences74%

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. Medicine11073.7%
  2. Everything else3423.1%
    1. Engineering53.2%
  1. 1Surgery39% of their works
  2. 2Pathology and Forensic Medicine19% of their works
  3. 3Hepatology7% of their works
  4. 4Orthopedics and Sports Medicine5% of their works
  5. 5Pharmacology4% of their works
  6. 6Biomedical Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Masahiro Kanayama's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Degenerative Disc Disease, Spinal Fusion, Low Back Pain, Intervertebral Disc, Lumbar Disc Degeneration, Anterior Cervical Discectomy, Cervical Spine Surgery and Scoliosis.

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. Degenerative Disc Disease1252 topics
  2. Spinal Fusion1142 topics
  3. Low Back Pain972 topics
  4. Intervertebral Disc821 topic
  5. Lumbar Disc Degeneration821 topic
  6. Anterior Cervical Discectomy431 topic
  7. Cervical Spine Surgery431 topic
  8. Scoliosis321 topic
  9. Spinal Deformity321 topic
  10. Pedicle Screw Fixation301 topic
  11. Vertebroplasty301 topic
  12. Hepatocellular Carcinoma171 topic
  13. Liver Cancer171 topic
  14. Chronic Pain151 topic
  15. Global Burden151 topic
  16. Bone Mineral Density141 topic
  17. Fractures141 topic
  18. Spine Segmentation131 topic
  19. Vertebrae Detection131 topic

Where does Masahiro Kanayama work?

Masahiro Kanayama's main affiliation in the publication record is Hakodate Central General Hospital, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Masahiro Kanayama have?

OpenAlex counts 149 works and 3,347 citations for Masahiro Kanayama, an h-index of 34, ranking #1,538,108 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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