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Researcher · Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences · Japan

Masahiro Sakaitani

Masahiro Sakaitani publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, on topics such as Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,364,663
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#20,916
of 383,136
Works
48
Citations
2.3k
Citations per work
48.1
h-index
23
i10-index 28Top 17% in Organic Chemistry
Masahiro Sakaitani

What does Masahiro Sakaitani research?

Masahiro Sakaitani's work is mostly in Chemistry (29%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (27%), Neuroscience (4%).

Life Sciences: 19 works · 39.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 13 works · 27.2% of their workMolecular Biology: 11 works · 22.9% of their workBiochemistry: 2 works · 4.3% of their workNeuroscience: 2 works · 4.3% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 2 works · 4.3% of their workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 works · 4.3% of their workPharmaceutical Science: 2 works · 4.3% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 works · 3.6% of their workPlant Science: 2 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 31.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 14 works · 29.3% of their workChemistry: 14 works · 29.3% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 14 works · 29.3% of their workTHEIR WORKMasahiroSakaitani48works
Life Sciences39%Physical Sciences29%

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 Biology1327.2%
    2. Neuroscience24.3%
    3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics24.3%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences23.6%
  2. Everything else1531.3%
    1. Chemistry1429.3%
  1. 1Organic Chemistry29% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology23% of their works
  3. 3Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience4% of their works
  4. 4Pharmaceutical Science4% of their works
  5. 5Biochemistry4% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Masahiro Sakaitani's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Olefin Metathesis, Ruthenium Catalysts, Enantioselective Reactions, Organocatalysis, Drug Discovery, Peptide Synthesis, Fluorine and Medicinal Chemistry.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Olefin Metathesis91 topic
  2. Ruthenium Catalysts91 topic
  3. Enantioselective Reactions81 topic
  4. Organocatalysis81 topic
  5. Drug Discovery71 topic
  6. Peptide Synthesis71 topic
  7. Fluorine61 topic
  8. Medicinal Chemistry61 topic
  9. Neurotransmission51 topic
  10. Synaptic Plasticity51 topic
  11. Acetogenins31 topic
  12. Amino Acid Transporters31 topic
  13. Annonaceae31 topic
  14. BRAF gene31 topic
  15. D-Serine31 topic
  16. MAP Kinase31 topic

Where does Masahiro Sakaitani work?

Masahiro Sakaitani's main affiliation in the publication record is Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Masahiro Sakaitani have?

OpenAlex counts 48 works and 2,310 citations for Masahiro Sakaitani, an h-index of 23, ranking #1,364,663 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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