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Researcher · Saitama University · Japan

Masamichi Ohkura

Masamichi Ohkura publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Ion channel regulation and function, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

ORCID 0000-0002-3659-7780 OpenAlex
World rank
#893,317
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#11,507
of 383,136
Works
101
Citations
7.8k
Citations per work
76.8
h-index
31
i10-index 56Top 14% in Molecular Biology
Masamichi Ohkura

What does Masamichi Ohkura research?

Masamichi Ohkura's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (35%), Neuroscience (29%), Medicine (3%).

Life Sciences: 65 works · 64.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 35 works · 35.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 23 works · 22.7% of their workBiophysics: 8 works · 7.6% of their workGenetics: 5 works · 4.7% of their workNeuroscience: 29 works · 29.2% of their workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 20 works · 20.2% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 9 works · 9.0% of their workEverything else: 33 works · 32.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 2.9% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 2.9% of their workSurgery: 3 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKMasamichi Ohkura101works
Life Sciences64%Health Sciences3%

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 Biology3535.0%
    2. Neuroscience2929.2%
  2. Everything else3332.9%
    1. Medicine32.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology23% of their works
  2. 2Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience20% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience9% of their works
  4. 4Biophysics8% of their works
  5. 5Genetics5% of their works
  6. 6Surgery3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Masamichi Ohkura's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ion Channels, Voltage-Gated Channels, Channelrhodopsin, Cortical Networks, Electrode Arrays, Neural Stimulation, Neuronal Oscillations and Neurotransmission.

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. Ion Channels171 topic
  2. Voltage-Gated Channels171 topic
  3. Channelrhodopsin161 topic
  4. Cortical Networks161 topic
  5. Electrode Arrays161 topic
  6. Neural Stimulation161 topic
  7. Neuronal Oscillations161 topic
  8. Neurotransmission161 topic
  9. Optogenetics161 topic
  10. Synaptic Plasticity161 topic
  11. Fluorescent Proteins141 topic
  12. Super-Resolution Imaging141 topic
  13. Gene Therapy101 topic
  14. Retinitis Pigmentosa101 topic
  15. Envenoming91 topic
  16. Snake Venom91 topic

Where does Masamichi Ohkura work?

Masamichi Ohkura's main affiliation in the publication record is Saitama University, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Masamichi Ohkura have?

OpenAlex counts 101 works and 7,756 citations for Masamichi Ohkura, an h-index of 31, ranking #893,317 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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