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Masashi Hirai

Masashi Hirai publishes mostly in Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, on topics such as Plant Virus Research Studies, Plant tissue culture and regeneration and Potato Plant Research.

World rank
#501,423
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#18,939
of 114,622
Works
16
Citations
63
Citations per work
3.9

What does Masashi Hirai research?

Plant Science: 53.3%Molecular Biology: 26.7%Biotechnology: 6.7%Geography, Planning and Development: 6.7%other fields: 6.6%53%top field
Plant Science53.3%Molecular Biology26.7%Biotechnology6.7%Geography, Planning and Development6.7%other fields6.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Plant Science53% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology27% of their works
  3. 3Biotechnology7% of their works
  4. 4Geography, Planning and Development7% of their works
  5. 5Food Science7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Masashi Hirai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Small RNAs, Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation, Climate Change, Plant Immunity, Plant Secondary Metabolites, Transcriptome Analysis, Viral RNA Silencing and Acrylamide.

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. Small RNAs32 topics
  2. Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation21 topic
  3. Climate Change22 topics
  4. Plant Immunity21 topic
  5. Plant Secondary Metabolites21 topic
  6. Transcriptome Analysis22 topics
  7. Viral RNA Silencing21 topic
  8. Acrylamide11 topic
  9. Bioactive Compounds11 topic
  10. Dormancy11 topic
  11. Fruit Trees11 topic
  12. Garlic11 topic
  13. Genetics11 topic
  14. Genome Evolution11 topic
  15. Grapevine11 topic
  16. Maillard Reaction11 topic
  17. Plasmodiophora brassicae11 topic
  18. Polyploidy11 topic
  19. Rhizoctonia solani11 topic

Where does Masashi Hirai work?

Masashi Hirai's main affiliation in the publication record is Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Masashi Hirai have?

Science Explorer counts 16 works and 63 citations for Masashi Hirai, ranking #501,423 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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