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Researcher · Misato Observatory · Japan

Naomasa Nakai

Naomasa Nakai publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics, on topics such as Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-5461-6359 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,822,306
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#60,911
of 383,136
Works
338
Citations
4.9k
Citations per work
14.5
h-index
34
i10-index 83Top 14% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Naomasa Nakai

What does Naomasa Nakai research?

Naomasa Nakai's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (70%), Engineering (8%), Chemistry (5%).

Physical Sciences: 281 works · 83.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 237 works · 70.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 184 works · 54.3% of their workInstrumentation: 35 works · 10.4% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 19 works · 5.5% of their workEngineering: 25 works · 7.5% of their workComputational Mechanics: 15 works · 4.3% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 11 works · 3.2% of their workChemistry: 18 works · 5.4% of their workSpectroscopy: 18 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 57 works · 16.9% of their workTHEIR WORKNaomasa Nakai338works
Physical Sciences83%

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. Physics and Astronomy23770.2%
    2. Engineering257.5%
    3. Chemistry185.4%
  2. Everything else5716.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics54% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation10% of their works
  3. 3Nuclear and High Energy Physics6% of their works
  4. 4Spectroscopy5% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Naomasa Nakai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Star Formation, Accretion Disks, Magnetic Fields, Black Holes, Molecular Clouds, Protoplanetary Disks, Cosmology and Galaxies.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Star Formation2692 topics
  2. Accretion Disks2112 topics
  3. Magnetic Fields2112 topics
  4. Black Holes1682 topics
  5. Molecular Clouds1561 topic
  6. Protoplanetary Disks1561 topic
  7. Cosmology1131 topic
  8. Galaxies1131 topic
  9. Astronomical Instrumentation1001 topic
  10. Spectrograph1001 topic
  11. Exoplanets971 topic
  12. Stellar Astrophysics971 topic
  13. Event Horizon Telescope551 topic
  14. X-Ray Astronomy551 topic
  15. High-Energy Astrophysics521 topic
  16. Particle Acceleration521 topic
  17. Optical 3D Laser Measurement411 topic
  18. Position-Sensitive Detector411 topic
  19. Spectroscopic Databases411 topic
  20. Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers411 topic

Where does Naomasa Nakai work?

Naomasa Nakai's main affiliation in the publication record is Misato Observatory, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Naomasa Nakai have?

OpenAlex counts 338 works and 4,899 citations for Naomasa Nakai, an h-index of 34, ranking #2,822,306 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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