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Researcher · Kyowa Kirin (Japan) · Japan

Shiro Akinaga

Shiro Akinaga publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Oncology and Immunology, on topics such as Heat shock proteins research, Cancer therapeutics and mechanisms and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#533,626
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#5,601
of 383,136
Works
161
Citations
8.5k
Citations per work
52.6
h-index
47
i10-index 99Top 4.5% in Molecular Biology
Shiro Akinaga

What does Shiro Akinaga research?

Shiro Akinaga's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (36%), Medicine (19%), Immunology and Microbiology (9%).

Life Sciences: 72 works · 44.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 57 works · 35.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 50 works · 31.3% of their workCell Biology: 7 works · 4.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 14 works · 8.8% of their workImmunology: 14 works · 8.8% of their workEverything else: 52 works · 32.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 31 works · 19.0% of their workMedicine: 31 works · 19.0% of their workOncology: 20 works · 12.5% of their workHematology: 10 works · 6.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 3.9% of their workChemistry: 6 works · 3.9% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 6 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKShiro Akinaga161works
Life Sciences45%Physical Sciences4%Health Sciences19%

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 Biology5735.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology148.8%
  2. Everything else5232.6%
    1. Medicine3119.0%
    1. Chemistry63.9%
  1. 1Molecular Biology31% of their works
  2. 2Oncology12% of their works
  3. 3Immunology9% of their works
  4. 4Hematology6% of their works
  5. 5Cell Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Organic Chemistry4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shiro Akinaga's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cancer Therapy, Molecular Chaperones, Protein Folding, DNA, Topoisomerases, Cell Division, Microtubules and HTLV-1.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Cancer Therapy483 topics
  2. Molecular Chaperones211 topic
  3. Protein Folding211 topic
  4. DNA161 topic
  5. Topoisomerases161 topic
  6. Cell Division151 topic
  7. Microtubules151 topic
  8. HTLV-1131 topic
  9. Infection131 topic
  10. AML121 topic
  11. Acute Myeloid Leukemia121 topic
  12. Cell Cycle121 topic
  13. p53121 topic
  14. Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy101 topic
  15. Taxanes101 topic
  16. Estrogen91 topic
  17. Receptor91 topic

Where does Shiro Akinaga work?

Shiro Akinaga's main affiliation in the publication record is Kyowa Kirin (Japan), Japan.

How many publications and citations does Shiro Akinaga have?

OpenAlex counts 161 works and 8,467 citations for Shiro Akinaga, an h-index of 47, ranking #533,626 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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