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Researcher · The University of Osaka · Japan

Shizuo Akira

Shizuo Akira publishes mostly in Immunology, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research, on topics such as Immune Response and Inflammation, interferon and immune responses and NF-κB Signaling Pathways.

ORCID 0000-0001-7602-9617 OpenAlex
World rank
#298
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#1
of 114,622
Works
192
Citations
3.6k
Citations per work
18.5

What does Shizuo Akira research?

Immunology: 40.1%Molecular Biology: 14.4%Cancer Research: 6.4%Epidemiology: 5.9%other fields: 33.2%40%top field
Immunology40.1%Molecular Biology14.4%Cancer Research6.4%Epidemiology5.9%other fields33.2%

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

  1. 1Immunology40% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology14% of their works
  3. 3Cancer Research6% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology6% of their works
  5. 5Oncology3% of their works
  6. 6Cell Biology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shizuo Akira's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Inflammation, Pattern Recognition Receptors, Innate Antiviral Responses, Toll-like Receptors, Cancer, Innate Immunity, Viral Infection and NF-?B.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Inflammation544 topics
  2. Pattern Recognition Receptors492 topics
  3. Innate Antiviral Responses311 topic
  4. Toll-like Receptors311 topic
  5. Cancer182 topics
  6. Innate Immunity181 topic
  7. Viral Infection181 topic
  8. NF-?B121 topic
  9. Signaling121 topic
  10. Immune Response112 topics
  11. NK Cell Recognition101 topic
  12. Natural Killer Cells101 topic
  13. Cell Death92 topics
  14. IL-661 topic
  15. STAT361 topic
  16. Foxp351 topic
  17. Inflammasome51 topic
  18. NLRP351 topic
  19. TGF-ß51 topic
  20. Endoplasmic Reticulum41 topic
  21. Stress41 topic

Where does Shizuo Akira work?

Shizuo Akira's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Osaka, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Shizuo Akira have?

Science Explorer counts 192 works and 3,556 citations for Shizuo Akira, ranking #298 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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