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Researcher · The University of Osaka · Japan

Shizuo Akira

Shizuo Akira publishes mostly in Immunology, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology, on topics such as Immune Response and Inflammation, interferon and immune responses and Immune Cell Function and Interaction.

ORCID 0000-0001-7602-9617 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,209
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#4
of 383,136
Works
1,467
Citations
342k
Citations per work
233.3
h-index
272
i10-index 1,140Top 0.1% in Immunology
Shizuo Akira

What does Shizuo Akira research?

Shizuo Akira's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (42%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (17%), Medicine (12%).

Life Sciences: 864 works · 58.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 618 works · 42.1% of their workImmunology: 618 works · 42.1% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 246 works · 16.8% of their workMolecular Biology: 166 works · 11.3% of their workCancer Research: 81 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 422 works · 28.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 180 works · 12.3% of their workMedicine: 180 works · 12.3% of their workEpidemiology: 87 works · 5.9% of their workOncology: 62 works · 4.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 32 works · 2.2% of their workTHEIR WORKShizuo Akira1,467works
Life Sciences59%Health Sciences12%

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. Immunology and Microbiology61842.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology24616.8%
  2. Everything else42228.8%
    1. Medicine18012.3%
  1. 1Immunology42% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology11% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology6% of their works
  4. 4Cancer Research6% of their works
  5. 5Oncology4% of their works
  6. 6Infectious Diseases2% 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, Innate Immunity, Immunity, Cancer and Interferon Signaling.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Inflammation1,0854 topics
  2. Pattern Recognition Receptors9132 topics
  3. Innate Antiviral Responses6621 topic
  4. Toll-like Receptors6621 topic
  5. Innate Immunity3912 topics
  6. Immunity3402 topics
  7. Cancer3252 topics
  8. Interferon Signaling2511 topic
  9. Viral Infection2511 topic
  10. NK Cell Recognition2251 topic
  11. Natural Killer Cells2251 topic
  12. Immune Response2232 topics
  13. NF-?B2001 topic
  14. Signaling2001 topic
  15. Cancer Immunotherapy1401 topic
  16. Dendritic Cells1401 topic
  17. IL-61251 topic
  18. STAT31251 topic
  19. Inflammasome981 topic
  20. NLRP3981 topic
  21. Foxp3871 topic
  22. TGF-ß871 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?

OpenAlex counts 1,467 works and 342,239 citations for Shizuo Akira, an h-index of 272, ranking #1,209 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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