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Researcher · Japan Meteorological Agency · Japan

Shoji Hirahara

Shoji Hirahara publishes mostly in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography, on topics such as Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

ORCID 0000-0001-8415-3263 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,613,512
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#26,552
of 383,136
Works
47
Citations
34k
Citations per work
721.6
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 53% in Atmospheric Science
Shoji Hirahara

What does Shoji Hirahara research?

Shoji Hirahara's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (56%), Environmental Science (30%), Physics and Astronomy (4%).

Physical Sciences: 42 works · 90.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 26 works · 55.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 18 works · 37.3% of their workOceanography: 9 works · 18.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 14 works · 30.4% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 14 works · 29.4% of their workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 works · 1.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 works · 3.9% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 works · 3.9% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 7.8% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 2.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 works · 2.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 1 works · 2.0% of their workTHEIR WORKShoji Hirahara47works
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences90%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences2655.9%
    2. Environmental Science1430.4%
    3. Physics and Astronomy23.9%
  2. Everything else47.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.0%
  1. 1Atmospheric Science37% of their works
  2. 2Global and Planetary Change29% of their works
  3. 3Oceanography19% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics4% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology2% of their works
  6. 6Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shoji Hirahara's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ocean Circulation, Climate Change, Global Warming, Data Assimilation, Climate Modeling, Extreme Events, Convective Parameterization and Ensemble Kalman Filter.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Ocean Circulation433 topics
  2. Climate Change414 topics
  3. Global Warming312 topics
  4. Data Assimilation302 topics
  5. Climate Modeling251 topic
  6. Extreme Events251 topic
  7. Convective Parameterization181 topic
  8. Ensemble Kalman Filter181 topic
  9. Oceanic Modeling121 topic
  10. Tidal Analysis121 topic
  11. Sea Level Rise102 topics
  12. Tropical Cyclones92 topics
  13. Arctic61 topic
  14. Hurricanes61 topic
  15. Sea Ice61 topic
  16. Storm Surge61 topic
  17. GRACE41 topic
  18. Ozone Depletion41 topic
  19. Stratospheric Water Vapor41 topic
  20. groundwater depletion41 topic
  21. Ocean Waves31 topic
  22. Wind Stress31 topic

Where does Shoji Hirahara work?

Shoji Hirahara's main affiliation in the publication record is Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Shoji Hirahara have?

OpenAlex counts 47 works and 33,913 citations for Shoji Hirahara, an h-index of 12, ranking #1,613,512 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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