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Researcher · Yakult Central Institute · Japan

Takashi Kurakawa

Takashi Kurakawa publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Food Science, on topics such as Gut microbiota and health, Probiotics and Fermented Foods and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#354,961
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#3,188
of 383,136
Works
43
Citations
4.1k
Citations per work
94.8
h-index
23
i10-index 29Top 26% in Molecular Biology
Takashi Kurakawa

What does Takashi Kurakawa research?

Takashi Kurakawa's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (30%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%), Medicine (12%).

Life Sciences: 22 works · 50.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 13 works · 30.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 10 works · 23.0% of their workEndocrinology: 3 works · 7.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 works · 15.0% of their workFood Science: 5 works · 11.5% of their workPlant Science: 2 works · 3.5% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 works · 5.3% of their workImmunology: 2 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 37.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 12.4% of their workMedicine: 5 works · 12.4% of their workInfectious Diseases: 5 works · 12.4% of their workTHEIR WORKTakashi Kurakawa43works
Life Sciences50%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. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1330.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences615.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology25.3%
  2. Everything else1637.2%
    1. Medicine512.4%
  1. 1Molecular Biology23% of their works
  2. 2Infectious Diseases12% of their works
  3. 3Food Science12% of their works
  4. 4Endocrinology7% of their works
  5. 5Immunology5% of their works
  6. 6Plant Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Takashi Kurakawa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Gut Microbiota, Microbial Communities, Epidemiology, Prebiotics, Probiotics, Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea, Fecal Microbiota Transplantation and Genomic Analysis.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Gut Microbiota221 topic
  2. Microbial Communities221 topic
  3. Epidemiology132 topics
  4. Prebiotics121 topic
  5. Probiotics121 topic
  6. Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea101 topic
  7. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation101 topic
  8. Genomic Analysis52 topics
  9. Cholera31 topic
  10. Escherichia coli31 topic
  11. Oral Microbiome31 topic
  12. Pathogenicity31 topic
  13. Periodontal Diseases31 topic
  14. Vibrio cholerae31 topic
  15. Cronobacter sakazakii21 topic
  16. Enterobacteriaceae21 topic
  17. Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry21 topic
  18. Microorganism Identification21 topic

Where does Takashi Kurakawa work?

Takashi Kurakawa's main affiliation in the publication record is Yakult Central Institute, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Takashi Kurakawa have?

OpenAlex counts 43 works and 4,075 citations for Takashi Kurakawa, an h-index of 23, ranking #354,961 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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