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Researcher · The University of Osaka · Japan

Taro Kawai

Taro Kawai publishes mostly in Immunology, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research, on topics such as Immune Response and Inflammation, interferon and immune responses and Immune Cell Function and Interaction.

ORCID 0000-0001-7510-4662 OpenAlex
World rank
#37,630
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#180
of 383,136
Works
247
Citations
85k
Citations per work
344.2
h-index
90
i10-index 154Top 0.6% in Immunology
Taro Kawai

What does Taro Kawai research?

Taro Kawai's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (44%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (20%), Medicine (11%).

Life Sciences: 160 works · 64.9% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 110 works · 44.5% of their workImmunology: 110 works · 44.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 50 works · 20.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 38 works · 15.3% of their workCancer Research: 13 works · 5.1% of their workEverything else: 61 works · 24.5% of their workHealth Sciences: 26 works · 10.6% of their workMedicine: 26 works · 10.6% of their workEpidemiology: 10 works · 4.2% of their workInfectious Diseases: 8 works · 3.4% of their workOncology: 7 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKTaro Kawai247works
Life Sciences65%Health Sciences11%

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 Microbiology11044.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5020.4%
  2. Everything else6124.5%
    1. Medicine2610.6%
  1. 1Immunology44% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology15% of their works
  3. 3Cancer Research5% of their works
  4. 4Epidemiology4% of their works
  5. 5Infectious Diseases3% of their works
  6. 6Oncology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Taro Kawai's research?

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

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. Pattern Recognition Receptors1922 topics
  2. Inflammation1704 topics
  3. Innate Immunity1072 topics
  4. Innate Antiviral Responses1011 topic
  5. Toll-like Receptors1011 topic
  6. Interferon Signaling911 topic
  7. Viral Infection911 topic
  8. Immunity472 topics
  9. Cancer452 topics
  10. Immune Response382 topics
  11. NK Cell Recognition321 topic
  12. Natural Killer Cells321 topic
  13. NF-?B311 topic
  14. Signaling311 topic
  15. Inflammasome241 topic
  16. NLRP3241 topic
  17. Cancer Immunotherapy161 topic
  18. Dendritic Cells161 topic
  19. IL-6141 topic
  20. Influenza141 topic
  21. STAT3141 topic
  22. Virus141 topic

Where does Taro Kawai work?

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

How many publications and citations does Taro Kawai have?

OpenAlex counts 247 works and 85,007 citations for Taro Kawai, an h-index of 90, ranking #37,630 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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