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Researcher · Tokyo Institute of Technology · Japan

Toru Obara

Toru Obara publishes mostly in Aerospace Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, on topics such as Nuclear reactor physics and engineering, Nuclear Materials and Properties and Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-7624-4154 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,593,416
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#53,499
of 383,136
Works
353
Citations
876
Citations per work
2.5
h-index
14
i10-index 36Top 14% in Aerospace Engineering
Toru Obara

What does Toru Obara research?

Toru Obara's work is mostly in Engineering (32%), Materials Science (23%), Social Sciences (11%).

Physical Sciences: 213 works · 60.4% of their workEngineering: 113 works · 32.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 91 works · 25.9% of their workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 22 works · 6.1% of their workMaterials Science: 82 works · 23.1% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 82 works · 23.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 19 works · 5.3% of their workRadiation: 19 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 102 works · 28.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 38 works · 10.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 38 works · 10.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 19 works · 5.5% of their workTransportation: 19 works · 5.3% of their workTHEIR WORKToru Obara353works
Physical Sciences60%Social 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. Engineering11332.0%
    2. Materials Science8223.1%
    3. Physics and Astronomy195.3%
  2. Everything else10228.8%
    1. Social Sciences3810.8%
  1. 1Aerospace Engineering26% of their works
  2. 2Materials Chemistry23% of their works
  3. 3Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality6% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  5. 5Transportation5% of their works
  6. 6Radiation5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Toru Obara's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Molten Salt, Nuclear Reactor, Accident Tolerant Fuels, Fuel Cladding, Nuclear Graphite, Oxidation Behavior, Nuclear Fuel and Radiation Protection.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Molten Salt1621 topic
  2. Nuclear Reactor1621 topic
  3. Accident Tolerant Fuels1351 topic
  4. Fuel Cladding1351 topic
  5. Nuclear Graphite601 topic
  6. Oxidation Behavior601 topic
  7. Nuclear Fuel581 topic
  8. Radiation Protection581 topic
  9. Air Force521 topic
  10. Culture521 topic
  11. Islam521 topic
  12. Legal Regulation521 topic
  13. Modernization521 topic
  14. Transport Policy521 topic
  15. Neutron Imaging431 topic
  16. Small-Angle Scattering431 topic

Where does Toru Obara work?

Toru Obara's main affiliation in the publication record is Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

How many publications and citations does Toru Obara have?

OpenAlex counts 353 works and 876 citations for Toru Obara, an h-index of 14, ranking #2,593,416 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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