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Researcher · Otsuka (Japan) · Japan

Yoshikatsu Hirai

Yoshikatsu Hirai publishes mostly in Immunology, Molecular Biology and Oncology, on topics such as Immune Response and Inflammation, Immune Cell Function and Interaction and T-cell and B-cell Immunology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,117,938
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Japan
#15,757
of 383,136
Works
77
Citations
4.8k
Citations per work
62.2
h-index
28
i10-index 51Top 17% in Immunology
Yoshikatsu Hirai

What does Yoshikatsu Hirai research?

Yoshikatsu Hirai's work is mostly in Immunology and Microbiology (39%), Medicine (20%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%).

Life Sciences: 40 works · 51.4% of their workImmunology and Microbiology: 30 works · 39.3% of their workImmunology: 30 works · 39.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 9 works · 12.1% of their workMolecular Biology: 9 works · 12.1% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 28.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 16 works · 20.3% of their workMedicine: 16 works · 20.3% of their workOncology: 5 works · 6.8% of their workHematology: 4 works · 5.3% of their workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 4 works · 5.3% of their workEpidemiology: 2 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKYoshikatsu Hirai77works
Life Sciences51%Health Sciences20%

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 Microbiology3039.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology912.1%
  2. Everything else2228.3%
    1. Medicine1620.3%
  1. 1Immunology39% of their works
  2. 2Molecular Biology12% of their works
  3. 3Oncology7% of their works
  4. 4Hematology5% of their works
  5. 5Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging5% of their works
  6. 6Epidemiology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yoshikatsu Hirai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pattern Recognition Receptors, Toll-like Receptors, Natural Killer Cells, NK Cell Recognition, Foxp3, TGF-ß, Fc Receptors and Therapeutic Antibodies.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Pattern Recognition Receptors241 topic
  2. Toll-like Receptors241 topic
  3. NK Cell Recognition231 topic
  4. Natural Killer Cells231 topic
  5. Foxp3141 topic
  6. TGF-ß141 topic
  7. Fc Receptors101 topic
  8. Therapeutic Antibodies101 topic
  9. Dendritic Cells51 topic
  10. Immunity51 topic
  11. RNA Interference51 topic
  12. siRNA Delivery51 topic
  13. Brain41 topic
  14. Genetic Mutations41 topic
  15. Primary Immunodeficiency41 topic
  16. Stress41 topic

Where does Yoshikatsu Hirai work?

Yoshikatsu Hirai's main affiliation in the publication record is Otsuka (Japan), Japan.

How many publications and citations does Yoshikatsu Hirai have?

OpenAlex counts 77 works and 4,788 citations for Yoshikatsu Hirai, an h-index of 28, ranking #1,117,938 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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