Akio Sakai

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Akio Sakai is a scholar working on Physiology, Genetics and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Akio Sakai has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Physiology, 24 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Akio Sakai's work include High Altitude and Hypoxia (24 papers), Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects (19 papers) and Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (14 papers). Akio Sakai is often cited by papers focused on High Altitude and Hypoxia (24 papers), Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects (19 papers) and Neuroscience of respiration and sleep (14 papers). Akio Sakai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Akio Sakai's co-authors include Jack Dvorkin, Kotaro Otsuka, Timothy S. Collett, Michael B. Helgerud, Amos Nur, Makoto Sasaki, Eri Shibata, Koujiro Tohyama, Dawn Lavoie and Manika Prasad and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Biological Psychiatry and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Akio Sakai

105 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Akio Sakai Japan 23 642 413 412 411 341 112 2.5k
Stephen C. Phillips Australia 29 365 0.6× 56 0.1× 256 0.6× 260 0.6× 230 0.7× 89 3.0k
Magnus Ivarsson Sweden 32 435 0.7× 201 0.5× 90 0.2× 230 0.6× 106 0.3× 132 2.9k
Mu‐Hong Chen Taiwan 50 488 0.8× 69 0.2× 322 0.8× 59 0.1× 667 2.0× 414 8.9k
Masanori Kaneko Japan 27 274 0.4× 39 0.1× 225 0.5× 141 0.3× 404 1.2× 120 2.6k
Jun Kimura Japan 32 106 0.2× 119 0.3× 543 1.3× 32 0.1× 303 0.9× 168 3.9k
Osamu Nishizawa Japan 42 64 0.1× 1.3k 3.3× 145 0.4× 847 2.1× 513 1.5× 320 7.6k
William W. Barker United States 23 274 0.4× 220 0.5× 77 0.2× 40 0.1× 196 0.6× 50 2.8k
Ola Eiken Sweden 32 514 0.8× 1.1k 2.8× 34 0.1× 368 0.9× 825 2.4× 205 4.4k
Robert Hunter United Kingdom 34 897 1.4× 27 0.1× 81 0.2× 677 1.6× 197 0.6× 109 3.3k
Thomas L. Davis United States 37 62 0.1× 1.1k 2.7× 2.0k 4.8× 188 0.5× 207 0.6× 288 4.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Akio Sakai

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ishizaki, Takeshi, Shiro Mizuno, Akio Sakai, et al.. (2015). Blunted Activation of Rho-Kinase in Yak Pulmonary Circulation. BioMed Research International. 2015. 1–5. 14 indexed citations
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Mizuno, Shiro, Takeshi Ishizaki, Hirohisa Toga, et al.. (2015). Endogenous Asymmetric Dimethylarginine Pathway in High Altitude Adapted Yaks. BioMed Research International. 2015. 1–6. 17 indexed citations
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Otsuka, Kotaro, et al.. (2014). [After the Great East Japan Earthquake : suicide prevention and a gatekeeper program].. PubMed. 116(3). 196–202. 2 indexed citations
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Kashimura, Osamu & Akio Sakai. (2012). Exercise Training Promotes Release of Endothelium-Derived Nitric Oxide During Pulmonary Vasoconstriction and Increases in Flow Rate. 11(4). 125–131.
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Sakai, Akio. (2008). Development of the method to evaluate the distribution of injected carbon dioxide and physical parameters by means of time-lapse 3D seismic survey. Journal of the Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology. 73(2). 186–199. 3 indexed citations
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Koizumi, Tomonobu, et al.. (2007). Reduced Pulmonary Vascular Reactivity after Cold Exposure to Acute Hypoxia: A Role of Nitric Oxide (NO). High Altitude Medicine & Biology. 8(1). 43–49. 5 indexed citations
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Kashimura, Osamu & Akio Sakai. (2006). INHIBITION OF HYPOXIC PULMONARY VASOCONSTRICTION BY HYPOXIC EXERCISE TRAINING IN RATS. Japanese Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine. 55(1). 145–154. 2 indexed citations
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Sakai, Akio. (2005). Monitoring of the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide by 4D seismic survey. 112. 94–97. 1 indexed citations
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Sakai, Akio. (2002). Velocity estimates by the nonlinear elastic wavefield inversion method. 107. 47–50. 2 indexed citations
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Nagashima, Yoshinao, Yukihiro Yada, Toshiyuki Suzuki, & Akio Sakai. (2002). Comparison of the Skin Blood Flow under Cooling Loads at Various Body Sites Using an Integration-type Skin Blood Laser Doppler Flowmeter with a Temperature Loading Instrument(ILD-T). 32(2). 109–118. 1 indexed citations
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Nagashima, Yoshinao, Yukihiro Yada, Toshiyuki Suzuki, & Akio Sakai. (2001). Development and Clinical Application of an Integration Type Laser Doppler Flowmeter Equipped with Temperature Load Instrument for Skin Blood Flow. 31(6). 305–314. 1 indexed citations
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Kosaka, Mitsuo, et al.. (1998). ThermobiologicalCharacteristics of Pikas, Rabbits and Rats. Nagasaki University's Academic Output SITE (Nagasaki University). 40(3). 157–163. 1 indexed citations
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Yabuki, H., Akio Sakai, R. B. Kayastha, et al.. (1996). Establishment of the GEN Automatic Weather Station(AWS)in Khumbu region, Nepal Himalayas. 14(14). 13–22. 5 indexed citations
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Kashimura, Osamu, et al.. (1995). Effects of exercise‐training on hypoxia and angiotensin II‐induced pulmonary vasoconstrictions. Acta Physiologica Scandinavica. 155(3). 291–295. 18 indexed citations
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Chambers, David, et al.. (1990). Comparison of standard (non-oxygenated) vs. oxygenated St. Thomas' Hospital cardioplegic solution No. 2 (Plegisol). European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 4(10). 549–555. 4 indexed citations
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Chang, Shih-Wen, Akio Sakai, & Norbert F. Voelkel. (1989). Dibutyryl-cAMP Blocks Endotoxin-induced Lung Injury in Rats. American Review of Respiratory Disease. 140(6). 1814–1817. 21 indexed citations
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Kubo, Keishi, Toshio Kobayashi, Toshishige Shibamoto, et al.. (1984). EFFECTS OF INCREASED LEFT ATRIAL PRESSURE AND E.coli ENDOTOXIN INFUSION ON LUNG LYMPH BALANCE AND EXTRAVASCULAR LUNG THERMAL VOLUME IN ANESTHETIZED SHEEP : Pulmonary Circulation : I : 48 Annual Scientific Meeting, Japanese Circulation Society. Japanese Circulation Journal-english Edition. 48(8). 757–758. 1 indexed citations
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Sakai, Akio. (1976). Seasonal Changes on Heart Weights of Wood Mice, Apodemus argenteus. 6(5). 224–230. 3 indexed citations
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Sakai, Akio. (1974). Diffraction of Seismic SH Waves Caused by the Earth's Core. Bulletin of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute.. 24(2). 81–105. 1 indexed citations

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