Akio Sakai

208 total papers · 3.7k total citations
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, Amos Nur, Michael B. Helgerud, Timothy S. Collett, 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

Elastic‐wave velocity in ... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Elastic‐wave velocity in marine sediments with gas hydrates: Effective medium modeling
    1999 502 citations Michael B. Helgerud, Jack Dvorkin et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Akio Sakai 639 412 411 411 341 112 2.5k
Daniel Albrecht 349 0.5× 66 0.2× 186 0.5× 570 1.4× 682 2.0× 106 3.9k
Stephen C. Phillips 362 0.6× 56 0.1× 256 0.6× 258 0.6× 230 0.7× 89 3.0k
Magnus Ivarsson 435 0.7× 200 0.5× 90 0.2× 228 0.6× 106 0.3× 131 2.9k
Markus J. Hofer 330 0.5× 143 0.3× 152 0.4× 130 0.3× 154 0.5× 141 4.2k
Masanori Kaneko 266 0.4× 39 0.1× 224 0.5× 141 0.3× 404 1.2× 120 2.6k
Jun Kimura 105 0.2× 118 0.3× 544 1.3× 31 0.1× 303 0.9× 168 3.9k
William W. Barker 274 0.4× 220 0.5× 77 0.2× 40 0.1× 196 0.6× 50 2.8k
Robert Hunter 893 1.4× 27 0.1× 81 0.2× 676 1.6× 196 0.6× 109 3.3k
Ola Eiken 514 0.8× 1.1k 2.8× 34 0.1× 367 0.9× 816 2.4× 204 4.4k
Christopher D. White 155 0.2× 118 0.3× 53 0.1× 293 0.7× 43 0.1× 111 5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Akio Sakai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Akio Sakai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Akio Sakai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Akio Sakai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Akio Sakai based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Akio Sakai. Akio Sakai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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