Ken Takai

329 papers and 16.5k indexed citations i.

About

Ken Takai is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Takai has authored 329 papers receiving a total of 16.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 201 papers in Ecology, 169 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 139 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ken Takai’s work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (173 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (160 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (108 papers). Ken Takai is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (173 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (160 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (108 papers). Ken Takai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and France. Ken Takai's co-authors include Koki Horikoshi, Fumio Inagaki, Takuro Nunoura, Satoshi Nakagawa, Kenneth H. Nealson, Hisako Hirayama, Yoshihiro Takaki, Masayuki Miyazaki, Yoshihiko Sako and Kentaro Nakamura and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken Takai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ken Takai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ken Takai 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 Ken Takai. Ken Takai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Ken Takai

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Ken Takai

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