Shizuo Akira

1.2k papers and 257.1k indexed citations i.

About

Shizuo Akira is a scholar working on Immunology, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Shizuo Akira has authored 1.2k papers receiving a total of 257.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 854 papers in Immunology, 297 papers in Molecular Biology and 204 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Shizuo Akira’s work include Immune Response and Inflammation (598 papers), interferon and immune responses (217 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (204 papers). Shizuo Akira is often cited by papers focused on Immune Response and Inflammation (598 papers), interferon and immune responses (217 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (204 papers). Shizuo Akira collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Shizuo Akira's co-authors include Taro Kawai, Kiyoshi Takeda, Osamu Takeuchi, Satoshi Uematsu, Tsuneyasu Kaisho, Shintaro Sato, Katsuaki Hoshino, Hiroaki Hemmi, Masahiro Yamamoto and Ken J. Ishii and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shizuo Akira

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

Fields of papers citing papers by Shizuo Akira

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Shizuo Akira. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Shizuo Akira. The network helps show where Shizuo Akira may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Shizuo Akira

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Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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