Tôru Hirano

288 papers and 7.4k indexed citations
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About

Tôru Hirano is a scholar working on Surgery, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tôru Hirano has authored 288 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Surgery, 58 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and 56 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in Tôru Hirano’s work include Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (50 papers), Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (39 papers) and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (37 papers). Tôru Hirano is often cited by papers focused on Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (50 papers), Photodynamic Therapy Research Studies (39 papers) and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (37 papers). Tôru Hirano collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Australia. Tôru Hirano's co-authors include Charles H. Turner, David B. Burr, Mark R. Forwood, C. Conrad Johnston, Tasuku Mashiba, Naoto Endo, Toshio Tanaka, Yoshihito Shima, Kazutaka Hirakawa and Kei Watanabe and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, NeuroImage and The Journal of Physiology.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tôru Hirano

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

Fields of papers citing papers by Tôru Hirano

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Tôru Hirano. 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 Tôru Hirano. The network helps show where Tôru Hirano may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Tôru Hirano

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