Yōji Akao

41 total papers · 2.7k total citations
20 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Yōji Akao is a scholar working on Management of Technology and Innovation, Spectroscopy and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. According to data from OpenAlex, Yōji Akao has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation, 6 papers in Spectroscopy and 4 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Recurrent topics in Yōji Akao's work include Quality Function Deployment in Product Design (8 papers), Adsorption, diffusion, and thermodynamic properties of materials (5 papers) and Technology Assessment and Management (4 papers). Yōji Akao is often cited by papers focused on Quality Function Deployment in Product Design (8 papers), Adsorption, diffusion, and thermodynamic properties of materials (5 papers) and Technology Assessment and Management (4 papers). Yōji Akao collaborates with scholars based in Japan. Yōji Akao's co-authors include Glenn H. Mazur, F. S. Lai, L.T. Fan, Greg Watson, Edward R. Chaplin, Hisakazu Shindo, Shintaro Takahashi, Akira Otomo, Fan Liu and L.T. Fan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Powder Technology and Computers & Chemical Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Yōji Akao

19 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Quality Function Deployment : Integrating Customer Requirements into Product Design
    1990 1.2k citations Yōji Akao profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Yōji Akao 1.2k 556 297 279 249 20 1.8k
Ming‐Lu Wu 864 0.7× 780 1.4× 243 0.8× 478 1.7× 294 1.2× 30 1.8k
Manuel E. Sosa 951 0.8× 293 0.5× 184 0.6× 150 0.5× 692 2.8× 42 1.9k
Xuening Chu 800 0.7× 473 0.9× 202 0.7× 140 0.5× 212 0.9× 71 2.0k
Zeki Ayağ 542 0.4× 915 1.6× 92 0.3× 257 0.9× 329 1.3× 39 1.6k
Juite Wang 383 0.3× 656 1.2× 115 0.4× 318 1.1× 389 1.6× 41 1.7k
Durward K. Sobek 697 0.6× 275 0.5× 215 0.7× 422 1.5× 417 1.7× 43 1.7k
Tijen Ertay 581 0.5× 950 1.7× 120 0.4× 210 0.8× 264 1.1× 18 1.5k
Michael T. Pich 309 0.3× 804 1.4× 109 0.4× 294 1.1× 601 2.4× 9 1.6k
Osman Kulak 476 0.4× 728 1.3× 71 0.2× 160 0.6× 253 1.0× 26 1.8k
Benjamin S. Blanchard 339 0.3× 333 0.6× 676 2.3× 310 1.1× 284 1.1× 18 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Yōji Akao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yōji Akao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yōji Akao

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

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