Toru Akune

176 total papers · 11.2k total citations
132 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Toru Akune is a scholar working on Surgery, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Toru Akune has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Surgery, 40 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 38 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in Toru Akune’s work include Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (34 papers), Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms (33 papers) and Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (29 papers). Toru Akune is often cited by papers focused on Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (34 papers), Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms (33 papers) and Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation (29 papers). Toru Akune collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Hong Kong and United States. Toru Akune's co-authors include Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Shigeyuki Muraki, Hiroyuki Oka, Kozo Nakamura, Noriko Yoshimura, Kentaro Nakamura, Sakae Tanaka, Ung‐il Chung, Munehito Yoshida and Takashi Kadowaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Clinical Investigation and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Toru Akune

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

Toru Akune

124 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Toru Akune

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Toru Akune

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