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D-Index
70
Citations
15606
World Ranking
7095
National Ranking
480

Fumio Inagaki publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fumio Inagaki sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 349 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Fumio Inagaki D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Fumio Inagaki sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 70 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Fumio Inagaki is affiliated with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Japan. Their work spans several fields of study, primarily focusing on Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Engineering. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Environmental Chemistry, Ocean Engineering, Ecology, Geophysics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's research emphasizes a range of main topics, including:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Fumio Inagaki has authored several notable papers published in reputable scientific venues. Some recent publications include:

  • Global diversity of microbial communities in marine sediment (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Temperature limits to deep subseafloor life in the Nankai Trough subduction zone (2020, Science)
  • Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Rapid metabolism fosters microbial survival in the deep, hot subseafloor biosphere (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Deep microbial proliferation at the basalt interface in 33.5-104 million-year-old oceanic crust (2020, Communications Biology)

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), the Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) by the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) hosted by La Trobe University, as well as major journals like Science and Nature Communications.

Fumio Inagaki has collaborated with multiple co-authors on numerous publications. The most frequent collaborators include:

  • Yuki Morono
  • Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
  • Toshiya Kanamatsu
  • Michael B. Underwood
  • Gaku Kimura

Best Publications

  • Distributions of Microbial Activities in Deep Subseafloor Sediments

    Steven D'Hondt;Bo Barker Jørgensen;D. Jay Miller;Anja Batzke

  • Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin

    Fumio Inagaki;Takuro Nunoura;Satoshi Nakagawa;Andreas Teske

  • Significant contribution of Archaea to extant biomass in marine subsurface sediments

    Julius S. Lipp;Yuki Morono;Fumio Inagaki;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

  • Microbial Communities Associated with Geological Horizons in Coastal Subseafloor Sediments from the Sea of Okhotsk

    Fumio Inagaki;Masae Suzuki;Ken Takai;Hanako Oida

  • Exploring deep microbial life in coal-bearing sediment down to ~2.5 km below the ocean floor

    Fumio Inagaki;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs;Y Kubo;M W Bowles

  • Sulfurovum lithotrophicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the e-Proteobacteria isolated from Okinawa Trough hydrothermal sediments

    Fumio Inagaki;Ken Takai;Kenneth H. Nealson;Kenneth H. Nealson;Koki Horikoshi

  • Global diversity of microbial communities in marine sediment.

    Tatsuhiko Hoshino;Hideyuki Doi;Go-Ichiro Uramoto;Lars Wörmer

  • Distribution of archaea in a black smoker chimney structure.

    Ken Takai;Tetsushi Komatsu;Fumio Inagaki;Koki Horikoshi

  • Sulfurimonas paralvinellae sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing chemolithoautotroph within the Epsilonproteobacteria isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent polychaete nest, reclassification of Thiomicrospira denitrificans as Sulfurimonas denitrificans comb. nov. and emended description of the genus Sulfurimonas.

    Ken Takai;Masae Suzuki;Satoshi Nakagawa;Masayuki Miyazaki

  • Sulfurimonas autotrophica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfur-oxidizing ε-proteobacterium isolated from hydrothermal sediments in the Mid-Okinawa Trough

    Fumio Inagaki;Ken Takai;Hideki Kobayashi;Kenneth H. Nealson;Kenneth H. Nealson

  • Distribution, phylogenetic diversity and physiological characteristics of epsilon-Proteobacteria in a deep-sea hydrothermal field.

    Satoshi Nakagawa;Ken Takai;Fumio Inagaki;Hisako Hirayama

  • Interactions between deformation and fluids in the frontal thrust region of the NanTroSEIZE transect offshore the Kii Peninsula, Japan: Results from IODP Expedition 316 Sites C0006 and C0007

    E Screaton;G Kimura;D Curewitz;D Curewitz;G Moore;G Moore

  • Carbon and nitrogen assimilation in deep subseafloor microbial cells.

    Yuki Morono;Takeshi Terada;Manabu Nishizawa;Motoo Ito

  • Evidence for Microbial Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Deeply Buried Ridge Flank Basalt

    Mark A Lever;Mark A Lever;Olivier J Rouxel;Olivier J Rouxel;Jeffrey C Alt;Nobumichi Shimizu

  • Presence of oxygen and aerobic communities from sea floor to basement in deep-sea sediments

    Steven D'hondt;Steven D'hondt;Fumio Inagaki;Fumio Inagaki;Carlos Alvarez Zarikian;Carlos Alvarez Zarikian;Lewis J. Abrams

  • Enzymatic and Genetic Characterization of Carbon and Energy Metabolisms by Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Chemolithoautotrophic Isolates of Epsilonproteobacteria

    Ken Takai;Barbara J. Campbell;S. Craig Cary;Masae Suzuki

  • Hydrogen-driven subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystems (SLiMEs): do they exist and why should we care?

    Kenneth H. Nealson;Fumio Inagaki;Ken Takai

  • Isolation and phylogenetic diversity of members of previously uncultivated ε-Proteobacteria in deep-sea hydrothermal fields

    Ken Takai;Fumio Inagaki;Satoshi Nakagawa;Hisako Hirayama

  • Microbial community in a sediment-hosted CO2 lake of the southern Okinawa Trough hydrothermal system

    Fumio Inagaki;Marcel M. M. Kuypers;Urumu Tsunogai;Jun-ichiro Ishibashi

  • Variability in microbial community and venting chemistry in a sediment-hosted backarc hydrothermal system: Impacts of subseafloor phase-separation.

    Satoshi Nakagawa;Ken Takai;Fumio Inagaki;Hitoshi Chiba

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuki Morono
Yuki Morono Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Ken Takai
Ken Takai Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs University of Bremen
Koki Horikoshi
Koki Horikoshi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Hiroyuki Imachi
Hiroyuki Imachi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Kenneth H. Nealson
Kenneth H. Nealson University of Southern California
Steven D'Hondt
Steven D'Hondt University of Rhode Island
Mark A. Lever
Mark A. Lever ETH Zurich
Takuro Nunoura
Takuro Nunoura Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Takehiro Hirose
Takehiro Hirose Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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