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Haruhiko Nakata

Haruhiko Nakata

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
9908
World Ranking
4962
National Ranking
85

Overview

Haruhiko Nakata is affiliated with Kumamoto University in Japan and primarily conducts research in the field of Environmental Science. Their work focuses on several subfields including Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Molecular Biology, and Biomaterials.

The core topics covered in their research include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Effects and Risks of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact, Municipal Solid Waste Management, Biodegradable Polymer Synthesis and Properties, and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies.

Recent publications by Nakata include:

  • Plastic additives as tracers of microplastic sources in Japanese road dusts (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microplastics in dumping site soils from six Asian countries as a source of plastic additives (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Massive occurrence of benthic plastic debris at the abyssal seafloor beneath the Kuroshio Extension, the North West Pacific (2021), published in Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Plastic additives in deep-sea debris collected from the western North Pacific and estimation for their environmental loads (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Acesulfame as a suitable sewer tracer on groundwater pollution: A case study before and after the 2016 Mw 7.0 Kumamoto earthquakes (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment

Nakata frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Monitoring and Contaminants Research
  • Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
  • Research Square
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin

Collaborations with other researchers feature prominently in Nakata's work. Frequent coauthors include Thant Zin Tun, Ei Ei Mon, Shinnosuke Yamahara, Tetsuro Agusa, and Nurlatifah.

Best Publications

  • Bisphenol S in Urine from the United States and Seven Asian Countries: Occurrence and Human Exposures

    Chunyang Liao;Fang Liu;Husam Alomirah;Vu Duc Loi

  • Occurrence of eight bisphenol analogues in indoor dust from the United States and several Asian countries: implications for human exposure.

    Chunyang Liao;Fang Liu;Ying Guo;Hyo Bang Moon

  • Asia-Pacific mussel watch: monitoring contamination of persistent organochlorine compounds in coastal waters of Asian countries

    In Monirith;Daisuke Ueno;Shin Takahashi;Haruhiko Nakata

  • Perfluorinated contaminants in sediments and aquatic organisms collected from shallow water and tidal flat areas of the Ariake Sea, Japan: environmental fate of perfluorooctane sulfonate in aquatic ecosystems.

    Haruhiko Nakata;Kurunthachalam Kannan;Tetsuya Nasu;Hyeon Seo Cho

  • Organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyl residues in foodstuffs and human tissues from china: status of contamination, historical trend, and human dietary exposure.

    H. Nakata;M. Kawazoe;K. Arizono;S. Abe

  • Determination of fluoroquinolone antibiotics in wastewater effluents by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and fluorescence detection.

    Haruhiko Nakata;Kurunthachalam Kannan;Kurunthachalam Kannan;Paul D. Jones;John P. Giesy

  • Occurrence of phthalate metabolites in human urine from several Asian countries

    Ying Guo;Husam Alomirah;Hyeon Seo Cho;Tu Binh Minh

  • Urinary Bisphenol A Concentrations and Their Implications for Human Exposure in Several Asian Countries

    Zifeng Zhang;Husam Alomirah;Hyeon Seo Cho;Yi Fan Li

  • Occurrence and Concentrations of Benzotriazole UV Stabilizers in Marine Organisms and Sediments from the Ariake Sea, Japan

    Haruhiko Nakata;Sayaka Murata;Julien Filatreau

  • Concentrations and compositions of organochlorine contaminants in sediments, soils, crustaceans, fishes and birds collected from Lake Tai, Hangzhou Bay and Shanghai city region, China.

    Haruhiko Nakata;Yuko Hirakawa;Masahiro Kawazoe;Tetsuji Nakabo

  • A comparative assessment of human exposure to tetrabromobisphenol A and eight bisphenols including bisphenol A via indoor dust ingestion in twelve countries.

    Wei Wang;Khalid O. Abualnaja;Alexandros G. Asimakopoulos;Adrian Covaci

  • Benzotriazole, benzothiazole, and benzophenone compounds in indoor dust from the United States and East Asian countries

    Lei Wang;Alexandros G. Asimakopoulos;Hyo Bang Moon;Haruhiko Nakata

  • Occurrence and Human Exposure of p-Hydroxybenzoic Acid Esters (Parabens), Bisphenol A Diglycidyl Ether (BADGE), and Their Hydrolysis Products in Indoor Dust from the United States and Three East Asian Countries

    Lei Wang;Chunyang Liao;Fang Liu;Qian Wu

  • The use of δ15N and δ18O tracers with an understanding of groundwater flow dynamics for evaluating the origins and attenuation mechanisms of nitrate pollution

    Takahiro Hosono;Takahiro Tokunaga;Makoto Kagabu;Haruhiko Nakata

  • Asia-Pacific mussel watch for emerging pollutants: Distribution of synthetic musks and benzotriazole UV stabilizers in Asian and US coastal waters.

    Haruhiko Nakata;Ryu Ichi Shinohara;Yusuke Nakazawa;Tomohiko Isobe

  • Concentrations and Profiles of Urinary Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Metabolites (OH-PAHs) in Several Asian Countries

    Ying Guo;Kurunthachalam Senthilkumar;Husam Alomirah;Hyo Bang Moon

  • Persistent organochlorine residues and their accumulation kinetics in Baikal seal (Phoca sibirica) from Lake Baikal, Russia.

    Haruhiko. Nakata;Shinsuke. Tanabe;Ryo. Tatsukawa;Masao. Amano

  • Bioaccumulation and Toxic Potencies of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Tidal Flat and Coastal Ecosystems of the Ariake Sea, Japan

    Haruhiko Nakata;Yasufumi Sakai;Takashi Miyawaki;Akira Takemura

  • Distribution, Fate, Inhalation Exposure and Lung Cancer Risk of Atmospheric Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Some Asian Countries

    Wen Jun Hong;Hongliang Jia;Wan Li Ma;Ravindra Kumar Sinha

  • Efficacy of adding sodium alginate to omeprazole in patients with nonerosive reflux disease: a randomized clinical trial

    N. Manabe;K. Haruma;M. Ito;N. Takahashi

  • Bioaccumulation, temporal trend, and geographical distribution of synthetic musks in the marine environment.

    Haruhiko Nakata;Hiroshi Sasaki;Akira Takemura;Motoi Yoshioka

Frequent Co-Authors

Kurunthachalam Kannan
Kurunthachalam Kannan University at Albany, State University of New York
Shinsuke Tanabe
Shinsuke Tanabe Ehime University
Hyo-Bang Moon
Hyo-Bang Moon Hanyang University
Nobuyuki Miyazaki
Nobuyuki Miyazaki University of Tokyo
Annamalai Subramanian
Annamalai Subramanian Ehime University
Yi-Fan Li
Yi-Fan Li Harbin Institute of Technology
Adrian Covaci
Adrian Covaci University of Antwerp
Shin Takahashi
Shin Takahashi Ehime University
John P. Giesy
John P. Giesy University of Saskatchewan
Ed Sverko
Ed Sverko Harbin Institute of Technology

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