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Hiroaki Tanaka

Hiroaki Tanaka

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
8601
World Ranking
4789
National Ranking
81

Hiroaki Tanaka publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hiroaki Tanaka sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 202 publications — 65th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Hiroaki Tanaka D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hiroaki Tanaka sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hiroaki Tanaka is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and specializes primarily in the field of Environmental Science, contributing extensively to studies concerning Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Water Science and Technology, Infectious Diseases, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of environmental and health-related issues, including:

  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Water Treatment and Disinfection
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Tanaka's publication record includes numerous research papers appearing most frequently in the following venues:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser G (Environmental Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials

A selection of recent papers by Hiroaki Tanaka includes:

  • Human health risk assessment of elevated and variable iron and manganese intake with arsenic-safe groundwater in Jashore, Bangladesh (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Water reuse and recycling in Japan - History, current situation, and future perspectives (2020, Water Cycle)
  • Occurrence of pharmaceutical and personal care products in Cau River, Vietnam (2020, Environmental Science and Pollution Research)
  • Characterization of nitrosamines and nitrosamine precursors as non-point source pollutants during heavy rainfall events in an urban water environment (2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials)
  • Submerged nanofiltration without pre-treatment for direct advanced drinking water treatment (2020, Chemosphere)

Tanaka has also contributed to academic books, notably in collaboration with the Water Environment Federation. One such publication is Innovative Water Reuse Scheme to Integrate Water Reclamation Systems for Agricultural & Industrial Applications: A Case Study in Itoman City (2020).

Throughout their career, Tanaka has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Masaru Ihara
  • Yoshinori Sugie
  • Haruka Takeuchi
  • Norihide Nakada
  • Chih-Yu Ma

Best Publications

  • Performance of UV and UV/H2O2 processes for the removal of pharmaceuticals detected in secondary effluent of a sewage treatment plant in Japan.

    Ilho Kim;Naoyuki Yamashita;Hiroaki Tanaka

  • Photodegradation characteristics of PPCPs in water with UV treatment.

    Ilho Kim;Hiroaki Tanaka

  • Nanomaterials for treating emerging contaminants in water by adsorption and photocatalysis: Systematic review and bibliometric analysis.

    Lin Zhao;Jinghui Deng;Peizhe Sun;Jiashu Liu

  • Photodegradation of pharmaceuticals and personal care products during UV and UV/H2O2 treatments.

    Ilho Kim;Naoyuki Yamashita;Hiroaki Tanaka

  • Elimination and fate of selected micro-organic pollutants in a full-scale anaerobic/anoxic/aerobic process combined with membrane bioreactor for municipal wastewater reclamation.

    Wenchao Xue;Chunying Wu;Kang Xiao;Xia Huang

  • Phase distribution and removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products during anaerobic sludge digestion.

    Masanori Narumiya;Norihide Nakada;Naoyuki Yamashita;Hiroaki Tanaka

  • Development of extraction method of pharmaceuticals and their occurrences found in Japanese wastewater treatment plants.

    Takashi Okuda;Naoyuki Yamashita;Hiroaki Tanaka;Hiroshi Matsukawa

  • The challenge presented by progestins in ecotoxicological research: a critical review.

    Vimal Kumar;Andrew C Ac Johnson;Achim Trubiroha;Jitka J Tumová

  • Removal efficiency of 66 pharmaceuticals during wastewater treatment process in Japan.

    T. Okuda;Y. Kobayashi;R. Nagao;N. Yamashita

  • Human health risk assessment of elevated and variable iron and manganese intake with arsenic-safe groundwater in Jashore, Bangladesh.

    Gopal Chandra Ghosh;Md. Jahed Hassan Khan;Tapos Kumar Chakraborty;Samina Zaman

  • Removal characteristics of pharmaceuticals and personal care products: Comparison between membrane bioreactor and various biological treatment processes.

    Junwon Park;Naoyuki Yamashita;Chulhwi Park;Tatsumi Shimono

  • Estimating the safety of wastewater reclamation and reuse using enteric virus monitoring data

    Hiroaki Tanaka;Takashi Asano;Edward D. Schroeder;George Tchobanoglous

  • Occurrence of 70 pharmaceutical and personal care products in Tone River Basin in Japan

    N. Nakada;K. Komori;Y. Suzuki;C. Konishi

  • Contamination of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) in surface water of the Yodo River basin (Japan)

    Nguyen Pham Hong Lein;Shigeo Fujii;Shuhei Tanaka;Munehiro Nozoe

  • Occurrence and elimination of antibiotics at four sewage treatment plants in Japan and their effects on bacterial ammonia oxidation.

    Gopal Chandra Ghosh;Takashi Okuda;Naoyuki Yamashita;Hiroaki Tanaka

  • Analysis and occurrence of estrogen in wastewater in Japan

    K. Komori;H. Tanaka;Y. Okayasu;M. Yasojima

  • Rapid determination of free and conjugated estrogen in different water matrices by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

    Vimal Kumar;Norihide Nakada;Makoto Yasojima;Naoyuki Yamashita

  • Occurrence of selected pharmaceuticals and caffeine in sewage treatment plants and receiving rivers in Beijing, China.

    Haidong Zhou;Chunying Wu;Xia Huang;Mijun Gao

  • Comparison between estrogenicities estimated from DNA recombinant yeast assay and from chemical analyses of endocrine disruptors during sewage treatment.

    H. Tanaka;Y. Yakou;A. Takahashi;T. Higashitani

  • Water reuse and recycling in Japan — History, current situation, and future perspectives

    Haruka Takeuchi;Hiroaki Tanaka

  • Oseltamivir carboxylate, the active metabolite of oseltamivir phosphate (Tamiflu), detected in sewage discharge and river water in Japan.

    Gopal C. Ghosh;Norihide Nakada;Naoyuki Yamashita;Hiroaki Tanaka

Frequent Co-Authors

Norihide Nakada
Norihide Nakada Kanagawa University
Andrew C. Johnson
Andrew C. Johnson UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Taisen Iguchi
Taisen Iguchi National Institute for Basic Biology
Long D. Nghiem
Long D. Nghiem University of Technology Sydney
Charles R. Tyler
Charles R. Tyler University of Exeter
Xia Huang
Xia Huang Tsinghua University
Xuan-Thanh Bui
Xuan-Thanh Bui Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
Xianghua Wen
Xianghua Wen Tsinghua University
Hiroaki Furumai
Hiroaki Furumai University of Tokyo
Charles P. Gerba
Charles P. Gerba University of Arizona

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