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Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Hiroyuki Kitagawa

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 30 9090 8450 285 271 96 3822

Hiroyuki Kitagawa publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Hiroyuki Kitagawa between 1987 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Hiroyuki Kitagawa published across 39 years, from 1987 to 2025, averaging 3 papers a year. Output peaked at 11 publications in 2004. 7 of the 116 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
2 4 6 8 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1987 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 11. Peak 11 publications in 2004. 1987: 1 publication 1988: 0 publications 1989: 0 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 3 publications 1994: 2 publications 1995: 7 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 1 publication 1999: 0 publications 2000: 6 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 6 publications 2004: 11 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 2 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 1 publication 2012: 5 publications 2013: 9 publications 2014: 3 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 0 publications 2017: 3 publications 2018: 1 publication 2019: 1 publication 2020: 3 publications 2021: 3 publications 2022: 2 publications 2023: 2 publications 2024: 4 publications 2025: 3 publications
1987 2025

116 publications in total across all disciplines

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Hiroyuki Kitagawa: publications per year, 1987 to 2025
Year Publications
1987 1
1988 0
1989 0
1990 0
1991 0
1992 2
1993 3
1994 2
1995 7
1996 0
1997 1
1998 1
1999 0
2000 6
2001 4
2002 0
2003 6
2004 11
2005 3
2006 3
2007 5
2008 4
2009 2
2010 4
2011 1
2012 5
2013 9
2014 3
2015 11
2016 0
2017 3
2018 1
2019 1
2020 3
2021 3
2022 2
2023 2
2024 4
2025 3
Total 116
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Hiroyuki Kitagawa publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hiroyuki Kitagawa sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 88–97 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 96 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376 96
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Hiroyuki Kitagawa D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hiroyuki Kitagawa sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 30 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 30 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144 30
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Hiroyuki Kitagawa is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences with significant contributions in Environmental Science. Their research also spans several subfields including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Archaeology.

The main topics of Kitagawa's work cover a diverse range of areas: geology and paleoclimatology research, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, geological formations and processes, isotope analysis in ecology, marine and environmental studies, marine animal studies overview, and Pacific and Southeast Asian studies.

Kitagawa's publication record includes research articles in prominent journals. Some recent papers include:

  • "The spatio-temporal structure of the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from the pollen record of Lake Suigetsu and its precise correlation with other key global archives: Implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology" (2021, Global and Planetary Change)
  • "Revised chronology of the ICDP Dead Sea deep drill core relates drier-wetter-drier climate cycles to insolation over the past 220 kyr" (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • "Breakthrough in purification of fossil pollen for dating of sediments by a new large-particle on-chip sorter" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "Sedimentary evolution of a delta-margin mangrove in Can Gio, northeastern Mekong River delta, Vietnam" (2021, Marine Geology)
  • "A protocol for using attenuated total reflection Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy for pre-screening ancient bone collagen prior to radiocarbon dating" (2020, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry)

Frequently appearing publication venues where Kitagawa's work has been featured include Marine Geology, Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ), Global and Planetary Change, Science Advances, and Quaternary Science Reviews.

Collaborative efforts are an important aspect of Kitagawa's work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Takushi Kishida
  • Pavel E. Tarasov
  • Achim Brauer
  • Long Van Nguyen
  • Thi Kim Oanh Ta

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric Radiocarbon Calibration to 45,000 yr B.P.: Late Glacial Fluctuations and Cosmogenic Isotope Production

    H. Kitagawa;van der Johannes Plicht

  • A complete terrestrial radiocarbon record for 11.2 to 52.8 kyr B.P

    Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Richard A. Staff;Charlotte L. Bryant;Fiona Brock

  • A 40,000-year varve chronology from Lake Suigetsu, Japan: Extension of the 14C calibration curve

    H Kitagawa;van der Johannes Plicht;W.G. Mook

  • The earliest record of major anthropogenic deforestation in the Ghab Valley, northwest Syria : a palynological study

    Yoshinori Yasuda;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Takeshi Nakagawa

  • Asynchronous climate changes in the North Atlantic and Japan during the last termination.

    Takeshi Nakagawa;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Yoshinori Yasuda;Pavel E. Tarasov

  • AMS 14C Dating of Varved Sediments from Lake Suigetsu, Central Japan and Atmospheric 14C Change During the Late Pleistocene

    Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Hitoshi Fukuzawa;Toshio Nakamura;Makoto Okamura

  • Atmospheric radiocarbon calibration beyond 11,900 cal BP from Lake Suigetsu laminated sediments

    Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Johannes van der Plicht

  • Sulfate reduction using methane in sediments beneath a bathyal cold seep giant clam community off Hatsushima Island, Sagami Bay, Japan

    Toshiyuki Masuzawa;Nobuhiko Handa;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Minoru Kusakabe

  • Lithology of the long sediment record recovered by the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP)

    Ina Neugebauer;Achim Brauer;Markus J. Schwab;Nicolas D. Waldmann

  • Environmental archaeology at the Chengtoushan site, Hunan Province, China, and implications for environmental change and the rise and fall of the Yangtze River civilization

    Yoshinori Yasuda;Toshiyuki Fujiki;Hiroo Nasu;Megumi Kato

  • Climatic implications of δ13C variations in a Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) during the last two millenia

    Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Eiji Matsumoto

  • Northwest Pacific Marine Reservoir Correction Estimated from Annually Banded Coral from Ishigaki Island, Southern Japan

    Shinichiro Hideshima;Eiji Matsumoto;Osamu Abe;Hiroyuki Kitagawa

  • Pollen/event stratigraphy of the varved sediment of Lake Suigetsu, central Japan from 15,701 to 10,217 SG vyr BP (Suigetsu varve years before present): Description, interpretation, and correlation with other regions

    Takeshi Nakagawa;Takeshi Nakagawa;Takeshi Nakagawa;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Yoshinori Yasuda;Pavel E. Tarasov

  • Seasonally specific responses of the East Asian monsoon to deglacial climate changes

    Takeshi Nakagawa;Pavel E. Tarasov;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Yoshinori Yasuda

  • Lignin biomarker and isotopic records of paleovegetation and climate changes from Lake Erhai, southwest China, since 18.5kaBP

    Shafi M. Tareq;Shafi M. Tareq;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Keiichi Ohta

  • Pre-bomb marine reservoir ages in the western north Pacific: Preliminary result on Kyoto University collection

    Minoru Yoneda;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Johannes van der Plicht;Masao Uchida

  • Eolian quartz flux variations in Cheju Island, Korea, during the last 6500 yr and a possible Sun-monsoon linkage

    Jaesoo Lim;Eiji Matsumoto;Hiroyuki Kitagawa

  • Environmental magnetic record and paleosecular variation data for the last 40 kyrs from the Lake Biwa sediments, Central Japan

    Akira Hayashida;Mohammed Ali;Yoshiki Kuniko;Hiroyuki Kitagawa

  • The spatio-temporal structure of the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from the pollen record of Lake Suigetsu and its precise correlation with other key global archives: Implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology

    Takeshi Nakagawa;Takeshi Nakagawa;Pavel Tarasov;Richard Staff;Richard Staff;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • Vegetation and climate history since the last interglacial in Kurota Lowland, western Japan

    Hikaru Takahara;Hiroyuki Kitagawa

  • Evidences for centennial dry periods at ~3300 and ~2800 cal. yr BP from micro-facies analyses of the Dead Sea sediments

    Ina Neugebauer;Achim Brauer;Markus J Schwab;Peter Dulski

  • Magnesium isotope analysis of different chlorophyll forms in marine phytoplankton using multi-collector ICP-MS

    Kongtae Ra;Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshio Nakamura
Toshio Nakamura Nagoya University
Takeshi Nakagawa
Takeshi Nakagawa Ritsumeikan University
Pavel E. Tarasov
Pavel E. Tarasov Freie Universität Berlin
Achim Brauer
Achim Brauer University of Potsdam
Johannes van der Plicht
Johannes van der Plicht University of Groningen
Peter Dulski
Peter Dulski University of Potsdam
Richard A. Staff
Richard A. Staff Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre
Henry F. Lamb
Henry F. Lamb Aberystwyth University
Yasuyuki Shibata
Yasuyuki Shibata Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
Yasushi Muraki
Yasushi Muraki Nagoya University

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