World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Hiroyuki Kitagawa

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.

38–42 publications: 1 scientists 43–47 publications: 0 scientists 48–52 publications: 3 scientists 53–57 publications: 8 scientists 58–62 publications: 11 scientists 63–67 publications: 16 scientists 68–72 publications: 24 scientists 73–77 publications: 31 scientists 78–82 publications: 49 scientists 83–87 publications: 77 scientists 88–92 publications: 86 scientists 93–97 publications: 88 scientists 98–102 publications: 92 scientists 103–107 publications: 84 scientists 108–112 publications: 102 scientists 113–117 publications: 108 scientists 118–122 publications: 117 scientists 123–127 publications: 126 scientists 128–132 publications: 146 scientists 133–137 publications: 114 scientists 138–142 publications: 102 scientists 143–147 publications: 127 scientists 148–152 publications: 102 scientists 153–157 publications: 112 scientists 158–162 publications: 102 scientists 163–167 publications: 127 scientists 168–172 publications: 121 scientists 173–177 publications: 112 scientists 178–182 publications: 109 scientists 183–187 publications: 98 scientists 188–192 publications: 92 scientists 193–197 publications: 105 scientists 198–202 publications: 77 scientists 203–207 publications: 80 scientists 208–212 publications: 89 scientists 213–217 publications: 70 scientists 218–222 publications: 74 scientists 223–227 publications: 74 scientists 228–232 publications: 70 scientists 233–237 publications: 67 scientists 238–242 publications: 59 scientists 243–247 publications: 67 scientists 248–252 publications: 51 scientists 253–257 publications: 46 scientists 258–262 publications: 41 scientists 263–267 publications: 39 scientists 268–272 publications: 34 scientists 273–277 publications: 39 scientists 278–282 publications: 35 scientists 283–287 publications: 36 scientists 288–292 publications: 35 scientists 293–297 publications: 29 scientists 298–302 publications: 23 scientists 303–307 publications: 39 scientists 308–312 publications: 34 scientists 313–317 publications: 23 scientists 318–322 publications: 18 scientists 323–327 publications: 18 scientists 328–332 publications: 21 scientists 333–337 publications: 20 scientists 338–342 publications: 15 scientists 343–347 publications: 13 scientists 348–352 publications: 24 scientists 353–357 publications: 25 scientists 358–362 publications: 10 scientists 363–367 publications: 20 scientists 368–372 publications: 17 scientists 373–377 publications: 18 scientists 378–382 publications: 15 scientists 383–387 publications: 7 scientists 388–392 publications: 22 scientists 393–397 publications: 9 scientists 398–402 publications: 11 scientists 403–407 publications: 16 scientists 408–412 publications: 4 scientists 413–417 publications: 5 scientists 418–422 publications: 14 scientists 423–427 publications: 8 scientists 428–432 publications: 7 scientists 433–437 publications: 7 scientists 438–442 publications: 10 scientists 443–447 publications: 10 scientists 448–452 publications: 3 scientists 453–457 publications: 9 scientists 458–462 publications: 11 scientists 463–467 publications: 4 scientists 468–472 publications: 6 scientists 473–477 publications: 11 scientists 478–482 publications: 8 scientists 483–487 publications: 2 scientists 488–492 publications: 3 scientists 493–497 publications: 4 scientists 498–502 publications: 4 scientists 503–507 publications: 4 scientists 508–509 publications: 4 scientists 510+ publications: 100 scientists
38 publications 510+

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

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.

30 D-Index: 15 scientists 31 D-Index: 42 scientists 32 D-Index: 60 scientists 33 D-Index: 90 scientists 34 D-Index: 103 scientists 35 D-Index: 108 scientists 36 D-Index: 142 scientists 37 D-Index: 147 scientists 38 D-Index: 147 scientists 39 D-Index: 152 scientists 40 D-Index: 143 scientists 41 D-Index: 157 scientists 42 D-Index: 141 scientists 43 D-Index: 151 scientists 44 D-Index: 140 scientists 45 D-Index: 135 scientists 46 D-Index: 121 scientists 47 D-Index: 108 scientists 48 D-Index: 128 scientists 49 D-Index: 111 scientists 50 D-Index: 106 scientists 51 D-Index: 112 scientists 52 D-Index: 102 scientists 53 D-Index: 103 scientists 54 D-Index: 94 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 101 scientists 57 D-Index: 71 scientists 58 D-Index: 65 scientists 59 D-Index: 78 scientists 60 D-Index: 93 scientists 61 D-Index: 56 scientists 62 D-Index: 58 scientists 63 D-Index: 52 scientists 64 D-Index: 63 scientists 65 D-Index: 49 scientists 66 D-Index: 53 scientists 67 D-Index: 57 scientists 68 D-Index: 50 scientists 69 D-Index: 44 scientists 70 D-Index: 44 scientists 71 D-Index: 31 scientists 72 D-Index: 33 scientists 73 D-Index: 33 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 32 scientists 76 D-Index: 24 scientists 77 D-Index: 17 scientists 78 D-Index: 19 scientists 79 D-Index: 9 scientists 80 D-Index: 21 scientists 81 D-Index: 20 scientists 82 D-Index: 17 scientists 83 D-Index: 19 scientists 84 D-Index: 19 scientists 85 D-Index: 14 scientists 86 D-Index: 6 scientists 87 D-Index: 14 scientists 88 D-Index: 17 scientists 89 D-Index: 10 scientists 90 D-Index: 8 scientists 91 D-Index: 8 scientists 92 D-Index: 9 scientists 93 D-Index: 6 scientists 94+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 94+

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

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

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Related Online Degrees & Career Pathways

For those interested in Earth Science, exploring related online degrees can open up diverse career options. While many programs focus on the scientific aspects, complementary fields like environmental management, education, and data analysis offer unique pathways to apply Earth science knowledge.

Creative professionals might consider broadening their skills with an online MFA visual arts program. This can be invaluable for those looking to communicate environmental concepts through visual media or design, expanding impact through artistic expression.

For leadership roles that involve managing teams or organizations focused on natural resources or sustainability, an advanced degree in business or HR could be beneficial. Online programs like the human resource management masters degree online enable professionals to gain essential skills without pausing their careers.

Seniors pursuing lifelong learning will find accessible opportunities through open university free courses for over 60s. These courses often include topics in Earth Science and related disciplines, offering a flexible way to stay engaged and informed.

Additionally, those interested in archival science and managing scientific information may explore online MLIS programs accredited ALA. These degrees prepare graduates for careers in libraries and information centers with a focus on environmental data curation and research support.

Best Scientists Citing Hiroyuki Kitagawa

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles