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Hiroyuki Muraoka

Hiroyuki Muraoka

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
37
Citations
5252
World Ranking
8908
National Ranking
181

Hiroyuki Muraoka 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 Hiroyuki Muraoka sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 149 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hiroyuki Muraoka 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 Hiroyuki Muraoka sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 10th percentile

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

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

Overview

Hiroyuki Muraoka is affiliated with Gifu University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Psychiatry and Mental Health, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Pharmacology, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work covers a range of main topics such as Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, Treatment of Major Depression, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes, and Health Systems including Economic Evaluations and Quality of Life.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Hiroyuki Muraoka include Ken Inada, Naomi Hasegawa, Junya Matsumoto, Kazutaka Ohi, and Shinichiro Ochi.

Publications by Muraoka have appeared in venues such as Neuropsychopharmacology Reports, Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Ecological Research, The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, and Mokuzai Gakkaishi.

Notable recent papers include:

  • A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action, 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Perspective: sustainability challenges, opportunities and solutions for long-term ecosystem observations, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Importance of the Collection of Abundant Ground-Truth Data for Accurate Detection of Spatial and Temporal Variability of Vegetation by Satellite Remote Sensing, 2020, Geophysical monograph
  • Plant ecophysiological processes in spectral profiles: perspective from a deciduous broadleaf forest, 2021, Journal of Plant Research
  • Unmet needs of patients with major depressive disorder - Findings from the 'Effectiveness of Guidelines for Dissemination and Education in Psychiatric Treatment (EGUIDE)' project: A nationwide dissemination, education, and evaluation study, 2020, Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Best Publications

  • Emerging opportunities and challenges in phenology: a review

    Jianwu Tang;Christian Körner;Hiroyuki Muraoka;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao

  • Crown architecture in sun and shade environments: assessing function and trade‐offs with a three‐dimensional simulation model

    Robert W. Pearcy;Hiroyuki Muraoka;Fernando Valladares

  • Forest biomass carbon sinks in East Asia, with special reference to the relative contributions of forest expansion and forest growth

    Jingyun Fang;Jingyun Fang;Zhaodi Guo;Zhaodi Guo;Huifeng Hu;Tomomichi Kato

  • Genesis, goals and achievements of Long-Term Ecological Research at the global scale: A critical review of ILTER and future directions.

    M. Mirtl;M. Mirtl;E. T. Borer;I. Djukic;M. Forsius

  • Contributions of diffusional limitation, photoinhibition and photorespiration to midday depression of photosynthesis in Arisaema heterophyllum in natural high light

    Hiroyuki Muraoka;Yanhong Tang;Ichiro Terashima;Hiroshi Koizumi

  • A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

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  • Photosynthetic and structural characteristics of canopy and shrub trees in a cool-temperate deciduous broadleaved forest: Implication to the ecosystem carbon gain

    Hiroyuki Muraoka;Hiroshi Koizumi

  • Effects of seasonal and interannual variations in leaf photosynthesis and canopy leaf area index on gross primary production of a cool-temperate deciduous broadleaf forest in Takayama, Japan.

    Hiroyuki Muraoka;Nobuko Saigusa;Kenlo N. Nasahara;Hibiki Noda

  • Experimental warming studies on tree species and forest ecosystems: a literature review

    Haegeun Chung;Hiroyuki Muraoka;Masahiro Nakamura;Saerom Han

  • The carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems in East Asia over the last two decades

    S. L. Piao;S. L. Piao;A. Ito;S. G. Li;Y. Huang

  • Vertical integration of leaf area index in a Japanese deciduous broad-leaved forest

    Kenlo Nishida Nasahara;Hiroyuki Muraoka;Shin Nagai;Hiroaki Mikami

  • Contribution of climate change and rising CO2 to terrestrial carbon balance in East Asia: A multi-model analysis

    Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Mark Lomas;Christian Beer

  • Spectral vegetation indices as the indicator of canopy photosynthetic productivity in a deciduous broadleaf forest

    Hiroyuki Muraoka;Hibiki M. Noda;Shin Nagai;Takeshi Motohka

  • Two separate periods of the LAI–VIs relationships using in situ measurements in a deciduous broadleaf forest

    Supannika Potithep;Supannika Potithep;Shin Nagai;Kenlo Nishida Nasahara;Hiroyuki Muraoka

  • Field experiments to test the use of the normalized-difference vegetation index for phenology detection.

    Shin Nagai;Shin Nagai;Kenlo Nishida Nasahara;Hiroyuki Muraoka;Tsuyoshi Akiyama

  • Satellite Ecology (SATECO)-linking ecology, remote sensing and micrometeorology, from plot to regional scale, for the study of ecosystem structure and function.

    Hiroyuki Muraoka;Hiroshi Koizumi

  • Using digital camera images to detect canopy condition of deciduous broad-leaved trees

    Shin Nagai;Takahisa Maeda;Minoru Gamo;Hiroyuki Muraoka

  • Assessing the use of camera-based indices for characterizing canopy phenology in relation to gross primary production in a deciduous broad-leaved and an evergreen coniferous forest in Japan

    Taku M. Saitoh;Shin Nagai;Nobuko Saigusa;Hideki Kobayashi

  • Net Photosynthesis, Respiration, and Production of the Moss Sanionia uncinata on a Glacier Foreland in the High Arctic, Ny-Alesund, Svalbard

    Masaki Uchida;Hiroyuki Muraoka;Takayuki Nakatsubo;Yukiko Bekku

  • Combined effects of light and water availability on photosynthesis and growth of Arisaema heterophyllum in the forest understory and an open site

    H. Muraoka;Y. Tang;Hiroshi Koizumi;I. Washitani

  • What makes the satellite-based EVI–GPP relationship unclear in a deciduous broad-leaved forest?

    Shin Nagai;Nobuko Saigusa;Hiroyuki Muraoka;Kenlo Nishida Nasahara

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroshi Koizumi
Hiroshi Koizumi Waseda University
Yowhan Son
Yowhan Son Korea University
Tomomichi Kato
Tomomichi Kato Hokkaido University
Hideki Kobayashi
Hideki Kobayashi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Nobuko Saigusa
Nobuko Saigusa National Institute for Environmental Studies
Izumi Washitani
Izumi Washitani Chuo University
Yanhong Tang
Yanhong Tang Peking University
Jingyun Fang
Jingyun Fang Peking University
Toshiaki Onitsuka
Toshiaki Onitsuka Kyushu University
Ryota Hashimoto
Ryota Hashimoto National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry

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