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Kaoru Maruta

Kaoru Maruta

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 46 1422 1315 26 24 209 9564

Kaoru Maruta publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Kaoru Maruta between 1991 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Kaoru Maruta published across 35 years, from 1991 to 2025, averaging 6.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 15 publications in 2007. 16 of the 230 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1991 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 15. Peak 15 publications in 2007. 1991: 1 publication 1992: 0 publications 1993: 3 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 4 publications 1997: 6 publications 1998: 9 publications 1999: 5 publications 2000: 6 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 5 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 10 publications 2005: 10 publications 2006: 1 publication 2007: 15 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 15 publications 2010: 4 publications 2011: 12 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 9 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 9 publications 2018: 5 publications 2019: 12 publications 2020: 6 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 7 publications 2024: 10 publications 2025: 6 publications
1991 2025

230 publications in total across all disciplines

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Kaoru Maruta: publications per year, 1991 to 2025
Year Publications
1991 1
1992 0
1993 3
1994 0
1995 0
1996 4
1997 6
1998 9
1999 5
2000 6
2001 1
2002 5
2003 3
2004 10
2005 10
2006 1
2007 15
2008 5
2009 15
2010 4
2011 12
2012 8
2013 9
2014 6
2015 9
2016 8
2017 9
2018 5
2019 12
2020 6
2021 10
2022 10
2023 7
2024 10
2025 6
Total 230
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Kaoru Maruta publications per year - data summary

  • Kaoru Maruta, a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scholar from Tohoku University, has 230 publications recorded across 35 years, from 1991 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1991 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive years are 2007 and 2009, with 15 publications each.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1991, 2001 and 2006, with 1 publication each.
  • 3 of the 35 years in the span carry no publications at all (1992, 1994 and 1995).
  • The rate of publication averages 6.6 papers per year over the whole span, or 7.2 per year counting only the 32 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 43 publications, 19% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1991-2002: 40 publications (3.3 per year); 2003-2014: 98 publications (8.2 per year); 2015-2025: 92 publications (8.4 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Kaoru Maruta publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kaoru Maruta sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 63 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 659+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 155. Most scientists, 155, have 147–156 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 207–216 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 10 scientists 57–66 publications: 23 scientists 67–76 publications: 32 scientists 77–86 publications: 62 scientists 87–96 publications: 67 scientists 97–106 publications: 91 scientists 107–116 publications: 113 scientists 117–126 publications: 115 scientists 127–136 publications: 130 scientists 137–146 publications: 140 scientists 147–156 publications: 155 scientists 157–166 publications: 132 scientists 167–176 publications: 133 scientists 177–186 publications: 130 scientists 187–196 publications: 140 scientists 197–206 publications: 115 scientists 207–216 publications: 125 scientists 217–226 publications: 117 scientists 227–236 publications: 99 scientists 237–246 publications: 92 scientists 247–256 publications: 100 scientists 257–266 publications: 95 scientists 267–276 publications: 88 scientists 277–286 publications: 77 scientists 287–296 publications: 74 scientists 297–306 publications: 74 scientists 307–316 publications: 62 scientists 317–326 publications: 70 scientists 327–336 publications: 59 scientists 337–346 publications: 58 scientists 347–356 publications: 45 scientists 357–366 publications: 44 scientists 367–376 publications: 36 scientists 377–386 publications: 41 scientists 387–396 publications: 32 scientists 397–406 publications: 23 scientists 407–416 publications: 28 scientists 417–426 publications: 27 scientists 427–436 publications: 25 scientists 437–446 publications: 23 scientists 447–456 publications: 23 scientists 457–466 publications: 20 scientists 467–476 publications: 12 scientists 477–486 publications: 24 scientists 487–496 publications: 18 scientists 497–506 publications: 12 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 21 scientists 527–536 publications: 12 scientists 537–546 publications: 8 scientists 547–556 publications: 16 scientists 557–566 publications: 3 scientists 567–576 publications: 11 scientists 577–586 publications: 6 scientists 587–596 publications: 5 scientists 597–606 publications: 6 scientists 607–616 publications: 7 scientists 617–626 publications: 7 scientists 627–636 publications: 10 scientists 637–646 publications: 4 scientists 647–656 publications: 3 scientists 657–658 publications: 2 scientists 659+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 publications 659+

This scientist: 209 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

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Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
47–56 10
57–66 23
67–76 32
77–86 62
87–96 67
97–106 91
107–116 113
117–126 115
127–136 130
137–146 140
147–156 155
157–166 132
167–176 133
177–186 130
187–196 140
197–206 115
207–216 125 209
217–226 117
227–236 99
237–246 92
247–256 100
257–266 95
267–276 88
277–286 77
287–296 74
297–306 74
307–316 62
317–326 70
327–336 59
337–346 58
347–356 45
357–366 44
367–376 36
377–386 41
387–396 32
397–406 23
407–416 28
417–426 27
427–436 25
437–446 23
447–456 23
457–466 20
467–476 12
477–486 24
487–496 18
497–506 12
507–516 13
517–526 21
527–536 12
537–546 8
547–556 16
557–566 3
567–576 11
577–586 6
587–596 5
597–606 6
607–616 7
617–626 7
627–636 10
637–646 4
647–656 3
657–658 2
659+ 100
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Kaoru Maruta publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 3,445 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 63 ranges running from 47–56 to 659+ publications.
  • Kaoru Maruta, a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scholar from Tohoku University, records 209 publications - the 47th percentile of the discipline.
  • 47% of ranked Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists score the same or lower than Kaoru Maruta, and about 53% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 217–226 publications range, and Kaoru Maruta ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 147–156 publications, holding 155 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 46% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 197–206 publications), so the distribution leans towards the lower end of the scale.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 659 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (3% of the field).

Kaoru Maruta D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kaoru Maruta sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 93+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 189. Most scientists, 189, have 34 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 46 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 83 scientists 31 D-Index: 113 scientists 32 D-Index: 144 scientists 33 D-Index: 153 scientists 34 D-Index: 189 scientists 35 D-Index: 158 scientists 36 D-Index: 139 scientists 37 D-Index: 127 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 126 scientists 40 D-Index: 104 scientists 41 D-Index: 100 scientists 42 D-Index: 107 scientists 43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44 D-Index: 103 scientists 45 D-Index: 79 scientists 46 D-Index: 88 scientists 47 D-Index: 70 scientists 48 D-Index: 83 scientists 49 D-Index: 44 scientists 50 D-Index: 64 scientists 51 D-Index: 56 scientists 52 D-Index: 50 scientists 53 D-Index: 48 scientists 54 D-Index: 58 scientists 55 D-Index: 52 scientists 56 D-Index: 48 scientists 57 D-Index: 42 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 37 scientists 61 D-Index: 42 scientists 62 D-Index: 44 scientists 63 D-Index: 22 scientists 64 D-Index: 33 scientists 65 D-Index: 29 scientists 66 D-Index: 23 scientists 67 D-Index: 29 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 19 scientists 70 D-Index: 34 scientists 71 D-Index: 26 scientists 72 D-Index: 19 scientists 73 D-Index: 18 scientists 74 D-Index: 19 scientists 75 D-Index: 14 scientists 76 D-Index: 19 scientists 77 D-Index: 8 scientists 78 D-Index: 18 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 17 scientists 82 D-Index: 11 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 7 scientists 85 D-Index: 9 scientists 86 D-Index: 8 scientists 87 D-Index: 6 scientists 88 D-Index: 6 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 10 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 4 scientists 93+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,445 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 83
31 113
32 144
33 153
34 189
35 158
36 139
37 127
38 130
39 126
40 104
41 100
42 107
43 101
44 103
45 79
46 88 46
47 70
48 83
49 44
50 64
51 56
52 50
53 48
54 58
55 52
56 48
57 42
58 34
59 42
60 37
61 42
62 44
63 22
64 33
65 29
66 23
67 29
68 24
69 19
70 34
71 26
72 19
73 18
74 19
75 14
76 19
77 8
78 18
79 16
80 12
81 17
82 11
83 16
84 7
85 9
86 8
87 6
88 6
89 7
90 10
91 4
92 4
93+ 100
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Kaoru Maruta D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 3,445 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 64 ranges running from 30 to 93+ D-Index.
  • Kaoru Maruta, a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scholar from Tohoku University, records 46 D-Index - the 59th percentile of the discipline.
  • 59% of ranked Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists score the same or lower than Kaoru Maruta, and about 41% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 43 D-Index range, and Kaoru Maruta ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 34 D-Index, holding 189 scientists (5% of the field).
  • 57% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 45 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more, 100 scientists in all (3% of the field).

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Combustion Institute for innovative research on the characterization of microscale combustion systems

Overview

Kaoru Maruta is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Chemical Engineering, with a particular focus on combustion and related processes. Their research spans multiple specialized subfields including Computational Mechanics, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Aerospace Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Artificial Intelligence.

Maruta's work covers various main topics in advanced combustion and energy research. These include:

  • Combustion and flame dynamics
  • Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies
  • Combustion and Detonation Processes
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography

They have published numerous papers in significant venues within the combustion research community. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Combustion and Flame (12 publications)
  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (10 publications)
  • Combustion Science and Technology (3 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (3 publications)
  • Physics of Fluids (2 publications)

Among the recent papers authored in collaboration with others are:

  • Effects of mixture composition on oxidation and reactivity of DME/NH3/air mixtures examined by a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile, 2021, Combustion and Flame
  • Study on oxidation and pyrolysis of carbonate esters using a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile. Part I: Reactivities of dimethyl carbonate, ethyl methyl carbonate and diethyl carbonate, 2021, Combustion and Flame
  • Study on oxidation and pyrolysis of carbonate esters using a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile. Part II: Chemical kinetic modeling of ethyl methyl carbonate, 2021, Combustion and Flame
  • Experimental and modeling study on pyrolysis of ethylene carbonate/dimethyl carbonate mixture, 2022, Combustion and Flame
  • Experimental and chemical kinetic modeling study of ethylene carbonate oxidation: A lithium-ion battery electrolyte surrogate model, 2024, Combustion and Flame

Frequent collaborators in their research activities include Hisashi Nakamura, Youhi Morii, Takuya Tezuka, Keisuke Kanayama, and Takaki Akiba.

Kaoru Maruta was recognized by the Combustion Institute as a Fellow in 2018 for innovative research on the characterization of microscale combustion systems.

Best Publications

  • Microscale combustion: Technology development and fundamental research

    Yiguang Ju;Kaoru Maruta

  • Characteristics of combustion in a narrow channel with a temperature gradient

    Kaoru Maruta;Takuya Kataoka;Nam Il Kim;Sergey Minaev

  • Micro and mesoscale combustion

    Kaoru Maruta

  • On the extinction limit and flammability limit of non-adiabatic stretched methane–air premixed flames

    Yiguang Ju;Hongsheng Guo;Kaoru Maruta;Fengshan Liu

  • Flame stabilization and emission of small Swiss-roll combustors as heaters

    Nam Il Kim;Souichiro Kato;Takuya Kataoka;Takeshi Yokomori

  • Experimental and numerical investigation on combustion characteristics of premixed hydrogen/air flame in a micro-combustor with a bluff body

    Jianlong Wan;Aiwu Fan;Kaoru Maruta;Hong Yao

  • Burning velocity of turbulent premixed flames in a high-pressure environment

    Hideaki Kobayashi;Takashi Tamura;Kaoru Maruta;Takashi Niioka

  • Extinction limits of catalytic combustion in microchannels

    Kaoru Maruta;Koichi Takeda;Jeongmin Ahn;Kevin Borer

  • Development and scale effects of small Swiss-roll combustors

    Nam Il Kim;Satoshi Aizumi;Takeshi Yokomori;Soichiro Kato

  • Extinction of low-stretched diffusion flame in microgravity

    Kaoru Maruta;Masaharu Yoshida;Hongsheng Guo;Yiguang Ju

  • Characteristics of Microscale Combustion in a Narrow Heated Channel

    K. Maruta;J. K. Parc;K. C. Oh;T. Fujimori

  • Experimental study on general correlation of turbulent burning velocity at high pressure

    Hideaki Kobayashi;Yasuharu Kawabata;Kaoru Maruta

  • A numerical study on propagation of premixed flames in small tubes

    Nam Il Kim;Kaoru Maruta

  • Turbulence measurements and observations of turbulent premixed flames at elevated pressures up to 3.0 MPa

    Hideaki Kobayashi;Teppei Nakashima;Takashi Tamura;Kaoru Maruta

  • Design and experimental results of small-scale rotary engines

    Kelvin Fu;Aaron J. Knobloch;Fabian C. Martinez;David C. Walther

  • Nonlinear dynamics of flame in a narrow channel with a temperature gradient

    S. Minaev;K. Maruta;R. Fursenko

  • Radiation extinction limit of counterflow premixed lean methane-air flames

    Hongsheng Guo;Yiguang Ju;Kaoru Maruta;Takashi Niioka

  • Interactions between heat transfer, flow field and flame stabilization in a micro-combustor with a bluff body

    Aiwu Fan;Jianlong Wan;Kaoru Maruta;Hong Yao

  • Stabilized three-stage oxidation of DME/air mixture in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile

    Hiroshi Oshibe;Hisashi Nakamura;Takuya Tezuka;Susumu Hasegawa

  • Stabilized three-stage oxidation of gaseous n-heptane/air mixture in a micro flow reactor with a controlled temperature profile

    Akira Yamamoto;Hiroshi Oshibe;Hisashi Nakamura;Takuya Tezuka

Frequent Co-Authors

Hisashi Nakamura
Hisashi Nakamura University of Tokyo
Aiwu Fan
Aiwu Fan Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Hideaki Kobayashi
Hideaki Kobayashi Tohoku University
Yiguang Ju
Yiguang Ju Princeton University
Shigenao Maruyama
Shigenao Maruyama Tohoku University
Hongsheng Guo
Hongsheng Guo National Research Council Canada
Sudarshan Kumar
Sudarshan Kumar Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Wei Liu
Wei Liu Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Hong Yao
Hong Yao Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Yuji Suzuki
Yuji Suzuki University of Tokyo

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