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Katsuhiro Nishinari

Katsuhiro Nishinari

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
45
Citations
9568
World Ranking
5394
National Ranking
86

Katsuhiro Nishinari publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Katsuhiro Nishinari sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 363 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Katsuhiro Nishinari D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Katsuhiro Nishinari is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Ocean Engineering, Transportation, Control and Systems Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, as well as Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main topics of Nishinari's research encompass:

  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Traffic control and management
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics

They have authored studies published across multiple venues, with frequent publications in:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
  • Collective Dynamics
  • Journal of Disaster Research

Among the recent papers affiliated with Nishinari's research are:

  • "Mutual anticipation can contribute to self-organization in human crowds" (2021), published in Science Advances
  • "Trends in crowd accidents based on an analysis of press reports" (2023), published in Safety Science
  • "Systematic experimental investigation of the obstacle effect during non-competitive and extremely competitive evacuations" (2020), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Efficiently informing crowds - Experiments and simulations on route choice and decision making in pedestrian crowds with wheelchair users" (2020), published in Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
  • "Towards understanding network topology and robustness of logistics systems" (2022), published in Communications in Transportation Research

Nishinari frequently collaborates with several researchers, with notable co-authors including:

  • Claudio Feliciani
  • Daichi Yanagisawa
  • Xiaolu Jia
  • Takahiro Ezaki
  • Naoto Imura

The depth of Nishinari's work covers aspects related to evacuation dynamics, optimization in transportation systems, and safety management in traffic. This interdisciplinary approach combines elements from physics, engineering, and system control to analyze and model human mobility and network resilience.

Best Publications

  • Traffic jams without bottlenecks—experimental evidence for the physical mechanism of the formation of a jam

    Yuki Sugiyama;Minoru Fukui;Macoto Kikuchi;Katsuya Hasebe

  • Friction effects and clogging in a cellular automaton model for pedestrian dynamics.

    Ansgar Kirchner;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Andreas Schadschneider

  • Extended Floor Field CA Model for Evacuation Dynamics

    Katsuhiro Nishinari;Ansgar Kirchner;Alireza Namazi;Andreas Schadschneider

  • Simulation of competitive egress behavior: comparison with aircraft evacuation data

    Ansgar Kirchner;Hubert Klüpfel;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Andreas Schadschneider

  • Introduction of frictional and turning function for pedestrian outflow with an obstacle

    Daichi Yanagisawa;Daichi Yanagisawa;Akihiko Kimura;Akiyasu Tomoeda;Akiyasu Tomoeda;Ryosuke Nishi

  • Discretization effects and the influence of walking speed in cellular automata models for pedestrian dynamics

    Ansgar Kirchner;Ansgar Kirchner;Hubert Klüpfel;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Andreas Schadschneider

  • Simulation for pedestrian dynamics by real-coded cellular automata (RCA)

    Kazuhiro Yamamoto;Satoshi Kokubo;Katsuhiro Nishinari

  • Intracellular Transport of Single-Headed Molecular Motors KIF1A

    Katsuhiro Nishinari;Yasushi Okada;Andreas Schadschneider;Debashish Chowdhury

  • Discretisation effects and the influence of walking speed in cellular automata models for pedestrian dynamics

    Ansgar Kirchner;Hubert Kluepfel;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Andreas Schadschneider

  • Traffic Flow Dynamics: Data, Models and Simulation

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  • Empirical analysis of the lane formation process in bidirectional pedestrian flow

    Claudio Feliciani;Katsuhiro Nishinari

  • Phase transition in traffic jam experiment on a circuit

    Shin-ichi Tadaki;Macoto Kikuchi;Minoru Fukui;Akihiro Nakayama

  • Anticipation effect in pedestrian dynamics: Modeling and experiments

    Yushi Suma;Daichi Yanagisawa;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Katsuhiro Nishinari

  • CA Approach to Collective Phenomena in Pedestrian Dynamics

    Andreas Schadschneider;Ansgar Kirchner;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Katsuhiro Nishinari

  • Modelling of self-driven particles: Foraging ants and pedestrians

    Katsuhiro Nishinari;Ken Sugawara;Toshiya Kazama;Andreas Schadschneider

  • Measurement of congestion and intrinsic risk in pedestrian crowds

    Claudio Feliciani;Katsuhiro Nishinari

  • Trafficlike collective movement of ants on trails: absence of a jammed phase.

    Alexander John;Andreas Schadschneider;Andreas Schadschneider;Debashish Chowdhury;Debashish Chowdhury;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Katsuhiro Nishinari

  • A cellular-automata model of flow in ant trails: non-monotonic variation of speed with density

    Debashish Chowdhury;Debashish Chowdhury;Vishwesha Guttal;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Andreas Schadschneider

  • Multi-value cellular automaton models and metastable states in a congested phase

    Katsuhiro Nishinari;Daisuke Takahashi

  • Stochastic optimal velocity model and its long-lived metastability.

    Masahiro Kanai;Katsuhiro Nishinari;Tetsuji Tokihiro

  • Mean-field theory for pedestrian outflow through an exit.

    Daichi Yanagisawa;Katsuhiro Nishinari

  • A stochastic cellular automaton model for traffic flow with multiple metastable states

    Katsuhiro Nishinari;Minoru Fukui;Andreas Schadschneider

Frequent Co-Authors

Rui Jiang
Rui Jiang Beijing Jiaotong University
Junkichi Satsuma
Junkichi Satsuma Musashino University
Qing-Song Wu
Qing-Song Wu University of Science and Technology of China
Mao-Bin Hu
Mao-Bin Hu University of Science and Technology of China
Armin Seyfried
Armin Seyfried Forschungszentrum Jülich
Michael Schreckenberg
Michael Schreckenberg University of Duisburg-Essen
Takayuki Kanda
Takayuki Kanda Kyoto University
Dirk Helbing
Dirk Helbing ETH Zurich
Kiyohiko Igarashi
Kiyohiko Igarashi University of Tokyo
Yasushi Okada
Yasushi Okada University of Tokyo

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