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Katsuhiro Nishinari

Katsuhiro Nishinari

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Engineering and Technology 45 5394 5198 86 83 363 9568

Katsuhiro Nishinari publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Katsuhiro Nishinari between 1993 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Katsuhiro Nishinari published across 34 years, from 1993 to 2026, averaging 13.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 36 publications in 2024. 21 of the 456 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1993 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 36. Peak 36 publications in 2024. 1993: 1 publication 1994: 5 publications 1995: 4 publications 1996: 3 publications 1997: 3 publications 1998: 5 publications 1999: 3 publications 2000: 4 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 6 publications 2003: 17 publications 2004: 10 publications 2005: 8 publications 2006: 10 publications 2007: 13 publications 2008: 16 publications 2009: 28 publications 2010: 22 publications 2011: 23 publications 2012: 14 publications 2013: 15 publications 2014: 16 publications 2015: 17 publications 2016: 19 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 14 publications 2019: 19 publications 2020: 28 publications 2021: 16 publications 2022: 14 publications 2023: 31 publications 2024: 36 publications 2025: 17 publications 2026: 4 publications
1993 2026

456 publications in total across all disciplines

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Katsuhiro Nishinari: publications per year, 1993 to 2026
Year Publications
1993 1
1994 5
1995 4
1996 3
1997 3
1998 5
1999 3
2000 4
2001 2
2002 6
2003 17
2004 10
2005 8
2006 10
2007 13
2008 16
2009 28
2010 22
2011 23
2012 14
2013 15
2014 16
2015 17
2016 19
2017 13
2018 14
2019 19
2020 28
2021 16
2022 14
2023 31
2024 36
2025 17
2026 4
Total 456
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Katsuhiro Nishinari publications per year - data summary

  • Katsuhiro Nishinari, a Engineering and Technology scholar from University of Tokyo, has 456 publications recorded across 34 years, from 1993 to 2026.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1993 and the most recent to 2026.
  • The most productive year is 2024, with 36 publications.
  • The least productive year with any output is 1993, with 1 publication.
  • The rate of publication averages 13.4 papers per year over the whole span, or 13.4 per year counting only the 34 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2022-2026) hold 102 publications, 22% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1993-2004: 63 publications (5.3 per year); 2005-2016: 201 publications (16.8 per year); 2017-2026: 192 publications (19.2 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

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.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 78 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 804+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 457. Most scientists, 457, have 148–157 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 358–367 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 20 scientists 48–57 publications: 35 scientists 58–67 publications: 96 scientists 68–77 publications: 135 scientists 78–87 publications: 190 scientists 88–97 publications: 259 scientists 98–107 publications: 283 scientists 108–117 publications: 369 scientists 118–127 publications: 341 scientists 128–137 publications: 386 scientists 138–147 publications: 372 scientists 148–157 publications: 457 scientists 158–167 publications: 415 scientists 168–177 publications: 407 scientists 178–187 publications: 421 scientists 188–197 publications: 378 scientists 198–207 publications: 403 scientists 208–217 publications: 317 scientists 218–227 publications: 346 scientists 228–237 publications: 321 scientists 238–247 publications: 260 scientists 248–257 publications: 280 scientists 258–267 publications: 240 scientists 268–277 publications: 214 scientists 278–287 publications: 242 scientists 288–297 publications: 203 scientists 298–307 publications: 166 scientists 308–317 publications: 154 scientists 318–327 publications: 175 scientists 328–337 publications: 159 scientists 338–347 publications: 99 scientists 348–357 publications: 131 scientists 358–367 publications: 106 scientists 368–377 publications: 118 scientists 378–387 publications: 97 scientists 388–397 publications: 108 scientists 398–407 publications: 82 scientists 408–417 publications: 71 scientists 418–427 publications: 64 scientists 428–437 publications: 55 scientists 438–447 publications: 54 scientists 448–457 publications: 60 scientists 458–467 publications: 47 scientists 468–477 publications: 40 scientists 478–487 publications: 30 scientists 488–497 publications: 29 scientists 498–507 publications: 38 scientists 508–517 publications: 40 scientists 518–527 publications: 32 scientists 528–537 publications: 23 scientists 538–547 publications: 28 scientists 548–557 publications: 23 scientists 558–567 publications: 19 scientists 568–577 publications: 16 scientists 578–587 publications: 17 scientists 588–597 publications: 18 scientists 598–607 publications: 22 scientists 608–617 publications: 15 scientists 618–627 publications: 9 scientists 628–637 publications: 11 scientists 638–647 publications: 21 scientists 648–657 publications: 12 scientists 658–667 publications: 9 scientists 668–677 publications: 11 scientists 678–687 publications: 9 scientists 688–697 publications: 6 scientists 698–707 publications: 14 scientists 708–717 publications: 7 scientists 718–727 publications: 8 scientists 728–737 publications: 10 scientists 738–747 publications: 9 scientists 748–757 publications: 5 scientists 758–767 publications: 5 scientists 768–777 publications: 11 scientists 778–787 publications: 7 scientists 788–797 publications: 2 scientists 798–803 publications: 4 scientists 804+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 804+

This scientist: 363 publications — 85th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

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Number of Engineering and Technology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,796 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 20
48–57 35
58–67 96
68–77 135
78–87 190
88–97 259
98–107 283
108–117 369
118–127 341
128–137 386
138–147 372
148–157 457
158–167 415
168–177 407
178–187 421
188–197 378
198–207 403
208–217 317
218–227 346
228–237 321
238–247 260
248–257 280
258–267 240
268–277 214
278–287 242
288–297 203
298–307 166
308–317 154
318–327 175
328–337 159
338–347 99
348–357 131
358–367 106 363
368–377 118
378–387 97
388–397 108
398–407 82
408–417 71
418–427 64
428–437 55
438–447 54
448–457 60
458–467 47
468–477 40
478–487 30
488–497 29
498–507 38
508–517 40
518–527 32
528–537 23
538–547 28
548–557 23
558–567 19
568–577 16
578–587 17
588–597 18
598–607 22
608–617 15
618–627 9
628–637 11
638–647 21
648–657 12
658–667 9
668–677 11
678–687 9
688–697 6
698–707 14
708–717 7
718–727 8
728–737 10
738–747 9
748–757 5
758–767 5
768–777 11
778–787 7
788–797 2
798–803 4
804+ 100
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Katsuhiro Nishinari publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 9,796 Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 78 ranges running from 38–47 to 804+ publications.
  • Katsuhiro Nishinari, a Engineering and Technology scholar from University of Tokyo, records 363 publications - the 85th percentile of the discipline.
  • 85% of ranked Engineering and Technology scientists score the same or lower than Katsuhiro Nishinari, and about 15% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 198–207 publications range, and Katsuhiro Nishinari ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 148–157 publications, holding 457 scientists (5% of the field).
  • 61% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 228–237 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 804 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

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.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 78 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 107+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 426. Most scientists, 426, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 45 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 59 scientists 31 D-Index: 114 scientists 32 D-Index: 129 scientists 33 D-Index: 189 scientists 34 D-Index: 200 scientists 35 D-Index: 262 scientists 36 D-Index: 311 scientists 37 D-Index: 312 scientists 38 D-Index: 350 scientists 39 D-Index: 385 scientists 40 D-Index: 348 scientists 41 D-Index: 362 scientists 42 D-Index: 426 scientists 43 D-Index: 380 scientists 44 D-Index: 310 scientists 45 D-Index: 341 scientists 46 D-Index: 301 scientists 47 D-Index: 306 scientists 48 D-Index: 271 scientists 49 D-Index: 246 scientists 50 D-Index: 210 scientists 51 D-Index: 253 scientists 52 D-Index: 213 scientists 53 D-Index: 221 scientists 54 D-Index: 195 scientists 55 D-Index: 186 scientists 56 D-Index: 170 scientists 57 D-Index: 167 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 144 scientists 60 D-Index: 152 scientists 61 D-Index: 141 scientists 62 D-Index: 138 scientists 63 D-Index: 131 scientists 64 D-Index: 118 scientists 65 D-Index: 114 scientists 66 D-Index: 119 scientists 67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68 D-Index: 87 scientists 69 D-Index: 77 scientists 70 D-Index: 89 scientists 71 D-Index: 69 scientists 72 D-Index: 54 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 55 scientists 75 D-Index: 54 scientists 76 D-Index: 49 scientists 77 D-Index: 53 scientists 78 D-Index: 46 scientists 79 D-Index: 28 scientists 80 D-Index: 39 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 24 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 36 scientists 85 D-Index: 18 scientists 86 D-Index: 25 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 26 scientists 89 D-Index: 27 scientists 90 D-Index: 23 scientists 91 D-Index: 15 scientists 92 D-Index: 12 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 15 scientists 95 D-Index: 10 scientists 96 D-Index: 13 scientists 97 D-Index: 13 scientists 98 D-Index: 9 scientists 99 D-Index: 7 scientists 100 D-Index: 7 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 7 scientists 103 D-Index: 7 scientists 104 D-Index: 9 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106 D-Index: 9 scientists 107+ D-Index: 99 scientists
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.

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Number of Engineering and Technology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,796 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 59
31 114
32 129
33 189
34 200
35 262
36 311
37 312
38 350
39 385
40 348
41 362
42 426
43 380
44 310
45 341 45
46 301
47 306
48 271
49 246
50 210
51 253
52 213
53 221
54 195
55 186
56 170
57 167
58 166
59 144
60 152
61 141
62 138
63 131
64 118
65 114
66 119
67 95
68 87
69 77
70 89
71 69
72 54
73 46
74 55
75 54
76 49
77 53
78 46
79 28
80 39
81 36
82 24
83 26
84 36
85 18
86 25
87 19
88 26
89 27
90 23
91 15
92 12
93 9
94 15
95 10
96 13
97 13
98 9
99 7
100 7
101 8
102 7
103 7
104 9
105 6
106 9
107+ 99
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Katsuhiro Nishinari D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 9,796 Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 78 ranges running from 30 to 107+ D-Index.
  • Katsuhiro Nishinari, a Engineering and Technology scholar from University of Tokyo, records 45 D-Index - the 46th percentile of the discipline.
  • 46% of ranked Engineering and Technology scientists score the same or lower than Katsuhiro Nishinari, and about 54% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 47 D-Index range, and Katsuhiro Nishinari ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 42 D-Index, holding 426 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 57% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 49 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 107 D-Index or more, 99 scientists in all (1% of the field).

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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