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Katsuyoshi Michibayashi

Katsuyoshi Michibayashi

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 38 6603 6121 189 178 546 4607

Katsuyoshi Michibayashi publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Katsuyoshi Michibayashi between 1991 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Katsuyoshi Michibayashi published across 36 years, from 1991 to 2026, averaging 17.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 124 publications in 2015. 16 of the 625 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
25 50 75 100
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1991 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 124. Peak 124 publications in 2015. 1991: 1 publication 1992: 0 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 4 publications 1996: 2 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 1 publication 1999: 2 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 0 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 8 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 13 publications 2009: 15 publications 2010: 14 publications 2011: 16 publications 2012: 16 publications 2013: 17 publications 2014: 20 publications 2015: 124 publications 2016: 26 publications 2017: 36 publications 2018: 53 publications 2019: 41 publications 2020: 110 publications 2021: 38 publications 2022: 12 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 5 publications 2025: 15 publications 2026: 1 publication
1991 2026

625 publications in total across all disciplines

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Katsuyoshi Michibayashi: publications per year, 1991 to 2026
Year Publications
1991 1
1992 0
1993 2
1994 0
1995 4
1996 2
1997 1
1998 1
1999 2
2000 3
2001 0
2002 0
2003 2
2004 2
2005 9
2006 8
2007 7
2008 13
2009 15
2010 14
2011 16
2012 16
2013 17
2014 20
2015 124
2016 26
2017 36
2018 53
2019 41
2020 110
2021 38
2022 12
2023 9
2024 5
2025 15
2026 1
Total 625
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Katsuyoshi Michibayashi 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 Katsuyoshi Michibayashi sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 538–547 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 546 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11 546
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Katsuyoshi Michibayashi 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 Katsuyoshi Michibayashi sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 38 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344 38
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Katsuyoshi Michibayashi is a researcher affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their academic contributions focus extensively on the geophysical and geochemical characteristics of the Earth's crust and mantle, with a strong emphasis on subduction processes, mantle wedge dynamics, and related geological phenomena.

Their body of work covers main fields such as Earth and Planetary Sciences, with subfields in Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ocean Engineering, and Molecular Biology. The topics researched include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Michibayashi include Jeffrey G. Ryan, Walter Kurz, John W. Shervais, Yuji Ichiyama, and C.G. Wheat.

Michibayashi's research has been published predominantly in the venue Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), with other works appearing in the Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Lithos, Tectonophysics, and the Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences.

The following recent papers illustrate the scope and diversity of their research contributions:

  • Mariana serpentinite mud volcanism exhumes subducted seamount materials: implications for the origin of life, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Initial Results From the Oman Drilling Project Multi-Borehole Observatory: Petrogenesis and Ongoing Alteration of Mantle Peridotite in the Weathering Horizon, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Listvenite Formation During Mass Transfer into the Leading Edge of the Mantle Wedge: Initial Results from Oman Drilling Project Hole BT1B, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Permeability Profiles Across the Crust-Mantle Sections in the Oman Drilling Project Inferred From Dry and Wet Resistivity Data, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Geochemical characteristics of back-arc basin lower crust and upper mantle at final spreading stage of Shikoku Basin: an example of Mado Megamullion, 2021, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Best Publications

  • Trench-parallel anisotropy produced by serpentine deformation in the hydrated mantle wedge

    Ikuo Katayama;Ken-ichi Hirauchi;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Jun-ichi Ando

  • Subduction initiation and ophiolite crust: new insights from IODP drilling

    Mark K. Reagan;Julian A. Pearce;Katerina Petronotis;Renat R. Almeev

  • The Role of Pre-existing Mechanical Anisotropy on Shear Zone Development within Oceanic Mantle Lithosphere: an Example from the Oman Ophiolite

    Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;David Mainprice

  • A serpentinite-hosted ecosystem in the Southern Mariana Forearc

    Yasuhiko Ohara;Mark K. Reagan;Katsunori Fujikura;Hiromi Watanabe

  • Infrared microspectroscopy analysis of water distribution in deformed and metamorphosed rocks

    Satoru Nakashima;Hiromi Matayoshi;Takako Yuko;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi

  • Petrology of Peridotite Xenoliths from Iraya Volcano, Philippines, and its Implication for Dynamic Mantle-Wedge Processes

    S. Arai

  • Drilling constraints on lithospheric accretion and evolution at Atlantis Massif, Mid‐Atlantic Ridge 30°N

    D. K. Blackman;B. Ildefonse;B. E. John;Y. Ohara

  • Magnitude and symmetry of seismic anisotropy in mica- and amphibole-bearing metamorphic rocks and implications for tectonic interpretation of seismic data from the southeast Tibetan Plateau

    Shaocheng Ji;Tongbin Shao;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Shoma Oya

  • A new calibration of seismic velocities, anisotropy, fabrics, and elastic moduli of amphibole-rich rocks

    Shaocheng Ji;Tongbin Shao;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Changxing Long

  • Poisson's Ratio and Auxetic Properties of Natural Rocks

    Shaocheng Ji;Le Li;Hem Bahadur Motra;Frank Wuttke

  • Propagation of seismic slip from brittle to ductile crust: Evidence from pseudotachylyte of the Woodroffe thrust, central Australia

    Aiming Lin;Tadashi Maruyama;Stallard Aaron;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi

  • Shape preferred orientation of rigid particles in a viscous matrix: reevaluation to determine kinematic parameters of ductile deformation

    Toshiaki Masuda;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Hirobumi Ohta

  • The effect of dynamic recrystallization on olivine fabric and seismic anisotropy: Insight from a ductile shear zone, Oman ophiolite

    Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Toshiki Ina;Kyuichi Kanagawa

  • B-type olivine fabrics developed in the fore-arc side of the mantle wedge along a subducting slab

    Miki Tasaka;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;David Mainprice

  • A database of plagioclase crystal preferred orientations (CPO) and microstructures - implications for CPO origin, strength, symmetry and seismic anisotropy in gabbroic rocks

    Takako Satsukawa;Takako Satsukawa;Takako Satsukawa;Benoit Ildefonse;David Mainprice;Luis Morales

  • Initial Results From the Oman Drilling Project Multi‐Borehole Observatory: Petrogenesis and Ongoing Alteration of Mantle Peridotite in the Weathering Horizon

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  • Spatial variations in antigorite fabric across a serpentinite subduction channel : Insights from the Ohmachi Seamount, Izu-Bonin frontal arc

    Ken-ichi Hirauchi;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Hayato Ueda;Ikuo Katayama

  • Natural olivine crystal-fabrics in the western Pacific convergence region: A new method to identify fabric type

    Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;David Mainprice;Ayano Fujii;Shigeki Uehara

  • Mariana serpentinite mud volcanism exhumes subducted seamount materials: implications for the origin of life

    Patricia Fryer;C Geoffrey Wheat;Trevor Williams;Christopher Kelley

  • In situ carbon mineralization in ultramafic rocks: Natural processes and possible engineered methods

    P.B. Kelemen;R. Aines;E. Bennett;S.M. Benson

  • Mantle hydration along outer-rise faults inferred from serpentinite permeability.

    Kohei Hatakeyama;Ikuo Katayama;Ken-ichi Hirauchi;Katsuyoshi Michibayashi

  • Variable microstructure of peridotite samples from the southern Mariana Trench: evidence of a complex tectonic evolution

    Katsuyoshi Michibayashi;Miki Tasaka;Yasuhiko Ohara;Teruaki Ishii

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter B. Kelemen
Peter B. Kelemen Columbia University
Damon A. H. Teagle
Damon A. H. Teagle University of Southampton
Ikuo Katayama
Ikuo Katayama Hiroshima University
Tomoaki Morishita
Tomoaki Morishita Kanazawa University
Marguerite Godard
Marguerite Godard University of Montpellier
John W. Shervais
John W. Shervais Utah State University
Patricia Fryer
Patricia Fryer University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jeffrey G. Ryan
Jeffrey G. Ryan University of South Florida
Jonathan E. Snow
Jonathan E. Snow Louisiana State University
Teruaki Ishii
Teruaki Ishii Shizuoka University

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