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Kazuhisa Goto

Kazuhisa Goto

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 45 4385 4032 103 94 279 9369

Kazuhisa Goto publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Kazuhisa Goto between 1986 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Kazuhisa Goto published across 41 years, from 1986 to 2026, averaging 7.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 37 publications in 2017. 14 of the 316 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1986 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 37. Peak 37 publications in 2017. 1986: 1 publication 1987: 0 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 1 publication 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 1 publication 2003: 1 publication 2004: 2 publications 2005: 0 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 12 publications 2009: 10 publications 2010: 11 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 34 publications 2013: 16 publications 2014: 29 publications 2015: 22 publications 2016: 26 publications 2017: 37 publications 2018: 15 publications 2019: 18 publications 2020: 17 publications 2021: 12 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 6 publications 2024: 5 publications 2025: 9 publications 2026: 5 publications
1986 2026

316 publications in total across all disciplines

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Kazuhisa Goto: publications per year, 1986 to 2026
Year Publications
1986 1
1987 0
1988 0
1989 1
1990 0
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 0
1998 0
1999 0
2000 0
2001 1
2002 1
2003 1
2004 2
2005 0
2006 2
2007 7
2008 12
2009 10
2010 11
2011 11
2012 34
2013 16
2014 29
2015 22
2016 26
2017 37
2018 15
2019 18
2020 17
2021 12
2022 5
2023 6
2024 5
2025 9
2026 5
Total 316
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Kazuhisa Goto 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 Kazuhisa Goto 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, 278–287 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: 279 publications — 84th percentile

84% 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
278–287 128 279
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
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Kazuhisa Goto 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 Kazuhisa Goto 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, 45 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: 45 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% 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
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257 45
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

Kazuhisa Goto is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research portfolio includes a significant focus on earthquake and tectonic studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, and geological formations and processes. Additional areas of research interest encompass atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, environmental chemistry, ecology, tropical and extratropical cyclones, coastal and marine dynamics, methane hydrates, and landslides.

Goto has contributed to research published in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, Earth-Science Reviews, Scientific Reports, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, and Marine Geology. Their publication record reflects an integration of disciplines related to geophysics and environmental sciences.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Kazuhisa Goto are:

  • Ten years after the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake and tsunami: Geological and environmental effects and implications for disaster policy changes, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Probing the hydrothermal system of the Chicxulub impact crater, 2020, Science Advances
  • A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Paleotsunami research along the Nankai Trough and Ryukyu Trench subduction zones - Current achievements and future challenges, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Spatial distribution and sources of tsunami deposits in a narrow valley setting - insight from 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami deposits in northeastern Japan, 2020, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

Goto collaborates with several researchers frequently involved in related fields. Notable co-authors include Daisuke Sugawara, Masashi Watanabe, Takashi Ishizawa, Fumihiko Imamura, and D. A. Kring. These collaborations reflect a network focused on geophysical and geological research.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences (98 publications)

Subfields of study represented in Goto's work cover:

  • Geophysics (39 publications)
  • Atmospheric Science (37 publications)
  • Earth-Surface Processes (17 publications)
  • Environmental Chemistry (8 publications)
  • Ecology (7 publications)

Key research topics engaged by Goto are:

  • Earthquake and tectonic studies (60 publications)
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (58 publications)
  • Geological formations and processes (18 publications)
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (16 publications)
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics (16 publications)
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (16 publications)
  • Landslides and related hazards (12 publications)

Best Publications

  • The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

    Peter Schulte;Laia Alegret;Ignacio Arenillas;José A. Arz

  • New insights of tsunami hazard from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki event

    Kazuhisa Goto;Kazuhisa Goto;Catherine Chagué-Goff;Catherine Chagué-Goff;Shigehiro Fujino;James Goff

  • A numerical model for the transport of a boulder by tsunami

    Fumihiko Imamura;Kazuhisa Goto;Shigeki Ohkubo

  • The reduction effects of mangrove forest on a tsunami based on field surveys at Pakarang Cape, Thailand and numerical analysis

    Hideaki Yanagisawa;Shunichi Koshimura;Kazuhisa Goto;Toyohiko Miyagi

  • Distribution, origin and transport process of boulders deposited by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami at Pakarang Cape, Thailand

    Kazuhisa Goto;Suchana A. Chavanich;Fumihiko Imamura;Passkorn Kunthasap

  • The formation of peak rings in large impact craters

    Joanna V. Morgan;Sean P.S. Gulick;Timothy Bralower;Elise Chenot

  • Historical and geological evidence of boulders deposited by tsunamis, southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan

    Kazuhisa Goto;Toshio Kawana;Fumihiko Imamura

  • Sediment sources and sedimentation processes of 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami deposits on the Sendai Plain, Japan — Insights from diatoms, nannoliths and grain size distribution

    Witold Szczuciński;Mikołaj Kokociński;Michał Rzeszewski;Catherine Chagué-Goff;Catherine Chagué-Goff

  • Relationship between the maximum extent of tsunami sand and the inundation limit of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami on the Sendai Plain, Japan

    Tomoya Abe;Kazuhisa Goto;Daisuke Sugawara

  • Characteristics and hydrodynamics of boulders transported by storm waves at Kudaka Island, Japan

    Kazuhisa Goto;Kiyohiro Okada;Fumihiko Imamura

  • Erosion, deposition and landscape change on the Sendai coastal plain, Japan, resulting from the March 11, 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami

    Bruce Richmond;Witold Szczuciński;Catherine Chagué-Goff;Catherine Chagué-Goff;Kazuhisa Goto

  • Discrimination of boulders deposited by tsunamis and storm waves at Ishigaki Island, Japan

    Kazuhisa Goto;Kunimasa Miyagi;Hideki Kawamata;Fumihiko Imamura

  • Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

    Christopher M. Lowery;Timothy J. Bralower;Jeremy D. Owens;Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar

  • The First Day of the Cenozoic

    Sean P.S. Gulick;Timothy J. Bralower;Jens Ormö;Brendon Hall

  • Coastal changes in the Sendai area from the impact of the 2011 Tōhoku-oki tsunami: Interpretations of time series satellite images, helicopter-borne video footage and field observations

    David R. Tappin;Hannah M. Evans;Colm J. Jordan;Bruce Richmond

  • Flow speed estimated by inverse modeling of sandy tsunami deposits: results from the 11 March 2011 tsunami on the coastal plain near the Sendai Airport, Honshu, Japan

    Bruce E. Jaffe;Kazuhisa Goto;Kazuhisa Goto;Daisuke Sugawara;Bruce M. Richmond

  • A Decade After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: The Progress in Disaster Preparedness and Future Challenges in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Maldives

    Anawat Suppasri;Kazuhisa Goto;Abdul Muhari;Prasanthi Ranasinghe

  • Numerical models of tsunami sediment transport — Current understanding and future directions

    Daisuke Sugawara;Kazuhisa Goto;Bruce E. Jaffe

  • Assessing the magnitude of the 869 Jogan tsunami using sedimentary deposits: Prediction and consequence of the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami

    Daisuke Sugawara;Kazuhisa Goto;Fumihiko Imamura;Hideaki Matsumoto

  • The future of tsunami research following the 2011 Tohoku-oki event

    Kazuhisa Goto;Kazuhisa Goto;Catherine Chagué-Goff;Catherine Chagué-Goff;James Goff;Bruce Jaffe

  • Periodontal disease prevalence in different age groups in Japan as assessed according to the CPITN.

    H. Miyazaki;N. Hanada;M. I. Andoh;Y. Yamashita

Frequent Co-Authors

Fumihiko Imamura
Fumihiko Imamura Tohoku University
Catherine Chagué-Goff
Catherine Chagué-Goff University of New South Wales
Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo
James Goff
James Goff University of New South Wales
Gail L. Christeson
Gail L. Christeson The University of Texas at Austin
Joanna Morgan
Joanna Morgan Imperial College London
Timothy J. Bralower
Timothy J. Bralower Pennsylvania State University
David A. Kring
David A. Kring Lunar and Planetary Institute
Charles S. Cockell
Charles S. Cockell University of Edinburgh
Sean P.S. Gulick
Sean P.S. Gulick The University of Texas at Austin

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