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Kimitaka Kawamura

Kimitaka Kawamura

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Chemistry
Japan
2026
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Environmental Sciences
Japan
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
109
Citations
37847
World Ranking
854
National Ranking
36

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
109
Citations
39335
World Ranking
218
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2017 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

Overview

Kimitaka Kawamura is affiliated with Chubu University in Japan and has a significant publication record primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses extensively on atmospheric science, with particular attention to atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, as well as related environmental and health impacts.

Their recent research includes studies on the fluorescence characteristics of water-soluble organic carbon in atmospheric aerosols published in 2020 in Environmental Pollution. Additionally, Kawamura has contributed to the understanding of the optical properties and sources of water-soluble brown carbon in North China, as documented in a 2022 paper in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Another notable publication from 2020 involves molecular characterization of urban aerosols related to fireworks, also appearing in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. Further work explores the contributions of biogenic and anthropogenic sources to fine organic aerosols in Tianjin, North China, and the impacts of chemical degradation on the global budget of atmospheric levoglucosan, both published between 2020 and 2021 in journals including Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics and Environmental Science & Technology.

Frequent coauthors in Kawamura's work include Pingqing Fu, Zifa Wang, Yele Sun, Bhagawati Kunwar, and Dhananjay K. Deshmukh. These collaborations indicate a strong network within the atmospheric sciences research community.

Kawamura's publications are predominantly featured in journals such as:

  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Their main areas of research focus cover multiple subfields including atmospheric science, health toxicology and mutagenesis, global and planetary change, oceanography, and automotive engineering. This breadth reflects an interdisciplinary approach to studying atmospheric phenomena and environmental health.

Thematic concentrations in their publications emphasize atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, indoor air quality and microbial exposure, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Kawamura has been recognized by professional societies, having been named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2018 and receiving the Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2017. These honors reflect a standing within the scientific community related to geochemistry and earth sciences.

Best Publications

  • An overview of ACE-Asia: Strategies for quantifying the relationships between Asian aerosols and their climatic impacts

    Barry J. Huebert;Timothy Bates;Philip B. Russell;Guangyu Shi

  • Seasonal changes in the distribution of dicarboxylic acids in the urban atmosphere

    Kimitaka Kawamura;Kouichi Ikushima

  • Motor exhaust emissions as a primary source for dicarboxylic acids in Los Angeles ambient air

    Kimitaka. Kawamura;Isaac R. Kaplan

  • Alkenone and boron based Pliocene pCO2 records

    Osamu Seki;Osamu Seki;Gavin L. Foster;Daniela N. Schmidt;Andreas Mackensen

  • Source and reaction pathways of dicarboxylic acids, ketoacids and dicarbonyls in arctic aerosols: One year of observations

    Kimitaka Kawamura;Hideki Kasukabe;Leonard A. Barrie

  • Molecular distributions of water soluble dicarboxylic acids in marine aerosols over the Pacific Ocean including tropics

    Kimitaka Kawamura;Futoshi Sakaguchi

  • Sugars--dominant water-soluble organic compounds in soils and characterization as tracers in atmospheric particulate matter.

    Bernd R T Simoneit;Vladimir O Elias;Minoru Kobayashi;Kimitaka Kawamura

  • Critical assessment of the current state of scientific knowledge, terminology, and research needs concerning the role of organic aerosols in the atmosphere, climate, and global change

    S. Fuzzi;M.O. Andreae;B.J. Huebert;M. Kulmala

  • Determination of organic acids (C1-C10) in the atmosphere, motor exhausts, and engine oils

    Kimitaka. Kawamura;Lai Ling. Ng;Isaac R. Kaplan

  • Comparative distributions of dicarboxylic acids and related polar compounds in snow, rain and aerosols from urban atmosphere

    Richard Sempére;Kimitaka Kawamura

  • A review of dicarboxylic acids and related compounds in atmospheric aerosols: Molecular distributions, sources and transformation

    Kimitaka Kawamura;Srinivas Bikkina

  • Composition and major sources of organic compounds of aerosol particulate matter sampled during the ACE-Asia campaign

    Bernd R.T. Simoneit;Bernd R.T. Simoneit;Minoru Kobayashi;Michihiro Mochida;Kimitaka Kawamura

  • Implications of ω -oxocarboxylic acids in the remote marine atmosphere for photo-oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids

    K. Kawamura;R. B. Gagosian

  • Diurnal changes in the distribution of dicarboxylic acids, ketocarboxylic acids and dicarbonyls in the urban Tokyo atmosphere

    Kimitaka Kawamura;Osamu Yasui

  • Molecular;seasonal;and spatial distributions of organic aerosols from fourteen Chinese cities

    Gehui Wang;Kimitaka Kawamura;Shuncheng Lee;Kinfai Ho

  • Ubiquity of bisphenol A in the atmosphere.

    Pingqing Fu;Kimitaka Kawamura

  • Water soluble dicarboxylic acids and related compounds in Antarctic aerosols

    Kimitaka Kawamura;Richard Seméré;Yoshie Imai;Yoshiyuki Fujii

  • Distribution of dicarboxylic acids and carbon isotopic compositions in aerosols from 1997 Indonesian forest fires

    Masahiro Narukawa;Kimitaka Kawamura;Nobuo Takeuchi;Teruyuki Nakajima

  • Carbonaceous aerosols on the south edge of the Tibetan Plateau: concentrations, seasonality and sources

    Z. Cong;Z. Cong;S. Kang;S. Kang;K. Kawamura;B. Liu

  • Molecular distributions of dicarboxylic acids, ketocarboxylic acids and α-dicarbonyls in biomass burning aerosols : implications for photochemical production and degradation in smoke layers

    S. Kundu;K. Kawamura;T. W. Andreae;A. Hoffer

  • Four years' observations of terrestrial lipid class compounds in marine aerosols from the western North Pacific

    K. Kawamura;Y. Ishimura;K. Yamazaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Pingqing Fu
Pingqing Fu Tianjin University
Michihiro Mochida
Michihiro Mochida Nagoya University
Gehui Wang
Gehui Wang East China Normal University
Yuzo Miyazaki
Yuzo Miyazaki Hokkaido University
Zifa Wang
Zifa Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Takeshi Nakatsuka
Takeshi Nakatsuka Nagoya University
Zhiyuan Cong
Zhiyuan Cong Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yele Sun
Yele Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Minoru Ikehara
Minoru Ikehara Kōchi University

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