2026 Kohta Murase: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	84	2698	2568	1324	1235	403	23048

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Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Kohta Murase is a researcher affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their work is primarily situated within the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focused depth in Nuclear and High Energy Physics as well as Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their publication record reflects extensive research activity, with 489 publications categorized in Physics and Astronomy.

Their research spans several core topics, notably:

Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Neutrino Physics Research
Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

Murase has published frequently in a number of leading scientific venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University) with 73 publications
Physical Review D with 25 publications
The Astrophysical Journal with 19 publications
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society with 17 publications
The Astrophysical Journal Letters with 10 publications

Collaboration is a significant component of Murase's scholarly activity, with frequent co-authors including B. Theodore Zhang, Shigeo S. Kimura, Foteini Oikonomou, Jose Carpio, and Mukul Bhattacharya. These co-authors have appeared in multiple joint publications, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Recent notable publications by Kohta Murase include:

"Hidden Cores of Active Galactic Nuclei as the Origin of Medium-Energy Neutrinos: Critical Tests with the MeV Gamma-Ray Connection" (2020, Physical Review Letters)
"Candidate Tidal Disruption Event AT2019fdr Coincident with a High-Energy Neutrino" (2022, Physical Review Letters)
"High-energy and ultra-high-energy neutrinos: A Snowmass white paper" (2022, Journal of High Energy Astrophysics)
"Ultra high energy cosmic rays The intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers" (2023, Astroparticle Physics)
"All-sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory eXplorer mission concept" (2022, Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems)

Recognition of Murase's professional contributions includes being named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2017.

Best Publications

Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: An advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

M. Actis;G. Agnetta;F. Aharonian;A. Akhperjanian

1008
Citations
Introducing the CTA concept

B. S. Acharya;M. Actis;T. Aghajani;G. Agnetta

855
Citations
Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

B.S. Acharya;I. Agudo;I. Al Samarai

498
Citations
Hyper-Kamiokande Design Report

K. Abe;I. Anghel;S. Playfer;O. Drapier

458
Citations
Testing the hadronuclear origin of PeV neutrinos observed with IceCube

Kohta Murase;Markus Ahlers;Brian C. Lacki

423
Citations
Hidden Cosmic-Ray Accelerators as an Origin of TeV-PeV Cosmic Neutrinos

Kohta Murase;Kohta Murase;Dafne Guetta;Markus Ahlers

337
Citations
TeV-PeV neutrinos from low-power gamma-ray burst jets inside stars.

Kohta Murase;Kunihito Ioka;Kunihito Ioka

318
Citations
Diffuse neutrino intensity from the inner jets of active galactic nuclei: Impacts of external photon fields and the blazar sequence

Kohta Murase;Yoshiyuki Inoue;Yoshiyuki Inoue;Charles D. Dermer

315
Citations
A panchromatic view of the restless SN2009ip reveals the explosive ejection of a massive star envelope

R. Margutti;D. Milisavljevic;A.M. Soderberg;R. Chornock

293
Citations
A burst in a wind bubble and the impact on baryonic ejecta: high-energy gamma-ray flashes and afterglows from fast radio bursts and pulsar-driven supernova remnants

Kohta Murase;Kazumi Kashiyama;Peter Mészáros

284
Citations
A Panchromatic View of the Restless SN 2009ip Reveals the Explosive Ejection of a Massive Star Envelope

R. Margutti;Danny Milisavljevic;Alicia M. Soderberg;R Chornock

269
Citations
A Multimessenger Picture of the Flaring Blazar TXS 0506+056: Implications for High-energy Neutrino Emission and Cosmic-Ray Acceleration

A. Keivani;K. Murase;M. Petropoulou;D. B. Fox

264
Citations
Star-forming galaxies as the origin of diffuse high-energy backgrounds: Gamma-ray and neutrino connections, and implications for starburst history

Irene Tamborra;Shin'ichiro Ando;Kohta Murase

250
Citations
BLAZARS AS ULTRA-HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC-RAY SOURCES: IMPLICATIONS FOR TeV GAMMA-RAY OBSERVATIONS

Kohta Murase;Charles D. Dermer;Hajime Takami;Giulia Migliori

247
Citations
High energy neutrino emission and neutrino background from gamma-ray bursts in the internal shock model

Kohta Murase;Shigehiro Nagataki

243
Citations
Probing the Galactic Origin of the IceCube Excess with Gamma-Rays

Markus Ahlers;Kohta Murase

240
Citations
Open questions in cosmic-ray research at ultrahigh energies

Rafael Alves Batista;Jonathan Biteau;Mauricio Bustamante;Klaus Dolag;Klaus Dolag

240
Citations
Testing the Dark Matter Scenario for PeV Neutrinos Observed in IceCube.

Kohta Murase;Ranjan Laha;Shin ichiro Ando;Markus Ahlers

239
Citations
High Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic-Rays from Low-Luminosity Gamma-Ray Bursts?

Kohta Murase;Kunihito Ioka;Shigehiro Nagataki;Shigehiro Nagataki;Takashi Nakamura

235
Citations
Constraining high-energy cosmic neutrino sources: Implications and prospects

Kohta Murase;Kohta Murase;Eli Waxman

235
Citations