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Kouki Hikosaka

Kouki Hikosaka

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
61
Citations
28917
World Ranking
1127
National Ranking
33

Kouki Hikosaka publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kouki Hikosaka sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 194 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Kouki Hikosaka D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kouki Hikosaka is a researcher affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan, focused primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work encompasses a range of topics related to plant science, global and planetary change, and ecology, with significant attention to molecular biology.

The scientist's research covers several main topics including plant water relations and carbon dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, remote sensing in agriculture, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, leaf properties and growth measurement, plant responses to elevated CO2, and broader plant and animal studies.

Kouki Hikosaka has published research in various prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Plant Research with eight publications, SSRN Electronic Journal with three, Plant Cell & Environment, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, and the Journal of Ecology, each hosting multiple papers by the researcher.

Some recent publications by Kouki Hikosaka are:

  • Intraspecific variations in leaf traits, productivity and resource use efficiencies in the dominant species of subalpine evergreen coniferous and deciduous broad-leaved forests along the altitudinal gradient, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Dividing the pie: A quantitative review on plant density responses, 2020, Plant Cell & Environment
  • Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite 2 (GOSAT-2): mission overview, 2023, Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
  • Corrected photochemical reflectance index (PRI) is an effective tool for detecting environmental stresses in agricultural crops under light conditions, 2021, Journal of Plant Research
  • Plant and microbial community composition jointly determine moorland multifunctionality, 2022, Journal of Ecology

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Kouki Hikosaka's career, having frequently co-authored papers with several researchers. Notable coauthors include Hibiki Noda (8 joint publications), Hiroko Kurokawa (5), Soichiro Nagano (5), K. Tsujimoto (5), and Hajime Tomimatsu (5).

Best Publications

  • The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

    Ian J. Wright;Peter B. Reich;Mark Westoby;David D. Ackerly

  • Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships

    Ian J. Wright;Peter B. Reich;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Daniel S. Falster

  • Temperature response of photosynthesis in C3, C4, and CAM plants: temperature acclimation and temperature adaptation.

    Wataru Yamori;Kouki Hikosaka;Danielle A. Way;Danielle A. Way

  • Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate

    Ian J. Wright;Peter B. Reich;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Daniel S. Falster

  • A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

    Andrew Siefert;Cyrille Violle;Loïc Chalmandrier;Loïc Chalmandrier;Cécile H Albert

  • Physiological and structural tradeoffs underlying the leaf economics spectrum.

    Yusuke Onoda;Ian J. Wright;John R. Evans;Kouki Hikosaka

  • Temperature acclimation of photosynthesis: mechanisms involved in the changes in temperature dependence of photosynthetic rate

    Kouki Hikosaka;Kazumasa Ishikawa;Almaz Borjigidai;Onno Muller

  • Photosynthesis or persistence: nitrogen allocation in leaves of evergreen and deciduous Quercus species

    T. Takashima;K. Hikosaka;T. Hirose

  • Interspecific difference in the photosynthesis-nitrogen relationship: patterns, physiological causes, and ecological importance.

    Kouki Hikosaka

  • Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

    Yan Shih Lin;Belinda E. Medlyn;Remko A. Duursma;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice

  • A model of the acclimation of photosynthesis in the leaves of C3 plants to sun and shade with respect to nitrogen use

    K. Hikosaka;I. Terashima

  • Comparative ecophysiology of leaf and canopy photosynthesis

    I. Terashima;K. Hikosaka

  • Does the photosynthetic light-acclimation need change in leaf anatomy?

    Riichi Oguchi;K. Hikosaka;T. Hirose

  • Allocation of nitrogen to cell walls decreases photosynthetic nitrogen‐use efficiency

    Y. Onoda;K. Hikosaka;T. Hirose

  • Leaf canopy as a dynamic system: ecophysiology and optimality in leaf turnover.

    Kouki Hikosaka

  • Leaf anatomy as a constraint for photosynthetic acclimation: differential responses in leaf anatomy to increasing growth irradiance among three deciduous trees

    Riichi Oguchi;Kouki Hikosaka;T. Hirose

  • Acclimation and adaptation components of the temperature dependence of plant photosynthesis at the global scale

    Dushan P. Kumarathunge;Belinda E. Medlyn;John E. Drake;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Nitrogen partitioning among photosynthetic components and its consequence in sun and shade plants

    K. Hikosaka;I. Terashima

  • Effects of leaf age, nitrogen nutrition and photon flux density on the distribution of nitrogen among leaves of a vine (Ipomoea tricolor Cav.) grown horizontally to avoid mutual shading of leaves.

    Kouki Hikosaka;Ichiro Terashima;Sakae Katoh

  • The excess light energy that is neither utilized in photosynthesis nor dissipated by photoprotective mechanisms determines the rate of photoinactivation in photosystem II.

    Masaharu C. Kato;Kouki Hikosaka;Naoki Hirotsu;Amane Makino

  • World-wide leaf economics spectrum

    I. J. Wright;P. B. Reich;M. Westoby;David D. Ackerly

Frequent Co-Authors

Tadaki Hirose
Tadaki Hirose Tohoku University
Yusuke Onoda
Yusuke Onoda Kyoto University
Tohru Nakashizuka
Tohru Nakashizuka Tohoku University
Onno Muller
Onno Muller Forschungszentrum Jülich
Niels P. R. Anten
Niels P. R. Anten Wageningen University & Research
Ichiro Terashima
Ichiro Terashima National Chung Hsing University
Hendrik Poorter
Hendrik Poorter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jacek Oleksyn
Jacek Oleksyn Polish Academy of Sciences
Mark Westoby
Mark Westoby Macquarie University
Nicolas Gross
Nicolas Gross University of Clermont Auvergne

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