2026 Kouki Hikosaka: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	61	1127	1033	33	33	194	28917

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Plant Science and Agronomy

1127

1033

194

28917

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index

Citations

28917

World Ranking

1127

National Ranking

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

9978
Citations
Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships

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

1922
Citations
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

1243
Citations
Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate

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

1022
Citations
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

702
Citations
Physiological and structural tradeoffs underlying the leaf economics spectrum.

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

674
Citations
Temperature acclimation of photosynthesis: mechanisms involved in the changes in temperature dependence of photosynthetic rate

Kouki Hikosaka;Kazumasa Ishikawa;Almaz Borjigidai;Onno Muller

638
Citations
Photosynthesis or persistence: nitrogen allocation in leaves of evergreen and deciduous Quercus species

T. Takashima;K. Hikosaka;T. Hirose

602
Citations
Interspecific difference in the photosynthesis-nitrogen relationship: patterns, physiological causes, and ecological importance.

Kouki Hikosaka

595
Citations
Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

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

586
Citations
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

545
Citations
Comparative ecophysiology of leaf and canopy photosynthesis

I. Terashima;K. Hikosaka

486
Citations
Does the photosynthetic light-acclimation need change in leaf anatomy?

Riichi Oguchi;K. Hikosaka;T. Hirose

485
Citations
Allocation of nitrogen to cell walls decreases photosynthetic nitrogen‐use efficiency

Y. Onoda;K. Hikosaka;T. Hirose

384
Citations
Leaf canopy as a dynamic system: ecophysiology and optimality in leaf turnover.

Kouki Hikosaka

367
Citations
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

352
Citations
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

323
Citations
Nitrogen partitioning among photosynthetic components and its consequence in sun and shade plants

K. Hikosaka;I. Terashima

229
Citations
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

220
Citations
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

217
Citations
World-wide leaf economics spectrum

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

4
Citations