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Makoto Kato

Makoto Kato

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Ecology and Evolution
Japan
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
53
Citations
7899
World Ranking
3363
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Makoto Kato is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has conducted extensive research primarily in the field of Computer Science. Their scholarly output covers a wide range of subfields, including Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Management Science and Operations Research, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their main research topics include:

  • Topic Modeling
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Web Data Mining and Analysis
  • Recommender Systems and Techniques
  • Information Retrieval and Search Behavior
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques

Makoto Kato has frequently published in several academic venues, such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Information Processing
  • ACM SIGIR Forum
  • Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • 2021 IEEE 10th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)

Their recent papers include:

  • "Table Caption Generation in Scholarly Documents Leveraging Pre-trained Language Models," 2021, presented at the 2021 IEEE 10th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE)
  • "FinTech on the Web: An Overview," 2022, published in ACM Transactions on the Web
  • "Intent-Aware Data Visualization Recommendation," 2022, published in Data Science and Engineering
  • "Data Discovery and Reuse in Data Service Practices: A Global Perspective," 2021, published in Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
  • "Searching for Microblogs Referring to Events by Deep Dynamic Query Strategies," 2020, published in Journal of Information Processing

Collaboration has been an important aspect of their work, with frequent coauthors including Takehiro Yamamoto, Kojiro Iizuka, Atsuki Maruta, Hiroaki Ohshima, and Sumio Fujita.

Best Publications

  • Pollination biology in a lowland dipterocarp forest in Sarawak, Malaysia. I. Characteristics of the plant-pollinator community in a lowland dipterocarp forest

    Kuniyasu Momose;Takakazu Yumoto;Teruyoshi Nagamitsu;Makoto Kato

  • An obligate pollination mutualism and reciprocal diversification in the tree genus Glochidion (Euphorbiaceae)

    Makoto Kato;Atsushi Takimura;Atsushi Kawakita

  • Nonuniform Concerted Evolution and Chloroplast Capture: Heterogeneity of Observed Introgression Patterns in Three Molecular Data Partition Phylogenies of Asian Mitella (Saxifragaceae)

    Yudai Okuyama;Noriyuki Fujii;Michio Wakabayashi;Atsushi Kawakita

  • Seasonality and vertical structure of light-attracted insect communities in a dipterocarp forest in Sarawak

    Makoto Kato;Tamiji Inoue;Abang Abdul Hamid;Teruyoshi Nagamitsu

  • Impact of introduced honeybees, Apis mellifera, upon native bee communities in the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands

    Makoto Kato;Akihiro Shibata;Takaya Yasui;Hidetoshi Nagamasu

  • Three pollination guilds and variation in floral characteristics of Bornean gingers (Zingiberaceae and Costaceae).

    Shoko Sakai;Makoto Kato;Tamiji Inoue

  • Evolution and Phylogenetic Utility of Alignment Gaps Within Intron Sequences of Three Nuclear Genes in Bumble Bees (Bombus)

    Atsushi Kawakita;Teiji Sota;John S. Ascher;Masao Ito

  • Repeated independent evolution of obligate pollination mutualism in the Phyllantheae-Epicephala association.

    Atsushi Kawakita;Makoto Kato

  • Insect-flower Relationship in the Primary Beech Forest of Ashu, Kyoto : An Overview of the Flowering Phenology and the Seasonal Pattern of Insect Visits

    Makoto Kato;Takehiko Kakutani;Tamiji Inoue;Takao Itino

  • Beetle pollination of Shorea parvifolia (section Mutica, Dipterocarpaceae) in a general flowering period in Sarawak, Malaysia

    Shoko Sakai;Kuniyasu Momose;Takakazu Yumoto;Makoto Kato

  • Plant-pollinator interactions in the understory of a lowland mixed dipterocarp forest in Sarawak

    Makoto Kato

  • COSPECIATION ANALYSIS OF AN OBLIGATE POLLINATION MUTUALISM: HAVE GLOCHIDION TREES (EUPHORBIACEAE) AND POLLINATING EPICEPHALA MOTHS (GRACILLARIIDAE) DIVERSIFIED IN PARALLEL?

    Atsushi Kawakita;Atsushi Takimura;Toru Terachi;Teiji Sota

  • Plant-pollinator interactions in New Caledonia influenced by introduced honey bees

    Makoto Kato;Atsushi Kawakita

  • Monoculture and mixed-species algal farms on a coral reef are maintained through intensive and extensive management by damselfishes

    H. Hata;M. Kato

  • A speciation gene for left–right reversal in snails results in anti-predator adaptation

    Masaki Hoso;Yuichi Kameda;Shu Ping Wu;Shu Ping Wu;Takahiro Asami

  • Six-Year Population Fluctuation of the Giant Honey Bee Apis dorsata (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in a Tropical Lowland Dipterocarp Forest in Sarawak

    Takao Itioka;Tamiji Inoue;Het Kaliang;Makoto Kato

  • Phylogenetic position of Apis nuluensis of northern Borneo and phylogeography of A. cerana as inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences

    H. Tanaka;D.W. Roubik;M. Kato;F. Liew

  • POLLINATION BIOLOGY OF GNETUM (GNETACEAE) IN A LOWLAND MIXED DIPTEROCARP FOREST IN SARAWAK

    Makoto Kato;Tamlji Inoue;Teruyoshi Nagamitsu

  • A novel obligate cultivation mutualism between damselfish and Polysiphonia algae

    Hiroki Hata;Makoto Kato

  • Adaptive radiation of gobies in the interstitial habitats of gravel beaches accompanied by body elongation and excessive vertebral segmentation

    Tomohiko Yamada;Tomoshige Sugiyama;Nana Tamaki;Atsushi Kawakita

  • ORIGIN OF INSECT POLLINATION

    Makoto Kato;Tamiji Inoue

Frequent Co-Authors

Atsushi Kawakita
Atsushi Kawakita University of Tokyo
Tamiji Inoue
Tamiji Inoue Kyoto University
Teiji Sota
Teiji Sota Kyoto University
Takakazu Yumoto
Takakazu Yumoto Kyoto University
David W. Roubik
David W. Roubik Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Tohru Nakashizuka
Tohru Nakashizuka Tohoku University
Yoshihiko Tsumura
Yoshihiko Tsumura University of Tsukuba
Rhett D. Harrison
Rhett D. Harrison World Agroforestry, Zambia
E. Toby Kiers
E. Toby Kiers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Takashi Gomi
Takashi Gomi Nagoya University

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