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Masashi Soga

Masashi Soga

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Rising Stars
2025

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Rising Stars

D-Index
33
Citations
6169
World Ranking
913
National Ranking
3

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
35
Citations
7567
World Ranking
7275
National Ranking
51

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Masashi Soga is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan and works primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Psychology. Their research focuses extensively on the interactions between humans and nature, with significant attention to urban green spaces and health.

The scientist's work encompasses a range of topics including:

  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies

Masashi Soga has published frequently in several academic venues such as:

  • People and Nature (8 publications)
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution (7 publications)
  • Biological Conservation (4 publications)
  • BioScience (3 publications)
  • Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (3 publications)

Significant recent papers authored by Soga include:

  • "A room with a green view: the importance of nearby nature for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020) in Ecological Applications
  • "The ecology of human-nature interactions" (2020) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on human-nature interactions: Pathways, evidence and implications" (2021) in People and Nature
  • "Towards a unified understanding of human-nature interactions" (2021) in Nature Sustainability

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Kevin J. Gaston
  • Maldwyn J. Evans
  • Yuya Fukano
  • Kazuaki Tsuchiya
  • Masumi Hisano

Their work intersects several subfields, notably Social Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Ecology. This interdisciplinary approach supports a broad understanding of both the ecological and social dimensions of human-environment interactions.

Best Publications

  • Extinction of experience: the loss of human–nature interactions

    Masashi Soga;Kevin J Gaston

  • Shifting baseline syndrome: causes, consequences, and implications

    Masashi Soga;Kevin J Gaston

  • A room with a green view: the importance of nearby nature for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Masashi Soga;Maldwyn J. Evans;Maldwyn J. Evans;Kazuaki Tsuchiya;Yuya Fukano

  • Both Direct and Vicarious Experiences of Nature Affect Children’s Willingness to Conserve Biodiversity

    Masashi Soga;Kevin J. Gaston;Yuichi Yamaura;Kiyo Kurisu

  • Health Benefits of Urban Allotment Gardening: Improved Physical and Psychological Well-Being and Social Integration

    Masashi Soga;Daniel T C Cox;Yuichi Yamaura;Kevin J Gaston

  • The ecology of human–nature interactions

    Masashi Soga;Kevin J. Gaston

  • Land sharing vs. land sparing: does the compact city reconcile urban development and biodiversity conservation?

    Masashi Soga;Masashi Soga;Yuichi Yamaura;Shinsuke Koike;Kevin J. Gaston

  • Urban residents' perceptions of neighbourhood nature: Does the extinction of experience matter?

    Masashi Soga;Kevin J. Gaston;Tomoyo F. Koyanagi;Kiyo Kurisu

  • Land sparing is crucial for urban ecosystem services

    Iain Stott;Masashi Soga;Richard Inger;Kevin J Gaston

  • Reducing the extinction of experience: Association between urban form and recreational use of public greenspace

    Masashi Soga;Masashi Soga;Yuichi Yamaura;Tetsuya Aikoh;Yasushi Shoji

  • Extinction of experience: The need to be more specific

    Kevin J. Gaston;Masashi Soga

  • Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on human–nature interactions: Pathways, evidence and implications

    Masashi Soga;Maldwyn J. Evans;Maldwyn J. Evans;Daniel T. C. Cox;Kevin J. Gaston

  • Towards a unified understanding of human-nature interactions

    M Soga;KJ Gaston

  • How can we mitigate against increasing biophobia among children during the extinction of experience

    Masashi Soga;Maldwyn J. Evans;Maldwyn J. Evans;Takahiro Yamanoi;Yuya Fukano

  • Personalised Ecology

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  • Mapping the potential extinction debt of butterflies in a modern city: implications for conservation priorities in urban landscapes

    M. Soga;S. Koike

  • Patch size determines the strength of edge effects on carabid beetle assemblages in urban remnant forests

    Masashi Soga;Nozomi Kanno;Yuichi Yamaura;Shinsuke Koike

  • Training future generations to deliver evidence-based conservation and ecosystem management

    Harriet Downey;Tatsuya Amano;Mark Cadotte;Carly N. Cook

  • Relative importance of quantity, quality and isolation of patches for butterfly diversity in fragmented urban forests

    Masashi Soga;Shinsuke Koike

  • Cross-generational decline in childhood experiences of neighborhood flowering plants in Japan

    Masashi Soga;Kevin J. Gaston;Takahiro Kubo

  • Seasonal changes and altitudinal variation in deer fecal pellet decay

    Shinsuke Koike;Masashi Soga;Masashi Soga;Hiroto Enari;Hiroto Enari;Chinatsu Kozakai;Chinatsu Kozakai

  • Woodland remnants as an urban wildlife refuge: A cross-taxonomic assessment

    Masashi Soga;Masashi Soga;Yuichi Yamaura;Shinsuke Koike;Kevin J. Gaston

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinsuke Koike
Shinsuke Koike Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Kevin J. Gaston
Kevin J. Gaston University of Exeter
Tatsuya Amano
Tatsuya Amano University of Queensland
Keisuke Hanaki
Keisuke Hanaki University of Tokyo
Futoshi Nakamura
Futoshi Nakamura Hokkaido University
Robert J. Smith
Robert J. Smith University of Kent
Felix Eigenbrod
Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton
Joseph W. Bull
Joseph W. Bull University of Oxford
Jan C. Axmacher
Jan C. Axmacher University College London
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge

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