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Masayuki Yokozawa

Masayuki Yokozawa

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 43 6985 6712 133 130 160 9313

Masayuki Yokozawa publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Masayuki Yokozawa between 1970 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Masayuki Yokozawa published across 56 years, from 1970 to 2025, averaging 3.1 papers a year. Output peaked at 17 publications in 2009. 9 of the 172 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1970 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 17. Peak 17 publications in 2009. 1970: 2 publications 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 1 publication 1988: 0 publications 1989: 0 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 1 publication 1993: 1 publication 1994: 1 publication 1995: 1 publication 1996: 1 publication 1997: 1 publication 1998: 4 publications 1999: 5 publications 2000: 5 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 10 publications 2004: 4 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 5 publications 2008: 11 publications 2009: 17 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 10 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 12 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 3 publications 2019: 1 publication 2020: 1 publication 2021: 0 publications 2022: 0 publications 2023: 1 publication 2024: 4 publications 2025: 5 publications
1970 2025

172 publications in total across all disciplines

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Masayuki Yokozawa: publications per year, 1970 to 2025
Year Publications
1970 2
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 0
1987 1
1988 0
1989 0
1990 0
1991 0
1992 1
1993 1
1994 1
1995 1
1996 1
1997 1
1998 4
1999 5
2000 5
2001 3
2002 4
2003 10
2004 4
2005 9
2006 7
2007 5
2008 11
2009 17
2010 10
2011 10
2012 8
2013 5
2014 12
2015 9
2016 6
2017 4
2018 3
2019 1
2020 1
2021 0
2022 0
2023 1
2024 4
2025 5
Total 172
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Masayuki Yokozawa publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masayuki Yokozawa sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 151–160 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 160 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539 160
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Masayuki Yokozawa D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Masayuki Yokozawa sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 43 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336 43
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

Masayuki Yokozawa is a researcher affiliated with Waseda University in Japan, specializing primarily in Environmental Science. Their work extensively covers several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Atmospheric Science, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Ecology.

Their research topics focus on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Remote Sensing and Land Use, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

Recent publications by Masayuki Yokozawa include:

  • A Bayesian inversion framework to evaluate parameter and predictive inference of a simple soil respiration model in a cool-temperate forest in western Japan, 2020, Ecological Modelling
  • A 28-time-point cropland area change dataset in Northeast China from 1000 to 2020, 2024, Earth system science data
  • A social system to disperse the irrigation start date based on the spatial public goods game, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Scaling of shoot and root respiration of woody and herbaceous plants, 2025, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Historical precipitation and flood damage in Japan: functional data analysis and evaluation of models, 2025, PLoS ONE

Their most frequent coauthors include:

  • Motomu Toda
  • Masae I. Ishihara
  • Atsushi Wakai
  • Yasuaki Hijioka
  • Manabu Watanabe

Masayuki Yokozawa's research has been published predominantly in venues such as PLoS ONE, Ecological Modelling, Earth system science data, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and SSRN Electronic Journal. The largest number of publications have appeared in PLoS ONE.

Best Publications

  • A crop phenology detection method using time-series MODIS data

    Toshihiro Sakamoto;Masayuki Yokozawa;Hitoshi Toritani;Michio Shibayama

  • Climate changes and trends in phenology and yields of field crops in China, 1981-2000

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Yinlong Xu;Yousay Hayashi

  • Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation on the global yields of major crops

    Toshichika Iizumi;Jing-Jia Luo;Andrew J. Challinor;Gen Sakurai

  • Climate-crop yield relationships at provincial scales in China and the impacts of recent climate trends

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Jiyuan Liu;Zhao Zhang

  • Detecting temporal changes in the extent of annual flooding within the cambodia and the vietnamese mekong delta from MODIS time-series imagery

    Toshihiro Sakamoto;Nhan Van Nguyen;Akihiko Kotera;Hiroyuki Ohno

  • Spatio-temporal distribution of rice phenology and cropping systems in the Mekong Delta with special reference to the seasonal water flow of the Mekong and Bassac rivers

    Toshihiro Sakamoto;Nhan Van Nguyen;Hiroyuki Ohno;Naoki Ishitsuka

  • Global warming, rice production, and water use in China: Developing a probabilistic assessment

    Fulu Tao;Yousay Hayashi;Zhao Zhang;Toshihiro Sakamoto

  • Future climate change, the agricultural water cycle, and agricultural production in China

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Yousay Hayashi;Erda Lin

  • Assessing the impacts of climate change on rice yields in the main rice areas of China

    Fengmei Yao;Yinglong Xu;Erda Lin;Masayuki Yokozawa

  • Modelling the impacts of weather and climate variability on crop productivity over a large area: A new process-based model development, optimization, and uncertainties analysis

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Zhao Zhang

  • Parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis of a large-scale crop model for paddy rice: Application of a Bayesian approach

    Toshichika Iizumi;Masayuki Yokozawa;Motoki Nishimori

  • Modelling the impacts of weather and climate variability on crop productivity over a large area: A new super-ensemble-based probabilistic projection

    Fulu Tao;Zhao Zhang;Jiyuan Liu;Masayuki Yokozawa

  • Prediction of seasonal climate-induced variations in global food production

    Toshichika Iizumi;Hirofumi Sakuma;Masayuki Yokozawa;Jing Jia Luo

  • Historical changes in global yields: Major cereal and legume crops from 1982 to 2006

    Toshichika Iizumi;Masayuki Yokozawa;Gen Sakurai;Maria Isabel Travasso

  • Remote sensing of crop production in China by production efficiency models: models comparisons, estimates and uncertainties

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Zhao Zhang;Yinlong Xu

  • Changes in agricultural water demands and soil moisture in China over the last half-century and their effects on agricultural production

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Yousay Hayashi;Erda Lin

  • How to analyze long-term insect population dynamics under climate change: 50-year data of three insect pests in paddy fields

    Kohji Yamamura;Masayuki Yokozawa;Motoki Nishimori;Yasuo Ueda

  • Analysis of rapid expansion of inland aquaculture and triple rice-cropping areas in a coastal area of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta using MODIS time-series imagery

    Toshihiro Sakamoto;Cao Van Phung;Aikihiko Kotera;Khang Duy Nguyen

  • Variability in climatology and agricultural production in China in association with the East Asian summer monsoon and El Nino Southern Oscillation

    Fulu Tao;Masayuki Yokozawa;Zhao Zhang;Yousay Hayashi

  • Evaluation and intercomparison of downscaled daily precipitation indices over Japan in present-day climate: Strengths and weaknesses of dynamical and bias correction-type statistical downscaling methods

    Toshichika Iizumi;Motoki Nishimori;Koji Dairaku;Sachiho A. Adachi

Frequent Co-Authors

Toshihiko Hara
Toshihiko Hara Hokkaido University
Fulu Tao
Fulu Tao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhao Zhang
Zhao Zhang Beijing Normal University
Yasuhiro Kubota
Yasuhiro Kubota University of the Ryukyus
Andrew J. Challinor
Andrew J. Challinor University of Leeds
Fujio Kimura
Fujio Kimura University of Tsukuba
Kiyoshi Takahashi
Kiyoshi Takahashi National Institute for Environmental Studies
Hiroshi Koizumi
Hiroshi Koizumi Waseda University
Naoki Yamaji
Naoki Yamaji Okayama University
Jian Feng Ma
Jian Feng Ma Okayama University

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