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Minoru Kusakabe

Minoru Kusakabe

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 47 4092 3757 92 83 209 6679

Minoru Kusakabe publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Minoru Kusakabe between 1951 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Minoru Kusakabe published across 75 years, from 1951 to 2025, averaging 3 papers a year. Output peaked at 14 publications in 1990. 2 of the 222 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1951 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 14. Peak 14 publications in 1990. 1951: 1 publication 1952: 0 publications 1953: 0 publications 1954: 0 publications 1955: 0 publications 1956: 0 publications 1957: 1 publication 1958: 0 publications 1959: 0 publications 1960: 0 publications 1961: 0 publications 1962: 1 publication 1963: 0 publications 1964: 0 publications 1965: 0 publications 1966: 0 publications 1967: 0 publications 1968: 0 publications 1969: 1 publication 1970: 2 publications 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 1 publication 1975: 1 publication 1976: 0 publications 1977: 2 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 2 publications 1980: 1 publication 1981: 2 publications 1982: 2 publications 1983: 2 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 2 publications 1986: 3 publications 1987: 5 publications 1988: 4 publications 1989: 9 publications 1990: 14 publications 1991: 7 publications 1992: 6 publications 1993: 9 publications 1994: 4 publications 1995: 2 publications 1996: 6 publications 1997: 8 publications 1998: 3 publications 1999: 5 publications 2000: 4 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 5 publications 2004: 5 publications 2005: 9 publications 2006: 8 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 7 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 2 publications 2011: 1 publication 2012: 2 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 8 publications 2015: 10 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 2 publications 2018: 2 publications 2019: 12 publications 2020: 2 publications 2021: 6 publications 2022: 2 publications 2023: 1 publication 2024: 0 publications 2025: 2 publications
1951 2025

222 publications in total across all disciplines

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Minoru Kusakabe: publications per year, 1951 to 2025
Year Publications
1951 1
1952 0
1953 0
1954 0
1955 0
1956 0
1957 1
1958 0
1959 0
1960 0
1961 0
1962 1
1963 0
1964 0
1965 0
1966 0
1967 0
1968 0
1969 1
1970 2
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 1
1975 1
1976 0
1977 2
1978 0
1979 2
1980 1
1981 2
1982 2
1983 2
1984 0
1985 2
1986 3
1987 5
1988 4
1989 9
1990 14
1991 7
1992 6
1993 9
1994 4
1995 2
1996 6
1997 8
1998 3
1999 5
2000 4
2001 3
2002 1
2003 5
2004 5
2005 9
2006 8
2007 4
2008 7
2009 5
2010 2
2011 1
2012 2
2013 6
2014 8
2015 10
2016 7
2017 2
2018 2
2019 12
2020 2
2021 6
2022 2
2023 1
2024 0
2025 2
Total 222
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Minoru Kusakabe publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Minoru Kusakabe sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 208–217 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 209 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292 209
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Minoru Kusakabe D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Minoru Kusakabe sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 47 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202 47
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Minoru Kusakabe is affiliated with Okayama University in Japan, focusing primarily on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their academic contributions span a range of subfields, including Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Materials Chemistry.

Their research encompasses several main topics, notably Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Radioactive contamination and transfer, Mesoporous Materials and Catalysis, and Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis.

Kusakabe has published work in various scientific venues, including:

  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Journal of Analytical Science & Technology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B
  • Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Frequent collaborators include Akira Ueda, Nak Kyu Kim, Takushi Yokoyama, Shigeko Unami, and Takeshi Ohba.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kusakabe feature diverse topics and journals, such as:

  • "Synthesis of mesoporous silica from geothermal water," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Groundwater oxygen anomaly related to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake in Southwest Japan," 2020, Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series B
  • "Carbon Dioxide in Lake Nyos, Cameroon, Estimated Quantitatively From Sound Speed Measurements," 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "Two-point normalization for reducing inter-laboratory discrepancies in δ17O, δ18O, and Δ'17O of reference silicates," 2020, Journal of Analytical Science & Technology
  • "A Depression Containing CO2-Enriched Water at the Bottom of Lake Monoun, Cameroon, and Implications for the 1984 Limnic Eruption," 2022, Frontiers in Earth Science

Best Publications

  • Sulfur isotopic effects in the disproportionation reaction of sulfur dioxide in hydrothermal fluids: implications for the δ 34 S variations of dissolved bisulfate and elemental sulfur from active crater lakes

    M. Kusakabe;Y. Komoda;B. Takano;T. Abiko

  • Distribution of highly arsenic and fluoride contaminated groundwater from east Punjab, Pakistan, and the controlling role of anthropogenic pollutants in the natural hydrological cycle

    Abida Farooqi;Harue Masuda;Minoru Kusakabe;Muhammad Naseem

  • Volcanism in the Sumisu Rift, I. Major element, volatile, and stable isotope geochemistry

    Alfred G. Hochstaedter;James B. Gill;Minoru Kusakabe;Sally Newman

  • Geochemistry of the magmatic–hydrothermal system of Kawah Ijen volcano, East Java, Indonesia

    Pierre Delmelle;Pierre Delmelle;Alain Bernard;Minoru Kusakabe;Tobias Fischer

  • Degassing Lakes Nyos and Monoun: Defusing certain disaster

    George W. Kling;William C. Evans;Greg Tanyileke;Minoru Kusakabe

  • Spatial distribution of δD-δ18O values of surface and shallow groundwaters from Japan, south Korea and east China

    Chitoshi Mizota;Minoru Kusakabe

  • The Lake Nyos gas disaster: chemical and isotopic evidence in waters and dissolved gases from three Cameroonian crater lakes, Nyos, Monoun and Wum

    Minoru Kusakabe;Takashi Ohsumi;Shigeo Aramaki

  • Sulfur isotopic view on the sources of sulfur in atmospheric fallout along the coast of the Sea of Japan

    Tsuyoshi Ohizumi;Norio Fukuzaki;Minoru Kusakabe

  • Oxygen and sulfur isotope equilibria in the BaSO4HSO4−H2O system from 110 to 350°C and applications☆

    Minoru Kusakabe;Brian W. Robinson

  • Sulfate reduction using methane in sediments beneath a bathyal cold seep giant clam community off Hatsushima Island, Sagami Bay, Japan

    Toshiyuki Masuzawa;Nobuhiko Handa;Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Minoru Kusakabe

  • S, O and Sr isotope systematics of active vent materials from the Mariana backarc basin spreading axis at 18°N

    Minoru Kusakabe;Shingo Mayeda;Eizo Nakamura

  • Strontium, oxygen, and hydrogen isotope geochemistry of hydrothermally altered and weathered rocks in DSDP Hole 504B, Costa Rica Rift

    Hodaka Kawahata;Minoru Kusakabe;Yoshiko Kikuchi

  • Barite silica chimneys from the Sumisu Rift, Izu-Bonin Arc: possible analog to hematitic chert associated with Kuroko deposits

    Tetsuro Urabe;Minoru Kusakabe

  • Recent pH and CO2 profiles at Lakes Nyos and Monoun, Cameroon: implications for the degassing strategy and its numerical simulation

    M Kusakabe;G.Z Tanyileke;S.A McCord;S.G Schladow

  • Explosive Deep Water Basalt in the Sumisu Backarc Rift

    J. Gill;P. Torssander;H. Lapierre;R. Taylor

  • Infrared spectroscopy of hydrous glasses of arc magma compositions

    Shigeru Yamashita;Toshihiro Kitamura;Minoru Kusakabe

  • Global CO2 emission from volcanic lakes

    Nemesio M. Pérez;Pedro A. Hernández;German Padilla;Dácil Nolasco

  • Origin of waters responsible for serpentinization of the Izu-Ogasawara-Mariana forearc seamounts in view of hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios

    Ryutaro Sakai;Minoru Kusakabe;Masami Noto;Teruaki Ishii

  • Symmetrical Helium isotope distribution on the Cameroon Volcanic Line, West Africa

    Festus T Aka;Keisuke Nagao;Minoru Kusakabe;Hirochika Sumino

  • Oxygen isotope fractionation factors between anhydrite and water from 100 to 550°C

    Hitoshi Chiba;Minoru Kusakabe;Shin Ichi Hirano;Sadao Matsuo

Frequent Co-Authors

Keisuke Nagao
Keisuke Nagao University of Tokyo
Hitoshi Sakai
Hitoshi Sakai University of Tokyo
Hiroo Kagami
Hiroo Kagami Niigata University
Yuji Sano
Yuji Sano Kōchi University
Tomoki Nakamura
Tomoki Nakamura Tohoku University
William C. Evans
William C. Evans United States Geological Survey
Hiroshi Shinohara
Hiroshi Shinohara National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Eizo Nakamura
Eizo Nakamura Okayama University
David I. Groves
David I. Groves University of Western Australia
George W. Kling
George W. Kling University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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