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Motoaki Sugiura

Motoaki Sugiura

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Psychology
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
53
Citations
9399
World Ranking
4848
National Ranking
5

Neuroscience

D-Index
53
Citations
9425
World Ranking
5133
National Ranking
160

Motoaki Sugiura publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Motoaki Sugiura sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 254 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Motoaki Sugiura D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Motoaki Sugiura is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and clinical psychology. Their work also extends into sociology and political science, as well as developmental and educational psychology.

The main thematic areas in which Motoaki Sugiura has contributed include the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, eating disorders and behaviors, death anxiety and social exclusion, disaster management and resilience, neural and behavioral psychology studies, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and functional brain connectivity studies.

They have published papers in several academic venues with multiple contributions in some. Frequent publication outlets include:
Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Disaster Research, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Scientific Reports, and PLoS ONE.

Motoaki Sugiura's recent papers demonstrate a range of topics and interdisciplinary approaches. Notable publications include:

  • A Combination of Self-Reported Data and Social-Related Neural Measures Forecasts Viral Marketing Success on Social Media (2020, Journal of Interactive Marketing)
  • Survival-oriented personality factors are associated with various types of social support in an emergency disaster situation (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Cross-Modal Correspondences Between Temperature and Taste Attributes (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Systematic reduction of gray matter volume in anorexia nervosa, but relative enlargement with clinical symptoms in the prefrontal and posterior insular cortices: a multicenter neuroimaging study (2024, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Neural mechanisms of language learning from social contexts (2020, Brain and Language)

Collaborations are a consistent feature of Motoaki Sugiura's work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Ryuta Kawashima
  • Yumi Hamamoto
  • Hyeonjeong Jeong
  • Kosuke Motoki
  • Ryo Ishibashi

Best Publications

  • The human amygdala plays an important role in gaze monitoring. A PET study.

    Ryuta Kawashima;Motoaki Sugiura;Takashi Kato;Akinori Nakamura

  • Functional delineation of the human occipito-temporal areas related to face and scene processing. A PET study.

    K. Nakamura;R. Kawashima;N. Sato;A. Nakamura

  • Activation of the right inferior frontal cortex during assessment of facial emotion.

    Katsuki Nakamura;Ryuta Kawashima;Kengo Ito;Motoaki Sugiura

  • The human prefrontal and parietal association cortices are involved in NO-GO performances - An event-related fMRI study

    Jobu Watanabe;Motoaki Sugiura;Kazunori Sato;Yuko Sato

  • Neural substrates for recognition of familiar voices: a PET study.

    Katsuki Nakamura;Ryuta Kawashima;Motoaki Sugiura;Takashi Kato

  • Cortical mechanisms of visual self-recognition.

    Motoaki Sugiura;Jobu Watanabe;Yasuhiro Maeda;Yoshihiko Matsue

  • Vocal identification of speaker and emotion activates differerent brain regions

    Satoshi Imaizumi;Koichi Mori;Shigeru Kiritani;Ryuta Kawashima

  • Voxel-based morphometry of human brain with age and cerebrovascular risk factors.

    Yasuyuki Taki;Ryoi Goto;Alan Evans;Alex Zijdenbos

  • A functional MRI study of simple arithmetic--a comparison between children and adults.

    Ryuta Kawashima;Masato Taira;Katsuo Okita;Kentaro Inoue

  • Passive and Active Recognition of One's Own Face

    Motoaki Sugiura;Ryuta Kawashima;Ryuta Kawashima;Katsuki Nakamura;Ken Okada

  • Cortical Representations of Personally Familiar Objects and Places: Functional Organization of the Human Posterior Cingulate Cortex

    Motoaki Sugiura;Nadim J. Shah;Karl Zilles;Gereon R. Fink

  • Functional mapping of human brain in olfactory processing: a PET study.

    Ahmad Qureshy;Ryuta Kawashima;Muhammad Babar Imran;Motoaki Sugiura

  • Correlation between human personality and neural activity in cerebral cortex.

    Motoaki Sugiura;Ryuta Kawashima;Manabu Nakagawa;Ken Okada

  • Human Cerebellum Plays an Important Role in Memory-Timed Finger Movement: An fMRI Study

    Ryuta Kawashima;Jiro Okuda;Jiro Okuda;Atsushi Umetsu;Motoaki Sugiura

  • Brain structural changes as vulnerability factors and acquired signs of post-earthquake stress.

    A Sekiguchi;M Sugiura;Y Taki;Y Kotozaki

  • The neural basis of agency: an fMRI study

    Yukihito Yomogida;Motoaki Sugiura;Yuko Sassa;Keisuke Wakusawa

  • Multiple brain networks for visual self-recognition with different sensitivity for motion and body part

    Motoaki Sugiura;Yuko Sassa;Hyeonjeong Jeong;Naoki Miura

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of the assessment of facial attractiveness

    Katsuki Nakamura;Ryuta Kawashima;Sumiharu Nagumo;Kengo Ito

  • A PET study of visuomotor learning under optical rotation.

    Kentaro Inoue;Ryuta Kawashima;Kazunori Satoh;Shigeo Kinomura

  • PET Study of Pointing With Visual Feedback of Moving Hands

    Kentaro Inoue;Ryuta Kawashima;Kazunori Satoh;Shigeo Kinomura

  • Comprehension of implicit meanings in social situations involving irony: a functional MRI study.

    Keisuke Wakusawa;Motoaki Sugiura;Yuko Sassa;Hyeonjeong Jeong

Frequent Co-Authors

Ryuta Kawashima
Ryuta Kawashima Tohoku University
Hiroshi Fukuda
Hiroshi Fukuda Tohoku University
Yuko Sassa
Yuko Sassa Tohoku University
Rui Nouchi
Rui Nouchi University of Human Environments
Norihiro Sadato
Norihiro Sadato National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Shigeo Kinomura
Shigeo Kinomura Tohoku University
Takashi Kato
Takashi Kato Nagoya University
Hikaru Takeuchi
Hikaru Takeuchi Tohoku University
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
Yasuyuki Taki
Yasuyuki Taki Tohoku University

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