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Noriko T. Kita 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 Noriko T. Kita sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Noriko T. Kita 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 Noriko T. Kita sits on this spectrum.

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Overview

Noriko T. Kita is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Earth and Planetary Sciences. Specific subfields of study include Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Radiation.

The main topics addressed in Kita's work encompass Astro and Planetary Science, Planetary Science and Exploration, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, High-pressure Geophysics and Materials, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Kita include the following:

  • Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites, 2022, Science
  • Chondrules reveal large-scale outward transport of inner Solar System materials in the protoplanetary disk, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ryugu's nucleosynthetic heritage from the outskirts of the Solar System, 2022, Science Advances
  • Oxygen isotopes of anhydrous primary minerals show kinship between asteroid Ryugu and comet 81P/Wild2, 2022, Science Advances
  • A temporal shift of chondrule generation from the inner to outer Solar System inferred from oxygen isotopes and Al-Mg chronology of chondrules from primitive CM and CO chondrites, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

The venues where Kita frequently publishes include:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Science Advances
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts

Collaborations are a significant component of Kita's research, with frequent coauthors being:

  • Kouki Kitajima
  • K. Nagashima
  • Wataru Fujiya
  • Tsuyoshi Iizuka
  • M. Wadhwa

Best Publications

  • Further characterisation of the 91500 zircon crystal

    Michael Wiedenbeck;John M. Hanchar;William H. Peck;Paul Sylvester

  • High precision SIMS oxygen isotope analysis and the effect of sample topography

    Noriko T. Kita;Takayuki Ushikubo;Bin Fu;John W. Valley

  • Ti-in-zircon thermometry: applications and limitations

    Bin Fu;Bin Fu;F. Zeb Page;F. Zeb Page;Aaron J. Cavosie;John Fournelle

  • Constraints on the Origin of Chondrules and CAIs from Short-lived and Long-Lived Radionuclides

    N. T. Kita;G. R. Huss;S. Tachibana;Y. Amelin

  • Combined U–Pb, hafnium and oxygen isotope analysis of zircons from meta-igneous rocks in the southern North China Craton reveal multiple events in the Late Mesoarchean–Early Neoarchean

    Dunyi Liu;Simon A. Wilde;Yusheng Wan;Shiyan Wang

  • Chondrulelike Objects in Short-Period Comet 81P/Wild 2

    Tomoki Nakamura;Takaaki Noguchi;Akira Tsuchiyama;Takayuki Ushikubo

  • A short duration of chondrule formation in the solar nebula: evidence from 26Al in Semarkona ferromagnesian chondrules

    Noriko T. Kita;Hiroko Nagahara;Shigeko Togashi;Yuichi Morishita

  • Primordial oxygen isotope reservoirs of the solar nebula recorded in chondrules in Acfer 094 carbonaceous chondrite

    Takayuki Ushikubo;Makoto Kimura;Noriko T. Kita;John W. Valley

  • Distinguishing magmatic zircon from hydrothermal zircon: A case study from the Gidginbung high-sulphidation Au–Ag–(Cu) deposit, SE Australia

    Bin Fu;Terrence P. Mernagh;Noriko T. Kita;Anthony I.S. Kemp

  • Climate deterioration in the Eastern Mediterranean as revealed by ion microprobe analysis of a speleothem that grew from 2.2 to 0.9 ka in Soreq Cave, Israel.

    Ian J. Orland;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Noriko T. Kita;Avner Ayalon

  • Lithium in Jack Hills zircons: Evidence for extensive weathering of Earth's earliest crust

    Takayuki Ushikubo;Noriko T. Kita;Aaron J. Cavosie;Simon A. Wilde

  • Zircons from kimberlite: New insights from oxygen isotopes, trace elements, and Ti in zircon thermometry

    F. Zeb Page;Bin Fu;Noriko T. Kita;John Fournelle

  • Origin and Evolution of Silicic Magmatism at Yellowstone Based on Ion Microprobe Analysis of Isotopically Zoned Zircons

    Ilya N. Bindeman;Bin Fu;Noriko T. Kita;John W. Valley

  • High precision SIMS oxygen three isotope study of chondrules in LL3 chondrites: Role of ambient gas during chondrule formation

    Noriko T. Kita;Hiroko Nagahara;Shogo Tachibana;Shin Tomomura

  • Nature and evolution of Late Cretaceous lithospheric mantle beneath the eastern North China Craton: Constraints from petrology and geochemistry of peridotitic xenoliths from Jünan, Shandong Province, China

    Jifeng Ying;Hongfu Zhang;Noriko Kita;Yuichi Morishita

  • 26Al-26Mg isotope systematics of the first solids in the early solar system

    Noriko T. Kita;Qing-Zhu Yin;Glenn J. MacPherson;Takayuki Ushikubo

  • Arsenic resistance and removal by marine and non-marine bacteria.

    Mio Takeuchi;Hodaka Kawahata;Lallan Prasad Gupta;Noriko Kita

  • Intratest oxygen isotope variability in the planktonic foraminifer N. pachyderma: Real vs. apparent vital effects by ion microprobe

    R. Kozdon;T. Ushikubo;N.T. Kita;M. Spicuzza

  • Origin of ureilites inferred from a SIMS oxygen isotopic and trace element study of clasts in the Dar al Gani 319 polymict ureilite

    Noriko T. Kita;Yukio Ikeda;Shigeko Togashi;Yongzhong Liu

  • 60Fe in chondrites : Debris from a nearby supernova in the early solar system?

    S. Tachibana;G. R. Huss;N. T. Kita;N. T. Kita;G. Shimoda

  • Lithium inJackHills zircons: Evidence forextensiveweatheringof Earth's earliest crust

    Takayuki Ushikubo;Noriko T. Kita;Aaron J. Cavosie;Simon A. Wilde

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Valley
John W. Valley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Takayuki Ushikubo
Takayuki Ushikubo Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Andrew M. Davis
Andrew M. Davis University of Chicago
Michael K. Weisberg
Michael K. Weisberg City University of New York
Bin Fu
Bin Fu University of Wisconsin–Madison
Birger Schmitz
Birger Schmitz Lund University
Michael J. Spicuzza
Michael J. Spicuzza University of Wisconsin–Madison
Glenn J. MacPherson
Glenn J. MacPherson National Museum of Natural History
Aaron J. Cavosie
Aaron J. Cavosie Curtin University
Michael E. Zolensky
Michael E. Zolensky National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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