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Shinya Sugita

Shinya Sugita

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Environmental Sciences
Estonia
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
56
Citations
13849
World Ranking
3597
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Estonia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Estonia Leader Award

Overview

Shinya Sugita is affiliated with Tallinn University in Estonia. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on physics and astronomy as well as earth and planetary sciences.

Their work covers several subfields, including nuclear and high energy physics, atmospheric science, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, astronomy and astrophysics, and earth-surface processes. This diverse background supports a broad spectrum of scientific inquiry.

The main topics of Sugita's research include:

  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Dark matter and cosmic phenomena
  • Radiation therapy and dosimetry
  • Particle detector development and performance
  • Astrophysics and cosmic phenomena
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Neutrino physics research

Shinya Sugita has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications. Their recent papers include:

  • Towards quantification of Holocene anthropogenic land-cover change in temperate China: A review in the light of pollen-based REVEALS reconstructions of regional plant cover (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • European pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for the Holocene: methodology, mapping and potentials (2022, Earth system science data)
  • Observation of Spectral Structures in the Flux of Cosmic-Ray Protons from 50 GeV to 60 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station (2022, Physical Review Letters)
  • Mid-Holocene European climate revisited: New high-resolution regional climate model simulations using pollen-based land-cover (2022, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Direct Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Carbon and Oxygen Spectra from 10 GeV/n to 2.2 TeV/n with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station (2020, Physical Review Letters)

Their publications have appeared most frequently in the following venues:

  • Physical Review Letters
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Earth system science data
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Advances in Space Research

Sugita collaborates regularly with a set of frequent coauthors, including:

  • Yosui Akaike
  • Y. Asaoka
  • E. Berti
  • G. Bigongiari
  • M. Bongi

Best Publications

  • Pollen Representation of Vegetation in Quaternary Sediments: Theory and Method in Patchy Vegetation

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  • Theory of quantitative reconstruction of vegetation I: pollen from large sites REVEALS regional vegetation composition

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  • Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: A global synthesis

    Patrick J Bartlein;S P Harrison;S P Harrison;S Brewer;Simon Connor

  • Landscape Openness and Pollen Records: A Simulation Approach

    Shinya Sugita;Marie-Jose Gaillard;Anna Broström

  • A Model of Pollen Source Area for an Entire Lake Surface

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  • Theory of quantitative reconstruction of vegetation II: all you need is LOVE

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  • Palaeovegetation of China: a pollen data‐based synthesis for the mid‐Holocene and last glacial maximum

    G. Yu;G. Yu;G. Yu;X. Chen;X. Chen;J. Ni;J. Ni;R. Cheddadi

  • Plant Migration and Climate Change

    L. F. Pitelka;R. H. Gardner;J. Ash;S. Berry

  • Pollen productivity estimates of key European plant taxa for quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation: a review

    Anna Broström;Anne Birgitte Nielsen;Marie-José Gaillard;Kari Hjelle

  • Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks

    M. J Gaillard;S. Sugita;F. Mazier;F. Mazier;A. K Trondman

  • Vegetation structure and pollen source area

    M J Bunting;M J Gaillard;S Sugita;R Middleton

  • Pollen productivity estimates for the reconstruction of past vegetation cover in the cultural landscape of southern Sweden

    Anna Broström;Shinya Sugita;Marie-José Gaillard

  • Using a generalized vegetation model to simulate vegetation dynamics in northeastern USA

    Thomas Hickler;Benjamin Smith;Martin T. Sykes;Margaret B. Davis

  • The REVEALS model, a new tool to estimate past regional plant abundance from pollen data in large lakes: validation in southern Sweden

    Sofie Hellman;Marie-Jose Gaillard;Anna Broström;Shinya Sugita

  • Europe's lost forests : a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years

    Neil Roberts;Ralph M. Fyfe;Jessie Woodbridge;Marie-José Gaillard

  • Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene regional vegetation cover (plant-functional types and land-cover types) in Europe suitable for climate modelling.

    Anna-Kari Trondman;M.J. Gaillard;Florence Mazier;S. Sugita

  • A framework for sustainable invasive species management: Environmental, social, and economic objectives

    Diane L. Larson;Laura Phillips-Mao;Gina Quiram;Leah Sharpe

  • Testing the effect of site selection and parameter setting on REVEALS-model estimates of plant abundance using the Czech Quaternary Palynological Database

    F. Mazier;F. Mazier;F. Mazier;Marie-José Gaillard;P. Kunes;P. Kunes;S. Sugita

  • PATCHY INVASION AND THE ORIGIN OF A HEMLOCK–HARDWOODS FOREST MOSAIC

    Margaret B. Davis;Randy R. Calcote;Shinya Sugita;Hikaru Takahara

  • Testing the Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm for spatially explicit reconstruction of vegetation in northern Michigan and Wisconsin

    Shinya Sugita;Tim Parshall;Randy Calcote;Karen Walker

  • The use of modelling and simulation approach in reconstructing past landscapes from fossil pollen data: a review and results from the POLLANDCAL network.

    Marie-José Gaillard;Shinya Sugita;M. Jane Bunting;Richard Middleton

  • Estimating the spatial scale of pollen dispersal in the cultural landscape of southern Sweden

    Anna Broström;Shinya Sugita;Marie-José Gaillard;Petter Pilesjö

  • Holocene changes in vegetation composition in northern Europe: why quantitative pollen-based vegetation reconstructions matter

    Laurent Marquer;Laurent Marquer;Marie José Gaillard;Shinya Sugita;Anna Kari Trondman

  • The Holocene vegetation cover of Britain and Ireland : overcoming problems of scale and discerning patterns of openness

    Ralph M. Fyfe;Claire L. Twiddle;Shinya Sugita;Marie-José Gaillard

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie-José Gaillard
Marie-José Gaillard Linnaeus University
Florence Mazier
Florence Mazier Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Anneli Poska
Anneli Poska Tallinn University of Technology
Heikki Seppä
Heikki Seppä University of Helsinki
Jed O. Kaplan
Jed O. Kaplan University of Calgary
Anne E. Bjune
Anne E. Bjune Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Margaret B. Davis
Margaret B. Davis University of Minnesota
Qinghai Xu
Qinghai Xu Hebei Normal University
Erik Kjellström
Erik Kjellström Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

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