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Sho Sasaki

Sho Sasaki

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
45
Citations
9535
World Ranking
4380
National Ranking
102

Sho Sasaki 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 Sho Sasaki sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 357 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Sho Sasaki 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 Sho Sasaki sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sho Sasaki is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and focuses primarily on research within the fields of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans a variety of subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, and Geriatrics and Gerontology. The main topics covered by their publications include Planetary Science and Exploration, Astro and Planetary Science, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Space Exploration and Technology, Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies, Space Satellite Systems and Control, and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

Recent publications by Sho Sasaki feature contributions to research on planetary missions and instrumentation. Representative recent papers include:

  • Mercury Dust Monitor (MDM) Onboard the Mio Orbiter of the BepiColombo Mission, 2020, Space Science Reviews
  • Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) laser altimeter for the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) spacecraft, 2021, Earth Planets and Space
  • The Ganymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE): Mission, science, and instrumentation of its receiver modules, 2021, Advances in Space Research
  • YORP Effect on Asteroid 162173 Ryugu: Implications for the Dynamical History, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • The DESTINY + Dust Analyser - a dust telescope for analysing cosmic dust dynamics and composition, 2024, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Sasaki frequently collaborates with other researchers in related fields. Common coauthors include Masanori Kobayashi, Hirotomo Noda, Hiroki Senshu, Takahide Mizuno, and Koji Matsumoto. Their work has been published in various venues, with multiple papers appearing in Space Science Reviews and The Planetary Science Journal, as well as contributions to Earth Planets and Space, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, and Advances in Space Research.

Best Publications

  • The Rubble-Pile Asteroid Itokawa as Observed by Hayabusa

    A. Fujiwara;J. Kawaguchi;D. K. Yeomans;M. Abe

  • Touchdown of the Hayabusa spacecraft at the Muses Sea on Itokawa.

    Hajime Yano;T. Kubota;H. Miyamoto;T. Okada

  • Production of iron nanoparticles by laser irradiation in a simulation of lunar-like space weathering

    Sho Sasaki;Keiko Nakamura;Yoshimi Hamabe;Erika Kurahashi

  • The geomorphology, color, and thermal properties of Ryugu: Implications for parent-body processes

    S. Sugita;S. Sugita;R. Honda;T. Morota;S. Kameda

  • Lunar global shape and polar topography derived from Kaguya-LALT laser altimetry.

    H. Araki;S. Tazawa;H. Noda;Y. Ishihara

  • The global distribution of pure anorthosite on the Moon

    Makiko Ohtake;Tsuneo Matsunaga;Junichi Haruyama;Yasuhiro Yokota

  • Regolith Migration and Sorting on Asteroid Itokawa

    Hideaki Miyamoto;Hajime Yano;Daniel J. Scheeres;Shinsuke Abe

  • Farside Gravity Field of the Moon from Four-Way Doppler Measurements of SELENE (Kaguya)

    Noriyuki Namiki;Takahiro Iwata;Koji Matsumoto;Hideo Hanada

  • Detailed Images of Asteroid 25143 Itokawa from Hayabusa

    J. Saito;J. Saito;H. Miyamoto;H. Miyamoto;R. Nakamura;M. Ishiguro

  • Simulation of space weathering of planet-forming materials: Nanosecond pulse laser irradiation and proton implantation on olivine and pyroxene samples

    Maho Yamada;Sho Sasaki;Hiroko Nagahara;Akira Fujiwara

  • Long-Lived Volcanism on the Lunar Farside Revealed by SELENE Terrain Camera

    Junichi Haruyama;Makiko Ohtake;Tsuneo Matsunaga;Tomokatsu Morota

  • Sample collection from asteroid (162173) Ryugu by Hayabusa2: Implications for surface evolution

    T. Morota;T. Morota;S. Sugita;S. Sugita;Y. Cho;M. Kanamaru

  • Metal‐silicate fractionation in the growing Earth: Energy source for the terrestrial magma ocean

    Sho Sasaki;Kiyoshi Nakazawa

  • Simulating lava flows by an improved cellular automata method

    Hideaki Miyamoto;Sho Sasaki

  • Pole and Global Shape of 25143 Itokawa

    Hirohide Demura;Shingo Kobayashi;Etsuko Nemoto;Naoya Matsumoto

  • Crustal thickness of the Moon: Implications for farside basin structures

    Yoshiaki Ishihara;Sander Goossens;Koji Matsumoto;Hirotomo Noda

  • Illumination conditions at the lunar polar regions by KAGUYA(SELENE) laser altimeter

    H. Noda;H. Araki;S. Goossens;Y. Ishihara

  • Developing space weathering on the asteroid 25143 Itokawa

    Takahiro Hiroi;Masanao Abe;Kohei Kitazato;Kohei Kitazato;Shinsuke Abe

  • Lunar photometric properties at wavelengths 0.5–1.6 μm acquired by SELENE Spectral Profiler and their dependency on local albedo and latitudinal zones

    Yasuhiro Yokota;Tsuneo Matsunaga;Makiko Ohtake;Junichi Haruyama

  • Outflow channel sources, reactivation, and chaos formation, Xanthe Terra, Mars

    Jose A.P. Rodriguez;Sho Sasaki;Ruslan O. Kuzmin;James M. Dohm

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshiaki Ishihara
Yoshiaki Ishihara Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Hideaki Miyamoto
Hideaki Miyamoto University of Tokyo
Takahiro Hiroi
Takahiro Hiroi Brown University
Sander Goossens
Sander Goossens Goddard Space Flight Center
Naru Hirata
Naru Hirata University of Aizu
Tomoki Nakamura
Tomoki Nakamura Tohoku University
Tomokatsu Morota
Tomokatsu Morota University of Tokyo
Eberhard Grün
Eberhard Grün Max Planck Society
Junichi Haruyama
Junichi Haruyama Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Goro Komatsu
Goro Komatsu International Research School of Planetary Sciences

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