2026 T. Sakamoto: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	86	2529	2404	73	70	1724	26275

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Physics

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1724

26275

Overview

T. Sakamoto is affiliated with Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their research portfolio includes 152 publications, covering various subfields such as Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Radiation, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of Sakamoto's work include gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, pulsars and gravitational waves research, astrophysical phenomena and observations, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, dark matter and cosmic phenomena, particle detector development and performance, and radiation therapy and dosimetry.

Sakamoto has authored papers published in a range of reputable scientific journals. Their frequent publication venues are:

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Astrophysical Journal
Physical Review Letters
arXiv (Cornell University)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Notable recent papers include:

A thousand days after the merger: Continued X-ray emission from GW170817 (2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
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)
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)
Rapid quasi-periodic oscillations in the relativistic jet of BL Lacertae (2022, Nature)
A deep survey of short GRB host galaxies over z ∼ 0-2: implications for offsets, redshifts, and environments (2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sakamoto include:

M. Mori
Katsuaki Asano
Kazunori Kohri
O. Adriani
Yosui Akaike

Best Publications

The association of GRB 060218 with a supernova and the evolution of the shock wave

Sergio Campana;V. Mangano;A.J. Blustin;P. Brown

1011
Citations
A γ-ray burst at a redshift of z ≈ 8.2

N. R. Tanvir;D. B. Fox;A. J. Levan;E. Berger

854
Citations
The X-ray counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW170817

E. Troja;E. Troja;L. Piro;H. van Eerten;R.T. Wollaeger

781
Citations
A short γ-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0.225

Neil Gehrels;C.L. Sarazin;Paul T. O'Brien;B. Zhang

743
Citations
Discovery of the Onset of Rapid Accretion by a Dormant Massive Black Hole

D.N. Burrows;F.E. Marshall;S.T. Holland;M. Eracleous

731
Citations
A new γ-ray burst classification scheme from GRB 060614

N. Gehrels;J. P. Norris;S. D. Barthelmy;J. Granot

644
Citations
A giant γ-ray flare from the magnetar SGR 1806–20

D.M. Palmer;S. Barthelmy;N. Gehrels;R.M. Kippen

622
Citations
A Photometric Redshift of z ~ 9.4 for GRB 090429B

A. Cucchiara;A. Cucchiara;A. Cucchiara;A. J. Levan;D. B. Fox;N. R. Tanvir

600
Citations
A Photometric Redshift of z ~ 9.4 for GRB 090429B

A. Cucchiara;A. J. Levan;D. B. Fox;N. R. Tanvir

553
Citations
The Swift-BAT Hard X-ray Transient Monitor

H. A. Krimm;H. A. Krimm;S. T. Holland;S. T. Holland;R. H. D. Corbet;R. H. D. Corbet;A. B. Pearlman;A. B. Pearlman;A. B. Pearlman

466
Citations
An origin for short gamma-ray bursts unassociated with current star formation

S D Barthelmy;G Chincarini;G Chincarini;D N Burrows;N Gehrels

463
Citations
Jet breaks and Energetics of Swift GRB X-ray Afterglows

J. L. Racusin;E. W. Liang;D. N. Burrows;A. Falcone

419
Citations
Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of Markarian 421: The Missing Piece of its Spectral Energy Distribution

A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;L. Baldini

412
Citations
Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova.

P. A. Evans;S. B. Cenko;S. B. Cenko;J. A. Kennea;S. W. K. Emery

387
Citations
Jet Breaks and Energetics of Swift Gamma-Ray Burst X-Ray Afterglows

J. L. Racusin;E. W. Liang;E. W. Liang;D. N. Burrows;A. Falcone

373
Citations
GRB Radiative Efficiencies Derived from the Swift Data: GRBs vs. XRFs, Long vs. Short

Bing Zhang;Enwei Liang;Kim L. Page;Dirk Grupe

371
Citations
The Second Swift BAT Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog

T. Sakamoto;S. D. Barthelmy;W. H. Baumgartner;J. R. Cummings

359
Citations
Discovery of the short |[gamma]|-ray burst GRB 050709

J. S. Villasenor;D. Q. Lamb;G. R. Ricker;J.-L. Atteia

343
Citations
An unexpectedly rapid decline in the X-ray afterglow emission of long γ-ray bursts

G. Tagliaferri;M. Goad;G. Chincarini;G. Chincarini;A. Moretti

330
Citations
GRB Radiative Efficiencies Derived from the Swift Data: GRBs versus XRFs, Long versus Short

Bing Zhang;Enwei Liang;Enwei Liang;Kim L. Page;Dirk Grupe

309
Citations