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Takashi Hirano

Takashi Hirano

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Environmental Sciences 48 5578 5348 99 96 198 8004

Takashi Hirano publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Takashi Hirano between 1986 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Takashi Hirano published across 41 years, from 1986 to 2026, averaging 5.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 17 publications in 2021. 11 of the 234 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1986 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 17. Peak 17 publications in 2021. 1986: 1 publication 1987: 0 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 2 publications 1992: 4 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 3 publications 1995: 3 publications 1996: 5 publications 1997: 4 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 4 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 5 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 13 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 10 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 9 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 10 publications 2015: 12 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 12 publications 2021: 17 publications 2022: 9 publications 2023: 10 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 9 publications 2026: 2 publications
1986 2026

234 publications in total across all disciplines

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Takashi Hirano: publications per year, 1986 to 2026
Year Publications
1986 1
1987 0
1988 1
1989 0
1990 1
1991 2
1992 4
1993 2
1994 3
1995 3
1996 5
1997 4
1998 2
1999 1
2000 4
2001 2
2002 5
2003 5
2004 2
2005 13
2006 6
2007 2
2008 4
2009 5
2010 10
2011 5
2012 9
2013 7
2014 10
2015 12
2016 8
2017 13
2018 9
2019 9
2020 12
2021 17
2022 9
2023 10
2024 6
2025 9
2026 2
Total 234
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Takashi Hirano publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Takashi Hirano sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 66 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 41–50 to 690+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 617. Most scientists, 617, have 121–130 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 191–200 publications, is where this scientist sits. 41–50 publications: 21 scientists 51–60 publications: 62 scientists 61–70 publications: 133 scientists 71–80 publications: 257 scientists 81–90 publications: 361 scientists 91–100 publications: 440 scientists 101–110 publications: 492 scientists 111–120 publications: 541 scientists 121–130 publications: 617 scientists 131–140 publications: 544 scientists 141–150 publications: 541 scientists 151–160 publications: 539 scientists 161–170 publications: 444 scientists 171–180 publications: 444 scientists 181–190 publications: 400 scientists 191–200 publications: 377 scientists 201–210 publications: 318 scientists 211–220 publications: 282 scientists 221–230 publications: 263 scientists 231–240 publications: 220 scientists 241–250 publications: 217 scientists 251–260 publications: 180 scientists 261–270 publications: 181 scientists 271–280 publications: 155 scientists 281–290 publications: 130 scientists 291–300 publications: 127 scientists 301–310 publications: 130 scientists 311–320 publications: 85 scientists 321–330 publications: 106 scientists 331–340 publications: 80 scientists 341–350 publications: 83 scientists 351–360 publications: 75 scientists 361–370 publications: 69 scientists 371–380 publications: 52 scientists 381–390 publications: 54 scientists 391–400 publications: 56 scientists 401–410 publications: 44 scientists 411–420 publications: 40 scientists 421–430 publications: 36 scientists 431–440 publications: 25 scientists 441–450 publications: 25 scientists 451–460 publications: 32 scientists 461–470 publications: 29 scientists 471–480 publications: 21 scientists 481–490 publications: 26 scientists 491–500 publications: 26 scientists 501–510 publications: 17 scientists 511–520 publications: 19 scientists 521–530 publications: 15 scientists 531–540 publications: 22 scientists 541–550 publications: 12 scientists 551–560 publications: 15 scientists 561–570 publications: 11 scientists 571–580 publications: 19 scientists 581–590 publications: 9 scientists 591–600 publications: 9 scientists 601–610 publications: 7 scientists 611–620 publications: 11 scientists 621–630 publications: 5 scientists 631–640 publications: 5 scientists 641–650 publications: 6 scientists 651–660 publications: 3 scientists 661–670 publications: 3 scientists 671–680 publications: 4 scientists 681–689 publications: 4 scientists 690+ publications: 100 scientists
41–50 publications 690+

This scientist: 198 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
41–50 21
51–60 62
61–70 133
71–80 257
81–90 361
91–100 440
101–110 492
111–120 541
121–130 617
131–140 544
141–150 541
151–160 539
161–170 444
171–180 444
181–190 400
191–200 377 198
201–210 318
211–220 282
221–230 263
231–240 220
241–250 217
251–260 180
261–270 181
271–280 155
281–290 130
291–300 127
301–310 130
311–320 85
321–330 106
331–340 80
341–350 83
351–360 75
361–370 69
371–380 52
381–390 54
391–400 56
401–410 44
411–420 40
421–430 36
431–440 25
441–450 25
451–460 32
461–470 29
471–480 21
481–490 26
491–500 26
501–510 17
511–520 19
521–530 15
531–540 22
541–550 12
551–560 15
561–570 11
571–580 19
581–590 9
591–600 9
601–610 7
611–620 11
621–630 5
631–640 5
641–650 6
651–660 3
661–670 3
671–680 4
681–689 4
690+ 100
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Takashi Hirano D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

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

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 97 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 126+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 348. Most scientists, 348, have 45 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 48 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 12 scientists 31 D-Index: 26 scientists 32 D-Index: 51 scientists 33 D-Index: 88 scientists 34 D-Index: 123 scientists 35 D-Index: 163 scientists 36 D-Index: 206 scientists 37 D-Index: 267 scientists 38 D-Index: 265 scientists 39 D-Index: 275 scientists 40 D-Index: 321 scientists 41 D-Index: 343 scientists 42 D-Index: 305 scientists 43 D-Index: 336 scientists 44 D-Index: 330 scientists 45 D-Index: 348 scientists 46 D-Index: 291 scientists 47 D-Index: 275 scientists 48 D-Index: 272 scientists 49 D-Index: 273 scientists 50 D-Index: 263 scientists 51 D-Index: 232 scientists 52 D-Index: 266 scientists 53 D-Index: 217 scientists 54 D-Index: 198 scientists 55 D-Index: 177 scientists 56 D-Index: 202 scientists 57 D-Index: 204 scientists 58 D-Index: 166 scientists 59 D-Index: 177 scientists 60 D-Index: 166 scientists 61 D-Index: 152 scientists 62 D-Index: 143 scientists 63 D-Index: 150 scientists 64 D-Index: 124 scientists 65 D-Index: 119 scientists 66 D-Index: 120 scientists 67 D-Index: 118 scientists 68 D-Index: 82 scientists 69 D-Index: 98 scientists 70 D-Index: 94 scientists 71 D-Index: 105 scientists 72 D-Index: 74 scientists 73 D-Index: 84 scientists 74 D-Index: 70 scientists 75 D-Index: 67 scientists 76 D-Index: 78 scientists 77 D-Index: 60 scientists 78 D-Index: 59 scientists 79 D-Index: 52 scientists 80 D-Index: 47 scientists 81 D-Index: 38 scientists 82 D-Index: 48 scientists 83 D-Index: 42 scientists 84 D-Index: 42 scientists 85 D-Index: 43 scientists 86 D-Index: 29 scientists 87 D-Index: 37 scientists 88 D-Index: 29 scientists 89 D-Index: 30 scientists 90 D-Index: 34 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 22 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 19 scientists 95 D-Index: 24 scientists 96 D-Index: 21 scientists 97 D-Index: 20 scientists 98 D-Index: 24 scientists 99 D-Index: 17 scientists 100 D-Index: 17 scientists 101 D-Index: 21 scientists 102 D-Index: 25 scientists 103 D-Index: 18 scientists 104 D-Index: 26 scientists 105 D-Index: 20 scientists 106 D-Index: 15 scientists 107 D-Index: 10 scientists 108 D-Index: 13 scientists 109 D-Index: 15 scientists 110 D-Index: 12 scientists 111 D-Index: 8 scientists 112 D-Index: 7 scientists 113 D-Index: 9 scientists 114 D-Index: 6 scientists 115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116 D-Index: 7 scientists 117 D-Index: 8 scientists 118 D-Index: 3 scientists 119 D-Index: 5 scientists 120 D-Index: 7 scientists 121 D-Index: 2 scientists 122 D-Index: 4 scientists 123 D-Index: 8 scientists 124 D-Index: 7 scientists 125 D-Index: 9 scientists 126+ D-Index: 92 scientists
30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

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Number of Environmental Sciences scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,676 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 12
31 26
32 51
33 88
34 123
35 163
36 206
37 267
38 265
39 275
40 321
41 343
42 305
43 336
44 330
45 348
46 291
47 275
48 272 48
49 273
50 263
51 232
52 266
53 217
54 198
55 177
56 202
57 204
58 166
59 177
60 166
61 152
62 143
63 150
64 124
65 119
66 120
67 118
68 82
69 98
70 94
71 105
72 74
73 84
74 70
75 67
76 78
77 60
78 59
79 52
80 47
81 38
82 48
83 42
84 42
85 43
86 29
87 37
88 29
89 30
90 34
91 20
92 22
93 17
94 19
95 24
96 21
97 20
98 24
99 17
100 17
101 21
102 25
103 18
104 26
105 20
106 15
107 10
108 13
109 15
110 12
111 8
112 7
113 9
114 6
115 12
116 7
117 8
118 3
119 5
120 7
121 2
122 4
123 8
124 7
125 9
126+ 92
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Overview

Takashi Hirano is affiliated with Hokkaido University in Japan and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Water Science and Technology, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research encompasses several main topics, including Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Oil Palm Production and Sustainability, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Climate Variability and Models.

Takashi Hirano has contributed to multiple publications, with frequent venues including IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Journal of Agricultural Meteorology, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Global Change Biology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hirano include Masahito Ueyama, E. S. Euskirchen, Matthias Peichl, Ankur R. Desai, and Ivan Mammarella.

Selected recent papers by Takashi Hirano include:

  • FLUXNET-CH 4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands (2021), published in Earth system science data
  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales (2021), published in Global Change Biology
  • Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands (2021), published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • The Potential of Peatlands as Nature-Based Climate Solutions (2022), published in Current Climate Change Reports
  • Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions (2021), published in Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Carbon dioxide balance of a tropical peat swamp forest in Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Takashi Hirano;Hendrik Segah;Hendrik Segah;Tsuyoshi Harada;Suwido Limin

  • Physical effects of dust on leaf physiology of cucumber and kidney bean plants.

    T. Hirano;M. Kiyota;I. Aiga

  • The land-atmosphere water flux in the tropics

    Joshua B. Fisher;Yadvinder Malhi;Damien Bonal;Humberto R. Da Rocha

  • Raman spectroscopic determination of hydration number of methane hydrates

    Tsutomu Uchida;Takashi Hirano;Takao Ebinuma;Hideo Narita

  • Controls on the carbon balance of tropical peatlands.

    Takashi Hirano;Jyrki Jauhiainen;Takashi Inoue;Hidenori Takahashi

  • Effects of disturbances on the carbon balance of tropical peat swamp forests

    Takashi Hirano;Hendrik Segah;Kitso Kusin;Suwido Limin

  • FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity : Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

    Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson;Benjamin Poulter;Gavin McNicol

  • Comparisons of energy balance and evapotranspiration between flooded and aerobic rice fields in the Philippines

    Ma. Carmelita R. Alberto;Reiner Wassmann;Takashi Hirano;Akira Miyata

  • Spatial distribution of carbon balance in forest ecosystems across East Asia

    Ryuichi Hirata;Nobuko Saigusa;Susumu Yamamoto;Yoshikazu Ohtani

  • Long-term half-hourly measurement of soil CO2 concentration and soil respiration in a temperate deciduous forest

    Takashi Hirano;Honghyun Kim;Yumiko Tanaka

  • In situ comparison of four approaches to estimating soil CO2 efflux in a northern larch (Larix kaempferi Sarg.) forest

    Naishen Liang;Toshie Nakadai;Takashi Hirano;Laiye Qu

  • Looking deeper into the soil: biophysical controls and seasonal lags of soil CO2 production and efflux.

    Rodrigo Vargas;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Michael F. Allen;Michael Bahn

  • Temporal and spatial variations in the seasonal patterns of CO2 flux in boreal, temperate, and tropical forests in East Asia

    Nobuko Saigusa;Susumu Yamamoto;Ryuichi Hirata;Yoshikazu Ohtani

  • Carbon dioxide emissions through oxidative peat decomposition on a burnt tropical peatland

    Takashi Hirano;Kitso Kusin;Suwido Limin;Mitsuru Osaki

  • FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

    Kyle B. Delwiche;Sara Helen Knox;Avni Malhotra;Etienne Fluet-Chouinard

  • Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms.

    Shuli Niu;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Shenfeng Fei;Wenping Yuan

  • CO2/heat fluxes in rice fields: Comparative assessment of flooded and non-flooded fields in the Philippines

    Ma. Carmelita R. Alberto;Reiner Wassmann;Takashi Hirano;Akira Miyata

  • New data-driven estimation of terrestrial CO2 fluxes in Asia using a standardized database of eddy covariance measurements, remote sensing data, and support vector regression

    Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Kazuhito Ichii;Masahito Ueyama;Masayuki Kondo;Masayuki Kondo;Nobuko Saigusa

  • Seasonal and interannual variations in carbon dioxide exchange of a temperate larch forest

    Ryuichi Hirata;Takashi Hirano;Nobuko Saigusa;Yasumi Fujinuma

  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales.

    Sara Helen Knox;Sheel Bansal;Gavin McNicol;Karina Schafer

  • Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences

    Lahiru S. Wijedasa;Jyrki Jauhiainen;Mari Könönen;Maija Lampela

  • Response of surface air temperature to small-scale land clearing across latitudes

    Mi Zhang;Xuhui Lee;Guirui Yu;Shijie Han

Frequent Co-Authors

Nobuko Saigusa
Nobuko Saigusa National Institute for Environmental Studies
Masahito Ueyama
Masahito Ueyama Osaka Metropolitan University
Kentaro Takagi
Kentaro Takagi Hokkaido University
Kazuhito Ichii
Kazuhito Ichii Chiba University
Takeshi Ohta
Takeshi Ohta Nagoya University
Eugénie S. Euskirchen
Eugénie S. Euskirchen University of Alaska Fairbanks
Mitsuru Osaki
Mitsuru Osaki Hokkaido University
Shenggong Li
Shenggong Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huimin Wang
Huimin Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yoshiko Kosugi
Yoshiko Kosugi Kyoto University

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