2026 Takashi Nagatani: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	58	2474	2365	31	29	315	13358

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Engineering and Technology

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13358

Engineering and Technology

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13358

World Ranking

2474

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Overview

Takashi Nagatani is affiliated with Shizuoka University in Japan and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Engineering and Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, with significant contributions in Control and Systems Engineering, Transportation, Ocean Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Sociology and Political Science.

The core topics of Nagatani's research include:

Traffic control and management
Transportation planning and optimization
Evacuation and crowd dynamics
Evolutionary game theory and cooperation
Mathematical and theoretical epidemiology and ecology models
Opinion dynamics and social influence
Complex network analysis techniques

The scientist has published extensively with notable frequent coauthors including Genki Ichinose and Kei-ichi Tainaka.

Nagatani's research is frequently published in venues such as:

Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Chaos Solitons & Fractals
Complexity
Biosystems

Some of the recent papers by Takashi Nagatani include:

"Traffic flow on percolation-backbone fractal," 2020, Chaos Solitons & Fractals
"Traffic flow on star graph: Nonlinear diffusion," 2020, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
"Chain reaction of traffic breakdowns in coupled-cycle networks," 2021, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
"Dynamic transition induced by route choice in two-route traffic network with onramp," 2022, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
"Macroscopic traffic flow in multiple-loop networks," 2022, Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

The body of Nagatani's work prominently addresses traffic flow and network dynamics, applying nonlinear diffusion models and investigating phenomena such as traffic breakdowns and route choice effects. Their investigations contribute to understanding complex transportation systems through theoretical and applied approaches.

Best Publications

The physics of traffic jams

Takashi Nagatani

1153
Citations
Jamming transition in pedestrian counter flow

Masakuni Muramatsu;Tunemasa Irie;Takashi Nagatani

663
Citations
Modified KdV equation for jamming transition in the continuum models of traffic

Takashi Nagatani

514
Citations
Lattice gas simulation of experimentally studied evacuation dynamics

Dirk Helbing;Motonari Isobe;Takashi Nagatani;Kouhei Takimoto

385
Citations
Stabilization and enhancement of traffic flow by the next-nearest-neighbor interaction.

Takashi Nagatani

370
Citations
TDGL and MKdV equations for jamming transition in the lattice models of traffic

Takashi Nagatani

304
Citations
Jamming transition in the traffic-flow model with two-level crossings

Takashi Nagatani

297
Citations
Jamming transition in two-dimensional pedestrian traffic

Masakuni Muramatsu;Takashi Nagatani

289
Citations
Scaling behavior of crowd flow outside a hall

Yusuke Tajima;Takashi Nagatani

284
Citations
Experiment, theory, and simulation of the evacuation of a room without visibility.

Motonari Isobe;Dirk Helbing;Takashi Nagatani

280
Citations
Jamming transition in a two-dimensional traffic flow model

Takashi Nagatani

256
Citations
Jamming transitions and the modified Korteweg–de Vries equation in a two-lane traffic flow

Takashi Nagatani

240
Citations
Experiment and simulation of pedestrian counter flow

Motoshige Isobe;Taku Adachi;Takashi Nagatani

214
Citations
Evacuation of crawlers and walkers from corridor through an exit

Ryoichi Nagai;Masahiro Fukamachi;Takashi Nagatani

211
Citations
Thermodynamic theory for the jamming transition in traffic flow

Takashi Nagatani

201
Citations
Scaling of pedestrian channel flow with a bottleneck

Yusuke Tajima;Kouhei Takimoto;Takashi Nagatani

196
Citations
Jamming transition of pedestrian traffic at a crossing with open boundaries

Masakuni Muramatsu;Takashi Nagatani

193
Citations
Clogging transition of pedestrian flow in T-shaped channel

Yusuke Tajima;Takashi Nagatani

180
Citations
Transition and saturation of traffic flow controlled by traffic lights

Masashi Sasaki;Takashi Nagatani

165
Citations
Self-organization and phase transition in traffic-flow model of a two-lane roadway

T Nagatani

158
Citations