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Tetsuo Irifune

Tetsuo Irifune

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 61 1778 1596 39 35 496 14486

Tetsuo Irifune publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Tetsuo Irifune between 1981 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Tetsuo Irifune published across 45 years, from 1981 to 2025, averaging 15.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 56 publications in 2018. 30 of the 683 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40 50
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1981 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 56. Peak 56 publications in 2018. 1981: 1 publication 1982: 2 publications 1983: 2 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 1 publication 1986: 3 publications 1987: 4 publications 1988: 3 publications 1989: 2 publications 1990: 2 publications 1991: 1 publication 1992: 2 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 6 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 4 publications 1997: 4 publications 1998: 10 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 8 publications 2002: 6 publications 2003: 11 publications 2004: 12 publications 2005: 11 publications 2006: 20 publications 2007: 13 publications 2008: 25 publications 2009: 12 publications 2010: 27 publications 2011: 24 publications 2012: 32 publications 2013: 32 publications 2014: 31 publications 2015: 38 publications 2016: 38 publications 2017: 41 publications 2018: 56 publications 2019: 45 publications 2020: 52 publications 2021: 41 publications 2022: 12 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 15 publications 2025: 15 publications
1981 2025

683 publications in total across all disciplines

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Tetsuo Irifune: publications per year, 1981 to 2025
Year Publications
1981 1
1982 2
1983 2
1984 0
1985 1
1986 3
1987 4
1988 3
1989 2
1990 2
1991 1
1992 2
1993 2
1994 6
1995 1
1996 4
1997 4
1998 10
1999 4
2000 3
2001 8
2002 6
2003 11
2004 12
2005 11
2006 20
2007 13
2008 25
2009 12
2010 27
2011 24
2012 32
2013 32
2014 31
2015 38
2016 38
2017 41
2018 56
2019 45
2020 52
2021 41
2022 12
2023 9
2024 15
2025 15
Total 683
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Tetsuo Irifune 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 Tetsuo Irifune sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 488–497 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 496 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15 496
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Tetsuo Irifune 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 Tetsuo Irifune sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 61 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96 61
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Tetsuo Irifune is affiliated with Ehime University in Japan, conducting extensive research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Materials Science. Their work spans numerous subfields including Geophysics, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The research topics covered by Irifune predominantly focus on high-pressure geophysics and materials. Additional topics include geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, diamond and carbon-based materials research, metal and thin film mechanics, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials.

Irifune has contributed to various scientific journals and publication venues, with frequent appearances in Physical Review B, arXiv (Cornell University), The Cambridge Structural Database, Geophysical Research Letters, and Nature Communications.

Some of Irifune's recent scientific papers are:

  • Local electronic structure rearrangements and strong anharmonicity in YH3 under pressures up to 180 GPa, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • Melting Curve and Phase Relations of Fe-Ni Alloys: Implications for the Earth's Core Composition, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Revealing the Complex Nature of Bonding in the Binary High-Pressure Compound FeO2, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Melting properties by X-ray absorption spectroscopy: common signatures in binary Fe-C, Fe-O, Fe-S and Fe-Si systems, 2020, Scientific Reports

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Irifune's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Angelika D. Rosa
  • Toru Shinmei
  • R. Torchio
  • Olivier Mathon
  • Emin Mijit

Among honors, Irifune was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Materials: Ultrahard polycrystalline diamond from graphite.

    Tetsuo Irifune;Ayako Kurio;Shizue Sakamoto;Toru Inoue

  • Phase transformations in subducted oceanic crust and buoyancy relationships at depths of 600–800 km in the mantle

    T. Irifune;A.E. Ringwood

  • Stagnant slab : A review

    Yoshio Fukao;Tomoeki Nakakuki;Hisashi Utada;Daisuke Suetsugu

  • Absence of an aluminous phase in the upper part of the Earth's lower mantle

    Tetsuo Irifune

  • Nature of the 650–km seismic discontinuity: implications for mantle dynamics and differentiation

    A. E. Ringwood;T. Irifune

  • An experimental investigation of the pyroxene-garnet transformation in a pyrolite composition and its bearing on the constitution of the mantle

    Tetsuo Irifune

  • Stability of magnesite and its high-pressure form in the lowermost mantle

    Maiko Isshiki;Tetsuo Irifune;Kei Hirose;Shigeaki Ono

  • Subduction of continental crust and terrigenous and pelagic sediments: an experimental study

    T. Irifune;A.E. Ringwood;W.O. Hibberson

  • The Postspinel Phase Boundary in Mg2SiO4 Determined by in Situ X-ray Diffraction

    Tetsuo Irifune;Norimasa Nishiyama;Koji Kuroda;Toru Inoue

  • Experimental determination of element partitioning between silicate perovskites, garnets and liquids: constraints on early differentiation of the mantle

    T. Kato;A.E. Ringwood;T. Irifune

  • Phase transformations in a harzburgite composition to 26 GPa: implications for dynamical behaviour of the subducting slab

    T. Irifune;A.E. Ringwood

  • Stability of hydrous silicate at high pressures and water transport to the deep lower mantle

    M. Nishi;M. Nishi;T. Irifune;T. Irifune;J. Tsuchiya;J. Tsuchiya;Y. Tange;Y. Tange

  • Iron Partitioning and Density Changes of Pyrolite in Earth’s Lower Mantle

    Tetsuo Irifune;Toru Shinmei;Catherine A. McCammon;Nobuyoshi Miyajima

  • The eclogite-garnetite transformation at high pressure and some geophysical implications

    T. Irifune;T. Sekine;A.E. Ringwood;W.O. Hibberson

  • Phase Relations and Volume Changes of Hafnia under High Pressure and High Temperature

    Osamu Ohtaka;Hiroshi Fukui;Taichi Kunisada;Tomoyuki Fujisawa

  • Phase transformations and mantle dynamics

    A.E. Ringwood

  • A new high-pressure form of MgAl2O4

    T. Irifune;K. Fujino;E. Ohtani

  • An experimental study of the garnet-perovskite transformation in the system MgSiO3Mg3Al2Si3O12

    Tetsuo Irifune;Tomomi Koizumi;Jun-ichi Ando

  • Hardness and deformation microstructures of nano-polycrystalline diamonds synthesized from various carbons under high pressure and high temperature

    H. Sumiya;T. Irifune

  • Phase relations and equations of state of ZrO 2 under high temperature and high pressure

    O. Ohtaka;H. Fukui;T. Kunisada;T. Fujisawa

  • Sound velocities of majorite garnet and the composition of the mantle transition region

    T. Irifune;Y. Higo;T. Inoue;Y. Kono

  • Iron partitioning in a pyrolite mantle and the nature of the 410-km seismic discontinuity

    Tetsuo Irifune;Maiko Isshiki

  • Formation of pure polycrystalline diamond by direct conversion of graphite at high pressure and high temperature

    Tetsuo Irifune;Ayako Kurio;Shizue Sakamoto;Toru Inoue

  • PVT relation of MgO derived by simultaneous elastic wave velocity and in situ X-ray measurements: A new pressure scale for the mantle transition region

    Yoshio Kono;Tetsuo Irifune;Yuji Higo;Toru Inoue

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken-ichi Funakoshi
Ken-ichi Funakoshi Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society
Toru Inoue
Toru Inoue Hiroshima University
Yoshihiko Takano
Yoshihiko Takano National Institute for Materials Science
Hitoshi Sumiya
Hitoshi Sumiya Sumitomo Electric Industries (United States)
Luca Bindi
Luca Bindi University of Florence
Takehiko Yagi
Takehiko Yagi University of Tokyo
Daisuke Yamazaki
Daisuke Yamazaki Okayama University
Takumi Kikegawa
Takumi Kikegawa High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
Ryoji Takahashi
Ryoji Takahashi Ehime University
Lin-gun Liu
Lin-gun Liu Academia Sinica

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