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Tomoo Katsura 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 Tomoo Katsura sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 271 publications — 81st percentile

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

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

Tomoo Katsura 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 Tomoo Katsura sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Tomoo Katsura is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant contribution to Materials Science as well. The main subfields of study include Geophysics, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering, and Ceramics and Composites.

The core topics of Tomoo Katsura's work encompass:

  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics

Tomoo Katsura has published extensively in various scientific journals and platforms. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Among recent papers, these notable ones include:

  • Synthesis of paracrystalline diamond, 2021, Nature
  • A Revised Adiabatic Temperature Profile for the Mantle, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • High pressure-temperature phase relations of basaltic crust up to mid-mantle conditions, 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Superhydrous aluminous silica phases as major water hosts in high-temperature lower mantle, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Toughening oxide glasses through paracrystallization, 2023, Nature Materials

Frequent co-authors in Tomoo Katsura's publications are:

  • Hongzhan Fei
  • Takayuki Ishii
  • Leonid Dubrovinsky
  • Elena Bykova
  • Zhaodong Liu

Tomoo Katsura's work has been recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • The system Mg2SiO4-Fe2SiO4 at high pressures and temperatures: Precise determination of stabilities of olivine, modified spinel, and spinel

    Tomoo Katsura;Eiji Ito

  • Adiabatic temperature profile in the mantle

    Tomoo Katsura;Tomoo Katsura;Akira Yoneda;Daisuke Yamazaki;Takashi Yoshino

  • Olivine‐wadsleyite transition in the system (Mg,Fe)2SiO4

    Tomoo Katsura;Hitoshi Yamada;Osamu Nishikawa;Osamu Nishikawa;Maoshuang Song

  • A Simple Derivation of the Birch–Murnaghan Equations of State (EOSs) and Comparison with EOSs Derived from Other Definitions of Finite Strain

    Tomoo Katsura;Yoshinori Tange

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

    Tetsuo Irifune;Norimasa Nishiyama;Koji Kuroda;Toru Inoue

  • Hydrous olivine unable to account for conductivity anomaly at the top of the asthenosphere

    Takashi Yoshino;Takuya Matsuzaki;Shigeru Yamashita;Tomoo Katsura

  • Mineralogy of subducted basaltic crust (MORB) from 25 to 37 GPa, and chemical heterogeneity of the lower mantle

    Shigeaki Ono;Shigeaki Ono;Eiji Ito;Tomoo Katsura

  • A temperature profile of the mantle transition zone

    Eiji Ito;Tomoo Katsura

  • Dry mantle transition zone inferred from the conductivity of wadsleyite and ringwoodite

    Takashi Yoshino;Geeth Manthilake;Takuya Matsuzaki;Tomoo Katsura

  • Core formation in planetesimals triggered by permeable flow

    Takashi Yoshino;Michael J. Walter;Tomoo Katsura

  • The effect of water on the electrical conductivity of olivine aggregates and its implications for the electrical structure of the upper mantle

    Takashi Yoshino;Takuya Matsuzaki;Anton Shatskiy;Tomoo Katsura

  • Post-spinel transition in Mg2SiO4 determined by high P–T in situ X-ray diffractometry

    Tomoo Katsura;Hitoshi Yamada;Toru Shinmei;Atsushi Kubo

  • High-pressure synthesis of the cubic perovskite BaRuO3 and evolution of ferromagnetism in ARuO3 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba) ruthenates.

    C. Q. Jin;J. S. Zhou;J. B. Goodenough;Q. Q. Liu

  • Small effect of water on upper-mantle rheology based on silicon self-diffusion coefficients

    Hongzhan Fei;Michael Wiedenbeck;Daisuke Yamazaki;Tomoo Katsura

  • Sound velocities and elastic properties of Fe-bearing wadsleyite and ringwoodite

    S. V. Sinogeikin;T. Katsura;T. Katsura;Jay D Bass

  • Synthesis of paracrystalline diamond.

    Hu Tang;Xiaohong Yuan;Yong Cheng;Hongzhan Fei

  • Electrical Conductivity of Mantle Minerals: Role of Water in Conductivity Anomalies

    Takashi Yoshino;Tomoo Katsura

  • Single-crystal elasticity of ringwoodite to high pressures and high temperatures: implications for 520 km seismic discontinuity

    Stanislav V Sinogeikin;Jay D Bass;Tomoo Katsura

  • A large-volume high-pressure and high-temperature apparatus for in situ X-ray observation, ‘SPEED-Mk.II’

    Tomoo Katsura;Ken ichi Funakoshi;Atsushi Kubo;Norimasa Nishiyama

  • A Revised Adiabatic Temperature Profile for the Mantle

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  • Electrical conductivity of basaltic and carbonatite melt-bearing peridotites at high pressures: Implications for melt distribution and melt fraction in the upper mantle

    Takashi Yoshino;Mickael Laumonier;Elizabeth McIsaac;Tomoo Katsura

  • Melting and subsolidus phase relations in the MgSiO3MgCO3 system at high pressures: implications to evolution of the Earth's atmosphere

    T. Katsura;E. Ito

Frequent Co-Authors

Eiji Ito
Eiji Ito Okayama University
Takashi Yoshino
Takashi Yoshino Okayama University
Daisuke Yamazaki
Daisuke Yamazaki Okayama University
Ken-ichi Funakoshi
Ken-ichi Funakoshi Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society
Nobuyoshi Miyajima
Nobuyoshi Miyajima University of Bayreuth
Naotaka Tomioka
Naotaka Tomioka Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Hisayoshi Yurimoto
Hisayoshi Yurimoto Hokkaido University
Konstantin D. Litasov
Konstantin D. Litasov Institute for High Pressure Physics
Eiji Ohtani
Eiji Ohtani Tohoku University
Michael J. Walter
Michael J. Walter Carnegie Institution for Science

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