2026 Toshio Nakagawa: 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	51	3833	3676	58	55	380	10447

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Engineering and Technology

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Engineering and Technology

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10447

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3833

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Overview

Toshio Nakagawa is affiliated with the Aichi Institute of Technology in Japan. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within engineering, computer science, and decision sciences.

The main fields of study for Toshio Nakagawa include:

Engineering
Computer Science
Decision Sciences

Within these broader fields, the scientist has contributed notably to subfields such as:

Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Software
Statistics and Probability
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Computer Networks and Communications

The core research topics addressed include:

Reliability and Maintenance Optimization
Software Reliability and Analysis Research
Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications
Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
Risk and Safety Analysis
Probability and Risk Models
Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring

Toshio Nakagawa has published a number of papers in various academic venues. Selected recent publications are:

Preventive replacement policies with time of operations, mission durations, minimal repairs and maintenance triggering approaches (2020), Journal of Manufacturing Systems
A Revisit of Age-Based Replacement Models With Exponential Failure Distributions (2021), IEEE Transactions on Reliability
Periodic replacement policies with shortage and excess costs (2020), Annals of Operations Research
Age and periodic replacement policies with two failure modes in general replacement models (2021), Reliability Engineering & System Safety
Preventive replacement policies for parallel systems with deviation costs between replacement and failure (2020), Annals of Operations Research

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Toshio Nakagawa are:

Satoshi Mizutani
Xufeng Zhao
Kodo Ito
Kenichiro Naruse
Mingchih Chen

Common publication venues include:

International Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety Engineering
Annals of Operations Research
Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods
Reliability Engineering & System Safety
2020 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modeling (APARM)

In addition to journal articles and conference papers, Toshio Nakagawa has contributed to book publications within the Springer series in reliability engineering. Notable titles include:

Optimal Inspection Models with Their Applications (2023)
Which-Is-Better (WIB): Problems in Reliability Theory (2023)

Best Publications

Maintenance Theory of Reliability

Toshio Nakagawa

825
Citations
The Discrete Weibull Distribution

Toshio Nakagawa;Shunji Osaki

581
Citations
Sequential imperfect preventive maintenance policies

T. Nakagawa

526
Citations
Shock and Damage Models in Reliability Theory

Toshio Nakagawa

381
Citations
Periodic and sequential preventive maintenance policies

Toshio Nakagawa

321
Citations
Optimum Policies When Preventive Maintenance is Imperfect

Toshio Nakagawa

276
Citations
Advanced Reliability Models and Maintenance Policies

Toshio Nakagawa

266
Citations
A summary of maintenance policies for a finite interval

Toshio Nakagawa;Satoshi Mizutani

264
Citations
Analysis of a system with minimal repair and its application to replacement policy

Toshio Nakagawa;Masashi Kowada

262
Citations
Bibliography for Reliability and Availability of Stochastic Systems

Shunji Osaki;Toshio Nakagawa

202
Citations
Extended optimal replacement model with random minimal repair costs

Shey-Huei Sheu;William S. Griffith;Toshio Nakagawa

171
Citations
New thermal neutron capture therapy for malignant melanoma: melanogenesis-seeking 10B molecule-melanoma cell interaction from in vitro to first clinical trial.

Yutaka Mishima;Masamitsu Ichihashi;Susumu Hatta;Chihiro Honda

170
Citations
Optimization problems of replacement first or last in reliability theory

Xufeng Zhao;Toshio Nakagawa

168
Citations
A SUMMARY OF PERIODIC REPLACEMENT WITH MINIMAL REPAIR AT FAILURE

Toshio Nakagawa

159
Citations
A summary of imperfect preventive maintenance policies with minimal repair

T. Nakagawa

155
Citations
Imperfect Preventive-Maintenance

Toshio Nakagawa

134
Citations
Preparation of micron-size monodisperse polymer particles having highly crosslinked structures and vinyl groups by seeded polymerization of divinylbenzene using the dynamic swelling method

M. Okubo;T. Nakagawa

132
Citations
Age replacement models: A summary with new perspectives and methods

Xufeng Zhao;Khalifa N. Al-Khalifa;Abdel Magid S. Hamouda;Toshio Nakagawa

129
Citations
On a Replacement Problem of a Cumulative Damage Model

Toshio Nakagawa

126
Citations
Stochastic Processes: with Applications to Reliability Theory

Toshio Nakagawa

126
Citations
Optimum Policies for a System with Imperfect Maintenance

Toshio Nakagawa;Kazumi Yasui

113
Citations