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Toshio Nakamura

Toshio Nakamura

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Earth Science

D-Index
44
Citations
8900
World Ranking
4641
National Ranking
113

Overview

Toshio Nakamura is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan, focusing primarily on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as Medicine. Their work encompasses multiple subfields, notably Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Paleontology.

The main topics addressed in Nakamura's research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management

Nakamura has published in a variety of scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Radiocarbon
  • Journal of Food Science and Nutrition Research
  • Applied Geochemistry
  • Cancer Medicine
  • Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

Significant recent papers include:

  • A geochemical approach for identifying marine incursions: Implications for tsunami geology on the Pacific coast of northeast Japan, 2020, Applied Geochemistry
  • Cumulative incidence of venous thromboembolism in patients with advanced cancer in prospective observational study, 2021, Cancer Medicine
  • Regional Differences in Carbon-14 Data of the 993 CE Cosmic Ray Event, 2022, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
  • A 1179-yr (417-1595 CE) tree-ring oxygen isotope chronology for northern Japan validated using the 774-775 CE radiocarbon spike, 2024, Radiocarbon
  • New data and synthesis of ΔR estimates from the northern Pacific Ocean, 2020, Quaternary Research

Their collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Takuo Tsuno, Katsuhiko Kimura, Masataka Hakozaki, Mizuka Kobayashi, and Shiori Nakagawa, each featuring multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Holocene vegetation variation in the Daihai Lake region of north-central China: a direct indication of the Asian monsoon climatic history

    Jule Xiao;Qinghai Xu;Toshio Nakamura;Xiaolan Yang

  • A signature of cosmic-ray increase in ad 774–775 from tree rings in Japan

    Fusa Miyake;Kentaro Nagaya;Kimiaki Masuda;Toshio Nakamura

  • The age of tropical rain-forest canopy species, Borneo ironwood (Eusideroxylon zwageri), determined by 14C dating

    Hiroko Kurokawa;Toshiya Yoshida;Toshio Nakamura;Julaihi Lai

  • Holocene East Asian monsoonal precipitation pattern revealed by grain-size distribution of core sediments of Daihai Lake in Inner Mongolia of north-central China

    Yanjia Peng;Jule Xiao;Toshio Nakamura;Baolin Liu

  • Another rapid event in the carbon-14 content of tree rings

    Fusa Miyake;Kimiaki Masuda;Toshio Nakamura

  • Sediment facies and Late Holocene progradation of the Mekong River Delta in Bentre Province, southern Vietnam: an example of evolution from a tide-dominated to a tide- and wave-dominated delta

    Thi Kim Oanh Ta;Van Lap Nguyen;Masaaki Tateishi;Iwao Kobayashi

  • Spatial and temporal variability of surface water in the Kuroshio source region, Pacific Ocean, over the past 21,000 years: evidence from planktonic foraminifera

    Yurika Ujiié;Hiroshi Ujiié;Asahiko Taira;Toshio Nakamura

  • Holocene climate changes in the monsoon/arid transition reflected by carbon concentration in Daihai Lake of Inner Mongolia

    Jule Xiao;Jintao Wu;Bin Si;Wendong Liang

  • Holocene climate changes over the desert/loess transition of north-central China

    Jule Xiao;Toshio Nakamura;Huayu Lu;Guangyu Zhang

  • Discovery of Minoan tsunami deposits

    K Minoura;F Imamura;U Kuran;T Nakamura

  • AMS 14C Dating of Varved Sediments from Lake Suigetsu, Central Japan and Atmospheric 14C Change During the Late Pleistocene

    Hiroyuki Kitagawa;Hitoshi Fukuzawa;Toshio Nakamura;Makoto Okamura

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and climate records from Lake Kotokel, central Baikal region

    Koji Shichi;Hikaru Takahara;Sergey K. Krivonogov;Elena V. Bezrukova

  • AMS-14C Ages of Japan Sea Cores from the Oki Ridge

    Tadamichi Oba;Masafumi Murayama;Eiji Matsumoto;Toshio Nakamura

  • The 1500-year climate oscillation in the midlatitude North Pacific during the Holocene

    Dai Isono;Masanobu Yamamoto;Tomohisa Irino;Tadamichi Oba

  • Phylogenetic analysis of bacteria preserved in a permafrost ice wedge for 25,000 years.

    Taiki Katayama;Michiko Tanaka;Jun Moriizumi;Toshio Nakamura

  • Cyclicity of Solar Activity During the Maunder Minimum Deduced from Radiocarbon Content

    Hiroko Miyahara;Kimiaki Masuda;Yasushi Muraki;Hideki Furuzawa

  • Fluctuations of nitrogen isotope ratio of gobiid fish (Isaza) specimens and sediments in Lake Biwa, Japan, during the 20th century

    Nanako O. Ogawa;Tadatoshi Koitabashi;Hirotaka Oda;Toshio Nakamura

  • Radiocarbon dating of charred residues on the earliest pottery in Japan.

    Toshio Nakamura;Yasuhiro Taniguchi;Sei ichiro Tsuji;Hirotaka Oda

  • Response of phytoplankton productivity to climate change recorded by sedimentary photosynthetic pigments in Lake Hovsgol (Mongolia) for the last 23,000 years

    Fumiko Nara;Fumiko Nara;Yukinori Tani;Yuko Soma;Mitsuyuki Soma

  • Small changes in the sea surface temperature during the last 20,000 years: Molecular evidence from the western tropical Pacific

    N. Ohkouchi;K. Kawamura;T. Nakamura;A. Taira

  • Diurnal variation of CO2 concentration, Δ14C and δ13C in an urban forest: estimate of the anthropogenic and biogenic CO2 contributions

    Hiroshi A. Takahashi;Eiichi Konohira;Tetsuya Hiyama;Masayo Minami

  • Late pleistocene-holocene paleoproductivity circulation in the Japan sea: Sea-level control on δ13C and δ15N records of sediment organic material

    K. Minoura;K. Hoshino;T. Nakamura;E. Wada

  • Corrigendum: Another rapid event in the carbon-14 content of tree rings

    Fusa Miyake;Kimiaki Masuda;Toshio Nakamura

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroyuki Kitagawa
Hiroyuki Kitagawa Nagoya University
Liping Zhu
Liping Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yasushi Muraki
Yasushi Muraki Nagoya University
Asahiko Taira
Asahiko Taira Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Jule Xiao
Jule Xiao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tadamichi Oba
Tadamichi Oba Hokkaido University
Naohiko Ohkouchi
Naohiko Ohkouchi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Hodaka Kawahata
Hodaka Kawahata University of Tokyo
Takeshi Nakatsuka
Takeshi Nakatsuka Nagoya University
Takakiyo Nakazawa
Takakiyo Nakazawa Tohoku University

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