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Toshiro Saino 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 Toshiro Saino sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 116 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Toshiro Saino 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 Toshiro Saino sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Toshiro Saino is affiliated with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular attention to the subfields of Oceanography and Ecology.

Their work extensively covers topics within marine and coastal ecosystems, isotope analysis in ecology, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes. These areas illustrate a comprehensive approach to understanding marine environments and the interactions within ecological systems.

Among their recent publications, one notable paper is "Seasonal and Interannual Variations in Nitrogen Availability and Particle Export in the Northwestern North Pacific Subtropical Gyre," published in 2020 in the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans.

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

  • Oceanography
  • Ecology

  • Seasonal and Interannual Variations in Nitrogen Availability and Particle Export in the Northwestern North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)

Frequent collaborators include Yoshihisa Mino, Chiho Sukigara, Makio C. Honda, Hajime Kawakami, and Masahide Wakita. Collaboration with these researchers reflects interdisciplinary engagement within the marine science community.

Saino's research is published predominantly in the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, which is a venue reflecting the scientist's focus on oceanographic topics.

Best Publications

  • A mesoscale iron enrichment in the western subarctic Pacific induces a large centric diatom bloom.

    Atsushi Tsuda;Shigenobu Takeda;Hiroaki Saito;Jun Nishioka

  • Influence of physical processes and freshwater discharge on the seasonality of phytoplankton regime in the Bay of Bengal

    Helga R Gomes;Joaquim I Goes;Joaquim I Goes;Toshiro Saino;Toshiro Saino

  • Temporal increases of phosphate and apparent oxygen utilization in the subsurface waters of western subarctic Pacific from 1968 to 1998

    T. Ono;T. Midorikawa;Y. W. Watanabe;K. Tadokoro

  • Dispersion of artificial caesium-134 and -137 in the western North Pacific one month after the Fukushima accident

    Makio C. Honda;Tatsuo Aono;Michio Aoyama;Yasunori Hamajima

  • Effects of decadal climate change on zooplankton over the last 50 years in the western subarctic North Pacific

    Sanae Chiba;Kazuaki Tadokoro;Kazuaki Tadokoro;Hiroya Sugisaki;Toshiro Saino;Toshiro Saino

  • A new vision of ocean biogeochemistry after a decade of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS).

    M. J. R. Fasham;B. M. Balino;M. C. Bowles;R. Anderson

  • From climate regime shifts to lower-trophic level phenology: Synthesis of recent progress in retrospective studies of the western North Pacific

    Sanae Chiba;Maki N. Aita;Kazuaki Tadokoro;Toshiro Saino;Toshiro Saino

  • Time series of seasonal variation of primary productivity at station KNOT (44°N, 155°E) in the sub-arctic western North Pacific

    Keiri Imai;Yukihiro Nojiri;Nobuo Tsurushima;Toshiro Saino

  • Basin scale estimates of sea surface nitrate and new production from remotely sensed sea surface temperature and chlorophyll

    Joaquim I. Goes;Joaquim I. Goes;Joaquim I. Goes;Toshiro Saino;Hiromi Oaku;Joji Ishizaka

  • An evaluation of isotope dilution effect from conventional data sets of 15N uptake experiments

    J. Kanda;E.A. Laws;T. Saino;A. Hattori

  • Inverse estimation of source parameters of oceanic radioactivity dispersion models associated with the Fukushima accident

    Y. Miyazawa;Y. Masumoto;S. M. Varlamov;T. Miyama

  • Temporal and spatial patterns of chemotaxonomic algal pigments in the subarctic Pacific and the Bering Sea during the early summer of 1999

    Koji Suzuki;Chie Minami;Hongbin Liu;Toshiro Saino

  • Responses of phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria in the northwest subarctic Pacific to in situ iron fertilization as estimated by HPLC pigment analysis and flow cytometry

    Koji Suzuki;Akira Hinuma;Hiroaki Saito;Hiroshi Kiyosawa

  • Eastߞwest gradients in the photosynthetic potential of phytoplankton and iron concentration in the subarctic Pacific Ocean during early summer

    Koji Suzuki;Hongbin Liu;Toshiro Saino;Hajime Obata

  • Interannual variation in Neocalanus biomass in the Oyashio waters of the western North Pacific

    Kazuaki Tadokoro;Sanae Chiba;Tsuneo Ono;Takashi Midorikawa

  • Phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing in the subarctic Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea during summer 1999

    Hongbin Liu;Koji Suzuki;Toshiro Saino

  • Seasonal cycle of phytoplankton community structure and photophysiological state in the western subarctic gyre of the North Pacific

    Tetsuichi Fujiki;Kazuhiko Matsumoto;Yoshihisa Mino;Yoshihisa Mino;Kosei Sasaoka

  • Basin-scale pCO2 distribution using satellite sea surface temperature, Chl a, and climatological salinity in the North Pacific in spring and summer

    V. V. S. S. Sarma;T. Saino;T. Saino;K. Sasaoka;Y. Nojiri

  • Variation in mesozooplankton community structure in the Japan/East Sea (1991–1999) with possible influence of the ENSO scale climatic variability

    Sanae Chiba;Toshiro Saino

  • Picoplankton community structure in the subarctic Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea during summer 1999

    Hongbin Liu;Koji Suzuki;Chie Minami;Toshiro Saino

  • Concentration and vertical flux of Fukushima-derived radiocesium in sinking particles from two sites in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean

    M. C. Honda;H. Kawakami;S. Watanabe;T. Saino

Frequent Co-Authors

Makio C. Honda
Makio C. Honda Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Sanae Chiba
Sanae Chiba Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
V. V. S. S. Sarma
V. V. S. S. Sarma National Institute of Oceanography
Yukihiro Nojiri
Yukihiro Nojiri National Institute for Environmental Studies
Sei-Ichi Saitoh
Sei-Ichi Saitoh Hokkaido University
Toshio Suga
Toshio Suga Tohoku University
Joji Ishizaka
Joji Ishizaka Nagoya University
Atsushi Tsuda
Atsushi Tsuda University of Tokyo
Hongbin Liu
Hongbin Liu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Kimio Hanawa
Kimio Hanawa Tohoku University

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