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Yoshiki Saito

Yoshiki Saito

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Earth Science
Japan
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
84
Citations
27898
World Ranking
392
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Yoshiki Saito is affiliated with Shimane University in Japan, focusing primarily on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly work encompasses a range of topics that integrate various aspects of geological and environmental processes.

Their research subfields include:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Ocean Engineering

Main topics covered in their work involve:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Noteworthy recent publications by Saito include:

  • "Earth's sediment cycle during the Anthropocene," 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Anthropogenic impacts on Late Holocene land-cover change and floristic biodiversity loss in tropical southeastern Asia," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Large deltas, small deltas: Toward a more rigorous understanding of coastal marine deltas," 2022, Global and Planetary Change
  • "Anthropogenic impacts on the decreasing sediment loads of nine major rivers in China, 1954-2015," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Climate and human battle for dominance over the Yellow River's sediment discharge: From the Mid-Holocene to the Anthropocene," 2020, Marine Geology

Saito collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Gregory S. Mountain
  • Kenneth G. Miller
  • Peter Blum
  • Per-Gunnar Alm
  • Marie-Pierre Aubry

Their work is often published in the following venues:

  • Marine Geology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Geomorphology

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Sinking deltas due to human activities

    James P. M. Syvitski;Albert J. Kettner;Irina Overeem;Eric W. H. Hutton

  • Stepwise decreases of the Huanghe (Yellow River) sediment load (1950–2005): Impacts of climate change and human activities

    Houjie Wang;Zuosheng Yang;Yoshiki Saito;J. Paul Liu

  • Morphodynamics of deltas under the influence of humans

    James P.M. Syvitski;Yoshiki Saito

  • Dam impacts on the Changjiang (Yangtze) River sediment discharge to the sea: The past 55 years and after the Three Gorges Dam

    Z. Yang;H. Wang;Y. Saito;J. D. Milliman

  • The Huanghe (Yellow River) and Changjiang (Yangtze River) deltas: a review on their characteristics, evolution and sediment discharge during the Holocene

    Yoshiki Saito;Zuosheng Yang;Kazuaki Hori

  • Interannual and seasonal variation of the Huanghe (Yellow River) water discharge over the past 50 years: Connections to impacts from ENSO events and dams

    Houjie Wang;Zuosheng Yang;Yoshiki Saito;J. Paul Liu

  • Earth’s sediment cycle during the Anthropocene

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  • Holocene variability of the Kuroshio Current in the Okinawa Trough, northwestern Pacific Ocean

    Zhimin Jian;Zhimin Jian;Pinxian Wang;Yoshiki Saito;Jiliang Wang

  • Man's Influence on the Erosion and Transport of Sediment by Asian Rivers: The Yellow River (Huanghe) Example

    John D. Milliman;Qin Yun-Shan;Ren Mei-E;Yoshiki Saito

  • Holocene delta evolution and sediment discharge of the Mekong River, southern Vietnam

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

  • Recent changes of sediment flux to the western Pacific Ocean from major rivers in East and Southeast Asia

    Houjie Wang;Houjie Wang;Yoshiki Saito;Yong Zhang;Naishuang Bi;Naishuang Bi

  • Recent changes in sediment delivery by the Huanghe (Yellow River) to the sea: Causes and environmental implications in its estuary

    Houjie Wang;Houjie Wang;Houjie Wang;Naishuang Bi;Naishuang Bi;Yoshiki Saito;Yan Wang

  • Sedimentary facies and Holocene progradation rates of the Changjiang (Yangtze) delta, China

    Kazuaki Hori;Yoshiki Saito;Quanhong Zhao;Xinrong Cheng

  • Formation and fate of sedimentary depocentres on Southeast Asia's Sunda Shelf over the past sea-level cycle and biogeographic implications

    Till J.J. Hanebuth;Harold K. Voris;Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama;Yoshiki Saito

  • Holocene evolution of the Song Hong (Red River) delta system, northern Vietnam

    Susumu Tanabe;Yoshiki Saito;Quang Lan Vu;Till J.J. Hanebuth

  • Impacts of the dam-orientated water-sediment regulation scheme on the lower reaches and delta of the Yellow River (Huanghe): A review

    Houjie Wang;Xiao Wu;Naishuang Bi;Song Li

  • Architecture and evolution of the tide-dominated Changjiang (Yangtze) River delta, China

    Kazuaki Hori;Yoshiki Saito;Quanhong Zhao;Pinxian Wang

  • Sedimentary facies of the tide-dominated paleo-Changjiang (Yangtze) estuary during the last transgression

    Kazuaki Hori;Yoshiki Saito;Quanhong Zhao;Xinrong Cheng

  • Delta progradation and chenier formation in the Huanghe (Yellow River) Delta, China

    Yoshiki Saito;Helong Wei;Yongqing Zhou;Akira Nishimura

  • Vegetation and climate changes in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Delta, China, during the past 13,000 years inferred from pollen records

    Sangheon Yi;Yoshiki Saito;Quanhong Zhao;Pinxian Wang

  • Sedimentary evolution of the Holocene subaqueous clinoform off the Shandong Peninsula in the Yellow Sea

    Jian Liu;Yoshiki Saito;Hong Wang;Zigeng Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Zuosheng Yang
Zuosheng Yang Ocean University of China
Houjie Wang
Houjie Wang Ocean University of China
Naishuang Bi
Naishuang Bi Ocean University of China
Zhanghua Wang
Zhanghua Wang East China Normal University
Pinxian Wang
Pinxian Wang Tongji University
James P. M. Syvitski
James P. M. Syvitski University of Colorado Boulder
Zhongyuan Chen
Zhongyuan Chen East China Normal University
Till J J Hanebuth
Till J J Hanebuth Coastal Carolina University
Mark D. Bateman
Mark D. Bateman University of Sheffield
Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo

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