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D-Index
74
Citations
17858
World Ranking
767
National Ranking
11

Yuji Sano 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 Yuji Sano sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 497 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yuji Sano 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 Yuji Sano sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% 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

  • 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
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Yuji Sano is affiliated with Kōchi University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Geophysics and related subfields such as Atmospheric Science and Environmental Chemistry. The scientist's research interests also include Astronomy and Astrophysics and Artificial Intelligence as applied within their main domain.

The research work spans multiple key topics including:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

Yuji Sano has coauthored numerous publications with frequent collaborators, including:

  • Naoto Takahata (53 joint publications)
  • Takanori Kagoshima (24 joint publications)
  • Sheng Xu (16 joint publications)
  • Maoliang Zhang (14 joint publications)
  • Kentaro Tanaka (11 joint publications)

The scientist's works have appeared in various publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Scientific Reports (9 publications)
  • IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems (7 publications)
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts (5 publications)
  • Journal of Hydrology (4 publications)
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry (4 publications)

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Yuji Sano include:

  • "Linking deeply-sourced volatile emissions to plateau growth dynamics in southeastern Tibetan Plateau," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Displaced cratonic mantle concentrates deep carbon during continental rifting," 2020, Nature
  • "Fluid geochemistry and geothermal anomaly along the Yushu-Ganzi-Xianshuihe fault system, eastern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for regional seismic activity," 2022, Journal of Hydrology
  • "Degassing of deep-sourced CO2 from Xianshuihe-Anninghe fault zones in the eastern Tibetan Plateau," 2021, Science China Earth Sciences
  • "Deciphering a mantle degassing transect related with India-Asia continental convergence from the perspective of volatile origin and outgassing," 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Yuji Sano was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Origin of carbon in fumarolic gas from island arcs

    Yuji Sano;Bernard Marty

  • Ground-water radon anomaly before the kobe earthquake in Japan.

    G. Igarashi;S. Saeki;N. Takahata;K. Sumikawa

  • Geographical distribution of 3He/4He ratios in Japan: Implications for arc tectonics and incipient magmatism

    Yuji Sano;Hiroshi Wakita

  • ATF-2 Is a Common Nuclear Target of Smad and TAK1 Pathways in Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling

    Yuji Sano;Jun Harada;Shigeki Tashiro;Ryoko Gotoh-Mandeville

  • Isotopic composition of helium, and CO2 and CH4 contents in gases produced along the New Zealand part of a convergent plate boundary

    W.F Giggenbach;Y Sano;H Wakita

  • Fluxes of mantle and subducted carbon along convergent plate boundaries

    Yuji Sano;Stanley N. Williams

  • Helium isotopes and CO2 in volcanic gases of Japan

    B. Marty;A. Jambon;Y. Sano

  • Carbon and nitrogen assimilation in deep subseafloor microbial cells.

    Yuki Morono;Takeshi Terada;Manabu Nishizawa;Motoo Ito

  • The 3He/4He ratio of the new internal He Standard of Japan (HESJ).

    J. Matsuda;T. Matsumoto;H. Sumino;K. Nagao

  • High mass resolution ion microprobe analysis of rare earth elements in silicate glass, apatite and zircon: lack of matrix dependency

    Yuji Sano;Yuji Sano;Kentaro Terada;Takaaki Fukuoka

  • Early trace of life from 3.95 Ga sedimentary rocks in Labrador, Canada

    Takayuki Tashiro;Akizumi Ishida;Masako Hori;Masako Hori;Motoko Igisu

  • Ion micro-probe U-Pb zircon geochronology of peak and retrograde stages of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic rocks from the Kokchetav massif, northern Kazakhstan

    Ikuo Katayama;Shigenori Maruyama;Christopher D Parkinson;Kentaro Terada

  • Chemical characteristics of newly discovered black smoker fluids and associated hydrothermal plumes at the Rodriguez Triple Junction, Central Indian Ridge

    Toshitaka Gamo;Hitoshi Chiba;Toshiro Yamanaka;Takamoto Okudaira

  • Volcanic flux of nitrogen from the Earth

    Yuji Sano;Naoto Takahata;Yoshiro Nishio;Tobias P Fischer

  • Two-stage partial melting and contrasting cooling history within the Higher Himalayan Crystalline Sequence in the far-eastern Nepal Himalaya

    Takeshi Imayama;Toru Takeshita;Keewook Yi;Deung Lyong Cho

  • Origins of volatile elements (H, C, N, noble gases) on Earth and Mars in light of recent results from the ROSETTA cometary mission

    Bernard Marty;Guillaume Avice;Yuji Sano;Kathrin Altwegg

  • Short-term and intermediate-term geochemical precursors

    Hiroshi Wakita;Yuji Nakamura;Yuji Sano

  • Evidence for the late formation of hydrous asteroids from young meteoritic carbonates

    Wataru Fujiya;Naoji Sugiura;Hideyuki Hotta;Koji Ichimura

  • First SHRIMP U–Pb zircon dating of granulites from the Kontum massif (Vietnam) and tectonothermal implications

    Tran Ngoc Nam;Yuji Sano;Kentaro Terada;Mitsuhiro Toriumi

  • Hydrothermal fluid geochemistry at the Iheya North field in the mid-Okinawa trough: Implication for origin of methane in subseafloor fluid circulation systems

    Shinsuke Kawagucci;Shinsuke Kawagucci;Hitoshi Chiba;Jun Ichiro Ishibashi;Toshiro Yamanaka

  • The abundance, distribution, and isotopic composition of Hydrogen in the Moon as revealed by basaltic lunar samples: Implications for the volatile inventory of the Moon

    Romain Tartèse;Mahesh Anand;Mahesh Anand;Jessica J. Barnes;Jessica J. Barnes;Natalie A. Starkey

Frequent Co-Authors

Naoto Takahata
Naoto Takahata University of Tokyo
Hiroshi Wakita
Hiroshi Wakita University of Tokyo
Toshitaka Gamo
Toshitaka Gamo University of Tokyo
Tobias P. Fischer
Tobias P. Fischer University of New Mexico
Mahesh Anand
Mahesh Anand The Open University
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi Kobe University
Urumu Tsunogai
Urumu Tsunogai Nagoya University
Hajime Obata
Hajime Obata University of Tokyo
Minoru Ikehara
Minoru Ikehara Kōchi University
Yuichiro Ueno
Yuichiro Ueno Tokyo Institute of Technology

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