Akihiko Murata

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
143 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Akihiko Murata is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Akihiko Murata has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 77 papers in Atmospheric Science and 70 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Akihiko Murata's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (54 papers), Climate variability and models (47 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (40 papers). Akihiko Murata is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (54 papers), Climate variability and models (47 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (40 papers). Akihiko Murata collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Spain. Akihiko Murata's co-authors include Yuichiro Kumamoto, Christopher L. Sabine, Hidetaka Sasaki, Nicolas Gruber, Toste Tanhua, Michio Aoyama, Hiroaki Kawase, Rik Wanninkhof, Richard A. Feely and Masaya Nosaka and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Akihiko Murata

136 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO ₂ from 1994 to 2007

2019 545 citations Nicolas Gruber, Dominic Clement et al. Science profile →
Global ocean storage of anthropogenic carbon

2013 350 citations Toste Tanhua, Nicolas Gruber et al. Biogeosciences profile →

Peers

Akihiko Murata

OCEAN

GPC

ECOLO

Tsuneo Ono Japan

Toshiro Saino Japan

Claude Estournel France

Jinzhou Du China

Gi Hoon Hong South Korea

Shigeto Nishino Japan

Gary S. Dwyer United States

R. Delmas France

Jianhua Gao China

Henrietta Dulai United States

Tsuneo Ono Japan

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2.2k ×1.1

OCEAN

1.3k ×0.7

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656 ×0.5

306 ×0.5

758 ×1.5

ECOLO

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Countries citing papers authored by Akihiko Murata

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Fields of papers citing papers by Akihiko Murata

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Akihiko Murata

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Akihiko Murata. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Akihiko Murata based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Akihiko Murata. Akihiko Murata is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Carter, Brendan R., Andrea J. Fassbender, Bronte Tilbrook, et al.. (2025). Biological Responses to Ocean Acidification Are Changing the Global Ocean Carbon Cycle. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 39(3). 4 indexed citations

Murata, Akihiko, et al.. (2024). Modulation of Surface Seawater CO₂ System at 80°E: Impacts of the Positive IOD in 2019. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(12). 2 indexed citations

Müller, Jens Daniel, Nicolas Gruber, Brendan R. Carter, et al.. (2023). Decadal Trends in the Oceanic Storage of Anthropogenic Carbon From 1994 to 2014. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 38 indexed citations

Nishino, Shigeto, Jinyoung Jung, Kyoung‐Ho Cho, et al.. (2023). Atlantic-origin water extension into the Pacific Arctic induced an anomalous biogeochemical event. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6235–6235. 12 indexed citations

Chung, Jing Xiang, Liew Juneng, Thanh Ngo‐Duc, et al.. (2023). Future changes in mean and extreme precipitation over Peninsular Malaysia using CORDEX-SEA 5 km simulations. 13(1). 263–276. 5 indexed citations

Kawase, Hiroaki, Masaya Nosaka, Shun‐ichi Watanabe, et al.. (2023). Historical regional climate changes in Japan in winter as assessed by a 5-km regional climate model with a land surface process. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. 10(1). 6 indexed citations

Ouyang, Zhangxian, Andrew Collins, Yun Li, et al.. (2022). Seasonal Water Mass Evolution and Non‐Redfield Dynamics Enhance CO₂ Uptake in the Chukchi Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(8). e2021JC018326–e2021JC018326. 10 indexed citations

Toyoda, Sakae, Naohiro Yoshida, Daisuke Sasano, et al.. (2021). Distribution and Production Mechanisms of N₂O in the Western Arctic Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(4). 16 indexed citations

Ouyang, Zhangxian, Yun Li, Di Qi, et al.. (2021). The Changing CO₂Sink in the Western Arctic Ocean From 1994 to 2019. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 36(1). 13 indexed citations

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Nosaka, Masaya, Hiroaki Kawase, Akihiko Murata, & Hirokazu Sasaki. (2021). Future Changes in Early Spring Wind Speed and Surface Warming Acceleration in Snow‐Covered Areas. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(7). 2 indexed citations

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Kawase, Hiroaki, Yukiko Imada, Hiroshige Tsuguti, et al.. (2020). The Heavy Rain Event of July 2018 in Japan Enhanced by Historical Warming. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 101(1). S109–S114. 54 indexed citations

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Ouyang, Zhangxian, Di Qi, Liqi Chen, et al.. (2020). Sea-ice loss amplifies summertime decadal CO2 increase in the western Arctic Ocean. Nature Climate Change. 10(7). 678–684. 53 indexed citations

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Nakagawa, Y. E., Koji Koyamada, Daisuke Matsuoka, et al.. (2020). Development of a system for efficient content-based retrieval to analyze large volumes of climate data. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. 7(1). 4 indexed citations

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Kawase, Hiroaki, Yukiko Imada, Hirokazu Sasaki, et al.. (2019). Contribution of Historical Global Warming to Local‐Scale Heavy Precipitation in Western Japan Estimated by Large Ensemble High‐Resolution Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(12). 6093–6103. 40 indexed citations

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Gruber, Nicolas, Dominic Clement, Brendan R. Carter, et al.. (2019). The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO ₂ from 1994 to 2007. Science. 363(6432). 1193–1199. 545 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carter, Brendan R., Richard A. Feely, Rik Wanninkhof, et al.. (2019). Pacific Anthropogenic Carbon Between 1991 and 2017. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 33(5). 597–617. 52 indexed citations

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Yasunaka, Sayaka, Eko Siswanto, Are Olsen, et al.. (2018). Arctic Ocean CO ₂ uptake: an improved multiyear estimate of the air–sea CO ₂ flux incorporating chlorophyll a concentrations. Biogeosciences. 15(6). 1643–1661. 57 indexed citations

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Kumamoto, Yuichiro, Michio Aoyama, Yasunori Hamajima, et al.. (2018). Radiocesium in the western subarctic area of the North Pacific ocean, Bering Sea, and Arctic Ocean in 2015 and 2017. Polar Science. 21. 228–232. 18 indexed citations

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Uchida, Hiroshi, Takeshi Kawano, Michio Aoyama, & Akihiko Murata. (2011). Absolute salinity measurements of standard seawaters for conductivity and nutrients. 49(3). 119–126. 5 indexed citations

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Murata, Akihiko. (2000). A case study of tropical cyclone intensity forecast depending on cumulus parameterization.

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