Etsushi Kato

33.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
67 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Etsushi Kato is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Etsushi Kato has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 12 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Etsushi Kato's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (24 papers), Climate variability and models (20 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (15 papers). Etsushi Kato is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (24 papers), Climate variability and models (20 papers) and Climate Change Policy and Economics (15 papers). Etsushi Kato collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Germany and United States. Etsushi Kato's co-authors include Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Atul K. Jain, Michio Kawamiya, Tomohiro Hajima, Sönke Zaehle, Benjamin Poulter, Andy Wiltshire, Tokuta Yokohata and Takeshi Ise and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Etsushi Kato

65 papers receiving 4.9k 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 dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO ₂ sink

2015 1.1k citations Anders Ahlström, Michael Raupach et al. Science profile →
MIROC-ESM 2010: model description and basic results of CMIP5-20c3m experiments

2011 1.1k citations Tokuta Yokohata, Etsushi Kato et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant productivity

2018 313 citations Stephen Sitch, Pierre Friedlingstein et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Etsushi Kato Japan	28	3.4k	1.4k	998	565	510	67	5.0k
Ana Bastos Germany	32	3.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	811 0.8×	471 0.8×	549 1.1×	108	4.0k
Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi India	18	2.3k 0.7×	672 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	406 0.7×	440 0.9×	48	3.2k
Gilvan Sampaio Brazil	22	2.4k 0.7×	837 0.6×	850 0.9×	271 0.5×	411 0.8×	68	3.4k
Mengtian Huang China	23	3.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	2.1k 2.1×	548 1.0×	658 1.3×	39	4.8k
Petr Štěpánek Czechia	35	2.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	596 0.6×	418 0.7×	610 1.2×	146	4.3k
Benjamin D. Stocker Switzerland	32	3.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	457 0.8×	738 1.4×	73	5.0k
Sergey Venevsky China	18	3.2k 0.9×	2.1k 1.5×	1.5k 1.5×	343 0.6×	907 1.8×	35	5.1k
Liana O. Anderson Brazil	38	5.0k 1.5×	837 0.6×	2.4k 2.4×	828 1.5×	1.3k 2.6×	129	6.8k
Erich Tasser Italy	45	3.7k 1.1×	701 0.5×	1.4k 1.4×	329 0.6×	1.4k 2.8×	130	5.9k
Guiling Wang United States	43	4.1k 1.2×	2.3k 1.6×	667 0.7×	874 1.5×	237 0.5×	188	5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Etsushi Kato

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Etsushi Kato

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Sugiyama, Masahiro, Shinichiro Fujimori, Kenichi Wada, et al.. (2024). Residual emissions and carbon removal towards Japan’s net-zero goal: a multi-model analysis. Environmental Research Communications. 6(5). 51008–51008. 6 indexed citations

Ju, Yiyi, et al.. (2022). Job creation in response to Japan’s energy transition towards deep mitigation: An extension of partial equilibrium integrated assessment models. Applied Energy. 318. 119178–119178. 17 indexed citations

Winkler, Alexander J., Ranga B. Myneni, Alexis Hannart, et al.. (2021). Slowdown of the greening trend in natural vegetation with further rise in atmospheric CO ₂. Biogeosciences. 18(17). 4985–5010. 78 indexed citations

Sugiyama, Masahiro, Shinichiro Fujimori, Kenichi Wada, et al.. (2021). EMF 35 JMIP study for Japan’s long-term climate and energy policy: scenario designs and key findings. Sustainability Science. 16(2). 355–374. 38 indexed citations

Kato, Etsushi & Atsushi Kurosawa. (2021). Role of negative emissions technologies (NETs) and innovative technologies in transition of Japan’s energy systems toward net-zero CO2 emissions. Sustainability Science. 16(2). 463–475. 33 indexed citations

Daioglou, Vassilis, Steven K. Rose, Nico Bauer, et al.. (2020). Bioenergy technologies in long-run climate change mitigation: results from the EMF-33 study. Climatic Change. 163(3). 1603–1620. 38 indexed citations

Pan, Shufen, Naiqing Pan, Hanqin Tian, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of global terrestrial evapotranspiration using state-of-the-art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning and land surface modeling. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 24(3). 1485–1509. 203 indexed citations

Jeong, Sujong, Chang‐Hoi Ho, Hoonyoung Park, et al.. (2020). Enhanced regional terrestrial carbon uptake over Korea revealed by atmospheric CO₂ measurements from 1999 to 2017. Global Change Biology. 26(6). 3368–3383. 9 indexed citations

Yokohata, Tokuta, Tsuguki Kinoshita, Gen Sakurai, et al.. (2020). MIROC-INTEG-LAND version 1: a global biogeochemical land surface model with human water management, crop growth, and land-use change. Geoscientific model development. 13(10). 4713–4747. 27 indexed citations

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Yokohata, Tokuta, Tsuguki Kinoshita, Gen Sakurai, et al.. (2019). MIROC-INTEG1: A global bio-geochemical land surface model with human water management, crop growth, and land-use change. 6 indexed citations

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Kondo, Masayuki, Kazuhito Ichii, Prabir K. Patra, et al.. (2018). Plant Regrowth as a Driver of Recent Enhancement of Terrestrial CO₂ Uptake. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(10). 4820–4830. 29 indexed citations

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Su, Xuanming, Kiyoshi Takahashi, Shinichiro Fujimori, et al.. (2017). Emission pathways to achieve 2.0°C and 1.5°C climate targets. Earth s Future. 5(6). 592–604. 27 indexed citations

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Zhao, Fang, Ning Zeng, Ghassem Asrar, et al.. (2016). Role of CO ₂ , climate and land use in regulating the seasonal amplitudeincrease of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems: a multimodel analysis. Biogeosciences. 13(17). 5121–5137. 26 indexed citations

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Calle, Leonardo, Josep G. Canadell, Prabir K. Patra, et al.. (2016). Regional carbon fluxes from land use and land cover change in Asia, 1980–2009. Environmental Research Letters. 11(7). 74011–74011. 34 indexed citations

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Murray‐Tortarolo, Guillermo N., Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, et al.. (2016). The carbon cycle in Mexico: past, present and future of C stocks and fluxes. Biogeosciences. 13(1). 223–238. 21 indexed citations

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Ahlström, Anders, Michael Raupach, Guy Schurgers, et al.. (2015). The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO ₂ sink. Science. 348(6237). 895–899. 1109 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nishina, Kazuya, Akihiko Ito, Pete Falloon, et al.. (2015). Decomposing uncertainties in the future terrestrial carbon budget associated with emission scenarios, climate projections, and ecosystem simulations using the ISI-MIP results. Earth System Dynamics. 6(2). 435–445. 39 indexed citations

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Boysen, Lena, Victor Brovkin, Vivek K. Arora, et al.. (2014). Global and regional effects of land-use change on climate in 21st century simulations with interactive carbon cycle. Earth System Dynamics. 5(2). 309–319. 71 indexed citations

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Nishina, Kazuya, Akihiko Ito, David J. Beerling, et al.. (2014). Quantifying uncertainties in soil carbon responses to changes in global mean temperature and precipitation. Earth System Dynamics. 5(1). 197–209. 43 indexed citations

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Nishina, Kazuya, Akihiko Ito, David J. Beerling, et al.. (2013). Global soil organic carbon stock projection uncertainties relevant to sensitivity of global mean temperature and precipitation changes. 5 indexed citations

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