Kazuhito Ichii

13.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
93 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Kazuhito Ichii is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kazuhito Ichii has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 39 papers in Ecology and 29 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Kazuhito Ichii's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (40 papers), Climate variability and models (39 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (37 papers). Kazuhito Ichii is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (40 papers), Climate variability and models (39 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (37 papers). Kazuhito Ichii collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Kazuhito Ichii's co-authors include Yasushi Yamaguchi, Ayaka Kawabata, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Gustau Camps‐Valls, Gianluca Tramontana, Dario Papale, Ramakrishna Nemani, Martin Jung, Christopher R. Schwalm and Markus Reichstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Kazuhito Ichii

89 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites withregression algorithms

2016 531 citations Gianluca Tramontana, Martin Jung et al. Biogeosciences profile →
The FLUXCOM ensemble of global land-atmosphere energy fluxes

2019 487 citations Martin Jung, Kazuhito Ichii et al. profile →
Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

2019 424 citations Jingfeng Xiao, Kazuhito Ichii et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kazuhito Ichii Japan	32	3.5k	1.9k	1.1k	931	576	93	4.5k
Ronggao Liu China	31	3.0k 0.9×	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	440 0.8×	92	4.2k
Laurent Kergoat France	36	3.3k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	658 1.1×	100	4.8k
Yaozhong Pan China	34	3.3k 0.9×	2.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	964 1.0×	613 1.1×	128	4.8k
Xiang Zhao China	37	4.0k 1.1×	2.3k 1.2×	1.7k 1.6×	1.5k 1.6×	628 1.1×	169	5.8k
Reto Stöckli Switzerland	28	3.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	663 0.7×	477 0.8×	55	3.9k
Lei Ji United States	31	2.7k 0.8×	2.1k 1.1×	933 0.9×	957 1.0×	627 1.1×	79	4.3k
Bunkei Matsushita Japan	31	2.5k 0.7×	2.9k 1.5×	802 0.7×	1.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.8×	85	5.4k
Baozhang Chen China	32	2.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	893 0.8×	693 0.7×	482 0.8×	113	3.4k
S. W. Running United States	29	3.8k 1.1×	2.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	625 1.1×	51	4.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kazuhito Ichii

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Ichii, Kazuhito, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, Masahito Ueyama, et al.. (2025). Can Subdaily LST Be Constructed in High-Latitude Regions Using Polar Orbiting Satellites?. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 22. 1–5.

Li, Wei, Kazuhito Ichii, Yuhei YAMAMOTO, et al.. (2024). Estimation and Evaluation of Land Surface Reflectance from a Next-Generation Geostationary Meteorological Satellite, Himawari-8/9 AHI. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 103(1). 87–109. 1 indexed citations

Ri, Xu, Husi Letu, Chong Shi, et al.. (2024). Cloud Top Temperature and Cloud Optical Thickness Can Effectively Identify Convective Clouds Over the Tibetan Plateau. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–11.

Zhang, Beichen, Kazuhito Ichii, Wei Li, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of Himawari-8/AHI land surface reflectance at mid-latitudes using LEO sensors with off-nadir observation. Remote Sensing of Environment. 316. 114491–114491.

Kim, Jin‐Soo, Jong‐Seong Kug, Sujong Jeong, et al.. (2022). Arctic warming-induced cold damage to East Asian terrestrial ecosystems. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 13 indexed citations

Nagai, Shin, Taku M. Saitoh, Yayoi Takeuchi, et al.. (2022). Review: Monitoring of land cover changes and plant phenology by remote‐sensing in East Asia. Ecological Research. 38(1). 111–133. 9 indexed citations

Patra, Prabir K., Tomohiro Hajima, Naveen Chandra, et al.. (2021). Evaluation of earth system model and atmospheric inversion using total column CO2 observations from GOSAT and OCO-2. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. 8(1). 11 indexed citations

Xiao, Jingfeng, Joshua B. Fisher, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Kazuhito Ichii, & Nicholas C. Parazoo. (2021). Emerging satellite observations for diurnal cycling of ecosystem processes. Nature Plants. 7(7). 877–887. 113 indexed citations

Purvis, Andy, Zsolt Molnár, David Obura, et al.. (2019). Chapter 2.2 Status and Trends –Nature. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 13 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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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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Kondo, Masayuki, Tazu Saeki, Hiroshi Takagi, Kazuhito Ichii, & Kentaro Ishijima. (2016). The Effect of GOSAT Observations on Estimates of Net CO<sub>2</sub> Flux in Semi-Arid Regions of the Southern Hemisphere. SOLA. 12(0). 181–186.

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Tramontana, Gianluca, Martin Jung, Christopher R. Schwalm, et al.. (2016). Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites withregression algorithms. Biogeosciences. 13(14). 4291–4313. 531 indexed citations breakdown →

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Iwata, Hiroki, Yoshinobu Harazono, E. S. Euskirchen, et al.. (2010). Seasonal and spatial variations of carbon fluxes of arctic and boreal ecosystems in Alaska. AGUFM. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Ueyama, Masahito, Kazuhito Ichii, Kentaro Takagi, et al.. (2010). Simulating carbon and water cycles of larch forests in East Asia by the BIOME-BGC model with AsiaFlux data. Biogeosciences. 7(3). 959–977. 49 indexed citations

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Saigusa, Nobuko, Kazuhito Ichii, Hiroshi Murakami, et al.. (2010). Impact of meteorological anomalies in the 2003 summer on Gross Primary Productivity in East Asia. Biogeosciences. 7(2). 641–655. 55 indexed citations

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Ichii, Kazuhito, Takashi Suzuki, Tomomichi Kato, et al.. (2010). Multi-model analysis of terrestrial carbon cycles in Japan: limitations and implications of model calibration using eddy flux observations. Biogeosciences. 7(7). 2061–2080. 31 indexed citations

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Wang, Weile, Jennifer Dungan, Hirofumi Hashimoto, et al.. (2010). Diagnosing and assessing uncertainties of terrestrial ecosystem models in a multimodel ensemble experiment: 2. Carbon balance. Global Change Biology. 17(3). 1367–1378. 23 indexed citations

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Ichii, Kazuhito, Takashi Suzuki, Tomomichi Kato, et al.. (2009). Multi-model analysis of terrestrial carbon cycles in Japan: reducing uncertainties in model outputs among different terrestrial biosphere models using flux observations. 9 indexed citations

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Ichii, Kazuhito, Michael A. White, Hirofumi Hashimoto, et al.. (2006). Develop a Continental-scale Measure of Gross Primary Production by Combining MODIS and AmeriFlux Data through Support Vector Machine. AGUFM. 2006. 2 indexed citations

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