Kazuo Isobe

3.7k total citations
56 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Kazuo Isobe is a scholar working on Ecology, Soil Science and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Kazuo Isobe has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Ecology, 25 papers in Soil Science and 22 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Kazuo Isobe's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (25 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (22 papers). Kazuo Isobe is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (25 papers) and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (22 papers). Kazuo Isobe collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Kazuo Isobe's co-authors include Keishi Senoo, Shigeto Otsuka, Nobuhito Ohte, Keisuke Koba, Yutaka Shiratori, Tomoyasu Nishizawa, Ryunosuke Tateno, Wei Wei, Yuichi Suwa and Hideaki Shibata and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Kazuo Isobe

54 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kazuo Isobe Japan 29 1.1k 850 828 459 395 56 2.2k
Hongjie Di China 29 1.6k 1.4× 1.4k 1.7× 1.2k 1.5× 702 1.5× 618 1.6× 81 3.2k
Marco Luna‐Guido Mexico 30 782 0.7× 1.3k 1.5× 463 0.6× 664 1.4× 352 0.9× 86 2.5k
Xiaohong Wu China 23 708 0.6× 924 1.1× 455 0.5× 422 0.9× 237 0.6× 52 1.8k
Florian Bizouard France 13 959 0.9× 976 1.1× 411 0.5× 560 1.2× 460 1.2× 18 1.9k
Karin Enwall Sweden 8 1.2k 1.1× 788 0.9× 956 1.2× 354 0.8× 454 1.1× 9 2.0k
Christian Poll Germany 29 852 0.8× 1.4k 1.6× 331 0.4× 748 1.6× 348 0.9× 75 2.4k
Shigeto Otsuka Japan 32 1.8k 1.6× 840 1.0× 945 1.1× 605 1.3× 1.2k 2.9× 79 3.2k
Xi‐En Long China 23 745 0.7× 573 0.7× 462 0.6× 438 1.0× 312 0.8× 46 1.6k
Xia Zhu‐Barker United States 22 749 0.7× 1.3k 1.5× 651 0.8× 391 0.9× 632 1.6× 58 2.4k
Jürgen Marxsen Germany 20 1.2k 1.0× 1.2k 1.4× 467 0.6× 622 1.4× 618 1.6× 47 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Kazuo Isobe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kazuo Isobe

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kazuo Isobe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kazuo Isobe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kazuo Isobe 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 Kazuo Isobe. Kazuo Isobe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Takami, Hideto, Rieko Urakawa, Ryunosuke Tateno, et al.. (2025). Soil pH modulates microbial nitrogen allocation in soil via compositional and metabolic shifts across forests in Japan. PubMed. 2(4). e70054–e70054.
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Crowther, Thomas W., et al.. (2025). Niche Conservatism and Community Assembly Reveal Microbial Community Divergent Succession Between Litter and Topsoil. Molecular Ecology. 34(8). e17723–e17723. 2 indexed citations
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Isobe, Kazuo, et al.. (2024). Short-term dietary fiber interventions produce consistent gut microbiome responses across studies. mSystems. 9(6). e0013324–e0013324. 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Hang, Thomas W. Crowther, Kazuo Isobe, et al.. (2024). Metagenomic insights into inhibition of soil microbial carbon metabolism by phosphorus limitation during vegetation succession. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae128–ycae128. 10 indexed citations
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Isobe, Kazuo, et al.. (2023). Chemolithotrophic microbiome of buried soil layers following volcanic eruptions: A potential huge carbon sink. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 183. 109055–109055.
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Taniguchi, Takeshi, Kazuo Isobe, Shogo Imada, et al.. (2023). Root endophytic bacterial and fungal communities in a natural hot desert are differentially regulated in dry and wet seasons by stochastic processes and functional traits. The Science of The Total Environment. 899. 165524–165524. 12 indexed citations
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Frangioso, Kerri M., et al.. (2022). Mega‐fire in redwood tanoak forest reduces bacterial and fungal richness and selects for pyrophilous taxa that are phylogenetically conserved. Molecular Ecology. 31(8). 2475–2493. 42 indexed citations
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Feng, Kai, Ziyan Wei, Yueni Wu, et al.. (2022). Evaluation and redesign of the primers for detecting nitrogen cycling genes in environments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(9). 1976–1989. 15 indexed citations
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Wei, Wei, Kazuo Isobe, Yutaka Shiratori, et al.. (2021). Revisiting the involvement of ammonia oxidizers and denitrifiers in nitrous oxide emission from cropland soils. Environmental Pollution. 287. 117494–117494. 20 indexed citations
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Isobe, Kazuo, Steven Allison, Banafshe Khalili, Adam C. Martiny, & Jennifer B. H. Martiny. (2019). Phylogenetic conservation of bacterial responses to soil nitrogen addition across continents. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2499–2499. 62 indexed citations
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Masuda, Yoko, Hideomi Itoh, Yutaka Shiratori, et al.. (2017). Predominant but Previously-overlooked Prokaryotic Drivers of Reductive Nitrogen Transformation in Paddy Soils, Revealed by Metatranscriptomics. Microbes and Environments. 32(2). 180–183. 70 indexed citations
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Shi, Jun, Nobuhito Ohte, Naoko Tokuchi, et al.. (2015). Soil nitrogen transformation dynamics in a suburban forest near Tokyo Metropolitan Area under high nitrogen deposition: A case study using stable isotope tracer techniques. 132(132). 17–34. 3 indexed citations
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Umezawa, Kiwamu, K. Takeda, Takuya Ishida, et al.. (2015). A Novel Pyrroloquinoline Quinone-Dependent 2-Keto- d -Glucose Dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas aureofaciens. Journal of Bacteriology. 197(8). 1322–1329. 21 indexed citations
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Isobe, Kazuo, Keisuke Koba, Yuichi Suwa, et al.. (2012). Nitrite transformations in an N-saturated forest soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 52. 61–63. 25 indexed citations
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Nishizawa, Tomoyasu, Kanako Tago, Satoshi Ishii, et al.. (2012). Advantages of functional single-cell isolation method over standard agar plate dilution method as a tool for studying denitrifying bacteria in rice paddy soil. AMB Express. 2(1). 50–50. 17 indexed citations
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Koba, Keisuke, Kazuo Isobe, Yu Takebayashi, et al.. (2010). δ 15 N of soil N and plants in a N‐saturated, subtropical forest of southern China. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 24(17). 2499–2506. 36 indexed citations
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Isobe, Kazuo, Keisuke Koba, Shingo Ueda, et al.. (2010). A simple and rapid GC/MS method for the simultaneous determination of gaseous metabolites. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 84(1). 46–51. 40 indexed citations
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Isobe, Kazuo, et al.. (2009). Community composition of soil bacteria nearly a decade after a fire in a tropical rainforest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology. 55(5). 329–337. 11 indexed citations

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