Ken Mawatari

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 750 citations indexed

About

Ken Mawatari is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Mawatari has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 750 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11 papers in Instrumentation and 7 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Ken Mawatari's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (21 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (11 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (11 papers). Ken Mawatari is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (21 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (11 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (11 papers). Ken Mawatari collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Ken Mawatari's co-authors include Yuichi Harikane, Masami Ouchi, Yechi Zhang, Yoshiaki Ono, Yuki Isobe, Kimihiko Nakajima, Hiroya Umeda, Masamune Oguri, Akio Inoue and Yoichi Tamura and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ken Mawatari

19 papers receiving 665 citations

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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.

A Comprehensive Study of Galaxies at z ∼ 9–16 Found in the Early JWST Data: Ultraviolet Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation History at the Pre-reionization Epoch

2023 292 citations Yuichi Harikane, Masami Ouchi et al. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ken Mawatari Japan	10	718	297	119	25	20	22	750
Callum T. Donnan United Kingdom	10	690 1.0×	397 1.3×	74 0.6×	27 1.1×	14 0.7×	21	737
Seiji Fujimoto Japan	14	764 1.1×	357 1.2×	113 0.9×	24 1.0×	18 0.9×	54	835
H. Salas Chile	4	674 0.9×	282 0.9×	88 0.7×	33 1.3×	23 1.1×	7	702
Katherine A. Suess United States	14	708 1.0×	384 1.3×	93 0.8×	27 1.1×	11 0.6×	36	772
Leindert Boogaard Germany	16	654 0.9×	262 0.9×	109 0.9×	22 0.9×	32 1.6×	44	696
Pratika Dayal Netherlands	16	670 0.9×	255 0.9×	198 1.7×	20 0.8×	33 1.6×	41	728
Masafusa Onoue Japan	15	601 0.8×	226 0.8×	129 1.1×	25 1.0×	19 0.9×	43	655
Joel Roediger Canada	14	556 0.8×	353 1.2×	81 0.7×	28 1.1×	10 0.5×	27	606
E. Donoso Argentina	8	799 1.1×	324 1.1×	185 1.6×	23 0.9×	19 0.9×	11	823
Gregory R. Zeimann United States	16	665 0.9×	339 1.1×	125 1.1×	23 0.9×	21 1.1×	41	684

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ken Mawatari

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Tamura, Yoichi, Akio Inoue, Hideki Umehata, et al.. (2025). Compact Ionized Gas Region Surrounded by Porous Neutral Gas in a Dusty Lyman Break Galaxy at Redshift z = 8.312. The Astrophysical Journal. 990(1). 29–29.

Inoue, Akio, Yuichi Harikane, Rhythm Shimakawa, et al.. (2024). JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of intermediate-mass quiescent galaxies at z ~ 3-4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(4). 3552–3564. 3 indexed citations

Harikane, Yuichi, Masami Ouchi, Masamune Oguri, et al.. (2023). A Comprehensive Study of Galaxies at z ∼ 9–16 Found in the Early JWST Data: Ultraviolet Luminosity Functions and Cosmic Star Formation History at the Pre-reionization Epoch. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 265(1). 5–5. 292 indexed citations breakdown →

Hashimoto, Takuya, Akio Inoue, D. Fadda, et al.. (2023). Detections of [C ii] 158 μm and [O iii] 88 μm in a Local Lyman Continuum Emitter, Mrk 54, and Its Implications to High-redshift ALMA Studies*. The Astrophysical Journal. 948(1). 3–3. 3 indexed citations

Umehata, Hideki, Ryohei Kawabe, Kotaro Kohno, et al.. (2023). Characterizing CO Emitters in the SSA22-AzTEC26 Field. The Astrophysical Journal. 953(1). 75–75.

Mawatari, Ken, Akio Inoue, Tōru Yamada, et al.. (2023). The SSA22 H i Tomography Survey (SSA22-HIT). I. Data Set and Compiled Redshift Catalog. The Astronomical Journal. 165(5). 208–208. 3 indexed citations

Mawatari, Ken, Masami Ouchi, Yoshiaki Ono, et al.. (2023). Cosmological-scale Lyα Forest Absorption around Galaxies and AGNs Probed with the HETDEX and SDSS Spectroscopic Data. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(1). 25–25. 1 indexed citations

Harikane, Yuichi, Akio Inoue, Ken Mawatari, et al.. (2022). A Search for H-Dropout Lyman Break Galaxies at z ∼ 12–16. The Astrophysical Journal. 929(1). 1–1. 65 indexed citations

Kajisawa, Masaru, et al.. (2022). A Search for Massive Galaxy Population in a Protocluster of LAEs at z = 2.39 near the Radio Galaxy 53W002. The Astrophysical Journal. 930(2). 102–102. 4 indexed citations

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Kakuma, Ryota, Masami Ouchi, Yuichi Harikane, et al.. (2021). SILVERRUSH. IX. Lyα Intensity Mapping with Star-forming Galaxies at z = 5.7 and 6.6: A Possible Detection of Extended Lyα Emission at ≳100 Comoving Kiloparsecs around and beyond the Virial-radius Scale of Galaxy Dark Matter Halos. The Astrophysical Journal. 916(1). 22–22. 13 indexed citations

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Inoue, Akio, Takuya Hashimoto, M. C. Toribio, et al.. (2021). A puzzling non-detection of [O III] and [C II] from a z ≈ 7.7 galaxy observed with ALMA. Terrestrial Environment Research Center (University of Tsukuba). 5 indexed citations

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Bakx, Tom J. L. C., Yoichi Tamura, Takuya Hashimoto, et al.. (2020). ALMA uncovers the [C ii] emission and warm dust continuum in a z = 8.31 Lyman break galaxy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(3). 4294–4307. 85 indexed citations

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Yamanaka, S., Akio Inoue, Tōru Yamada, et al.. (2020). Testing an indirect method for identifying galaxies with high levels of Lyman continuum leakage. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(3). 3095–3114. 4 indexed citations

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Meyer, R. A., Koki Kakiichi, Sarah E. I. Bosman, et al.. (2020). The role of galaxies and AGN in reionizing the IGM – III. IGM–galaxy cross-correlations at z ∼ 6 from eight quasar fields with DEIMOS and MUSE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(2). 1560–1578. 35 indexed citations

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Mawatari, Ken, Akio Inoue, S. Yamanaka, Takuya Hashimoto, & Yoichi Tamura. (2019). Panchromatic Analysis for Nature of HIgh-z galaxies Tool (PANHIT). Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 15(S341). 285–286.

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Laporte, Nicolas, Harley Katz, Richard S. Ellis, et al.. (2019). The absence of [C ii] 158 $\mu$m emission in spectroscopically confirmed galaxies at z > 8. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 487(1). L81–L85. 47 indexed citations

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Zackrisson, Erik, Xiangcheng Ma, Akio Inoue, et al.. (2019). Balmer breaks in simulated galaxies at z>6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 14 indexed citations

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Mawatari, Ken, Akio Inoue, Tōru Yamada, et al.. (2017). Imaging of diffuse H i absorption structure in the SSA22 proto-cluster region at $z$ = 3.1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. stx038–stx038. 9 indexed citations

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Mawatari, Ken, Tōru Yamada, G. G. Fazio, Jiasheng Huang, & M. L. N. Ashby. (2016). Possible identification of massive and evolved galaxies at z ≳ 5. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan. 68(3). 10 indexed citations

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Inoue, Akio, Yoichi Tamura, Hiroshi Matsuo, et al.. (2016). Detection of an oxygen emission line from a high-redshift galaxy in the reionization epoch. Science. 352(6293). 1559–1562. 130 indexed citations

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