Kenichiro Tani

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
150 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Kenichiro Tani is a scholar working on Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenichiro Tani has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Geophysics, 21 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 21 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Kenichiro Tani's work include Geological and Geochemical Analysis (90 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (63 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (36 papers). Kenichiro Tani is often cited by papers focused on Geological and Geochemical Analysis (90 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (63 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (36 papers). Kenichiro Tani collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Australia. Kenichiro Tani's co-authors include Shuuji Kajita, Osamu Ishizuka, G. Serra, D. Casadei, Qing Chang, Mark K. Reagan, Daniel J. Dunkley, Yoshiyuki Tatsumi, H. Shukuno and Yumiko Harigane and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Kenichiro Tani

141 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The timescales of subduction initiation and subsequent evolution of an oceanic island arc

2011 428 citations Osamu Ishizuka, Kenichiro Tani et al. Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →

Peers

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Neil M. Ribe France

Jianguo Wang China

Yanghua Wang United Kingdom

Takashi Hasegawa Japan

Marco Grasso Italy

Takeshi Tsuji Japan

Xiaofei Chen China

Hans Ramberg Sweden

Hiroshi Sato Japan

Weiqi Jin China

Neil M. Ribe France

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130 ×0.2

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413 ×0.6

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73 ×0.2

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217 ×0.5

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Countries citing papers authored by Kenichiro Tani

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kenichiro Tani

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenichiro Tani

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

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Morishita, Tomoaki, Pedro Waterton, Akihiro Tamura, et al.. (2025). Komatiitic parental magmas of the Archean Ujaragssuit Nunât ultramafic body, SW Greenland, identified from spinel chemistry. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. 180(3).

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Tani, Kenichiro, et al.. (2023). The Fukutoku Volcanic Complex: Implications for the northward extension of Mariana rifting and its tectonic controls on arc volcanism. Marine Geology. 457. 106996–106996. 5 indexed citations

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Morishita, Tomoaki, et al.. (2023). Zircon within chromitite requires revision of the tectonic history of the Eoarchean Itsaq Gneiss complex, Greenland. Geoscience Frontiers. 14(6). 101648–101648. 4 indexed citations

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Waterton, Pedro, Tomoaki Morishita, Kenichiro Tani, et al.. (2021). No mantle residues in the Isua Supracrustal Belt. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 579. 117348–117348. 21 indexed citations

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Morishita, Tomoaki, Akihiro Tamura, Tomoyuki Mizukami, et al.. (2021). Deserpentinization and high-pressure (eclogite-facies) metamorphic features in the Eoarchean ultramafic body from Isua, Greenland. Geoscience Frontiers. 13(1). 101298–101298. 14 indexed citations

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Morishita, Tomoaki, et al.. (2019). Titanian Clinohumite-Bearing Peridotite from the Ulamertoq Ultramafic Body in the 3.0 Ga Akia Terrane of Southern West Greenland. Geosciences. 9(4). 153–153. 10 indexed citations

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Carey, Rebecca, S. A. Soule, Michael Manga, et al.. (2018). The largest deep-ocean silicic volcanic eruption of the past century. Science Advances. 4(1). e1701121–e1701121. 77 indexed citations

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Morishita, Tomoaki, Akihiro Tamura, Kenichiro Tani, et al.. (2018). Contrasting Textural and Chemical Signatures of Chromitites in the Mesoarchaean Ulamertoq Peridotite Body, Southern West Greenland. Geosciences. 8(9). 328–328. 9 indexed citations

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Tani, Kenichiro, Jillian Aira Gabo‐Ratio, Kenji Horie, et al.. (2015). Temporal constraints for the tectonic development of the Philippine ophiolite belts from new zircon U-Pb ages. Japan Geoscience Union. 2015. 4. 1 indexed citations

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Ishizuka, Osamu, Kenichiro Tani, Yumiko Harigane, et al.. (2015). Geologic and geochronological constraints on the Philippines Sea tectonics around 50 Ma. Japan Geoscience Union. 1 indexed citations

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Tani, Kenichiro, Kenji Horie, Daniel J. Dunkley, & Shunsō Ishihara. (2014). Pulsed granitic crust formation revealed by comprehensive SHRIMP zircon dating of the SW Japan granitoids. Japan Geoscience Union. 3 indexed citations

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Carey, Rebecca, S. R. Allen, Jocelyn McPhie, Richard S. Fiske, & Kenichiro Tani. (2014). Submarine Silicic Explosive Eruptions: what can submarine pyroclasts tell us?. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Michibayashi, Katsuyoshi, et al.. (2012). Tonga Trench gabbros and peridotites: A suit of temporal and spatial forearc materials. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 3 indexed citations

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Saito, Satoshi, Hajime Naruse, Hirokuni Oda, et al.. (2010). Reconstruction of Volcanic History from Volcanic and Volcaniclastic Rocks in Subducting Shikoku Basin: Results from IODP Expedition 322. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Taheri, Abbas & Kenichiro Tani. (2009). Simulation of Multiple-Step Loading Triaxial Compression Test On a Mudstone By a New Damage Model. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 2 indexed citations

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Taheri, Abbas & Kenichiro Tani. (2008). Proposal Of A New Multiple-Step Loading Triaxial Compression Testing Method. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 2 indexed citations

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Ishizuka, Osamu, Motohiro Yuasa, Izumi Sakamoto, et al.. (2008). Earliest Izu-Bonin arc volcanism found on the submarine Bonin Ridge. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 6 indexed citations

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Tamura, Yoshihiko, Osamu Ishizuka, A. M. Shaw, et al.. (2006). Torishima And NW Rota-1: A Petrological Contrast Between The Izu-Bonin And Mariana Arcs. AGUFM. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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Tani, Kenichiro, et al.. (2003). Control of Robot Motion by Hand Waving. The Proceedings of JSME annual Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (Robomec). 2003(0). 67–68.

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Inoue, Kenichi, et al.. (1998). A Case of Nephroblastoma in a Cat.. 29(3). 91–99.

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