Kentaro Nagaya

688 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 445 citations indexed

About

Kentaro Nagaya is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kentaro Nagaya has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 445 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Atmospheric Science, 5 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kentaro Nagaya's work include Tree-ring climate responses (5 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (4 papers) and Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (3 papers). Kentaro Nagaya is often cited by papers focused on Tree-ring climate responses (5 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (4 papers) and Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (3 papers). Kentaro Nagaya collaborates with scholars based in Japan and United States. Kentaro Nagaya's co-authors include Kimiaki Masuda, Toshio Nakamura, Fusa Miyake, Y. Muraki, Hiroko Miyahara, Takahiro Yoshimitsu, K. Masuda, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Koichiro Masuda and Yūsuke Yokoyama and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan and Solar Physics.

In The Last Decade

Kentaro Nagaya

10 papers receiving 420 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 signature of cosmic-ray increase in ad 774–775 from tree rings in Japan

2012 315 citations Fusa Miyake, Kentaro Nagaya et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kentaro Nagaya Japan	8	230	200	135	97	58	10	445
Florian Mekhaldi Sweden	11	209 0.9×	256 1.3×	75 0.6×	93 1.0×	42 0.7×	18	429
Nicolás Brehm Switzerland	8	123 0.5×	205 1.0×	52 0.4×	97 1.0×	54 0.9×	14	344
T. Pilleyre France	11	307 1.3×	66 0.3×	72 0.5×	11 0.1×	27 0.5×	23	449
Duk-Geun Hong South Korea	11	260 1.1×	47 0.2×	73 0.5×	14 0.1×	27 0.5×	50	502
J. McKim Malville United States	15	51 0.2×	454 2.3×	73 0.5×	115 1.2×	14 0.2×	63	618
W. A. Cassidy United States	11	296 1.3×	376 1.9×	45 0.3×	29 0.3×	14 0.2×	45	548
Václav Bucha Slovakia	14	321 1.4×	193 1.0×	34 0.3×	328 3.4×	91 1.6×	50	560
K. Yau United States	11	256 1.1×	194 1.0×	10 0.1×	53 0.5×	223 3.8×	21	459
W. T. Bell Australia	8	211 0.9×	29 0.1×	115 0.9×	20 0.2×	41 0.7×	11	371
Matthias Van Ginneken United Kingdom	17	466 2.0×	686 3.4×	80 0.6×	81 0.8×	10 0.2×	53	833

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kentaro Nagaya

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Muraki, Y., et al.. (2015). Regional climate pattern during two millennia estimated from annual tree rings of Yaku cedar trees: a hint for solar variability?. Earth Planets and Space. 67(1). 31–31. 3 indexed citations

2.

Nakamura, Toshio, Kimiaki Masuda, Fusa Miyake, Kentaro Nagaya, & Takahiro Yoshimitsu. (2013). Radiocarbon Ages of Annual Rings from Japanese Wood: Evident Age Offset Based on IntCal09. Radiocarbon. 55(2). 763–770. 25 indexed citations

3.

Miyake, Fusa, Kentaro Nagaya, Kimiaki Masuda, & Toshio Nakamura. (2012). A signature of cosmic-ray increase in ad 774–775 from tree rings in Japan. Nature. 486(7402). 240–242. 315 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nagaya, Kentaro, Fusa Miyake, K. Masuda, et al.. (2012). Variation of the Schwabe Cycle Length During the Grand Solar Minimum in the 4th Century BC Deduced from Radiocarbon Content in Tree Rings. Solar Physics. 280(1). 223–236. 19 indexed citations

5.

Muraki, Y., K. Masuda, Kentaro Nagaya, K. Wada, & Hiroko Miyahara. (2011). Solar variability and width of tree ring. 7(3). 395–401. 11 indexed citations

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Miyahara, Hiroko, Kentaro Nagaya, Yūsuke Yokoyama, et al.. (2010). Is the Sun heading for another Maunder Minimum? - Precursors of the grand solar minima. 8. 1970–1982. 18 indexed citations

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Masuda, Kimiaki, Kentaro Nagaya, Hiroko Miyahara, Y. Muraki, & Toshio Nakamura. (2009). Cosmogenic Radiocarbon and the Solar Activity. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 78(Suppl.A). 1–6. 24 indexed citations

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Miyahara, Hiroko, Kentaro Nagaya, Kimiaki Masuda, et al.. (2008). Transition of solar cycle length in association with the occurrence of grand solar minima indicated by radiocarbon content in tree-rings. Quaternary Geochronology. 3(3). 208–212. 9 indexed citations

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Nagaya, Kentaro, et al.. (2007). Variation of Solar ``11-year cycle'' during the grand solar minimum in the 4th century BC by measurement of 14C content in tree rings. 1. 521–524. 1 indexed citations

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Miyahara, Hiroko, et al.. (2007). Variation of solar activity from the Spoerer to the Maunder minima indicated by radiocarbon content in tree-rings. Advances in Space Research. 40(7). 1060–1063. 20 indexed citations

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