Kimitaka Kawamura

36.4k citations

529 papers · 27.4k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 89

Atmospheric Science top 0.01%
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 402
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate 222
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 52
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.01%
- Air Quality and Health Impacts 173
Global and Planetary Change top 0.05%
- Atmospheric aerosols and clouds 107
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 79
Environmental Engineering top 0.2%
Oceanography top 0.5%
- Marine and coastal ecosystems 45
Ecology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology 42

Co-authors: Pingqing Fu I. R. Kaplan Michihiro Mochida Shankar G. Aggarwal Leonard A. Barrie Richard Sempéré Chandra Mouli Pavuluri Yuzo Miyazaki
Cited by: Atmospheric Science Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Global and Planetary Change
Journals: Nature (2 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1 paper)Nature Communications (2 papers)
Partner nations: Japan China United States

In The Last Decade

Kimitaka Kawamura

519 papers receiving 26.8k 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.

2003 Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
1993 Environmental Science & Technology
1987 Environmental Science & Technology

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1	Temporal Variations and Source Apportionment of Biomass Burning and Biogenic Organic Aerosols in the Pearl River Delta: Effects of the Monsoon, Plant Phenology, and Anthropogenic Activities Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Lingxiao Lu,Buqing Xu,Bhagawati Kunwar,Ambarish Pokhrel,Kimitaka Kawamura,Gan Zhang	2025	0
2	Comparing aerosol sources in a metallurgy city: Evidence from low molecular weight organic acids in PM2.5 between 2012–2013 and 2021–2022 Urban Climate ·Shan Liu,Kimitaka Kawamura,Bhagawati Kunwar,Ambarish Pokhrel,Changlin Zhan,Hongxia Liu,Jiaquan Zhang,Jihong Quan	2024	2
3	Seasonal distributions and possible sources of low molecular weight organic acids in PM2.5 from a typical mining city after decade green mining developing in Southeastern Hubei, Central China Atmospheric Environment ·Shan Liu,Kimitaka Kawamura,Bhagawati Kunwar,Ambarish Pokhrel,Changlin Zhan,Hongxia Liu,Jiaquan Zhang,Jihong Quan	2024	4
4	γ-Lactones in Canadian high arctic aerosols: Tracers for the oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids and intramolecular esterification of γ-hydroxyacids during polar sunrise Atmospheric Environment ·Dharmendra Kumar Singh,Kimitaka Kawamura,Ayako Yanase,Leonard A. Barrie	2024	2
5	Diurnal variations in primary and secondary organic aerosols in an eastern China coastal city: The impact of land-sea breezes Environmental Pollution ·Qiang Zhang,Wei Hu,Hong Ren,Jianbo Yang,Junjun Deng,Dawei Wang,Yele Sun,Zifa Wang,Kimitaka Kawamura,Pingqing Fu	2023	12
6	Anthropogenic emission controls organic aerosols at Gosan background site in the outflow from northeast Asia The Science of The Total Environment ·Md. Mozammel Haque,Yanlin Zhang,Dhananjay K. Deshmukh,Meehye Lee,Kimitaka Kawamura	2023	7
7	Size distributions of molecular markers for biogenic secondary organic aerosol in urban Beijing Environmental Pollution ·Di Liu,Shaofeng Xu,Yunchao Lang,Shengjie Hou,Lianfang Wei,Xiaole Pan,Yele Sun,Zifa Wang,Kimitaka Kawamura,Pingqing Fu	2023	4
8	Changes in the Size Distributions of Oxalic Acid and Related Polar Compounds Over Northern Japan During Spring Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Dhananjay K. Deshmukh,Kimitaka Kawamura,Minoru Kobayashi,Divyavani Gowda	2023	1
9	Hydroxy fatty acids in the surface Earth system The Science of The Total Environment ·Wenxin Zhang,Wei Hu,Quan‐Fei Zhu,Mutong Niu,Na An,Yu‐Qi Feng,Kimitaka Kawamura,Pingqing Fu	2023	6
10	Regional heterogeneities in the emission of airborne primary sugar compounds and biogenic secondary organic aerosols in the East Asian outflow: evidence for coal combustion as a source of levoglucosan Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Md. Mozammel Haque,Yanlin Zhang,Srinivas Bikkina,Meehye Lee,Kimitaka Kawamura	2022	11
11	Measurement report: Optical properties and sources of water-soluble brown carbon in Tianjin, North China – insights from organic molecular compositions Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Junjun Deng,Hao Ma,Xinfeng Wang,Shujun Zhong,Zhimin Zhang,Jialei Zhu,Yanbing Fan,Wei Hu,Libin Wu,Xiaodong Li,Lujie Ren,Chandra Mouli Pavuluri,Xiaole Pan,Yele Sun,Zifa Wang,Kimitaka Kawamura,Pingqing Fu	2022	39
12	Hydroxy Fatty Acids in Rainwater and Aerosols from Suburban Tokyo in Central Japan: The Impact of Long-Range Transport of Soil Microbes and Plant Waxes ACS Earth and Space Chemistry ·Poonam Bikkina,Kimitaka Kawamura,Srinivas Bikkina,Nobuyuki Tanaka	2021	5
13	Compound-Specific Radiocarbon Analysis of Low Molecular Weight Dicarboxylic Acids in Ambient Aerosols Using Preparative Gas Chromatography: Method Development Environmental Science & Technology Letters ·Buqing Xu,Zhineng Cheng,Örjan Gustafsson,Kimitaka Kawamura,Biao Jin,Sanyuan Zhu,Tiangang Tang,Bolong Zhang,Jun Li,Gan Zhang	2021	12
14	Regional heterogeneities in the emission of airborne primary sugar compounds and biogenic secondary organic aerosols in the East Asian outflow: Evidence for coal combustion as a source of levoglucosan Md. Mozammel Haque,Yanlin Zhang,Srinivas Bikkina,Meehye Lee,Kimitaka Kawamura	2021	2
15	Molecular and spatial distributions of dicarboxylic acids, oxocarboxylic acids, and α -dicarbonyls in marine aerosols from the South China Sea to the eastern Indian Ocean Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Jing Yang,Wanyu Zhao,Lianfang Wei,Qiang Zhang,Yue Zhao,Wei Hu,Libin Wu,Xiaodong Li,Chandra Mouli Pavuluri,Xiaole Pan,Yele Sun,Zifa Wang,Cong‐Qiang Liu,Kimitaka Kawamura,Pingqing Fu	2020	18
16	Source forensics of n-alkanes and n-fatty acids in urban aerosols using compound specific radiocarbon/stable carbon isotopic composition Environmental Research Letters ·Lujie Ren,Yiyun Wang,Kimitaka Kawamura,Srinivas Bikkina,Negar Haghipour,Lukas Wacker,Chandra Mouli Pavuluri,Zhimin Zhang,Siyao Yue,Yele Sun,Zifa Wang,Yanli Zhang,Xiaojuan Feng,Cong‐Qiang Liu,Timothy I. Eglinton,Pingqing Fu	2020	17
17	Nitrogen Speciation and Isotopic Composition of Aerosols Collected at Himalayan Forest (3326 m a.s.l.): Seasonality, Sources, and Implications Environmental Science & Technology ·Hemraj Bhattarai,Yanlin Zhang,Chandra Mouli Pavuluri,Xin Wan,Guangming Wu,Peilin Li,Fang Cao,Wenqi Zhang,Yongjie Wang,Shichang Kang,Kirpa Ram,Kimitaka Kawamura,Zhenming Ji,David Wîdory,Zhiyuan Cong	2019	31
18	Identification of hydroxy‐ and keto‐dicarboxylic acids in remote marine aerosols using gas chromatography/quadruple and time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry ·Divyavani Gowda,Kimitaka Kawamura,Eri Tachibana	2016	12
19	Long-range atmospheric transport of volatile monocarboxylic acids with Asian dust over a high mountain snow site, central Japan Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Tomoki Mochizuki,Kimitaka Kawamura,Kazuma Aoki,Nobuo Sugimoto	2016	26
20	Hydroxy fatty acids in snow pit samples from Mount Tateyama in central Japan: Implications for atmospheric transport of microorganisms and plant waxes associated with Asian dust Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Poonam Tyagi,Kimitaka Kawamura,Srinivas Bikkina,Tomoki Mochizuki,Kazuma Aoki	2016	15

About Kimitaka Kawamura

Kimitaka Kawamura is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 529 papers that have together received 27.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (402 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (222 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (173 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (107 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (79 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (52 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (45 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (42 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atmospheric Science (23.8k citations), Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (13.6k citations) and Global and Planetary Change (9.7k citations). Kimitaka Kawamura has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Frequent co-authors include Pingqing Fu, I. R. Kaplan, Michihiro Mochida, Shankar G. Aggarwal, Leonard A. Barrie, Richard Sempéré, Chandra Mouli Pavuluri, Yuzo Miyazaki, Srinivas Bikkina and Gehui Wang. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

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