N. Sato

14.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
125 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

N. Sato is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, N. Sato has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 15 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in N. Sato's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (61 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (50 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (50 papers). N. Sato is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (61 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (50 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (50 papers). N. Sato collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Italy. N. Sato's co-authors include Wally Melnitchouk, Masato Sugi, David A. Randall, P. J. Sellers, Alan K. Betts, Joseph A. Berry, Robert E. Dickinson, Scott Denning, Carlos A. Nobre and G. J. Collatz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

N. Sato

116 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Modeling the Exchanges of... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 2022 250 500 750 1000
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Modeling the Exchanges of Energy, Water, and Carbon Between Continents and the Atmosphere
    1997 1.2k citations N. Sato et al. profile →
  2. Colloquium: Machine learning in nuclear physics
    2022 140 citations A. Boehnlein, Markus Diefenthaler et al. Reviews of Modern Physics profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
N. Sato 1.8k 1.7k 1.2k 509 473 125 4.4k
M. Leroy 2.6k 1.5× 564 0.3× 1.5k 1.3× 2.5k 5.0× 1.8k 3.7× 73 5.4k
Hiroshi Murakami 1.2k 0.7× 527 0.3× 1.2k 1.0× 382 0.8× 461 1.0× 351 4.7k
Alexander Gruber 1.3k 0.7× 219 0.1× 2.8k 2.4× 324 0.6× 2.9k 6.2× 91 4.6k
Rolf Philipona 2.2k 1.2× 513 0.3× 2.1k 1.7× 78 0.2× 243 0.5× 75 3.3k
P. Nolan 503 0.3× 1.4k 0.8× 316 0.3× 185 0.4× 143 0.3× 147 3.3k
F. Terrasi 392 0.2× 777 0.4× 432 0.4× 244 0.5× 77 0.2× 179 2.7k
H. Lettau 511 0.3× 395 0.2× 554 0.5× 88 0.2× 434 0.9× 69 1.6k
J. A. Pedelty 386 0.2× 178 0.1× 219 0.2× 526 1.0× 296 0.6× 47 1.3k
Kieran Holland 187 0.1× 1.2k 0.7× 704 0.6× 1.4k 2.7× 162 0.3× 128 3.8k
M.J. Rycroft 1.2k 0.7× 234 0.1× 1.1k 1.0× 84 0.2× 141 0.3× 279 5.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by N. Sato

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of N. Sato

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cocuzza, Christopher, et al.. (2026). Comment on “QCD factorization with multihadron fragmentation functions”. Physical review. D. 113(3).
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Adamiak, Daniel, Yuri V. Kovchegov, Ming Li, et al.. (2025). First study of polarized proton-proton scattering with small- x helicity evolution. Physical review. D. 112(9). 1 indexed citations
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Cocuzza, Christopher, Andreas Metz, Daniel Pitonyak, et al.. (2024). Transversity Distributions and Tensor Charges of the Nucleon: Extraction from Dihadron Production and Their Universal Nature. Physical Review Letters. 132(9). 13 indexed citations
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Cocuzza, Christopher, et al.. (2024). New Data-Driven Constraints on the Sign of Gluon Polarization in the Proton. Physical Review Letters. 133(16). 161901–161901. 4 indexed citations
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Melnitchouk, Wally, et al.. (2023). Global QCD analysis and dark photons. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(9). 4 indexed citations
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Adamiak, Daniel, Yuri V. Kovchegov, Wally Melnitchouk, et al.. (2023). Global analysis of polarized DIS and SIDIS data with improved small-x helicity evolution. Physical review. D. 108(11). 9 indexed citations
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Battaglieri, M., Łukasz Bibrzycki, A. N. Hiller Blin, et al.. (2023). Toward a generative modeling analysis of CLAS exclusive 2π photoproduction. Physical review. D. 108(9). 5 indexed citations
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Melnitchouk, Wally, et al.. (2023). Accelerating Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling with diffusion models. Computer Physics Communications. 296. 109059–109059. 10 indexed citations
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Freese, Adam, Ian C. Cloët, Leonard Gamberg, et al.. (2023). Shedding light on shadow generalized parton distributions. Physical review. D. 108(3). 26 indexed citations
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Accardi, Alberto, et al.. (2022). Determination of uncertainties in parton densities. Physical review. D. 106(3). 9 indexed citations
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Boehnlein, A., Markus Diefenthaler, N. Sato, et al.. (2022). Colloquium: Machine learning in nuclear physics. Reviews of Modern Physics. 94(3). 140 indexed citations breakdown →
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Adamiak, Daniel, Yuri V. Kovchegov, Wally Melnitchouk, et al.. (2021). First analysis of world polarized DIS data with small-x helicity evolution. Physical review. D. 104(3). 24 indexed citations
13.
Liu, Tianbo, Wally Melnitchouk, Jian-Wei Qiu, & N. Sato. (2020). Factorized approach to radiative corrections for inelastic lepton-hadron collisions. arXiv (Cornell University). 9 indexed citations
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Gamberg, Leonard, Zhong-Bo Kang, Daniel Pitonyak, et al.. (2020). Origin of single transverse-spin asymmetries in high-energy collisions. Physical review. D. 102(5). 74 indexed citations
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Ethier, Jacob, N. Sato, & Wally Melnitchouk. (2017). First Simultaneous Extraction of Spin-Dependent Parton Distributions and Fragmentation Functions from a Global QCD Analysis. Physical Review Letters. 119(13). 132001–132001. 139 indexed citations
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Sato, N.. (2016). First Monte Carlo Analysis of Fragmentation Functions from Single-Inclusive e+e- Annihilation. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 8 indexed citations
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Sato, N., et al.. (2004). RESTORING FORCE CHARACTERISTICS MODEL OF PRESTRESSED CONCRETE BEAMS IN BEAM-COLUMN ASSEMBLIES. Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering (Transactions of AIJ). 69(575). 105–112. 2 indexed citations
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Sato, N., et al.. (2004). EFFECTS OF PRESTRESS ON ULTIMATE STRENGTH OF CONCRETE BEAM-INTERIOR COLUMN FRAME ASSEMBLIES. Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering (Transactions of AIJ). 69(583). 107–113. 2 indexed citations
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Yamamoto, K., Akiko Yamamoto, M. Ohashi, et al.. (2003). Mechanical Loss of Reflective Coating at Low Temperature. International Cosmic Ray Conference. 5. 3111–3114. 1 indexed citations
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Kar, Sarat C., Masato Sugi, & N. Sato. (2001). Interannual Variability of the Indian Summer Monsoon and Internal Variability in the JMA Global Model Simulations.. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II. 79(2). 607–623. 16 indexed citations

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