Naota Hanasaki

21.2k total citations · 10 hit papers
172 papers, 11.6k citations indexed

About

Naota Hanasaki is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Global and Planetary Change and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Naota Hanasaki has authored 172 papers receiving a total of 11.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 131 papers in Water Science and Technology, 78 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 67 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Naota Hanasaki's work include Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (90 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (68 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (66 papers). Naota Hanasaki is often cited by papers focused on Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (90 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (68 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (66 papers). Naota Hanasaki collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Naota Hanasaki's co-authors include Taikan Oki, Shinjiro Kanae, Yoshihide Wada, Yadu Pokhrel, I. Rodriguez‐Iturbe, Martina Flörke, Carole Dalin, Megan Konar, Yoshimitsu Masaki and Stephanie Eisner and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Naota Hanasaki

154 papers receiving 11.3k citations

Hit Papers

Global water resources affected by human interventions... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2013 2017 2006 2012 2016 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. Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change
    2013 1.0k citations Stephanie Eisner, Martina Flörke et al. profile →
  2. Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future
    2017 752 citations Junguo Liu, Simon N. Gosling et al. profile →
  3. GSWP-2: Multimodel Analysis and Implications for Our Perception of the Land Surface
    2006 588 citations Paul A. Dirmeyer, Taikan Oki et al. profile →
  4. Evolution of the global virtual water trade network
    2012 475 citations Megan Konar, Naota Hanasaki et al. profile →
  5. Modeling global water use for the 21st century: the Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative and its approaches
    2016 420 citations Yoshihide Wada, Martina Flörke et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
  6. Global water scarcity including surface water quality and expansions of clean water technologies
    2021 329 citations Martina Flörke, Naota Hanasaki et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →
  7. Multimodel projections and uncertainties of irrigation water demand under climate change
    2013 299 citations Yoshihide Wada, Stephanie Eisner et al. profile →
  8. Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events
    2023 240 citations Yadu Pokhrel, Naota Hanasaki et al. profile →
  9. Role of dams in reducing global flood exposure under climate change
    2021 229 citations Julien Boulangé, Naota Hanasaki et al. Nature Communications profile →
  10. The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change
    2022 181 citations Yusuke Satoh, Kei Yoshimura et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Naota Hanasaki Japan 50 7.4k 5.1k 3.2k 2.6k 1.2k 172 11.6k
Martina Flörke Germany 44 6.7k 0.9× 3.8k 0.7× 2.9k 0.9× 1.9k 0.7× 701 0.6× 114 11.1k
Junguo Liu China 68 7.2k 1.0× 6.1k 1.2× 3.0k 0.9× 4.1k 1.6× 1.8k 1.5× 308 17.4k
Matti Kummu Finland 74 6.5k 0.9× 5.2k 1.0× 2.5k 0.8× 2.1k 0.8× 1.3k 1.0× 212 15.4k
Malin Falkenmark Sweden 39 5.7k 0.8× 4.7k 0.9× 3.3k 1.0× 1.6k 0.6× 896 0.7× 108 10.3k
C. J. Vörösmarty United States 40 5.2k 0.7× 4.1k 0.8× 1.8k 0.6× 1.4k 0.5× 1.2k 0.9× 86 11.8k
Shinjiro Kanae Japan 53 9.3k 1.3× 10.5k 2.1× 2.4k 0.8× 2.8k 1.1× 4.1k 3.3× 230 17.2k
Simon N. Gosling United Kingdom 41 4.2k 0.6× 4.4k 0.9× 1.1k 0.3× 1.1k 0.4× 1.1k 0.9× 87 8.1k
Fulco Ludwig Netherlands 53 4.6k 0.6× 4.5k 0.9× 1.5k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 1.3k 1.0× 182 10.5k
Stefan Siebert Germany 52 4.9k 0.7× 4.8k 0.9× 2.6k 0.8× 2.5k 0.9× 1.0k 0.8× 125 15.0k
Joseph Alcamo Germany 37 3.3k 0.4× 3.0k 0.6× 1.6k 0.5× 1.4k 0.5× 866 0.7× 86 8.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Naota Hanasaki

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tiwari, Amar Deep, Yadu Pokhrel, Julien Boulangé, et al.. (2025). Similarities and divergent patterns in hydrologic fluxes and storages simulated by global water models. Nature Water. 3(5). 550–560. 2 indexed citations
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Gnann, Sebastian, Robert Reinecke, Lina Stein, et al.. (2023). Functional relationships reveal differences in the water cycle representation of global water models. Nature Water. 1(12). 1079–1090. 29 indexed citations
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Hanasaki, Naota, et al.. (2022). Sensitivity of subregional distribution of socioeconomic conditions to the global assessment of water scarcity. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1). 13 indexed citations
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Vanderkelen, Inne, Shervan Gharari, Naoki Mizukami, et al.. (2022). Evaluating a reservoir parametrization in the vector-based global routing model mizuRoute (v2.0.1) for Earth system model coupling. Geoscientific model development. 15(10). 4163–4192. 18 indexed citations
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Satoh, Yusuke, Kei Yoshimura, Yadu Pokhrel, et al.. (2022). The timing of unprecedented hydrological drought under climate change. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3287–3287. 181 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ishizaki, Noriko N., Hideo Shiogama, Naota Hanasaki, & Kiyoshi Takahashi. (2022). Development of CMIP6‐Based Climate Scenarios for Japan Using Statistical Method and Their Applicability to Heat‐Related Impact Studies. Earth and Space Science. 9(11). 17 indexed citations
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Gosling, Simon N., Matthew F. Johnson, Matthew D. Jones, et al.. (2022). Multi-model evaluation of catchment- and global-scale hydrological model simulations of drought characteristics across eight large river catchments. Advances in Water Resources. 165. 104212–104212. 16 indexed citations
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Takata, Kumiko & Naota Hanasaki. (2020). 適応オプションとしての植林の影響:Chao Phraya川流域における事例研究【JST・京大機械翻訳】. Environmental Research Letters. 15(4). 11. 1 indexed citations
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Satoh, Yusuke, Tokuta Yokohata, Yadu Pokhrel, et al.. (2020). Multi-type global drought projection using multi-model hydrological simulations. 1 indexed citations
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Krysanova, Valentina, Jamal Zaherpour, Iulii Didovets, et al.. (2020). How evaluation of global hydrological models can help to improve credibility of river discharge projections under climate change. Climatic Change. 163(3). 1353–1377. 38 indexed citations
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Ai, Zhipin, Naota Hanasaki, Vera Heck, Tomoko Hasegawa, & Shinichiro Fujimori. (2019). Enhancement and validation of a state-of-the-art global hydrological model H08 (v.bio1) to simulate second-generation herbaceous bioenergy crop yield. 1 indexed citations
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Hanasaki, Naota, Sayaka Yoshikawa, Yadu Pokhrel, & Shinjiro Kanae. (2018). A Quantitative Investigation of the Thresholds for Two Conventional Water Scarcity Indicators Using a State‐of‐the‐Art Global Hydrological Model With Human Activities. Water Resources Research. 54(10). 8279–8294. 46 indexed citations
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Wada, Yoshihide, Marc F. P. Bierkens, Ad de Roo, et al.. (2017). Human–water interface in hydrological modelling: current status and future directions. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(8). 4169–4193. 191 indexed citations
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Greve, Peter, Taher Kahil, Yusuke Satoh, et al.. (2017). Global assessment of water policy vulnerability under uncertainty in water scarcity projections. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 15042. 1 indexed citations
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Satoh, Yusuke, Günther Fischer, Peter Burek, et al.. (2016). Development of future water use scenarios: Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative’s approaches. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 1 indexed citations
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Burek, Peter, Yoshinori Sato, Yukihisa Wada, et al.. (2016). Looking at the spatial and temporal distribution of global water availability and demand. IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis). 2 indexed citations
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Konar, Megan, et al.. (2013). Virtual water trade flows and savings under climate change. 8 indexed citations
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Yoshikawa, Seiko, et al.. (2011). Evaluation for sustainable agriculture water use from River, Reservoirs and Groundwater in the 20th century. AGUFM. 2011. 1 indexed citations
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Agata, Yasushi, et al.. (2005). Global Water Resources Under Future Changes: Toward an Improved Estimation. AGUSM. 2005. 1 indexed citations

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