Rota Wagai

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Rota Wagai is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Rota Wagai has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Soil Science, 21 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 19 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Rota Wagai's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (43 papers), Clay minerals and soil interactions (19 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (15 papers). Rota Wagai is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (43 papers), Clay minerals and soil interactions (19 papers) and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (15 papers). Rota Wagai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Rota Wagai's co-authors include Lawrence M. Mayer, Kanehiro Kitayama, Maki Asano, Akihiko Ito, Teri C. Balser, Yasuhito Shirato, Phillip Sollins, Masako Kajiura, Masayuki Ushio and Linda L. Schick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Rota Wagai

64 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Beyond clay: towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content

2018 542 citations Craig Rasmussen, Katherine Heckman et al. Biogeochemistry profile →

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Angelika Kölbl Germany

Marc G. Kramer United States

Steven J. Hall United States

Ruth H. Ellerbrock Germany

Craig Rasmussen United States

Jörg Prietzel Germany

Evelyn S. Krull Australia

Sonja Brodowski Germany

Heiner Flessa Germany

Jocelyn M. Lavallee United States

Angelika Kölbl Germany

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Countries citing papers authored by Rota Wagai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rota Wagai

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

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Döetterl, Sebastian, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Katherine Heckman, et al.. (2025). A landscape-scale view of soil organic matter dynamics. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(1). 67–81. 13 indexed citations

Fromm, Sophie F. von, Hermann F. Jungkunst, Steven J. Hall, et al.. (2025). Moisture and soil depth govern relationships between soil organic carbon and oxalate-extractable metals at the global scale. Biogeochemistry. 168(1). 4 indexed citations

Wang, Yugang, et al.. (2025). Divergent effects of soil organic matter and carbonate on soil aggregation and structure in arid regions. CATENA. 257. 109196–109196. 1 indexed citations

Matsuura, Shoji, et al.. (2025). Plant residue quality regulates mineral-associated organic matter formation rate and pathway in converted upland soil. Environmental Research. 283. 122158–122158.

Mitsunobu, Satoshi, Rota Wagai, Hiroaki Shimada, et al.. (2024). First microscale data on depth profiles of microbial N₂O reduction, O2 availability, and pore networks inside contrasting single soil aggregates. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 202. 109684–109684. 4 indexed citations

Wagai, Rota, et al.. (2024). Intraspecific variations in activities of four classes of fine root phosphatases in Quercus serrata, a dominant deciduous oak, occurring across a wide soil phosphorus gradient in Japan. Plant and Soil. 508(1-2). 311–327. 5 indexed citations

Wagai, Rota, et al.. (2024). Higher rice yield and lower greenhouse gas emissions with cattle manure amendment is achieved by alternate wetting and drying. Soil Science & Plant Nutrition. 70(2). 129–138. 3 indexed citations

Minamikawa, Kazunori, et al.. (2023). Higher rice grain yield and lower methane emission achieved by alternate wetting and drying in central Vietnam. European Journal of Agronomy. 151. 126992–126992. 12 indexed citations

Maie, Nagamitsu, Rota Wagai, Yasuhiro Hirano, et al.. (2023). Soil acidity accelerates soil organic matter decomposition in Cryptomeria japonica stands and Chamaecyparis obtusa stands. Plant and Soil. 494(1-2). 627–649. 4 indexed citations

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Wagai, Rota, et al.. (2023). Destructive selective logging in tropical forests causes soil carbon loss through forest degradation and soil redox change. Forest Ecology and Management. 551. 121555–121555. 5 indexed citations

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Arai, Miwa & Rota Wagai. (2023). Does rice paddy management increase soil organic carbon in the warm temperate and tropical regions?. Geoderma Regional. 36. e00738–e00738. 5 indexed citations

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Maie, Nagamitsu, Rota Wagai, Yasuhiro Hirano, et al.. (2022). An increase of fine-root biomass in nutrient-poor soils increases soil organic matter but not soil cation exchange capacity. Plant and Soil. 482(1-2). 89–110. 13 indexed citations

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Wagai, Rota, Masako Kajiura, & Maki Asano. (2020). Iron and aluminum association with microbially processed organic matter via meso-density aggregate formation across soils: organo-metallic glue hypothesis. SOIL. 6(2). 597–627. 90 indexed citations

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Uramoto, Go‐Ichiro, Yuki Morono, Naotaka Tomioka, et al.. (2019). Significant contribution of subseafloor microparticles to the global manganese budget. Nature Communications. 10(1). 400–400. 31 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Ryosuke, Hidehiro Ishizawa, Rota Wagai, et al.. (2019). Silicon cycled by tropical forest trees: effects of species, elevation and parent material on Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia. Plant and Soil. 443(1-2). 155–166. 21 indexed citations

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Nakao, Atsushi, et al.. (2019). Asian dust increases radiocesium retention ability of serpentine soils in Japan. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 204. 86–94. 5 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Ryosuke, Hidehiro Ishizawa, Rota Wagai, et al.. (2018). Silicon cycled by tropical forest trees: effects of species, elevation and bedrock on Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations

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Ito, Akihiko & Rota Wagai. (2017). Global distribution of clay-size minerals on land surface for biogeochemical and climatological studies. Scientific Data. 4(1). 170103–170103. 199 indexed citations

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Zahn, Geoffrey, Rota Wagai, & Seiichiro Yonemura. (2015). The effects of amoebal bacterivory on carbon and nitrogen dynamics depend on temperature and soil structure interactions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 94. 133–137. 15 indexed citations

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Wagai, Rota. (2005). Climatic and Lithogenic Controls on Soil Organic Matter-Mineral Associations. DigitalCommons (California Polytechnic State University). 39. 356. 2 indexed citations

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