Ryota Nakajima

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ryota Nakajima is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryota Nakajima has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Ecology, 30 papers in Oceanography and 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Ryota Nakajima's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (26 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (14 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (12 papers). Ryota Nakajima is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (26 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (14 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (12 papers). Ryota Nakajima collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Malaysia. Ryota Nakajima's co-authors include Tatsuki Toda, Bin Haji Ross Othman, Teruaki Yoshida, Katsunori Fujikura, Masashi Tsuchiya, Tomo Kitahashi, Victor S. Kuwahara, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Dhugal J. Lindsay and Kenji Tsuchiya and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Ryota Nakajima

54 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Microbial decomposition of biodegradable plastics on the deep-sea floor

2024 94 citations Taku Omura, Noriyuki Isobe et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryota Nakajima Japan	21	496	411	373	243	214	54	1.1k
Barbara Urban-Malinga Poland	20	439 0.9×	516 1.3×	326 0.9×	192 0.8×	134 0.6×	39	1.0k
Dorothée Vincent France	15	319 0.6×	447 1.1×	311 0.8×	158 0.7×	137 0.6×	31	969
E. Papathanassiou Greece	23	574 1.2×	665 1.6×	361 1.0×	209 0.9×	561 2.6×	50	1.6k
Allison A. Fong United States	10	278 0.6×	292 0.7×	363 1.0×	181 0.7×	122 0.6×	19	876
Jean-Henri Hecq Belgium	16	379 0.8×	574 1.4×	687 1.8×	509 2.1×	258 1.2×	30	1.5k
A. E. Friederike Prowe Germany	17	295 0.6×	807 2.0×	284 0.8×	161 0.7×	354 1.7×	34	1.3k
Louise Kregting United Kingdom	20	480 1.0×	433 1.1×	235 0.6×	150 0.6×	303 1.4×	80	1.1k
Clara Manno United Kingdom	24	410 0.8×	869 2.1×	360 1.0×	171 0.7×	478 2.2×	56	1.4k
Vincent Saderne Saudi Arabia	20	648 1.3×	662 1.6×	226 0.6×	124 0.5×	336 1.6×	31	1.2k
Xiaoshou Liu China	22	647 1.3×	628 1.5×	952 2.6×	508 2.1×	355 1.7×	93	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryota Nakajima

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

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Tsuchiya, Masashi, Tomo Kitahashi, Hitoshi Saitô, et al.. (2025). Rapid detection and quantification of Nile Red-stained microplastic particles in sediment samples. PeerJ. 13. e19196–e19196. 2 indexed citations

Omura, Taku, Noriyuki Isobe, Takamasa Miura, et al.. (2024). Microbial decomposition of biodegradable plastics on the deep-sea floor. Nature Communications. 15(1). 568–568. 94 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Tao, Shiye Zhao, Lixin Zhu, et al.. (2022). Accumulation, transformation and transport of microplastics in estuarine fronts. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 3(11). 795–805. 116 indexed citations

Nakajima, Ryota, Masashi Tsuchiya, Akinori Yabuki, et al.. (2021). Massive occurrence of benthic plastic debris at the abyssal seafloor beneath the Kuroshio Extension, the North West Pacific. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 166. 112188–112188. 34 indexed citations

Nakajima, Ryota, Masashi Tsuchiya, Dhugal J. Lindsay, et al.. (2019). A new small device made of glass for separating microplastics from marine and freshwater sediments. PeerJ. 7. e7915–e7915. 78 indexed citations

Takeuchi, Seiji, et al.. (2019). Predicting the local-scale spatial distribution of five megafaunal species associated with a deep-sea hydrothermal field in the Okinawa Trough, Japan. Plankton and Benthos Research. 14(3). 150–160. 2 indexed citations

Nakajima, Ryota, et al.. (2019). Spiny but Subitaneous Eggs: Egg Morphology and Hatching in Acartia Copepods in the Tropics.. PubMed. 58. e5–e5. 3 indexed citations

Nakajima, Ryota, et al.. (2017). The density and biomass of mesozooplankton and ichthyoplankton in the Negro and the Amazon Rivers during the rainy season: the ecological importance of the confluence boundary. PeerJ. 5. e3308–e3308. 9 indexed citations

Bodenmann, Adrian, Blair Thornton, Ryota Nakajima, & Tamaki Ura. (2017). Methods for quantitative studies of seafloor hydrothermal systems using 3D visual reconstructions. ROBOMECH Journal. 4(1). 7 indexed citations

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Nakajima, Ryota, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Shinsuke Kawagucci, et al.. (2015). Post-Drilling Changes in Seabed Landscape and Megabenthos in a Deep-Sea Hydrothermal System, the Iheya North Field, Okinawa Trough. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0123095–e0123095. 37 indexed citations

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Bodenmann, Adrian, Blair Thornton, Ryota Nakajima, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, & Tamaki Ura. (2013). Wide area 3D seafloor reconstruction and its application to sea fauna density mapping. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 13 indexed citations

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Nakajima, Ryota, Dhugal J. Lindsay, Teruaki Yoshida, Bin Haji Ross Othman, & Tatsuki Toda. (2013). Short‐term temporal variation in gelatinous zooplankton populations over 48 hours in a coral reef at Redang Island, Malaysia. Marine Ecology. 35(2). 254–260. 4 indexed citations

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Nakajima, Ryota, et al.. (2013). Sedimentation impacts on the growth rates of the scleractinian coral acropora formosa from fringing reefs of Tioman Island, Malaysia. 42(9). 1201–1205. 5 indexed citations

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Nakajima, Ryota, Teruaki Yoshida, Bin Haji Ross Othman, & Tatsuki Toda. (2013). Biomass and estimated production rates of metazoan zooplankton community in a tropical coral reef of Malaysia. Marine Ecology. 35(1). 112–131. 12 indexed citations

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Nakajima, Ryota, Kenji Tsuchiya, Teruaki Yoshida, et al.. (2013). Enrichment of microbial abundance in the sea-surface microlayer over a coral reef: implications for biogeochemical cycles in reef ecosystems. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 490. 11–22. 22 indexed citations

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Tsuchiya, Kenji, et al.. (2013). Phytoplankton community response and succession in relation to typhoon passages in the coastal waters of Japan. Journal of Plankton Research. 36(2). 424–438. 38 indexed citations

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Kuwahara, Victor S., et al.. (2010). Spatial variability of UVR attenuation and bio-optical factors in shallow coral-reef waters of Malaysia. Coral Reefs. 29(3). 693–704. 21 indexed citations

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Nakajima, Ryota, Teruaki Yoshida, Bin Haji Ross Othman, & Tatsuki Toda. (2010). High detritus/phytoplankton content in net-plankton samples from coral reef water: source of over-estimation in zooplankton biomass by measuring seston weight. Plankton and Benthos Research. 5(2). 69–73. 7 indexed citations

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Nakajima, Ryota, et al.. (2010). An evaluation of photo line-intercept transect (PLIT) method for coral reef monitoring. Galaxea Journal of Coral Reef Studies. 12(1). 37–44. 11 indexed citations

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Toda, Tatsuki, Ryota Nakajima, Wenxi Chen, et al.. (2006). Community structures of coral reefs around Peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Oceanography. 63(1). 113–123. 50 indexed citations

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