Satoshi Okabe

18.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
289 papers, 15.0k citations indexed

About

Satoshi Okabe is a scholar working on Pollution, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Satoshi Okabe has authored 289 papers receiving a total of 15.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Pollution, 75 papers in Environmental Engineering and 71 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Satoshi Okabe's work include Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (129 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (67 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (58 papers). Satoshi Okabe is often cited by papers focused on Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (129 papers), Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (67 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (58 papers). Satoshi Okabe collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Saudi Arabia. Satoshi Okabe's co-authors include Hisashi Satoh, Tsukasa Ito, Yoshimasa Watanabe, Mamoru Oshiki, Tomonori Kindaichi, Muhammad Ali, Koji Kawata, Satoshi Ishii, Yuki Miura and Lei Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Satoshi Okabe

275 papers receiving 14.5k 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.

In Vitro Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles at Noncytotoxic Doses to HepG2 Human Hepatoma Cells

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Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Satoshi Okabe	7.9k	3.6k	3.0k	3.0k	2.8k	289	15.0k
Barth F. Smets	8.0k 1.0×	2.3k 0.6×	2.8k 0.9×	3.0k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	300	12.4k
Markus Schmid	8.6k 1.1×	2.6k 0.7×	5.9k 2.0×	2.1k 0.7×	950 0.3×	191	17.6k
Harald Horn	6.2k 0.8×	2.1k 0.6×	973 0.3×	2.1k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	272	11.8k
Cristian Picioreanu	4.5k 0.6×	2.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.4×	1.5k 0.5×	2.7k 1.0×	155	10.7k
Jeppe Lund Nielsen	7.0k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	3.9k 1.3×	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	233	12.2k
Satoshi Tsuneda	4.8k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	1.8k 0.7×	290	9.5k
Akiyoshi Ohashi	4.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	2.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	1.9k 0.7×	220	10.2k
Holger Daims	9.8k 1.2×	3.2k 0.9×	9.2k 3.0×	3.0k 1.0×	830 0.3×	109	17.0k
Mads Albertsen	6.2k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	5.5k 1.8×	1.5k 0.5×	691 0.3×	97	11.4k
Peifang Wang	5.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.3×	2.9k 1.0×	2.3k 0.8×	4.1k 1.5×	651	24.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Satoshi Okabe

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Iwamoto, Ryo, Satoshi Okabe, & Masaaki Kitajima. (2025). Development of a Rapid, Cost-Effective, and Automatable Virus Concentration from Wastewater Using a Coagulant with Magnetic Materials. ACS ES&T Water. 5(6). 3147–3154. 1 indexed citations

Cảnh, Vũ Đức, et al.. (2025). Revealing the Epidemiology of Human Bocavirus and Streptococcus pneumoniae through Wastewater Surveillance. ACS ES&T Water. 5(11). 6473–6478.

Oshiki, Mamoru, et al.. (2024). Collaborative metabolisms of urea and cyanate degradation in marine anammox bacterial culture. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycad007–ycad007. 2 indexed citations

Watanabe, Seiichi, et al.. (2024). Microbial photoelectrochemical cell using hybrid CuO/ZnO/CuO and Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 anode for hydrogen production. Chemical Engineering Journal. 505. 159093–159093. 4 indexed citations

Okabe, Satoshi, et al.. (2024). Interspecific competition and adaptation of anammox bacteria at different salinities: Experimental validation of the Monod growth model with salinity inhibition. Water Research. 271. 122883–122883. 7 indexed citations

Oshiki, Mamoru, et al.. (2023). Growth of the Nitrosomonas europaea cells in the biofilm and planktonic growth mode: Responses of extracellular polymeric substances production and transcriptome. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering. 136(6). 430–437. 6 indexed citations

Noophan, Pongsak, et al.. (2023). Influence of biochar derived from sugarcane bagasse at different carbonization temperatures on anammox granular formation. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 185. 105678–105678. 14 indexed citations

Murakami, Michio, et al.. (2023). Wastewater-based prediction of COVID-19 cases using a highly sensitive SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection method combined with mathematical modeling. Environment International. 173. 107743–107743. 46 indexed citations

Zhu, Yifan, et al.. (2020). The Effect of GD1a Ganglioside-Expressing Bacterial Strains on Murine Norovirus Infectivity. Molecules. 25(18). 4084–4084. 4 indexed citations

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Rachmadi, Andri Taruna, Masaaki Kitajima, Tsuyoshi Kato, et al.. (2020). Required Chlorination Doses to Fulfill the Credit Value for Disinfection of Enteric Viruses in Water: A Critical Review. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(4). 2068–2077. 58 indexed citations

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Zhang, Lei, et al.. (2017). Maximum specific growth rate of anammox bacteria revisited. Water Research. 116. 296–303. 221 indexed citations

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Ozawa, Shuji, Satoshi Okabe, & Satoshi Ishii. (2016). Specific Single-Cell Isolation of Escherichia coli O157 from Environmental Water Samples by Using Flow Cytometry and Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 13(8). 456–461. 8 indexed citations

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Miura, Takayuki, Satoshi Okabe, Yoshihito Nakahara, & Daisuke Sano. (2015). Removal properties of human enteric viruses in a pilot-scale membrane bioreactor (MBR) process. Water Research. 75. 282–291. 57 indexed citations

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Ishii, Satoshi, Takahiro Segawa, Ayano Kobayashi, et al.. (2014). Microfluidic Quantitative PCR for Simultaneous Quantification of Multiple Viruses in Environmental Water Samples. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 80(24). 7505–7511. 81 indexed citations

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May, Thithiwat, Kenji Tsuruta, & Satoshi Okabe. (2010). Exposure of conjugative plasmid carrying Escherichia coli biofilms to male-specific bacteriophages. The ISME Journal. 5(4). 771–775. 26 indexed citations

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Kindaichi, Tomonori, Tsukasa Ito, & Satoshi Okabe. (2004). Ecophysiological Interaction between Nitrifying Bacteria and Heterotrophic Bacteria in Autotrophic Nitrifying Biofilms as Determined by Microautoradiography-Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 70(3). 1641–1650. 302 indexed citations

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Kindaichi, Tomonori, Tsukasa Ito, Satoshi Okabe, & Yoshimasa Watanabe. (2003). Diversity of Ammonia-oxidizing Bacteria Based on 16S rDNA Sequence Analysis. Environmental Engineering Research. 40. 71–79. 1 indexed citations

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Kindaichi, Tomonori, Tsukasa Ito, Satoshi Okabe, & Yoshimasa Watanabe. (2003). Eco-physiological interaction between nitrifying bacteria and heterotrophic bacteria in autotrophic nitrifying biofilms as determined by MAR-FISH. Analytical Chemistry. 11(11). 131–134. 4 indexed citations

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Satoh, Hisashi, Satoshi Okabe, & Yoshimasa Watanabe. (1999). Ammonium Oxidation in Mixed-population Biofilms Determined with the Use of Microelectrodes and in situ Hybridization.. Journal of Japan Society on Water Environment. 22(3). 206–214. 3 indexed citations

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Okabe, Satoshi. (1993). Factors affecting microbial sulfate reduction by Desulfovibrio desulfuricans. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. 1. 81–86. 1 indexed citations

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