Yasuhiro Kato

7.2k citations
199 papers · 4.7k · 1 hit paper · h-index 38

Impact in

  • Geochemistry and Petrology top 0.1%
    • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geophysics top 0.5%
    • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
    • earthquake and tectonic studies
    • High-pressure geophysics and materials

Papers in

Co-authors
Kentaro Nakamura (71 shared papers)Koichiro Fujinaga (52 shared papers)Kazutaka Yasukawa (57 shared papers)Junichiro Ohta (31 shared papers)Yutaro Takaya (30 shared papers)Tatsuo Nozaki (39 shared papers)Katsuhiko Suzuki (16 shared papers)Shiki Machida (33 shared papers)
Journals
Scientific Reports (9 papers)Ore Geology Reviews (8 papers)Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (7 papers)Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (7 papers)Earth and Planetary Science Letters (5 papers)
Partner nations
JapanUnited StatesChina

In The Last Decade

Yasuhiro Kato

183 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Yasuhiro Kato's Hit Papers

Deep-sea mud in the Pacific Ocean as a potential resource for rare-earth elements 2011 · 473 citations
4730+5+10Years since publication100200300400
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2011 Nature Geoscience

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Yasuhiro Kato
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  • Geochemistry and Petrology 2.3k
  • Geophysics 2.4k
  • Paleontology 1.2k
  • Atmospheric Science 810
  • Inorganic Chemistry 462
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Deep-sea mud in the Pacific Ocean as a potential resource for rare-earth elements
Nature Geoscience ·Yasuhiro Kato, Koichiro Fujinaga, Kentaro Nakamura, Yutaro Takaya, Kenichi Kitamura, Junichiro Ohta, Ryuichi Toda, Takuya Nakashima, Hikaru Iwamori
Hit paper breakdown →		2011473
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Geochemistry of Late Permian to Early Triassic pelagic cherts from southwest Japan: implications for an oceanic redox change
Chemical Geology ·Yasuhiro Kato, Kyoko Nakao, Yukio Isozaki
2002198
3
The tremendous potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth elements
Scientific Reports ·Yutaro Takaya, Kazutaka Yasukawa, Takehiro Kawasaki, Koichiro Fujinaga, Junichiro Ohta, Yoichi Usui, Kentaro Nakamura, Jun‐Ichi Kimura, Qing Chang, Morihisa Hamada, Gjergj Dodbiba, Tatsuo Nozaki, Koichi Iijima, Tomohiro Morisawa, Takuma Kuwahara, Yasuyuki Ishida, Takao Ichimura, Masaki Kitazume, Toyohisa Fujita, Yasuhiro Kato
2018176
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Rare earth element variations in mid-Archean banded iron formations: implications for the chemistry of ocean and continent and plate tectonics
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ·Yasuhiro Kato, Izumi Ohta, Tomoki Tsunematsu, (unknown), Yukio Isozaki, Shigenori Maruyama, Noboru Imai
1998149
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Field occurrence, geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Archean Mid-Oceanic Ridge Basalts (AMORBs) of the Cleaverville area, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia
Lithos ·Hiroshi Ohta, Shigenori Maruyama, Eiichi Takahashi, Y. Watanabe, Yasuhiro Kato
1996130
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Geochemistry of a long in-situ section of intrusive slow-spread oceanic lithosphere: Results from IODP Site U1309 (Atlantis Massif, 30°N Mid-Atlantic-Ridge)
Earth and Planetary Science Letters ·Marguerite Godard, Shunsaku Awaji, H. Hansen, E. Hellebrand, Daniele Brunelli, K. Johnson, Toru Yamasaki, Jinichiro Maeda, Michael Abratis, David M. Christie, Yasuhiro Kato, C. Mariet, Martin Rösner
2009130
7
Major and trace element geochemistry and Os isotopic composition of metalliferous umbers from the Late Cretaceous Japanese accretionary complex
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems ·Yasuhiro Kato, Koichiro Fujinaga, Katsuhiko Suzuki
2005118
8
Origin and global tectonic significance of Early Archean cherts from the Marble Bar greenstone belt, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia
Precambrian Research ·Yasuhiro Kato
2003104
9
High-Mg Adakite and Low-Ca Boninite from a Bonin Fore-arc Seamount: Implications for the Reaction between Slab Melts and Depleted Mantle
Journal of Petrology ·Yi-bing Li, Jun‐Ichi Kimura, Shiki Machida, Teruaki Ishii, Akira Ishiwatari, Shigenori Maruyama, Hua‐Ning Qiu, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Yasuhiro Kato, Satoru Haraguchi, Naoto Takahata, Yuka Hirahara, Takashi Miyazaki
2013101
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Geochemistry and mineralogy of REY-rich mud in the eastern Indian Ocean
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences ·Kazutaka Yasukawa, Hanjie Liu, Koichiro Fujinaga, Shiki Machida, Satoru Haraguchi, Teruaki Ishii, Kentaro Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kato
2014100
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Carbonatization of oceanic crust by the seafloor hydrothermal activity and its significance as a CO2 sink in the Early Archean
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ·Kentaro Nakamura, Yasuhiro Kato
200497
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Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopic perspective on the formation mechanism of REY-rich muds in the Pacific Ocean
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ·Teruhiko Kashiwabara, Ryuichi Toda, Kentaro Nakamura, Kazutaka Yasukawa, Koichiro Fujinaga, Sayuri Kubo, Tatsuo Nozaki, Yoshio Takahashi, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Yasuhiro Kato
201880
13
Discovery of extremely REY-rich mud in the western North Pacific Ocean
GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL ·Koichi Iijima, Kazutaka Yasukawa, Koichiro Fujinaga, Kentaro Nakamura, Shiki Machida, Yutaro Takaya, Junichiro Ohta, Satoru Haraguchi, Yoshiro Nishio, Yoichi Usui, Tatsuo Nozaki, Toshitsugu Yamazaki, Yuji Ichiyama, Akira Ijiri, Fumio Inagaki, Hideaki Machiyama, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Yasuhiro Kato, (unknown)
201680
14
SIMS zircon U–Pb and mica K–Ar geochronology, and Sr–Nd isotope geochemistry of Neoproterozoic granitoids and their bearing on the evolution of the north Eastern Desert, Egypt
Gondwana Research ·Hassan Eliwa, Christoph Breitkreuz, Mamoru Murata, Ibrahim Khalaf, Benjamin Bühler, Tetsumaru Itaya, T. Takahashi, Yuka Hirahara, Takashi Miyazaki, Jun‐Ichi Kimura, Tomoyuki Shibata, Y. Koshi, Yasuhiro Kato, Hiroaki Ozawa, M.A. Daas, Kh. El Gameel
201377
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Tracking the spatiotemporal variations of statistically independent components involving enrichment of rare-earth elements in deep-sea sediments
Scientific Reports ·Kazutaka Yasukawa, Kentaro Nakamura, Koichiro Fujinaga, Hikaru Iwamori, Yasuhiro Kato
201675
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Statistic and Isotopic Characterization of Deep‐Sea Sediments in the Western North Pacific Ocean: Implications for Genesis of the Sediment Extremely Enriched in Rare Earth Elements
Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems ·Kazutaka Yasukawa, Junichiro Ohta, Takashi Miyazaki, Bogdan Stefanov Vaglarov, Qing Chang, Kenta Ueki, Chiaki Toyama, Jun‐Ichi Kimura, Erika Tanaka, Kentaro Nakamura, Koichiro Fujinaga, Koichi Iijima, Hikaru Iwamori, Yasuhiro Kato
201964
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Rare-earth, major, and trace element geochemistry of deep-sea sediments in the Indian Ocean: Implications for the potential distribution of REY-rich mud in the Indian Ocean
GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL ·Kazutaka Yasukawa, Kentaro Nakamura, Koichiro Fujinaga, Shiki Machida, Junichiro Ohta, Yutaro Takaya, Yasuhiro Kato
201562
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Chemostratigraphy of deep-sea sediments in the western North Pacific Ocean: Implications for genesis of mud highly enriched in rare-earth elements and yttrium
Ore Geology Reviews ·Erika Tanaka, Kentaro Nakamura, Kazutaka Yasukawa, Kazuhide Mimura, Koichiro Fujinaga, Koichi Iijima, Tatsuo Nozaki, Yasuhiro Kato
202061
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eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·William G. Griswold, Yasuhiro Kato, Jimmy J. Yuan
199959
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Geological factors responsible for REY-rich mud in the western North Pacific Ocean: Implications from mineralogy and grain size distributions
GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL ·Junichiro Ohta, Kazutaka Yasukawa, Shiki Machida, Koichiro Fujinaga, Kentaro Nakamura, Yutaro Takaya, Koichi Iijima, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Yasuhiro Kato
201655

About Yasuhiro Kato

Yasuhiro Kato is a scholar working on Geochemistry and Petrology, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology and Artificial Intelligence, having authored 199 papers that have together received 4.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (93 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (89 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (38 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (38 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (37 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (27 papers), Radioactive element chemistry and processing (21 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Geochemistry and Petrology (2.3k citations), Geophysics (2.4k citations), Paleontology (1.2k citations), Atmospheric Science (810 citations) and Inorganic Chemistry (462 citations). Yasuhiro Kato has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Frequent co-authors include Kentaro Nakamura, Koichiro Fujinaga, Kazutaka Yasukawa, Junichiro Ohta, Yutaro Takaya, Tatsuo Nozaki, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Shiki Machida, Yukio Isozaki and Hikaru Iwamori. Their work appears in journals such as Scientific Reports, Ore Geology Reviews, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

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