Yasuhiro Kato

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
196 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Yasuhiro Kato is a scholar working on Geochemistry and Petrology, Geophysics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yasuhiro Kato has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology, 93 papers in Geophysics and 39 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Yasuhiro Kato's work include Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (93 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (88 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (38 papers). Yasuhiro Kato is often cited by papers focused on Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (93 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (88 papers) and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (38 papers). Yasuhiro Kato collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Yasuhiro Kato's co-authors include Kentaro Nakamura, Koichiro Fujinaga, Kazutaka Yasukawa, Junichiro Ohta, Tatsuo Nozaki, Yutaro Takaya, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Shiki Machida, Yukio Isozaki and Hikaru Iwamori and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Yasuhiro Kato

180 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

Deep-sea mud in the Pacific Ocean as a potential resource... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400
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. Deep-sea mud in the Pacific Ocean as a potential resource for rare-earth elements
    2011 454 citations Yasuhiro Kato, Koichiro Fujinaga et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yasuhiro Kato Japan 37 2.4k 2.3k 1.2k 839 808 196 4.6k
Weiqiang Li China 38 1.3k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.9× 439 0.5× 816 1.0× 216 4.2k
John F. Slack United States 35 3.1k 1.3× 2.1k 0.9× 1.3k 1.1× 1.5k 1.8× 510 0.6× 118 4.5k
Ian B. Butler United Kingdom 34 1.1k 0.5× 943 0.4× 734 0.6× 587 0.7× 405 0.5× 102 3.9k
Xiangli Wang China 36 864 0.4× 2.0k 0.8× 1.6k 1.4× 225 0.3× 638 0.8× 145 4.6k
Bernd Lehmann Germany 49 6.9k 2.9× 2.6k 1.1× 1.2k 1.0× 4.4k 5.3× 442 0.5× 269 9.0k
В. В. Масленников Russia 27 4.4k 1.8× 2.0k 0.9× 759 0.6× 3.9k 4.6× 273 0.3× 107 5.5k
Philip J. Potts United Kingdom 40 2.2k 0.9× 847 0.4× 373 0.3× 1.7k 2.0× 439 0.5× 136 4.9k
Thomas Wagner Germany 36 2.7k 1.1× 1.0k 0.5× 240 0.2× 1.6k 1.9× 295 0.4× 120 4.8k
Jamie J. Wilkinson United Kingdom 38 4.3k 1.8× 1.2k 0.5× 361 0.3× 3.3k 3.9× 326 0.4× 124 5.4k
Stephen Roberts United Kingdom 34 2.7k 1.1× 743 0.3× 359 0.3× 1.4k 1.6× 389 0.5× 122 3.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yasuhiro Kato

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yasuhiro Kato

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

All Works

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Mimura, Kazuhide, Taro Kitazawa, Kentaro Nakamura, et al.. (2025). Deep‐Sea Rare‐Earth Mineral Resources Formed in the Early Eocene Hothouse Ocean: Insights From Deep Learning‐Based Microfossil Observations. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 40(4).
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Mimura, Kazuhide, Kentaro Nakamura, Kazutaka Yasukawa, et al.. (2024). Applicability of Object Detection to Microfossil Research: Implications From Deep Learning Models to Detect Microfossil Fish Teeth and Denticles Using YOLO‐v7. Earth and Space Science. 11(1). 7 indexed citations
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Yasukawa, Kazutaka, et al.. (2024). Multi‐Elemental Statistical Features of Early Paleogene Sediments From the Mid‐Latitude Eastern Indian Ocean. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 39(10). 1 indexed citations
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Sato, Honami, Tatsuo Nozaki, Tetsuji Onoue, et al.. (2023). Rhenium-osmium isotope evidence for the onset of volcanism in the central Panthalassa Ocean during the Norian “chaotic carbon episode”. Global and Planetary Change. 229. 104239–104239. 14 indexed citations
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Tanaka, Erika, Kazuhide Mimura, Kentaro Nakamura, et al.. (2023). Rare‐Earth Elements in Deep‐Sea Sediments in the South Pacific Gyre: Source Materials and Resource Potentials. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 24(3). 15 indexed citations
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Yasukawa, Kazutaka, Erika Tanaka, Takashi Miyazaki, et al.. (2023). High‐Dimensional Chemostratigraphy of Pelagic Clay in the Western North Pacific Ocean Revealed via an Unsupervised Clustering Approach. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 38(7). 4 indexed citations
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Nakamura, Kentaro, Shiki Machida, Kazutaka Yasukawa, et al.. (2023). Geochemical insights into secular changes in the depositional environment of ferromanganese nodules in the western North Pacific. Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 203. 104227–104227.
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Machida, Shiki, Naoto Hirano, Kentaro Nakamura, et al.. (2023). Hydrothermal ferromanganese oxides around a petit-spot volcano on old and cold oceanic crust. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 5 indexed citations
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Hirano, Naoto, Hirochika Sumino, Shiki Machida, et al.. (2023). An intraoceanic juvenile arc of shoshonite and adakitic andesite in the Nemuro Belt, the Lesser Kuril Arc, across the K/Pg boundary. Cretaceous Research. 147. 105510–105510. 4 indexed citations
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Tanaka, Erika, Kazutaka Yasukawa, Kentaro Nakamura, et al.. (2022). Secular Variations in Provenance of Sedimentary Components in the Western North Pacific Ocean Constrained by Sr Isotopic Features of Deep‐Sea Sediments. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 23(1). 11 indexed citations
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Hirano, Naoto, Jun‐Ichi Kimura, Qing Chang, et al.. (2022). 87Sr/86Sr Isotopic Ratio of Ferromanganese Crusts as a Record of Detrital Influx to the Western North Pacific Ocean. Minerals. 12(8). 943–943. 1 indexed citations
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Tanaka, Erika, Kentaro Nakamura, Kazutaka Yasukawa, et al.. (2020). Chemostratigraphic Correlations of Deep-Sea Sediments in the Western North Pacific Ocean: A New Constraint on the Distribution of Mud Highly Enriched in Rare-Earth Elements. Minerals. 10(6). 575–575. 28 indexed citations
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Yasukawa, Kazutaka, Junichiro Ohta, Takashi Miyazaki, et al.. (2019). 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. 20(7). 3402–3430. 62 indexed citations
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Nozaki, Tatsuo, Tetsuji Onoue, Yutaro Takaya, et al.. (2018). Triassic marine Os isotope record from a pelagic chert succession, Sakahogi section, Mino Belt, southwest Japan. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 100004–100004. 19 indexed citations
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Hirano, Naoto, et al.. (2018). Rare earth elements and yttrium (REY) variability with water depth in hydrogenetic ferromanganese crusts. Chemical Geology. 493. 224–233. 23 indexed citations
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Nozaki, Tatsuo, Yutaro Takaya, Takashi Toyofuku, et al.. (2017). Depositional Age of a Fossil Whale Bone from São Paulo Ridge, South Atlantic Ocean, Based on Os Isotope Stratigraphy of a Ferromanganese Crust. Resource Geology. 67(4). 442–450. 4 indexed citations
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Kato, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2009). Re-Os geochronology of the Iimori Besshi-type massive sulfide deposit in the Sanbagawa Belt, Japan. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement. 73. 1 indexed citations

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