Yoshihiro Ito

8.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
182 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Yoshihiro Ito is a scholar working on Geophysics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yoshihiro Ito has authored 182 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Geophysics, 24 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 23 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yoshihiro Ito's work include earthquake and tectonic studies (102 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (59 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (43 papers). Yoshihiro Ito is often cited by papers focused on earthquake and tectonic studies (102 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (59 papers) and Seismic Waves and Analysis (43 papers). Yoshihiro Ito collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and New Zealand. Yoshihiro Ito's co-authors include Kazushige Obara, Ryota Hino, Yukio Imanishi, Daisuke Inazu, Katsuhiko Shiomi, Hiromi Fujimoto, Motoyuki Kido, Takeshi Iinuma, Youichi Asano and Hitoshi Hirose and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yoshihiro Ito

169 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Slow slip near the trench at the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand

2016 240 citations Laura Wallace, Spahr C. Webb et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yoshihiro Ito Japan	40	4.3k	689	430	281	244	182	5.7k
Geoffrey E. Lloyd United Kingdom	33	2.8k 0.7×	297 0.4×	142 0.3×	68 0.2×	94 0.4×	103	3.8k
Yasushi Watanabe Japan	32	1.4k 0.3×	930 1.3×	213 0.5×	49 0.2×	195 0.8×	204	3.7k
Liang Zhao China	39	3.6k 0.8×	525 0.8×	120 0.3×	30 0.1×	55 0.2×	184	5.1k
Ralf Hielscher Germany	21	1.1k 0.3×	105 0.2×	224 0.5×	45 0.2×	631 2.6×	47	5.3k
Takuya Nishimura Japan	34	3.3k 0.8×	616 0.9×	161 0.4×	24 0.1×	14 0.1×	164	4.2k
Florian Heidelbach Germany	31	2.0k 0.5×	187 0.3×	148 0.3×	32 0.1×	274 1.1×	81	2.9k
Thomas Becker Australia	27	137 0.0×	526 0.8×	412 1.0×	136 0.5×	271 1.1×	111	3.6k
Stephen A. Hall Sweden	39	1.0k 0.2×	36 0.1×	421 1.0×	95 0.3×	229 0.9×	188	4.8k
P. Martín Saudi Arabia	39	4.5k 1.0×	789 1.1×	46 0.1×	36 0.1×	16 0.1×	172	5.9k
Florian Bachmann Denmark	16	682 0.2×	56 0.1×	199 0.5×	45 0.2×	403 1.7×	34	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Yoshihiro Ito

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yoshihiro Ito

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Cruz‐Atienza, V. M., Josué Tago, V. Kostoglodov, et al.. (2025). Seafloor geodesy unveils seismogenesis of large subduction earthquakes in Mexico. Science Advances. 11(37). eadu8259–eadu8259.

Ito, Yoshihiro, et al.. (2024). Along-strike forearc and subducted upper slab structure beneath north Chile: Slow slip implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 148. 105064–105064.

Wallace, Laura, C. A. Williams, Ian Hamling, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal Evolution of Slow Slip Events at the Offshore Hikurangi Subduction Zone in 2019 Using GNSS, InSAR, and Seafloor Geodetic Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 129(8). 7 indexed citations

Ito, Yoshihiro, et al.. (2023). Anisotropic Velocity Structure Beneath Shikoku, Japan: Insights From Receiver Function and Shear Wave Splitting Analyses. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 128(12). 1 indexed citations

Yamashita, Yusuke, E. S. M. Garcia, Aki Ito, et al.. (2022). Seafloor depth controls seismograph orientation uncertainty. Geophysical Journal International. 232(2). 1376–1392. 3 indexed citations

Webb, Spahr C., Laura Wallace, Yoshihiro Ito, et al.. (2022). Using Seafloor Geodesy to Detect Vertical Deformation at the Hikurangi Subduction Zone: Insights From Self‐Calibrating Pressure Sensors and Ocean General Circulation Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 127(12). 10 indexed citations

Cruz‐Atienza, V. M., Josué Tago, Meng Wei, et al.. (2021). Short-term interaction between silent and devastating earthquakes in Mexico. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2171–2171. 36 indexed citations

Tago, Josué, V. M. Cruz‐Atienza, Takuya Nishimura, et al.. (2021). Adjoint slip inversion under a constrained optimization framework: revisiting the 2006 Guerrero slow slip event. Geophysical Journal International. 226(2). 1187–1205. 4 indexed citations

Mochizuki, Kimihiro, Erin Todd, S. Y. Schwartz, et al.. (2021). Continuous Tremor Activity With Stable Polarization Direction Following the 2014 Large Slow Slip Event in the Hikurangi Subduction Margin Offshore New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 127(2). 3 indexed citations

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Ide, Satoshi, Masanao Shinohara, E. S. M. Garcia, et al.. (2021). Shallow slow earthquakes to decipher future catastrophic earthquakes in the Guerrero seismic gap. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3976–3976. 28 indexed citations

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Inoue, Tomohiro, Yoshihiro Ito, Laura Wallace, et al.. (2021). Water Depth Dependence of Long‐Range Correlation in Nontidal Variations in Seafloor Pressure. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(8). 8 indexed citations

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Ramírez‐Herrera, María Teresa, et al.. (2020). Seafloor morphology along the active margin in Guerrero, Mexico: Probable earthquake implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 102. 102671–102671. 4 indexed citations

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Shibazaki, Bunichiro, Laura Wallace, Yoshihiro Kaneko, et al.. (2019). Three‐Dimensional Modeling of Spontaneous and Triggered Slow‐Slip Events at the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 124(12). 13250–13268. 13 indexed citations

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Ito, Yoshihiro, Daisuke Inazu, Laura Wallace, et al.. (2018). Seafloor Crustal Deformation on Ocean Bottom Pressure Records With Nontidal Variability Corrections: Application to Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(1). 303–310. 19 indexed citations

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Todd, Erin, S. Y. Schwartz, Kimihiro Mochizuki, et al.. (2018). Earthquakes and Tremor Linked to Seamount Subduction During Shallow Slow Slip at the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth. 123(8). 6769–6783. 84 indexed citations

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Wallace, Laura, Bill Fry, Stephen Bannister, et al.. (2013). Large short- and long-term Hikurangi margin, New Zealand SSEs in 2013, and possible triggering of moderate to large seismicity during the SSEs. AGUFM. 2013. 2 indexed citations

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Ito, Yoshihiro, et al.. (2006). 8 kW QRAS Chopper using SiC Schottky Diode. IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications. 126(7). 881–887. 5 indexed citations

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Obara, Kazushige & Yoshihiro Ito. (2005). Accretionary prism earthquake along the Nankai Trough, southwest Japan. AGUFM. 2005. 2 indexed citations

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Obara, Kazushige & Yoshihiro Ito. (2004). Seismic activity of very low-frequency earthquake on the subducting Philippine Sea plate near the Nankai Trough, southwest Japan. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 2 indexed citations

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Watano, Satoru, Yoshihiro Ito, Teruo Suzuki, & Kei Miyanami. (1997). The On-line Monitoring of the Electrostatic Field Strength in Fluidized Bed Granulation and Drying Using a Newly Developed Electrostatic Field Detecting System.. Journal of the Society of Powder Technology Japan. 34(10). 778–784. 3 indexed citations

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