Yoshihiro Konno

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
65 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Yoshihiro Konno is a scholar working on Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Yoshihiro Konno has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Environmental Chemistry, 41 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Yoshihiro Konno's work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (60 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (41 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (20 papers). Yoshihiro Konno is often cited by papers focused on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (60 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (41 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (20 papers). Yoshihiro Konno collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and India. Yoshihiro Konno's co-authors include Jiro Nagao, Yusuke Jin, Jun Yoneda, Yoshihiro Masuda, Masato Kida, Tetsuya Fujii, Norio Tenma, Kiyofumi Suzuki, Koji Yamamoto and Koya Akamine and has published in prestigious journals such as Geophysical Research Letters, Applied Energy and Energy Conversion and Management.

In The Last Decade

Yoshihiro Konno

64 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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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.

Key Findings of the World’s First Offshore Methane Hydrate Production Test off the Coast of Japan: Toward Future Commercial Production

2017 527 citations Yoshihiro Konno, Yoshihiro Masuda et al. Energy & Fuels profile →
Geological setting and characterization of a methane hydrate reservoir distributed at the first offshore production test site on the Daini-Atsumi Knoll in the eastern Nankai Trough, Japan

2015 329 citations Kiyofumi Suzuki, Yoshihiro Konno et al. Marine and Petroleum Geology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yoshihiro Konno Japan	31	4.0k	3.0k	1.4k	1.4k	615	65	4.1k
Jun Yoneda Japan	30	3.8k 1.0×	2.7k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	820 0.6×	676 1.1×	62	4.0k
Jingan Lu China	24	2.9k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	646 0.5×	917 0.7×	437 0.7×	59	3.1k
William J. Winters United States	23	3.2k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	950 0.7×	404 0.7×	64	3.4k
Kiyofumi Suzuki Japan	25	2.3k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	834 0.6×	775 0.6×	382 0.6×	68	2.5k
Jinqiang Liang China	35	3.2k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	474 0.3×	1.0k 0.7×	363 0.6×	99	3.5k
Zenggui Kuang China	23	2.2k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	465 0.3×	653 0.5×	309 0.5×	74	2.5k
Cheng Lü China	19	1.7k 0.4×	1.5k 0.5×	562 0.4×	526 0.4×	442 0.7×	62	1.9k
Geir Ersland Norway	27	1.6k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	559 0.4×	609 1.0×	71	2.4k
Evgeny Chuvilin Russia	27	1.7k 0.4×	818 0.3×	560 0.4×	638 0.5×	198 0.3×	110	2.1k
Xuwen Qin China	18	1.5k 0.4×	1.3k 0.4×	501 0.4×	493 0.4×	320 0.5×	68	1.7k

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Konno, Yoshihiro, et al.. (2025). Effect of heterogeneous hydrate distribution on permeability: Pore filling hydrate presents high permeability. Gas Science and Engineering. 142. 205682–205682.

Xu, Zelin & Yoshihiro Konno. (2025). Morphological Change of Hydrate Caused by Ostwald Ripening and Sintering. Energy & Fuels. 39(9). 4238–4248. 5 indexed citations

Wada, Ryota, Yoshihiro Konno, Márcio Yamamoto, et al.. (2024). Design of closed loop for reproduction of gas-dominated hydrate flow. Review of Scientific Instruments. 95(4). 1 indexed citations

Wada, Ryota, et al.. (2023). Impact of epistemic uncertainty on tradeoff in model-based decision support for methane hydrate development system design. Applied Energy. 356. 122408–122408. 3 indexed citations

Pasqualino, Ilson, Menglan Duan, Zhuang Kang, et al.. (2022). Committee V.8: Subsea Technology. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations

Konno, Yoshihiro, Akira Kato, Jun Yoneda, et al.. (2018). Numerical analysis of gas production potential from a gas-hydrate reservoir at Site NGHP-02-16, the Krishna–Godavari Basin, offshore India–Feasibility of depressurization method for ultra-deepwater environment. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 108. 731–740. 55 indexed citations

Yoneda, Jun, Motoi Oshima, Masato Kida, et al.. (2018). Consolidation and hardening behavior of hydrate-bearing pressure-core sediments recovered from the Krishna–Godavari Basin, offshore India. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 108. 512–523. 73 indexed citations

Kida, Masato, Yusuke Jin, Yoshihiro Konno, et al.. (2016). Hydrate Equilibrium Conditions for Water, Diethylene Glycol Monoethyl Ether Acetate, and Methane. Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data. 61(10). 3692–3697. 4 indexed citations

Nagao, Jiro, et al.. (2015). Development of the Pressure-core Nondestructive Analysis Tools (PNATs) for Methane Hydrate Sedimentary Cores. EGUGA. 8345. 5 indexed citations

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Konno, Yoshihiro, et al.. (2014). Experimental evaluation of the gas recovery factor of methane hydrate in sandy sediment. RSC Advances. 4(93). 51666–51675. 158 indexed citations

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Konno, Yoshihiro, et al.. (2013). Multiple-pressure-tapped core holder combined with X-ray computed tomography scanning for gas–water permeability measurements of methane-hydrate-bearing sediments. Review of Scientific Instruments. 84(6). 64501–64501. 40 indexed citations

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Oyama, Hiroyuki, Yoshihiro Konno, Kiyofumi Suzuki, & Jiro Nagao. (2011). Depressurized dissociation of methane-hydrate-bearing natural cores with low permeability. Chemical Engineering Science. 68(1). 595–605. 76 indexed citations

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Konno, Yoshihiro, et al.. (2010). Key Factors for Depressurization-Induced Gas Production from Oceanic Methane Hydrates. Energy & Fuels. 24(3). 1736–1744. 207 indexed citations

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Masuda, Yoshihiro, et al.. (2010). Model Calculation on Economics of Depressurization-Induced Gas Production from Oceanic Methane Hydrates. Proceedings of Offshore Technology Conference. 5 indexed citations

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Sato, Toru, Shinichiro Hirabayashi, Jiro Nagao, et al.. (2010). Microscale Numerical Modelling For Permeability Reduction of Solid-Water Phases In Sand Sediment. 1. 161–164. 1 indexed citations

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Konno, Yoshihiro, Yoshihiro Masuda, Hiroyuki Oyama, Masanori Kurihara, & Hisanao Ouchi. (2009). Analysis on factors that determine the gas production rate during depressurization of methane hydrate cores. Journal of the Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology. 74(2). 165–174. 7 indexed citations

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Oyama, Hiroyuki, Yoshihiro Konno, Yoshihiro Masuda, & Hideo Narita. (2009). Dependence of Depressurization-Induced Dissociation of Methane Hydrate Bearing Laboratory Cores on Heat Transfer. Energy & Fuels. 23(10). 4995–5002. 131 indexed citations

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Masuda, Yoshihiro, Yoshihiro Konno, Hiroki Iwama, et al.. (2008). Improvement of Near Wellbore Permeability by Methanol Stimulation in a Methane Hydrate Production Well. Offshore Technology Conference. 8 indexed citations

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Konno, Yoshihiro, Jiro Numaga, Manabu Mochizuki, et al.. (1998). TAP polymorphism is not associated with ankylosing spondylitis and complications with acute anterior uveitis in HLA‐B27‐positive Japanese. Tissue Antigens. 52(5). 478–483. 14 indexed citations

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Konno, Yoshihiro, Shinichi Takahashi, Renji Naruse, et al.. (1994). Antimetastatic Effect of Yeast Mannan-Bleomycin Conjugate against Mouse Lewis Lung Carcinoma.. Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 17(5). 748–752. 1 indexed citations

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