| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Refined Neogene diatom biostratigraphy for the northwest Pacific around Japan, with an introduction of code numbers for selected diatom biohorizons. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1998 | 319 |
| 2 | Plume tectonics. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1994 | 269 |
| 3 | Fission-track age calibration using internal and external surfaces of zircon. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1991 | 106 |
| 4 | Towards an integrated mega-, micro- and magneto-stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous in Japan. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1995 | 106 |
| 5 | Research progress in the Chichibu Composite Belt-Reports from western Shikoku. Unit division for the Chichibu Composite Belt from a view point of accretionary tectonics and geology of western Shikoku, Japan. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1998 | 98 |
| 6 | MODAL AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE GRANITIC ROCKS RELATED TO THE MAJOR MOLYBDENUM AND TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN THE INNER ZONE OF SOUTHWEST JAPAN | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1971 | 95 |
| 7 | Biotite zone of Sanbagawa metamorphic terrain in the Siragayama area, central Shikoku, Japan | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1975 | 91 |
| 8 | Geologic implication of the whole mantle P-wave tomography. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1994 | 89 |
| 9 | Evaluation of fission-track and U-Pb double dating method for identical zircon grains: | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 2012 | 87 |
| 10 | Pre-Jurassic klippe in northern Chichibu Belt in west-central Shikoku, Southwest Japan. Kurosegawa Terrane as a tectonic outlier of the pre-Jurassic rocks of the Inner Zone. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1991 | 83 |
| 11 | 房総半島における古地磁気層位学 | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1976 | 78 |
| 12 | Lateral variation of magnetic susceptibility of the Japanese granitoids. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1979 | 76 |
| 13 | On the relationship between the width of shear zone and the displacement along fault. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1978 | 74 |
| 14 | THE TIMING OF FOLDING AND STRETCHING IN THE SAMBAGAWA BELT:THE ASEMIGAWA REGION, CENTRAL SHIKOKU | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1990 | 71 |
| 15 | Zeta calibration values for fission track dating with a diallyl phthalate detector | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 2003 | 70 |
| 16 | EASTWARD DUCTILE SHEAR DURING THE EARLY TECTONIC PHASE IN THE SANBAGAWA BELT | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1983 | 69 |
| 17 | Tectonic boundary between the Sanbagawa belt and the Shimanto belt in central Shikoku, Japan | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 2007 | 68 |
| 18 | CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF JAPANESE GRANITES, PART 2.VARIATION TRENDS AND AVERAGE COMPOSITION OF 1200 ANALYSES | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1972 | 66 |
| 19 | History of Younger Fuji Volcano. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1988 | 66 |
| 20 | X-ray energy spectrometry for electron-probe analysis. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1984 | 65 |
| 21 | Correlation and stratigraphic eruption age of the pyroclastic flow deposits and wide spread volcanic ashes intercalated in the Pliocene-Pleistocene strata, central Japan. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 2000 | 63 |
| 22 | 西南日本外帯・瀬戸内区における中新世の中世～珪長質マグマの化学組成広域的変化 | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1979 | 60 |
| 23 | Diatom biochronology for late Cenozoic northwest Pacific. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1985 | 60 |
| 24 | Geotectonic Framework of the Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-shoto) | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1965 | 58 |
| 25 | The Volcanic Ash Layers of the Osaka Group | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1976 | 58 |
| 26 | Marine sediments and late Quaternary stratigraphy in the southeastern part of the Japan Sea. Concerning the timing of dark layer deposition. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1996 | 58 |
| 27 | Die Kurosegawa-Zone:(Untersuchugen uber das Chichibu-Terrain in shikoku-III) | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1956 | 57 |
| 28 | The strike-slip model: A synthesis on the origin and tectonic evolution of the Japanese Islands | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 2004 | 55 |
| 29 | Oligoclase-biotite zone of the Sanbagawa metamorphic terrain in the Bessi district, central Shikoku, Japan | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1982 | 55 |
| 30 | Structural features and the history of mud volcanoes in southern Hokkaido, northern Japan | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1997 | 54 |
| 31 | Quaternary stratigraphy of the Osaka Plain, central Japan and its correlation with oxygen isotope record from deep sea cores. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1999 | 52 |
| 32 | Identification of tephra based on statistical analysis of refractive index and morphological classification of volcanic glass shards. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1995 | 51 |
| 33 | FACIES SERIES IN LOW-GRADE METAMORPHISM | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1969 | 50 |
| 34 | Pre-Neogene tectonics of the Japanese Islands from the viewpoint of palaeobiogeography. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1993 | 50 |
| 35 | VOLCANIC GEOLOGY OF CHICHIJIMA, THE BONIN ISLANDS (OGASAWARA ISLANDS) | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1985 | 49 |
| 36 | Accretionary complex origin of the Sanbagawa, high P/T metamorphic rocks, Central Shikoku, Japan. Layer-parallel shortening structure and greenstone geochemistry. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 2000 | 48 |
| 37 | LA-ICP-MS U–Pb zircon and FE-EPMA U–Th–Pb monazite dating of pelitic granulites from the Mt. Ukidake area, Sefuri Mountains, northern Kyushu | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 2012 | 48 |
| 38 | PERMIAN OCEANIC-ROCKS OF MINO TERRANE, CENTRAL JAPAN., PART I. CHERT FACIES | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1988 | 47 |
| 39 | Determination of zeta values for fission-track age calibration using thermal neutron irradiation at the JRR-3 reactor of JAEA, Japan | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 2009 | 47 |
| 40 | Observation and analysis of internal structure of rock using X-ray CT. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 2000 | 46 |
| 41 | Metamorphic zones of the Sambagawa metamorphic belt in central Shikoku, Japan. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1990 | 46 |
| 42 | Migration of Cretaceous igneous activity in southwest Japan related to ridge subduction. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1986 | 45 |
| 43 | Tectonic boundary between Northeast and Southwest Japan Arcs during Japan Sea opening | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 2006 | 45 |
| 44 | THE KUROSEGAWA MELANGE ZONE IN THE INO DISTRICT TO THE NORTH OF KOCHI CITY, CENTRAL SHIKOKU | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1981 | 45 |
| 45 | Creep of shale and sandy-shale | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1952 | 44 |
| 46 | Methane hydrate. Estimation of amount of methane and resources of natural gas hydrates in the world and around Japan. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1996 | 44 |
| 47 | Dynamic evolution of deformation microstructures in rocks. Physical conditions for deformation. Estimate of the physical conditions for deformation based on c-axis fabric transitions in naturally deformed quartzite. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1996 | 44 |
| 48 | Geology of the Western Iratsu mass within the tectonic melange zone in the Sambagawa metamorphic belt, Besshi district, central Shikoku, Japan. | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 2002 | 44 |
| 49 | STRUCTURE OF THE HOROMAN ULTRAMAFIC MASSIF OF THE HIDAKA METAMORPHIC BELT IN HOKKAIDO, JAPAN | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1974 | 44 |
| 50 | PERMIAN OCEANIC-ROCKS OF MINO TERRANE, CENTRAL JAPAN:PART II.LIMESTONE FACIES | Journal of the Geological Society of Japan | 1988 | 43 |
