Preprints

Influential scientists shape knowledge flows between science and IGO policy
K. Asatani, Y. Iwata, Y. Tomokiyo, B. Mahfouz, M. Yarime, & I. Sakata · arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.06753 (2025)
Do Researchers Benefit Career-wise from Involvement in International Policy Guideline Development?
Y. Tomokiyo, K. Nishimoto, K. Asatani, & I. Sakata · arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.22584 (2025)

Journal Papers

Tracing the evolution of household carbon emission research by machine learning
Y. Long, L. Huang, S. Montagna, Z. Chen, X. Ding, Y. Shigetomi, T. Zhao, K. Asatani, I. Sakata, & Y. Yoshida · Environmental Impact Assessment Review (2025)
Mid-career pitfall of consecutive success in science
N. Higashide, T. Miura, Y. Tomokiyo, et al. · Scientific Reports (2024)
Quantifying advances from basic research to applied research in material science
N. Higashide, Y. Zhang, K. Asatani, T. Miura, & I. Sakata · Technovation (2024)
Detecting possible pairs of materials for composites using a material word co-occurrence network
C. Ishii, K. Asatani, & I. Sakata · PLOS ONE (2024)
Quantifying progress in research topics across nations
K. Asatani, S. Oki, T. Momma, & I. Sakata · Scientific Reports (2023)
Emerging trends in roadmapping research: A bibliometric literature review
S. Vinayavekhin, R. Phaal, T. Thanamaitreejit, & K. Asatani · Technology Analysis & Strategic Management (2023)
Obtaining interactions among science, technology, and research policy for developing an innovation strategy: A case study of supercapacitors
C. Ishii, K. Asatani, & I. Sakata · Heliyon (2022)
Revisiting the uniformity and inconsistency of slow-cited papers in science
T. Miura, K. Asatani, & I. Sakata · Journal of Informetrics (2023)
Predictive analysis of multiple future scientific impacts by embedding a heterogeneous network
M. Ochi, M. Shiro, J. Mori, & I. Sakata · PLOS ONE (2022)
Discovering Interdisciplinarily Spread Knowledge in the Academic Literature
M. Kamada, K. Asatani, M. Isonuma, & I. Sakata · IEEE Access (2021)
Large-scale analysis of delayed recognition using sleeping beauty and prince
T. Miura, K. Asatani, & I. Sakata · Applied Network Science (2021)
A finger-jointing model for describing nanostructures of cellulose microfibrils
B. Fugetsu, A. Vipin, S. Takiguchi, I. Sakata, & M. Endo · Scientific Reports (2021)
Categorization of mergers and acquisitions using transaction network features
B. Shao, K. Asatani, H. Sasaki, & I. Sakata · Research in International Business and Finance (2021)
Unsupervised Abstractive Opinion Summarization by Generating Sentences with Tree-Structured Topic Guidance
M. Isonuma, J. Mori, D. Bollegala, & I. Sakata · Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) (2021)
Dense and influential core promotes daily viral information spreading in political echo chambers
K. Asatani, H. Yamano, T. Sakaki, & I. Sakata · Scientific Reports (2021)
Identifying potential technological spin-offs using hierarchical information in international patent classification
H. Sasaki & I. Sakata · Technovation (2021)
Business partner selection considering supply-chain centralities and causalities
H. Sasaki & I. Sakata · Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal (2021)
Emerging scientific field detection using citation networks and topic models - A case study of the nanocarbon field
H. Sasaki, B. Fugetsu, & I. Sakata · Applied System Innovation (2020)
Graphene nanosheets homogeneously incorporated in polyurethane sponge for the elimination of water-soluble organic dyes
S. Manabe, A. Vipin, S. Takiguchi, T. Kumashiro, B. Fugetsu, & I. Sakata · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2021)
Aerogel from copper (II)-cellulose nanofibers and carbon nanotubes as absorbents for the elimination of toxic gases from air
A. Vipin, B. Fugetsu, I. Sakata, Z. Wang, & M. Endo · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science (2021)
Improved supercapacitors by implanting ultra-long single-walled carbon nanotubes into manganese oxide domains
W. Gong, B. Fugetsu, I. Sakata, et al. · Journal of Power Sources (2020)
Monolayered Platinum Nanoparticles as Efficient Electrocatalysts for the Mass Production of Electrolyzed Hydrogen Water
Y. Wang, B. Fugetsu, I. Sakata, et al. · Scientific Reports (2020)
Facile synthesis of graphene sheets intercalated by carbon spheres for high-performance supercapacitor electrodes
Z. Wang, B. Fugetsu, I. Sakata, et al. · Carbon (2020)
Evaluating 'startup readiness' for researchers: Case studies of research-based startups with biopharmaceutical research topics
T. Goji, Y. Hayashi, & I. Sakata · Heliyon (2020)
Evaluating Nodes of Latent Mediators in Heterogeneous Communities
H. Yamano, K. Asatani, & I. Sakata · Scientific Reports (2020)
Scientific Attention to sustainability and SDGs: Meta-analysis of academic papers
K. Asatani, T. Takeda, H. Yamano, & I. Sakata · Energies (2020)
Stabilization of Prussian blue using copper sulfate for eliminating radioactive cesium from a high pH solution and seawater
S. Makabe, A. Vipin, T. Kumashiro, S. Takiguchi, B. Fugetsu, & I. Sakata · Journal of Hazardous Materials (2020)
Thicker carbon-nanotube/manganese-oxide hybridized nanostructures as electrodes for creation of fiber-shaped supercapacitors of high energy densities
W. Gong, B. Fugetsu, Z. Wang, T. Ueki, I. Sakata, H. Ogata, F. Han, M. Li, L. Su, X. Zhang, M. Terrones, & M. Endo · Carbon (2019)
Comparative Examination of Network Clustering Methods for Extracting Community Structures of a City from Public Transportation Smart Card Data
T. Maeda, J. Mori, M. Ochi, I. Hayashi, T. Sakimoto, & I. Sakata · IEEE Access (2019)
Identifying technology convergence in the field of robotics research
T. Kose & I. Sakata · Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2019)
Measurement of opportunity cost of travel time for predicting future residential mobility based on the smart card data of public transportation
T. Maeda, J. Mori, M. Ochi, T. Sakimoto, & I. Sakata · International Journal of Geo-Information (2018)
Detecting Interpersonal Relationships in Large-Scale Railway Trip Data
K. Asatani, F. Toriumi, M. Ochi, J. Mori, & I. Sakata · Journal of Computational Social Science (2018)
Detecting trends in academic research from a citation network using network representation learning
K. Asatani, J. Mori, M. Ochi, & I. Sakata · PLOS ONE (2018)
Carbon nanotubes and manganese oxide hybrid nanostructures as high performance fiber supercapacitors
W. Gong, B. Fugetsu, Z. Wang, I. Sakata, M. Li, et al. · Communications Chemistry (2018)
Cross-border power trade with Myanmar: Barriers and their removal from the Thai's Perspective
K. Yamaguchi, P. Reubroycharoen, M. Sugiyama, D. Wiwattanate, H. Yoshikawa, & I. Sakata · International Journal of Public Policy (2018)
Preparation of novel tetrahedral Ag3PO4 crystals and the sunlight-responsive photocatalytic properties using graphene oxide as the template
Y. Wang, B. Fugetsu, I. Sakata, et al. · Carbon (2017)
Electrochemically reduced water exerts super reactive oxygen species scavenging activity in HT1080 cells than the equivalent level of hydrogen-dissolved water
T. Hamasaki, G. Harada, N. Nakamichi, I. Sakata, et al. · PLOS ONE (2017)
Nitrogen-doped porous carbon monoliths from polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and carbon nanotubes as electrodes for supercapacitors
Y. Wang, B. Fugetsu, Z. Wang, I. Sakata, et al. · Scientific Reports (2017)
Cellulose nanofiber backboned Prussian blue nanoparticles as powerful adsorbents for the selective elimination of radioactive cesium
A. Vipin, B. Fugetsu, I. Sakata, A. Isogai, M. Endo, M. Li, & M. Dresselhaus · Scientific Reports (2016)
Geospatial Area Embedding Based on the Movement Purpose Hypothesis using Large-scale Mobility Data from Smart Cards
M. Ochi, J. Mori, K. Asatani, I. Sakata, et al. · International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences (IJCNS) (2016)
Morphology-controlled fabrication of a three dimensional mesoporous poly(vinyl alcohol) monolith through the incorporation of graphene oxide
Y. Wang, B. Fugetsu, I. Sakata, M. Terrones, M. Endo, & M. Dresselhaus · Carbon (2016)
Three dimensional porous monoliths from multi-walled carbon nanotubes and polyacrylonitrile
A. Vipin, B. Fugetsu, I. Sakata, T. Tanaka, L. Sun, S. Tanaka, M. Terrones, M. Endo, & M. Dresselhaus · Carbon (2016)
Identifying Emerging Research Related to Solar Cells Field Using a Machine Learning Approach
H. Sasaki, T. Hara, & I. Sakata · Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (2016)
Detection and introduction of emerging technologies for green buildings in Thailand
T. Visessonchok, M. Sugiyama, H. Sasaki, & I. Sakata · International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy (2016)
Academic Landscape of Hydropower: Citation-analysis based method and its application
H. Sasaki, Z. Liu, & I. Sakata · International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy (2016)

Conference Papers

Lexical Entailment with Hierarchy Representations by Deep Metric Learning
N. Sato, et al. · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022 (2022)
Measuring the researcher's movement toward growing organization focusing on researcher's career-age
T. Miura, K. Asatani, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'20) (2021)
Evaluating Emerging Technologies on the Gartner Hype Cycle by Network Analysis
Y. Kondo, K. Asatani, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'20) (2021)
Roles of Brokers and Clusters in the Inter-firm Network Dynamics: Evolution Map Perspective
Y. Hiroko & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'20) (2021)
Classifying Sleeping Beauties and Princes Using Citation Rarity
T. Miura, K. Asatani, & I. Sakata · The 9th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020) (2020)
Tree-Structured Neural Topic Model
M. Isonuma, J. Mori, D. Bollegala, & I. Sakata · The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020) (2020)
Constructive Approach for Early Extraction of Viral Spreading Social Issues from Twitter
C. J. Shiau, M. Ouchi, K. Nagahama, T. Sakaki, J. Mori, & I. Sakata · 12th ACM Web Science Conference 2020 (2020)
Evaluating Nodes of Latent Mediators in Heterogeneous Communities
H. Yamano, I. Sakata, & K. Asatani · The 9th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications (COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019) (2019)
Scientific research on sustainability: A meta-analysis of academic papers about sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals
K. Asatani, H. Takeda, H. Yamano, & I. Sakata · The 12th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) (2019)
Unsupervised Neural Single-Document Summarization of Reviews via Learning Latent Discourse Structure and its Ranking
M. Isonuma, J. Mori, & I. Sakata · Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2019) (2019)
Detecting emerging complex technological fields in robotics
T. Kose & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'19) (2019)
Analysis of mergers and acquisitions trends in the semiconductor industry with the technology perspective
B. Shao & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'19) (2019)
Identifying affiliation effects on innovation enhancement
T. Miura & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'19) (2019)
Researchers' startup readiness in the biopharmaceutical domain assessed using logistic regression for features of their papers, patents, institutes, and nations
T. Goji & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'19) (2019)
Latent pattern extraction and factorization of firm bankruptcies and metabolism in Japan
H. Yamano & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'19) (2019)
Inter-domain linking of problems in science and technology through a bibliometric approach
H. Sasaki, S. Yamamoto, A. Agchbayan, N. Enkhbayasgalan, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'19) (2019)
A Cross-lingual Analysis on Culinary Perceptions to Understand the Cross-cultural Difference
X. Leng, M. Ochi, T. Sakaki, J. Mori, & I. Sakata · AAAI 2019 Spring Symposia: Interpretable AI for Well-being: Understanding Cognitive Bias and Social Embeddedness (2019)
Communication based on unilateral preference on Twitter: Internet luring in Japan
K. Asatani, Y. Kawahata, F. Toriumi, & I. Sakata · 10th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo'18) (2018)
Inequality Structure of Global Investment: Analysis and Simulation of an M&A Network
K. Asatani & I. Sakata · 2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM 2018) (2018)
Categorization of Mergers and Acquisitions in Japan Using Corporate Databases: A Fundamental Research for Prediction
B. Shao, K. Asatani, & I. Sakata · 2018 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM 2018) (2018)
Assessing 'start-up readiness' for research topics and researchers: Case studies of research-based start-ups in biopharmaceutical domain
T. Goji, Y. Hayashi, H. Yamano, T. Matsuda, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'18) (2018)
Recategorizing interdisciplinary articles using natural language processing and machine/deep learning
K. Tanaka, R. Arakawa, Y. Kameoka, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'18) (2018)
Data storage cost reduction by decluttering image and video data: Case study of video file decluttering
T. Matsuda, T. Goji, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'18) (2018)
Co-word analysis to detect possible combinations for composite materials
C. Fujisue, H. Sasaki, H. Yamano, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'18) (2018)
Analysis of technology convergence in robotics and technological portfolios among robot-related organizations
T. Kose & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'18) (2018)
Effect of competitors' state on mergers and acquisitions in Japan
H. Yamano, M. Ochi, & I. Sakata · 27th International Conference for The International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT 2018) (2018)
Detecting potential composite materials using literature-based discovery of academic papers: Meso-level analysis
C. Fujisue, H. Sasaki, H. Yamano, & I. Sakata · 27th International Conference for The International Association of Management of Technology (IAMOT 2018) (2018)
Extractive summarization using multi-task learning with document classification
M. Isonuma, T. Fujino, J. Mori, Y. Matsuo, & I. Sakata · Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP (EMNLP) (2017)
Detection of emerging technologies for field effect transistors: a citation-based analysis
C. Fujisue & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'17) (2017)
Measuring Start-up Readiness of scientific research based start-ups using analysis of citation networks: case study of CRISPER-Cas9
T. Goji, T. Matsuda, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'17) (2017)
Identifying technology advancements and their linkages in the field of robotics research
T. Kose & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'17) (2017)
Time-series analysis on the fields of Entrepreneurship research
T. Kuroda, S. Iwami, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'17) (2017)
Identifying influencers of corporate performance in interfirm networks
T. Oka, H. Sasaki, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'17) (2017)
Cross-domain academic paper recommendation by semantic linkage approach using text analysis and recurrent neural networks
K. M. Ravi, J. Mori, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'17) (2017)
Prediction of business partners using an n-gram-based approach that combines a network model and linear model of a supply chain
H. Sasaki & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'17) (2017)
New science and technology policy evaluation using bibliometric approach
K. Tanaka & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'17) (2017)
Metabolism of inter-firm transactions in regional networks
H. Yamano, H. Sasaki, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'17) (2017)
Regional Differences and Commonalities of Inter-Firm Transaction Metabolism
H. Yamano & I. Sakata · International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) (2017)
Representation Learning for Geospatial Areas using Large-scale Mobility Data from Smart Card
M. Ochi, K. Asatani, Y. Nakashio, Y. Yamashita, M. Ruttley, J. Mori, & I. Sakata · PURBA-2016 Workshop, in conjunction with UbiComp 2016 (2016)
New bibliometric analysis of research institution network
K. Tanaka & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'16) (2016)
Detecting structural changes in the nano carbon domain based on the time distribution of text information of academic papers
Y. Nakashio, T. Hara, J. Mori, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'16) (2016)
Positioning social entrepreneurship research in the field of entrepreneurship research
T. Kuroda, S. Iwami, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'16) (2016)
Detecting candidate combinations of the keywords organ-material-technology in regenerative medicine
H. Yamano, H. Sasaki, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'16) (2016)
Prediction of emerging papers in nanocarbon materials-related research using a citation network
H. Sasaki, T. Hara, & I. Sakata · Portland International Conference on Management Engineering and Technology (PICMET'16) (2016)