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Saburo Sakai

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2001
Geology and Paleoclimatology ResearchIsotope Analysis in EcologyMethane Hydrates and Related PhenomenaAstro and Planetary SciencePaleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Publications

145

Citations

2,514

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

25

Publishing since 2001

Research summary
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Saburo Sakai works on the chemistry of natural materials, using isotope and organic-molecule analysis to study both extraterrestrial samples (such as asteroid Ryugu material returned by the Hayabusa2 mission) and Earth-based archives like shells, corals, and sediment cores. This work combines geochemistry, cosmochemistry, and paleoclimate methods to reconstruct past environmental and chemical conditions on Earth and in the early solar system. The research involves developing and applying precise analytical techniques, including isotope measurements and organic compound detection.

Cosmochemistry and asteroid sample analysis (Hayabusa2/Ryugu)Stable and clumped isotope geochemistryPaleoclimate reconstruction from biological archives (shells, fish spines)Organic molecule and amino acid analysisSediment core stratigraphy and Earth history

Publication output has been fairly steady over the last decade, fluctuating between about 3 and 10 papers per year without a clear long-term upward or downward trend, though the most recent years show a slight decline.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.0/year recently
2017: 6 publications172018: 6 publications182019: 10 publications10192020: 5 publications202021: 8 publications212022: 10 publications10222023: 6 publications232024: 6 publications242025: 3 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Japan Geoscience Union×6
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×5
  • Science×4
  • Nature Communications×4
  • Analytical Chemistry×4
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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