Toshiki Haji, Sota Niki, Takafumi Hirata. An age constraint on the Miocene succession in the Kinbusan area, eastern Tottori Prefecture, Japan: Uranium-lead dating of zircons from an ash-fall tuff. The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan. 2024. 130. 1. 401-408
Jumpei Yoshioka, Kenji M. Matsuzaki, Sota Niki, Junichiro Kuroda, Takafumi Hirata. Integration of new zircon U-Pb ages with biostratigraphy to establish a high-precision age model of the Miocene Nakayama Formation on Sado Island in Central Japan. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. 2024. 11. 1
Harisma Harisma, Sota Niki, Takafumi Hirata, Hajime Naruse. Cretaceous to early Paleogene sediment provenance transition from continental to magmatic arc systems in the Northwestern Pacific Region. Scientific Reports. 2024
Yuki Masuda, Sota Niki, Takafumi Hirata, Tetsuya Yokoyama. Distribution analysis of rare earth elements in fine-grained CAIs of the Allende meteorite using multiple-spot femtosecond LA-ICP-MS. Meteoritics and Planetary Science. 2024