・中西正男, 沖野郷子, 海洋底地球科学, 東京大学出版会, 320頁, 2016.

・ Sager, W. W., H. Yanming, M. Tominaga, J. A. Greene, M. Nakanishi, and J. Zhang, Oceanic plateau formation by seafloor spreading implied by Tamu Massif magnetic anomalies, Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/s41561-019-0390-y, 2019.

・ Huang, Y., W. W. Sager, M. Tominaga, J. A. Greene, J. Zhang, and M. Nakanishi, Magnetic anomaly map of Ori Massif and its implications for oceanic plateau formation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 501, 46-55, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.08.029, 2018.

・ Sato Y., N. Hirano, S. Machida, J. Yamamoto, M. Nakanishi, T. Ishii, A. Taki, K. Yasukawa and Y. Kato, Direct ascent to the surface of asthenospheric magma in a region of convex lithospheric flexure, International Geology Review, 60:10, 1231-1243, doi:10.1080/00206814.2017.1379912, 2018.

・ 中西正男, 北西太平洋の海溝付近における海洋プレートの屈曲によって生じる断層地形, 地学雑誌, 126, 125-146, 2017.

・ 森下知晃, 藤江　剛, 山野　誠, 中西正男, 尾鼻浩一郎, 中村恭之, 斎藤実篤, 小平秀一, 木村純一, 黒田潤一郎, 小野重明, 古い海洋プレートの沈み込み直前での屈曲断層形成に伴う加水作用解明に向けた海洋掘削計画概要, 地学雑誌, 126, 247-262, 2017.

・ 野口ゆい, 中西正男, 石原丈実, 玉木賢策, 藤本博巳, P. Huchon, S. Leroy, P. Styles, 磁気データに関する2種類のレベリング法の比較, 海洋調査技術, 29, 3-18, doi:10.11306/jsmst.29.1_P3, 2017.

・ Catalan, M., et al. (including M. Nakanishi), Making a better magnetic map, Eos, 97, doi:10.1029/2016EO054645, 2016.

・Hirano, N., M. Nakanishi, N. Abe, and S. Machida, Submarine lava fields in French Polynesia, Marine Geology, 373, 39-48, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2016.01.002, 2016.

・Nakanishi, M., W. W. Sager, and J. Korenaga, Reorganization of the Pacific-Izanagi-Farallon triple junction in the Late Jurassic: Tectonic events before the formation of the Shatsky Rise, in The Origin, Evolution, and Environmental Evolution of Oceanic Large Igneous Provinces, edited by E. Erba, C. Neal, W. W. Sager, and T. Sano, Geological Society of America Special Papers, 511, 85-101, doi:10.1130/2015.2511(05), 2015.

・Nakanishi, M.,Y. Nakamura, M. F. Coffin, K. Hoernle, and R. Werner, Topographic expression of the Danger Islands Troughs and implications for the tectonic evolution of the Manihiki Plateau, western equatorial Pacific Ocean, in The Origin, Evolution, and Environmental Evolution of Oceanic Large Igneous Provinces, edited by E. Erba, C. Neal, W. W. Sager, and T. Sano, Geological Society of America Special Papers, 511, 195-220, doi:10.1130/2015.2511(11), 2015.

・K. Shimizu, T. Sano, M. L. G. Tejada, H. Hyodo, K. Sato, K. Suzuki, Q. Chang, and M. Nakanishi, Alkalic magmatism in the Lyra Basin: A missing link in the late-stage evolution of the Ontong Java Plateau, in The Origin, Evolution, and Environmental Evolution of Oceanic Large Igneous Provinces, edited by E. Erba, C. Neal, W. W. Sager, and T. Sano, Geological Society of America Special Papers, 511, 233-249, doi:10.1130/2015.2511(13), 2015.

・M. L. G. Tejada, K. Shimizu, K. Suzuki, T. Hanyu, T. Sano, M. Nakanishi, S. Nakai, A.Ishikawa, Q. Chang, T. Miyazaki, Y. Hirahara, T. Takahashi, and R. Senda , Isotopic evidence for a link between the Lyra Basin and Ontong Java Plateau,, in The Origin, Evolution, and Environmental Evolution of Oceanic Large Igneous Provinces, edited by E. Erba, C. Neal, W. W. Sager, and T. Sano, Geological Society of America Special Papers, 511, 251-269, doi:10.1130/2015.2511(14), 2015.

・Nakanishi, M., and J. Hashimoto, A precise bathymetric map of the world's deepest seafloor, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, Mar. Geophys. Res., 32, 455-463, doi:10.1007/s11001-011-9134-0, 2011.

・Nakanishi, M., Bending-related topographic structures of the subducting plate in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, in Accretionary prisms and convergent margin tectonics in the northwest Pacific Basin, Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, 8, edited by Y. Ogawa, R. Anma, and Y. Dilek, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., pp. 1-38, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8885-7_1, 2011.

・中西正男、9,000 mより深い水深におけるマルチナロービーム音響測深機による測深の信頼性評価、海洋調査技術、23、11-23、2011.

・Hirano, N., A. A. P. Koppers, A. Takahashi, T. Fujiwara, and M. Nakanishi, Seamounts, knolls and petit-spot monogenetic volcanoes on the subducting Pacific Plate, Basin Res., doi:10.1111/j.1365-2117.2008.00363.x, 2008.

・Ingle, S., J. J. Mahoney, H. Sato, M. F. Coffin, J. Kimura, N. Hirano , and M. Nakanishi, Depleted mantle wedge and sediment fingerprint in unusual basalts from the Manihiki Plateau, Central Pacific Ocean, Geology, 35, 7, 595-598, doi:101130/G23741A.1, 2007.

・Kato, H., N. Isezaki, C. H. Park, C. H. Kim, and M. Nakanishi, Characteristics of crustal magnetic structures in the Tsushima (Ulleung) and Japan Basins from vector magnetic anomalies, Earth, Planets and Space, 59, 887-895, 2007.