・ 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.

・ Nakanishi, M., Bending-related Topographic Structures of the Incoming Oceanic Plate at the Northwestern Pacific Ocean Trench, Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 126, 125-146, 2017. (in Japanese with English abstract)

・ Morishita, T., Fujie, G., Yamano, M., Nakanishi, M., Obana, K., Nakamura, Y., Saito, S., Kodaira, S., Kimura, J., Kuroda, J. and Ono, S., Overview of the Drilling Project on the Bend-fault Hydrology in Old Incoming Plate , Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi), 126, 247-262, 2017. (in Japanese with English abstract)

・ Noguchi, Y., M. Nakanishi, T. Ishihara, K. Tamaki, H. Fujimoto, P. Huchon, S. Leroy, and P. Styles, A comparison of two leveling methods for geomagnetic dat, Journal of the Japan Society for Marine Surveys and Technology, 29, 3-18, doi:10.11306/jsmst.29.1_P3, 2017. (in Japanese with English abstract)

・ 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.

・Nakanishi, M., Field evaluation of sounding accuracy in the multi-narrow beam echosounder in deeper than 9,000 m of water depth, J. Jpn. Soc. Mar. Sur. Techno., 23, 11-23, 2011. (Japanese with English abstract and figure captions)

・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.