Fumio Watari

12.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
297 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Fumio Watari is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Biomaterials. According to data from OpenAlex, Fumio Watari has authored 297 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 132 papers in Materials Chemistry and 54 papers in Biomaterials. Recurrent topics in Fumio Watari's work include Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (95 papers), Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (51 papers) and Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (49 papers). Fumio Watari is often cited by papers focused on Bone Tissue Engineering Materials (95 papers), Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications (51 papers) and Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (49 papers). Fumio Watari collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and United States. Fumio Watari's co-authors include Motohiro Uo, Tsukasa Akasaka, Fuzhai Cui, Atsuro Yokoyama, Xiaoming Li, I.D. Rosca, Qingling Feng, Yubo Fan, Takao Ḱawasaki and Yoshinori Sato and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Nano Letters and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Fumio Watari

287 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

Oxidation of multiwalled carbon nanotubes by nitric acid 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Oxidation of multiwalled carbon nanotubes by nitric acid
    2005 658 citations Fumio Watari, Motohiro Uo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fumio Watari Japan 53 5.3k 3.6k 2.2k 1.1k 926 297 9.5k
F.Z. Cui China 41 5.0k 0.9× 3.9k 1.1× 2.8k 1.3× 1.2k 1.1× 683 0.7× 126 9.5k
Kurosch Rezwan Germany 40 4.8k 0.9× 2.1k 0.6× 2.5k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 804 0.9× 214 9.0k
Pentti Tengvall Sweden 47 4.2k 0.8× 1.8k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 1.9k 1.7× 1.1k 1.2× 160 8.7k
Junzo Tanaka Japan 58 6.9k 1.3× 2.9k 0.8× 5.3k 2.4× 2.2k 2.0× 1.3k 1.4× 321 13.1k
Min‐Ho Lee South Korea 37 2.6k 0.5× 2.5k 0.7× 2.0k 0.9× 559 0.5× 689 0.7× 216 6.1k
Akiyoshi Osaka Japan 46 3.8k 0.7× 2.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 1.8k 1.9× 338 8.0k
Hyun‐Min Kim South Korea 41 5.2k 1.0× 2.8k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 2.2k 1.9× 1.8k 1.9× 144 7.2k
Yingjun Wang China 61 6.2k 1.2× 2.6k 0.7× 3.8k 1.7× 1.6k 1.4× 724 0.8× 399 12.7k
Frank A. Müller Germany 40 3.2k 0.6× 1.8k 0.5× 1.8k 0.8× 745 0.7× 618 0.7× 149 6.4k
Motohiro Uo Japan 38 2.9k 0.5× 2.1k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 628 0.6× 918 1.0× 215 5.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Fumio Watari

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fumio Watari

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fumio Watari

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fumio Watari. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fumio Watari based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fumio Watari. Fumio Watari is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Imai, Koichi & Fumio Watari. (2012). Effects of in Vitro Angiogenesis by Nano or Submicron Diamond Particles. 4(1). 24–28. 1 indexed citations
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Akasaka, Tsukasa, et al.. (2012). Evaluation of Adhesion between Material and Epithelium using a Three-dimensional Human Epidermal Model. 4(2). 76–84. 2 indexed citations
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Lu, Xiong, Hongping Zhang, Yanan Guo, et al.. (2011). Hexagonal hydroxyapatite formation on TiO2 nanotubes under urea modulation. CrystEngComm. 13(11). 3741–3741. 29 indexed citations
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Li, Xiaoming, Haifeng Liu, Xufeng Niu, et al.. (2011). Osteogenic differentiation of human adipose‐derived stem cells induced by osteoinductive calcium phosphate ceramics. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B Applied Biomaterials. 97B(1). 10–19. 79 indexed citations
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Kaga, Masayuki, Masahiro Kobayashi, Kosuke Ishikawa, et al.. (2010). Cytotoxicity of Strengthened Glass-ionomer Cement by Compounding Short Fibers with CaO-P2O5-SiO2-Al2O3 Glass. Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (Hokkaido University). 2(1). 23–30.
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Uo, Motohiro, et al.. (2010). Microstructure Evaluation of the Interface between Dental Zirconia Ceramics and Veneering Porcelain. 2(1). 31–36. 10 indexed citations
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Ishikawa, Kosuke, Tsukasa Akasaka, Yasutaka Yawaka, & Fumio Watari. (2010). High Functional Expression of Osteoblasts on Imogolite, Aluminosilicate Nanotubes. Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology. 6(1). 59–65. 17 indexed citations
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Imai, Koichi, et al.. (2010). In Vitro Study of Cell Differentiation by Mouse Embryo Stem Cells on Nanocarbon Tubes. 2(1). 47–51. 7 indexed citations
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Kuboki, Yoshinori, et al.. (2010). Culture of ES Cells and Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Carbon Nanotube Scaffolds. 2(2). 81–92. 5 indexed citations
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Abe, Shigeaki, Tetsu Yonezawa, Tsukasa Akasaka, et al.. (2009). Observation of Biodistribution of Indium-Tin Oxide Nanoparticles in Mice. 1(1). 70–74. 2 indexed citations
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Kuboki, Yoshinori, et al.. (2009). Surface Modification of Carbon Nanotubes with Calcifying Solutions for Biomedical Applications. 1(2). 121–132. 1 indexed citations
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Ishikawa, Kosuke, Tsukasa Akasaka, Yoshinobu Nodasaka, et al.. (2009). Physical Properties of Aluminosilicate Nanotubes, Imogolite, as Scaffold and Effect on Osteoblastic Mineralization. 1(2). 109–120. 8 indexed citations
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Abe, Shigeaki, Daisuke Hayashi, Tsukasa Akasaka, et al.. (2009). Controlled Calcification using Polyanionic Macromolecules with an Active Reaction Center Analogue of Carbonic Anhydrase. 1(1). 51–58. 4 indexed citations
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Watari, Fumio, Shigeaki Abe, Atsuro Yokoyama, et al.. (2008). Behavior of in vitro, in vivo and internal motion of micro/nano particles of titanium, titanium oxides and others( Ceramics for Biomedical Applications in Asian Countries). 116(1349). 1–5.
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Sato, Yoshinori, et al.. (2006). Safeness of carbon nanotubes. TANSO. 2006(225). 364–372. 1 indexed citations
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Uo, Motohiro, Anders Berglund, J. Cardenas, et al.. (2003). Surface analysis of dental amalgams by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. Dental Materials. 19(7). 639–644. 8 indexed citations

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