Heiji Kawai

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
3 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Heiji Kawai is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Polymers and Plastics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Heiji Kawai has authored 3 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1 paper in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 1 paper in Polymers and Plastics and 1 paper in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Heiji Kawai's work include Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (1 paper), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (1 paper) and Blood properties and coagulation (1 paper). Heiji Kawai is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors (1 paper), Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (1 paper) and Blood properties and coagulation (1 paper). Heiji Kawai collaborates with scholars based in Japan. Heiji Kawai's co-authors include Noboru Tokita and E. Fukada and has published in prestigious journals such as Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan and NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA).

In The Last Decade

Heiji Kawai

3 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Piezoelectricity of Poly (vinylidene Fluoride)

1969 1.5k citations Heiji Kawai Japanese Journal of Applied Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heiji Kawai Japan	3	1.2k	412	396	307	226	3	1.5k
J. Unsworth Australia	21	650 0.5×	384 0.9×	537 1.4×	499 1.6×	135 0.6×	68	1.5k
Werner Wirges Germany	27	1.8k 1.6×	1.2k 3.0×	286 0.7×	497 1.6×	308 1.4×	118	2.5k
J. Hillenbrand Germany	23	1.6k 1.4×	1.2k 2.8×	241 0.6×	308 1.0×	334 1.5×	50	1.9k
Joycelyn S. Harrison United States	24	1.2k 1.0×	1.5k 3.6×	910 2.3×	293 1.0×	284 1.3×	53	2.4k
Michael Wegener Germany	29	2.1k 1.8×	1.4k 3.3×	387 1.0×	513 1.7×	258 1.1×	107	2.6k
Peter A Krulevitch United States	15	505 0.4×	487 1.2×	91 0.2×	466 1.5×	225 1.0×	38	1.2k
Jong Soo Ko South Korea	29	1.1k 1.0×	446 1.1×	210 0.5×	987 3.2×	236 1.0×	112	2.1k
Inpil Kang South Korea	11	863 0.7×	641 1.6×	442 1.1×	327 1.1×	104 0.5×	40	1.5k
K. Rajanna India	22	867 0.7×	489 1.2×	270 0.7×	800 2.6×	146 0.6×	128	1.6k
Frank D. Egitto United States	20	631 0.5×	404 1.0×	289 0.7×	731 2.4×	96 0.4×	63	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Heiji Kawai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heiji Kawai

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Heiji Kawai. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Heiji Kawai. The network helps show where Heiji Kawai may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heiji Kawai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heiji Kawai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heiji Kawai 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 Heiji Kawai. Heiji Kawai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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3 of 3 papers shown

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Kawai, Heiji. (1969). The Piezoelectricity of Poly (vinylidene Fluoride). Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 8(7). 975–975. 1532 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fukada, E., et al.. (1965). A new capillary viscometer for measuring the viscosity of small amounts of blood. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 4 indexed citations

3.

Tokita, Noboru & Heiji Kawai. (1951). Young's Modulus and Internal Friction of Polyvinylalcohol:. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 6(5). 367–371. 4 indexed citations

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