Hiroaki Sasai

463 total papers · 14.6k total citations
244 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

Hiroaki Sasai is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiroaki Sasai has authored 244 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 225 papers in Organic Chemistry, 71 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 45 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Hiroaki Sasai's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (96 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (65 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (52 papers). Hiroaki Sasai is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (96 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (65 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (52 papers). Hiroaki Sasai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Germany and Egypt. Hiroaki Sasai's co-authors include Masakatsu Shibasaki, Takayoshi Arai, Shinobu Takizawa, Takeyuki Suzuki, Yoichi M. A. Yamada, Shigeru Arai, Kazuhiro Takenaka, Naoki Yoshikawa, Masahiro Bougauchi and Shizue Watanabe and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Hiroaki Sasai

241 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Hit Papers

Asymmetric Catalysis with... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1997 1992 100 200 300 400 500
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Asymmetric Catalysis with Heterobimetallic Compounds
    1997 584 citations Masakatsu Shibasaki, Hiroaki Sasai et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English profile →
  2. Basic character of rare earth metal alkoxides. Utilization in catalytic carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions and catalytic asymmetric nitroaldol reactions
    1992 514 citations Hiroaki Sasai, Takeyuki Suzuki et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Hiroaki Sasai 10.7k 4.2k 2.1k 1.1k 1.0k 244 11.8k
Marisa C. Kozlowski 9.5k 0.9× 2.2k 0.5× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 779 0.8× 221 11.0k
Chris H. Senanayake 9.8k 0.9× 3.3k 0.8× 2.6k 1.3× 960 0.9× 588 0.6× 326 11.9k
Liu‐Zhu Gong 16.5k 1.5× 4.8k 1.2× 2.3k 1.1× 848 0.8× 385 0.4× 258 17.0k
Pier Giorgio Cozzi 8.8k 0.8× 3.5k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 638 0.6× 1.6k 1.5× 230 11.0k
Masahiro Terada 15.1k 1.4× 5.0k 1.2× 2.7k 1.3× 1.4k 1.3× 532 0.5× 328 16.1k
Satoru Masamune 10.0k 0.9× 3.2k 0.8× 3.1k 1.5× 1.1k 1.0× 840 0.8× 232 12.9k
J. K. Stille 13.5k 1.3× 3.0k 0.7× 2.1k 1.0× 495 0.5× 1.6k 1.5× 264 16.3k
Sakae Uemura 12.7k 1.2× 4.1k 1.0× 1.3k 0.6× 358 0.3× 1.3k 1.3× 383 14.0k
Takahiko Akiyama 13.7k 1.3× 4.3k 1.0× 2.8k 1.3× 1.5k 1.4× 445 0.4× 256 14.9k
Sanzhong Luo 10.0k 0.9× 2.8k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 452 0.4× 864 0.8× 233 11.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Hiroaki Sasai

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Hiroaki Sasai's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Hiroaki Sasai with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Hiroaki Sasai more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Hiroaki Sasai

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Hiroaki Sasai. 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 Hiroaki Sasai. The network helps show where Hiroaki Sasai may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hiroaki Sasai

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

All Works

Loading papers...

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Michael S. Gold Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Garth A. Nicholson Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Sherie L. Morrison Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Michael D. Ward Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Baoguo Han Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Mark Peakman Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Sheikh A. Akbar Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Piero Parchi
Rankless by CCL
2026