Hirotoshi Sakamoto

4.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
42 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Hirotoshi Sakamoto is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Hirotoshi Sakamoto has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Materials Chemistry, 22 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 10 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Hirotoshi Sakamoto's work include Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (21 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (17 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (8 papers). Hirotoshi Sakamoto is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (21 papers), Covalent Organic Framework Applications (17 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (8 papers). Hirotoshi Sakamoto collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Spain. Hirotoshi Sakamoto's co-authors include Susumu Kitagawa, Ryotaro Matsuda, Ryo Kitaura, Masaki Takata, Yoshiki Kubota, Tatsuo C. Kobayashi, Takashi Chiba, Rodion V. Belosludov, Y. Mita and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Hirotoshi Sakamoto

41 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Highly controlled acetylene accommodation in a metal–orga... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2005 2008 2004 2008 2009 400 800 1.2k
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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. Highly controlled acetylene accommodation in a metal–organic microporous material
    2005 1.4k citations Ryotaro Matsuda, Ryo Kitaura et al. Nature profile →
  2. Selective Gas Adsorption and Unique Structural Topology of a Highly Stable Guest‐Free Zeolite‐Type MOF Material with N‐rich Chiral Open Channels
    2008 351 citations Jian‐Rong Li, Ying Tao et al. Chemistry - A European Journal profile →
  3. Immobilization of a Metallo Schiff Base into a Microporous Coordination Polymer
    2004 313 citations Ryo Kitaura, Hirotoshi Sakamoto et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  4. Heterogeneously Hybridized Porous Coordination Polymer Crystals: Fabrication of Heterometallic Core–Shell Single Crystals with an In‐Plane Rotational Epitaxial Relationship
    2008 298 citations Shuhei Furukawa, Kenji Hirai et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  5. A Pillared-Layer Coordination Polymer with a Rotatable Pillar Acting as a Molecular Gate for Guest Molecules
    2009 283 citations Joobeom Seo, Ryotaro Matsuda et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hirotoshi Sakamoto Japan 22 3.1k 2.5k 1.1k 574 441 42 3.8k
You‐Gui Huang China 29 2.8k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 1.4k 1.3× 351 0.6× 453 1.0× 100 3.6k
Karen L. Mulfort United States 31 3.5k 1.1× 3.2k 1.3× 893 0.8× 572 1.0× 691 1.6× 74 5.2k
Satoru Shimomura Japan 16 3.8k 1.2× 3.1k 1.2× 1.2k 1.1× 401 0.7× 428 1.0× 18 4.5k
Yan‐Yong Lin China 26 4.0k 1.3× 2.5k 1.0× 1.8k 1.7× 622 1.1× 472 1.1× 49 4.9k
Kazuhiro Uemura Japan 25 3.6k 1.2× 2.4k 1.0× 1.8k 1.6× 778 1.4× 293 0.7× 74 4.3k
Andrea Sudik United States 19 1.9k 0.6× 2.7k 1.1× 681 0.6× 347 0.6× 286 0.6× 22 3.7k
Steven S. Kaye United States 14 2.9k 0.9× 2.4k 1.0× 931 0.9× 357 0.6× 962 2.2× 15 4.0k
Yohei Takashima Japan 22 3.2k 1.0× 2.8k 1.1× 795 0.7× 373 0.6× 275 0.6× 64 3.9k
Xiqu Wang United States 33 2.6k 0.8× 2.6k 1.1× 1.3k 1.2× 471 0.8× 172 0.4× 124 4.0k
Y. Mita Japan 13 2.0k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 743 0.7× 265 0.5× 295 0.7× 35 2.7k

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All Works

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Lin, Zirui, Ken‐ichi Otake, T. Kajiwara, et al.. (2025). Interconnected Lamellar 3D Semiconductive PCP for Rechargeable Aqueous Zinc Battery Cathodes. Small. 21(10). e2411386–e2411386.
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Mönig, Harry, Saeed Amirjalayer, Hirotoshi Sakamoto, et al.. (2025). Thiophene-fused aromatic belts. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1074–1074. 9 indexed citations
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Sakamoto, Hirotoshi, Ken‐ichi Otake, & Susumu Kitagawa. (2024). Progressive gas adsorption squeezing through the narrow channel of a soft porous crystal of [Co2(4,4′-bipyridine)3(NO3)4]. Communications Materials. 5(1). 4 indexed citations
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Xue, Ziqian, Kang Liu, Jia‐Jia Zheng, et al.. (2024). Single-Atom Tailoring of the Electronic Structure of the Conductive Porous Coordination Polymer Enhances Efficient Electrochemical NH3 Production. Chemistry of Materials. 36(12). 5897–5903. 5 indexed citations
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Sakamoto, Hirotoshi, H. Matsui, Tomoya Uruga, et al.. (2024). Three-Dimensional Visualization of Adsorption Distribution in a Single Crystalline Particle of a Metal–Organic Framework. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(13). 9181–9190. 3 indexed citations
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Fukushima, Tomohiro, Hirotoshi Sakamoto, Kohei Tanaka, et al.. (2017). Polymorphism of [6]Cycloparaphenylene for Packing Structure-dependent Host–Guest Interaction. Chemistry Letters. 46(6). 855–857. 32 indexed citations
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Sakamoto, Hirotoshi, Toshihiko Fujimori, Xiaolin Li, et al.. (2016). Cycloparaphenylene as a molecular porous carbon solid with uniform pores exhibiting adsorption-induced softness. Chemical Science. 7(7). 4204–4210. 58 indexed citations
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Kubo, Takashi, Hirotoshi Sakamoto, Toshihiko Fujimori, et al.. (2012). Diffusion‐Barrier‐Free Porous Carbon Monoliths as a New Form of Activated Carbon. ChemSusChem. 5(11). 2271–2277. 6 indexed citations
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Morelos‐Gómez, Aaron, Sofía Magdalena Vega-Díaz, Viviana Jehová González, et al.. (2012). Clean Nanotube Unzipping by Abrupt Thermal Expansion of Molecular Nitrogen: Graphene Nanoribbons with Atomically Smooth Edges. ACS Nano. 6(3). 2261–2272. 48 indexed citations
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Sakamoto, Hirotoshi, Ryotaro Matsuda, & Susumu Kitagawa. (2012). Systematic mechanochemical preparation of a series of coordination pillared layer frameworks. Dalton Transactions. 41(14). 3956–3956. 70 indexed citations
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Yang, Wen‐Bin, Andrew J. Davies, Xiang Lin, et al.. (2012). Selective CO2 uptake and inverse CO2/C2H2 selectivity in a dynamic bifunctional metal–organic framework. Chemical Science. 3(10). 2993–2993. 122 indexed citations
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Ishikawa, Ryuta, Akira Fuyuhiro, K. Yoneda, et al.. (2012). Water adsorption–desorption property of stable porous supramolecular assembly composed of discrete tetranuclear iron(III) complex using π⋯π interactions. Inorganica Chimica Acta. 386. 122–128. 4 indexed citations
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Seo, Joobeom, Hirotoshi Sakamoto, Ryotaro Matsuda, & Susumu Kitagawa. (2010). Chemistry of Porous Coordination Polymers Having Multimodal Nanospace and Their Multimodal Functionality. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 10(1). 3–20. 22 indexed citations
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Sakamoto, Hirotoshi, Ryotaro Matsuda, Sareeya Bureekaew, Daisuke Tanaka, & Susumu Kitagawa. (2009). A Porous Coordination Polymer with Accessible Metal Sites and its Complementary Coordination Action. Chemistry - A European Journal. 15(20). 4985–4989. 49 indexed citations
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Higuchi, Masakazu, Daisuke Tanaka, Satoshi Horike, et al.. (2009). Porous Coordination Polymer with Pyridinium Cationic Surface, [Zn2(tpa)2(cpb)]. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(30). 10336–10337. 109 indexed citations
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Furukawa, Shuhei, Kenji Hirai, Keiji Nakagawa, et al.. (2008). Heterogeneously Hybridized Porous Coordination Polymer Crystals: Fabrication of Heterometallic Core–Shell Single Crystals with an In‐Plane Rotational Epitaxial Relationship. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48(10). 1766–1770. 298 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Jian‐Rong, Ying Tao, Qun Yu, et al.. (2008). Selective Gas Adsorption and Unique Structural Topology of a Highly Stable Guest‐Free Zeolite‐Type MOF Material with N‐rich Chiral Open Channels. Chemistry - A European Journal. 14(9). 2771–2776. 351 indexed citations breakdown →
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Matsuda, Ryotaro, Ryo Kitaura, Susumu Kitagawa, et al.. (2005). Highly controlled acetylene accommodation in a metal–organic microporous material. Nature. 436(7048). 238–241. 1384 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kitaura, Ryo, et al.. (2004). Immobilization of a Metallo Schiff Base into a Microporous Coordination Polymer. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 43(20). 2684–2687. 313 indexed citations breakdown →

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