Kazuhiro Takanabe

37.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
247 papers, 32.6k citations indexed

About

Kazuhiro Takanabe is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kazuhiro Takanabe has authored 247 papers receiving a total of 32.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 170 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 134 papers in Materials Chemistry and 98 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kazuhiro Takanabe's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (95 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (94 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (54 papers). Kazuhiro Takanabe is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (95 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (94 papers) and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (54 papers). Kazuhiro Takanabe collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Saudi Arabia and United States. Kazuhiro Takanabe's co-authors include Kazunari Domen, Markus Antonietti, Kazuhiko Maeda, Xinchen Wang, Arne Thomas, Gang Xin, Johan M. Carlsson, Tatsuya Shinagawa, Angel T. Garcia‐Esparza and Xianzhi Fu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Kazuhiro Takanabe

238 papers receiving 32.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A metal-free polymeric photocatalyst for hydrogen production from water under visible light

2008 11.2k citations Xinchen Wang, Kazuhiko Maeda et al. profile →
Insight on Tafel slopes from a microkinetic analysis of aqueous electrocatalysis for energy conversion

2015 2.6k citations Tatsuya Shinagawa, Angel T. Garcia‐Esparza et al. profile →
Polymer Semiconductors for Artificial Photosynthesis: Hydrogen Evolution by Mesoporous Graphitic Carbon Nitride with Visible Light

2009 1.7k citations Xinchen Wang, Kazuhiko Maeda et al. profile →
Synthesis of a Carbon Nitride Structure for Visible‐Light Catalysis by Copolymerization

2009 1.3k citations Kazuhiro Takanabe, Kazuhiko Maeda et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Accelerating materials development for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production: Standards for methods, definitions, and reporting protocols

2009 1.0k citations Kazuhiro Takanabe, Kazunari Domen et al. profile →
Photocatalytic Water Splitting: Quantitative Approaches toward Photocatalyst by Design

2017 790 citations Kazuhiro Takanabe ACS Catalysis profile →
Chemisorption of CO and Mechanism of CO Oxidation on Supported Platinum Nanoclusters

2011 504 citations Kazuhiro Takanabe et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kazuhiro Takanabe Japan	67	26.4k	22.1k	13.2k	4.3k	2.4k	247	32.6k
Yafei Li China	83	15.9k 0.6×	16.4k 0.7×	12.4k 0.9×	3.6k 0.8×	2.5k 1.0×	291	28.7k
Xusheng Zheng China	96	23.9k 0.9×	16.1k 0.7×	14.8k 1.1×	5.6k 1.3×	2.6k 1.1×	285	33.2k
Xiangdong Yao Australia	82	15.0k 0.6×	12.5k 0.6×	11.9k 0.9×	4.6k 1.1×	2.8k 1.1×	306	25.6k
Jun Zhong China	77	16.5k 0.6×	12.8k 0.6×	10.7k 0.8×	3.1k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	332	25.5k
Hua Gui Yang China	89	20.9k 0.8×	19.1k 0.9×	13.9k 1.1×	1.9k 0.5×	2.6k 1.0×	422	31.1k
Shuangming Chen China	76	15.8k 0.6×	11.3k 0.5×	11.0k 0.8×	3.0k 0.7×	2.4k 1.0×	223	22.5k
Jun Luo China	102	23.5k 0.9×	16.2k 0.7×	14.4k 1.1×	8.1k 1.9×	2.6k 1.1×	404	34.1k
Chung‐Li Dong Taiwan	76	19.4k 0.7×	12.1k 0.5×	12.3k 0.9×	2.9k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	431	25.6k
Shibo Xi Singapore	92	22.5k 0.9×	12.9k 0.6×	16.4k 1.2×	5.5k 1.3×	3.3k 1.3×	489	32.6k
Juncai Dong China	81	21.8k 0.8×	13.6k 0.6×	13.0k 1.0×	3.6k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	174	28.6k

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Obata, Keisuke, et al.. (2025). Bridging mixed potential theory and electrochemical promotion of thermal catalysis during hydroquinone-benzoquinone redox reactions. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3646–3646.

Kishimoto, Fuminao, Hiroki Yamada, Koki Muraoka, et al.. (2025). Focused thermal energy at atomic microwave antenna sites for ecocatalysis. Science Advances. 11(41). eady4043–eady4043.

Obata, Keisuke, et al.. (2024). Dynamic stabilization of nickel-based oxygen evolution electrocatalysts in the presence of chloride ions using a phosphate additive. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(6). 3513–3522. 13 indexed citations

Yoshida, Shintaro, et al.. (2024). Direct Injection of Hydrogen Peroxide for Selective Homogeneous Conversion of Methane into Higher Hydrocarbons. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 63(26). 11384–11391. 1 indexed citations

Lü, Xiaofei, et al.. (2024). Selectivity control by modifying pressure, temperature, and ionomer decoration for CO2 electroreduction using gas-diffusion Cu electrodes. Chem Catalysis. 4(7). 101030–101030. 1 indexed citations

Lundin, Sean-Thomas B., et al.. (2023). Improved Homogeneous–Heterogeneous Kinetic Mechanism Using a Langmuir–Hinshelwood-Based Microkinetic Model for High-Pressure Oxidative Coupling of Methane. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 62(14). 5826–5838. 3 indexed citations

Lü, Xiaofei, Keisuke Obata, & Kazuhiro Takanabe. (2023). Microkinetic studies for mechanism interpretation in electrocatalytic CO and CO ₂ reduction: current and perspective. EES Catalysis. 1(5). 590–618. 4 indexed citations

Obata, Keisuke, et al.. (2023). Electrolyte Engineering Applying Concentrated Chloride Ions with Mixed Buffer Solutions for a Versatile High-Productivity Water-Splitting System. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(34). 12614–12622. 16 indexed citations

Saito, Taro, Rafia Ahmad, Fuminao Kishimoto, et al.. (2022). Identification of distinctive structural and optoelectronic properties of Bi₂O₃ polymorphs controlled by tantalum addition. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 10(47). 17925–17935. 8 indexed citations

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Bau, Jeremy A., Sergey M. Kozlov, Luis Miguel Azofra, et al.. (2020). Role of Oxidized Mo Species on the Active Surface of Ni–Mo Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution under Alkaline Conditions. ACS Catalysis. 10(21). 12858–12866. 120 indexed citations

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Naito, T., Tatsuya Shinagawa, Takeshi Nishimoto, & Kazuhiro Takanabe. (2020). Water Electrolysis in Saturated Phosphate Buffer at Neutral pH. ChemSusChem. 13(22). 5921–5933. 54 indexed citations

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Abdulghani, Abdullah J. Al, Sergey M. Kozlov, Srikanth Pedireddy, et al.. (2020). Methane dry reforming on supported cobalt nanoparticles promoted by boron. Journal of Catalysis. 392. 126–134. 38 indexed citations

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Qureshi, Muhammad, Angel T. Garcia‐Esparza, Samy Ould‐Chikh, et al.. (2019). Catalytic consequences of ultrafine Pt clusters supported on SrTiO3 for photocatalytic overall water splitting. Journal of Catalysis. 376. 180–190. 79 indexed citations

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BaQais, Amal, Nina Tymińska, Tangui Le Bahers, & Kazuhiro Takanabe. (2019). Optoelectronic Structure and Photocatalytic Applications of Na(Bi,La)S₂ Solid Solutions with Tunable Band Gaps. Chemistry of Materials. 31(9). 3211–3220. 17 indexed citations

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Qureshi, Muhammad, Moussab Harb, Samy Ould‐Chikh, et al.. (2019). TiO₂-supported Pt single atoms by surface organometallic chemistry for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(44). 24429–24440. 35 indexed citations

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Takanabe, Kazuhiro, et al.. (2018). 酸素発生電極触媒の安定性を改善するための選択透過性CeO_x被覆【Powered by NICT】. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 130(6). 1632–1636. 4 indexed citations

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Qureshi, Muhammad, Angel T. Garcia‐Esparza, Tatsuya Shinagawa, et al.. (2018). Contribution of electrolyte in nanoscale electrolysis of pure and buffered water by particulate photocatalysis. Sustainable Energy & Fuels. 2(9). 2044–2052. 21 indexed citations

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Garcia‐Esparza, Angel T., Tatsuya Shinagawa, Samy Ould‐Chikh, et al.. (2017). An Oxygen‐Insensitive Hydrogen Evolution Catalyst Coated by a Molybdenum‐Based Layer for Overall Water Splitting. Angewandte Chemie. 129(21). 5874–5878. 13 indexed citations

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Ohnishi, Ryohji, Masao Katayama, Jun Kubota, et al.. (2011). Composite of TiN Nanoparticles and Few‐Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Its Application to the Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 7(2). 286–289. 29 indexed citations

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Takanabe, Kazuhiro, Xinchen Wang, Kazuhiko Maeda, et al.. (2009). Enhancement of photocatalytic activity of zinc-germanium oxynitride solid solution for overall water splitting under visible irradiation. Dalton Transactions. 10055–10055. 38 indexed citations

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