Kazunobu Sato

13.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
478 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Kazunobu Sato is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kazunobu Sato has authored 478 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 216 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 134 papers in Materials Chemistry and 128 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Kazunobu Sato's work include Magnetism in coordination complexes (179 papers), Electron Spin Resonance Studies (128 papers) and Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (85 papers). Kazunobu Sato is often cited by papers focused on Magnetism in coordination complexes (179 papers), Electron Spin Resonance Studies (128 papers) and Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (85 papers). Kazunobu Sato collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Russia. Kazunobu Sato's co-authors include Takeji Takui, Daisuke Shiomi, Yasushi Morita, Kazuhiro Nakasuji, Shuichi Suzuki, Kozo Fukui, Akihiro Shimizu, Takashi Kubo, Masayoshi Nakano and Shigeaki Nakazawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Kazunobu Sato

461 papers receiving 10.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Synthetic organic spin chemistry for structurally well-defined open-shell graphene fragments

2011 537 citations Kazunobu Sato, Takeji Takui et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kazunobu Sato Japan	50	4.7k	4.0k	3.8k	2.4k	1.5k	478	10.6k
Katsuya Inoue Japan	56	1.5k 0.3×	5.3k 1.3×	7.7k 2.0×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	552	13.4k
Joseph W. Perry United States	63	3.1k 0.7×	12.2k 3.1×	7.5k 1.9×	2.7k 1.1×	724 0.5×	236	20.3k
Thierry Verbiest Belgium	55	2.5k 0.5×	4.1k 1.0×	5.1k 1.3×	2.1k 0.9×	262 0.2×	347	11.7k
Satoshi Kawata Japan	52	1.6k 0.3×	3.6k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.6×	505 0.3×	328	9.9k
Takashi Kubo Japan	56	6.4k 1.4×	4.5k 1.1×	2.6k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	177 0.1×	358	10.8k
Benjamin Dietzek Germany	49	1.9k 0.4×	3.6k 0.9×	797 0.2×	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	329	9.7k
Theodore Goodson United States	59	1.2k 0.3×	5.5k 1.4×	2.5k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	590 0.4×	206	9.9k
Michael Towrie United Kingdom	60	2.4k 0.5×	3.4k 0.8×	886 0.2×	1.7k 0.7×	2.1k 1.4×	360	13.6k
W. Haase Germany	54	3.1k 0.7×	4.4k 1.1×	9.2k 2.4×	882 0.4×	460 0.3×	662	13.1k
Ute Resch‐Genger Germany	65	2.2k 0.5×	12.3k 3.1×	1.5k 0.4×	4.1k 1.7×	769 0.5×	362	18.4k

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Sugimoto, Hideki, Akio Yoneda, Kazunobu Sato, et al.. (2025). Redox-active tin(ii) complexes with sterically demanding o-phenylenediamido ligands and their reactivity with organic azides. Dalton Transactions. 54(12). 5025–5034.

Shimizu, Akihiro, et al.. (2023). Zwitterionic Open‐Shell Singlet Diradical with Solvent‐Dependent Singlet–Triplet Energy Gap. Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. 12(8). 1 indexed citations

Sato, Kazunobu, et al.. (2023). Observation of slow magnetic relaxation phenomena in spatially isolated π-radical ions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(7). 5459–5467. 5 indexed citations

Takebayashi, Satoshi, Urs Gellrich, Robert R. Fayzullin, et al.. (2023). Synthesis and characterization of a formal 21-electron cobaltocene derivative. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4979–4979. 19 indexed citations

Shimizu, Akihiro, Kenji Sugisaki, Daisuke Shiomi, et al.. (2022). Synthesis and Isolation of a Kekulé Hydrocarbon with a Triplet Ground State. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(29). 51 indexed citations

Shimizu, Akihiro, Kenji Sugisaki, Daisuke Shiomi, et al.. (2022). Synthesis and Isolation of a Kekulé Hydrocarbon with a Triplet Ground State. Angewandte Chemie. 134(29). 4 indexed citations

Sugisaki, Kenji, Chikako Sakai, Kazuo Toyota, et al.. (2021). Quantum Algorithm for Full Configuration Interaction Calculations without Controlled Time Evolutions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(45). 11085–11089. 9 indexed citations

Shimizu, Akihiro, et al.. (2021). Synthesis and Isolation of a Kinetically Stabilized Crystalline Triangulene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(46). 19599–19605. 86 indexed citations

Patrick, Brian O., C. R. Wiebe, Yuki Shibano, et al.. (2021). Valence tautomerism in a [2 × 2] Co₄ grid complex containing a ditopic arylazo ligand. Chemical Communications. 57(50). 6213–6216. 3 indexed citations

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Shiomi, Daisuke, Yu. V. Gatilov, Dmitri V. Stass, et al.. (2020). Magnetic Properties of π-Conjugated Hybrid Phenoxyl–Nitroxide Radicals with Extended π-Spin Delocalization. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 124(12). 2416–2426. 7 indexed citations

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Cosquer, Goulven, Kenji Sugisaki, Hideto Matsuoka, et al.. (2019). Isostructural M(ii) complexes (M = Mn, Fe, Co) with field-induced slow magnetic relaxation for Mn and Co complexes. Dalton Transactions. 48(32). 12023–12030. 32 indexed citations

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Krumkacheva, Olesya A., Dmitriy A. Parkhomenko, Dmitrii G. Mazhukin, et al.. (2019). EPR and DEER Characterization of New Mixed Weakly Coupled Nitroxide Triradicals for Molecular Three-Spin Qubits. Applied Magnetic Resonance. 50(8). 967–976. 3 indexed citations

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Ozawa, T., H. Yamada, Kazunobu Sato, et al.. (2012). Development of Magnetic Crack Detection System Using Thin Film Magnetic Field Sensor. Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan. 37(1). 1–7. 10 indexed citations

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Sato, Kazunobu, et al.. (2011). Scanning System Using Transmission Line Type Thin Film Sensor. Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan. 35(2). 76–81. 3 indexed citations

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Santo, R., Rika Tanaka, Takanori Nishioka, et al.. (2006). Diamagnetic–Paramagnetic Conversion of Tris(2‐pyridylthio)methylcopper(III) through a Structural Change from Trigonal Bipyramidal to Octahedral. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 45(45). 7611–7614. 51 indexed citations

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Yamashita, Jun, et al.. (2005). Development of Gantry Systems for Strawberry Cultivation (Part 3). Journal of the Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery. 67(2). 111–120. 1 indexed citations

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Yamashita, Jun, et al.. (2003). Development of Gantry Systems for Strawberry Cultivation (Part 2). Journal of the Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery. 65(5). 108–116. 1 indexed citations

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Ishida, Y., D. D. Sarma, Kozo Okazaki, et al.. (2003). In situPhotoemission Study of the Room Temperature FerromagnetZnGeP2∶Mn. Physical Review Letters. 91(10). 107202–107202. 24 indexed citations

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Sahara, A., et al.. (2002). Demonstration of Fast Restoration for Distributed Control Plane on Photonic Network. European Conference on Optical Communication. 3. 1–2. 2 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Y., et al.. (1980). TDMA equipment for 30/20 GHz band satellite communication system. Electronics and Communications in Japan. 28. 620. 2 indexed citations

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