Kenichiro Saita

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Kenichiro Saita is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kenichiro Saita has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 14 papers in Materials Chemistry and 11 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kenichiro Saita's work include Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (10 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (10 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (7 papers). Kenichiro Saita is often cited by papers focused on Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (10 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (10 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (7 papers). Kenichiro Saita collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United Kingdom and United States. Kenichiro Saita's co-authors include Dmitrii V. Shalashilin, Satoshi Maeda, Adam Kirrander, K. Sugiyama, Makito Takagi, Yu Harabuchi, Yosuke Sumiya, Peter Weber, Kimichi Suzuki and Y. Ôno and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Kenichiro Saita

33 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Imaging Molecular Motion: Femtosecond X-Ray Scattering of... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150 200
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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. Imaging Molecular Motion: Femtosecond X-Ray Scattering of an Electrocyclic Chemical Reaction
    2015 216 citations Michael P. Minitti, James Budarz et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers

Kenichiro Saita
Mickaël G. Delcey Sweden
Filip Pawłowski United States
Joshua J. Goings United States
J. Tobias Lau Germany
L.A. LaJohn United States
Vicente Zamudio‐Bayer Germany
Kenneth A. Lopata United States
Thomas Fransson Sweden
Shan Xi Tian China
Alain St‐Amant Canada
Mickaël G. Delcey Sweden
Kenichiro Saita
Citations per year, relative to Kenichiro Saita Kenichiro Saita (= 1×) peers Mickaël G. Delcey

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kenichiro Saita

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Takai, Noriyuki, et al.. (2025). Revealing the electron driven mechanism in metal catalyzed Kumada cross coupling reaction. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 4421–4421.
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Saita, Kenichiro, et al.. (2025). Aggregation-induced emission mechanism of styrene derivative: a theoretical study. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(23). 12593–12602.
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Kuramochi, Hikaru, Kenichiro Saita, Zhengrong Wei, et al.. (2024). Ultrafast Raman observation of the perpendicular intermediate phantom state of stilbene photoisomerization. Nature Chemistry. 16(1). 22–27. 22 indexed citations
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Inanami, Osamu, Hideo Takakura, Kenichiro Saita, et al.. (2024). Theoretical Design and Synthesis of Caged Compounds Using X‐Ray‐Triggered Azo Bond Cleavage. Advanced Science. 11(12). e2306586–e2306586. 5 indexed citations
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Sekikawa, Taro, Nobuhisa Ishii, Tomoya Mizuno, et al.. (2023). Real-time observation of the Woodward–Hoffmann rule for 1,3-cyclohexadiene by femtosecond soft X-ray transient absorption. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(12). 8497–8506. 1 indexed citations
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Yasumura, Shunsaku, Kenichiro Saita, Ken Nagai, et al.. (2023). Designing main-group catalysts for low-temperature methane combustion by ozone. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3926–3926. 21 indexed citations
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Saita, Kenichiro, et al.. (2023). Ab initio molecular dynamics study of intersystem crossing dynamics for MH2 (M = Si, Ge, Sn, Pb) on spin‐pure and spin‐mixed potential energy surfaces. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 45(9). 552–562. 1 indexed citations
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Takakura, Hideo, Osamu Inanami, Masato Kobayashi, et al.. (2022). Ligand release from silicon phthalocyanine dyes triggered by X-ray irradiation. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 20(36). 7270–7277. 4 indexed citations
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Schalk, Oliver, et al.. (2021). Real-Time Probing of an Atmospheric Photochemical Reaction by Ultrashort Extreme Ultraviolet Pulses: Nitrous Acid Release from o-Nitrophenol. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(1). 674–679. 13 indexed citations
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Harabuchi, Yu, Kenichiro Saita, & Satoshi Maeda. (2018). Exploring radiative and nonradiative decay paths in indole, isoindole, quinoline, and isoquinoline. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 17(3). 315–322. 21 indexed citations
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Saita, Kenichiro, et al.. (2017). Comparison of ultrafast electron and X-ray diffraction – A computational study. Chemical Physics Letters. 683. 300–305. 24 indexed citations
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Minitti, Michael P., James Budarz, Adam Kirrander, et al.. (2015). Imaging Molecular Motion: Femtosecond X-Ray Scattering of an Electrocyclic Chemical Reaction. Physical Review Letters. 114(25). 255501–255501. 216 indexed citations breakdown →
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Minitti, Michael P., James Budarz, Adam Kirrander, et al.. (2014). Toward structural femtosecond chemical dynamics: imaging chemistry in space and time. Faraday Discussions. 171. 81–91. 45 indexed citations
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Saita, Kenichiro, Michael G. D. Nix, & Dmitrii V. Shalashilin. (2013). Simulation of ultrafast photodynamics of pyrrole with a multiconfigurational Ehrenfest method. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(38). 16227–16227. 35 indexed citations
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Saita, Kenichiro, et al.. (2010). Fluorescence properties of 2-aryl substituted indoles. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 78(2). 905–908. 5 indexed citations
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Nanbu, Shinkoh, Ryoichi Kuwano, Zilong Zheng, et al.. (2010). Fluorescence and chemiluminescence properties of indolylmaleimides: experimental and theoretical studies. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 12(33). 9783–9783. 10 indexed citations
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Saita, Kenichiro, et al.. (2009). Theoretical Study of Photophysical Properties of Bisindolylmaleimide Derivatives. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 113(29). 8213–8220. 19 indexed citations
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Saita, Kenichiro, Seiya Kobatake, Tuyoshi Fukaminato, et al.. (2008). Raman spectroscopic study on isomers of photochromic 1,2-bis(2,5-dimethyl-3-thienyl)perfluorocyclopentene in crystal and stability of the closed-ring forms in the open-ring forms. Chemical Physics Letters. 454(1-3). 42–48. 8 indexed citations

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