Kentaro Tamura

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
139 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Kentaro Tamura is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Kentaro Tamura has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Materials Chemistry, 51 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 45 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Kentaro Tamura's work include ZnO doping and properties (51 papers), Ga2O3 and related materials (32 papers) and Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies (23 papers). Kentaro Tamura is often cited by papers focused on ZnO doping and properties (51 papers), Ga2O3 and related materials (32 papers) and Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies (23 papers). Kentaro Tamura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Hong Kong. Kentaro Tamura's co-authors include M. Kawasaki, Hideomi Koinuma, Akira Ohtomo, T. Makino, Yasutomo Segawa, C. H. Chia, N. T. Tuan, Takashi Yasuda, Handong Sun and Atsushi Tsukazaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical review. B, Condensed matter, Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Kentaro Tamura

133 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Band gap engineering based on MgxZn1−xO and CdyZn1−yO ternary alloy films

2001 565 citations T. Makino, Yasutomo Segawa et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kentaro Tamura Japan	33	3.6k	2.1k	2.0k	495	332	139	4.3k
Martin Allen New Zealand	32	1.9k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	135 0.3×	356 1.1×	132	3.2k
Shin‐ichiro Inoue Japan	20	1.3k 0.4×	859 0.4×	753 0.4×	901 1.8×	252 0.8×	79	2.5k
Chenglong Zhang China	18	1.5k 0.4×	454 0.2×	651 0.3×	409 0.8×	1.3k 3.9×	74	2.7k
Hirofumi Matsuda Japan	27	1.4k 0.4×	837 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	88 0.2×	335 1.0×	147	2.9k
Bohong Li China	30	1.7k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	397 0.8×	526 1.6×	96	3.3k
Mitch M. C. Chou Taiwan	26	1.5k 0.4×	727 0.3×	838 0.4×	581 1.2×	544 1.6×	212	2.8k
Wei Hua Wang China	35	4.1k 1.2×	983 0.5×	339 0.2×	821 1.7×	226 0.7×	113	7.3k
Makoto Sakurai Japan	23	1.5k 0.4×	740 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	137 0.3×	585 1.8×	95	2.7k
Yuzuru Miyazaki Japan	33	3.3k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	1.1k 2.2×	576 1.7×	212	4.3k
B. K. Chaudhuri India	36	2.7k 0.8×	2.3k 1.1×	543 0.3×	1.5k 3.0×	307 0.9×	239	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Kentaro Tamura

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kentaro Tamura

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Wada, Yuko, et al.. (2025). Effects of antenatal magnesium sulfate administration on parathyroid hormone secretion in preterm infants. Pediatrics & Neonatology. 67(2). 159–163.

Tamura, Kentaro, et al.. (2023). Demonstration of Non‐contact Out‐of‐Plane Vibration Energy Harvesting Using an Electric‐Double‐Layer Electret. IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering. 18(7). 1229–1231. 1 indexed citations

Tamura, Kentaro, et al.. (2021). Demonstration of Non-Contact Type Vibrational Energy Harvester with Electric Double Layer Electrets. 26. 100–103. 3 indexed citations

Yoshida, Masahiro, et al.. (2020). Benefits and Risks of Inhaled Corticosteroid Treatment in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Classified by Blood Eosinophil Counts. Lung. 198(6). 925–931. 1 indexed citations

Tamura, Kentaro, et al.. (2020). The Sociopolitical Dynamics of Coal Transition in India. International Studies. 57(2). 171–185. 5 indexed citations

Taguchi, Masato, et al.. (2020). Pharmacokinetic Variability of Caffeine in Routinely Treated Preterm Infants: Preliminary Considerations on Developmental Changes of Systemic Clearance. Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin. 44(1). 69–74. 3 indexed citations

Tamura, Kentaro, Hitoshi Kawasuji, Ippei Sakamaki, et al.. (2019). Congenital tuberculosis in an extremely preterm infant and prevention of nosocomial infection. Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy. 25(9). 727–730. 7 indexed citations

Ali, Kamal, et al.. (2019). Prediction of prolonged ventilator dependence in preterm infants. European Journal of Pediatrics. 178(7). 1063–1068. 12 indexed citations

Yoneda, Satoshi, Noriko Yoneda, Arihiro Shiozaki, et al.. (2018). 17OHP‐C in patients with spontaneous preterm labor and intact membranes: is there an effect according to the presence of intra‐amniotic inflammation?. American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. 80(3). e12867–e12867. 4 indexed citations

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Elder, Mark, et al.. (2017). Implications of the 2017 G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, for Climate Change, Green Finance and Sustainable Development Goals. 9. 1 indexed citations

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Yoshida, Taketoshi, et al.. (2015). Effect of preterm birth on growth and cardiovascular disease risk at school age. Pediatrics International. 57(6). 1126–1130. 10 indexed citations

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Ishiyama, Osamu, Atsushi Shimozato, Kentaro Tamura, et al.. (2013). Relation between Defects on 4H-SiC Epitaxial Surface and Gate Oxide Reliability. Materials science forum. 740-742. 745–748. 47 indexed citations

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Masumoto, K., Kentaro Tamura, Johji Nishio, et al.. (2013). Growth of silicon carbide epitaxial layers on 150-mm-diameter wafers using a horizontal hot-wall chemical vapor deposition. Journal of Crystal Growth. 381. 139–143. 12 indexed citations

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Tamura, Kentaro, et al.. (2012). Green Economy and Domestic Carbon Governance in Asia. 30. 1 indexed citations

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Tamura, Kentaro, Yasushi Motoyama, Junichi Iida, et al.. (2010). Surgical Taeatments for Bow Hunter Stroke. Surgery for Cerebral Stroke. 38(3). 174–180. 3 indexed citations

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Tamura, Kentaro, et al.. (2008). Dictyostelium proteins bearing motifs conserved in penicillin-binding proteins and beta-lactamases. 41(2). 169–172. 1 indexed citations

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Nakahara, Ken, Hiroyuki Yuji, Kentaro Tamura, et al.. (2006). Two different features of ZnO: Transparent ZnO:Ga electrodes for InGaN-LEDs and homoepitaxial ZnO films for UV-LEDs. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6122. 61220N–61220N. 10 indexed citations

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Makino, T., Kentaro Tamura, C. H. Chia, et al.. (2003). Temperature quenching of exciton luminescence intensity in ZnO/(Mg,Zn)O multiple quantum wells. Journal of Applied Physics. 93(10). 5929–5933. 76 indexed citations

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Sun, Handong, Yasutomo Segawa, M. Kawasaki, et al.. (2002). Phonon replicas in ZnO/ZnMgO multiquantum wells. Journal of Applied Physics. 91(10). 6457–6460. 32 indexed citations

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Makino, T., C. H. Chia, N. T. Tuan, et al.. (2000). Exciton spectra of ZnO epitaxial layers on lattice-matched substrates grown with laser-molecular-beam epitaxy. Applied Physics Letters. 76(24). 3549–3551. 175 indexed citations

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