Kimihisa Yamamoto

10.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
336 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

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Kimihisa Yamamoto is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kimihisa Yamamoto has authored 336 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 201 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 149 papers in Materials Chemistry and 103 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kimihisa Yamamoto's work include Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (124 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (73 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (52 papers). Kimihisa Yamamoto is often cited by papers focused on Dendrimers and Hyperbranched Polymers (124 papers), Conducting polymers and applications (73 papers) and Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (52 papers). Kimihisa Yamamoto collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Kimihisa Yamamoto's co-authors include Takane Imaoka, Masayoshi Higuchi, Ken Albrecht, Eishun Tsuchida, Norifusa Satoh, Toshio Nakashima, Wang‐Jae Chun, Katsuhiko Fujita, Kenichi Matsuoka and Hiroyuki Nishide and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Kimihisa Yamamoto

332 papers receiving 8.4k citations

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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.

Size-specific catalytic activity of platinum clusters enhances oxygen reduction reactions

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kimihisa Yamamoto Japan	47	4.5k	3.3k	3.0k	2.2k	1.3k	336	8.5k
Cheuk‐Lam Ho Hong Kong	51	6.2k 1.4×	2.9k 0.9×	7.3k 2.4×	2.4k 1.1×	555 0.4×	158	10.5k
Dirk G. Kurth Germany	54	5.3k 1.2×	1.9k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	427 0.3×	176	8.7k
Hongxiang Li China	51	3.0k 0.7×	3.1k 0.9×	5.8k 1.9×	1.0k 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	244	8.5k
Amaresh Mishra Germany	42	5.5k 1.2×	4.1k 1.2×	5.6k 1.9×	2.2k 1.0×	3.8k 2.8×	127	12.3k
Fabrice Odobel France	60	7.2k 1.6×	1.6k 0.5×	2.7k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	5.6k 4.2×	234	11.3k
Michael Ryan Hansen Germany	48	3.2k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	3.9k 1.3×	1.6k 0.7×	336 0.3×	208	8.1k
Dieter Wöhrle Germany	44	5.7k 1.3×	1.0k 0.3×	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1.5k 1.2×	201	7.9k
Tomokazu Umeyama Japan	48	5.2k 1.2×	1.4k 0.4×	2.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.7×	2.2k 1.7×	171	7.4k
Joji Ohshita Japan	50	3.6k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	2.7k 0.9×	5.5k 2.5×	1.1k 0.8×	480	10.7k
Pierre Audebert France	43	2.3k 0.5×	2.2k 0.7×	2.7k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	361 0.3×	208	6.0k

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Kambe, Tetsuya, Takuya Yamashita, Masataka Yoshida, et al.. (2025). Capacitance enhancement by ion-laminated borophene-like layered materials. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1073–1073. 3 indexed citations

Kambe, Tetsuya, et al.. (2024). Synthesis and functionalities of FeSn₁₂ superatom prepared by single atom introduction with a dendrimer template. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(20). e202400060–e202400060. 2 indexed citations

Kuzume, Akiyoshi & Kimihisa Yamamoto. (2024). Dendrimer-induced synthesis of subnano materials and their characterization: establishing atom hybrid science. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 97(4). 15 indexed citations

Kambe, Tetsuya, Hiroshi Nishihara, & Kimihisa Yamamoto. (2023). Chemical bottom-up approach for inorganic single-atomic layers aiming beyond graphene. Dalton Transactions. 52(42). 15297–15302. 1 indexed citations

Kuzume, Akiyoshi, et al.. (2023). Machine Learning Accelerated Discovery of Subnanoparticles for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution. Chemistry Letters. 52(10). 828–831. 1 indexed citations

Tanabe, Makoto, et al.. (2023). Non-Functionalized Subnanometer Copper Nanoparticles for Low-Temperature Methane Activation. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 7(6). 5802–5808.

Okazawa, Atsushi, Tetsuya Kambe, Takane Imaoka, et al.. (2020). A useful preparation of ultrasmall iron oxide particles by using arc plasma deposition. RSC Advances. 10(68). 41523–41531. 5 indexed citations

Inomata, Yusuke, Ken Albrecht, Naoki Haruta, & Kimihisa Yamamoto. (2019). Dendrimer-Templated Synthesis and Characterization of Tin Oxide Quantum Dots Deposited on a Silica Glass Substrate. Chemistry of Materials. 31(20). 8373–8382. 6 indexed citations

Kuzume, Akiyoshi, et al.. (2019). Ultrahigh sensitive Raman spectroscopy for subnanoscience: Direct observation of tin oxide clusters. Science Advances. 5(12). eaax6455–eaax6455. 27 indexed citations

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Imaoka, Takane, et al.. (2015). A Self‐Assembling Dendritic Reactor: Versatile Formation of Characteristic Patterns with Nanoscale Dimension. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 36(7). 616–620.

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Albrecht, Ken, et al.. (2013). Dynamic control of dendrimer–fullerene association by axial coordination to the core. Chemical Communications. 49(61). 6861–6861. 7 indexed citations

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Imaoka, Takane, et al.. (2013). Magic Number Pt₁₃ and Misshapen Pt₁₂ Clusters: Which One is the Better Catalyst?. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(35). 13089–13095. 179 indexed citations

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Albrecht, Ken & Kimihisa Yamamoto. (2012). Dendrimers and Electronics. KOBUNSHI RONBUNSHU. 69(6). 251–259. 1 indexed citations

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Imaoka, Takane, et al.. (2012). Solubilization of a π‐Conjugating Hydrophobic Dendrimer in Aqueous Media. Macromolecular Rapid Communications. 33(8). 683–687. 2 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Takeshi, Yoshinori Iketaki, Takashige Omatsu, Kimihisa Yamamoto, & Masaaki Fujii. (2005). Two-Point Separation in Far-Field Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy Based on Two-Color Fluorescence Dip Spectroscopy, Part I: Experimental Evaluation. Applied Spectroscopy. 59(7). 868–872. 4 indexed citations

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Kimoto, Atsushi, Jun-Sang Cho, Masayoshi Higuchi, & Kimihisa Yamamoto. (2004). Synthesis of Asymmetrically Arranged Dendrimers with a Carbazole Dendron and a Phenylazomethine Dendron. Macromolecules. 37(15). 5531–5537. 131 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Takeshi, Yoshinori Iketaki, Takashige Omatsu, et al.. (2003). Two-point-separation in super-resolution fluorescence microscope based on up-conversion fluorescence depletion technique. Optics Express. 11(24). 3271–3271. 63 indexed citations

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Iketaki, Yoshinori, Takeshi Watanabe, Makoto Sakai, et al.. (2002). Investigation of the fluorescence depletion process in condensed phase. 64–67.

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Imaoka, Takane, et al.. (2001). Electroreduction of Dioxygen Using Co–Ru Dinuclear Porphyrin Catalyst in Nafion Film. Chemistry Letters. 30(5). 412–413. 4 indexed citations

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Yamamoto, Kimihisa, Hiroyuki Nishide, & Eishun Tsuchida. (1986). Electro-oxidative polymerization of 2,6-dimethylphenoxide ion in the presence of bromide ion as a mediator.. NIPPON KAGAKU KAISHI. 152–156. 1 indexed citations

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