Kiyotaka Asakura

15.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
395 papers, 12.9k citations indexed

About

Kiyotaka Asakura is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Catalysis and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kiyotaka Asakura has authored 395 papers receiving a total of 12.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 269 papers in Materials Chemistry, 108 papers in Catalysis and 73 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Kiyotaka Asakura's work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (165 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (78 papers) and X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (68 papers). Kiyotaka Asakura is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (165 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (78 papers) and X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (68 papers). Kiyotaka Asakura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Kiyotaka Asakura's co-authors include Yasuhiro Iwasawa, Akihiko Kudo, Hideki Kato, Naoki Toshima, Masafumi Harada, Hiroko Ariga, Wang‐Jae Chun, S. Ted Oyama, Satoru Takakusagi and Hong He and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Kiyotaka Asakura

383 papers receiving 12.6k citations

Hit Papers

Highly Efficient Water Sp... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2012 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Highly Efficient Water Splitting into H2 and O2 over Lanthanum-Doped NaTaO3 Photocatalysts with High Crystallinity and Surface Nanostructure
    2003 1.5k citations Kiyotaka Asakura et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Alkali‐Metal‐Promoted Pt/TiO2 Opens a More Efficient Pathway to Formaldehyde Oxidation at Ambient Temperatures
    2012 673 citations Kiyotaka Asakura et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kiyotaka Asakura Japan 52 9.4k 4.8k 3.5k 2.6k 2.0k 395 12.9k
Steven H. Overbury United States 65 10.5k 1.1× 3.0k 0.6× 5.0k 1.4× 1.8k 0.7× 2.4k 1.2× 216 13.8k
Michael Hävecker Germany 64 11.3k 1.2× 5.4k 1.1× 6.2k 1.8× 3.7k 1.4× 1.6k 0.8× 196 16.2k
C. M. Friend United States 62 11.1k 1.2× 5.5k 1.1× 3.9k 1.1× 2.8k 1.1× 2.1k 1.1× 381 15.7k
Stig Helveg Denmark 51 10.1k 1.1× 3.4k 0.7× 3.6k 1.0× 2.2k 0.8× 2.3k 1.2× 120 12.9k
Wei‐Xue Li China 66 11.4k 1.2× 6.8k 1.4× 5.2k 1.5× 4.2k 1.6× 1.8k 0.9× 280 17.1k
Albert F. Carley United Kingdom 61 13.0k 1.4× 4.8k 1.0× 5.7k 1.6× 2.0k 0.8× 2.1k 1.1× 194 16.1k
Yasuhiro Iwasawa Japan 63 11.9k 1.3× 4.2k 0.9× 5.4k 1.6× 3.2k 1.2× 2.0k 1.0× 549 17.0k
Maarten Nachtegaal Switzerland 63 8.6k 0.9× 6.1k 1.3× 4.1k 1.2× 3.7k 1.4× 1.1k 0.6× 232 13.7k
Darı́o Stacchiola United States 55 9.3k 1.0× 3.5k 0.7× 5.7k 1.6× 1.4k 0.5× 1.4k 0.7× 207 11.7k
M. S. Hegde India 56 7.3k 0.8× 2.5k 0.5× 2.7k 0.8× 2.6k 1.0× 1.3k 0.6× 262 11.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kiyotaka Asakura

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cheng, Weiren, Y. Niwa, Shuowen Bo, et al.. (2024). In situ pump-flow-probe XAFS study of photoexcited electron transfer over single atom-Pt/CoOOH photocatalysts. Chemistry Letters. 53(1). 1 indexed citations
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Kato, Masaru, Siqi Xie, Shun Sato, et al.. (2024). Cu, Fe, N‐doped Carbon Nanotubes Prepared through Silica Coating for Selective Oxygen Reduction to Water in Acidic Media. ChemCatChem. 16(15). 2 indexed citations
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Dong, Kaiyue, Bing Hu, Keiko Miyabayashi, et al.. (2024). <i>In situ</i> Study on Structure of a Diluted Pt/HOPG Model Catalyst System Prepared by the Two-phase Liquid Reduction Method Using a Novel BCLA/HERFD+BI-XAFS Method. e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology. 22(2). 129–137.
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Wada, Takahiro, Yuki Wakisaka, Satoru Takakusagi, et al.. (2023). The Effect of Structural Change during the Activation Process on the Catalysis of In/SiO2 Nonoxidative Coupling of Methane: An Operando XAFS Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(50). 24211–24222. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Can, Shohei Ogura, T. Ozawa, et al.. (2023). Dynamic Behavior of Intermediate Adsorbates to Control Activity and Product Selectivity in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Methanol Decomposition on Pt/TiO2(110). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(36). 19953–19960. 10 indexed citations
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Ishii, Masashi, Asahiko Matsuda, Hironori Ofuchi, et al.. (2023). Integration of X-ray absorption fine structure databases for data-driven materials science. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 4 indexed citations
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Suzuki, Takuya, Hiroaki Nitani, Y. Niwa, et al.. (2022). Structure of Atomically Dispersed Pt in a SnO2 Thin Film under Reaction Conditions: Origin of Its High Performance in Micro Electromechanical System Gas Sensor Catalysis. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 14(34). 39507–39514. 13 indexed citations
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Hu, Bing, B.G. Bharate, Juan D. Jiménez, et al.. (2022). Abnormal Metal Bond Distances in PtAu Alloy Nanoparticles: In Situ Back-Illumination XAFS Investigations of the Structure of PtAu Nanoparticles on a Flat HOPG Substrate Prepared by Arc Plasma Deposition. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 126(2). 1006–1016. 6 indexed citations
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Jeem, Melbert, et al.. (2020). Light and Shadow Effects in the Submerged Photolytic Synthesis of Micropatterned CuO Nanoflowers and ZnO Nanorods as Optoelectronic Surfaces. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 3(2). 1783–1791. 7 indexed citations
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Toyao, Takashi, Kah Wei Ting, S. M. A. Hakim Siddiki, et al.. (2019). Mechanistic study of the selective hydrogenation of carboxylic acid derivatives over supported rhenium catalysts. Catalysis Science & Technology. 9(19). 5413–5424. 30 indexed citations
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Mauriello, Francesco, et al.. (2019). Transfer hydrogenolysis of aromatic ethers promoted by the bimetallic Pd/Co catalyst. Catalysis Today. 357. 511–517. 35 indexed citations
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Das, Dipak K., Jordi Llorca, Lluís Soler, et al.. (2018). Methanol steam reforming behavior of sol-gel synthesized nanodimensional CuxFe1-xAl2O4 hercynites. Applied Catalysis A General. 570. 73–83. 25 indexed citations
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Hou, Yuhui, Shin‐ichi Nagamatsu, Kiyotaka Asakura, Atsushi Fukuoka, & Hirokazu Kobayashi. (2018). Trace mono-atomically dispersed rhodium on zeolite-supported cobalt catalyst for the efficient methane oxidation. Communications Chemistry. 1(1). 30 indexed citations
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Uo, Motohiro, Fumio Watari, Kiyotaka Asakura, et al.. (2009). Analysis of Wear Debris Generated from the Metal-on-metal Hip Joint. 1(2). 133–136. 2 indexed citations
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Asakura, Kiyotaka. (2008). A Pioneer of New Surface Science and Chemistry. Hyomen Kagaku. 29(5). 278–278.
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Nomura, Masaharu, et al.. (2007). A New XAFS Beamline NW10A at the Photon Factory. AIP conference proceedings. 882. 896–898. 42 indexed citations
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Козлов, А. И., Kiyotaka Asakura, & Yasuhiro Iwasawa. (1998). Synthesis and characterization of vanadium (IV) complexes in NaY zeolite supercages. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 21(4-6). 571–579. 21 indexed citations

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