Michio Sorai

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
209 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Michio Sorai is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Michio Sorai has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 104 papers in Materials Chemistry and 79 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Michio Sorai's work include Magnetism in coordination complexes (89 papers), Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (47 papers) and Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure (42 papers). Michio Sorai is often cited by papers focused on Magnetism in coordination complexes (89 papers), Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (47 papers) and Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure (42 papers). Michio Sorai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Michio Sorai's co-authors include Kazuya Saito, Syûzô Seki, Shu Seki, Yuji Miyazaki, Hiroshi Suga, David N. Hendrickson, Motohiro Nakano, Kazutoshi Kaji, Yasuhiro Nakazawa and Philipp Gütlich and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Michio Sorai

209 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Phonon coupled cooperative low-spin 1A1high-spin 5T2 transition in [Fe(phen)2(NCS)2] and [Fe(phen)2(NCSe)2] crystals

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michio Sorai Japan	38	3.6k	2.4k	1.1k	940	596	209	4.8k
Yasutaka Kitagawa Japan	39	2.7k 0.8×	3.3k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	2.1k 2.2×	443 0.7×	231	6.5k
Federico Totti Italy	38	3.7k 1.0×	3.1k 1.3×	472 0.4×	999 1.1×	842 1.4×	105	4.8k
Yasunori Yoshioka Japan	31	1.4k 0.4×	903 0.4×	687 0.6×	859 0.9×	268 0.4×	113	3.4k
Carmen J. Calzado Spain	29	1.9k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	274 0.2×	659 0.7×	393 0.7×	97	3.1k
Richard T. Oakley Canada	51	4.6k 1.3×	1.9k 0.8×	3.6k 3.2×	1.5k 1.5×	636 1.1×	245	7.8k
Laurent Ducasse France	34	2.5k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	466 0.5×	81 0.1×	130	4.6k
D. Schweitzer Germany	36	3.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	178 0.2×	180 0.3×	227	4.4k
Núria Aliaga‐Alcalde Spain	31	3.0k 0.8×	2.9k 1.2×	504 0.5×	1.7k 1.8×	496 0.8×	94	4.5k
Philippe Guionneau France	48	7.0k 2.0×	5.0k 2.1×	1.2k 1.1×	3.0k 3.2×	1.6k 2.7×	198	8.5k
Grigore A. Timco United Kingdom	51	6.4k 1.8×	4.3k 1.8×	1.5k 1.3×	2.6k 2.7×	1.1k 1.8×	228	8.5k

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Bałanda, M., Robert Pełka, T. Wasiutyński, et al.. (2008). Magnetic ordering in the double-layered molecular magnetCu(tetren)[W(CN)8]: Single-crystal study. Physical Review B. 78(17). 30 indexed citations

Wang, Qi, A. Takeuchi, Yasuhisa Yamamura, et al.. (2008). Thermodynamic Relationship between Structural Isomers of the Thermochromic Compound Bis(N-Isopropyl-5,6-benzosalicylideneiminato)nickel(II). The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 112(35). 11039–11048. 18 indexed citations

Miyazaki, Yuji, et al.. (2008). Magnetostructural Study of 2-(4-N-tert-Butylaminoxylphenyl)benzimidazole. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 112(27). 8144–8150. 4 indexed citations

Sorai, Michio. (2005). Entropy diagnosis for phase transitions occurring in functional materials. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 77(8). 1331–1343. 10 indexed citations

Nakazawa, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2005). Low-temperature heat capacity of the Mn(III)–porphyrin–TCNE ferrimagnetic complexes, [MnTXPP][TCNE]·2PhMe, (X=Cl, Br). Solid State Communications. 135(1-2). 71–76. 5 indexed citations

Saito, Kazuya, Mayumi Ikeda, & Michio Sorai. (2002). Thermodynamic implication of the dependence of mesomorphic transition entropy on chain-length. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. 70(2). 345–352. 21 indexed citations

Saito, Kazuya, et al.. (2002). Degree of disorder in cubic mesophases in thermotropics: Thermodynamic study of a liquid crystal showing two cubic mesophases. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 65(3). 31719–31719. 51 indexed citations

Fujita, Wataru, Kunio Awaga, Yasuhiro Nakazawa, Kazuya Saito, & Michio Sorai. (2002). Complex phase transitions in stable thiazyl radicals: spin-gap, antiferromagnetic ordering and double melting. Chemical Physics Letters. 352(5-6). 348–352. 57 indexed citations

Saito, Kazuya, Akane Sato, Kôichi Kikuchi, et al.. (2000). Calorimetric Study of Metal-Insulator Transition in (DIMET)₂I₃¹⁾. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan. 69(11). 3602–3606. 11 indexed citations

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Saito, Kazuya, Yasuhisa Yamamura, & Michio Sorai. (1998). General Purpose Cryostat Applicable to Chopped-Light ac Calorimetry with Highly Stable Thermal Condition.. Netsu sokutei. 25(5). 150–153. 1 indexed citations

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Teŕamoto, Akio, Hongwei Gu, Yuji Miyazaki, Michio Sorai, & Satoru Mashimo. (1995). Dielectric study of the cooperative order–disorder transition in aqueous solutions of schizophyllan, a triple‐helical polysaccharide. Biopolymers. 36(6). 803–810. 19 indexed citations

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Schmitt, Edward A., et al.. (1994). Calorimetric study of thermochromic complexes. 1. Heat capacity and phase transition of bis(N, N-diethylethylenediamine)-copper(II) tetrafluoroborate. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 55(1). 99–105. 16 indexed citations

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Tan, Zhi‐Cheng, Michio Sorai, & Hiroshi Suga. (1989). LOW-TEMPERATURE HEAT CAPACITY AND THERMODYNAMIC FUNCTIONS OF 2-CHLORO-6-(TRICHLOROMETHYL)PYRIDINE. Science China Chemistry. 32(10). 1194–1207. 1 indexed citations

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Sorai, Michio, et al.. (1987). Heat capacity and phase transition of the mixed-valence compound biferrocenium triiodide. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 109(14). 4266–4275. 54 indexed citations

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Kambara, Takeshi, David N. Hendrickson, Michio Sorai, & Seung M. Oh. (1986). Mechanism of phase transitions affecting intramolecular electron transfer in trinuclear mixed-valence transition-metal compounds. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 85(5). 2895–2909. 37 indexed citations

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Sorai, Michio. (1985). Heat capacities of thermotropic liquid crystals with low molecular weight. Thermochimica Acta. 88(1). 1–16. 13 indexed citations

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Yoshikawa, M., et al.. (1984). 0.4から300Kの間の5配位鉄(III)錯体塩化ビス(N,N-ジメチルジチオカルバミン酸)鉄(III)の熱容量磁性相転移の新しい発見. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 45(7). 753–760. 2 indexed citations

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Sorai, Michio, et al.. (1984). Heat capacity of a five-coordinated iron(III) complex, chlorobis(N, N-dimethyldithiocarbamato) iron(III), between 0.4 and 300 k: New finding of a magnetic phase transition. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 45(7). 753–760. 2 indexed citations

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Yoshikawa, Masanori, Michio Sorai, Hiroshi Suga, & Syûzô Seki. (1981). New finding of a magnetically ordered phase in a five-coordinated iron(III) complex with spin S = 3/2, bromob(N,N-diethyldithiocarbamato) iron(III). Chemical Physics Letters. 77(1). 54–57. 7 indexed citations

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Sorai, Michio & Syûzô Seki. (1973). Heat Capacity of N-(o-Hydroxy-p-Methoxybenzylidene)-p-Butylaniline: A Glassy Nematic Liquid Crystal. Molecular crystals and liquid crystals. 23(3-4). 299–327. 64 indexed citations

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