Minoru Arai

927 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 839 citations indexed

About

Minoru Arai is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Minoru Arai has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 839 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 4 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 2 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Minoru Arai's work include Conducting polymers and applications (4 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (4 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (2 papers). Minoru Arai is often cited by papers focused on Conducting polymers and applications (4 papers), Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (4 papers) and Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Research (2 papers). Minoru Arai collaborates with scholars based in Japan. Minoru Arai's co-authors include Shintaro Sasaki, Takakazu Yamamoto, Kenji Kubota, Bang‐Lin Lee, Yoshio Inoue, Hiro Matsuda, Naoki Asakawa, Takashi Fukuda, Hisashi Kokubo and Makoto Osawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemistry of Materials and Macromolecules.

In The Last Decade

Minoru Arai

8 papers receiving 819 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.

Extensive Studies on π-Stacking of Poly(3-alkylthiophene-2,5-diyl)s and Poly(4-alkylthiazole-2,5-diyl)s by Optical Spectroscopy, NMR Analysis, Light Scattering Analysis, and X-ray Crystallography

1998 463 citations Takakazu Yamamoto, Minoru Arai et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Minoru Arai Japan	6	536	526	241	138	131	8	839
Ding Guo China	9	289 0.5×	385 0.7×	136 0.6×	36 0.3×	102 0.8×	14	625
Roland Himmelhuber United States	12	326 0.6×	345 0.7×	194 0.8×	84 0.6×	74 0.6×	30	694
Shigekuni Sasaki Japan	12	264 0.5×	653 1.2×	405 1.7×	95 0.7×	364 2.8×	23	816
W. Łużny Poland	15	437 0.8×	560 1.1×	133 0.6×	50 0.4×	15 0.1×	49	719
B. N. Avasthi India	14	194 0.4×	151 0.3×	315 1.3×	91 0.7×	94 0.7×	28	572
L.A. Wahab Egypt	12	204 0.4×	111 0.2×	368 1.5×	32 0.2×	76 0.6×	36	522
Shanyu Quan China	12	222 0.4×	82 0.2×	214 0.9×	44 0.3×	64 0.5×	32	417
Edward O. Shaffer United States	8	212 0.4×	198 0.4×	190 0.8×	36 0.3×	70 0.5×	25	537
L. Plomp Netherlands	10	543 1.0×	155 0.3×	258 1.1×	13 0.1×	77 0.6×	14	816
Marialuigia Macchione Italy	14	193 0.4×	112 0.2×	166 0.7×	61 0.4×	361 2.8×	24	646

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Osawa, Makoto, et al.. (2004). Development of Next-Generation Ni-Base Single Crystal Superalloys. 35–43. 136 indexed citations

2.

Yamamoto, Takakazu, Minoru Arai, Hisashi Kokubo, & Shintaro Sasaki. (2003). Comparison of the organometallic copolymerizations of thiophene with 4‐alkylthiazole and 3‐alkylthiophene: The control of regioregularity in the copolymerization with 4‐alkylthiazole. Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry. 41(10). 1449–1453. 5 indexed citations

3.

Yamamoto, Takakazu, Minoru Arai, Hisashi Kokubo, & Shintaro Sasaki. (2003). Copolymers of Thiophene and Thiazole. Regioregulation in Synthesis, Stacking Structure, and Optical Properties. Macromolecules. 36(21). 7986–7993. 114 indexed citations

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Yamamoto, Takakazu, Minoru Arai, Bang‐Lin Lee, et al.. (1998). Extensive Studies on π-Stacking of Poly(3-alkylthiophene-2,5-diyl)s and Poly(4-alkylthiazole-2,5-diyl)s by Optical Spectroscopy, NMR Analysis, Light Scattering Analysis, and X-ray Crystallography. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 120(9). 2047–2058. 463 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yamamoto, Takakazu, Tsukasa Maruyama, Tetsushi Inoue, et al.. (1997). π-Conjugated and Light Emitting Poly(4,4‘-dialkyl-2,2‘-bithiazole-5,5‘-diyl)s and Their Analogues Comprised of Electron-Accepting Five-Membered Rings. Preparation, Regioregular Structure, Face-to-Face Stacking, and Electrochemical and Optical Properties. Chemistry of Materials. 9(5). 1217–1225. 105 indexed citations

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Yamamoto, Takakazu, et al.. (1997). Intermolecular π-π Interaction of Poly(4,4′-dialkyl-2,2′-bithiazole-5,5′-diyl)s and Photoluminescence of the Polymers. Chemistry Letters. 26(2). 139–140. 12 indexed citations

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Arai, Minoru, et al.. (1994). MOTION SIMULATION OF FALLING BODIES DURING WATER ENTRY: BASIC STUDY WITH CYLINDERS. 149–154. 2 indexed citations

8.

Arai, Minoru, Kozo Saito, & Robert A. Altenkirch. (1993). Flame propagation over a layer of crude oil floating on water. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 2 indexed citations

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