Naoaki Yabuuchi

32.9k total citations · 13 hit papers
166 papers, 27.0k citations indexed

About

Naoaki Yabuuchi is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Naoaki Yabuuchi has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 27.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 156 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 44 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 29 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Naoaki Yabuuchi's work include Advancements in Battery Materials (144 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (123 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (37 papers). Naoaki Yabuuchi is often cited by papers focused on Advancements in Battery Materials (144 papers), Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies (123 papers) and Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication (37 papers). Naoaki Yabuuchi collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Australia. Naoaki Yabuuchi's co-authors include Shinichi Komaba, Kei Kubota, Mouad Dahbi, Yang Shao‐Horn, Tsutomu Ohzuku, Jin Suntivich, Hubert A. Gasteiger, Atsushi Ogata, Tetsuri Nakayama and Toru Ishikawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Naoaki Yabuuchi

158 papers receiving 26.7k citations

Hit Papers

Research Development on Sodium-Ion Batteries 2003 2026 2010 2018 2014 2011 2011 2011 2010 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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. Research Development on Sodium-Ion Batteries
    2014 5.6k citations Naoaki Yabuuchi, Kei Kubota et al. profile →
  2. Design principles for oxygen-reduction activity on perovskite oxide catalysts for fuel cells and metal–air batteries
    2011 2.5k citations Naoaki Yabuuchi et al. profile →
  3. Electrochemical Na Insertion and Solid Electrolyte Interphase for Hard‐Carbon Electrodes and Application to Na‐Ion Batteries
    2011 1.9k citations Shinichi Komaba, Naoaki Yabuuchi et al. profile →
  4. Detailed Studies of a High-Capacity Electrode Material for Rechargeable Batteries, Li2MnO3−LiCo1/3Ni1/3Mn1/3O2
    2011 1.1k citations Naoaki Yabuuchi, Shinichi Komaba et al. profile →
  5. High-power lithium batteries from functionalized carbon-nanotube electrodes
    2010 960 citations Naoaki Yabuuchi et al. profile →
  6. High-Power Lithium Batteries from Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Electrodes
    2010 798 citations Naoaki Yabuuchi et al. profile →
  7. Novel lithium insertion material of LiCo1/3Ni1/3Mn1/3O2 for advanced lithium-ion batteries
    2003 752 citations Naoaki Yabuuchi et al. profile →
  8. Study on the Reversible Electrode Reaction of Na1–xNi0.5Mn0.5O2 for a Rechargeable Sodium-Ion Battery
    2012 705 citations Shinichi Komaba, Naoaki Yabuuchi et al. profile →
  9. Negative electrodes for Na-ion batteries
    2014 569 citations Naoaki Yabuuchi, Kei Kubota et al. profile →
  10. Electrochemical intercalation activity of layered NaCrO2 vs. LiCrO2
    2009 515 citations Shinichi Komaba, Naoaki Yabuuchi et al. profile →
  11. High-capacity electrode materials for rechargeable lithium batteries: Li 3 NbO 4 -based system with cation-disordered rocksalt structure
    2015 419 citations Naoaki Yabuuchi, Masanobu Nakayama et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  12. Redox reaction of Sn-polyacrylate electrodes in aprotic Na cell
    2012 373 citations Shinichi Komaba, Naoaki Yabuuchi et al. profile →
  13. New O2/P2‐type Li‐Excess Layered Manganese Oxides as Promising Multi‐Functional Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Li/Na Batteries
    2014 356 citations Naoaki Yabuuchi, Ryo Hara 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
Naoaki Yabuuchi Japan 61 25.1k 8.4k 5.9k 5.2k 3.4k 166 27.0k
Jiazhao Wang Australia 85 20.0k 0.8× 8.8k 1.0× 3.8k 0.6× 6.5k 1.2× 1.8k 0.5× 302 23.4k
Torsten Brezesinski Germany 75 17.4k 0.7× 6.3k 0.8× 5.2k 0.9× 8.0k 1.5× 3.6k 1.1× 268 23.8k
Sen Xin China 88 26.1k 1.0× 6.7k 0.8× 8.4k 1.4× 6.4k 1.2× 1.5k 0.4× 235 28.4k
Qiaobao Zhang China 79 16.7k 0.7× 8.3k 1.0× 3.0k 0.5× 5.4k 1.0× 1.8k 0.5× 234 20.2k
Atsuo Yamada Japan 90 27.8k 1.1× 6.3k 0.7× 9.5k 1.6× 6.2k 1.2× 3.4k 1.0× 299 30.6k
Yong‐Mook Kang South Korea 72 15.3k 0.6× 5.9k 0.7× 2.8k 0.5× 4.5k 0.9× 1.9k 0.6× 278 18.0k
Zhanliang Tao China 79 19.8k 0.8× 7.4k 0.9× 3.4k 0.6× 6.9k 1.3× 1.4k 0.4× 220 24.1k
Enyuan Hu United States 69 18.3k 0.7× 4.3k 0.5× 6.3k 1.1× 2.7k 0.5× 2.1k 0.6× 178 20.0k
Philippe Poizot France 48 19.1k 0.8× 8.5k 1.0× 3.3k 0.6× 6.0k 1.2× 2.4k 0.7× 120 21.9k
Kyung Yoon Chung South Korea 67 15.3k 0.6× 5.2k 0.6× 4.5k 0.8× 2.9k 0.5× 2.3k 0.7× 302 16.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Naoaki Yabuuchi

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ugata, Yosuke, et al.. (2025). Practical assessment of cobalt-free Li2MnO3-based layered materials for Li battery applications. Solid State Ionics. 424. 116855–116855. 2 indexed citations
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Yabuuchi, Naoaki. (2025). Designing Functional Insertion Materials for Practical Battery Applications. Electrochemistry. 93(10). 101003–101003.
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Ishikawa, Tetsuya, et al.. (2024). Mechanistic study on moisture exposure of Ti-based layered oxides for sodium storage applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(3). 2187–2197. 1 indexed citations
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Ugata, Yosuke, et al.. (2024). A methodology to synthesize easily oxidized materials containing Li ions in an inert atmosphere. Energy Advances. 3(5). 962–967. 4 indexed citations
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Ishikawa, Tetsuya, et al.. (2024). Efficient Surface Passivation of Ti-Based Layered Materials by a Nonfluorine Branched Copolymer for Durable and High-Power Sodium-Ion Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(3). 3396–3405. 5 indexed citations
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Nakano, K., Masanobu Nakayama, Yosuke Ugata, et al.. (2024). A Practical and Sustainable Ni/Co-Free High-Energy Electrode Material: Nanostructured LiMnO2. ACS Central Science. 10(9). 1718–1732. 10 indexed citations
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Kawai, Kosuke, Hyobin Lee, Yuki Nomura, et al.. (2024). MXene Electrodes for All Strain-Free Solid-State Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(42). 57377–57385. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yanjia, Yusuke Noda, Masanobu Nakayama, et al.. (2023). Partially Reversible Anionic Redox for Lithium-Excess Cobalt Oxides with Cation-Disordered Rocksalt Structure. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(5). 2194–2203. 5 indexed citations
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Yabuuchi, Naoaki. (2022). Rational material design of Li-excess metal oxides with disordered rock salt structure. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 34. 100978–100978. 26 indexed citations
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Goonetilleke, Damian, Neeraj Sharma, Takuhiro Miyuki, et al.. (2022). A near dimensionally invariable high-capacity positive electrode material. Nature Materials. 22(2). 225–234. 56 indexed citations
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Yun, Jeongsik, Yoshihiko Sato, Takuya Masuda, et al.. (2021). Nanosized and metastable molybdenum oxides as negative electrode materials for durable high-energy aqueous Li-ion batteries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(48). 24 indexed citations
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Hafiz, Hasnain, Kosuke Suzuki, B. Barbiellini, et al.. (2021). Tomographic reconstruction of oxygen orbitals in lithium-rich battery materials. Nature. 594(7862). 213–216. 75 indexed citations
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Yabuuchi, Naoaki, et al.. (2021). Fundamentals of metal oxide/oxyfluoride electrodes for Li-/Na-ion batteries. Chemical Physics Reviews. 2(4). 20 indexed citations
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Yamamoto, Kentaro, Yingying Zhou, Naoaki Yabuuchi, et al.. (2019). Charge Compensation Mechanism of Lithium-Excess Metal Oxides with Different Covalent and Ionic Characters Revealed by Operando Soft and Hard X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. Chemistry of Materials. 32(1). 139–147. 45 indexed citations
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Sato, Kei, Masanobu Nakayama, Alexey M. Glushenkov, et al.. (2017). Na-Excess Cation-Disordered Rocksalt Oxide: Na1.3Nb0.3Mn0.4O2. Chemistry of Materials. 29(12). 5043–5047. 43 indexed citations
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Glushenkov, Alexey M., et al.. (2017). Effect of Nanosizing on Reversible Sodium Storage in a NaCrO2 Electrode. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 1(1). 364–370. 29 indexed citations
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Yabuuchi, Naoaki, Ryo Hara, Kei Kubota, et al.. (2014). A new electrode material for rechargeable sodium batteries: P2-type Na2/3[Mg0.28Mn0.72]O2 with anomalously high reversible capacity. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2(40). 16851–16855. 316 indexed citations
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Yoshida, Hiroaki, Naoaki Yabuuchi, Kei Kubota, et al.. (2014). P2-type Na₂/₃Ni₁/₃Mn₂/₃₋ₓTiₓO₂ as a new positive electrode for higher energy Na-ion batteries. Chemical Communications. 1 indexed citations

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