Ryo Kitaura

23.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
177 papers, 20.8k citations indexed

About

Ryo Kitaura is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryo Kitaura has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 20.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Materials Chemistry, 51 papers in Organic Chemistry and 41 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ryo Kitaura's work include Graphene research and applications (82 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (60 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (43 papers). Ryo Kitaura is often cited by papers focused on Graphene research and applications (82 papers), Carbon Nanotubes in Composites (60 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (43 papers). Ryo Kitaura collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Ryo Kitaura's co-authors include Susumu Kitagawa, Shin‐ichiro Noro, Hisanori Shinohara, Ryotaro Matsuda, Masaki Takata, Yoshiki Kubota, Tatsuo C. Kobayashi, Mitsuru Kondo, George Akiyama and Kenji Seki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ryo Kitaura

171 papers receiving 20.6k citations

Hit Papers

Functional Porous Coordination Polymers 2002 2026 2010 2018 2004 2005 2003 2002 2002 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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. Functional Porous Coordination Polymers
    2004 10.0k citations Ryo Kitaura et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  2. Highly controlled acetylene accommodation in a metal–organic microporous material
    2005 1.4k citations Ryo Kitaura et al. profile →
  3. Porous Coordination‐Polymer Crystals with Gated Channels Specific for Supercritical Gases
    2003 943 citations Ryo Kitaura et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  4. Framework Engineering by Anions and Porous Functionalities of Cu(II)/4,4‘-bpy Coordination Polymers
    2002 648 citations Ryo Kitaura et al. profile →
  5. Formation of a One-Dimensional Array of Oxygen in a Microporous Metal-Organic Solid
    2002 546 citations Ryo Kitaura et al. profile →
  6. A Pillared-Layer Coordination Polymer Network Displaying Hysteretic Sorption: [Cu2(pzdc)2(dpyg)]n (pzdc= Pyrazine-2,3-dicarboxylate; dpyg=1,2-Di(4-pyridyl)glycol)
    2002 495 citations Ryo Kitaura et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  7. Novel Flexible Frameworks of Porous Cobalt(II) Coordination Polymers That Show Selective Guest Adsorption Based on the Switching of Hydrogen-Bond Pairs of Amide Groups
    2002 374 citations Ryo Kitaura et al. Chemistry - A European Journal profile →
  8. Immobilization of a Metallo Schiff Base into a Microporous Coordination Polymer
    2004 313 citations Ryo Kitaura et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  9. Guest Shape-Responsive Fitting of Porous Coordination Polymer with Shrinkable Framework
    2004 269 citations Ryo Kitaura 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
Ryo Kitaura Japan 45 15.0k 13.5k 6.3k 3.5k 2.1k 177 20.8k
Shin‐ichiro Noro Japan 42 16.4k 1.1× 11.7k 0.9× 7.7k 1.2× 3.0k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 189 20.2k
Hailian Li China 36 22.8k 1.5× 14.7k 1.1× 9.8k 1.5× 3.0k 0.9× 2.2k 1.1× 73 26.9k
Ryotaro Matsuda Japan 64 14.0k 0.9× 10.9k 0.8× 4.8k 0.8× 2.1k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 165 16.6k
N.W. Ockwig United States 18 16.3k 1.1× 14.6k 1.1× 4.7k 0.7× 2.1k 0.6× 1.8k 0.9× 27 20.8k
Xianhui Bu United States 100 20.8k 1.4× 18.7k 1.4× 9.2k 1.5× 3.4k 0.9× 4.8k 2.3× 361 30.0k
Satoshi Horike Japan 68 14.7k 1.0× 12.0k 0.9× 4.5k 0.7× 1.8k 0.5× 3.7k 1.8× 242 18.8k
Myunghyun Paik Suh South Korea 55 12.7k 0.8× 9.4k 0.7× 5.0k 0.8× 2.0k 0.6× 988 0.5× 113 15.2k
Simon J. Teat United States 77 12.6k 0.8× 14.4k 1.1× 9.5k 1.5× 6.3k 1.8× 3.0k 1.4× 625 25.0k
Tapas Kumar Maji India 66 9.7k 0.6× 9.1k 0.7× 4.4k 0.7× 1.7k 0.5× 1.7k 0.8× 315 14.3k
Feilong Jiang China 63 9.3k 0.6× 8.3k 0.6× 5.2k 0.8× 2.3k 0.6× 2.3k 1.1× 334 14.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Endo, Takahiko, Keisuke Shinokita, Ryo Kitaura, et al.. (2025). Continuous Strain Modulation of Moiré Superlattice Symmetry From Triangle to Rectangle. Small. 21(25). e2407316–e2407316.
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Matsunaga, Yuki, et al.. (2025). Covalent functionalization of transition metal dichalcogenides with perylene for light harvesting devices. Nanoscale. 17(13). 8084–8100. 3 indexed citations
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Zheng, Yongjia, Akihito Kumamoto, Yanlin Gao, et al.. (2025). Metallic NbS2 One-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures. ACS Nano. 19(36). 32800–32809.
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Zhang, Feng, et al.. (2024). Bayesian Optimization for Controlled Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of WS2. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 16(43). 59109–59115. 3 indexed citations
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Cantón-Vitoria, Rubén & Ryo Kitaura. (2024). Insulating 6,6‐Phenyl‐C61‐butyric Acid Methyl Ester on Transition‐Metal Dichalcogenides: Impact of the Hybrid Materials on the Optical and Electrical Properties. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(21). e202400150–e202400150. 4 indexed citations
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Cantón-Vitoria, Rubén, et al.. (2023). Synthesis and Characterization of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanoribbons Based on a Controllable O2 Etching. JACS Au. 3(3). 775–784. 17 indexed citations
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Saito, Yuika, et al.. (2023). Intermolecular Interaction between Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Encapsulated Molecules Studied by Polarization Resonance Raman Microscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 127(30). 6726–6733. 4 indexed citations
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Cantón-Vitoria, Rubén, T Hotta, Ioanna K. Sideri, et al.. (2023). Localized Excitons in Zn-Porphyrin Covalently Functionalized MoS2 and WS2. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(22). 10699–10708. 9 indexed citations
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Cantón-Vitoria, Rubén, Kotaro Sato, Yashiro Motooka, et al.. (2023). Field-effect transistor antigen/antibody-TMDs sensors for the detection of COVID-19 samples. Nanoscale. 15(9). 4570–4580. 9 indexed citations
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Sideri, Ioanna K., Youngwoo Jang, Ángela Sastre‐Santos, et al.. (2021). Unveiling the Photoinduced Electron‐Donating Character of MoS2 in Covalently Linked Hybrids Featuring Perylenediimide. Angewandte Chemie. 133(16). 9202–9208. 2 indexed citations
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Okada, Mitsuhiro, et al.. (2021). Femtosecond photoluminescence from monolayer MoS2: Time-domain study on exciton diffusion. Physical review. B.. 103(20). 11 indexed citations
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Sideri, Ioanna K., Youngwoo Jang, Ángela Sastre‐Santos, et al.. (2021). Unveiling the Photoinduced Electron‐Donating Character of MoS2 in Covalently Linked Hybrids Featuring Perylenediimide. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(16). 9120–9126. 25 indexed citations
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Gao, Yanlin, et al.. (2021). Continuous Fermi level tuning of Nb-doped WSe 2 under an external electric field. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 61(1). 15002–15002. 1 indexed citations
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Zhao, Sihan, Pilkyung Moon, Yuhei Miyauchi, et al.. (2020). Observation of Drastic Electronic-Structure Change in a One-Dimensional Moiré Superlattice. Physical Review Letters. 124(10). 106101–106101. 26 indexed citations
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Kitaura, Ryo, et al.. (2020). Direct Observation of Molecular Orbitals Using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction. Crystals. 10(11). 998–998. 7 indexed citations
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Hotta, T, Mitsuhiro Okada, Tetsuo Shimizu, et al.. (2020). Enhanced Exciton–Exciton Collisions in an Ultraflat Monolayer MoSe2 Prepared through Deterministic Flattening. ACS Nano. 15(1). 1370–1377. 8 indexed citations
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Hotta, T, Akihiro Ueda, Keisuke Shinokita, et al.. (2020). Exciton diffusion in hBN-encapsulated monolayer MoSe2. Physical review. B.. 102(11). 6 indexed citations
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Cantón-Vitoria, Rubén, et al.. (2020). Stabilization of metallic phases through formation of metallic/semiconducting lateral heterostructures. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 153(8). 84702–84702. 7 indexed citations
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Okada, Mitsuhiro, Alex Kutana, Yu Kobayashi, et al.. (2018). Direct and Indirect Interlayer Excitons in a van der Waals Heterostructure of hBN/WS2/MoS2/hBN. ACS Nano. 12(3). 2498–2505. 110 indexed citations

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