Shigekazu Morito

7.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
126 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Shigekazu Morito is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Shigekazu Morito has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Materials Chemistry, 89 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 31 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Shigekazu Morito's work include Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (79 papers), Metal Alloys Wear and Properties (30 papers) and Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals (27 papers). Shigekazu Morito is often cited by papers focused on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels (79 papers), Metal Alloys Wear and Properties (30 papers) and Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals (27 papers). Shigekazu Morito collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Australia. Shigekazu Morito's co-authors include T. Maki, Tadashi Furuhara, Xiaoxu Huang, Hideaki Tanaka, R. Konishi, N. Hansen, Hiromi Yoshida, Takuya Ohba, Akinobu Shibata and Jun Nishikawa and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, ACS Nano and Acta Materialia.

In The Last Decade

Shigekazu Morito

122 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

3 papers align trajectories

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.

The morphology and crystallography of lath martensite in Fe-C alloys

2003 1.2k citations Shigekazu Morito, Tadashi Furuhara et al. Acta Materialia profile →
The morphology and crystallography of lath martensite in alloy steels

2006 717 citations Shigekazu Morito, Tadashi Furuhara et al. Acta Materialia profile →
Effect of block size on the strength of lath martensite in low carbon steels

2006 593 citations Shigekazu Morito, Hiromi Yoshida et al. Materials Science and Engineering A profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shigekazu Morito Japan	32	5.1k	4.3k	1.7k	1.6k	781	126	6.0k
Yo Tomota Japan	41	4.8k 0.9×	3.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.9k 1.2×	835 1.1×	275	5.6k
D. V. Edmonds United Kingdom	34	5.2k 1.0×	4.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	765 1.0×	123	5.6k
Matthias Militzer Canada	37	4.0k 0.8×	3.0k 0.7×	708 0.4×	1.8k 1.1×	780 1.0×	167	4.7k
G. Frommeyer Germany	33	5.9k 1.2×	3.8k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	666 0.9×	180	6.4k
M. Enomoto Japan	36	3.7k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	745 0.4×	894 0.6×	920 1.2×	192	4.3k
T. Sourmail Spain	29	2.8k 0.5×	2.1k 0.5×	643 0.4×	830 0.5×	455 0.6×	61	3.1k
N.H. van Dijk Netherlands	37	2.4k 0.5×	2.6k 0.6×	556 0.3×	633 0.4×	1.8k 2.4×	164	4.6k
Takahito Ohmura Japan	34	2.4k 0.5×	2.2k 0.5×	468 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	163 0.2×	167	3.4k
Dmitri A. Molodov Germany	50	4.8k 0.9×	5.1k 1.2×	439 0.3×	1.7k 1.0×	665 0.9×	195	6.6k
Ernst Kozeschnik Austria	41	4.9k 1.0×	3.1k 0.7×	669 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	239 0.3×	278	5.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shigekazu Morito

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Kanahashi, Kaito, Tomonori Nishimura, Kohei Aso, et al.. (2025). Dimensionality-Induced Transition from Degenerate to Nondegenerate States in Nb-Doped WSe₂. ACS Nano. 19(10). 10244–10254. 5 indexed citations

Shibata, Akinobu, Gorō Miyamoto, Shigekazu Morito, et al.. (2023). Substructure and crystallography of lath martensite in as-quenched interstitial-free steel and low-carbon steel. Acta Materialia. 246. 118675–118675. 39 indexed citations

Mine, Yoji, et al.. (2022). Correlation between strength and hardness for substructures of lath martensite in low- and medium-carbon steels. Materials Science and Engineering A. 856. 144007–144007. 31 indexed citations

Yeh, Wenchang, et al.. (2021). Rapid annealing of Au thin films by micron chevron-shaped laser beam scanning toward growth of single-grain crystal. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 60(SB). SBBK06–SBBK06. 2 indexed citations

Suzuki, Ayako, et al.. (2020). Effect of the crystal alignment and grain size on the thermoelectric properties of Bi0.4Sb1.6Te3 sintered materials. Materialia. 14. 100914–100914. 2 indexed citations

Suzuki, Ayako, et al.. (2018). Microstructure control of Bi0.4Sb1.6Te3 thermoelectric material by pulse-current sintering under cyclic uniaxial pressure. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 742. 240–247. 4 indexed citations

Morito, Shigekazu, et al.. (2017). Three-dimensional observations of morphology of low-angle boundaries in ultra-low carbon lath martensite. Journal of Electron Microscopy. 66(6). 380–387. 13 indexed citations

Terasaki, Hidenori, et al.. (2017). Digital identification scheme for steel microstructures in low-carbon steel. Materials Characterization. 129. 305–312. 12 indexed citations

Ohba, Takuya, et al.. (2016). Investigation of Belag Formation Mechanism on the Edge of Cutting Tool. Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering. 82(3). 285–290.

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Ohba, Takuya, et al.. (2015). A novel approach to study the effect of heating temperature on prior-austenite microstructure of a Japanese sword. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 33. 7001–7001. 1 indexed citations

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Maki, Tadashi, Tadashi Furuhara, Nobuhiro Tsuji, et al.. (2014). Thermomechanical Processing of Steel –Past, Present and Future–. Tetsu-to-Hagane. 100(9). 1062–1075. 31 indexed citations

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Miyamoto, M., K. Ono, Shigekazu Morito, et al.. (2014). Crystal orientation dependence of surface modification in molybdenum mirror irradiated with helium ions. Journal of Nuclear Materials. 455(1-3). 297–300. 21 indexed citations

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Yoshida, Hiromi, et al.. (2013). Crystallographic Analysis of Lath Martensite in Ferrite-Martensite Dual Phase Steel Sheet Annealed after Cold-Rolling. Tetsu-to-Hagane. 99(10). 625–633. 3 indexed citations

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Morito, Shigekazu, et al.. (2011). Variant Selection of Low Carbon High Alloy Steel within an Austenite Grain during Martensite Transformation. Tetsu-to-Hagane. 97(7). 399–405. 7 indexed citations

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Morito, Shigekazu, et al.. (2009). Characteristics of Retained Austenite in Quenched High Carbon-High Chromium Alloy Steels. Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals and Materials. 73(11). 852–856. 1 indexed citations

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Shibata, Akinobu, Toshio Murakami, Shigekazu Morito, Tadashi Furuhara, & Tadashi Maki. (2009). The Origin of Midrib in Lenticular Martensite. Journal of the Japan Institute of Metals and Materials. 73(4). 290–298. 1 indexed citations

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Miyamoto, M., D. Nishijima, Y. Ueda, et al.. (2009). Observations of suppressed retention and blistering for tungsten exposed to deuterium–helium mixture plasmas. Nuclear Fusion. 49(6). 65035–65035. 205 indexed citations

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Sato, Moriyuki, et al.. (2009). Preparation of ZnO nanoparticles for bio‐imaging applications. physica status solidi (b). 246(4). 885–888. 48 indexed citations

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Morooka, Satoshi, Yo Tomota, Yoshitaka Adachi, Shigekazu Morito, & Takashi Kamiyama. (2008). Hierarchical Characterization by EBSD and Neutron Diffraction on Heterogeneous Deformation Behavior of a Martensitic Steel. Tetsu-to-Hagane. 94(8). 313–320. 27 indexed citations

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Golberg, Dmitri, Ya Xu, Yasukazu Murakami, et al.. (1995). Characteristics of Ti50Pd30Ni20 high-temperature shape memory alloy. Intermetallics. 3(1). 35–46. 69 indexed citations

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