Shigeru Yamago

14.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
246 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Shigeru Yamago is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Shigeru Yamago has authored 246 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 230 papers in Organic Chemistry, 62 papers in Materials Chemistry and 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Shigeru Yamago's work include Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (79 papers), Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (71 papers) and Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (60 papers). Shigeru Yamago is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization (79 papers), Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (71 papers) and Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (60 papers). Shigeru Yamago collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Spain and United States. Shigeru Yamago's co-authors include Takahiro Iwamoto, Eiichi Kayahara, Eiichi Nakamura, Yoshiki Watanabe, Jun‐ichi Yoshida, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Toshiyasu Suzuki, Hidetoshi Tokuyama, Kazunori Iida and Takeharu Haino and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Shigeru Yamago

238 papers receiving 11.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Synthesis of [8]Cycloparaphenylene from a Square‐Shaped Tetranuclear Platinum Complex

2009 543 citations Shigeru Yamago, Takahiro Iwamoto et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Photoinduced biochemical activity of fullerene carboxylic acid

1993 526 citations Hidetoshi Tokuyama, Shigeru Yamago et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Selective and Random Syntheses of [n]Cycloparaphenylenes (n = 8–13) and Size Dependence of Their Electronic Properties

2011 469 citations Takahiro Iwamoto, Toshiyasu Suzuki et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shigeru Yamago Japan	55	10.5k	4.7k	1.6k	980	960	246	11.7k
David B. Cordes United Kingdom	48	4.5k 0.4×	4.2k 0.9×	2.3k 1.5×	752 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	367	10.1k
Herbert Meier Germany	47	6.2k 0.6×	4.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	1.4k 1.4×	367 0.4×	500	10.6k
Paola Ceroni Italy	53	3.7k 0.4×	6.2k 1.3×	2.5k 1.6×	1.7k 1.7×	824 0.9×	255	9.6k
Frieder Jäkle United States	58	8.7k 0.8×	6.0k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.8×	385 0.4×	205	11.2k
Toshikazu Takata Japan	50	8.1k 0.8×	3.2k 0.7×	774 0.5×	2.0k 2.1×	447 0.5×	494	10.2k
Atsushi Ikeda Japan	46	4.7k 0.4×	4.5k 1.0×	634 0.4×	566 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	231	8.0k
Michele Maggini Italy	49	5.7k 0.5×	5.5k 1.2×	2.2k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	950 1.0×	201	8.5k
Qian Miao Hong Kong	59	5.0k 0.5×	5.2k 1.1×	4.7k 3.0×	1.6k 1.7×	1.0k 1.1×	196	10.1k
Jingsong You China	74	14.2k 1.4×	3.5k 0.7×	2.0k 1.3×	409 0.4×	551 0.6×	389	18.2k
Tamaki Nakano Japan	37	4.6k 0.4×	2.0k 0.4×	648 0.4×	836 0.9×	400 0.4×	174	6.1k

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Kayahara, Eiichi, et al.. (2025). Synthesis and Physical Properties of [ n ]Cycloparaphenylene Ketone ( n = 6, 7, 8, and 10). Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(33). e202509754–e202509754.

Mamitsuka, Hiroshi, et al.. (2024). CoPolDB: a copolymerization database for radical polymerization. Polymer Chemistry. 15(10). 965–971. 12 indexed citations

Fujino, Tomoko, Tatsuya Miyamoto, T Yamakawa, et al.. (2024). Higher conductivity in doped ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) dimers with chalcogen-substituted end groups. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 12(35). 13956–13965.

Kayahara, Eiichi, Tohru Nishinaga, Melissa L. Ball, et al.. (2023). Synthesis and physical properties of doubly-annulated [10]cycloparaphenylene. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 97(1). 3 indexed citations

Yoshigoe, Yusuke, Kohtaro Osakada, Shinichi Saito, et al.. (2022). Dynamic Au–C σ-Bonds Leading to an Efficient Synthesis of [ n ]Cycloparaphenylenes ( n = 9–15) by Self-Assembly. JACS Au. 2(8). 1857–1868. 25 indexed citations

Miyazawa, Yuki, Sayaka Hatano, Ivana Antol, et al.. (2021). 1,3-Diradicals Embedded in Curved Paraphenylene Units: Singlet versus Triplet State and In-Plane Aromaticity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(19). 7426–7439. 26 indexed citations

Murata, Ryo, et al.. (2021). SOMO–HOMO Conversion in Triplet Carbenes. Organic Letters. 23(13). 4955–4959. 15 indexed citations

Kayahara, Eiichi, et al.. (2020). Syntheses of Tetrasubstituted [10]Cycloparaphenylenes by a Pd‐catalyzed Coupling Reaction. Remarkable Effect of Strain on the Oxidative Addition and Reductive Elimination. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 15(16). 2451–2455. 13 indexed citations

Kaya, Kerem, et al.. (2018). Visible light-induced free radical promoted cationic polymerization using organotellurium compounds. Polymer Chemistry. 9(48). 5639–5643. 23 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Yasuyuki, et al.. (2017). Controlled Radical Polymerization of Ethylene Using Organotellurium Compounds. Angewandte Chemie. 130(1). 311–315. 13 indexed citations

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Nakamura, Yasuyuki, et al.. (2017). Controlled Radical Polymerization of Ethylene Using Organotellurium Compounds. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(1). 305–309. 49 indexed citations

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Kayahara, Eiichi, et al.. (2017). シクロパラフェニレン類の臭素化:歪誘起位置選択的ビス付加と後期官能化のためのその応用【Powered by NICT】. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 129(35). 10564–10568. 4 indexed citations

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Kayahara, Eiichi, et al.. (2015). Ligand‐Controlled Synthesis of [3]‐ and [4]Cyclo‐9,9‐dimethyl‐2,7‐fluorenes through Triangle‐ and Square‐Shaped Platinum Intermediates. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(52). 18939–18943. 53 indexed citations

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Yamago, Shigeru, Eiichi Kayahara, & Takahiro Iwamoto. (2014). New Organic Chemistry of Three-Dimensional ^|^pi;-Conjugated Compounds. Journal of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan. 72(9). 992–1005. 4 indexed citations

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Yamada, Takeshi, et al.. (2006). Dialkylphosphates as Stereodirecting Protecting Groups in Oligosaccharide Synthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 45(45). 7575–7578. 40 indexed citations

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Yamago, Shigeru, Kazunori Iida, Mitsuru Nakajima, & Jun‐ichi Yoshida. (2004). A New Method for Living Radical Polymerization Using Organotellurium Compounds. KOBUNSHI RONBUNSHU. 61(4). 227–236. 1 indexed citations

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Mutoh, Yuichiro, Toshiaki Murai, & Shigeru Yamago. (2004). Acyclic Telluroiminium Salts: Isolation and Characterization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 126(51). 16696–16697. 9 indexed citations

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Yamago, Shigeru, Kazuki Iida, & Jun‐ichi Yoshida. (2002). Organotellurium compounds as novel initiators for controlled/living radical polymerizations.. Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University). 224. 3 indexed citations

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Yamago, Shigeru, et al.. (1999). THERMAL HETERO 3 +2 CYCLOADDITION OF DIPOLAR TRIMETHYLENEMETHANE TO N-SULFONYL AND N-ACYL IMINES. SYNTHESIS OF GAMMA -AMINO ACID DERIVATIVES. Chemistry Letters. 1999(9). 879–880. 2 indexed citations

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Irie, Kazuhiro, Yoshimasa Nakamura, Hajime Ohigashi, et al.. (1996). Photocytotoxicity of Water-soluble Fullerene Derivatives. Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry. 60(8). 1359–1361. 53 indexed citations

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