Shingo Hirano

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Shingo Hirano is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Shingo Hirano has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 11 papers in Materials Chemistry and 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Shingo Hirano's work include Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (22 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (19 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (17 papers). Shingo Hirano is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (22 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (19 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (17 papers). Shingo Hirano collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Canada. Shingo Hirano's co-authors include Naoki Yoshida, Takashi Hosokawa, Kazuyuki Omukai, H. W. Yorke, Gen Chiaki, Volker Bromm, Hideyuki Umeda, Masahiro N. Machida, Akira Kishimoto and R. Kuiper and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Advanced Materials and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Shingo Hirano

54 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

ONE HUNDRED FIRST STARS: PROTOSTELLAR EVOLUTION AND THE FINAL MASSES

2014 379 citations Shingo Hirano, Takashi Hosokawa et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shingo Hirano Japan	20	1.2k	205	199	187	120	58	1.6k
A. K. Speck United States	22	1.2k 0.9×	149 0.7×	108 0.5×	64 0.3×	62 0.5×	69	1.4k
V. Stanishev Sweden	24	1.1k 0.9×	121 0.6×	179 0.9×	282 1.5×	210 1.8×	70	1.6k
Koh Takahashi Japan	25	980 0.8×	104 0.5×	102 0.5×	367 2.0×	168 1.4×	77	1.7k
S. Patel United States	26	863 0.7×	72 0.4×	487 2.4×	232 1.2×	231 1.9×	57	1.5k
S. J. Czyzak United States	19	481 0.4×	155 0.8×	265 1.3×	33 0.2×	300 2.5×	84	1.2k
Boris S. Karasik United States	21	1.0k 0.9×	13 0.1×	133 0.7×	19 0.1×	537 4.5×	110	1.4k
M. P. Ruffoni France	13	131 0.1×	40 0.2×	93 0.5×	22 0.1×	29 0.2×	23	469
А. В. Петров Russia	18	421 0.3×	5 0.0×	146 0.7×	555 3.0×	73 0.6×	77	764
Hiroyuki Naito Japan	11	169 0.1×	18 0.1×	110 0.6×	23 0.1×	36 0.3×	36	356
D. K. Spaulding United States	13	125 0.1×	10 0.0×	287 1.4×	78 0.4×	14 0.1×	23	695

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shingo Hirano

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Shingo Hirano. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Shingo Hirano based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Shingo Hirano. Shingo Hirano is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hirano, Shingo, Yuri Aikawa, & Masahiro N. Machida. (2025). Velocity Structure of Circumstellar Environment around Class 0/I Protostars: Uncertainty in the Protostellar Mass Estimation Using Circumstellar Velocities. The Astrophysical Journal. 982(2). 166–166.

Hirano, Shingo & Naoki Yoshida. (2025). Dark matter density profile around a newborn first star. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(11). 9–9.

Hirano, Shingo. (2025). Formation of first star clusters under the supersonic gas flow – II. Critical halo mass and core mass function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(1). 331–347. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Boyuan, et al.. (2025). An analytic model of gravitational collapse induced by radiative cooling: instability scale, density profile, and mass infall rate. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537(1). 580–597. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Boyuan, Kohei Inayoshi, Shingo Hirano, et al.. (2024). Towards a universal analytical model for Population III star formation: interplay between feedback and fragmentation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(1). 290–312. 14 indexed citations

Nishijima, S., Shingo Hirano, & Hideyuki Umeda. (2024). Low-mass Population III Star Formation due to the HD Cooling Induced by Weak Lyman–Werner Radiation. The Astrophysical Journal. 965(2). 141–141. 5 indexed citations

Hirano, Shingo & Naoki Yoshida. (2024). Early Structure Formation from Primordial Density Fluctuations with a Blue, Tilted Power Spectrum: High-redshift Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 963(1). 2–2. 15 indexed citations

Tokuda, Kazuki, et al.. (2023). Secondary Outflow Driven by the Protostar Ser-emb 15 in Serpens. The Astrophysical Journal. 958(2). 102–102. 4 indexed citations

Tokuda, Kazuki, et al.. (2023). Crescent-shaped Molecular Outflow from the Intermediate-mass Protostar DK Cha Revealed by ALMA. The Astrophysical Journal. 945(1). 63–63. 13 indexed citations

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Hirano, Shingo, et al.. (2023). Formation of first star clusters under the supersonic gas flow – I. Morphology of the massive metal-free gas cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(4). 5737–5751. 9 indexed citations

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Hirano, Shingo, Masahiro N. Machida, & Shantanu Basu. (2023). Magnetic Effects Promote Supermassive Star Formation in Metal-enriched Atomic-cooling Halos. The Astrophysical Journal. 952(1). 56–56. 7 indexed citations

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Sugimura, Kazuyuki, Tomoaki Matsumoto, Takashi Hosokawa, Shingo Hirano, & Kazuyuki Omukai. (2023). Formation of Massive and Wide First-star Binaries in Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 959(1). 17–17. 17 indexed citations

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Hirano, Shingo & Masahiro N. Machida. (2022). Exponentially Amplified Magnetic Field Eliminates Disk Fragmentation around Population III Protostars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 935(1). L16–L16. 17 indexed citations

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Hirano, Shingo, et al.. (2021). Impact of magnetic braking on high-mass close binary formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508(3). 3730–3747. 7 indexed citations

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Hirano, Shingo, Yusuke Tsukamoto, Shantanu Basu, & Masahiro N. Machida. (2020). The Effect of Misalignment between the Rotation Axis and Magnetic Field on the Circumstellar Disk. The Astrophysical Journal. 898(2). 118–118. 33 indexed citations

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Park, Hyunbae, Kyungjin Ahn, Naoki Yoshida, & Shingo Hirano. (2020). First Structure Formation under the Influence of Gas–Dark Matter Streaming Velocity and Density: Impact of the “Baryons Trace Dark Matter” Approximation. The Astrophysical Journal. 900(1). 30–30. 17 indexed citations

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Hirano, Shingo & Masahiro N. Machida. (2019). Origin of misalignments: protostellar jet, outflow, circumstellar disc, and magnetic field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(4). 4667–4674. 21 indexed citations

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Hirano, Shingo, Takashi Hosokawa, Naoki Yoshida, & R. Kuiper. (2017). Supersonic gas streams enhance the formation of massive black holes in the early universe. Science. 357(6358). 1375–1378. 90 indexed citations

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Hirano, Shingo, et al.. (2004). Multi-Nucleation-Based Formation of Oriented Zinc Oxide Microcrystals and Films in Aqueous Solutions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 108(15). 4576–4578. 26 indexed citations

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Endo, Kazuhiko, et al.. (1987). [Development of a new device for measuring the corrosion rate and evaluation of corrosion resistance of dental silver alloys].. PubMed. 13(2). 241–7. 1 indexed citations

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