Tahei Tahara

10.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
214 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Tahei Tahara is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Tahei Tahara has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 72 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and 58 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Tahei Tahara's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (123 papers), Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (69 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (50 papers). Tahei Tahara is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (123 papers), Photochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies (69 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (50 papers). Tahei Tahara collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Russia and United States. Tahei Tahara's co-authors include Satoshi Takeuchi, S. Yamaguchi, Satoshi Nihonyanagi, Munetaka Iwamura, Tatsuya Fujino, Kunihiko Ishii, Hikaru Kuramochi, Hiro‐o Hamaguchi, Sergei Arzhantsev and Akihiro Morita and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Tahei Tahara

211 papers receiving 8.8k 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.

Direct evidence for orientational flip-flop of water molecules at charged interfaces: A heterodyne-detected vibrational sum frequency generation study

2009 440 citations Satoshi Nihonyanagi, S. Yamaguchi et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tahei Tahara Japan	53	4.8k	2.7k	2.3k	2.1k	1.7k	214	8.9k
Fabrizio Santoro Italy	45	4.0k 0.8×	3.3k 1.2×	2.2k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	175	7.9k
Erik T. J. Nibbering Germany	56	6.9k 1.5×	3.8k 1.4×	1.8k 0.8×	2.5k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	171	10.3k
Stephen R. Meech United Kingdom	45	2.7k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	2.2k 1.3×	201	6.9k
Luis Serrano‐Andrés Spain	49	5.7k 1.2×	4.5k 1.6×	2.9k 1.3×	1.5k 0.7×	2.7k 1.6×	137	10.9k
Marco Garavelli Italy	49	4.2k 0.9×	2.8k 1.0×	2.7k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	2.6k 1.6×	225	9.0k
N. P. Érnsting Germany	49	3.1k 0.7×	3.6k 1.3×	2.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	150	7.0k
Taiha Joo South Korea	42	2.3k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	3.5k 1.5×	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	145	7.1k
Roberto Improta Italy	51	4.0k 0.8×	4.8k 1.7×	2.7k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	4.3k 2.6×	211	10.5k
Christel M. Marian Germany	53	4.6k 1.0×	3.3k 1.2×	4.1k 1.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	246	10.9k
Wolfgang Zinth Germany	58	4.1k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	3.0k 1.3×	975 0.5×	4.1k 2.4×	220	10.0k

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Yadav, Sandeep, Kunihiko Ishii, & Tahei Tahara. (2025). Probing Protein–DNA Interactions with Two-Dimensional Fluorescence Lifetime Correlation Spectroscopy Utilizing Protein-Induced Fluorescence Enhancement. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 129(45). 11729–11736.

Kinoshita, Emiko, Woongmo Sung, Satoshi Nihonyanagi, Hiroshi Okuyama, & Tahei Tahara. (2025). Frequency-Dependent Vibrational Relaxation Time of OH Stretch at the Air/Isotopically Diluted Water Interface. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(4). 1088–1094. 2 indexed citations

Sung, Woongmo, Ken‐ichi Inoue, Satoshi Nihonyanagi, & Tahei Tahara. (2024). Unified picture of vibrational relaxation of OH stretch at the air/water interface. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1258–1258. 24 indexed citations

Ishii, Kunihiko, et al.. (2024). Quantifying Microsecond Solution-Phase Conformational Dynamics of a DNA Hairpin at the Single-Molecule Level. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 408–419. 4 indexed citations

Tahara, Tahei. (2024). Working on a dream: bringing up the level of interface spectroscopy to the bulk level. Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan. 97(4). 15 indexed citations

Kuramochi, Hikaru, Kenichiro Saita, Zhengrong Wei, et al.. (2024). Ultrafast Raman observation of the perpendicular intermediate phantom state of stilbene photoisomerization. Nature Chemistry. 16(1). 22–27. 22 indexed citations

Gallop, Nathaniel P., Navendu Mondal, Katelyn P. Goetz, et al.. (2023). Ultrafast vibrational control of organohalide perovskite optoelectronic devices using vibrationally promoted electronic resonance. Nature Materials. 23(1). 88–94. 29 indexed citations

Chang, C., Masae Konno, Keiichi Inoue, & Tahei Tahara. (2023). Effects of the Unique Chromophore–Protein Interactions on the Primary Photoreaction of Schizorhodopsin. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(31). 7083–7091. 3 indexed citations

Wei, Feng, et al.. (2023). Elucidation of the pH-Dependent Electric Double Layer Structure at the Silica/Water Interface Using Heterodyne-Detected Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(16). 8833–8846. 35 indexed citations

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Kundu, Achintya, S. Yamaguchi, & Tahei Tahara. (2023). Local pH at Nonionic and Zwitterionic Lipid/Water Interfaces Revealed by Heterodyne-Detected Electronic Sum-Frequency Generation: A Unified View to Predict Interfacial pH of Biomembranes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 127(24). 5445–5452. 7 indexed citations

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Sarkar, Bidyut, Mohamadreza Fazel, Kunihiko Ishii, et al.. (2022). Single-photon smFRET. III. Application to pulsed illumination. PubMed. 2(4). 100088–100088. 11 indexed citations

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Sarkar, Bidyut, Kunihiko Ishii, & Tahei Tahara. (2021). Microsecond Folding of preQ ₁ Riboswitch and Its Biological Significance Revealed by Two-Dimensional Fluorescence Lifetime Correlation Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(21). 7968–7978. 16 indexed citations

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Chang, C., Hikaru Kuramochi, Manish Singh, et al.. (2021). A Unified View on Varied Ultrafast Dynamics of the Primary Process in Microbial Rhodopsins. Angewandte Chemie. 134(2). 3 indexed citations

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Chang, C., Hikaru Kuramochi, Manish Pratap Singh, et al.. (2021). A Unified View on Varied Ultrafast Dynamics of the Primary Process in Microbial Rhodopsins. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(2). e202111930–e202111930. 19 indexed citations

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Sung, Woongmo, Christian Müller, Robert Lovrinčić, et al.. (2020). Preferred orientations of organic cations at lead-halide perovskite interfaces revealed using vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy. Materials Horizons. 7(5). 1348–1357. 15 indexed citations

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Chang, C., Hikaru Kuramochi, Manish Pratap Singh, et al.. (2019). Acid–base equilibrium of the chromophore counterion results in distinct photoisomerization reactivity in the primary event of proteorhodopsin. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 21(46). 25728–25734. 11 indexed citations

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Kuramochi, Hikaru, Satoshi Takeuchi, & Tahei Tahara. (2016). Femtosecond time-resolved impulsive stimulated Raman spectroscopy using sub-7-fs pulses: Apparatus and applications. Review of Scientific Instruments. 87(4). 43107–43107. 63 indexed citations

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Iwamura, Munetaka, Satoshi Takeuchi, & Tahei Tahara. (2015). Ultrafast Excited-State Dynamics of Copper(I) Complexes. Accounts of Chemical Research. 48(3). 782–791. 222 indexed citations

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Takeuchi, Satoshi & Tahei Tahara. (2005). Coherent Nuclear Wavepacket Motions in Ultrafast Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer: Sub-30-fs Resolved Pump−Probe Absorption Spectroscopy of 10-Hydroxybenzo[h]quinoline in Solution. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 109(45). 10199–10207. 151 indexed citations

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Takeuchi, Satoshi & Tahei Tahara. (2004). Time–wavelength two-dimensional femtosecond fluorescence imaging. Optics Letters. 29(3). 313–313. 7 indexed citations

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