Y. Kitagawa

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Y. Kitagawa is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Mechanics of Materials and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Y. Kitagawa has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 41 papers in Mechanics of Materials and 31 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Y. Kitagawa's work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (51 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (41 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (25 papers). Y. Kitagawa is often cited by papers focused on Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (51 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (41 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (25 papers). Y. Kitagawa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Australia. Y. Kitagawa's co-authors include K. Mima, N. Miyanaga, Y. Kato, R. Kodama, Chiyoe Yamanaka, K. A. Tanaka, M. Nakatsuka, Toshio Yamanaka, H. Fujita and T. Norimatsu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Y. Kitagawa

60 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Fast heating of ultrahigh-density plasma as a step towards laser fusion ignition

2001 665 citations R. Kodama, P. A. Norreys et al. Nature profile →
Random Phasing of High-Power Lasers for Uniform Target Acceleration and Plasma-Instability Suppression

1984 551 citations Y. Kato, K. Mima et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Insights into the catalytic mechanism of Grimontia hollisae collagenase through structural and mutational analyses 2023 ·FEBS Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Y. Kitagawa, (unknown), Teisuke Takita, Keisuke Tanaka, Shunji Hattori, Kimihiko Mizutani, Bunzo Mikami, Kiyoshi Yasukawa	1
2	Fast Heating of Imploded Core with Counterbeam Configuration 2016 ·Physical Review Letters ·Yoshitaka Mori, Yasumasa Nishimura, Ryohei Hanayama, S. Nakayama, (unknown), Y. Kitagawa, Takashi Sekine, N. Sato, Takashi Kurita, T. Kawashima, Hirofumi Kan, (unknown), (unknown), H. Azuma, Tatsumi Hioki, Tomoyoshi Motohiro, Atsushi Sunahara, Y. Sentoku, Eisuke Miura	14
3	Relativistic laser channeling in plasmas for fast ignition 2007 ·Physical Review E ·Anle Lei, A. Pukhov, R. Kodama, T. Yabuuchi, (unknown), Kazuhiko Endo, R. R. Freeman, H. Habara, Y. Kitagawa, K. Kondo, G. Ravindra Kumar, Takeshi Matsuoka, K. Mima, Hideo Nagatomo, T. Norimatsu, O. A. Shorokhov, R. A. Snavely, (unknown), Jian Zheng, K. A. Tanaka	22
4	High power CPA Nd:glass laser for the fast ignition research 2005 ·H. Fujita, Y. Kato, Y. Kitagawa, R. Kodama, T. Kanabe, Takahisa Jitsuno, H. Shiraga, S. Sakabe	0
5	Study of Hot Electrons by Measurement of Optical Emission from the Rear Surface of a Metallic Foil Irradiated with Ultraintense Laser Pulse 2004 ·Physical Review Letters ·Jian Zheng, K. A. Tanaka, Tadashi Sato, T. Yabuuchi, (unknown), Y. Kitagawa, R. Kodama, T. Norimatsu, Toshio Yamanaka	33
6	Fast ion acceleration in ultraintense laser interactions with an overdense plasma 2004 ·Physical Review E ·H. Habara, R. Kodama, Y. Sentoku, N. Izumi, Y. Kitagawa, K. A. Tanaka, K. Mima, Toshio Yamanaka	42
7	High-power and high-contrast optical parametric chirped pulse amplification in β-BaB_2O_4 crystal 2003 ·Optics Letters ·Hidetsugu Yoshida, Eiji Ishii, R. Kodama, H. Fujita, Y. Kitagawa, Yasukazu Izawa, Toshio Yamanaka	80
8	Observation of neutron spectrum produced by fast deuterons via ultraintense laser plasma interactions 2002 ·Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics ·N. Izumi, Y. Sentoku, H. Habara, Kenjiro Takahashi, F. Ohtani, (unknown), R. Kodama, T. Norimatsu, H. Fujita, Y. Kitagawa, K. Mima, K. A. Tanaka, Toshio Yamanaka	71
9	Proposed Double-Layer Target for the Generation of High-Quality Laser-Accelerated Ion Beams 2002 ·Physical Review Letters ·T. Zh. Esirkepov, S. V. Bulanov, Katsunobu Nishihara, T. Tajima, Ф. Пегораро, V. S. Khoroshkov, K. Mima, Hiroyuki Daido, Y. Kato, Y. Kitagawa, Keiji Nagai, S. Sakabe	216
10	Broadband high-gain pre-amplifier system based on optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier for PW laser 2002 ·Hidetsugu Yoshida, Eiji Ishii, K. Sawai, R. Kodama, (unknown), Y. Kitagawa, S. Sakabe, N. Miyanaga, Yasukazu Izawa, Toshio Yamanaka, Masayuki Fujita	5
11	Fast heating of ultrahigh-density plasma as a step towards laser fusion ignition breakdown → 2001 ·Nature ·R. Kodama, P. A. Norreys, K. Mima, A. E. Dangor, Roger G. Evans, H. Fujita, Y. Kitagawa, K. Krushelnick, T. Miyakoshi, N. Miyanaga, T. Norimatsu, S. J. Rose, (unknown), K. Shigemori, Atsushi Sunahara, M. Tampo, K. A. Tanaka, Yusuke Toyama, Toshio Yamanaka, M. Zepf	665
12	Development of front-end-system using optical parametric chirped pulse amplification for PW glass laser system 2001 ·Hidetsugu Yoshida, Eiji Ishii, K. Sawai, R. Kodama, H. Fujita, Y. Kitagawa, S. Sakabe, Yasukazu Izawa, Toshio Yamanaka, Masayuki Fujita	2
13	Long-Scale Jet Formation with Specularly Reflected Light in Ultraintense Laser-Plasma Interactions 2000 ·Physical Review Letters ·R. Kodama, K. A. Tanaka, Y. Sentoku, T. Matsushita, Koji Takahashi, H. Fujita, Y. Kitagawa, Y. Kato, T. Yamanaka, K. Mima	72
14	Studies of intense laser-plasma interactions for the fast ignitor concept at ILE, Osaka University 1999 ·Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion ·R. Kodama, K. A. Tanaka, Toshio Yamanaka, Y. Kato, Y. Kitagawa, H. Fujita, T. Kanabe, N. Izumi, Kenjiro Takahashi, H. Habara, (unknown), Manabu Iwata, T. Matsushita, K. Mima	14
15	Measured laser fusion gains reproduced by self-similar volume compression and volume ignition for NIF conditions 1998 ·Journal of Plasma Physics ·Heinrich Hora, H. Azechi, Y. Kitagawa, K. Mima, M. Murakami, S. Nakai, Katsunobu Nishihara, H. Takabe, Chiyoe Yamanaka, M. Yamanaka, Toshio Yamanaka	36
16	Observation of Ultrahigh Gradient Electron Acceleration by a Self-Modulated Intense Short Laser Pulse 1995 ·Physical Review Letters ·Kazuhisa Nakajima, D. Fisher, T. Kawakubo, H. Nakanishi, Atsushi Ogata, Y. Kato, Y. Kitagawa, R. Kodama, K. Mima, H. Shiraga, Kenji Suzuki, K. Yamakawa, (unknown), Y. Sakawa, T. Shoji, Yasushi Nishida, Noboru Yugami, Michael Downer, T. Tajima	278
17	Beat-wave excitation of plasma wave and observation of accelerated electrons 1992 ·Physical Review Letters ·Y. Kitagawa, T. Matsumoto, (unknown), K. Sawai, Kazuki Matsuo, K. Mima, Katsunobu Nishihara, H. Azechi, K. A. Tanaka, H. Takabe, S. Nakai	164
18	Random Phasing of High-Power Lasers for Uniform Target Acceleration and Plasma-Instability Suppression breakdown → 1984 ·Physical Review Letters ·Y. Kato, K. Mima, N. Miyanaga, (unknown), Y. Kitagawa, M. Nakatsuka, Chiyoe Yamanaka	551
19	Measurement of energetic protons generated by a plasma focus device 1981 ·Physics Letters A ·Y. Yamada, Y. Kitagawa, M. Yokoyama, Chiyoe Yamanaka	7
20	Self-excited subharmonic oscillations in plasmas produced by local electron cyclotron resonance 1969 ·Physics Letters A ·Haruhiko Abe, Y. Kitagawa, S. Tanaka	4

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