Yasuhiro Sakai

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

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Yasuhiro Sakai is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Yasuhiro Sakai has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Materials Chemistry, 19 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 19 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Yasuhiro Sakai's work include X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (18 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (14 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (11 papers). Yasuhiro Sakai is often cited by papers focused on X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis (18 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (14 papers) and Atomic and Molecular Physics (11 papers). Yasuhiro Sakai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Germany. Yasuhiro Sakai's co-authors include Kohzo Ito, Takahiro Seki, Yukikazu Takeoka, Abu Bin Imran, Hideaki Yokoyama, Masayuki Shibuya, Nobuyoshi Koga, Hiroshi Honjo, Takeshi Minami and M. Tatsumisago and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Yasuhiro Sakai

91 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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Extremely stretchable thermosensitive hydrogels by introducing slide-ring polyrotaxane cross-linkers and ionic groups into the polymer network

2014 484 citations Abu Bin Imran, Takahiro Seki et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yasuhiro Sakai Japan	22	447	416	360	270	259	93	1.7k
Qi Liao China	19	451 1.0×	443 1.1×	420 1.2×	217 0.8×	315 1.2×	54	1.5k
Rio Kita‬ Japan	27	408 0.9×	685 1.6×	367 1.0×	197 0.7×	175 0.7×	176	2.3k
Steven R. Lustig United States	19	272 0.6×	667 1.6×	587 1.6×	223 0.8×	288 1.1×	39	1.8k
Avraham Halperin France	16	694 1.6×	346 0.8×	380 1.1×	456 1.7×	484 1.9×	25	1.8k
Guangcui Yuan United States	23	339 0.8×	514 1.2×	332 0.9×	103 0.4×	266 1.0×	68	1.3k
Christophe Déjugnat France	23	512 1.1×	445 1.1×	601 1.7×	249 0.9×	444 1.7×	42	2.4k
Suzanne Giasson Canada	25	372 0.8×	366 0.9×	553 1.5×	307 1.1×	163 0.6×	54	2.6k
He Cheng China	22	686 1.5×	535 1.3×	516 1.4×	463 1.7×	464 1.8×	93	2.2k
David A. Hoagland United States	27	297 0.7×	445 1.1×	859 2.4×	147 0.5×	251 1.0×	68	2.1k
Stuart W. Prescott Australia	28	1.1k 2.4×	679 1.6×	601 1.7×	133 0.5×	277 1.1×	100	2.9k

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Yoshii, Hiroshi, Hui Wang, Y. Ogawa, et al.. (2025). Comprehensive determination of elements ranging from uranium to americium by hybrid measurement of fluorescent and spontaneously emitted characteristic X-rays. Talanta. 286. 127531–127531. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Hui, et al.. (2025). Energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis of uranium-contaminated stainless-steel surfaces by eliminating the iron sum peak using a titanium filter. Spectrochimica Acta Part B Atomic Spectroscopy. 229. 107200–107200. 1 indexed citations

Yoshii, Hiroshi, T. Matsuyama, Hiroki Nagai, & Yasuhiro Sakai. (2025). Development of a portable battery-powered total reflection X-ray fluorescence spectrometer. Analytical Sciences. 41(6). 891–895.

Koga, Nobuyoshi, et al.. (2021). Universal Kinetics of the Thermal Decomposition of Synthetic Smithsonite over Different Atmospheric Conditions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(2). 1384–1402. 26 indexed citations

Fukutsu, Kumiko, et al.. (2020). Rapid detection of plutonium contamination with and without uranium contamination in wounds by x-ray fluorescence. Journal of Radiological Protection. 40(3). 692–703. 9 indexed citations

Matsuyama, T., et al.. (2019). Optimization of a primary X‐ray filter for X‐ray fluorescence analysis of uranium and plutonium. X-Ray Spectrometry. 48(5). 360–365. 5 indexed citations

Matsuyama, T., et al.. (2019). X‐ray fluorescence analysis of samples simulating blood collected from uranium‐contaminated wounds. X-Ray Spectrometry. 48(5). 438–442. 8 indexed citations

Matsuyama, T., et al.. (2018). Rapid detection of heavy elements in blood extracted from wounds using x-ray fluorescence analysis. Journal of Radiological Protection. 38(4). 1384–1392. 6 indexed citations

Imran, Abu Bin, et al.. (2014). Extremely stretchable thermosensitive hydrogels by introducing slide-ring polyrotaxane cross-linkers and ionic groups into the polymer network. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5124–5124. 484 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yoshii, Hiroshi, Hitoshi Imaseki, Tsuyoshi Hamano, et al.. (2014). Methodology Using a Portable X-Ray Fluorescence Device for On-Site and Rapid Evaluation of Heavy-Atom Contamination in Wounds: A Model Study for Application to Plutonium Contamination. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e101966–e101966. 12 indexed citations

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Sakai, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2012). Doubly excited states of ammonia by scattered electron–ion coincidence measurements. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 45(5). 55201–55201. 5 indexed citations

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Sakai, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2011). Double Differential Cross Sections and Generalized Oscillator Strength Distributions of Ammonia. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 288. 12013–12013. 3 indexed citations

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Kidowaki, Masatoshi, et al.. (2010). Orientational motions in mesogenic polyrotaxane and local mode relaxations of polymer segments in solid state polyrotaxane. Soft Matter. 7(3). 922–928. 20 indexed citations

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Yoshida, K., et al.. (2008). Adsorption Behavior of Coumarin onto a Concaved Substrate in Water under an Electric Field. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 156(1). D1–D1. 4 indexed citations

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Sakai, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2007). THE URBAN AND ARCHITECTURAL SPACE OF CHAPLIN'S FILMS. Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ). 72(617). 207–214. 1 indexed citations

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Yamashita, Toru, Katsuhiro Arai, Akiko Sakai, et al.. (2006). Virological effects and safety of combined double filtration plasmapheresis (DFPP) and interferon therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis C: A preliminary study. Hepatology Research. 36(3). 167–175. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Tong, Yasuhiro Sakai, K. Nakajima, et al.. (2004). Nanorheology measurement on single circularly permuted green fluorescent protein molecule. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 40(3-4). 183–187. 5 indexed citations

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Sakai, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2003). Kinetic Energy Measurements of Fragment Ions with a Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer.. Journal of the Mass Spectrometry Society of Japan. 51(1). 72–76.

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Yamamoto, Hiroshi, et al.. (2002). Effect of Stearic Acid Al Additive on Magnetic Properties of Sr System W-Type Ferrites.. Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan. 26(4). 358–362. 5 indexed citations

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Sakai, Yasuhiro, Masato Oikawa, Tomohiko Ogawa, et al.. (2000). Synthesis of Helicobacter pylori lipid A and its analogue using p-(trifluoromethyl)benzyl protecting group. Tetrahedron Letters. 41(35). 6843–6847. 22 indexed citations

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