Yasunobu Inoue

12.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
133 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Yasunobu Inoue is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yasunobu Inoue has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Materials Chemistry, 55 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 39 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yasunobu Inoue's work include Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (54 papers), Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies (20 papers) and Ga2O3 and related materials (16 papers). Yasunobu Inoue is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques (54 papers), Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies (20 papers) and Ga2O3 and related materials (16 papers). Yasunobu Inoue collaborates with scholars based in Japan, China and Bangladesh. Yasunobu Inoue's co-authors include Kazunari Domen, Nobuo Saito, Kazuhiko Maeda, Tsuyoshi Takata, Kentaro Teramura, Daling Lu, Kazunori Sato, Hisayoshi Kobayashi, Masahiko Hara and Iwao Yasumori and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yasunobu Inoue

131 papers receiving 11.0k citations

Hit Papers

Photocatalyst releasing hydrogen from water 2005 2026 2012 2019 2006 2005 2018 2006 2018 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Photocatalyst releasing hydrogen from water
    2006 2.6k citations Kazuhiko Maeda, Kentaro Teramura et al. Nature profile →
  2. GaN:ZnO Solid Solution as a Photocatalyst for Visible-Light-Driven Overall Water Splitting
    2005 1.2k citations Kazuhiko Maeda, Tsuyoshi Takata et al. profile →
  3. A Particulate Photocatalyst Water-Splitting Panel for Large-Scale Solar Hydrogen Generation
    2018 574 citations Yosuke Goto, Takashi Hisatomi et al. Joule profile →
  4. Noble‐Metal/Cr2O3 Core/Shell Nanoparticles as a Cocatalyst for Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting
    2006 554 citations Kazuhiko Maeda, Kentaro Teramura et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  5. Overall water splitting by Ta3N5 nanorod single crystals grown on the edges of KTaO3 particles
    2018 470 citations Zheng Wang, Yasunobu Inoue et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yasunobu Inoue Japan 43 8.6k 8.4k 3.2k 1.9k 813 133 11.2k
Kug‐Seung Lee South Korea 60 4.9k 0.6× 7.6k 0.9× 7.5k 2.3× 1.4k 0.7× 650 0.8× 237 12.3k
Si Zhou China 54 7.0k 0.8× 5.6k 0.7× 5.8k 1.8× 1.6k 0.8× 397 0.5× 195 12.1k
Johan M. Carlsson Sweden 15 12.0k 1.4× 12.4k 1.5× 6.3k 1.9× 1.5k 0.8× 221 0.3× 25 15.2k
Mingshang Jin China 45 6.6k 0.8× 5.7k 0.7× 3.3k 1.0× 1.9k 1.0× 393 0.5× 83 10.1k
Ethan J. Crumlin United States 58 7.5k 0.9× 6.4k 0.8× 6.0k 1.8× 1.8k 0.9× 483 0.6× 192 13.4k
Zongxian Yang China 55 7.8k 0.9× 3.8k 0.5× 3.3k 1.0× 742 0.4× 700 0.9× 293 9.7k
Zhenmeng Peng United States 51 4.8k 0.6× 7.7k 0.9× 5.8k 1.8× 1.4k 0.7× 424 0.5× 126 10.9k
Jijun Zhao China 43 5.7k 0.7× 3.2k 0.4× 3.8k 1.2× 1.2k 0.6× 430 0.5× 127 8.8k
Shize Yang United States 58 7.1k 0.8× 6.7k 0.8× 4.9k 1.5× 978 0.5× 1.2k 1.5× 190 12.3k
Tetsuya Kako Japan 53 8.5k 1.0× 9.4k 1.1× 3.8k 1.2× 1.0k 0.5× 179 0.2× 102 11.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vequizo, Junie Jhon M., Yasunobu Inoue, Akira Yamakata, et al.. (2023). Active BaTaO2N photocatalysts prepared from an amorphous Ta2O5 precursor for overall water splitting under visible light. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 11(12). 6299–6310. 23 indexed citations
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Xiao, Jiadong, Mamiko Nakabayashi, Takashi Hisatomi, et al.. (2023). Sub-50 nm perovskite-type tantalum-based oxynitride single crystals with enhanced photoactivity for water splitting. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8030–8030. 31 indexed citations
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Wang, Zheng, Yasunobu Inoue, Takashi Hisatomi, et al.. (2018). Overall water splitting by Ta3N5 nanorod single crystals grown on the edges of KTaO3 particles. Nature Catalysis. 1(10). 756–763. 470 indexed citations breakdown →
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Goto, Yosuke, Takashi Hisatomi, Qian Wang, et al.. (2018). A Particulate Photocatalyst Water-Splitting Panel for Large-Scale Solar Hydrogen Generation. Joule. 2(3). 509–520. 574 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nishiyama, Hiroshi, Hisayoshi Kobayashi, & Yasunobu Inoue. (2011). Effects of Distortion of Metal–Oxygen Octahedra on Photocatalytic Water‐Splitting Performance of RuO2‐Loaded Niobium and Tantalum Phosphate Bronzes. ChemSusChem. 4(2). 208–215. 28 indexed citations
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Maeda, Kazuhiko, Kentaro Teramura, Daling Lu, et al.. (2007). Noble‐Metal/Cr2O3 Core/Shell Nanoparticles as a Cocatalyst for Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting.. ChemInform. 38(7). 1 indexed citations
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Maeda, Kazuhiko, Kentaro Teramura, Daling Lu, et al.. (2007). Roles of Rh/Cr2O3 (Core/Shell) Nanoparticles Photodeposited on Visible-Light-Responsive (Ga1-xZnx)(N1-xOx) Solid Solutions in Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 111(20). 7554–7560. 230 indexed citations
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Arai, Naoki, Nobuo Saito, Hiroshi Nishiyama, et al.. (2007). Effects of divalent metal ion (Mg2+, Zn2+ and Be2+) doping on photocatalytic activity of ruthenium oxide-loaded gallium nitride for water splitting. Catalysis Today. 129(3-4). 407–413. 63 indexed citations
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Arai, Naoki, Nobuo Saito, Hiroshi Nishiyama, et al.. (2007). Effects of doping on photocatalytic activity for water splitting of metal oxides and nitride. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6650. 665008–665008. 3 indexed citations
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Maeda, Kazuhiko, Kentaro Teramura, Daling Lu, et al.. (2006). Photocatalyst releasing hydrogen from water. Nature. 440(7082). 295–295. 2565 indexed citations breakdown →
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Maeda, Kazuhiko, Kentaro Teramura, Daling Lu, et al.. (2006). Noble‐Metal/Cr2O3 Core/Shell Nanoparticles as a Cocatalyst for Photocatalytic Overall Water Splitting. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 45(46). 7806–7809. 554 indexed citations breakdown →
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Maeda, Kazuhiko, Kentaro Teramura, Nobuo Saito, et al.. (2006). Overall water splitting using (oxy)nitride photocatalysts. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 78(12). 2267–2276. 63 indexed citations
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Matsubara, Hiroshi, et al.. (2003). . Journal of The Surface Finishing Society of Japan. 54(5). 374–375. 4 indexed citations
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Matsubara, Hiroshi, et al.. (2002). Observation of initial deposition process of electroless nickel plating by quartz crystal microbalance method and microscopy. Electrochimica Acta. 47(25). 4011–4018. 33 indexed citations
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Inoue, Yasunobu, et al.. (1993). Acoustic devices for simultaneous determination of adsorbed amount and surface-conductivity changes by gas adsorption. Sensors and Actuators B Chemical. 14(1-3). 549–550. 3 indexed citations
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Inoue, Yasunobu, Kiyoshi Sato, & Kazunori Sato. (1989). Photovoltaic and photocatalytic behaviour of a ferroelectric semiconductor, lead strontium zirconate titanate, with a polarization axis perpendicular to the surface. Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions 1 Physical Chemistry in Condensed Phases. 85(7). 1765–1765. 15 indexed citations
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Inoue, Yasunobu, et al.. (1989). Different catalytic activity of a Cu thin film deposited on a positive and negative polar ferroelectric surface. Chemical Physics Letters. 160(2). 118–120. 4 indexed citations
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Inoue, Yasunobu & Iwao Yasumori. (1969). Carbon-14 tracer study of active sites on cold-worked palladium catalyst. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 73(5). 1618–1619. 8 indexed citations

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