Yasuo Shirai

22.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 19.9k citations indexed

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Yasuo Shirai is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Organic Chemistry and Polymers and Plastics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yasuo Shirai has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 19.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 9 papers in Organic Chemistry and 8 papers in Polymers and Plastics. Recurrent topics in Yasuo Shirai's work include Nonlinear Optical Materials Research (17 papers), Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (7 papers) and Chemical synthesis and pharmacological studies (5 papers). Yasuo Shirai is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Optical Materials Research (17 papers), Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (7 papers) and Chemical synthesis and pharmacological studies (5 papers). Yasuo Shirai collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Canada. Yasuo Shirai's co-authors include Tsutomu Miyasaka, Kenjiro Teshima, Akihiro Kojima, Jiro Abe, Nobukatsu Nemoto, Yu Nagase, Fusae Miyata, Makoto Hasegawa, Kenji Mori and Masanori SEKI and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemistry of Materials and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

In The Last Decade

Yasuo Shirai

32 papers receiving 19.5k 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.

Organometal Halide Perovskites as Visible-Light Sensitizers for Photovoltaic Cells

2009 19.4k citations Akihiro Kojima, Kenjiro Teshima et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yasuo Shirai Japan	14	19.0k	12.8k	8.2k	1.3k	898	32	19.9k
Kenjiro Teshima Japan	15	19.5k 1.0×	13.1k 1.0×	8.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	25	20.3k
Akihiro Kojima Japan	4	19.3k 1.0×	12.9k 1.0×	8.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	910 1.0×	8	19.8k
Giulia Grancini Italy	56	24.4k 1.3×	16.6k 1.3×	9.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	1.0k 1.2×	152	25.5k
Eric T. Hoke United States	34	11.7k 0.6×	7.1k 0.6×	5.2k 0.6×	618 0.5×	944 1.1×	45	12.5k
Norman Pellet Switzerland	26	16.2k 0.9×	11.4k 0.9×	6.9k 0.8×	780 0.6×	1.5k 1.7×	31	17.4k
Soo‐Jin Moon Switzerland	35	20.6k 1.1×	15.5k 1.2×	8.3k 1.0×	970 0.7×	3.6k 4.0×	49	23.4k
Joël Teuscher Switzerland	29	13.1k 0.7×	10.3k 0.8×	5.8k 0.7×	760 0.6×	3.4k 3.7×	42	16.2k
Aditya Sadhanala United Kingdom	59	22.3k 1.2×	15.6k 1.2×	7.2k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	826 0.9×	118	23.3k
Pablo Docampo United Kingdom	50	17.5k 0.9×	12.9k 1.0×	6.2k 0.8×	858 0.7×	1.6k 1.8×	106	18.7k
Li Na Quan Canada	41	16.5k 0.9×	13.1k 1.0×	4.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	63	17.8k

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Kojima, Akihiro, Kenjiro Teshima, Yasuo Shirai, & Tsutomu Miyasaka. (2009). Organometal Halide Perovskites as Visible-Light Sensitizers for Photovoltaic Cells. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(17). 6050–6051. 19352 indexed citations breakdown →

Kojima, Akihiro, Kenjiro Teshima, Tsutomu Miyasaka, & Yasuo Shirai. (2006). Novel Photoelectrochemical Cell with Mesoscopic Electrodes Sensitized by Lead-Halide Compounds (2). ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2006-02(7). 397–397. 99 indexed citations

Gries, Gerhard, Kenji Mori, Yasuo Shirai, et al.. (2001). Does Pheromone Biology of Lambdina athasaria and L. pellucidaria Contribute to Their Reproductive Isolation?. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 27(3). 431–442. 14 indexed citations

Shirai, Yasuo, Masanori SEKI, & Kenji Mori. (2000). ChemInform Abstract: Pheromone Synthesis. Part 199. Synthesis of all the Stereoisomers of 7‐Methylheptadecane and 7,11‐Dimethylheptadecane, the Female Sex Pheromone Components of the Spring Hemlock Looper and the Pitch Pine Looper.. ChemInform. 31(5). 4 indexed citations

Hasegawa, Makoto, Nobukatsu Nemoto, Yu Nagase, et al.. (1999). Orientational dynamics in the crystalline and amorphous states of side-chain liquid crystalline polysiloxane probed by second harmonic generation. Polymer. 40(1). 219–225. 1 indexed citations

Shirai, Yasuo, Masanori SEKI, & Kenji Mori. (1999). Synthesis of All the Stereoisomers of 7-Methylheptadecane and 7,11-Dimethylheptadecane, the Female Sex Pheromone Components of the Spring Hemlock Looper and the Pitch Pine Looper. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 1999(11). 3139–3145. 28 indexed citations

Abe, Jiro, Nobukatsu Nemoto, Yu Nagase, Yasuo Shirai, & Tomokazu Iyoda. (1998). A New Class of Carborane Compounds for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics: Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Study of Hyperpolarizabilities for 1-(1‘,X‘-Dicarba-closo-dodecaborane-1‘-yl)-closo-dodecaborate Dianion (X = 2, 7, 12). Inorganic Chemistry. 37(2). 172–173. 30 indexed citations

Abe, Jiro, Yasuo Shirai, Nobukatsu Nemoto, & Yu Nagase. (1997). Manipulation of Dipole Moment and Hyperpolarizability Based on Heterocyclic Pyridinium Betaine Structures: Ab Initio and INDO/S MO Calculations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 101(10). 1910–1915. 35 indexed citations

Abe, Jiro, Yasuo Shirai, Nobukatsu Nemoto, & Yu Nagase. (1997). Theoretical Study of Hyperpolarizabilities of Spirolinked Push−Pull Polyenes. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 101(1). 1–4. 30 indexed citations

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Abe, Jiro, Yasuo Shirai, Nobukatsu Nemoto, Fusae Miyata, & Yu Nagase. (1997). Heterocyclic Pyridinium Betaines, A New Class of Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials: Combined Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of First-Order Hyperpolarizability through ab Initio, INDO/S, and Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 101(4). 576–582. 45 indexed citations

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Abe, Jiro, Yasuo Shirai, Nobukatsu Nemoto, Yu Nagase, & Tomokazu Iyoda. (1997). Theoretical Study of the Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Spiro-Linked Polyene. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 101(2). 145–149. 12 indexed citations

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Nemoto, Nobukatsu, Fusae Miyata, Yu Nagase, et al.. (1996). Novel optically transparent polyesters containing a high density of second-order non-linear optically active chromophores. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 6(5). 711–711. 9 indexed citations

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Takikawa, Hirosato, Yasuo Shirai, Makoto Kobayashi, & Kenji Mori. (1996). Pheromone Synthesis, CLXXVI. Synthesis of the Four Stereoisomers of 3,13‐Dimethylheptadecane, the Major Sex Pheromone Component of the Western False Hemlock Looper. Liebigs Annalen. 1996(12). 1965–1970. 8 indexed citations

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Abe, Jiro & Yasuo Shirai. (1996). Heterocyclic Betaines Exhibiting Extremely Large First Hyperpolarizability: Ab Initio and INDO/S Calculations. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 118(19). 4705–4706. 78 indexed citations

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Abe, Jiro, Nobukatsu Nemoto, Yu Nagase, & Yasuo Shirai. (1996). Ab initio MO investigations of molecular structures in the ground and first excited states of heterocyclic pyridinium betaine. Chemical Physics Letters. 261(1-2). 18–22. 24 indexed citations

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Nemoto, Nobukatsu, Fusae Miyata, Yu Nagase, et al.. (1996). Polyamides for Nonlinear Optics Containing Second-Order NLO-phores with High Density. Chemistry of Materials. 8(7). 1527–1534. 7 indexed citations

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Nemoto, Nobukatsu, Fusae Miyata, Yu Nagase, et al.. (1996). Novel Types of Polyesters Containing Second-Order Nonlinear Optically Active Chromophores with High Density. Macromolecules. 29(7). 2365–2371. 44 indexed citations

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Nemoto, Nobukatsu, Jiro Abe, Fusae Miyata, et al.. (1996). Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Property of Heterocyclic Pyridinium Betaine Dispersed in Poly(methyl methacrylate). Chemistry Letters. 25(10). 851–852. 6 indexed citations

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Abe, Jiro, et al.. (1995). Behavior of the Electric Field Induced Dipolar Alignment of Mesogenic Chromophores in Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polysiloxane by Second Harmonic Generation. Macromolecules. 28(8). 2938–2943. 21 indexed citations

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Nemoto, Nobukatsu, et al.. (1995). Orientational behavior of side‐chain liquid‐crystalline polysiloxanes deduced from measurements of second harmonic generation. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. 196(7). 2237–2249. 9 indexed citations

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