Yasutaka Kitagawa

7.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
231 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Yasutaka Kitagawa is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yasutaka Kitagawa has authored 231 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 118 papers in Materials Chemistry and 62 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yasutaka Kitagawa's work include Magnetism in coordination complexes (112 papers), Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (47 papers) and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (39 papers). Yasutaka Kitagawa is often cited by papers focused on Magnetism in coordination complexes (112 papers), Organic and Molecular Conductors Research (47 papers) and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (39 papers). Yasutaka Kitagawa collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and China. Yasutaka Kitagawa's co-authors include Kizashi Yamaguchi, Takashi Kawakami, Yu Takano, Mitsutaka Okumura, Yasunori Yoshioka, Taku Onishi, Tomohisa Soda, Shusuke Yamanaka, Yasuteru Shigeta and Hirotaka Nagao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yasutaka Kitagawa

223 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Resorcinol–formaldehyde resins as metal-free semiconductor photocatalysts for solar-to-hydrogen peroxide energy conversion

2019 710 citations Yasutaka Kitagawa et al. profile →
Ab initio computations of effective exchange integrals for H–H, H–He–H and Mn2O2 complex: comparison of broken-symmetry approaches

2000 661 citations Yasutaka Kitagawa, Yasunori Yoshioka et al. Chemical Physics Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yasutaka Kitagawa Japan	39	3.3k	2.7k	2.1k	1.4k	1.1k	231	6.5k
Kunihisa Sugimoto Japan	42	4.0k 1.2×	3.0k 1.1×	2.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.0×	942 0.9×	251	7.2k
Chong Zheng United States	39	3.8k 1.2×	1.9k 0.7×	3.3k 1.6×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	220	7.5k
Stanislav Záliš Czechia	50	2.6k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	3.2k 2.3×	1.6k 1.5×	229	7.4k
Ayan Datta India	48	4.4k 1.3×	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	2.3k 1.7×	2.1k 1.9×	314	8.3k
Matthew P. Shores United States	39	2.9k 0.9×	3.3k 1.2×	2.6k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	103	7.2k
Jean‐Yves Saillard France	47	5.6k 1.7×	2.9k 1.1×	2.9k 1.4×	3.2k 2.3×	693 0.6×	332	8.9k
Jesper Bendix Denmark	41	3.2k 1.0×	3.1k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	353 0.3×	179	5.4k
Josep M. Luis Spain	45	2.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	2.4k 1.7×	451 0.4×	165	5.6k
Matvey V. Fedin Russia	36	3.5k 1.1×	2.0k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	540 0.4×	660 0.6×	240	5.4k
Michael Shatruk United States	40	3.1k 0.9×	2.9k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	896 0.8×	190	5.5k

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Tada, Kohei, et al.. (2025). Unveiled open-shell nature of an antiaromatic molecule by surface–molecule interaction: a concept suggestion by spin-projected density functional theory. Chemical Communications. 61(63). 11758–11761.

Cigl, Martin, Alexej Bubnov, Jey‐Jau Lee, et al.. (2025). Photo-active dithienylcyclopentene-derived room temperature nematics. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 13(15). 7484–7494. 2 indexed citations

Okada, K., et al.. (2024). Stacked-ring aromaticity from the viewpoint of the effective number of π-electrons. Chemical Science. 16(4). 1707–1715. 1 indexed citations

MIYAMOTO, Hajime, et al.. (2024). Theoretical study on open-shell electronic structures of through-bond/through-space hybrid conjugated ladder graphs. Chemical Physics Letters. 842. 141196–141196. 1 indexed citations

Iwai, Shigenori, et al.. (2024). Acceleration of hydrolytic ring opening of N7-alkylguanine by the terminal carbamoyl group of glycidamide. Chemical Communications. 60(38). 5014–5017.

Tada, Kohei, K. Masuda, Ryohei Kishi, & Yasutaka Kitagawa. (2024). Systematic Investigation on Surface Diradicals Using Theoretical Models: 2M/MgO and 2M/BaO (M = Cu, Ag, and Au). Chemistry. 6(6). 1572–1592. 1 indexed citations

Akiyoshi, Ryohei, Shun Dekura, Yukihiro Yoshida, et al.. (2021). Ferroelectric and Spin Crossover Behavior in a Cobalt(II) Compound Induced by Polar‐Ligand‐Substituent Motion. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(23). 12717–12722. 36 indexed citations

Horii, Yoji, Marko Damjanović, M. R. Ajayakumar, et al.. (2020). Highly Oxidized States of Phthalocyaninato Terbium(III) Multiple‐Decker Complexes Showing Structural Deformations, Biradical Properties and Decreases in Magnetic Anisotropy. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(39). 8621–8630. 21 indexed citations

Nakaya, Masato, et al.. (2020). Immobilization of CO₂ at Room Temperature Using the Specific Sub‐NM Space of 1D Uneven‐Structured C₆₀ Polymer Film. Advanced Sustainable Systems. 5(1). 3 indexed citations

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Nakano, Masayoshi, Takanori Nagami, K. Okada, et al.. (2018). Quantum Master Equation Approach to Singlet Fission Dynamics in Pentacene Linear Aggregate Models: Size Dependences of Excitonic Coupling Effects. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 40(1). 89–104. 23 indexed citations

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Huang, Po‐Jung, et al.. (2018). Strong electronic influence of equatorial ligands on frontier orbitals in paddlewheel dichromium(ii,ii) complexes. Dalton Transactions. 48(3). 908–914. 5 indexed citations

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Morita, T., Marko Damjanović, Keiichi Katoh, et al.. (2018). Comparison of the Magnetic Anisotropy and Spin Relaxation Phenomenon of Dinuclear Terbium(III) Phthalocyaninato Single-Molecule Magnets Using the Geometric Spin Arrangement. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(8). 2995–3007. 103 indexed citations

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Muhammad, Shabbir, Masayoshi Nakano, Abdullah G. Al‐Sehemi, et al.. (2018). Exploring the novel donor-nanotube archetype as an efficient third-order nonlinear optical material: asymmetric open-shell carbon nanotubes. Nanoscale. 10(35). 16499–16507. 37 indexed citations

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Katoh, Keiichi, T. Morita, Nobuhiro Yasuda, et al.. (2018). Tetranuclear Dysprosium(III) Quintuple‐Decker Single‐Molecule Magnet Prepared Using a π‐Extended Phthalocyaninato Ligand with Two Coordination Sites. Chemistry - A European Journal. 24(58). 15522–15528. 15 indexed citations

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Nakano, Masayoshi, Kotaro Fukuda, Soichi Ito, et al.. (2017). Diradical and Ionic Characters of Open-Shell Singlet Molecular Systems. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 121(4). 861–873. 21 indexed citations

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Mitsumi, Minoru, Koshiro Toriumi, Motohiro Mizuno, et al.. (2015). Proton Order–Disorder Phenomena in a Hydrogen‐Bonded Rhodium–η⁵‐Semiquinone Complex: A Possible Dielectric Response Mechanism. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(27). 9682–9696. 10 indexed citations

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Tanase, Tomoaki, Yukie Takemura, Bunsho Kure, et al.. (2014). Strongly Luminous Tetranuclear Gold(I) Complexes Supported by Tetraphosphine Ligands, meso‐ or rac‐Bis[(diphenylphosphinomethyl)phenylphosphino]methane. Chemistry - A European Journal. 20(6). 1577–1596. 60 indexed citations

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Shoji, Mitsuo, Kenichi Koizumi, Yasutaka Kitagawa, et al.. (2006). A GSO–HDFT study of noncollinear spin structures of [2Fe–2S] cluster. Polyhedron. 26(9-11). 2335–2341. 2 indexed citations

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Kitagawa, Yasutaka, Masamichi Nishino, Takashi Kawakami, Yasunori Yoshioka, & Kizashi Yamaguchi. (2002). Theoretical Studies on Magnetic Interactions of Aligned Tetrametal System by Using Hybrid Density Functional Method. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. 376(1). 347–352. 1 indexed citations

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Takamizawa, Satoshi, Wasuke Mori, Yasutaka Kitagawa, et al.. (2000). Molecular Simulations of Argon, Nitrogen, and Hydrogen Adsorption in Microporous Complexes. Molecular crystals and liquid crystals science technology. Section A, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals. 342(1). 285–290. 2 indexed citations

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