Yoshiaki Sugimoto

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
145 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Yoshiaki Sugimoto is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yoshiaki Sugimoto has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 50 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 42 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yoshiaki Sugimoto's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (103 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (48 papers) and Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (48 papers). Yoshiaki Sugimoto is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (103 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (48 papers) and Surface and Thin Film Phenomena (48 papers). Yoshiaki Sugimoto collaborates with scholars based in Japan, Czechia and Spain. Yoshiaki Sugimoto's co-authors include Masayuki Abe, Seizo Morita, Óscar Custance, Pavel Jelı́nek, Rúben Pérez, Pablo Jauralde Pou, Akitoshi Shiotari, Noriaki Oyabu, Katsuzo Wakabayashi and Yasunori Takezawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yoshiaki Sugimoto

131 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Chemical identification of individual surface atoms by atomic force microscopy
    2007 522 citations Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Masayuki Abe et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yoshiaki Sugimoto Japan 30 2.7k 1.3k 1.0k 1.0k 376 145 3.8k
Manfred Jaschke Germany 11 1.5k 0.6× 792 0.6× 655 0.6× 369 0.4× 22 0.1× 15 2.3k
Hayato Yamashita Japan 20 1.0k 0.4× 461 0.3× 436 0.4× 257 0.2× 27 0.1× 80 1.9k
Marco Lazzarino Italy 26 813 0.3× 624 0.5× 853 0.8× 411 0.4× 32 0.1× 135 2.2k
Takahito Inoue Japan 20 652 0.2× 409 0.3× 418 0.4× 250 0.2× 56 0.1× 83 1.5k
A. L. Weisenhorn United States 20 2.5k 1.0× 858 0.6× 882 0.8× 258 0.2× 12 0.0× 34 3.2k
Kei Kobayashi Japan 34 3.1k 1.1× 2.0k 1.5× 1.7k 1.6× 958 0.9× 7 0.0× 257 4.9k
Charles S. Smith United States 26 964 0.4× 1.3k 1.0× 860 0.8× 1.2k 1.2× 40 0.1× 38 3.3k
Ya‐Hong Xie United States 36 1.3k 0.5× 3.0k 2.3× 1.3k 1.3× 2.4k 2.3× 39 0.1× 161 5.1k
A. Cricenti Italy 29 1.8k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 932 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 6 0.0× 250 3.5k
Aric W. Sanders United States 24 565 0.2× 643 0.5× 814 0.8× 658 0.6× 22 0.1× 53 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yoshiaki Sugimoto

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yoshiaki Sugimoto

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yoshiaki Sugimoto. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yoshiaki Sugimoto based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yoshiaki Sugimoto. Yoshiaki Sugimoto is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kunisada, Yuji, et al.. (2025). Structure Identification of CO Monolayer on Ag(111) Using Atomic Force Microscopy. Advanced Materials Interfaces. 12(10).
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Sugimoto, Yoshiaki, et al.. (2025). Applying the Triad network representation to four-dimensional ATRG method. Proceedings Of Science. 38–38.
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Okazaki, Shota, S. Miyasaka, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, et al.. (2024). Closing of the Mott gap near step edges in NiS2. Physical review. B.. 110(4).
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Matsunaga, Katsuyuki, et al.. (2024). Element-selective structural visualization for the oxygen-induced surface of Nb(110). Physical review. B.. 109(19). 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Xinbo, et al.. (2023). Atomic arrangement of Si adatom on the Silicene/Ag(111) surface. Applied Surface Science. 630. 157336–157336. 3 indexed citations
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Ohtomo, Manabu, Hironobu Hayashi, Akitoshi Shiotari, et al.. (2022). On-surface synthesis of hydroxy-functionalized graphene nanoribbons through deprotection of methylenedioxy groups. Nanoscale Advances. 4(22). 4871–4879. 1 indexed citations
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Diao, Zhuo, et al.. (2020). Automated extraction of the short-range part of the interaction in non-contact atomic force microscopy. Applied Physics Letters. 117(3). 2 indexed citations
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Shiotari, Akitoshi, Ikutaro Hamada, Takahiro Nakae, et al.. (2020). Manipulable Metal Catalyst for Nanographene Synthesis. Nano Letters. 20(11). 8339–8345. 6 indexed citations
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Shiotari, Akitoshi, et al.. (2020). Intrinsic reconstruction of ice-I surfaces. Science Advances. 6(37). 22 indexed citations
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Yamaguchi, Junichi, Hironobu Hayashi, Akitoshi Shiotari, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Small bandgap in atomically precise 17-atom-wide armchair-edged graphene nanoribbons. Communications Materials. 1(1). 1 indexed citations
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Yamaguchi, Junichi, Hironobu Hayashi, Akitoshi Shiotari, et al.. (2020). Small bandgap in atomically precise 17-atom-wide armchair-edged graphene nanoribbons. Communications Materials. 1(1). 44 indexed citations
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Shiotari, Akitoshi, Koichi Tanaka, Takahiro Nakae, et al.. (2018). Chiral Discrimination and Manipulation of Individual Heptahelicene Molecules on Cu(001) by Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 122(9). 4997–5003. 23 indexed citations
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Onoda, Jo, Martin Ondráček, Pavel Jelı́nek, & Yoshiaki Sugimoto. (2017). Electronegativity determination of individual surface atoms by atomic force microscopy. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15155–15155. 42 indexed citations
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Onoda, Jo, et al.. (2017). High-resolution imaging of silicene on an Ag(111) surface by atomic force microscopy. Physical review. B.. 96(24). 21 indexed citations
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Hamada, Ikutaro, et al.. (2015). Room-temperature-concerted switch made of a binary atom cluster. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6231–6231. 18 indexed citations
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Morita, Seizo, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, & Masayuki Abe. (2010). Research and Development of Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy with Atomic Resolution. Hyomen Kagaku. 31(1). 19–24.
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Sugimoto, Yoshiaki, et al.. (2005). . Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering. 71(6). 663–666. 1 indexed citations
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Morita, Seizo, et al.. (2005). Atom Manipulation on Si and Ge Surfaces using Atomic Force Microscope. Hyomen Kagaku. 26(6). 351–356. 2 indexed citations
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Saito, Hirohisa, Kenichi Nishi, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, & S. Sugou. (1999). Low-threshold lasing from high-density InAs quantumdots of uniform size. Electronics Letters. 35(18). 1561–1563. 15 indexed citations
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Wakabayashi, Katsuzo, Yoshiaki Sugimoto, Hiroto Tanaka, et al.. (1994). X-ray diffraction evidence for the extensibility of actin and myosin filaments during muscle contraction. Biophysical Journal. 67(6). 2422–2435. 392 indexed citations

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