Yoshiki Watanabe

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Yoshiki Watanabe is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yoshiki Watanabe has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Organic Chemistry, 4 papers in Materials Chemistry and 1 paper in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Yoshiki Watanabe's work include Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (6 papers), Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (4 papers) and Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (2 papers). Yoshiki Watanabe is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (6 papers), Fullerene Chemistry and Applications (4 papers) and Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (2 papers). Yoshiki Watanabe collaborates with scholars based in Japan and China. Yoshiki Watanabe's co-authors include Takahiro Iwamoto, Shigeru Yamago, Takeharu Haino, Youichi Sakamoto, Toshiyasu Suzuki, Hyun‐Ha Kim, Shuiliang Yao, Tomohiro Nozaki, Masanori Tachikawa and Hiroaki Takahashi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Journal of Physics D Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Yoshiki Watanabe

8 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Synthesis of [8]Cycloparaphenylene from a Square‐Shaped T... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2011 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Synthesis of [8]Cycloparaphenylene from a Square‐Shaped Tetranuclear Platinum Complex
    2009 543 citations Shigeru Yamago, Yoshiki Watanabe et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  2. Selective and Random Syntheses of [n]Cycloparaphenylenes (n = 8–13) and Size Dependence of Their Electronic Properties
    2011 469 citations Takahiro Iwamoto, Yoshiki Watanabe et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yoshiki Watanabe Japan 6 1.6k 944 413 139 119 8 1.7k
Sanae Matsuura Japan 10 1.3k 0.8× 740 0.8× 350 0.8× 80 0.6× 69 0.6× 10 1.4k
Shunpei Hitosugi Japan 17 1.2k 0.8× 670 0.7× 202 0.5× 149 1.1× 135 1.1× 24 1.3k
Michel Rickhaus Switzerland 17 1.2k 0.8× 800 0.8× 216 0.5× 312 2.2× 109 0.9× 39 1.5k
Katsuma Matsui Japan 9 952 0.6× 599 0.6× 204 0.5× 93 0.7× 83 0.7× 11 1.1k
Alaric Desmarchelier France 15 976 0.6× 606 0.6× 402 1.0× 113 0.8× 179 1.5× 18 1.2k
Paul J. Evans Spain 11 847 0.5× 610 0.6× 152 0.4× 113 0.8× 50 0.4× 14 948
Silvia Castro‐Fernández Spain 13 842 0.5× 682 0.7× 148 0.4× 165 1.2× 47 0.4× 18 1.0k
Olena Lukoyanova United States 12 583 0.4× 422 0.4× 173 0.4× 135 1.0× 75 0.6× 19 880
Michael Jirásek United Kingdom 14 444 0.3× 399 0.4× 136 0.3× 117 0.8× 62 0.5× 25 746
Hiroyuki Sakane Japan 11 762 0.5× 462 0.5× 187 0.5× 92 0.7× 22 0.2× 12 936

Countries citing papers authored by Yoshiki Watanabe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yoshiki Watanabe

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yoshiki Watanabe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yoshiki Watanabe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yoshiki Watanabe 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 Yoshiki Watanabe. Yoshiki Watanabe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Watanabe, Yoshiki, et al.. (2019). Factors determining synergism in plasma catalysis of biogas at reduced pressure. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 52(41). 414002–414002. 17 indexed citations
2.
Iwamoto, Takahiro, et al.. (2011). Size‐Selective Encapsulation of C60 by [10]Cycloparaphenylene: Formation of the Shortest Fullerene‐Peapod. Angewandte Chemie. 123(36). 8492–8494. 126 indexed citations
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Iwamoto, Takahiro, et al.. (2011). Size‐Selective Encapsulation of C60 by [10]Cycloparaphenylene: Formation of the Shortest Fullerene‐Peapod. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 50(36). 8342–8344. 426 indexed citations
4.
Iwamoto, Takahiro, Yoshiki Watanabe, Youichi Sakamoto, Toshiyasu Suzuki, & Shigeru Yamago. (2011). Selective and Random Syntheses of [n]Cycloparaphenylenes (n = 8–13) and Size Dependence of Their Electronic Properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(21). 8354–8361. 469 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yamago, Shigeru, Yoshiki Watanabe, & Takahiro Iwamoto. (2009). Synthesis of [8]Cycloparaphenylene from a Square‐Shaped Tetranuclear Platinum Complex. Angewandte Chemie. 122(4). 769–771. 161 indexed citations
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Yamago, Shigeru, Yoshiki Watanabe, & Takahiro Iwamoto. (2009). Synthesis of [8]Cycloparaphenylene from a Square‐Shaped Tetranuclear Platinum Complex. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49(4). 757–759. 543 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yamago, Shigeru, Yoshiki Watanabe, & Takahiro Iwamoto. (2009). Innentitelbild: Synthesis of [8]Cycloparaphenylene from a Square‐Shaped Tetranuclear Platinum Complex (Angew. Chem. 4/2010). Angewandte Chemie. 122(4). 654–654. 3 indexed citations
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Takahashi, Hiroaki, Yoshiki Watanabe, Makoto Sakai, & Masanori Tachikawa. (1999). Photoinduced IntramolecularHydrogen Transfer Reaction ofOrtho Nitrobenzyl Compounds. Laser Chemistry. 19(1-4). 357–362. 2 indexed citations

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