Yousoo Kim

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
206 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Yousoo Kim is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yousoo Kim has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 114 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 85 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yousoo Kim's work include Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (106 papers), Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (60 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (51 papers). Yousoo Kim is often cited by papers focused on Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (106 papers), Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (60 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (51 papers). Yousoo Kim collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and South Korea. Yousoo Kim's co-authors include Maki Kawai, Emiko Kazuma, Jaehoon Jung, Emi Minamitani, N. Takagi, Hiroshi Imada, N. Tsukahara, Ryuichi Arafune, Michael Trenary and Kazuaki Kawahara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Yousoo Kim

198 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

Structure of Silicene Grown on Ag(111) 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 100 200 300 400
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. Structure of Silicene Grown on Ag(111)
    2012 469 citations Yousoo Kim 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
Yousoo Kim Japan 39 3.3k 2.7k 2.6k 1.6k 839 206 6.0k
Luca Floreano Italy 37 2.8k 0.9× 1.7k 0.6× 2.8k 1.1× 1.9k 1.2× 530 0.6× 228 5.1k
A. Morgante Italy 39 3.0k 0.9× 2.3k 0.8× 2.6k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 446 0.5× 183 5.6k
Manabu Kiguchi Japan 43 2.2k 0.7× 2.4k 0.9× 4.1k 1.6× 1.2k 0.8× 688 0.8× 232 5.8k
Peter Liljeroth Finland 46 5.2k 1.6× 4.0k 1.5× 4.5k 1.7× 2.2k 1.4× 965 1.2× 116 9.0k
Gregor Witte Germany 48 3.2k 1.0× 2.7k 1.0× 4.7k 1.8× 1.7k 1.1× 426 0.5× 198 7.2k
Yoshitada Morikawa Japan 49 4.9k 1.5× 3.2k 1.2× 3.1k 1.2× 1.0k 0.7× 775 0.9× 249 8.3k
Vladimiro Mújica United States 42 2.1k 0.6× 3.0k 1.1× 4.3k 1.7× 980 0.6× 907 1.1× 160 6.8k
Hyoung Joon Choi South Korea 41 6.6k 2.0× 2.9k 1.1× 3.6k 1.4× 1.5k 0.9× 1.5k 1.8× 107 9.5k
Egbert Zojer Austria 52 5.1k 1.6× 2.2k 0.8× 6.3k 2.4× 2.6k 1.6× 1.2k 1.4× 231 9.7k
Manfred Buck Germany 42 2.9k 0.9× 1.7k 0.6× 4.0k 1.5× 1.7k 1.1× 431 0.5× 128 5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Yousoo Kim

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yousoo Kim

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yousoo Kim

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yousoo Kim. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yousoo Kim 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 Yousoo Kim. Yousoo Kim 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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Kazuma, Emiko, et al.. (2025). Single-Molecule Investigation of Plasmonic Near-Field Effects on a Dissociation Reaction. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(7). 1810–1816. 3 indexed citations
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Kimura, Kensuke, Ryo Tamaki, Minhui Lee, et al.. (2025). Ultrafast on-demand exciton formation in a single-molecule junction by tailored terahertz pulses. Science. 387(6738). 1077–1082. 5 indexed citations
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Chuzel, Olivier, Denis Hagebaum‐Reignier, Jean‐Luc Parrain, et al.. (2025). Competing pathways to aromaticity governed by amine dehydrogenation and metal–organic complexation in on-surface synthesis. Chemical Science. 16(7). 3198–3210.
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Suzuki, Seiya, Tomo‐o Terasawa, T. Ozawa, et al.. (2024). Germanene Reformation from Oxidized Germanene on Ag(111)/Ge(111) by Vacuum Annealing. Small Methods. 9(3). e2400863–e2400863. 2 indexed citations
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Weng, Qianchun, Susumu Komiyama, Toru Sasaki, et al.. (2024). Nanoscale thermal imaging of hot electrons by cryogenic terahertz scanning noise microscopy. Review of Scientific Instruments. 95(6). 2 indexed citations
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Katayama, Ikufumi, Kensuke Kimura, Hiroshi Imada, Yousoo Kim, & Jun Takeda. (2023). Investigation of ultrafast excited-state dynamics at the nanoscale with terahertz field-induced electron tunneling and photon emission. Journal of Applied Physics. 133(11). 6 indexed citations
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Kazuma, Emiko, Minhui Lee, Jaehoon Jung, Michael Trenary, & Yousoo Kim. (2023). Real-Space Observations of Multiple Reaction Pathways Enabled by Plasmonic Hot Carriers. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(23). 10953–10959. 9 indexed citations
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Lee, Minhui, et al.. (2023). Anomalous one-dimensional quantum confinement effect in graphene nanowrinkle. Physical review. B.. 108(4). 2 indexed citations
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Inagaki, M., et al.. (2023). Probing the Properties of Pt–Cu(111) Bimetallic Surfaces with Adsorbed CO. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 127(20). 9796–9806. 8 indexed citations
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Imai-Imada, Miyabi, Jaehyun Bae, Hiroshi Imada, et al.. (2021). Visualization of Frontier Molecular Orbital Separation of a Single Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitter by STM. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 12(31). 7512–7518. 11 indexed citations
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Park, Young-Hee, Jiwon Bang, Jaeyoon Baik, et al.. (2020). Tunable Optical Transition in 2H-MoS2 via Direct Electrochemical Engineering of Vacancy Defects and Surface S–C Bonds. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 12(36). 40870–40878. 21 indexed citations
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Kazuma, Emiko, Minhui Lee, Jaehoon Jung, Michael Trenary, & Yousoo Kim. (2020). Single‐Molecule Study of a Plasmon‐Induced Reaction for a Strongly Chemisorbed Molecule. Angewandte Chemie. 132(20). 8034–8040. 3 indexed citations
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Lim, Hyunseob, Young-Hee Park, Minhui Lee, et al.. (2020). Centimeter-Scale and Highly Crystalline Two-Dimensional Alcohol: Evidence for Graphenol (C6OH). Nano Letters. 20(3). 2107–2112. 4 indexed citations
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Kazuma, Emiko, Minhui Lee, Jaehoon Jung, Michael Trenary, & Yousoo Kim. (2020). Single‐Molecule Study of a Plasmon‐Induced Reaction for a Strongly Chemisorbed Molecule. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(20). 7960–7966. 49 indexed citations
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Hayazawa, Norihiko, Chi Chen, Emiko Kazuma, et al.. (2019). Development of tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy based on a scanning tunneling microscope in a controlled ambient environment. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. 58(SI). SI0801–SI0801. 9 indexed citations
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Kasahara, Seiji, Norihito Ikemiya, Takashi Yamamoto, et al.. (2019). In Situ Spectroscopic Study on the Surface Hydroxylation of Diamond Electrodes. Analytical Chemistry. 91(8). 4980–4986. 27 indexed citations
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Kazuma, Emiko, Jaehoon Jung, H. Ueba, Michael Trenary, & Yousoo Kim. (2018). Real-space and real-time observation of a plasmon-induced chemical reaction of a single molecule. Science. 360(6388). 521–526. 266 indexed citations

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