Yuichi Negishi

19.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
295 papers, 16.4k citations indexed

About

Yuichi Negishi is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuichi Negishi has authored 295 papers receiving a total of 16.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 252 papers in Materials Chemistry, 108 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 52 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Yuichi Negishi's work include Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (187 papers), Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (113 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (100 papers). Yuichi Negishi is often cited by papers focused on Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications (187 papers), Advanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis (113 papers) and Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications (100 papers). Yuichi Negishi collaborates with scholars based in Japan, India and China. Yuichi Negishi's co-authors include Tatsuya Tsukuda, Katsuyuki Nobusada, Wataru Kurashige, Hironori Tsunoyama, Yoshiki Niihori, Yukatsu Shichibu, Tarasankar Pal, Hidehiro Sakurai, Sakiat Hossain and Tokuhisa Kawawaki 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

Yuichi Negishi

284 papers receiving 16.2k 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.

Glutathione-Protected Gold Clusters Revisited: Bridging the Gap between Gold(I)−Thiolate Complexes and Thiolate-Protected Gold Nanocrystals

2005 1.5k citations Yuichi Negishi et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Size-Specific Catalytic Activity of Polymer-Stabilized Gold Nanoclusters for Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation in Water

2005 779 citations Yuichi Negishi 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						Papers	Cites
Yuichi Negishi Japan	64	14.5k	7.9k	2.0k	2.0k	1.5k	295	16.4k
Tatsuya Tsukuda Japan	69	16.3k 1.1×	8.8k 1.1×	3.8k 1.9×	1.5k 0.8×	856 0.6×	281	19.0k
Manzhou Zhu China	69	21.2k 1.5×	11.7k 1.5×	2.3k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	476	24.0k
Yong Pei China	61	9.4k 0.6×	3.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	3.5k 1.7×	3.4k 2.3×	301	12.6k
Huifeng Qian United States	57	10.9k 0.8×	6.1k 0.8×	943 0.5×	834 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	85	12.1k
Henrik Grönbeck Sweden	53	9.4k 0.6×	2.5k 0.3×	986 0.5×	1.9k 0.9×	2.0k 1.4×	239	11.2k
Christine M. Aikens United States	50	8.8k 0.6×	6.3k 0.8×	588 0.3×	410 0.2×	668 0.5×	153	10.4k
Hironori Tsunoyama Japan	37	6.1k 0.4×	2.9k 0.4×	2.2k 1.1×	699 0.3×	516 0.4×	89	7.3k
Chenjie Zeng United States	41	10.3k 0.7×	6.2k 0.8×	634 0.3×	801 0.4×	440 0.3×	64	10.9k
Quan‐Ming Wang China	62	9.6k 0.7×	5.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.0×	467 0.2×	444 0.3×	208	11.4k
Zhikun Wu China	55	10.3k 0.7×	6.4k 0.8×	698 0.3×	703 0.3×	352 0.2×	150	11.0k

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Pollitt, Stephan, Sakiat Hossain, Michael Stöger‐Pollach, et al.. (2025). Engineering Catalytic Efficiency by Thiolate-Protected Trimetallic (Cu, Pd, Au) Nanoclusters: Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts for Water–Gas Shift. ACS Catalysis. 15(17). 15459–15474. 2 indexed citations

Yamazaki, Yuki, et al.. (2025). Activation of photocatalytic CO₂ reduction by loading hydrophobic thiolate-protected Au₂₅ nanocluster cocatalyst. Nanoscale Advances. 7(6). 1518–1523. 2 indexed citations

Biswas, Sourav, Tomoya Tanaka, Yoshiki Niihori, et al.. (2025). Highly Selective Methanol Synthesis Using Electrochemical CO ₂ Reduction with Defect‐Engineered Cu ₅₈ Nanoclusters. Small Science. 5(2). 1 indexed citations

Biswas, Sourav, Bo Li, Song Wang, et al.. (2025). Atomically Precise [Cu ₂₃ H ₄ (SC ₇ H ₇ ) ₁₈ (PPh ₃ ) ₆ ] Nanocluster: Structural Integration of Johnson Solids through a Cu(0) Center and Electrocatalytic Functionality. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(27). 23733–23742. 3 indexed citations

Niihori, Yoshiki, et al.. (2025). Synthesis of Au ₁₃ -based building block clusters for programmed dimer formation and Au ₁₃ cluster dimer photoexcitation properties. Nanoscale. 17(20). 12695–12703. 3 indexed citations

Tachibana, H., et al.. (2025). An atomically precise Pt₁₇ nanocluster: its electronic structure and high activity for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 13(17). 12124–12132. 3 indexed citations

Niihori, Yoshiki, et al.. (2024). Triplet–triplet annihilation-based photon upconversion using nanoparticles and nanoclusters. Materials Horizons. 11(10). 2304–2322. 17 indexed citations

Das, Saikat, et al.. (2024). Metal–organic frameworks as promising electrocatalysts for the nitrogen reduction reaction: mapping the research landscape and identifying future trends. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 12(39). 26350–26366. 7 indexed citations

Biswas, Sourav, Sakiat Hossain, Saikat Das, et al.. (2024). Luminescent Hydride-Free [Cu₇(SC₅H₉)₇(PPh₃)₃] Nanocluster: Facilitating Highly Selective C–C Bond Formation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(30). 20937–20944. 26 indexed citations

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Das, Saikat, et al.. (2024). The structure and application portfolio of intricately architected silver cluster-assembled materials. Nanoscale. 16(20). 9642–9658. 7 indexed citations

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Kawawaki, Tokuhisa, Daisuke Hirayama, Kosaku Kato, et al.. (2023). Carbon Nitride Loaded with an Ultrafine, Monodisperse, Metallic Platinum‐Cluster Cocatalyst for the Photocatalytic Hydrogen‐Evolution Reaction. Small. 19(34). e2208287–e2208287. 32 indexed citations

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Kawawaki, Tokuhisa, Sakiat Hossain, Yoshiki Niihori, et al.. (2023). Improved activity for the oxygen evolution reaction using a tiara-like thiolate-protected nickel nanocluster. Nanoscale. 15(11). 5201–5208. 16 indexed citations

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Biswas, Sourav, Saikat Das, & Yuichi Negishi. (2023). Progress and prospects in the design of functional atomically-precise Ag(I)-thiolate nanoclusters and their assembly approaches. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 492. 215255–215255. 53 indexed citations

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Biswas, Sourav, Yoshiki Niihori, Masaaki Mitsui, et al.. (2023). Nested Keplerian architecture of [Cu₅₈H₂₀(SPr)₃₆(PPh₃)₈]²⁺ nanoclusters. Chemical Communications. 59(61). 9336–9339. 20 indexed citations

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Kawawaki, Tokuhisa, Tomoya Tanaka, Yoshiki Niihori, et al.. (2023). Pt₁₇ nanocluster electrocatalysts: preparation and origin of high oxygen reduction reaction activity. Nanoscale. 15(16). 7272–7279. 29 indexed citations

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Katsumi, Ryota, Tokuhisa Kawawaki, S. Yabukami, et al.. (2023). Rapid virus detection using magnetic second harmonics of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles. AIP Advances. 13(2). 3 indexed citations

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Niihori, Yoshiki, et al.. (2023). Vertex‐Shared Linear Superatomic Molecules: Stepping Stones to Novel Materials Composed of Noble Metal Clusters. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(5). 2300024–2300024. 14 indexed citations

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Biswas, Sourav, Saikat Das, & Yuichi Negishi. (2023). Advances in Cu nanocluster catalyst design: recent progress and promising applications. Nanoscale Horizons. 8(11). 1509–1522. 37 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yu, Tsukasa Irie, Sourav Biswas, et al.. (2023). Nanoporous 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks with pts Topology as Anticancer Drug Nanocarriers. ACS Applied Nano Materials. 6(20). 19210–19217. 11 indexed citations

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Ray, Chaiti, Soumen Dutta, Yuichi Negishi, & Tarasankar Pal. (2016). A new stable Pd–Mn₃O₄ nanocomposite as an efficient electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Chemical Communications. 34 indexed citations

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