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Materials Science

D-Index
69
Citations
16378
World Ranking
4659
National Ranking
217

Chemistry

D-Index
66
Citations
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World Ranking
7292
National Ranking
478

Akimitsu Narita publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Akimitsu Narita sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 332 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Akimitsu Narita D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Akimitsu Narita sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Overview

Akimitsu Narita is affiliated with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. The research focus centers around several interconnected fields including Materials Science, Engineering, and Chemistry. Subfields prominently represented in their publications include Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientific work involves key topics such as Graphene research and applications, Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, and X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography.

Publication venues where Akimitsu Narita has contributed frequently include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators in research have been:

  • Kläus Müllen
  • Román Fasel
  • Pascal Ruffieux
  • Xinliang Feng
  • Carlo A. Pignedoli

Recent publications include:

  • Multilayer stabilization for fabricating high-loading single-atom catalysts, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Graphene Nanoribbons: On-Surface Synthesis and Integration into Electronic Devices, 2020, Advanced Materials
  • Amplification of Dissymmetry Factors in π-Extended [7]- and [9]Helicenes, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Small Size, Big Impact: Recent Progress in Bottom-Up Synthesized Nanographenes for Optoelectronic and Energy Applications, 2022, Advanced Science
  • Negatively Curved Nanographene with Heptagonal and [5]Helicene Units, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • New advances in nanographene chemistry

    Akimitsu Narita;Xiao-Ye Wang;Xinliang Feng;Klaus Müllen

  • Exploration of pyrazine-embedded antiaromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons generated by solution and on-surface azomethine ylide homocoupling

    Xiao-Ye Wang;Marcus Richter;Yuanqin He;Jonas Björk

  • Synthesis of structurally well-defined and liquid-phase-processable graphene nanoribbons

    Akimitsu Narita;Xinliang Feng;Yenny Hernandez;Søren A. Jensen;Søren A. Jensen

  • Engineering of robust topological quantum phases in graphene nanoribbons.

    Oliver Gröning;Shiyong Wang;Shiyong Wang;Xuelin Yao;Carlo A. Pignedoli

  • Extremely efficient terahertz high-harmonic generation in graphene by hot Dirac fermions

    Hassan A. Hafez;Sergey Kovalev;Jan-Christoph Deinert;Zoltán Mics

  • Short-channel field-effect transistors with 9-atom and 13-atom wide graphene nanoribbons

    Juan Pablo Llinas;Juan Pablo Llinas;Andrew Fairbrother;Gabriela Borin Barin;Wu Shi;Wu Shi

  • Heteroatom-Doped Nanographenes with Structural Precision.

    Xiao-Ye Wang;Xiao-Ye Wang;Xuelin Yao;Akimitsu Narita;Akimitsu Narita;Klaus Müllen

  • Magnetic edge states and coherent manipulation of graphene nanoribbons

    Michael Slota;Ashok Keerthi;William K. Myers;Evgeny Tretyakov

  • Precision synthesis versus bulk-scale fabrication of graphenes

    Xiao-Ye Wang;Akimitsu Narita;Klaus Müllen

  • On-Surface Synthesis and Characterization of 9-Atom Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons

    Leopold Talirz;Hajo Söde;Tim Dumslaff;Shiyong Wang

  • Engineering of robust topological quantum phases in graphene nanoribbons

    Oliver Gröning;Shiyong Wang;Shiyong Wang;Xuelin Yao;Carlo A. Pignedoli

  • Multilayer stabilization for fabricating high-loading single-atom catalysts.

    Yazhou Zhou;Xiafang Tao;Xiafang Tao;Guangbo Chen;Ruihu Lu

  • Graphene Nanoribbons: On-Surface Synthesis and Integration into Electronic Devices.

    Zongping Chen;Akimitsu Narita;Akimitsu Narita;Klaus Müllen;Klaus Müllen

  • Atomically precise edge chlorination of nanographenes and its application in graphene nanoribbons

    Yuan-Zhi Tan;Bo Yang;Khaled Parvez;Akimitsu Narita

  • Structurally Defined Graphene Nanoribbons with High Lateral Extension

    M. G. Schwab;A. Narita;Y. Hernandez;T. Balandina

  • Amplification of Dissymmetry Factors in π-Extended [7]- and [9]Helicenes.

    Zijie Qiu;Cheng-Wei Ju;Lucas Frédéric;Yunbin Hu;Yunbin Hu

  • Free-Standing Monolayer Two-Dimensional Supramolecular Organic Framework with Good Internal Order.

    Martin Pfeffermann;Renhao Dong;Robert Graf;Wojciech Zajaczkowski

  • Bottom-up synthesis of chemically precise graphene nanoribbons.

    Akimitsu Narita;Xinliang Feng;Klaus Müllen

  • Benzo-Fused Double [7]Carbohelicene: Synthesis, Structures, and Physicochemical Properties

    Yunbin Hu;Xiao-Ye Wang;Pi-Xian Peng;Xin-Chang Wang

  • Bottom-up synthesis of liquid-phase-processable graphene nanoribbons with near-infrared absorption.

    Akimitsu Narita;Ivan A. Verzhbitskiy;Wout Frederickx;Kunal S. Mali

  • Small Size, Big Impact: Recent Progress in Bottom‐Up Synthesized Nanographenes for Optoelectronic and Energy Applications

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  • Quantum units from the topological engineering of molecular graphenoids.

    Federico Lombardi;Alessandro Lodi;Ji Ma;Junzhi Liu

  • Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons by Ambient-Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition and Device Integration

    Zongping Chen;Wen Zhang;Carlos-Andres Palma;Alberto Lodi Rizzini

  • On-Surface Growth Dynamics of Graphene Nanoribbons: The Role of Halogen Functionalization

    Marco Di Giovannantonio;Okan Deniz;José I. Urgel;Roland Widmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Müllen
Klaus Müllen Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Roman Fasel
Roman Fasel Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Xinliang Feng
Xinliang Feng TU Dresden
Pascal Ruffieux
Pascal Ruffieux Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Mischa Bonn
Mischa Bonn Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Dieter Schollmeyer
Dieter Schollmeyer Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Zhaoyang Liu
Zhaoyang Liu Hamad bin Khalifa University
Guglielmo Lanzani
Guglielmo Lanzani Italian Institute of Technology
Stefan Hecht
Stefan Hecht Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Wojciech Pisula
Wojciech Pisula Max Planck Society

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