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Katsunari Oikawa

Katsunari Oikawa

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
59
Citations
16837
World Ranking
7251
National Ranking
391

Katsunari Oikawa 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 Katsunari Oikawa sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 265 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Katsunari Oikawa 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 Katsunari Oikawa sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Katsunari Oikawa is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Materials Science. Their research primarily focuses on Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, and Computational Mechanics.

Their work encompasses various topics, including:

  • Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels
  • High-Temperature Coating Behaviors
  • High Temperature Alloys and Creep
  • Metallurgy and Material Forming
  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties
  • Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics

Oikawa has been published frequently in several academic venues. The most common journals where their work appears are:

  • Journal of Materials Research and Technology
  • ISIJ International
  • Journal of Crystal Growth
  • Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion
  • MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS

Some notable recent papers by Oikawa include:

  • Experimental investigations of fcc/bcc phase equilibria in the Cr-Mn-Ni ternary system (2020), published in Intermetallics
  • Quantitative analysis of microstructure evolution, stress partitioning and thermodynamics in the dynamic transformation of Fe-14Ni alloy (2023), published in Journal of Material Science and Technology
  • Investigation on the σ-phase-related equilibria in Cr-Mn-Co system (2021), published in Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • Generation and Progress Behavior of Strain-Induced Abnormally Large Grains in Superalloy 718 (2020), published in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A
  • Mechanical and thermoelectric properties of iridium-ruthenium alloy grown by the micro-pulling-down method (2021), published in Journal of Crystal Growth

Frequent collaborators with Oikawa include Nobufumi Ueshima, Jingjing Ruan, Rikito Murakami, Kei Kamada, and Akira Yoshikawa. Among these, Nobufumi Ueshima has coauthored 13 publications alongside Oikawa, while others have contributed to fewer but multiple papers.

Best Publications

  • Magnetic-field-induced shape recovery by reverse phase transformation.

    R. Kainuma;Y. Imano;W. Ito;Y. Sutou

  • Magnetic and martensitic transformations of NiMnX(X=In,Sn,Sb) ferromagnetic shape memory alloys

    Y. Sutou;Y. Imano;N. Koeda;T. Omori

  • Cobalt-base high-temperature alloys

    J. Sato;T. Omori;K. Oikawa;Ikuo Ohnuma

  • Metamagnetic shape memory effect in a Heusler-type Ni43Co7Mn39Sn11 polycrystalline alloy

    R. Kainuma;Y. Imano;W. Ito;H. Morito

  • Promising ferromagnetic Ni–Co–Al shape memory alloy system

    K. Oikawa;L. Wulff;T. Iijima;F. Gejima

  • Magnetic and martensitic phase transitions in ferromagnetic Ni–Ga–Fe shape memory alloys

    K. Oikawa;T. Ota;T. Ohmori;Y. Tanaka

  • Phase equilibria and phase transformations in new B2-type ferromagnetic shape memory alloys of Co-Ni-Ga and Co-Ni-Al systems

    Katsunari Oikawa;Takuya Ota;Fumihiko Gejima;Toshihiro Ohmori

  • Effect of magnetic field on martensitic transition of Ni46Mn41In13 Heusler alloy

    K. Oikawa;W. Ito;Y. Imano;Y. Sutou

  • Observation of large magnetoresistance of magnetic Heusler alloy Ni50Mn36Sn14 in high magnetic fields

    Keiichi Koyama;Hironari Okada;Kazuo Watanabe;Takeshi Kanomata

  • Martensitic and Magnetic Transformation Behaviors in Heusler-Type NiMnIn and NiCoMnIn Metamagnetic Shape Memory Alloys

    W. Ito;Y. Imano;R. Kainuma;Y. Sutou

  • Phase Equilibria and Microstructure on γ' Phase in Co-Ni-Al-W System

    Kazuya Shinagawa;Toshihiro Omori;Jun Sato;Katsunari Oikawa

  • The magnetic and structural properties of the magnetic shape memory compound Ni2Mn1.44Sn0.56

    P J Brown;A P Gandy;K Ishida;W Ito

  • Observation of field-induced reverse transformation in ferromagnetic shape memory alloy Ni50Mn36Sn14

    Keiichi Koyama;Kazuo Watanabe;Takeshi Kanomata;Ryosuke Kainuma

  • Partition behavior of alloying elements and phase transformation temperatures in Co–Al–W-base quaternary systems

    Toshihiro Omori;Katsunari Oikawa;Jun Sato;Ikuo Ohnuma

  • Kinetic arrest of martensitic transformation in the NiCoMnIn metamagnetic shape memory alloy

    Wataru Ito;Kouhei Ito;Rie Y. Umetsu;Ryosuke Kainuma

  • The Control of the Morphology of MnS Inclusions in Steel during Solidification

    Katsunari Oikawa;Hiroshi Ohtani;Kiyohito Ishida;Taiji Nishizawa

  • Low-temperature ordering of L10?CoPt thin films promoted by Sn, Pb, Sb, and Bi additives

    O. Kitakami;Y. Shimada;K. Oikawa;H. Daimon

  • Magnetic and Martensitic Phase Transformations in a Ni54Ga27Fe19 Alloy

    Katsunari Oikawa;Takuya Ota;Yuji Sutou;Toshihiro Ohmori

  • Stress-strain characteristics in Ni–Ga–Fe ferromagnetic shape memory alloys

    Y. Sutou;N. Kamiya;T. Omori;R. Kainuma

  • Ductility enhancement by boron addition in Co–Al–W high-temperature alloys

    Kazuya Shinagawa;Toshihiro Omori;Katsunari Oikawa;Ryosuke Kainuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Kiyohito Ishida
Kiyohito Ishida Tohoku University
Ryosuke Kainuma
Ryosuke Kainuma Tohoku University
Toshihiro Omori
Toshihiro Omori Tohoku University
Yuji Sutou
Yuji Sutou Tohoku University
Takeshi Kanomata
Takeshi Kanomata Tohoku Gakuin University
Kazuaki Fukamichi
Kazuaki Fukamichi Tohoku University
Yutaka Shimada
Yutaka Shimada Tohoku University
Ikuo Ohnuma
Ikuo Ohnuma National Institute for Materials Science
Gaowu Qin
Gaowu Qin Northeastern University
Toshiyuki Takagi
Toshiyuki Takagi Tohoku University

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