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D-Index
55
Citations
11996
World Ranking
12036
National Ranking
894

Kazunobu Sato publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kazunobu Sato sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 376 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Kazunobu Sato D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kazunobu Sato is affiliated with Osaka Metropolitan University in Japan and specializes in materials science with a focus on materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and organic chemistry. Their research covers several intersecting fields including atomic and molecular physics, optics, and artificial intelligence as applied within material sciences.

The scientist's publication record includes significant contributions to crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, magnetism in coordination complexes, electron spin resonance studies, and the synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds. Additional research interests encompass lanthanide and transition metal complexes as well as aspects of quantum information and cryptography.

Frequent publishing venues reflect the range of expertise, with notable appearances in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Applied Magnetic Resonance
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Collaborative efforts are demonstrated through repeated co-authorship with several colleagues, including Takeji Takui, Daisuke Shiomi, Kenji Sugisaki, and Shuichi Suzuki.

Selected recent papers by Kazunobu Sato include:

  • Synthesis and Isolation of a Kinetically Stabilized Crystalline Triangulene (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Bis-periazulene (Cycloheptadeffluorene) as a Nonalternant Isomer of Pyrene: Synthesis and Characterization of Its Triaryl Derivatives (2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Synthesis and Isolation of a Kekulé Hydrocarbon with a Triplet Ground State (2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • A Kinetically Stabilized Nitrogen-Doped Triangulene Cation: Stable and NIR Fluorescent Diradical Cation with Triplet Ground State (2023, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Bayesian phase difference estimation: a general quantum algorithm for the direct calculation of energy gaps (2021, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics)

Best Publications

  • Synthetic organic spin chemistry for structurally well-defined open-shell graphene fragments

    Yasushi Morita;Shuichi Suzuki;Kazunobu Sato;Takeji Takui

  • Organic tailored batteries materials using stable open-shell molecules with degenerate frontier orbitals

    Yasushi Morita;Shinsuke Nishida;Shinsuke Nishida;Tsuyoshi Murata;Miki Moriguchi

  • A Stable Neutral Hydrocarbon Radical: Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Physical Properties of 2,5,8-Tri-tert-butyl-phenalenyl

    Kosaburo Goto;Takashi Kubo;Kagetoshi Yamamoto;Kazuhiro Nakasuji

  • Synthesis, intermolecular interaction, and semiconductive behavior of a delocalized singlet biradical hydrocarbon.

    Takashi Kubo;Akihiro Shimizu;Maki Sakamoto;Mikio Uruichi

  • Synthesis and Characterization of Teranthene: A Singlet Biradical Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Having Kekulé Structures

    Akihito Konishi;Yasukazu Hirao;Masayoshi Nakano;Akihiro Shimizu

  • Ferromagnetism in a transition metal atom doped ZnO

    K. Sato;H. Katayama-Yoshida

  • Indeno[2,1‐b]fluorene: A 20‐π‐Electron Hydrocarbon with Very Low‐Energy Light Absorption

    Akihiro Shimizu;Ryohei Kishi;Masayoshi Nakano;Daisuke Shiomi

  • Aromaticity on the pancake-bonded dimer of neutral phenalenyl radical as studied by MS and NMR spectroscopies and NICS analysis.

    Shuichi Suzuki;Yasushi Morita;Kozo Fukui;Kazunobu Sato

  • Thermochromism in an organic crystal based on the coexistence of sigma- and pi-dimers.

    Yasushi Morita;Yasushi Morita;Shuichi Suzuki;Kozo Fukui;Shigeaki Nakazawa

  • A New Trend in Phenalenyl Chemistry: A Persistent Neutral Radical, 2,5,8‐Tri‐tert‐butyl‐1,3‐diazaphenalenyl, and the Excited Triplet State of the Gable syn‐Dimer in the Crystal of Column Motif

    Yasushi Morita;Takashi Aoki;Kozo Fukui;Shigeaki Nakazawa

  • Change in receptor-binding specificity of recent human influenza A viruses (H3N2): a single amino acid change in hemagglutinin altered its recognition of sialyloligosaccharides.

    E. Nobusawa;H. Ishihara;T. Morishita;K. Sato

  • Alternating covalent bonding interactions in a one-dimensional chain of a phenalenyl-based singlet biradical molecule having Kekulé structures.

    Akihiro Shimizu;Takashi Kubo;Mikio Uruichi;Kyuya Yakushi

  • The first detection of a Clar's hydrocarbon, 2,6,10-tri-tert-butyltriangulene: a ground-state triplet of non-Kekulé polynuclear benzenoid hydrocarbon.

    Jun Inoue;Kozo Fukui;Takashi Kubo;Shigeaki Nakazawa

  • Mononuclear Copper(II)−Superoxo Complexes that Mimic the Structure and Reactivity of the Active Centers of PHM and DβM

    Atsushi Kunishita;Minoru Kubo;Hideki Sugimoto;Takashi Ogura

  • Singlet Biradical Character of Phenalenyl-Based Kekulé Hydrocarbon with Naphthoquinoid Structure

    Takashi Kubo;Akihiro Shimizu;Mikio Uruichi;Kyuya Yakushi

  • A Synthetic Two‐Spin Quantum Bit: g‐Engineered Exchange‐Coupled Biradical Designed for Controlled‐NOT Gate Operations

    Shigeaki Nakazawa;Shinsuke Nishida;Tomoaki Ise;Tomohiro Yoshino

  • Polycationic High-Spin States of One- and Two-Dimensional (Diarylamino)benzenes, Prototypical Model Units for Purely Organic Ferromagnetic Metals As Studied by Pulsed ESR/Electron Spin Transient Nutation Spectroscopy

    Kazunobu Sato;Masafumi Yano;Mutsuo Furuichi;Daisuke Shiomi

  • Molecular electron-spin quantum computers and quantum information processing: pulse-based electron magnetic resonance spin technology applied to matter spin-qubits

    Kazunobu Sato;Shigeaki Nakazawa;Robabeh Rahimi;Tomoaki Ise

  • Spin transfer and solvato-/thermochromism induced by intramolecular electron transfer in a purely organic open-shell system.

    Shinsuke Nishida;Yasushi Morita;Yasushi Morita;Kozo Fukui;Kazunobu Sato

  • One-electron reduction of kinetically stabilized dipnictenes: synthesis of dipnictene anion radicals.

    Takahiro Sasamori;Eiko Mieda;Noriyoshi Nagahora;Kazunobu Sato

Frequent Co-Authors

Takeji Takui
Takeji Takui Osaka Metropolitan University
Daisuke Shiomi
Daisuke Shiomi Osaka Metropolitan University
Yasushi Morita
Yasushi Morita Aichi Institute of Technology
Kazuhiro Nakasuji
Kazuhiro Nakasuji Osaka University
Akihiro Shimizu
Akihiro Shimizu Osaka University
Takashi Kubo
Takashi Kubo Osaka University
Katsumi Ida
Katsumi Ida National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Masayoshi Nakano
Masayoshi Nakano Osaka University
Munetaka Oyama
Munetaka Oyama Kyoto University
Hiroyuki Nishide
Hiroyuki Nishide Waseda University

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