2026 Kazuyuki Hirao: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	86	2054	1981	85	83	744	27964

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Materials Science

2054

1981

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27964

Overview

Kazuyuki Hirao is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has extensively published in the field of medicine, with a particular focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their body of work includes contributions to subfields such as internal medicine, immunology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and molecular biology.

Their research topics primarily cover atrial fibrillation management and outcomes, cardiac arrhythmias and treatments, cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies, venous thromboembolism diagnosis and management, antiplatelet therapy and cardiovascular diseases, and cardiac imaging and diagnostics.

Frequent publication venues for Kazuyuki Hirao include:

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
International Heart Journal
Circulation Journal
JACC Case Reports
Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Some of the recent papers associated with the research domain linked to or related to Kazuyuki Hirao are:

Neutrophil extracellular traps-mediated Beclin-1 suppression aggravates atherosclerosis by inhibiting macrophage autophagy, 2022, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
Efficacy and Safety of Left Atrial Appendage Closure With WATCHMAN in Japanese Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Patients - Final 2-Year Follow-up Outcome Data From the SALUTE Trial -, 2020, Circulation Journal
JCS 2021 Guideline on Radiation Safety in Cardiology, 2022, Circulation Journal
Cryoballoon ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in Japan: 2-year safety and efficacy results from the Cryo AF Global Registry, 2022, Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
Clinical investigation of the durability of the lesions created by left atrial linear ablation with a cryoballoon, 2020, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Kazuyuki Hirao has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

Tetsuo Sasano
Kaoru Okishige
Mihoko Kawabata
Masahiko Goya
Yasuteru Yamauchi

Best Publications

Writing waveguides in glass with a femtosecond laser

K. M. Davis;K. Miura;Naoki Sugimoto;Kazuyuki Hirao

3534
Citations
Photowritten optical waveguides in various glasses with ultrashort pulse laser

K. Miura;Jianrong Qiu;H. Inouye;T. Mitsuyu

1202
Citations
Fabrication of long-period fiber gratings by focused irradiation of infrared femtosecond laser pulses

Yuki Kondo;Kentaro Nouchi;Tsuneo Mitsuyu;Masaru Watanabe

601
Citations
Synthesis of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles with Mesoporous Anatase Wall and High Photocatalytic Activity

Tianyou Peng;De Zhao;Ke Dai;Wei Shi

515
Citations
Ultrafast dynamics of nonequilibrium electrons in a gold nanoparticle system

Hideyuki Inouye;Koichiro Tanaka;Ichiro Tanahashi;Kazuyuki Hirao

360
Citations
Monolithic silica columns for high-efficiency separations by high-performance liquid chromatography.

Norio Ishizuka;Hiroshi Kobayashi;Hiroyoshi Minakuchi;Kazuki Nakanishi

293
Citations
Ultrafast manipulation of self-assembled form birefringence in glass

Yasuhiko Shimotsuma;Masaaki Sakakura;Peter G. Kazansky;Martynas Beresna

280
Citations
Upconversion properties, multiphonon relaxation, and local environment of rare-earth ions in fluorophosphate glasses.

Setsuhisa Tanabe;Shigeo Yoshii;Kazuyuki Hirao;Naohiro Soga

273
Citations
``Quill'' writing with ultrashort light pulses in transparent materials

Peter G. Kazansky;Weijia Yang;Erica Bricchi;James Bovatsek

272
Citations
Manipulation of gold nanoparticles inside transparent materials.

Jianrong Qiu;Xiongwei Jiang;Congshan Zhu;Mitsuru Shirai

271
Citations
Femtosecond laser-induced three-dimensional bright and long-lasting phosphorescence inside calcium aluminosilicate glasses doped with rare earth ions

Jianrong Qiu;K. Miura;H. Inouye;Y. Kondo

257
Citations
Synthesis of Monolithic Al2O3 with Well-Defined Macropores and Mesostructured Skeletons via the Sol−Gel Process Accompanied by Phase Separation

Yasuaki Tokudome;Koji Fujita;Kazuki Nakanishi;Kiyotaka Miura

245
Citations
Space-selective growth of frequency-conversion crystals in glasses with ultrashort infrared laser pulses

Kiyotaka Miura;Jianrong Qiu;Tsuneo Mitsuyu;Kazuyuki Hirao

237
Citations
Anomalous anisotropic light scattering in Ge-doped silica glass

P.G. Kazansky;H. Inouye;T. Mitsuyu;K. Miura

237
Citations
Upconversion fluorescences of TeO2- and Ga2O3-based oxide glasses containing Er3+

S. Tanabe;K. Hirao;N. Soga

231
Citations
Quantitative infrared spectroscopic measurement of hydroxyl concentrations in silica glass

K.M. Davis;A. Agarwal;M. Tomozawa;K. Hirao

214
Citations
Space-selective precipitation of metal nanoparticles inside glasses

Jianrong Qiu;Mitsuru Shirai;Takayuki Nakaya;Jinhai Si

213
Citations
Room-temperature persistent hole burning of Sm(2+) in oxide glasses.

K. Hirao;S. Todoroki;D. H. Cho;N. Soga

212
Citations
Long-lasting phosphorescence in Ce3+-doped Ca2Al2SiO7 and CaYAl3O7 crystals

Nobuhiro Kodama;Tomoko Takahashi;Mitsuo Yamaga;Yoshifumi Tanii

208
Citations
Microhardness of SiO2 Glass in Various Environments

Kazuyuki Hirao;Minoru Tomozawa

201
Citations
Fabrication of titania tubules with high surface area and well-developed mesostructural walls by surfactant-mediated templating method

Tianyou Peng;Akira Hasegawa;and Jianrong Qiu;Kazuyuki Hirao

195
Citations