2026 Kenji Kitamura: 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	58	7589	7338	417	404	472	14909

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Overview

Kenji Kitamura is affiliated with the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with specific emphasis on education, general health professions, safety research, nutrition and dietetics, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

Early Childhood Education and Development
Child Development and Digital Technology
Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
Educational Methods and Impacts
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Child Nutrition and Water Access
Parental Involvement in Education

Kenji Kitamura has contributed to various recent papers, which include:

Gender Stratification and Parental Stimulation of Children: Exploring Differences in Maternal and Paternal Practices, 2022, Journal of Child and Family Studies
School-Based Early Childhood Education and Children's Development in Urban Nepal, 2023, Early Education and Development
Optimal Design of Digital Early Childhood Development Interventions: A Multifactorial Randomized Control Trial, 2023, AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Concurrent validity of scores from phone-based caregiver reports on early childhood development: Evidence from the Early Childhood Development Index 2030 implementation in Nepal, 2024, Studies In Educational Evaluation
Exploring multidimensional approaches to learning during early childhood in Ghana, 2025, Applied Developmental Science

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Early Education and Development
Journal of Child and Family Studies
Studies In Educational Evaluation
Applied Developmental Science

Kenji Kitamura has collaborated regularly with a set of coauthors, including:

Dana Charles McCoy
Claudia Cappa
Nicole Petrowski
Dipu Shakya
Bilal Afroz

Best Publications

Electrically tunable excitonic light-emitting diodes based on monolayer WSe2 p-n junctions.

Jason S. Ross;Philip Klement;Aaron M. Jones;Nirmal J. Ghimire

1790
Citations
Comparative study of defect structures in lithium niobate with different compositions

N. Iyi;K. Kitamura;F. Izumi;J.K. Yamamoto

606
Citations
The role of nonstoichiometry in 180° domain switching of LiNbO3 crystals

Venkatraman Gopalan;Terence E. Mitchell;Y. Furukawa;K. Kitamura

426
Citations
Crystal growth and low coercive field 180° domain switching characteristics of stoichiometric LiTaO3

Kenji Kitamura;Yasunori Furukawa;Kazuo Niwa;Venkatraman Gopalan

372
Citations
Deintercalation of Carbonate Ions from a Hydrotalcite-Like Compound: Enhanced Decarbonation Using Acid−Salt Mixed Solution

Nobuo Iyi;Taki Matsumoto;Yoshiro Kaneko;Kenji Kitamura

360
Citations
Stoichiometric LiTaO3 single crystal growth by double crucible Czochralski method using automatic powder supply system

Yasunori Furukawa;Kenji Kitamura;Eisuke Suzuki;Kazuo Niwa

358
Citations
Green-induced infrared absorption in MgO doped LiNbO3

Y. Furukawa;K. Kitamura;A. Alexandrovski;R. K. Route

329
Citations
Photorefraction in LiNbO3 as a function of [Li]/[Nb] and MgO concentrations

Y. Furukawa;K. Kitamura;S. Takekawa;A. Miyamoto

281
Citations
Tbit/inch2 ferroelectric data storage based on scanning nonlinear dielectric microscopy

Yasuo Cho;Kenjiro Fujimoto;Yoshiomi Hiranaga;Yasuo Wagatsuma

276
Citations
Domain growth kinetics in lithium niobate single crystals studied by piezoresponse force microscopy

B. J. Rodriguez;R. J. Nemanich;A. I. Kingon;Alexei Gruverman

253
Citations
Stoichiometric Mg:LiNbO(3) as an effective material for nonlinear optics.

Yasunori Furukawa;Kenji Kitamura;Shunji Takekawa;Kazuo Niwa

228
Citations
Domain reversal and nonstoichiometry in lithium tantalate

Sungwon Kim;Venkatraman Gopalan;K. Kitamura;Y. Furukawa

223
Citations
Increased optical damage resistance in Sc2O3‐doped LiNbO3

Joyce K. Yamamoto;Kenji Kitamura;Nobuo Iyi;Shigeyuki Kimura

222
Citations
Studies on the growth aspects of semi-organic l-alanine acetate: a promising NLO crystal

R. Mohan Kumar;D. Rajan Babu;D. Jayaraman;R. Jayavel

222
Citations
Highly-bright white organic light-emitting diodes based on a single emission layer

C. H. Chuen;Y. T. Tao

218
Citations
Rf-plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy of β-Ga2O3

Encarnación G. Víllora;Kiyoshi Shimamura;Kenji Kitamura;Kazuo Aoki

202
Citations
Quasi-phase-matched optical parametric oscillation with periodically poled stoichiometric LiTaO(3).

Takaaki Hatanaka;Koichiro Nakamura;Tetsuo Taniuchi;Hiromasa Ito

199
Citations
A Novel Synthetic Route to Layered Double Hydroxides Using Hexamethylenetetramine

Nobuo Iyi;Taki Matsumoto;Yoshiro Kaneko;Kenji Kitamura

177
Citations
Powerful red-green-blue laser source pumped with a mode-locked thin disk laser.

Felix Brunner;Edith Innerhofer;Sergio V. Marchese;Thomas Südmeyer

167
Citations
Microscale to nanoscale ferroelectric domain and surface engineering of a near-stoichiometric LiNbO3 crystal

Kazuya Terabe;Masaru Nakamura;Shunji Takekawa;Kenji Kitamura

163
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