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58
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14909
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7587
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417

Kenji Kitamura 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 Kenji Kitamura sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 472 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kenji Kitamura 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 Kenji Kitamura sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Comparative study of defect structures in lithium niobate with different compositions

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

  • The role of nonstoichiometry in 180° domain switching of LiNbO3 crystals

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

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

    Kenji Kitamura;Yasunori Furukawa;Kazuo Niwa;Venkatraman Gopalan

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

    Nobuo Iyi;Taki Matsumoto;Yoshiro Kaneko;Kenji Kitamura

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

    Yasunori Furukawa;Kenji Kitamura;Eisuke Suzuki;Kazuo Niwa

  • Green-induced infrared absorption in MgO doped LiNbO3

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

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

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

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

    Yasuo Cho;Kenjiro Fujimoto;Yoshiomi Hiranaga;Yasuo Wagatsuma

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

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

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

    Yasunori Furukawa;Kenji Kitamura;Shunji Takekawa;Kazuo Niwa

  • Domain reversal and nonstoichiometry in lithium tantalate

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

  • Increased optical damage resistance in Sc2O3‐doped LiNbO3

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

  • 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

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

    C. H. Chuen;Y. T. Tao

  • Rf-plasma-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy of β-Ga2O3

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

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

    Takaaki Hatanaka;Koichiro Nakamura;Tetsuo Taniuchi;Hiromasa Ito

  • A Novel Synthetic Route to Layered Double Hydroxides Using Hexamethylenetetramine

    Nobuo Iyi;Taki Matsumoto;Yoshiro Kaneko;Kenji Kitamura

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

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

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

    Kazuya Terabe;Masaru Nakamura;Shunji Takekawa;Kenji Kitamura

Frequent Co-Authors

Kazuya Terabe
Kazuya Terabe National Institute for Materials Science
Sunao Kurimura
Sunao Kurimura National Institute for Materials Science
Nobuo Iyi
Nobuo Iyi National Institute for Materials Science
Dongfeng Xue
Dongfeng Xue Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
Kiyoshi Shimamura
Kiyoshi Shimamura National Institute for Materials Science
Peter Günter
Peter Günter ETH Zurich
Saulius Juodkazis
Saulius Juodkazis Swinburne University of Technology
Hiroaki Misawa
Hiroaki Misawa Hokkaido University
Takayuki Komatsu
Takayuki Komatsu Nagaoka University of Technology
Yasuo Cho
Yasuo Cho Tohoku University

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