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Motohiro Nakano

Motohiro Nakano

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
52
Citations
9692
World Ranking
13499
National Ranking
1032

Motohiro Nakano 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 Motohiro Nakano sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 239 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Motohiro Nakano 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 Motohiro Nakano sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Motohiro Nakano is affiliated with Osaka University in Japan and has focused primarily on materials science, with a particular emphasis on materials chemistry. Their research spans multiple subfields including electronic, optical, and magnetic materials, organic chemistry, spectroscopy, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's extensive publication record highlights key topics such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, magnetism in coordination complexes, material dynamics and properties, lanthanide and transition metal complexes, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, and glass properties and applications.

Frequent venues for their publications include The Cambridge Structural Database, where they have contributed extensively, along with Nature Communications, Inorganic Chemistry, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Chemistry - A European Journal.

  • Quenching and Restoration of Orbital Angular Momentum through a Dynamic Bond in a Cobalt(II) Complex, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Understanding the emergence of the boson peak in molecular glasses, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Coexistence of Spin-Lattice Relaxation and Phonon-Bottleneck Processes in GdIII-Phthlocyaninato Triple-Decker Complexes under Highly Diluted Conditions, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Water-oriented magnetic anisotropy transition, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Low-Temperature Heat Capacity Anomalies in Ordered and Disordered Phases of Normal and Deuterated Thiophene, 2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Motohiro Nakano has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Yuji Miyazaki, Kiyonori Takahashi, Shin-ichiro Noro, Tomoyuki Akutagawa, and Takayoshi Nakamura, reflecting a wide collaborative network within their domain.

Best Publications

  • The First Cobalt Single-Molecule Magnet

    En-Che Yang;David N Hendrickson;Wolfgang Wernsdorfer;Motohiro Nakano

  • Cobalt single-molecule magnet

    En-Che Yang;David N. Hendrickson;Wolfgang Wernsdorfer;Motohiro Nakano

  • Simple Salt-Coordinated n-Type Nanocarbon Materials Stable in Air

    Yoshiyuki Nonoguchi;Motohiro Nakano;Tomoko Murayama;Harutoshi Hagino

  • Single-molecule magnets: a new class of tetranuclear manganese magnets.

    Jae Yoo;Euan K. Brechin;Akira Yamaguchi;Motohiro Nakano

  • Wheel-shaped ErIIIZnII3 single-molecule magnet: A macrocyclic approach to designing magnetic anisotropy

    Aika Yamashita;Akiko Watanabe;Shigehisa Akine;Tatsuya Nabeshima

  • Single-molecule magnets of ferrous cubes: structurally controlled magnetic anisotropy.

    Hiroki Oshio;Norihisa Hoshino;Tasuku Ito;Motohiro Nakano

  • Structural Design of Easy‐Axis Magnetic Anisotropy and Determination of Anisotropic Parameters of LnIII ? CuII Single‐Molecule Magnets

    Takashi Kajiwara;Takashi Kajiwara;Motohiro Nakano;Kohei Takahashi;Shinya Takaishi

  • Multi-path magnetic relaxation of mono-dysprosium(III) single-molecule magnet with extremely high barrier.

    Akiko Watanabe;Aika Yamashita;Motohiro Nakano;Tomoo Yamamura

  • Calorimetric Investigation of Phase Transitions Occurring in Molecule-Based Magnets†

    Michio Sorai;Motohiro Nakano;Yuji Miyazaki

  • Exchange bias in Ni4 single-molecule magnets

    En-Che Yang;Wolfgang Wernsdorfer;Stephen Hill;Rachel S. Edwards

  • A single-chain magnet formed by a twisted arrangement of ions with easy-plane magnetic anisotropy.

    Takashi Kajiwara;Motohiro Nakano;Yukihiro Kaneko;Shinya Takaishi

  • High-Spin Molecules with Magnetic Anisotropy toward Single-Molecule Magnets

    Hiroki Oshio;Motohiro Nakano

  • Magnetic anisotropies in paramagnetic polynuclear metal complexes

    Motohiro Nakano;Hiroki Oshio

  • Magnetic relaxation of single-molecule magnets in an external magnetic field: an ising dimer of a terbium(III)-phthalocyaninate triple-decker complex.

    Keiichi Katoh;Takashi Kajiwara;Motohiro Nakano;Yasuhiro Nakazawa

  • Giant heterometallic Cu17Mn28 cluster with Td symmetry and high-spin ground state

    Wen-Guo Wang;Ai-Ju Zhou;Wei-Xiong Zhang;Ming-Liang Tong

  • Coordination-tuned single-molecule-magnet behavior of TbIII-CuII dinuclear systems.

    Takashi Kajiwara;Motohiro Nakano;Shinya Takaishi;Masahiro Yamashita

  • A new class of single-molecule magnets: mixed-valent [Mn4(O2CMe)2(Hpdm)6][ClO4]2 with an S = 8 ground state

    Euan K. Brechin;John C. Huffman;George Christou;Jae Yoo

  • High‐Spin Wheel of a Heptanuclear Mixed‐Valent FeII,III Complex

    Hiroki Oshio;Norihisa Hoshino;Tasuku Ito;Motohiro Nakano

  • Antiferromagnetic FeIII6 Ring and Single-Molecule Magnet MnII3MnIII4 Wheel

    Satoshi Koizumi;Masayuki Nihei;Motohiro Nakano;Hiroki Oshio

  • Update 1 of: Calorimetric Investigation of Phase Transitions Occurring in Molecule-Based Magnets

    Michio Sorai;Yasuhiro Nakazawa;Motohiro Nakano;Yuji Miyazaki

  • Mixed-Valence Tetranuclear Manganese Single-Molecule Magnets

    Jae Yoo;Akira Yamaguchi;Motohiro Nakano;J. Krzystek

Frequent Co-Authors

David N. Hendrickson
David N. Hendrickson University of California, San Diego
Hiroki Oshio
Hiroki Oshio Dalian University of Technology
Takashi Kajiwara
Takashi Kajiwara Nara Women's University
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer
Wolfgang Wernsdorfer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hiroyuki Nojiri
Hiroyuki Nojiri Tohoku University
Masahiro Yamashita
Masahiro Yamashita Tohoku University
George Christou
George Christou University of Florida
Kazuo Tanaka
Kazuo Tanaka University of Electro-Communications
Ryuichi Arakawa
Ryuichi Arakawa Kansai University
Stephen Hill
Stephen Hill Florida State University

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