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Noboru Mataga

Noboru Mataga

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
85
Citations
26021
World Ranking
2670
National Ranking
149

Noboru Mataga 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 Noboru Mataga sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 480 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Noboru Mataga 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 Noboru Mataga sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Noboru Mataga was a researcher affiliated with Osaka University in Japan. Throughout their career, they contributed to the academic community primarily from this institution.

Though data regarding recent publications, co-authors, and publication venues is not available, this does not diminish the contextual understanding that Noboru Mataga was active within their field of expertise.

The absence of specific information on main fields of study, subfields, and main research topics means that detailed analysis of their scientific focus cannot be provided. Likewise, there is no recorded information on book publications or awards received by Noboru Mataga.

Their contributions and professional activity are part of the broader research framework typically associated with scholars at Osaka University, an institution known for its involvement in diverse scientific disciplines.

Given Noboru Mataga is noted as deceased, all references to their career and output are presented in the past tense to reflect their status accurately.

Best Publications

  • Solvent Effects upon Fluorescence Spectra and the Dipolemoments of Excited Molecules

    Noboru Mataga;Yozo Kaifu;Masao Koizumi

  • Electronic Structure and Spectra of Nitrogen Heterocycles

    Noboru Mataga;Kitisuke Nishimoto

  • The Solvent Effect on Fluorescence Spectrum, Change of Solute-Solvent Interaction during the Lifetime of Excited Solute Molecule

    Noboru Mataga;Yozo Kaifu;Masao Koizumi

  • Electronic Structure and Spectra of Some Nitrogen Heterocycles

    Kitisuke Nishimoto;Noboru Mataga

  • Possible “ferromagnetic states” of some hypothetical hydrocarbons

    Noboru Mataga

  • Electron transfer in inorganic, organic, and biological systems.

    James R. Bolton;Noboru Mataga;George McLendon

  • Ultrafast charge transfer in excited electronic states and investigations into fundamental problems of exciplex chemistry: Our early studies and recent developments

    Noboru Mataga;Haik Chosrowjan;Seiji Taniguchi

  • The bell-shaped energy gap dependence of the charge recombination reaction of geminate radical ion pairs produced by fluorescence quenching reaction in acetonitrile solution

    Noboru Mataga;Tsuyoshi Asahi;Yu Kanda;Tadashi Okada

  • Charge recombination process of ion pair state produced by excitation of charge-transfer complex in acetonitrile solution. Essentially different character of its energy gap dependence from that of geminate ion pair formed by encounter between fluorescer and quencher

    Tsuyoshi Asahi;Noboru Mataga

  • Intramolecular photoinduced charge separation and charge recombination of the product ion pair states of a series of fixed-distance dyads of porphyrins and quinones: energy gap and temperature dependences of the rate constants

    Tsuyoshi Asahi;Masaya Ohkohchi;Ryohzi Matsusaka;Noboru Mataga

  • Ionic photodissociation of electron donor-acceptor systems in solution

    Hiroshi Masuhara;Noboru Mataga

  • Solvent Effects on the Absorption and Fluorescence Spectra of Naphthylamines and Isomeric Aminobenzoic Acids

    Noboru Mataga

  • Femtosecond-picosecond laser photolysis studies on the dynamics of excited charge-transfer complexes : aromatic hydrocarbon-acid anhydride, -tetracyanoethylene, and -tetracyanoquinodimethane systems in acetonitrile solutions

    Tsuyoshi Asahi;Noboru Mataga

  • Charge-transfer rates in symmetric and symmetry-disturbed derivatives of 9,9'-bianthryl

    N. Mataga;H. Yao;T. Okada;W. Rettig

  • Geometry dependence of intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer in synthetic zinc-ferric hybrid diporphyrins

    Atsuhiro Osuka;Kazuhiro Maruyama;Noboru Mataga;Tsuyoshi Asahi

  • Electronic processes in hetero-excimers and the mechanism of fluorescence quenching

    Noboru Mataga;Tadashi Okada;Noriyuki Yamamoto

  • A chemical approach towards the photosynthetic reaction center

    Kazuhiro Maruyama;Atsuhiro Osuka;Noboru Mataga

  • Electronic structures of carbazole and indole and the solvent effects on the electronic spectra

    Noboru Mataga;Yoshikazu Torihashi;Kiyoshi Ezumi

  • Intramolecular electron donor-acceptor interactions in the excited state of (anthracene)-(CH2)n-(N,N-dimethylaniline) systems

    T. Okada;T. Fujita;M. Kubota;S. Masaki

  • 1,2-Phenylene-bridged diporphyrin linked with porphyrin monomer and pyromellitimide as a model for a photosynthetic reaction center: synthesis and photoinduced charge separation

    Atsuhiro Osuka;Satoshi Nakajima;Kazuhiro Maruyama;Noboru Mataga

Frequent Co-Authors

Tadashi Okada
Tadashi Okada Osaka University
Atsuhiro Osuka
Atsuhiro Osuka Kyoto University
Hiroshi Miyasaka
Hiroshi Miyasaka Osaka University
Yoshiteru Sakata
Yoshiteru Sakata Osaka University
Hiroshi Masuhara
Hiroshi Masuhara National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Tsuyoshi Asahi
Tsuyoshi Asahi Ehime University
Kazuhiro Maruyama
Kazuhiro Maruyama Kyoto University
Iwao Yamazaki
Iwao Yamazaki Hokkaido University
Nobuaki Nakashima
Nobuaki Nakashima Osaka Metropolitan University
Naoto Tamai
Naoto Tamai Kwansei Gakuin University

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