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Nobuyuki Harada

Nobuyuki Harada

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
41
Citations
9573
World Ranking
17663
National Ranking
1394

Nobuyuki Harada 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 Nobuyuki Harada sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 237 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nobuyuki Harada 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 Nobuyuki Harada sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Nakanishi Prize, Chemical Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society.

Overview

Nobuyuki Harada is affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan. Their research spans across several scientific fields with a primary focus on Chemistry, Neuroscience, and Physics and Astronomy. The main areas of study include molecular spectroscopy, chirality, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Their work encompasses various subfields including spectroscopy, cellular and molecular neuroscience, atomic and molecular physics and optics, astronomy and astrophysics, and biomaterials.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range such as molecular spectroscopy and chirality, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, analytical chemistry and chromatography, mass spectrometry techniques and applications, origins and evolution of life, and supramolecular self-assembly in materials.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Nobuyuki Harada include:

  • The enduring legacy of Koji Nakanishi's research on natural products and bioorganic chemistry. Part 2. Inception and establishment of the ECD exciton chirality method in 1960s to 1970s: A marvel of Nakanishi's Japanese team (2020, Chirality)
  • Chiral organic stereochemistry: Chiral HPLC, chiral auxiliaries, CD spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, and light-powered chiral molecular motors (2021, Chirality)
  • Publication of Chirality special issue in memory and honor of Professor Koji Nakanishi (1925-2019) (2020, Chirality)

Frequent coauthors in their collaborations include Kenji Monde, Nina Berova, Tohru Taniguchi, Mohamad Zarif Mohd Zubir, and Tibor Kurtán.

Harada's work has been published predominantly in the journal Chirality, with three publications, and in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, with one publication.

In recognition of their contributions, Nobuyuki Harada received the Nakanishi Prize awarded by the Chemical Society of Japan and the American Chemical Society in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Light-driven monodirectional molecular rotor

    N. Koumura;R.W J Zijlstra;R.A.van Delden;N. Harada

  • Circular dichroic spectroscopy : exciton coupling in organic stereochemistry

    Nobuyuki Harada;Kōji Nakanishi

  • ECD cotton effect approximated by the Gaussian curve and other methods.

    Philip J. Stephens;Nobuyuki Harada

  • Exciton chirality method and its application to configurational and conformational studies of natural products

    Nobuyuki Harada;Koji Nakanishi

  • Determining the chiralities of optically active glycols

    Nobuyuki Harada;Koji Nakanishi

  • QUANTITATIVE DEFINITION OF EXCITON CHIRALITY AND THE DISTANT EFFECT IN THE EXCITON CHIRALITY METHOD

    Nobuyuki Harada;Sow-Mei Lai Chen;Koji Nakanishi

  • Synthesis, Absolute Configuration, and Enantiomeric Enrichment of a Cruciferous Oxindole Phytoalexin, (S)-(−)-Spirobrassinin, and Its Oxazoline Analog

    Mojmír Suchý;Peter Kutschy;Kenji Monde;Hitoshi Goto

  • UNSATURATED HYDROXY FATTY ACIDS, THE SELF DEFENSIVE SUBSTANCES IN RICE PLANT AGAINST RICE BLAST DISEASE

    Tadahiro Kato;Yoshihiro Yamaguchi;Takumi Hirano;Toshiro Yokoyama

  • The Absolute Configuration of Ciguatoxin

    Masayuki Satake;Akio Morohashi;Hiroki Oguri;Tohru Oishi

  • A chiroptical method for determining the absolute configuration of allylic alcohols

    Nobuyuki Harada;Jun Iwabuchi;Yoichi Yokota;Hisashi Uda

  • 2-Methoxy-2-(1-naphthyl)propionic acid, a powerful chiral auxiliary for enantioresolution of alcohols and determination of their absolute configurations by the 1H NMR anisotropy method

    Nobuyuki Harada;Masataka Watanabe;Shunsuke Kuwahara;Akinori Sugio

  • Determination of absolute configurations by X-ray crystallography and 1H NMR anisotropy.

    Nobuyuki Harada

  • Chemistry of Unique Chiral Olefins. 3. Synthesis and Absolute Stereochemistry of trans- and cis-1,1‘,2,2‘,3,3‘,4,4‘- Octahydro-3,3‘-dimethyl-4,4‘-biphenanthrylidenes

    Nobuyuki Harada;Nagatoshi Koumura;Bernard Feringa

  • Concise Total Synthesis and Structure Assignment of TAN‐1085

    Ken Ohmori;Keiji Mori;Yuji Ishikawa;Hideyuki Tsuruta

  • Electronic CD Exciton Chirality Method: Principles and Applications

    Nobuyuki Harada;Koji Nakanishi;Nina Berova

  • Interferon-gamma responses after isoniazid chemotherapy for latent tuberculosis.

    Kazue Higuchi;Nobuyuki Harada;Toru Mori

  • Chiral exciton coupled stacking of anthocyanins: interpretation of the origin of anomalous CD induced by anthocyanin association

    Tsutomu Hoshino;Ushiho Matsumoto;Nobuyuki Harada;Toshio Goto

  • Novel cholestane glycosides from the bulbs of Ornithogalum saundersiae and their cytostatic activity on leukemia HL-60 and MOLT-4 cells

    Minpei Kuroda;Yoshihiro Mimaki;Yutaka Sashida;Toshihiko Hirano

  • Exciton chirality methods as applied to conjugated enones, esters, and lactones

    Masato Koreeda;Nobuyuki Harada;Koji Nakanishi

  • An Enantiomerically Pure Alleno‐Acetylenic Macrocycle: Synthesis and Rationalization of Its Outstanding Chiroptical Response

    José Lorenzo Alonso-Gómez;Pablo Rivera-Fuentes;Nobuyuki Harada;Nobuyuki Harada;Nina Berova

  • Chemistry of Metalloanthocyanins

    T. Goto;H. Tamura;T. Kawai;T. Hoshino

  • A CD method for determination of the absolute stereochemistry of acyclic glycols. 1. Application of the CD exciton chirality method to acyclic 1,3-dibenzoate systems

    Nobuyuki Harada;Akira Saito;Hiroshi Ono;Jacek Gawronski

  • Chemistry of metalloanthocyanins

    Toshio Goto;Hirotoshi Tamura;Takatoshi Kawai;Tsutomu Hoshino

  • Amplification of Chirality in Monodisperse, Enantiopure Alleno-Acetylenic Oligomers

    Pablo Rivera-Fuentes;José Lorenzo Alonso-Gómez;Ana G. Petrovic;Fabrizio Santoro

  • Formylation of Aryl Halides with Carbon Monoxide and Sodium Formate in the Presence of Palladium Catalyst

    Tamon Okano;Nobuyuki Harada;Jitsuo Kiji

Frequent Co-Authors

Koji Nakanishi
Koji Nakanishi Columbia University
Chizuko Kabuto
Chizuko Kabuto Tohoku University
Isao Kitagawa
Isao Kitagawa Osaka University
Sotaro Miyano
Sotaro Miyano Tohoku University
Takeshi Yasumoto
Takeshi Yasumoto Tohoku University
Masahiro Hirama
Masahiro Hirama Tohoku University
William H. Pirkle
William H. Pirkle University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nina Berova
Nina Berova Columbia University
Michio Murata
Michio Murata Osaka University
Toshio Goto
Toshio Goto Nagoya University

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