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Shohei Saito

Shohei Saito

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
47
Citations
8038
World Ranking
15638
National Ranking
1226

Shohei Saito 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 Shohei Saito sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 112 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shohei Saito 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 Shohei Saito 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: 47 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Shohei Saito is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and has made contributions primarily in the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their work spans a variety of topics, prominently featuring studies and publications on Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials, Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds, Graphene research and applications, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, and Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry.

Saito has a record of frequent collaboration with several coauthors, including Takuya Yamakado, Atsuhiro Osuka, K. SUGA, Hikaru Kuramochi, and Ryo Kimura. These partnerships have contributed to numerous scientific outputs across various publications.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • Magnetism of Topological Boundary States Induced by Boron Substitution in Graphene Nanoribbons, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Ratiometric Flapping Force Probe That Works in Polymer Gels, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Controlling the S1 Energy Profile by Tuning Excited-State Aromaticity, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Flapping Peryleneimide as a Fluorogenic Dye with High Photostability and Strong Visible-Light Absorption, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Dual Ratiometric Fluorescence Monitoring of Mechanical Polymer Chain Stretching and Subsequent Strain-Induced Crystallization, 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Their publications have appeared frequently in several venues, with the most common being The Cambridge Structural Database, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, and Chemistry - A European Journal.

Best Publications

  • Expanded Porphyrins: Intriguing Structures, Electronic Properties, and Reactivities

    Shohei Saito;Atsuhiro Osuka

  • Distinct Responses to Mechanical Grinding and Hydrostatic Pressure in Luminescent Chromism of Tetrathiazolylthiophene

    Kazuhiko Nagura;Shohei Saito;Hitoshi Yusa;Hiroshi Yamawaki

  • Atomically controlled substitutional boron-doping of graphene nanoribbons

    Shigeki Kawai;Shohei Saito;Shinichiro Osumi;Shigehiro Yamaguchi

  • Metalation of expanded porphyrins: a chemical trigger used to produce molecular twisting and Möbius aromaticity.

    Yasuo Tanaka;Shohei Saito;Shigeki Mori;Naoki Aratani

  • Expanded porphyrins and aromaticity

    Atsuhiro Osuka;Shohei Saito

  • A Boron-Containing PAH as a Substructure of Boron-Doped Graphene†

    Chuandong Dou;Shohei Saito;Kyohei Matsuo;Ichiro Hisaki

  • Unambiguous identification of Möbius aromaticity for meso-aryl-substituted [28]hexaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1).

    Jeyaraman Sankar;Shigeki Mori;Shohei Saito;Harapriya Rath

  • Polycyclic π-electron system with boron at its center.

    Shohei Saito;Kyohei Matsuo;Shigehiro Yamaguchi

  • A π-conjugated system with flexibility and rigidity that shows environment-dependent RGB luminescence.

    Chunxue Yuan;Shohei Saito;Cristopher Camacho;Stephan Irle

  • Photodissociation of B-N Lewis adducts: a partially fused trinaphthylborane with dual fluorescence.

    Kyohei Matsuo;Shohei Saito;Shigehiro Yamaguchi

  • Expandierte Porphyrine: überraschende Strukturen, elektronische Eigenschaften und Reaktivitäten

    Shohei Saito;Atsuhiro Osuka

  • Facile synthesis of biphenyl-fused BODIPY and its property

    Yosuke Hayashi;Naoki Obata;Masatomo Tamaru;Shigeru Yamaguchi

  • Protonation‐Triggered Conformational Changes to Möbius Aromatic [32]Heptaphyrins(1.1.1.1.1.1.1)

    Shohei Saito;Jae Yoon Shin;Jong Min Lim;Kil Suk Kim

  • Time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy by the optical Kerr-gate method applicable to ultrafast relaxation processes

    Jun Takeda;K. Nakajima;S. Kurita;S Tomimoto

  • Light-melt adhesive based on dynamic carbon frameworks in a columnar liquid-crystal phase

    Shohei Saito;Shunpei Nobusue;Eri Tsuzaka;Chunxue Yuan

  • A Strap Strategy for Construction of an Excited‐State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) System with Dual Fluorescence

    Naoya Suzuki;Aiko Fukazawa;Kazuhiko Nagura;Shohei Saito

  • Conformational Planarization versus Singlet Fission: Distinct Excited-State Dynamics of Cyclooctatetraene-Fused Acene Dimers

    Takuya Yamakado;Shota Takahashi;Kazuya Watanabe;Yoshiyasu Matsumoto

  • Boron-doped nanographene: Lewis acidity, redox properties, and battery electrode performance

    Shinichiro Osumi;Shohei Saito;Chuandong Dou;Kyohei Matsuo

  • Protonated [4n]pi and [4n+2]pi octaphyrins choose their Möbius/Hückel aromatic topology.

    Jong Min Lim;Jae Yoon Shin;Yasuo Tanaka;Shohei Saito

  • Möbius Antiaromatic Bisphosphorus Complexes of [30]Hexaphyrins

    Tomohiro Higashino;Jong Min Lim;Takahiro Miura;Shohei Saito

Frequent Co-Authors

Atsuhiro Osuka
Atsuhiro Osuka Kyoto University
Shigehiro Yamaguchi
Shigehiro Yamaguchi Nagoya University
Dongho Kim
Dongho Kim Yonsei University
Kazuyuki Kuroda
Kazuyuki Kuroda Waseda University
Daniel Sánchez-Portal
Daniel Sánchez-Portal University of the Basque Country
Stephan Irle
Stephan Irle Oak Ridge National Laboratory
R. J. Dwayne Miller
R. J. Dwayne Miller University of Toronto
Hiroshi Shinokubo
Hiroshi Shinokubo Nagoya University
Naoki Aratani
Naoki Aratani Nara Institute of Science and Technology

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