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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Materials Science 52 9575 9245 569 543 290 9716

Sota Sato publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Sota Sato between 1978 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Sota Sato published across 49 years, from 1978 to 2026, averaging 8 papers a year. Output peaked at 53 publications in 2017. 14 of the 393 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40 50
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1978 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 53. Peak 53 publications in 2017. 1978: 1 publication 1979: 1 publication 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 1 publication 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 1 publication 1989: 1 publication 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 0 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 0 publications 2004: 1 publication 2005: 17 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 8 publications 2011: 10 publications 2012: 10 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 18 publications 2015: 27 publications 2016: 29 publications 2017: 53 publications 2018: 24 publications 2019: 20 publications 2020: 28 publications 2021: 34 publications 2022: 15 publications 2023: 32 publications 2024: 18 publications 2025: 13 publications 2026: 1 publication
1978 2026

393 publications in total across all disciplines

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Sota Sato: publications per year, 1978 to 2026
Year Publications
1978 1
1979 1
1980 0
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 1
1985 0
1986 0
1987 0
1988 1
1989 1
1990 0
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 0
1998 0
1999 0
2000 1
2001 0
2002 1
2003 0
2004 1
2005 17
2006 4
2007 8
2008 5
2009 5
2010 8
2011 10
2012 10
2013 6
2014 18
2015 27
2016 29
2017 53
2018 24
2019 20
2020 28
2021 34
2022 15
2023 32
2024 18
2025 13
2026 1
Total 393
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Sota Sato publications per year - data summary

  • Sota Sato, a Materials Science scholar from University of Tokyo, has 393 publications recorded across 49 years, from 1978 to 2026.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1978 and the most recent to 2026.
  • The most productive year is 2017, with 53 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1978, 1979, 1984, 1988 and others, with 1 publication each.
  • 19 of the 49 years in the span carry no publications at all (1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and others).
  • The rate of publication averages 8.0 papers per year over the whole span, or 13.1 per year counting only the 30 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2022-2026) hold 79 publications, 20% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1978-1994: 5 publications (0.3 per year); 1995-2011: 60 publications (3.5 per year); 2012-2026: 328 publications (21.9 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Sota Sato 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 Sota Sato sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600 800
Bar chart with 57 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 50–69 to 1,163+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 891. Most scientists, 891, have 190–209 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 290–309 publications, is where this scientist sits. 50–69 publications: 28 scientists 70–89 publications: 152 scientists 90–109 publications: 356 scientists 110–129 publications: 487 scientists 130–149 publications: 723 scientists 150–169 publications: 835 scientists 170–189 publications: 850 scientists 190–209 publications: 891 scientists 210–229 publications: 862 scientists 230–249 publications: 766 scientists 250–269 publications: 726 scientists 270–289 publications: 665 scientists 290–309 publications: 593 scientists 310–329 publications: 537 scientists 330–349 publications: 477 scientists 350–369 publications: 440 scientists 370–389 publications: 356 scientists 390–409 publications: 321 scientists 410–429 publications: 256 scientists 430–449 publications: 246 scientists 450–469 publications: 216 scientists 470–489 publications: 212 scientists 490–509 publications: 174 scientists 510–529 publications: 194 scientists 530–549 publications: 162 scientists 550–569 publications: 131 scientists 570–589 publications: 111 scientists 590–609 publications: 103 scientists 610–629 publications: 99 scientists 630–649 publications: 77 scientists 650–669 publications: 92 scientists 670–689 publications: 56 scientists 690–709 publications: 53 scientists 710–729 publications: 53 scientists 730–749 publications: 38 scientists 750–769 publications: 52 scientists 770–789 publications: 43 scientists 790–809 publications: 38 scientists 810–829 publications: 34 scientists 830–849 publications: 25 scientists 850–869 publications: 18 scientists 870–889 publications: 20 scientists 890–909 publications: 24 scientists 910–929 publications: 27 scientists 930–949 publications: 20 scientists 950–969 publications: 17 scientists 970–989 publications: 10 scientists 990–1,009 publications: 16 scientists 1,010–1,029 publications: 13 scientists 1,030–1,049 publications: 12 scientists 1,050–1,069 publications: 9 scientists 1,070–1,089 publications: 8 scientists 1,090–1,109 publications: 7 scientists 1,110–1,129 publications: 9 scientists 1,130–1,149 publications: 2 scientists 1,150–1,162 publications: 5 scientists 1,163+ publications: 100 scientists
50–69 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 290 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Materials Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 12,847 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
50–69 28
70–89 152
90–109 356
110–129 487
130–149 723
150–169 835
170–189 850
190–209 891
210–229 862
230–249 766
250–269 726
270–289 665
290–309 593 290
310–329 537
330–349 477
350–369 440
370–389 356
390–409 321
410–429 256
430–449 246
450–469 216
470–489 212
490–509 174
510–529 194
530–549 162
550–569 131
570–589 111
590–609 103
610–629 99
630–649 77
650–669 92
670–689 56
690–709 53
710–729 53
730–749 38
750–769 52
770–789 43
790–809 38
810–829 34
830–849 25
850–869 18
870–889 20
890–909 24
910–929 27
930–949 20
950–969 17
970–989 10
990–1,009 16
1,010–1,029 13
1,030–1,049 12
1,050–1,069 9
1,070–1,089 8
1,090–1,109 7
1,110–1,129 9
1,130–1,149 2
1,150–1,162 5
1,163+ 100
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Sota Sato publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 12,847 Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 57 ranges running from 50–69 to 1,163+ publications.
  • Sota Sato, a Materials Science scholar from University of Tokyo, records 290 publications - the 57th percentile of the discipline.
  • 57% of ranked Materials Science scientists score the same or lower than Sota Sato, and about 43% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 250–269 publications range, and Sota Sato ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 190–209 publications, holding 891 scientists (7% of the field).
  • 70% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 330–349 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Sota Sato 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 Sota Sato sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
200 400 600
Bar chart with 64 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 165+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 667. Most scientists, 667, have 52–53 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 52–53 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 211 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 450 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 612 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 612 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 598 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 657 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 667 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 621 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 597 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 610 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 587 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 606 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 533 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 490 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 469 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 378 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 421 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 359 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 323 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 299 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 230 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 210 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 195 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 203 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 175 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 175 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 142 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 121 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 117 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 107 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 88 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 85 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 68 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 62 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 57 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 45 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 49 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 50 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 34 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 38 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 29 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 28 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 24 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 33 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 28 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 21 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 20 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 23 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 17 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 12 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 17 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 21 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 13 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 11 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 13 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 4 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 4 scientists 164 D-Index: 3 scientists 165+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40–41 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Materials Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 12,847 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 211
42–43 450
44–45 612
46–47 612
48–49 598
50–51 657
52–53 667 52
54–55 621
56–57 597
58–59 610
60–61 587
62–63 606
64–65 533
66–67 490
68–69 469
70–71 378
72–73 421
74–75 359
76–77 323
78–79 299
80–81 230
82–83 210
84–85 195
86–87 203
88–89 175
90–91 175
92–93 142
94–95 121
96–97 117
98–99 107
100–101 88
102–103 85
104–105 68
106–107 62
108–109 57
110–111 45
112–113 49
114–115 50
116–117 34
118–119 38
120–121 37
122–123 29
124–125 28
126–127 24
128–129 33
130–131 28
132–133 21
134–135 20
136–137 23
138–139 17
140–141 12
142–143 17
144–145 21
146–147 13
148–149 11
150–151 14
152–153 13
154–155 9
156–157 10
158–159 7
160–161 4
162–163 4
164 3
165+ 98
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Sota Sato D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 12,847 Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 64 ranges running from 40–41 to 165+ D-Index.
  • Sota Sato, a Materials Science scholar from University of Tokyo, records 52 D-Index - the 27th percentile of the discipline.
  • 27% of ranked Materials Science scientists score the same or lower than Sota Sato, and about 73% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 62–63 D-Index range, and Sota Sato ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 52–53 D-Index, holding 667 scientists (5% of the field).
  • 68% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 70–71 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more, 98 scientists in all (<1% of the field).

Overview

Sota Sato is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan, with a research portfolio focused predominantly on materials science and chemistry. Their work spans over 129 publications in materials science and 92 in chemistry, with sub-disciplinary contributions to materials chemistry, organic chemistry, molecular biology, electrical and electronic engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The main research topics include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, fullerene chemistry and applications, supramolecular chemistry and complexes, luminescence and fluorescent materials, and chemical synthesis and analysis.

They have published extensively in several venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in The Cambridge Structural Database (44), followed by Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Angewandte Chemie (both 15), the Journal of the American Chemical Society (6), and arXiv (Cornell University) (5).

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Makoto Fujita (40 publications)
  • Hiroyuki Isobe (36 publications)
  • Satoshi Yoshida (23 publications)
  • Taisuke Matsuno (20 publications)
  • Koki Ikemoto (15 publications)

Selected recent papers:

  • Cycloparaphenylene-Phenalenyl Radical and Its Dimeric Double Nanohoop, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Overcrowded Ethylene-Bridged Nanohoop Dimers: Regioselective Synthesis, Multiconfigurational Electronic States, and Global Hückel/Möbius Aromaticity, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • A nitrogen-doped nanotube molecule with atom vacancy defects, 2020, Nature Communications
  • π-Extended Doublet Open-Shell Graphene Fragments Exhibiting One-Dimensional Chain Stacking, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Cycloparaphenylene Double Nanohoop: Structure, Lamellar Packing, and Encapsulation of C60 in the Solid State, 2021, Organic Letters

Best Publications

  • Self-Assembled M24L48 Polyhedra and Their Sharp Structural Switch upon Subtle Ligand Variation

    Qing Fu Sun;Junji Iwasa;Daichi Ogawa;Yoshitaka Ishido

  • Self-assembly of tetravalent Goldberg polyhedra from 144 small components

    Daishi Fujita;Yoshihiro Ueda;Sota Sato;Nobuhiro Mizuno

  • Fluorous Nanodroplets Structurally Confined in an Organopalladium Sphere

    Sota Sato;Junya Iida;Kosuke Suzuki;Masaki Kawano

  • Chiral intertwined spirals and magnetic transition dipole moments dictated by cylinder helicity.

    Sota Sato;Asami Yoshii;Satsuki Takahashi;Seiichi Furumi

  • Self-Assembly of M30L60 Icosidodecahedron

    Daishi Fujita;Daishi Fujita;Yoshihiro Ueda;Sota Sato;Hiroyuki Yokoyama

  • An M 18 L 24 stellated cuboctahedron through post-stellation of an M 12 L 24 core

    Qing Fu Sun;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

  • Protein encapsulation within synthetic molecular hosts

    Daishi Fujita;Kosuke Suzuki;Sota Sato;Maho Yagi-Utsumi;Maho Yagi-Utsumi

  • Minimal nucleotide duplex formation in water through enclathration in self-assembled hosts

    Tomohisa Sawada;Michito Yoshizawa;Michito Yoshizawa;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

  • Switching the Interior Hydrophobicity of a Self‐Assembled Spherical Complex through the Photoisomerization of Confined Azobenzene Chromophores

    Takashi Murase;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

  • Remarkable Stabilization of M12L24 Spherical Frameworks through the Cooperation of 48 Pd(II)−Pyridine Interactions

    Sota Sato;Yoshitaka Ishido;Makoto Fujita

  • Saccharide-Coated M12L24 Molecular Spheres That Form Aggregates by Multi-interaction with Proteins

    Nozomi Kamiya;Masahide Tominaga;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

  • Self-Assembly of M24L48 Polyhedra Based on Empirical Prediction†

    Jens Bunzen;Junji Iwasa;Pia Bonakdarzadeh;Eri Numata

  • Finite phenine nanotubes with periodic vacancy defects

    Zhe Sun;Koki Ikemoto;Toshiya M. Fukunaga;Takashi Koretsune

  • Template synthesis of precisely monodisperse silica nanoparticles within self-assembled organometallic spheres

    Kosuke Suzuki;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

  • An M12(L1)12(L2)12 Cantellated Tetrahedron: A Case Study on Mixed‐Ligand Self‐Assembly

    Qing Fu Sun;Qing Fu Sun;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

  • A Sphere-in-Sphere Complex by Orthogonal Self-Assembly†

    Qing-Fu Sun;Takashi Murase;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

  • Endohedral peptide lining of a self-assembled molecular sphere to generate chirality-confined hollows.

    Kosuke Suzuki;Masaki Kawano;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

  • Coronene nanophase within coordination spheres: increased solubility of C60.

    Kosuke Suzuki;Kiyotaka Takao;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

  • Cyclo-meta-phenylene Revisited: Nickel-Mediated Synthesis, Molecular Structures, and Device Applications

    Jing Yang Xue;Koki Ikemoto;Norihisa Takahashi;Tomoo Izumi

  • Nanometer-sized shell molecules that confine endohedral polymerizing units.

    Takashi Murase;Sota Sato;Makoto Fujita

  • Solid-state structures of peapod bearings composed of finite single-wall carbon nanotube and fullerene molecules

    Sota Sato;Takashi Yamasaki;Hiroyuki Isobe

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroyuki Isobe
Hiroyuki Isobe University of Tokyo
Makoto Fujita
Makoto Fujita University of Tokyo
Koichi Kato
Koichi Kato National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Hiroshi Kita
Hiroshi Kita Konica Minolta (Japan)
Masashi Kawasaki
Masashi Kawasaki University of Tokyo
Eiichi Nakamura
Eiichi Nakamura University of Tokyo
Ryotaro Arita
Ryotaro Arita University of Tokyo
Yoshiki Yamaguchi
Yoshiki Yamaguchi Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University
Hidetoshi Tokuyama
Hidetoshi Tokuyama Tohoku University
Masaki Kawano
Masaki Kawano Tokyo Institute of Technology

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