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Taro Hitosugi

Taro Hitosugi

D-Index & Metrics

Materials Science

D-Index
45
Citations
7899
World Ranking
11724
National Ranking
725

Chemistry

D-Index
45
Citations
7790
World Ranking
16399
National Ranking
1293

Taro Hitosugi 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 Taro Hitosugi sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 361 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Taro Hitosugi 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 Taro Hitosugi sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Taro Hitosugi is a researcher affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their work spans multiple disciplines within engineering and materials science, focusing particularly on developments in battery materials and advanced materials technologies.

The main fields of study in Hitosugi's research include:

  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

Within these fields, their subfields of study predominantly cover:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Condensed Matter Physics

Hitosugi's research interests focus on a range of topics, including:

  • Advancements in Battery Materials
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Hydrogen Storage and Materials
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism

Their recent publications provide insight into specific areas of focus. Notable papers include:

  • "Autonomous materials synthesis by machine learning and robotics" (2020) published in APL Materials
  • "Synthesis of polyacene by using a metal-organic framework" (2023) published in Nature Synthesis
  • "High Li-Ion Conductivity in Li{N(SO2F)2}(NCCH2CH2CN)2 Molecular Crystal" (2020) published in Nano Letters
  • "Interfacial Superconductivity in FeSe Ultrathin Films on SrTiO3 Probed by In Situ Independently Driven Four-Point-Probe Measurements" (2020) published in Physical Review Letters
  • "Effects of Anisotropy in Rutile TiO2 on the Performance of Solid-State Lithium Batteries" (2020) published in ACS Applied Energy Materials

Frequent collaborators in Hitosugi's research include:

  • Ryota Shimizu
  • Kazunori Nishio
  • Shigeru Kobayashi
  • Ryo Nakayama
  • Tetsuroh Shirasawa

Hitosugi has published extensively in several journals and venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • ACS Applied Energy Materials
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • Crystal Growth & Design
  • Science and Technology of Advanced Materials Methods

Best Publications

  • A transparent metal: Nb-doped anatase TiO2

    Yutaka Furubayashi;Taro Hitosugi;Yukio Yamamoto;Kazuhisa Inaba

  • Phosphoglycerate mutase 1 coordinates glycolysis and biosynthesis to promote tumor growth.

    Taro Hitosugi;Lu Zhou;Shannon Elf;Jun Fan

  • Properties of TiO2‐based transparent conducting oxides

    Taro Hitosugi;Naoomi Yamada;Shoichiro Nakao;Yasushi Hirose

  • Bottom-up graphene-nanoribbon fabrication reveals chiral edges and enantioselectivity.

    Patrick Han;Kazuto Akagi;Filippo Federici Canova;Hirotaka Mutoh

  • Fabrication of highly conductive Ti1- xNbxO2 polycrystalline films on glass substrates via crystallization of amorphous phase grown by pulsed laser deposition

    T. Hitosugi;A. Ueda;S. Nakao;N. Yamada

  • Ta-doped Anatase TiO2 Epitaxial Film as Transparent Conducting Oxide

    Taro Hitosugi;Yutaka Furubayashi;Atsuki Ueda;Kinnosuke Itabashi

  • First‐Principles Calculations of Lithium‐Ion Migration at a Coherent Grain Boundary in a Cathode Material, LiCoO2

    Hiroki Moriwake;Akihide Kuwabara;Craig A. J. Fisher;Rong Huang

  • Unconventional Charge-Density-Wave Transition in Monolayer 1T-TiSe2.

    Katsuaki Sugawara;Yuki Nakata;Ryota Shimizu;Patrick Han

  • Electronic Band Structure of Transparent Conductor: Nb-Doped Anatase TiO2

    Taro Hitosugi;Hideyuki Kamisaka;Koichi Yamashita;Hiroyuki Nogawa

  • p90 ribosomal S6 kinase 2 promotes invasion and metastasis of human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells

    Sumin Kang;Shannon Elf;Katherine Lythgoe;Taro Hitosugi

  • Ca intercalated bilayer graphene as a thinnest limit of superconducting C6Ca

    Kohei Kanetani;Katsuaki Sugawara;Takafumi Sato;Ryota Shimizu

  • Transport properties of d-electron-based transparent conducting oxide: Anatase Ti1−xNbxO2

    Yutaka Furubayashi;Naoomi Yamada;Yasushi Hirose;Yukio Yamamoto

  • Autonomous materials synthesis by machine learning and robotics

    Ryota Shimizu;Ryota Shimizu;Shigeru Kobayashi;Yuki Watanabe;Yasunobu Ando

  • Negligible "negative space-charge layer effects" at oxide-electrolyte/electrode interfaces of thin-film batteries.

    Masakazu Haruta;Susumu Shiraki;Tohru Suzuki;Akichika Kumatani

  • Monolayer 1T-NbSe2 as a Mott insulator

    Yuki Nakata;Katsuaki Sugawara;Ryota Shimizu;Ryota Shimizu;Yoshinori Okada

  • Lysine acetylation activates 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase to promote tumor growth

    Changliang Shan;Shannon Elf;Quanjiang Ji;Hee Bum Kang

  • Density functional theory based first-principle calculation of Nb-doped anatase TiO2 and its interactions with oxygen vacancies and interstitial oxygen.

    Hideyuki Kamisaka;Taro Hitosugi;Takahiro Suenaga;Tetsuya Hasegawa

  • Jahn-Teller Distortion in Dangling-Bond Linear Chains Fabricated on a Hydrogen-Terminated Si(100)- 2×1 Surface

    Taro Hitosugi;S. Heike;T. Onogi;T. Hashizume

  • Novel transparent conducting oxide: Anatase Ti1-xNbxO2

    Yutaka Furubayashi;Taro Hitosugi;Yukio Yamamoto;Yasushi Hirose

  • Tyr26 phosphorylation of PGAM1 provides a metabolic advantage to tumours by stabilizing the active conformation

    Taro D Hitosugi;Lu Zhou;Jun Fan;Shannon Elf

  • Fabrication of Low Resistivity Nb-doped TiO2 Transparent Conductive Polycrystalline Films on Glass by Reactive Sputtering

    Naoomi Yamada;Taro Hitosugi;Ngoc Lam Huong Hoang;Yutaka Furubayashi

  • Direct observation of Dirac cone in multilayer silicene intercalation compound CaSi2.

    Eiichi Noguchi;Katsuaki Sugawara;Ritsuko Yaokawa;Taro Hitosugi;Taro Hitosugi

  • Direct growth of transparent conducting Nb-doped anatase TiO2 polycrystalline films on glass

    Naoomi Yamada;Taro Hitosugi;Junpei Kasai;Ngoc Lam Huong Hoang

Frequent Co-Authors

Tetsuya Hasegawa
Tetsuya Hasegawa University of Tokyo
Tomihiro Hashizume
Tomihiro Hashizume Hitachi (Japan)
Yuichi Ikuhara
Yuichi Ikuhara University of Tokyo
Hiroshi Kumigashira
Hiroshi Kumigashira Tohoku University
Shin-ichi Orimo
Shin-ichi Orimo Tohoku University
Takashi Takahashi
Takashi Takahashi Tohoku University
Takafumi Sato
Takafumi Sato Tohoku University
Kim R. Dunbar
Kim R. Dunbar Texas A&M University
Masaharu Oshima
Masaharu Oshima University of Tokyo
Paul S. Weiss
Paul S. Weiss University of California, Los Angeles

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