2026 Taro Hitosugi: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	45	11726	11334	725	690	361	7899
Chemistry	45	16401	14804	1293	1171	282	7790

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

936
Citations
Phosphoglycerate mutase 1 coordinates glycolysis and biosynthesis to promote tumor growth.

Taro Hitosugi;Lu Zhou;Shannon Elf;Jun Fan

437
Citations
Properties of TiO2‐based transparent conducting oxides

Taro Hitosugi;Naoomi Yamada;Shoichiro Nakao;Yasushi Hirose

232
Citations
Bottom-up graphene-nanoribbon fabrication reveals chiral edges and enantioselectivity.

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

230
Citations
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

220
Citations
Ta-doped Anatase TiO2 Epitaxial Film as Transparent Conducting Oxide

Taro Hitosugi;Yutaka Furubayashi;Atsuki Ueda;Kinnosuke Itabashi

206
Citations
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

195
Citations
Unconventional Charge-Density-Wave Transition in Monolayer 1T-TiSe2.

Katsuaki Sugawara;Yuki Nakata;Ryota Shimizu;Patrick Han

188
Citations
Electronic Band Structure of Transparent Conductor: Nb-Doped Anatase TiO2

Taro Hitosugi;Hideyuki Kamisaka;Koichi Yamashita;Hiroyuki Nogawa

178
Citations
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

174
Citations
Ca intercalated bilayer graphene as a thinnest limit of superconducting C6Ca

Kohei Kanetani;Katsuaki Sugawara;Takafumi Sato;Ryota Shimizu

164
Citations
Transport properties of d-electron-based transparent conducting oxide: Anatase Ti1−xNbxO2

Yutaka Furubayashi;Naoomi Yamada;Yasushi Hirose;Yukio Yamamoto

164
Citations
Autonomous materials synthesis by machine learning and robotics

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

161
Citations
Negligible "negative space-charge layer effects" at oxide-electrolyte/electrode interfaces of thin-film batteries.

Masakazu Haruta;Susumu Shiraki;Tohru Suzuki;Akichika Kumatani

155
Citations
Monolayer 1T-NbSe2 as a Mott insulator

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

154
Citations
Lysine acetylation activates 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase to promote tumor growth

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

143
Citations
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

124
Citations
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

122
Citations
Novel transparent conducting oxide: Anatase Ti1-xNbxO2

Yutaka Furubayashi;Taro Hitosugi;Yukio Yamamoto;Yasushi Hirose

114
Citations
Tyr26 phosphorylation of PGAM1 provides a metabolic advantage to tumours by stabilizing the active conformation

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

113
Citations
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

112
Citations
Direct observation of Dirac cone in multilayer silicene intercalation compound CaSi2.

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

111
Citations
Direct growth of transparent conducting Nb-doped anatase TiO2 polycrystalline films on glass

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

101
Citations