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Yoshiharu Nishiyama 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 Yoshiharu Nishiyama sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 168 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Yoshiharu Nishiyama 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 Yoshiharu Nishiyama sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Yoshiharu Nishiyama is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France, where their research focuses primarily on materials science and engineering. Their work spans several subfields including biomaterials, biomedical engineering, plant science, materials chemistry, and polymers and plastics.

The scientist's research topics emphasize advanced cellulose research studies, polysaccharides and plant cell walls, lignin and wood chemistry, biofuel production and bioconversion, nanocomposite films for food packaging, natural fiber reinforced composites, and electrospun nanofibers in biomedical applications.

Frequent publication venues for Nishiyama include:

  • Cellulose
  • Carbohydrate Polymers
  • Biomacromolecules
  • The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
  • Small

Among their recent papers are:

  • Small Angle Neutron Scattering Shows Nanoscale PMMA Distribution in Transparent Wood Biocomposites, 2021, Nano Letters
  • Water cast film formability of sugarcane bagasse xylans favored by side groups, 2020, Cellulose
  • Untangling the threads of cellulose mercerization, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Supramolecular Assembly and Chirality of Synthetic Carbohydrate Materials, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Morphological changes in the cellulose and lignin components of biomass occur at different stages of steam pretreatment, 2021, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Yoshiharu Nishiyama has collaborated extensively with several coauthors including Yu Ogawa, Pan Chen, Jean-Luc Putaux, Haisong Qi, and Karim Mazeau. The volume of their collaborations indicates active participation in a network of research focused on carbohydrate materials and related fields.

Best Publications

  • Crystal Structure and Hydrogen-Bonding System in Cellulose Iβ from Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Fiber Diffraction

    Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Paul Langan;Henri Chanzy

  • Cellulose nanofibers prepared by TEMPO-mediated oxidation of native cellulose

    Tsuguyuki Saito;Satoshi Kimura;Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Akira Isogai

  • Homogeneous suspensions of individualized microfibrils from TEMPO-catalyzed oxidation of native cellulose.

    Tsuguyuki Saito;Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Jean-Luc Putaux;Michel Vignon

  • The Shape and Size Distribution of Crystalline Nanoparticles Prepared by Acid Hydrolysis of Native Cellulose

    Samira Elazzouzi-Hafraoui;Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Jean-Luc Putaux;Laurent Heux

  • Structure and properties of the cellulose microfibril

    Yoshiharu Nishiyama

  • X-ray structure of mercerized cellulose II at 1 Å resolution

    Paul Langan;Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Henri Chanzy

  • A REVISED STRUCTURE AND HYDROGEN-BONDING SYSTEM IN CELLULOSE II FROM A NEUTRON FIBER DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS

    P. Langan;Y. Nishiyama;H. Chanzy

  • Nanofibrillar cellulose aerogels

    Hao Jin;Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Masahisa Wada;Shigenori Kuga

  • Cellulose IIII Crystal Structure and Hydrogen Bonding by Synchrotron X-ray and Neutron Fiber Diffraction

    Masahisa Wada;Henri Chanzy;Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Paul Langan

  • Surface acetylation of bacterial cellulose

    Dae-Young Kim;Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Shigenori Kuga

  • About the structure of cellulose: debating the Lindman hypothesis

    Wolfgang G. Glasser;Rajai H. Atalla;John Blackwell;R. Malcolm Brown

  • Rheological properties of microfibrillar suspension of TEMPO-oxidized pulp

    Elsa Lasseuguette;Denis Roux;Yoshiharu Nishiyama

  • Surface acylation of cellulose whiskers by drying aqueous emulsion.

    Huihong Yuan;Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Masahisa Wada;Shigenori Kuga

  • Neutron crystallography, molecular dynamics, and quantum mechanics studies of the nature of hydrogen bonding in cellulose Ibeta.

    Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Glenn P. Johnson;Alfred D. French;V. Trevor Forsyth

  • Periodic disorder along ramie cellulose microfibrils.

    Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Ung-Jin Kim;Dae-Young Kim;Kyoko S. Katsumata

  • Role of the Putative Membrane-Bound Endo-1,4-β-Glucanase KORRIGAN in Cell Elongation and Cellulose Synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Shigeru Sato;Tomohiko Kato;Koichi Kakegawa;Tadashi Ishii

  • Mechanical properties of Silk fibroin-microcrystalline cellulose composite films

    Yasutomo Noishiki;Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Masahisa Wada;Shigenori Kuga

  • Common processes drive the thermochemical pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass

    Paul Langan;Paul Langan;Loukas Petridis;Loukas Petridis;Hugh M. O'Neill;Sai Venkatesh Pingali

  • Gas-phase surface esterification of cellulose microfibrils and whiskers.

    Sophie Berlioz;Sonia Molina-Boisseau;Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Laurent Heux

  • High-yield Carbonization of Cellulose by Sulfuric Acid Impregnation

    Dae-Young Kim;Yoshiharu Nishiyama;Masahisa Wada;Shigenori Kuga

Frequent Co-Authors

Masahisa Wada
Masahisa Wada Kyoto University
Paul Langan
Paul Langan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Shigenori Kuga
Shigenori Kuga University of Tokyo
Henri Chanzy
Henri Chanzy Joseph Fourier University
Jean-Luc Putaux
Jean-Luc Putaux Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Akira Isogai
Akira Isogai University of Tokyo
Tsuguyuki Saito
Tsuguyuki Saito University of Tokyo
Hugh O'Neill
Hugh O'Neill Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Alfred D. French
Alfred D. French United States Department of Agriculture
Redouane Borsali
Redouane Borsali Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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