Research in Kobe
Science Explorer records 81 research institutions in Kobe, Japan. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Kobe University, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research and RIKEN Center for Computational Science.
- Research institutions
- 81 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 92k ◆ 1% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 11.0% record average 16.5%
A city carries no overall standing here. The composite score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.
Which research institutions are in Kobe?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kobe UniversityUniversity | 49,290 | #1,141 | |
| 2 | University of HyogoUniversity | 8,525 | #6,617 | |
| 3 | Konan UniversityUniversity | 3,067 | #11,824 | |
| 4 | Kobe Steel (Japan)Company | 3,040 | #14,732 | |
| 5 | Kobe City Medical Center General HospitalHospital / health system | 2,719 | #11,441 | |
| 6 | Kobe Gakuin UniversityUniversity | 2,452 | #14,455 | |
| 7 | Kobe Pharmaceutical UniversityUniversity | 1,997 | #12,791 | |
| 8 | RIKEN Advanced Science InstituteResearch facility | 1,804 | #1,889 all time | |
| 9 | RIKEN Center for Computational ScienceResearch facility | 1,494 | #5,750 | |
| 10 | Kobe University HospitalHospital / health system | 1,302 | #11,959 | |
| 11 | RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics ResearchResearch facility | 1,233 | #3,690 | |
| 12 | Kawasaki HospitalHospital / health system | 1,151 | #23,134 | |
| 13 | Kobe City College of TechnologyUniversity | 862 | #19,420 | |
| 14 | Kobe Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 798 | #21,158 | |
| 15 | Kuma HospitalHospital / health system | 759 | #15,332 | |
| 16 | Kobe Women's Junior CollegeUniversity | 679 | #25,706 all time | |
| 17 | Kobe Medical CenterHospital / health system | 671 | #25,176 | |
| 18 | Hyogo University of Health SciencesUniversity | 635 | #21,783 | |
| 19 | Hyogo Prefectural Institute of TechnologyResearch facility | 612 | #16,547 all time | |
| 20 | Foundation for Biomedical Research and InnovationHospital / health system | 560 | #19,237 | |
| 21 | Kobe Women's UniversityUniversity | 450 | #27,385 | |
| 22 | Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Environmental SciencesGovernment institution | 402 | #27,068 all time | |
| 23 | Shinko HospitalHospital / health system | 380 | #26,697 | |
| 24 | Konan Women's UniversityUniversity | 362 | #34,043 all time | |
| 25 | Sysmex (Japan)Company | 354 | #20,254 | |
| 26 | KAN Research InstituteCompany | 324 | #15,776 all time | |
| 27 | Kobe Design UniversityUniversity | 319 | #29,285 all time | |
| 28 | University of Marketing and Distribution SciencesUniversity | 307 | #39,403 all time | |
| 29 | Kobe Asahi HospitalHospital / health system | 305 | #29,581 all time | |
| 30 | Kobe International UniversityUniversity | 305 | #25,424 | |
| 31 | Kobe Central HospitalHospital / health system | 280 | #37,326 all time | |
| 32 | Kobe City Medical Center West HospitalHospital / health system | 264 | #20,619 | |
| 33 | Kobe Kaisei HospitalHospital / health system | 256 | #38,182 all time | |
| 34 | Kobe City Nishi-Kobe Medical CenterHospital / health system | 246 | #25,988 | |
| 35 | Eli Lilly (Japan)Company | 237 | #30,985 all time | |
| 36 | Hyogo Social Welfare CorporationHospital / health system | 236 | #41,541 all time | |
| 37 | Kobe Rosai HospitalHospital / health system | 212 | #40,168 all time | |
| 38 | Kobe City University of Foreign StudiesUniversity | 210 | #36,944 all time | |
| 39 | Japanese Red Cross Kobe HospitalHospital / health system | 177 | #39,328 all time | |
| 40 | Kobe Tokiwa UniversityUniversity | 171 | #27,800 all time | |
| 41 | Kobelco Eco-Solutions (Japan)Company | 170 | #31,552 all time | |
| 42 | Kobe Shoin Women's UniversityUniversity | 161 | #36,029 all time | |
| 43 | Kobe Institute Of ComputingUniversity | 156 | #40,719 all time | |
| 44 | Imagineering (Japan)Company | 138 | #38,009 all time | |
| 45 | Kobe Material Testing Laboratory (Japan)Company | 133 | #22,989 all time | |
| 46 | Sumitomo Rubber Industries (Japan)Company | 133 | #31,329 all time | |
| 47 | Hyogo Chuo National HospitalHospital / health system | 128 | #42,360 all time | |
| 48 | Translational Research Informatics Center (Japan)Company | 121 | #30,914 all time | |
| 49 | Bando Chemical Industries (Japan)Company | 119 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Hyogo Prefectural PoliceGovernment institution | 116 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Kobe City College of NursingUniversity | 115 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation InstitutionArchive | 87 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Rokko Island Kohnan HospitalHospital / health system | 86 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Kobe Shinwa Women's UniversityUniversity | 71 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Asics (Japan)Company | 70 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Mitsuboshi Belting (Japan)Company | 62 | not ranked | |
| 57 | Kobe Shukugawa Gakuin UniversityUniversity | 55 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Hyogo Science and Technology AssociationNonprofit | 51 | not ranked | |
| 59 | International Rescue SystemNonprofit | 45 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Fujitsu Ten (Japan)Company | 43 | not ranked |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.
How concentrated the city is
The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.
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What is Kobe strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Kobe is most concentrated in Condensed Matter Physics, Biophysics and Surfaces, Coatings and Films (3.0× the world share in Condensed Matter Physics).
- Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 54.3 works3.0×
- BiophysicsSubfield · 36.2 works2.8×
- Surfaces, Coatings and FilmsSubfield · 30.3 works2.7×
- GastroenterologySubfield · 35.2 works2.6×
Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.
Which keywords describe research in Kobe?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Chemotherapy, Treatment, Immunotherapy, Diagnosis, Clinical Practice Guidelines and Surgical Management.
- Endoscopic Resection
- Revision Surgery
- Stem Cells
- Neoadjuvant Therapy
- Guidelines
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Prognosis
- Heart Failure
- Obesity
- Mechanical Properties
- Surgical Management
- Prognostic Factors
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Management
- Biomedical Applications
- Immunotherapy
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Machine Learning
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Oxidative Stress
- Chemotherapy
- Cancer
- Quality of Life
- Nanoparticles
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Aging
- Risk Factors
- Complications
- Genetic Mutations
- Neurological Disorders
- Radiotherapy
- Rehabilitation
- Echocardiography
- Biomechanics
- Surgery
- Molecular Characterization
- Total Hip Replacement
Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.
All 40 words, with their numbers
- Epidemiology554▲ 1.24×127 topics
- Inflammation370▲ 1.57×82 topics
- Deep Learning252▼ 0.65×78 topics
- Machine Learning221▼ 0.60×84 topics
- Oxidative Stress221▲ 1.19×60 topics
- Treatment220▲ 1.60×48 topics
- Chemotherapy207▲ 2.6×25 topics
- Diagnosis195▲ 1.85×39 topics
- Cancer195▲ 1.28×57 topics
- Immunotherapy179▲ 2.2×19 topics
- Quality of Life179◆ 1.10×54 topics
- Biomedical Applications171▲ 1.28×35 topics
- Nanoparticles168▲ 1.18×43 topics
- Management151▲ 1.70×33 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines148▲ 2.4×14 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease141◆ 1.12×38 topics
- Aging138▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Prognostic Factors135▲ 2.7×14 topics
- Risk Factors133◆ 1.07×37 topics
- Surgical Management133▲ 2.9×20 topics
- Complications132▲ 2.3×17 topics
- Mechanical Properties128▲ 1.17×38 topics
- Genetic Mutations117▲ 2.4×23 topics
- Obesity112▲ 1.31×25 topics
- Neurological Disorders111▲ 1.73×20 topics
- Heart Failure109▲ 2.2×14 topics
- Radiotherapy108▲ 2.5×13 topics
- Prognosis107▲ 2.9×9 topics
- Rehabilitation103▲ 2.3×13 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment99▲ 1.98×8 topics
- Echocardiography98▲ 3.2×8 topics
- Guidelines96▲ 1.82×13 topics
- Biomechanics96▲ 2.8×12 topics
- Neoadjuvant Therapy91▲ 3.4×5 topics
- Surgery89▲ 2.2×12 topics
- Stem Cells77▲ 2.7×15 topics
- Molecular Characterization71▲ 3.5×6 topics
- Revision Surgery64▲ 4.5×2 topics
- Total Hip Replacement64▲ 4.5×2 topics
- Endoscopic Resection59▲ 5.3×2 topics
What research is done in Kobe?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Nutrition and Health in Aging Physiology 45 works
- 2 Membrane Separation Technologies Water Science and Technology 40 works
- 3 Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes Surgery 38 works
- 4 Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 34 works
- 5 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 32 works
- 6 Urban and spatial planning Nature and Landscape Conservation 32 works
- 7 Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism 31 works
- 8 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 30 works
- 9 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 28 works
- 10 Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment Surgery 27 works
Research output over time
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