City · Japan
Research in Osaka
Science Explorer records 210 research institutions in Osaka, Japan. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are The University of Osaka, Osaka Metropolitan University and Kindai University.
- Research institutions
- 210 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 340k ◆ 0% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 10.5% 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 Osaka?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The University of OsakaUniversity | 155,260 | #305 | |
| 2 | Osaka City UniversityUniversity | 32,119 | #4,283 | |
| 3 | Kindai UniversityUniversity | 26,857 | #2,834 | |
| 4 | National Cerebral and Cardiovascular CenterHospital / health system | 9,799 | #6,884 | |
| 5 | Kansai Medical UniversityUniversity | 9,580 | #5,591 | |
| 6 | Takeda (Japan)Company | 7,383 | #6,713 | |
| 7 | Osaka International Cancer InstituteResearch facility | 5,763 | #7,613 | |
| 8 | Osaka Institute of TechnologyUniversity | 5,622 | #11,032 | |
| 9 | Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and TechnologyResearch facility | 4,531 | #8,165 | |
| 10 | Shionogi (Japan)Company | 4,317 | #8,997 | |
| 11 | Osaka Metropolitan UniversityUniversity | 3,062 | #2,584 | |
| 12 | Setsunan UniversityUniversity | 2,872 | #11,975 | |
| 13 | Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan)Company | 2,649 | #12,642 | |
| 14 | Osaka City General HospitalHospital / health system | 2,645 | #14,832 | |
| 15 | Osaka University of EconomicsUniversity | 2,215 | #13,004 | |
| 16 | Protein Research FoundationInstitution | 2,054 | #10,380 | |
| 17 | Osaka National HospitalHospital / health system | 1,957 | #14,564 | |
| 18 | Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma (Japan)Company | 1,804 | #12,802 | |
| 19 | Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Kyoto UniversityUniversity | 1,767 | #4,471 all time | |
| 20 | Osaka Prefectural Institute of Public HealthResearch facility | 1,700 | #26,104 | |
| 21 | Kansai Electric Power (Japan)Company | 1,667 | #24,136 | |
| 22 | Osaka Sangyo UniversityUniversity | 1,625 | #25,202 | |
| 23 | Osaka Rosai HospitalHospital / health system | 1,463 | #18,280 | |
| 24 | Osaka University of Human SciencesUniversity | 1,374 | #14,572 | |
| 25 | Kitano HospitalHospital / health system | 1,367 | #18,732 | |
| 26 | Takenaka (Japan)Company | 1,327 | #24,606 | |
| 27 | Toyobo (Japan)Company | 1,297 | #14,461 all time | |
| 28 | Osaka Prefectural Medical CenterHospital / health system | 1,273 | #12,370 | |
| 29 | Osaka Police HospitalHospital / health system | 1,266 | #18,694 | |
| 30 | Osaka Health Science UniversityUniversity | 1,251 | #12,688 | |
| 31 | Unitika (Japan)Company | 1,193 | #22,127 | |
| 32 | Osaka HospitalHospital / health system | 1,155 | #21,138 | |
| 33 | Osaka Red Cross HospitalHospital / health system | 1,120 | #22,605 | |
| 34 | Institute for Laser TechnologyResearch facility | 1,112 | #7,498 all time | |
| 35 | Institute for FermentationInstitution | 991 | #15,246 all time | |
| 36 | Midorigaoka HospitalHospital / health system | 943 | #18,505 | |
| 37 | Ono Pharmaceutical (Japan)Company | 894 | #21,420 | |
| 38 | Nitto Chemical Industry (Japan)Company | 886 | #8,339 all time | |
| 39 | Kubota (Japan)Company | 871 | #25,247 | |
| 40 | Suntory (Japan)Company | 853 | #12,556 all time | |
| 41 | Saiseikai Ibaraki HospitalHospital / health system | 817 | #26,109 | |
| 42 | Tsumura Research Institute (Japan)Company | 781 | #26,030 | |
| 43 | Osaka Gas (Japan)Company | 778 | #10,817 all time | |
| 44 | Osaka City University HospitalHospital / health system | 752 | #20,967 | |
| 45 | Sumitomo HospitalHospital / health system | 708 | #24,648 all time | |
| 46 | Funai Electric (Japan)Company | 703 | #11,236 | |
| 47 | Kindai University HospitalHospital / health system | 658 | #11,354 | |
| 48 | Sakurabashi Watanabe HospitalHospital / health system | 658 | #24,139 | |
| 49 | Higashi Osaka City General HospitalHospital / health system | 648 | #27,926 | |
| 50 | Santen (Japan)Company | 620 | #24,007 | |
| 51 | Sekisui Chemical (Japan)Company | 602 | #25,993 | |
| 52 | Osaka Minami Medical CenterHospital / health system | 589 | #23,916 | |
| 53 | Saiseikai Nakatsu HospitalHospital / health system | 559 | #25,840 | |
| 54 | NHO Kinki Chuo Chest Medical CenterHospital / health system | 550 | #25,997 | |
| 55 | Izumi City General HospitalHospital / health system | 525 | #23,922 | |
| 56 | Yodogawa Christian HospitalHospital / health system | 525 | #24,924 | |
| 57 | Osaka Women's and Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 521 | #22,523 | |
| 58 | Osaka Kaisei HospitalHospital / health system | 512 | #34,453 all time | |
| 59 | Inoue HospitalHospital / health system | 506 | #25,485 | |
| 60 | Daikin (Japan)Company | 478 | #27,308 |
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.
The University of Osaka155k · 48.5%Osaka City University32k · 10.0%Kindai University27k · 8.4%National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center9,799 · 3.1%56 others listed96k · 30.1%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Osaka strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Osaka is most concentrated in Gastroenterology, Radiation and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (3.3× the world share in Gastroenterology).
- GastroenterologySubfield · 129.1 works3.3×
- RadiationSubfield · 138.2 works3.0×
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield · 1,033.9 works3.0×
- Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 153.9 works2.9×
- Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield · 1,394.1 works2.7×
- OncologySubfield · 946.8 works2.5×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 262.3 works2.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →
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 Osaka?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Chemotherapy, Clinical Practice Guidelines, Treatment, Diagnosis, Heart Failure and Cancer.
- Gastric Cancer
- Adjuvant Therapy
- Endoscopic Resection
- Surgery
- Prognosis
- Complications
- Neoadjuvant Therapy
- Genetic Mutations
- Surgical Management
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Microstructure
- Management
- Risk Factors
- Immunotherapy
- Quality of Life
- Mechanical Properties
- Diagnosis
- Cancer
- Chemotherapy
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Treatment
- Oxidative Stress
- Nanoparticles
- Biomedical Applications
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Heart Failure
- Prognostic Factors
- Guidelines
- Catalysis
- Clinical Trials
- Echocardiography
- Aging
- Radiotherapy
- Survival Analysis
- Molecular Characterization
- Catheter Ablation
- Stroke Prevention
▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s
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
- Epidemiology1,790▲ 1.36×136 topics
- Inflammation1,223▲ 1.76×83 topics
- Deep Learning834▼ 0.73×83 topics
- Chemotherapy768▲ 3.3×25 topics
- Treatment704▲ 1.74×52 topics
- Cancer703▲ 1.57×58 topics
- Oxidative Stress656▲ 1.20×63 topics
- Diagnosis627▲ 2.0×40 topics
- Nanoparticles599▲ 1.43×44 topics
- Mechanical Properties588▲ 1.81×38 topics
- Biomedical Applications566▲ 1.43×36 topics
- Quality of Life545◆ 1.13×57 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines538▲ 3.0×14 topics
- Immunotherapy528▲ 2.2×19 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease497▲ 1.34×39 topics
- Risk Factors481▲ 1.31×37 topics
- Heart Failure466▲ 3.2×14 topics
- Management437▲ 1.67×36 topics
- Prognostic Factors414▲ 2.8×14 topics
- Microstructure404▲ 2.3×19 topics
- Guidelines402▲ 2.6×13 topics
- Tumor Microenvironment394▲ 2.7×8 topics
- Catalysis377▲ 1.70×29 topics
- Surgical Management366▲ 2.7×20 topics
- Clinical Trials345▲ 1.55×19 topics
- Genetic Mutations345▲ 2.4×23 topics
- Echocardiography345▲ 3.8×8 topics
- Neoadjuvant Therapy331▲ 4.2×5 topics
- Aging322▲ 1.80×18 topics
- Complications312▲ 1.87×17 topics
- Radiotherapy288▲ 2.2×13 topics
- Prognosis282▲ 2.6×9 topics
- Survival Analysis281▲ 3.1×7 topics
- Surgery273▲ 2.3×12 topics
- Molecular Characterization243▲ 4.1×6 topics
- Endoscopic Resection228▲ 6.9×2 topics
- Catheter Ablation218▲ 5.4×2 topics
- Adjuvant Therapy217▲ 5.1×2 topics
- Stroke Prevention185▲ 4.6×2 topics
- Gastric Cancer183▲ 4.9×3 topics
What research is done in Osaka?
Aerospace EngineeringSociology and Political ScienceTransportationPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine3 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Military Technology and StrategiesAerospace Engineering 162 works
- 2 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary StudiesSociology and Political Science 162 works
- 3 Legal and Regulatory AnalysisTransportation 162 works
- 4 Gastric Cancer Management and OutcomesPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 138 works
- 5 Cancer Immunotherapy and BiomarkersOncology 121 works
- 6 Atrial Fibrillation Management and OutcomesCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 118 works
- 7 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology ResearchOncology 109 works
- 8 Nutrition and Health in AgingPhysiology 108 works
- 9 Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 108 works
- 10 Cardiac Arrhythmias and TreatmentsCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 100 works
Research output over time
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