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Research in Sayō

Science Explorer records 1 research institutions in Sayō, Japan. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute.

Research institutions
1
1 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
6.6k
▼ 16% vs 2018-21
Citations
151k
22.8 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
11.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1982-2026
45 years on the record
Sayō

A city carries no overall standing here. The quality 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 Sayō?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research InstituteResearch facility 3,499 #3,501

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

Which fields of science does Sayō work in?

In 2022-now, 87% of research in Sayō is in Physical Sciences, 9% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Materials Science (27%), Engineering (22%), Physics and Astronomy (20%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 796 fractional works · 86.6% of its workMaterials Science: 247 fractional works · 26.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 150 fractional works · 16.3% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 44 fractional works · 4.8% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 15 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 14 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiomaterials: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCeramics and Composites: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMetals and Alloys: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 203 fractional works · 22.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 102 fractional works · 11.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 34 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 29 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 188 fractional works · 20.4% of its workRadiation: 74 fractional works · 8.1% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 47 fractional works · 5.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 43 fractional works · 4.7% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 15 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workChemistry: 61 fractional works · 6.6% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 25 fractional works · 2.7% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 15 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSpectroscopy: 9 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectrochemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 36 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGeophysics: 30 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 22 fractional works · 2.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 22 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 16 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPollution: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCatalysis: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 81 fractional works · 8.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 67 fractional works · 7.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 39 fractional works · 4.2% of its workStructural Biology: 15 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBiophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCell Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 32 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMedicine: 28 fractional works · 3.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInfectious Diseases: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKSayō919fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences87%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences1%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Materials Science24726.9%
    2. Engineering20322.1%
    3. Physics and Astronomy18820.4%
    4. Chemistry616.6%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences363.9%
    6. Energy222.4%
    7. Environmental Science161.7%
    8. Chemical Engineering121.3%
    9. Computer Science111.2%
    10. Mathematics10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology677.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences60.6%
    3. Neuroscience50.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology20.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.2%
    1. Medicine283.1%
    2. Nursing20.2%
    3. Dentistry20.2%
    4. Health Professions00.0%
    1. Decision Sciences40.5%
    2. Social Sciences30.4%
    3. Arts and Humanities10.1%
    4. Psychology10.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Sayō strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Sayō is most concentrated in Radiation, Condensed Matter Physics and Inorganic Chemistry (57.6× the world share in Radiation).

  1. RadiationSubfield · 64.0 works58×
  2. Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 40.1 works31×
  3. Inorganic ChemistrySubfield · 22.2 works11×
  4. Electronic, Optical and Magnetic MaterialsSubfield · 40.4 works11×
← 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.

The whole field profile

All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.41× its world share, 61 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.32× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.54× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 3.29× its world share, 9 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 4.25× its world share, 54 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.11× its world share, 7 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.40× its world share, 30 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.51× its world share, 19 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.53× its world share, 185 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.35× its world share, 14 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 7.78× its world share, 219 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 9.05× its world share, 162 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.17× its world share, 26 worksMedicineNursing: 0.43× its world share, 2 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesPsychology: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 9.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy9.05×162 works
  2. Materials Science7.78×219 works
  3. Chemistry4.25×54 works
  4. Chemical Engineering3.29×9 works
  5. Energy2.51×19 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.40×30 works
  7. Engineering1.53×185 works
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.41×61 works
  9. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.54×2 works
  10. Nursing0.43×2 works
  11. Environmental Science0.35×14 works
  12. Dentistry0.33×1 works
  13. Neuroscience0.32×4 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.22×2 works
  15. Medicine0.17×26 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.14×5 works
  17. Computer Science0.11×7 works
  18. Decision Sciences0.05×0 works
  19. Mathematics0.04×0 works
  20. Arts and Humanities0.04×1 works
  21. Psychology0.03×1 works
  22. Social Sciences0.02×2 works
  23. Health Professions0.01×0 works
  24. Business, Management and Accounting0.01×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Sayō?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Tomography, Superconductivity, Nanoscale Imaging, X-ray Imaging, Phase Retrieval, Ptychography, Nanoparticles and Catalysis.

▲ 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-now 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
  1. Tomography68▲ 42×4 topics
  2. Superconductivity56▲ 35×9 topics
  3. Nanoparticles53▲ 4.6×31 topics
  4. Nanoscale Imaging48▲ 63×2 topics
  5. X-ray Imaging46▲ 145×2 topics
  6. Phase Retrieval44▲ 312×1 topic
  7. Ptychography44▲ 312×1 topic
  8. Catalysis40▲ 6.6×25 topics
  9. Synchrotron Radiation37▲ 81×3 topics
  10. Structure Determination29▲ 107×2 topics
  11. Electronic Structure29▲ 17×8 topics
  12. Spectroscopy29▲ 19×10 topics
  13. Mechanical Properties29▲ 3.2×28 topics
  14. Biomedical Applications28▲ 2.5×30 topics
  15. Nanocomposites27▲ 3.8×20 topics
  16. Nanomaterials26▲ 2.7×15 topics
  17. Plate Tectonics26▲ 18×3 topics
  18. Crystal Structure24▲ 20×7 topics
  19. Metal-Organic Frameworks24▲ 6.2×5 topics
  20. Quantitative Analysis23▲ 12×4 topics
  21. X-ray Absorption23▲ 137×2 topics
  22. Small-Angle Scattering22▲ 47×2 topics
  23. Molecular Dynamics22▲ 14×6 topics
  24. Nanostructures21▲ 5.7×16 topics
  25. High Resolution21▲ 261×1 topic
  26. X-ray Emission21▲ 261×1 topic
  27. Cathode Materials19▲ 5.5×3 topics
  28. Crystal Growth19▲ 7.6×11 topics
  29. Electrocatalysis18▲ 7.0×5 topics
  30. Free-Electron Lasers18▲ 166×1 topic
  31. X-Ray18▲ 166×1 topic
  32. Crystal Structure Prediction18▲ 40×1 topic
  33. Mantle Dynamics18▲ 40×1 topic
  34. Channeling18▲ 406×1 topic
  35. Nuclear Resonant Spectroscopy18▲ 406×1 topic
  36. Materials17▲ 8.2×6 topics
  37. Catalysts17▲ 9.2×3 topics
  38. Macromolecular Crystallography16▲ 94×1 topic
  39. Structure Solution16▲ 94×1 topic
  40. Fuel Cells15▲ 11×2 topics

What research is done in Sayō?

Advanced X-ray Imaging T…37Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques: 37 fractional worksX-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis: 18 fractional worksParticle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers: 17 fractional worksEnzyme Structure and Function: 15 fractional worksHigh-pressure geophysics and materials: 15 fractional worksCrystallography and Radiation Phenomena: 14 fractional worksAdvanced Electron Micros…13Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications: 13 fractional worksX-ray Diffraction in Crystallography: 13 fractional worksElectron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques: 11 fractional worksElectrocatalysts for Ene…11Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion: 11 fractional works
RadiationElectrical and Electronic EngineeringMaterials ChemistryGeophysics4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques Radiation 37 works
  2. 2 X-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis Radiation 18 works
  3. 3 Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers Electrical and Electronic Engineering 17 works
  4. 4 Enzyme Structure and Function Materials Chemistry 15 works
  5. 5 High-pressure geophysics and materials Geophysics 15 works
  6. 6 Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena Condensed Matter Physics 14 works
  7. 7 Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications Structural Biology 13 works
  8. 8 X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography Materials Chemistry 13 works
  9. 9 Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques Surfaces, Coatings and Films 11 works
  10. 10 Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 11 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%Sayō10.2% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 23.7% in 2015.

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