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Research in Wako

Science Explorer records 2 research institutions in Wako, Japan. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are RIKEN and National Institute of Public Health.

Research institutions
2
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
27k
▼ 12% vs 2018-21
Citations
813k
30.2 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
20.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1950-2026
77 years on the record
Wako

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 Wako?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1RIKENResearch facility 39,758 #306
2National Institute of Public HealthGovernment institution 1,095 #12,009

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 Wako work in?

In 2022-now, 70% of research in Wako is in Physical Sciences, 17% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Physics and Astronomy (30%), Engineering (14%), Materials Science (10%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 1,752 fractional works · 70.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 757 fractional works · 30.4% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 344 fractional works · 13.8% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 154 fractional works · 6.2% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 92 fractional works · 3.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 86 fractional works · 3.5% of its workRadiation: 42 fractional works · 1.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 35 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 337 fractional works · 13.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 150 fractional works · 6.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 86 fractional works · 3.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 27 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 19 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Science: 250 fractional works · 10.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 120 fractional works · 4.8% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 87 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 21 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomaterials: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 175 fractional works · 7.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 108 fractional works · 4.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 26 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 99 fractional works · 4.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 40 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSpectroscopy: 29 fractional works · 1.2% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 43 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMathematical Physics: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeometry and Topology: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 38 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 29 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAtmospheric Science: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOceanography: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 418 fractional works · 16.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 213 fractional works · 8.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 130 fractional works · 5.2% of its workGenetics: 20 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiophysics: 20 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCell Biology: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStructural Biology: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeuroscience: 154 fractional works · 6.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 79 fractional works · 3.2% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 39 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNeurology: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 33 fractional works · 1.3% of its workPlant Science: 15 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 217 fractional works · 8.7% of its workMedicine: 184 fractional works · 7.4% of its workPhysiology: 27 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 24 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 16 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 14 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 13 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 48 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Professions: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 7 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPeriodontics: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 100 fractional works · 4.0% of its workPsychology: 44 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 18 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 11 fractional works · 0.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 29 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 12 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 9 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKWako2,487fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences17%Physical Sciences70%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences4%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy75730.4%
    2. Engineering33713.5%
    3. Materials Science25010.0%
    4. Computer Science1757.0%
    5. Chemistry994.0%
    6. Mathematics431.7%
    7. Environmental Science381.5%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences291.2%
    9. Energy150.6%
    10. Chemical Engineering90.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2138.6%
    2. Neuroscience1546.2%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences331.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology120.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics70.3%
    1. Medicine1847.4%
    2. Health Professions170.7%
    3. Dentistry80.3%
    4. Nursing60.3%
    5. Veterinary20.1%
    1. Psychology441.8%
    2. Social Sciences291.2%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance110.4%
    4. Decision Sciences90.4%
    5. Arts and Humanities50.2%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting20.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Wako strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Wako is most concentrated in Condensed Matter Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (23.9× the world share in Condensed Matter Physics).

  1. Condensed Matter PhysicsSubfield · 85.7 works24×
  2. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 139.6 works20×
  3. Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield · 316.7 works20×
  4. Physics and AstronomyField · 690.4 works14×
  5. RadiationSubfield · 39.3 works13×
  6. Electronic, Optical and Magnetic MaterialsSubfield · 79.2 works7.8×
← 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: 0.25× its world share, 27 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.57× its world share, 188 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.46× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 3.61× its world share, 131 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.82× its world share, 6 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.12× its world share, 9 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 2.49× its world share, 87 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.92× its world share, 160 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.74× its world share, 26 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.66× its world share, 14 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.92× its world share, 308 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.31× its world share, 34 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.86× its world share, 224 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.48× its world share, 39 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 13.87× its world share, 690 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.63× its world share, 7 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.27× its world share, 16 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.39× its world share, 166 worksMedicineNursing: 0.53× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.51× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.21× its world share, 10 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.57× its world share, 39 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.10× its world share, 27 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 13.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy13.87×690 works
  2. Neuroscience3.61×131 works
  3. Materials Science2.86×224 works
  4. Chemistry2.49×87 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.57×188 works
  6. Mathematics1.48×39 works
  7. Chemical Engineering1.12×9 works
  8. Computer Science0.92×160 works
  9. Engineering0.92×308 works
  10. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.82×6 works
  11. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.74×26 works
  12. Energy0.66×14 works
  13. Dentistry0.63×7 works
  14. Psychology0.57×39 works
  15. Nursing0.53×6 works
  16. Veterinary0.51×2 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.46×10 works
  18. Medicine0.39×166 works
  19. Decision Sciences0.32×7 works
  20. Environmental Science0.31×34 works
  21. Health Professions0.27×16 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.25×27 works
  23. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.21×10 works
  24. Social Sciences0.10×27 works
  25. Arts and Humanities0.06×4 works
  26. Business, Management and Accounting0.02×2 works

Which keywords describe research in Wako?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Superconductivity, Entanglement, Spintronics, Electronic Structure, Topological Order, Nucleosynthesis, Renormalization Group and Topological Insulators.

▲ 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. Superconductivity83▲ 19×9 topics
  2. Entanglement79▲ 21×4 topics
  3. Spintronics72▲ 23×4 topics
  4. Biomedical Applications70▲ 2.4×32 topics
  5. Electronic Structure67▲ 15×8 topics
  6. Nanoparticles66▲ 2.1×36 topics
  7. Biosensors60▲ 4.9×12 topics
  8. Topological Order57▲ 48×2 topics
  9. Nucleosynthesis56▲ 46×3 topics
  10. Renormalization Group53▲ 38×2 topics
  11. Topological Insulators49▲ 41×2 topics
  12. Electronic Structure Calculations47▲ 29×2 topics
  13. Quantum Information46▲ 16×3 topics
  14. Quantum Computing46▲ 18×4 topics
  15. Molecular Dynamics45▲ 10×6 topics
  16. Lattice QCD44▲ 30×2 topics
  17. Quantum Spin Hall Effect41▲ 46×1 topic
  18. Superconductors41▲ 46×1 topic
  19. Nonlinear Optics40▲ 15×4 topics
  20. Room Temperature40▲ 11×3 topics
  21. Quantum Simulation39▲ 19×2 topics
  22. Electron Spin37▲ 42×1 topic
  23. Semiconductor Quantum Dots37▲ 42×1 topic
  24. Spin Dynamics37▲ 37×2 topics
  25. Cuprate Superconductors36▲ 43×1 topic
  26. High-Temperature Superconductivity36▲ 43×1 topic
  27. Nuclear Forces36▲ 80×1 topic
  28. Nuclear Structure36▲ 80×1 topic
  29. Tomography36▲ 8.3×5 topics
  30. Superconducting Circuits34▲ 20×2 topics
  31. Superfluidity34▲ 33×2 topics
  32. Optical Modulators33▲ 9.5×3 topics
  33. Spectroscopy33▲ 8.0×10 topics
  34. Optical Lattices32▲ 20×3 topics
  35. Quantum32▲ 16×2 topics
  36. Computation32▲ 18×2 topics
  37. Dark Matter31▲ 11×4 topics
  38. Cryptography31▲ 11×1 topic
  39. Metrology31▲ 21×1 topic
  40. Frustrated Magnets31▲ 49×1 topic

What research is done in Wako?

Topological Materials an…36Topological Materials and Phenomena: 36 fractional worksQuantum and electron tra…35Quantum and electron transport phenomena: 35 fractional worksPhysics of Superconductivity and Magnetism: 35 fractional worksNuclear physics research…32Nuclear physics research studies: 32 fractional worksAdvanced Condensed Matte…30Advanced Condensed Matter Physics: 30 fractional worksQuantum Information and Cryptography: 29 fractional worksMagnetic properties of thin films: 26 fractional worksQuantum many-body systems24Quantum many-body systems: 24 fractional worksQuantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions: 24 fractional worksNuclear Physics and Applications: 22 fractional works
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsCondensed Matter PhysicsNuclear and High Energy PhysicsArtificial Intelligence1 others

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

  1. 1 Topological Materials and Phenomena Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 36 works
  2. 2 Quantum and electron transport phenomena Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 35 works
  3. 3 Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism Condensed Matter Physics 35 works
  4. 4 Nuclear physics research studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 32 works
  5. 5 Advanced Condensed Matter Physics Condensed Matter Physics 30 works
  6. 6 Quantum Information and Cryptography Artificial Intelligence 29 works
  7. 7 Magnetic properties of thin films Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 26 works
  8. 8 Quantum many-body systems Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 24 works
  9. 9 Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Nuclear and High Energy Physics 24 works
  10. 10 Nuclear Physics and Applications Radiation 22 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%Wako19.5% 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 29.2% in 2015.

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