Neuroscience research in Japan

#	Institution	World rank	Score	Top-10% rate	Works
1	RIKENWako	#136	29.8	11.4%	216
2	The University of TokyoTokyo	#180	25.8	6.3%	721
3	Kyoto UniversityKyoto	#211	23.5	7.1%	426
4	National Institutes of Natural SciencesTokyo	#329	17.1	8.1%	105
5	Chiba UniversityChiba	#424	13.5	9.7%	174
6	The University of OsakaOsaka	#434	13.2	6.7%	347
7	Tohoku UniversitySendai	#449	12.7	5.4%	314
8	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate UniversityOnna	#452	12.6	7.6%	83
9	Nagoya UniversityNagoya	#462	12.3	5.3%	290
10	Keio UniversityTokyo	#472	12.0	6.3%	292
11	National Center of Neurology and PsychiatryTokyo	#504	11.1	6.8%	136
12	University of TsukubaTsukuba	#507	11.0	4.6%	290
13	Kyushu UniversityFukuoka	#536	10.2	5.4%	266
14	National Institute of Information and Communications TechnologyTokyo	#563	9.5	7.9%	69
15	Hokkaido UniversitySapporo	#574	9.2	4.6%	205
16	Tokyo Medical and Dental UniversityTokyo	#596	8.7	5.1%	88
17	Okayama UniversityOkayama	#633	7.8	5.5%	134
18	Osaka Metropolitan UniversityOsaka	#706	6.2	6.2%	63
19	Kanazawa UniversityKanazawa	#716	6.0	5.5%	137
20	Juntendo UniversityTokyo	#723	5.9	6.6%	131
21	Tokyo University of ScienceTokyo	#734	5.7	4.6%	84
22	Fujita Health UniversityToyoake	#743	5.5	7.5%	91
23	Tokyo Institute of TechnologyTokyo	#744	5.5	5.9%	114
24	Niigata UniversityNiigata	#753	5.3	6.4%	106
25	Kumamoto UniversityKumamoto	#758	5.2	7.7%	90
26	Kobe UniversityKobe	#777	4.9	3.6%	135
27	Japan Society for the Promotion of ScienceTokyo	#784	4.7	5.2%	64
28	Hiroshima UniversityHiroshima	#786	4.7	4.2%	180
29	Ritsumeikan UniversityKyoto	#793	4.6	5.1%	108
30	Waseda UniversityTokyo	#802	4.4	4.4%	192
31	Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityTokyo	#816	4.2	4.4%	100
32	Shinshu UniversityMatsumoto	#817	4.2	4.6%	69
33	Nagoya City UniversityNagoya	#820	4.1	6.8%	90
34	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyTsukuba	#825	4.0	3.0%	95
35	Jikei University School of MedicineTokyo	#839	3.8	4.6%	75
36	Yokohama City UniversityYokohama	#840	3.8	5.0%	68
37	University of Electro-CommunicationsTokyo	#868	3.3	3.5%	94
38	Teikyo UniversityTokyo	#872	3.2	5.7%	62
39	Yamaguchi UniversityYamaguchi	#878	3.1	4.4%	76
40	University of ToyamaToyama	#912	2.6	3.7%	114
41	Tokushima UniversityTokushima	#915	2.5	3.0%	63
42	NTT (Japan)Tokyo	#927	2.3	2.7%	63
43	Kitasato UniversityTokyo	#932	2.3	2.0%	65
44	Nara Medical UniversityKashihara-shi	#949	2.0	2.8%	81
45	Kindai UniversityOsaka	#951	2.0	3.8%	66
46	International University of Health and WelfareŌtawara	#962	1.8	2.9%	80
47	SHOWA Medical UniversityTokyo	#964	1.8	4.2%	64
48	Nihon UniversityTokyo	#974	1.6	2.2%	97
49	Kagoshima UniversityKagoshima	#978	1.6	4.2%	73

Institutions in Japan above the floor of 40 fractional works in Neuroscience, ordered by their worldwide rank on research quality, 2022-now.

Hideyuki Okano, Masahiko Watanabe and Ryuichi Shigemoto rank highest among researchers based in Japan, on their papers in Neuroscience that reached the world top 10%, beyond the 10% expected.

1. 1Hideyuki Okano#139,361 worldwide overall78.4 of 353 papers here in the top 10%
2. 2Masahiko Watanabe#141,847 worldwide overall76.1 of 358 papers here in the top 10%
3. 3Ryuichi Shigemoto#59,799 worldwide overall58.8 of 190 papers here in the top 10%
4. 4Takeshi Sakurai#270,620 worldwide overall54.8 of 183 papers here in the top 10%
5. 5Masanobu Kano#104,152 worldwide overall55.3 of 196 papers here in the top 10%
6. 6Masashi Yanagisawa#68,408 worldwide overall55.2 of 202 papers here in the top 10%
7. 7Shigetada Nakanishi#20,073 worldwide overall46.9 of 138 papers here in the top 10%
8. 8Kenji Hashimoto#351,195 worldwide overall62.1 of 343 papers here in the top 10%
9. 9Hajime Hirase#52,311 worldwide overall31.7 of 70 papers here in the top 10%
10. 10Mikio Furuse#18,829 worldwide overall31.3 of 67 papers here in the top 10%
11. 11Takaomi C. Saido#65,866 worldwide overall37.5 of 130 papers here in the top 10%
12. 12Akihiro Yamanaka#156,674 worldwide overall38.9 of 147 papers here in the top 10%
13. 13Thomas John McHugh#129,067 worldwide overall27.9 of 78 papers here in the top 10%
14. 14Yasuo Kawaguchi#1,144,466 worldwide overall29.2 of 91 papers here in the top 10%
15. 15Makoto Tominaga#316,384 worldwide overall36.9 of 179 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked among researchers based in Japan on their work in Neuroscience alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected.