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Building Research Institute

In research, Building Research Institute stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,615 of 10,670 worldwide) and Engineering (#5,162 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Building and Construction and Civil and Structural Engineering (Building and Construction is 17.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#10,915
of 22,385 · #7,136 all time
Rank in Japan
#276
of 924
Research works
2.4k
▲ 19% vs 2018-21
Citations
18k
7.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.80×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
60%
world 40%
International
35%
world 18%
Building Research Institute

What is Building Research Institute known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #5,615 of 10,670 3.5%172 #5666
EngineeringField #5,162 of 5,901 1.6%104 #5030

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Building Research Institute sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Building Research Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 77% of research at Building Research Institute is in Physical Sciences, 17% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (42%), Environmental Science (14%), Computer Science (11%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 230 fractional works · 77.0% of its workEngineering: 127 fractional works · 42.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 51 fractional works · 17.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 32 fractional works · 10.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 9 fractional works · 3.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 6 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArchitecture: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 42 fractional works · 14.0% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 18 fractional works · 5.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 9 fractional works · 3.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 32 fractional works · 10.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 18 fractional works · 5.9% of its workInformation Systems: 10 fractional works · 3.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 14 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGeophysics: 9 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 7 fractional works · 2.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 7 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 6 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 51 fractional works · 16.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 28 fractional works · 9.4% of its workTransportation: 8 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSafety Research: 6 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 2.0% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workConservation: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 5 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFinance: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 13 fractional works · 4.3% of its workMedicine: 10 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKBuilding ResearchInstitute298fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences77%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences17%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering12742.5%
    2. Environmental Science4214.0%
    3. Computer Science3210.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences144.5%
    5. Energy72.4%
    6. Materials Science62.1%
    7. Physics and Astronomy10.5%
    8. Chemistry10.2%
    9. Mathematics00.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Social Sciences289.4%
    2. Decision Sciences62.0%
    3. Arts and Humanities51.8%
    4. Psychology51.7%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance41.5%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting20.6%
    1. Medicine103.3%
    2. Health Professions20.8%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.6%
    3. Neuroscience10.3%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Building Research Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Building and Construction takes 17.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Building and ConstructionSubfield · 32.1 works17×
  2. Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield · 50.9 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.44× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.36× its world share, 32 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.89× its world share, 14 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.66× its world share, 7 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.83× its world share, 127 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.81× its world share, 42 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.59× its world share, 6 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.32× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.17× its world share, 10 worksMedicineNursing: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.63× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.06× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.70× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.56× its world share, 5 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.74× its world share, 28 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.89×14 works
  2. Engineering2.83×127 works
  3. Environmental Science2.81×42 works
  4. Energy2.66×7 works
  5. Decision Sciences2.06×6 works
  6. Computer Science1.36×32 works
  7. Social Sciences0.74×28 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.70×4 works
  9. Arts and Humanities0.63×5 works
  10. Materials Science0.59×6 works
  11. Psychology0.56×5 works
  12. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.44×0 works
  13. Health Professions0.32×2 works
  14. Veterinary0.27×0 works
  15. Neuroscience0.21×1 works
  16. Physics and Astronomy0.21×1 works
  17. Nursing0.21×0 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.18×2 works
  19. Medicine0.17×10 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.14×2 works
  21. Chemical Engineering0.13×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.13×1 works
  23. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.12×2 works
  24. Mathematics0.12×0 works
  25. Immunology and Microbiology0.02×0 works
  26. Dentistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Building Research Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Yushiro Fujii, James V Ryan and Akiyoshi Mukai lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Building Research Institute.

  1. 1 Yushiro Fujii Japan · #627,574 worldwide 3.6k citations · 90 works
  2. 2 James V Ryan Japan · #2,287,665 worldwide 89 citations · 36 works
  3. 3 Akiyoshi Mukai Japan · #2,388,121 worldwide 480 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Masahiro Imai Japan · #2,616,546 worldwide 445 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Bunichiro Shibazaki Japan · #2,659,074 worldwide 2.1k citations · 128 works
  6. 6 Shin Okamoto Japan · #2,747,933 worldwide 494 citations · 25 works
  7. 7 Yorihiko Ohsaki Japan · #2,788,242 worldwide 574 citations · 42 works
  8. 8 A. F. Dufton Japan · #2,798,804 worldwide 230 citations · 45 works
  9. 9 Hideaki Masuda Japan · #2,884,181 worldwide 646 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 Minoru Okabe Japan · #2,963,579 worldwide 568 citations · 16 works
All ranked researchers at Building Research Institute

What are the most cited papers from Building Research Institute?

The most cited paper from Building Research Institute is "Behavior of Centrally Loaded Concrete-Filled Steel-Tube Short Columns" (Kenji Sakino, Hiroyuki Nakahara, Shosuke Morino et al., 2004), with 1,059 citations. Next come "Tsunami source of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake" (560) and "Time and Space Distribution of Coseismic Slip of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake as Inferred from Tsunami Waveform Data" (552).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Behavior of Centrally Loaded Concrete-Filled Steel-Tube Short Columns Kenji Sakino, Hiroyuki Nakahara, Shosuke Morino et al. · Journal of Structural Engineering 20 Jan 2004 1,059
2 Tsunami source of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake Yushiro Fujii, Kenji Satake, Shin’ichi Sakai et al. · Earth Planets and Space Open access Jul 2011 560
3 Time and Space Distribution of Coseismic Slip of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake as Inferred from Tsunami Waveform Data Kenji Satake, Yushiro Fujii, Tomoya Harada et al. · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America May 2013 552
4 Development of real‐time pseudo dynamic testing Masayoshi Nakashima, Hiroto Kato, Eiji Takaoka · Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics 1992 518
5 Indoor aerosols: from personal exposure to risk assessment Lídia Morawska, A. Afshari, Gwi–Nam Bae et al. · Indoor Air Open access 11 Apr 2013 449
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Building Research Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Community Participation, Sustainability, landscape conservation, Satoyama, Biodiversity, Mechanical Properties, Construction and Artificial Intelligence.

▲ 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 institution'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. Sustainability26▲ 3.6×20 topics
  2. Community Participation19▲ 18×3 topics
  3. Biodiversity18▲ 7.7×2 topics
  4. Satoyama17▲ 613×1 topic
  5. landscape conservation17▲ 613×1 topic
  6. Machine Learning17▲ 1.69×15 topics
  7. Artificial Intelligence15▲ 3.6×11 topics
  8. Mechanical Properties14▲ 5.0×17 topics
  9. Energy Efficiency13▲ 4.7×11 topics
  10. Renewable Energy11▲ 2.5×14 topics
  11. Construction11▲ 27×3 topics
  12. Remote Sensing10▲ 2.8×16 topics
  13. Artificial Neural Networks10▲ 7.2×4 topics
  14. Big Data10▲ 3.4×7 topics
  15. Simulation10▲ 12×5 topics
  16. Agent-Based Modeling8▲ 21×3 topics
  17. Structural Engineering8▲ 59×2 topics
  18. Durability Performance8▲ 30×2 topics
  19. Energy Consumption8▲ 12×5 topics
  20. Thermal Comfort8▲ 21×2 topics
  21. Concrete-Filled Steel Tubes8▲ 61×1 topic
  22. High-Strength Materials8▲ 61×1 topic
  23. Finite Element Analysis8▲ 11×6 topics
  24. Energy Simulation7▲ 28×2 topics
  25. Model Predictive Control7▲ 9.3×2 topics
  26. Building Energy Consumption7▲ 30×1 topic
  27. Community Resilience7▲ 13×2 topics
  28. Sustainable Buildings7▲ 30×1 topic
  29. Concrete Strengthening7▲ 36×1 topic
  30. Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites7▲ 36×1 topic
  31. Deep Neural Networks6▲ 18×2 topics
  32. Interpretable Models6▲ 40×1 topic
  33. Machine Learning Interpretability6▲ 40×1 topic
  34. Agricultural Practices6▲ 52×1 topic
  35. Water Management6▲ 17×1 topic
  36. Accountability6▲ 16×2 topics
  37. Evacuation6▲ 75×1 topic
  38. Large-Eddy Simulation6▲ 10×4 topics
  39. Pedestrian Dynamics6▲ 75×1 topic
  40. Turbulent Flow6▲ 16×3 topics

Which research topics does Building Research Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Urban and spatial planning, Structural Load-Bearing Analysis, Building Energy and Comfort Optimization and Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete.

Urban and spatial planning17Urban and spatial planning: 17 fractional worksStructural Load-Bearing Analysis: 8 fractional worksBuilding Energy and Comfort Optimization: 7 fractional worksStructural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete: 7 fractional worksExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): 6 fractional worksEnergy, Environment, Agriculture Analysis: 6 fractional worksEvacuation and Crowd Dyn…6Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics: 6 fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 6 fractional worksSeismic Performance and Analysis: 5 fractional worksEarthquake and Disaster …5Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies: 5 fractional works
Nature and Landscape ConservationCivil and Structural EngineeringBuilding and ConstructionArtificial Intelligence4 others

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

  1. 1 Urban and spatial planning Nature and Landscape Conservation 17 works
  2. 2 Structural Load-Bearing Analysis Civil and Structural Engineering 8 works
  3. 3 Building Energy and Comfort Optimization Building and Construction 7 works
  4. 4 Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Building and Construction 7 works
  5. 5 Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Artificial Intelligence 6 works
  6. 6 Energy, Environment, Agriculture Analysis Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 6 works
  7. 7 Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics Ocean Engineering 6 works
  8. 8 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 6 works
  9. 9 Seismic Performance and Analysis Civil and Structural Engineering 5 works
  10. 10 Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies Transportation 5 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available59.9%not open40.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors34.6%domestic only65.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Building Research Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Building Research Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00100% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Building Research Institute0.0011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Building Research Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

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

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Building Research Institute4.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 8.9% in 2018.

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