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Dokkyo University

In research, Dokkyo University stands highest in Neurology (#750 of 858 worldwide), Surgery (#2,924 of 3,248 worldwide) and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (#1,382 of 1,509 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#15,761
of 22,385 · #32,132 all time
Rank in Japan
#461
of 924
Research works
4.2k
▼ 28% vs 2018-21
Citations
70k
16.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.98×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
30%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Dokkyo University

What is Dokkyo University known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
NeurologySubfield #750 of 858 8.0%146
SurgerySubfield #2,924 of 3,248 3.8%426
Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSubfield #1,382 of 1,509 3.5%183
MedicineField #13,395 of 14,558 3.9%2,499
NeuroscienceField #2,032 of 2,157 3.3%241
Endocrinology, Diabetes and MetabolismSubfield #908 of 959 4.4%126
Health SciencesDomain #15,884 of 16,688 3.9%2,607
PhysiologySubfield #1,270 of 1,334 3.8%192
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #2,001 of 2,077 3.1%248
Social SciencesDomain #14,407 of 14,833 8.0%276

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Dokkyo University 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 Dokkyo University work in?

In 2022-now, 41% of research at Dokkyo University is in Social Sciences, 29% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (27%), Social Sciences (23%), Arts and Humanities (6%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 37 fractional works · 40.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 21 fractional works · 23.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 6.9% of its workCultural Studies: 4 fractional works · 4.7% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 4.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 6 fractional works · 6.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workConservation: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 3.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAccounting: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 26 fractional works · 28.8% of its workMedicine: 24 fractional works · 26.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 4.0% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOtorhinolaryngology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 17 fractional works · 18.6% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 5.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 3.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 5 fractional works · 5.1% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 3.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workApplied Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNumerical Analysis: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 11 fractional works · 11.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 4.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 3.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSensory Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workALL ITS WORKDokkyo University90fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences19%Health Sciences29%Social Sciences41%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2123.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities66.3%
    3. Psychology44.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance33.7%
    5. Decision Sciences11.5%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting11.2%
    1. Medicine2426.7%
    2. Health Professions21.9%
    3. Nursing00.2%
    1. Computer Science55.5%
    2. Engineering55.1%
    3. Environmental Science33.8%
    4. Mathematics21.9%
    5. Energy10.9%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.5%
    7. Materials Science00.4%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.4%
    9. Chemistry00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology44.0%
    2. Neuroscience33.6%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences22.7%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.7%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.7%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.58× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.75× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.74× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.22× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2.09× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.71× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.98× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.34× its world share, 5 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.77× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.57× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.74× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.39× its world share, 24 worksMedicineNursing: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 2.19× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.36× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.57× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.73× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.58× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.84× its world share, 21 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 2.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Neuroscience2.22×3 works
  2. Arts and Humanities2.19×6 works
  3. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics2.09×1 works
  4. Social Sciences1.84×21 works
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.73×3 works
  6. Psychology1.58×4 works
  7. Mathematics1.57×2 works
  8. Decision Sciences1.57×1 works
  9. Medicine1.39×24 works
  10. Energy0.98×1 works
  11. Environmental Science0.77×4 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.75×4 works
  13. Immunology and Microbiology0.74×1 works
  14. Health Professions0.74×2 works
  15. Computer Science0.71×5 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.58×2 works
  17. Business, Management and Accounting0.36×1 works
  18. Engineering0.34×5 works
  19. Nursing0.34×0 works
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.32×0 works
  21. Physics and Astronomy0.17×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.12×0 works
  23. Materials Science0.11×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Dokkyo University?

Ranked on the quality score, Keiichiro Susuki, Kenji Saito and Hironobu Sakaguchi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Dokkyo University.

  1. 1 Keiichiro Susuki Japan · #1,994,794 worldwide 4.2k citations · 97 works
  2. 2 Kenji Saito Japan · #2,591,637 worldwide 7.9k citations · 483 works
  3. 3 Hironobu Sakaguchi Japan · #2,681,642 worldwide 1.6k citations · 70 works
  4. 4 Nobuhiro Yuki Japan · #3,058,899 worldwide 22k citations · 484 works
  5. 5 Satoshi Inoh Japan · #4,229,136 worldwide 1.1k citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Giyoo Hatano Japan · #4,643,436 worldwide 6.7k citations · 172 works
  7. 7 Masaaki Odaka Japan · #4,796,720 worldwide 4.4k citations · 91 works
  8. 8 Norimasa Fukuda Japan · #5,245,118 worldwide 1.9k citations · 38 works
  9. 9 Chikayuki Ochiai Japan · #5,457,368 worldwide 1.7k citations · 73 works
  10. 10 Sachiko Hattori Japan · #5,477,907 worldwide 2.5k citations · 58 works
All ranked researchers at Dokkyo University

What are the most cited papers from Dokkyo University?

The most cited paper from Dokkyo University is "The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission" (Arthur Y. Hou, Ramesh K. Kakar, Steven P. Neeck et al., 2013), with 2,849 citations. Next come "The max-min Delphi method and fuzzy Delphi method via fuzzy integration" (887) and "Assessing interactions in the brain with exact low-resolution electromagnetic tomography" (868).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Arthur Y. Hou, Ramesh K. Kakar, Steven P. Neeck et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Open access 9 Sep 2013 2,849
2 The max-min Delphi method and fuzzy Delphi method via fuzzy integration Akira Ishikawa, Michio Amagasa, Tetsuo Shiga et al. · Fuzzy Sets and Systems May 1993 887
3 Assessing interactions in the brain with exact low-resolution electromagnetic tomography Roberto Domingo Pascual-Marqui, Dietrich Lehmann, Martha Koukkou et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences Open access 5 Sep 2011 868
4 Dentatorubral and pallidoluysian atrophy expansion of an unstable CAG trinucleotide on chromosome 12p Seiho NAGAFUCHI et al. · Nature Genetics 1994 724
5 A novel clinical entity, IgG4-related disease (IgG4RD): general concept and details Hisanori Umehara et al. · Modern Rheumatology Open access 31 Aug 2011 720
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Dokkyo University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Gender, History, Identity, Culture, Literature, Modernization, Colonialism and Politics.

▲ 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. Gender5▲ 11×5 topics
  2. Epidemiology5▲ 1.48×33 topics
  3. History5▲ 8.2×3 topics
  4. Identity5▲ 7.3×5 topics
  5. Culture4▲ 8.9×3 topics
  6. Literature4▲ 8.3×2 topics
  7. Modernization4▲ 25×2 topics
  8. Colonialism4▲ 9.3×3 topics
  9. Globalization4▲ 2.1×13 topics
  10. Politics4▲ 16×3 topics
  11. Japan4▲ 191×1 topic
  12. Society4▲ 21×1 topic
  13. Sustainability3▲ 1.24×10 topics
  14. Sustainable Development3▲ 1.93×9 topics
  15. Migration2▲ 7.8×6 topics
  16. Biodiversity2▲ 2.8×4 topics
  17. Consumer Behavior2▲ 3.3×4 topics
  18. Language Teaching2▲ 7.4×3 topics
  19. Religion2▲ 4.2×3 topics
  20. Islam2▲ 8.7×3 topics
  21. Public Policy2▲ 3.9×6 topics
  22. Metacognition2▲ 11×3 topics
  23. Philosophy2▲ 3.6×2 topics
  24. Educational Leadership1▲ 12×2 topics
  25. Cultural Diversity1▲ 6.6×3 topics
  26. Inflammatory Bowel Disease1▲ 12×3 topics
  27. Social Inequality1▲ 5.5×3 topics
  28. Corpus Linguistics1▲ 6.4×2 topics
  29. Executive Functioning1▲ 11×2 topics
  30. North Africa1▲ 36×2 topics
  31. Cognitive Development1▲ 9.4×2 topics
  32. Curriculum Design1▲ 17×2 topics
  33. Endovascular Repair1▲ 14×2 topics
  34. Refugees1▲ 9.7×3 topics
  35. Second Language Learning1▲ 13×2 topics
  36. Spatial Representation1▲ 28×2 topics
  37. Working Memory1▲ 14×2 topics
  38. China1▲ 12×1 topic
  39. Cognitive Informatics1▲ 153×1 topic
  40. Confucianism1▲ 28×1 topic

Which research topics does Dokkyo University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Japanese History and Culture, Chinese history and philosophy, Memory Processes and Influences and Education and Teacher Training.

Japanese History and Cul…4Japanese History and Culture: 4 fractional worksChinese history and philosophy: 1 fractional worksMemory Processes and Influences: 1 fractional worksEducation and Teacher Tr…1Education and Teacher Training: 1 fractional worksCognitive Computing and Networks: 1 fractional worksCognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills: 1 fractional worksOrganic Food and Agricul…1Organic Food and Agriculture: 1 fractional worksReligious Studies and Spiritual Practices: 1 fractional worksSport and Mega-Event Impacts: 1 fractional worksEducation, sociology, and vocational training: 1 fractional works
Cultural StudiesSociology and Political ScienceCognitive NeuroscienceEducation4 others

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

  1. 1 Japanese History and Culture Cultural Studies 4 works
  2. 2 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  3. 3 Memory Processes and Influences Cognitive Neuroscience 1 works
  4. 4 Education and Teacher Training Education 1 works
  5. 5 Cognitive Computing and Networks Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  6. 6 Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills Statistics and Probability 1 works
  7. 7 Organic Food and Agriculture Plant Science 1 works
  8. 8 Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices Philosophy 1 works
  9. 9 Sport and Mega-Event Impacts Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  10. 10 Education, sociology, and vocational training Sociology and Political Science 1 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 available30.4%not open69.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.8%domestic only94.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Dokkyo University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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 Dokkyo University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00033% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Dokkyo University0.00037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dokkyo University 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%Dokkyo University10.3% 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 10.3% in 2025.

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