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Iwate Prefectural University

In research, Iwate Prefectural University stands highest in Physical Sciences (#7,029 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#11,634
of 22,385 · #8,013 all time
Rank in Japan
#300
of 924
Research works
1.6k
▼ 55% vs 2018-21
Citations
15k
9.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.98×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
25%
world 40%
International
13%
world 18%
Iwate Prefectural University

What is Iwate Prefectural University 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 #7,029 of 10,670 6.1%91 #6848

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

In 2022-now, 62% of research at Iwate Prefectural University is in Physical Sciences, 23% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (32%), Engineering (19%), Social Sciences (11%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 99 fractional works · 62.1% of its workComputer Science: 52 fractional works · 32.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 17 fractional works · 10.5% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 16 fractional works · 9.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 7 fractional works · 4.3% of its workInformation Systems: 5 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSignal Processing: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHardware and Architecture: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 30 fractional works · 18.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 3.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 5 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAerospace Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.6% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 7.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 37 fractional works · 23.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 18 fractional works · 11.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 4.0% of its workTransportation: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 4.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMusic: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Sciences: 15 fractional works · 9.4% of its workMedicine: 9 fractional works · 5.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 9 fractional works · 5.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKIwate PrefecturalUniversity160fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences62%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences23%

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. Computer Science5232.4%
    2. Engineering3018.8%
    3. Environmental Science127.7%
    4. Physics and Astronomy21.4%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.6%
    6. Mathematics10.5%
    7. Chemistry10.4%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.3%
    9. Materials Science00.1%
    1. Social Sciences1811.2%
    2. Psychology84.8%
    3. Decision Sciences32.1%
    4. Arts and Humanities32.0%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance31.9%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting20.9%
    1. Medicine95.6%
    2. Health Professions42.5%
    3. Nursing21.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology32.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences31.9%
    3. Neuroscience21.2%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
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: 0.40× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.39× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.71× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.74× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.25× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 4.16× its world share, 52 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.40× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 1.26× its world share, 30 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.54× its world share, 12 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.40× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.63× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.96× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.29× its world share, 9 worksMedicineNursing: 2.48× its world share, 2 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.70× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.21× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.90× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.57× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.88× its world share, 18 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science4.16×52 works
  2. Nursing2.48×2 works
  3. Decision Sciences2.21×3 works
  4. Psychology1.57×8 works
  5. Environmental Science1.54×12 works
  6. Engineering1.26×30 works
  7. Health Professions0.96×4 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.90×3 works
  9. Social Sciences0.88×18 works
  10. Chemical Engineering0.74×0 works
  11. Neuroscience0.71×2 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.70×3 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.63×2 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.40×3 works
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.40×1 works
  16. Mathematics0.40×1 works
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.39×3 works
  18. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.39×0 works
  19. Medicine0.29×9 works
  20. Business, Management and Accounting0.29×2 works
  21. Immunology and Microbiology0.28×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.25×1 works
  23. Materials Science0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Iwate Prefectural University?

Ranked on the quality score, Hamido Fujita, Toshitaka Hayashi and Koji Hashimoto lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Iwate Prefectural University.

  1. 1 Hamido Fujita Japan · #66,438 worldwide 31k citations · 652 works
  2. 2 Toshitaka Hayashi Japan · #1,726,395 worldwide 500 citations · 34 works
  3. 3 Koji Hashimoto Japan · #2,250,272 worldwide 4.5k citations · 312 works
  4. 4 Issei Komatsu Japan · #2,407,602 worldwide 446 citations · 19 works
  5. 5 Naofumi Muraki Japan · #2,804,012 worldwide 395 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Ken Miichi Japan · #3,131,472 worldwide 120 citations · 28 works
  7. 7 Yu-Ching Lu Japan · #3,333,189 worldwide 120 citations · 17 works
  8. 8 Masatoshi Miyazaki Japan · #3,354,692 worldwide 114 citations · 31 works
  9. 9 Rikta Sen Japan · #3,415,627 worldwide 237 citations · 23 works
  10. 10 Bhed B. Bista Japan · #3,493,697 worldwide 434 citations · 38 works
All ranked researchers at Iwate Prefectural University

What are the most cited papers from Iwate Prefectural University?

The most cited paper from Iwate Prefectural University is "The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates" (Michael P. Hoffmann et al., 2010), with 1,548 citations. Next come "National differences in gender–science stereotypes predict national sex differences in science and math achievement" (1,059) and "Application of deep convolutional neural network for automated detection of myocardial infarction using ECG signals" (951).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates Michael P. Hoffmann et al. · Science Open access174 authors 26 Oct 2010 1,548
2 National differences in gender–science stereotypes predict national sex differences in science and math achievement Brian A. Nosek et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 22 Jun 2009 1,059
3 Application of deep convolutional neural network for automated detection of myocardial infarction using ECG signals U. Rajendra Acharya, Hamido Fujita, Shu Lih Oh et al. · Information Sciences 23 Jun 2017 951
4 Automated detection of arrhythmias using different intervals of tachycardia ECG segments with convolutional neural network U. Rajendra Acharya, Hamido Fujita, Oh Shu Lih et al. · Information Sciences 8 Apr 2017 761
5 An efficient binary Salp Swarm Algorithm with crossover scheme for feature selection problems Hossam Faris, Majdi M. Mafarja, Ali Asghar Heidari et al. · Knowledge-Based Systems Open access 9 May 2018 661
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Iwate Prefectural University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks, Environmental Monitoring, IoT, Wireless Sensor Networks and Image Processing.

▲ 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. Deep Learning29▲ 5.2×56 topics
  2. Machine Learning16▲ 2.9×44 topics
  3. Neural Networks14▲ 5.5×28 topics
  4. Convolutional Neural Networks6▲ 5.4×12 topics
  5. Environmental Monitoring5▲ 7.5×6 topics
  6. IoT4▲ 7.2×9 topics
  7. Wireless Sensor Networks4▲ 5.9×11 topics
  8. Image Processing4▲ 5.8×9 topics
  9. Autonomous Vehicles3▲ 10×4 topics
  10. Social Capital3▲ 4.2×4 topics
  11. Breath Analysis3▲ 18×1 topic
  12. Classification3▲ 4.1×10 topics
  13. Computer Vision3▲ 6.8×3 topics
  14. Convolutional Networks3▲ 14×3 topics
  15. Electronic Nose3▲ 24×1 topic
  16. Information Retrieval3▲ 8.3×3 topics
  17. Vulnerability3▲ 7.9×2 topics
  18. Feature Selection3▲ 8.0×6 topics
  19. Resilience3▲ 3.5×5 topics
  20. Collision Avoidance3▲ 9.3×3 topics
  21. Security Analysis3▲ 9.9×4 topics
  22. Text Classification3▲ 11×2 topics
  23. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles3▲ 9.1×3 topics
  24. Water Quality3▲ 4.0×5 topics
  25. Anomaly Detection2▲ 5.3×4 topics
  26. Emergency Management2▲ 26×2 topics
  27. Topic Modeling2▲ 9.6×2 topics
  28. Community2▲ 12×1 topic
  29. Disaster2▲ 28×1 topic
  30. Modernization2▲ 7.8×3 topics
  31. Social Influence2▲ 6.7×3 topics
  32. Time Series2▲ 8.4×3 topics
  33. Islam2▲ 6.5×2 topics
  34. Machine Translation2▲ 8.4×2 topics
  35. Resource Allocation2▲ 7.8×4 topics
  36. Foresight2▲ 9.5×2 topics
  37. Strategic Planning2▲ 8.5×2 topics
  38. Agent-Based Modeling2▲ 9.2×2 topics
  39. Semantic Similarity2▲ 9.6×1 topic
  40. Word Representation2▲ 9.6×1 topic

Which research topics does Iwate Prefectural University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies, Disaster Management and Resilience, Topic Modeling and Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies.

Advanced Chemical Sensor…3Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies: 3 fractional worksDisaster Management and …2Disaster Management and Resilience: 2 fractional worksTopic Modeling: 2 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 2 fractional worksLegal and Regulatory Analysis: 2 fractional worksMilitary Technology and Strategies: 2 fractional worksEvacuation and Crowd Dynamics: 2 fractional worksHuman Pose and Action Re…2Human Pose and Action Recognition: 2 fractional worksSmart Agriculture and AI: 2 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 2 fractional works
Biomedical EngineeringSociology and Political ScienceArtificial IntelligenceTransportation4 others

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

  1. 1 Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies Biomedical Engineering 3 works
  2. 2 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  3. 3 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 2 works
  4. 4 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  5. 5 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 2 works
  6. 6 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 2 works
  7. 7 Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics Ocean Engineering 2 works
  8. 8 Human Pose and Action Recognition Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  9. 9 Smart Agriculture and AI Plant Science 2 works
  10. 10 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 2 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 available24.7%not open75.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors13.0%domestic only87.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Iwate Prefectural University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 55% 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 Iwate Prefectural University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00049% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Iwate Prefectural University0.00064% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Iwate Prefectural 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%all institutions10.0% in 2025Iwate Prefectural University5.2% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.7% in 2016.

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