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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

In research, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency stands highest in Physical Sciences (#2,223 of 10,670 worldwide), Engineering (#1,701 of 5,901 worldwide) and Aerospace Engineering (#241 of 785 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering and Transportation (Astronomy and Astrophysics is 25.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#3,712
of 22,385 · #2,662 all time
Rank in Japan
#76
of 924
Research works
13k
◆ 0% vs 2018-21
Citations
174k
13.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.72×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
40%
world 40%
International
19%
world 18%
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

What is Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency 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 #2,223 of 10,670 4.4%1,341 #1593
EngineeringField #1,701 of 5,901 3.6%787 #966
Aerospace EngineeringSubfield #241 of 785 3.3%413 #195
Social SciencesDomain #4,579 of 9,585 1.5%283 #9691
Physics and AstronomyField #887 of 1,417 6.0%283 #946
Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield #267 of 400 6.4%214 #237
Environmental ScienceField #2,331 of 3,334 6.4%62 #2689
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #806 of 1,088 6.4%74 #824
Computational MechanicsSubfield #301 of 386 5.7%84 #412
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #2,104 of 2,526 1.2%127 -

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#1,593 #2,223
  2. Engineering#966 #1,701
  3. Aerospace Engineering#195 #241
  4. Social Sciences#9,691 #4,579
  5. Physics and Astronomy#946 #887
  6. Astronomy and Astrophysics#237 #267
  7. Environmental Science#2,689 #2,331
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences#824 #806
  9. Computational Mechanics#412 #301
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency work in?

In 2022-now, 81% of research at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is in Physical Sciences, 16% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (47%), Physics and Astronomy (17%), Social Sciences (14%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 1,488 fractional works · 81.5% of its workEngineering: 866 fractional works · 47.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 450 fractional works · 24.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 98 fractional works · 5.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 92 fractional works · 5.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 52 fractional works · 2.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 43 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 28 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 27 fractional works · 1.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 25 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 16 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 15 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 316 fractional works · 17.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 238 fractional works · 13.0% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 28 fractional works · 1.5% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 20 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRadiation: 11 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInstrumentation: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 85 fractional works · 4.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 47 fractional works · 2.6% of its workGeophysics: 16 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOceanography: 13 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 72 fractional works · 3.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 28 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 18 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcology: 11 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Science: 56 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 38 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCeramics and Composites: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 54 fractional works · 2.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 17 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 13 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMathematics: 16 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Mathematics: 15 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 11 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSpectroscopy: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 285 fractional works · 15.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 259 fractional works · 14.2% of its workTransportation: 127 fractional works · 7.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 127 fractional works · 6.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 12 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 31 fractional works · 1.7% of its workMedicine: 27 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhysiology: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 23 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 17 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKJapan AerospaceExploration…1,827fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences81%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences16%

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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering86647.4%
    2. Physics and Astronomy31617.3%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences854.6%
    4. Environmental Science723.9%
    5. Materials Science563.1%
    6. Computer Science542.9%
    7. Mathematics160.9%
    8. Chemistry110.6%
    9. Chemical Engineering60.3%
    10. Energy60.3%
    1. Social Sciences25914.2%
    2. Decision Sciences120.7%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting50.3%
    4. Psychology40.2%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance30.2%
    6. Arts and Humanities10.1%
    1. Medicine271.5%
    2. Health Professions40.2%
    3. Nursing00.0%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology170.9%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences50.3%
    3. Neuroscience10.0%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Astronomy and Astrophysics takes 25.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 237.7 works25×
  2. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 450.3 works21×
  3. TransportationSubfield · 127.0 works21×
  4. Computational MechanicsSubfield · 98.3 works9.3×
  5. Physics and AstronomyField · 316.5 works7.8×
  6. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 47.4 works5.9×
← 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: 0.06× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.17× its world share, 17 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.99× its world share, 6 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.37× its world share, 11 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.38× its world share, 54 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.96× its world share, 85 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.37× its world share, 6 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.16× its world share, 866 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.79× its world share, 72 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.88× its world share, 56 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.77× its world share, 16 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 7.79× its world share, 316 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.08× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 27 worksMedicineNursing: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.08× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.70× its world share, 12 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.12× its world share, 259 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 7.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy7.79×316 works
  2. Engineering3.16×866 works
  3. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.96×85 works
  4. Social Sciences1.12×259 works
  5. Chemical Engineering0.99×6 works
  6. Materials Science0.88×56 works
  7. Environmental Science0.79×72 works
  8. Mathematics0.77×16 works
  9. Decision Sciences0.70×12 works
  10. Computer Science0.38×54 works
  11. Chemistry0.37×11 works
  12. Energy0.37×6 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.17×17 works
  14. Health Professions0.08×4 works
  15. Medicine0.08×27 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.08×5 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.08×3 works
  18. Psychology0.07×4 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.06×5 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.05×0 works
  21. Nursing0.05×0 works
  22. Neuroscience0.03×1 works
  23. Arts and Humanities0.03×2 works
  24. Veterinary0.02×0 works
  25. Immunology and Microbiology0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency?

Ranked on the quality score, Kasumi Yogata, Akiko Miyazaki and Satoru Nakazawa lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

  1. 1 Kasumi Yogata Japan · #60,862 worldwide 4.3k citations · 151 works
  2. 2 Akiko Miyazaki Japan · #93,645 worldwide 4.6k citations · 198 works
  3. 3 Satoru Nakazawa Japan · #100,141 worldwide 8.8k citations · 266 works
  4. 4 Aiko Nakato Japan · #115,391 worldwide 6.7k citations · 235 works
  5. 5 Fuyuto Terui Japan · #144,361 worldwide 7.9k citations · 276 works
  6. 6 Yuto Takei Japan · #163,788 worldwide 5.4k citations · 95 works
  7. 7 Misaki Mizumoto Japan · #166,625 worldwide 1.4k citations · 184 works
  8. 8 Masahiro Nishimura Japan · #166,827 worldwide 4.6k citations · 205 works
  9. 9 Yoshiaki Kanemaru Japan · #190,205 worldwide 785 citations · 111 works
  10. 10 Takanao Saiki Japan · #238,290 worldwide 10k citations · 411 works
All ranked researchers at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

What are the most cited papers from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency?

The most cited paper from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary" (Donald G. York et al., 2000), with 10,547 citations. Next come "The Swift Gamma‐Ray Burst Mission" (4,258) and "THE LARGE AREA TELESCOPE ON THE FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE MISSION" (4,175).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary Donald G. York et al. · The Astronomical Journal Open access144 authors Sep 2000 10,547
2 The Swift Gamma‐Ray Burst Mission Neil A. Gehrels et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access 20 Aug 2004 4,258
3 THE LARGE AREA TELESCOPE ON THE FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE MISSION W. B. Atwood et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Open access240 authors 8 May 2009 4,175
4 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
5 Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early Data Release Chris Stoughton et al. · The Astronomical Journal Open access192 authors 2002 2,423
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Design, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Culture, History, Philosophy, Science, Strategic Planning and Literature.

▲ 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. Design140▲ 47×2 topics
  2. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles138▲ 40×5 topics
  3. Culture126▲ 13×3 topics
  4. History126▲ 9.9×3 topics
  5. Philosophy125▲ 15×2 topics
  6. Science125▲ 28×2 topics
  7. Literature125▲ 12×2 topics
  8. Modernization125▲ 37×2 topics
  9. Strategic Planning125▲ 47×2 topics
  10. Air Force125▲ 58×1 topic
  11. Islam125▲ 33×1 topic
  12. Legal Regulation125▲ 30×1 topic
  13. Social Influence125▲ 32×1 topic
  14. Transport Policy125▲ 55×1 topic
  15. Warfare125▲ 58×1 topic
  16. Heat Transfer60▲ 6.7×17 topics
  17. Solar System Abundances59▲ 67×1 topic
  18. Terrestrial Planets59▲ 67×1 topic
  19. Large-Eddy Simulation58▲ 17×5 topics
  20. Remote Sensing57▲ 2.5×29 topics
  21. Mars51▲ 84×1 topic
  22. Martian Surface51▲ 84×1 topic
  23. Orbit Determination49▲ 60×2 topics
  24. Pose Estimation44▲ 21×2 topics
  25. On-Orbit Servicing44▲ 103×1 topic
  26. Space Debris44▲ 103×1 topic
  27. Solar Wind41▲ 25×2 topics
  28. Adaptive Mesh Refinement38▲ 34×2 topics
  29. High-Order Schemes38▲ 34×2 topics
  30. Radial Basis Functions37▲ 29×2 topics
  31. Shock-Wave Interactions37▲ 51×1 topic
  32. Turbulence Modeling37▲ 51×1 topic
  33. Optimal Control34▲ 24×5 topics
  34. Trajectory Optimization31▲ 28×2 topics
  35. Solar Sail30▲ 99×1 topic
  36. Spacecraft Formation Flying30▲ 99×1 topic
  37. Turbulent Flow29▲ 14×4 topics
  38. Combustion Instabilities29▲ 26×2 topics
  39. Thermodynamic Modeling28▲ 14×3 topics
  40. Vortex Dynamics28▲ 14×4 topics

Which research topics does Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies, Military Technology and Strategies, Legal and Regulatory Analysis and Astro and Planetary Science.

Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 125 fractional worksMilitary Technology and Strategies: 125 fractional worksLegal and Regulatory Analysis: 125 fractional worksAstro and Planetary Science: 59 fractional worksPlanetary Science and Exploration: 51 fractional worksSpace Satellite Systems …44Space Satellite Systems and Control: 44 fractional worksComputational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics: 37 fractional worksSpacecraft Dynamics and Control: 30 fractional worksSpacecraft Design and Technology: 26 fractional worksSpacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies: 26 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceAerospace EngineeringTransportationAstronomy and Astrophysics1 others

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

  1. 1 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 125 works
  2. 2 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 125 works
  3. 3 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 125 works
  4. 4 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 59 works
  5. 5 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 51 works
  6. 6 Space Satellite Systems and Control Aerospace Engineering 44 works
  7. 7 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics Computational Mechanics 37 works
  8. 8 Spacecraft Dynamics and Control Aerospace Engineering 30 works
  9. 9 Spacecraft Design and Technology Aerospace Engineering 26 works
  10. 10 Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies Aerospace Engineering 26 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 available39.9%not open60.1%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors18.6%domestic only81.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0090% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency0.0072% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency 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 2025Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency5.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 9.8% in 1993.

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