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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

In research, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency stands highest in Physical Sciences (#2,982 of 12,888 worldwide), Engineering (#1,726 of 6,636 worldwide) and Aerospace Engineering (#255 of 795 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Transportation, Aerospace Engineering and Astronomy and Astrophysics — Transportation is 26.2× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#5,217
of 28,054 · #1,342 all time
Rank in Japan
#124
of 1,070
Research works
8.4k
▼ 14% vs 2013–17
Citations
96k
11.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
41%
world 28%

What is Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #2,982 of 12,888 11.8%1,132 #920
EngineeringField #1,726 of 6,636 11.1%712 #317
Aerospace EngineeringSubfield #255 of 795 13.7%388 #98
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #746 of 1,209 13.2%63 #452
Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield #285 of 443 16.7%142 #201
Computational MechanicsSubfield #274 of 376 14.2%77 #104
Physics and AstronomyField #1,340 of 1,646 16.0%186 #1631
Social SciencesDomain #9,791 of 10,521 1.1%280 #12371
TransportationSubfield #124 of 132 0.1%127 #336
Social SciencesField #6,115 of 6,365 0.1%257 #9502

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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Physical Sciences#920 #2,982
  2. Engineering#317 #1,726
  3. Aerospace Engineering#98 #255
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences#452 #746
  5. Astronomy and Astrophysics#201 #285
  6. Computational Mechanics#104 #274
  7. Physics and Astronomy#1,631 #1,340
  8. Social Sciences#12,371 #9,791
  9. Transportation#336 #124
  10. Social Sciences#9,502 #6,115
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

What does Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Transportation takes 26.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. TransportationSubfield · 126.8 works26×
  2. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 388.4 works23×
  3. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 142.0 works19×
  4. Computational MechanicsSubfield · 77.4 works9.2×
  5. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 38.0 works5.9×
  6. Physics and AstronomyField · 186.5 works5.8×
← 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: 0.07× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.14× its world share, 11 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.00× its world share, 5 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.30× its world share, 7 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.38× its world share, 43 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.77× its world share, 63 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.32× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.27× its world share, 712 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.81× its world share, 58 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.80× its world share, 41 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.72× its world share, 12 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 5.78× its world share, 186 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.07× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.07× its world share, 20 worksMedicineNursing: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.82× its world share, 12 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.40× its world share, 257 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 5.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency?

Ranked on the composite score, Yūki Watanabe, Keisuke Shinozaki and Yutaka Iwahori lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

  1. 1 Yūki Watanabe Japan · #79,093 worldwide 362 citations · 44 works
  2. 2 Keisuke Shinozaki Japan · #118,983 worldwide 265 citations · 55 works
  3. 3 Yutaka Iwahori Japan · #130,584 worldwide 129 citations · 43 works
  4. 4 Akihiko Kuze Japan · #158,730 worldwide 327 citations · 68 works
  5. 5 Hiroyuki Abe Japan · #167,119 worldwide 107 citations · 32 works
  6. 6 Hiroyuki Sugita Japan · #170,495 worldwide 225 citations · 45 works
  7. 7 Mitsuhiro Murayama Japan · #201,375 worldwide 440 citations · 89 works
  8. 8 S. Wakabayashi Japan · #208,707 worldwide 126 citations · 37 works
  9. 9 J. Haruyama Japan · #218,180 worldwide 228 citations · 87 works
  10. 10 Tatsuaki Hashimoto Japan · #221,491 worldwide 147 citations · 95 works
All ranked researchers at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Which keywords describe research at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, 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 2022–2025 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. Design138▲ 58×2 topics
  2. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles136▲ 50×3 topics
  3. Culture125▲ 16×3 topics
  4. History125▲ 12×3 topics
  5. Philosophy125▲ 20×2 topics
  6. Science125▲ 35×2 topics
  7. Literature125▲ 16×2 topics
  8. Modernization125▲ 47×2 topics
  9. Strategic Planning125▲ 58×2 topics
  10. Air Force125▲ 71×1 topic
  11. Islam125▲ 41×1 topic
  12. Legal Regulation125▲ 39×1 topic
  13. Social Influence125▲ 40×1 topic
  14. Transport Policy125▲ 68×1 topic
  15. Warfare125▲ 71×1 topic
  16. Large-Eddy Simulation50▲ 18×5 topics
  17. Heat Transfer49▲ 6.8×15 topics
  18. Remote Sensing46▲ 2.5×26 topics
  19. Orbit Determination42▲ 67×2 topics
  20. Solar System Abundances40▲ 57×1 topic
  21. Terrestrial Planets40▲ 57×1 topic
  22. Pose Estimation38▲ 23×2 topics
  23. On-Orbit Servicing37▲ 118×1 topic
  24. Space Debris37▲ 118×1 topic
  25. Mars36▲ 76×1 topic
  26. Martian Surface36▲ 76×1 topic
  27. Adaptive Mesh Refinement29▲ 32×2 topics
  28. High-Order Schemes29▲ 32×2 topics
  29. Radial Basis Functions29▲ 28×2 topics
  30. Shock-Wave Interactions28▲ 50×1 topic
  31. Turbulence Modeling28▲ 50×1 topic
  32. Optimal Control28▲ 27×5 topics
  33. Trajectory Optimization25▲ 31×2 topics
  34. Turbulent Flow24▲ 14×4 topics
  35. Solar Sail24▲ 120×1 topic
  36. Spacecraft Formation Flying24▲ 120×1 topic
  37. Vortex Dynamics24▲ 14×4 topics
  38. Combustion Instabilities23▲ 26×2 topics
  39. Thermal Analysis22▲ 12×5 topics
  40. Thermodynamic Modeling22▲ 14×3 topics

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

By volume in 2022–2025: Legal and Regulatory Analysis, Military Technology and Strategies, Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies and Astro and Planetary Science.

Legal and Regulatory Ana…125Legal and Regulatory Analysis: 125 fractional worksMilitary Technology and …125Military Technology and Strategies: 125 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, an…125Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 125 fractional worksAstro and Planetary Science: 40 fractional worksSpace Satellite Systems and Control: 37 fractional worksPlanetary Science and Exploration: 36 fractional worksComputational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics: 28 fractional worksSpacecraft Dynamics and Control: 24 fractional worksSpacecraft Design and Technology: 21 fractional worksSpacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies: 21 fractional works
TransportationAerospace EngineeringSociology and Political ScienceAstronomy and Astrophysics1 others

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

  1. 1 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 125 works
  2. 2 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 125 works
  3. 3 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 125 works
  4. 4 Astro and Planetary Science Astronomy and Astrophysics 40 works
  5. 5 Space Satellite Systems and Control Aerospace Engineering 37 works
  6. 6 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 36 works
  7. 7 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics Computational Mechanics 28 works
  8. 8 Spacecraft Dynamics and Control Aerospace Engineering 24 works
  9. 9 Spacecraft Design and Technology Aerospace Engineering 21 works
  10. 10 Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies Aerospace Engineering 21 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 available40.6%not open59.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors15.5%domestic only84.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2018–2022 was 14% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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.

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