Japan Women's University
In research, Japan Women's University stands highest in Physical Sciences (#9,149 of 10,670 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#8,923 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now.
- World rank, 2022-now
- #11,340 of 22,385 · #10,582 all time
- Rank in Japan
- #290 of 924
- Research works
- 2.3k ▲ 5% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 27k 12.0 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 3.7% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 0.77× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 49% world 40%
- International
- 9% world 18%
What is Japan Women's University known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical SciencesDomain | #9,149 of 10,670 | 2.3% | 93 | #10741 | |
| Social SciencesDomain | #8,923 of 9,585 | 5.9% | 66 | #12991 |
Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Japan Women's 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 Japan Women's University work in?
In 2022-now, 39% of research at Japan Women's University is in Physical Sciences, 27% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (11%), Engineering (10%), Medicine (9%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Life Sciences.
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
- Physical Sciences10338.6%
- Engineering2710.3%
- Computer Science176.3%
- Environmental Science166.1%
- Mathematics114.1%
- Physics and Astronomy103.8%
- Chemistry72.7%
- Materials Science72.6%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences41.5%
- Energy31.1%
- Chemical Engineering10.2%
- Social Sciences7227.0%
- Social Sciences3011.3%
- Arts and Humanities238.7%
- Psychology145.3%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance31.0%
- Decision Sciences10.4%
- Business, Management and Accounting10.3%
- Life Sciences5721.5%
- Health Sciences3513.0%
- Medicine259.2%
- Nursing51.7%
- Health Professions41.5%
- Veterinary10.3%
- Dentistry00.2%
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Nursing, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Nursing3.56×5 works
- Mathematics3.52×11 works
- Arts and Humanities3.00×23 works
- Neuroscience2.92×13 works
- Veterinary2.30×1 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.87×24 works
- Psychology1.74×14 works
- Physics and Astronomy1.70×10 works
- Chemistry1.69×7 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.31×19 works
- Environmental Science1.23×16 works
- Energy1.16×3 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.04×1 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.93×4 works
- Social Sciences0.89×30 works
- Computer Science0.81×17 works
- Materials Science0.76×7 works
- Engineering0.68×27 works
- Health Professions0.58×4 works
- Chemical Engineering0.55×0 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.52×1 works
- Medicine0.48×25 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.48×3 works
- Decision Sciences0.39×1 works
- Dentistry0.33×0 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.09×1 works
- Nursing 3.6×
- Mathematics 3.5×
- Arts and Humanities 3.0×
- Neuroscience 2.9×
- Veterinary 2.3×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1.9×
- Psychology 1.7×
- Physics and Astronomy 1.7×
- Chemistry 1.7×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1.3×
- Environmental Science 1.2×
- Energy 1.2×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 1.0×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.9×
- Social Sciences 0.9×
- Computer Science 0.8×
- Materials Science 0.8×
- Engineering 0.7×
- Health Professions 0.6×
- Chemical Engineering 0.6×
- Immunology and Microbiology 0.5×
- Medicine 0.5×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.5×
- Decision Sciences 0.4×
- Dentistry 0.3×
- Business, Management and Accounting 0.1×
Who are the top researchers at Japan Women's University?
Ranked on the quality score, Misuzu Baba, Tomoko Takagi and Sachiko Ide lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Japan Women's University.
- 1
Misuzu Baba
Japan · #318,234 worldwide 14k citations · 67 works
- 2
Tomoko Takagi
Japan · #1,490,355 worldwide 1.1k citations · 26 works
- 3
Sachiko Ide
Japan · #1,522,927 worldwide 2.7k citations · 42 works
- 4
Masako Osumi
Japan · #2,109,070 worldwide 8k citations · 275 works
- 5
Mami Konomi
Japan · #2,317,478 worldwide 1.8k citations · 33 works
- 6
Hiroyuki Sekimoto
Japan · #2,478,815 worldwide 2.3k citations · 97 works
- 7
Aiko Watanabe
Japan · #2,849,981 worldwide 202 citations · 25 works
- 8
Noriko Nagata
Japan · #3,148,122 worldwide 7.6k citations · 170 works
- 9
Kazuto Sato
Japan · #3,243,769 worldwide 5.5k citations · 153 works
- 10
Machiko Osawa
Japan · #3,285,187 worldwide 349 citations · 38 works
Which keywords describe research at Japan Women's University?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Social Interaction, landscape conservation, Satoyama, Community Participation, Biodiversity, Literature, Pragmatics and Narrative Analysis.
- Sensory Integration
- Visible Light Communication
- Optical Manipulation
- Risk
- Disaster
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Embodiment
- Cognition
- Channel Modeling
- Interactional Linguistics
- Conversation Analysis
- Neural Mechanisms
- Social Cognition
- Narrative Analysis
- Consumer Perception
- Gender
- Biomedical Applications
- Satoyama
- Literature
- Biodiversity
- Sustainability
- Social Interaction
- Community Participation
- landscape conservation
- Antioxidant Activity
- Pragmatics
- Meta-Analysis
- Evolution
- Corpus Linguistics
- Identity Construction
- Health Benefits
- Neural Processing
- Cortical Connectivity
- Community
- Society
- Structured Light
- Perceptual Learning
- Free-Space Optical Communication
- Orbital Angular Momentum
- Microfluidic Devices
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
- Sustainability10▲ 1.45×10 topics
- Biodiversity8▲ 3.9×6 topics
- Social Interaction8▲ 7.2×6 topics
- Literature7▲ 4.7×8 topics
- Community Participation7▲ 7.1×2 topics
- Satoyama7▲ 258×1 topic
- landscape conservation7▲ 258×1 topic
- Biomedical Applications6▲ 1.99×11 topics
- Antioxidant Activity6▲ 3.6×15 topics
- Gender5▲ 3.6×9 topics
- Pragmatics5▲ 11×3 topics
- Consumer Perception5▲ 7.3×7 topics
- Meta-Analysis4▲ 2.9×10 topics
- Narrative Analysis4▲ 32×3 topics
- Evolution4▲ 6.2×4 topics
- Social Cognition4▲ 8.8×7 topics
- Corpus Linguistics4▲ 7.3×3 topics
- Neural Mechanisms4▲ 15×4 topics
- Identity Construction4▲ 29×2 topics
- Conversation Analysis4▲ 50×1 topic
- Health Benefits4▲ 4.3×9 topics
- Interactional Linguistics4▲ 50×1 topic
- Neural Processing4▲ 22×2 topics
- Channel Modeling3▲ 11×3 topics
- Cortical Connectivity3▲ 30×2 topics
- Cognition3▲ 8.6×4 topics
- Community3▲ 11×2 topics
- Embodiment3▲ 6.5×4 topics
- Society3▲ 6.5×3 topics
- Climate Change Adaptation3▲ 6.7×3 topics
- Structured Light3▲ 22×2 topics
- Disaster3▲ 22×1 topic
- Perceptual Learning3▲ 23×2 topics
- Risk3▲ 17×1 topic
- Free-Space Optical Communication3▲ 39×1 topic
- Optical Manipulation3▲ 47×1 topic
- Orbital Angular Momentum3▲ 47×1 topic
- Visible Light Communication3▲ 39×1 topic
- Microfluidic Devices3▲ 8.7×2 topics
- Sensory Integration3▲ 42×1 topic
Which research topics does Japan Women's University publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: Urban and spatial planning, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Disaster Management and Resilience and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Urban and spatial planning Nature and Landscape Conservation 7 works
- 2 Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language and Linguistics 4 works
- 3 Disaster Management and Resilience Sociology and Political Science 3 works
- 4 Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 3 works
- 5 Optical Wireless Communication Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 3 works
- 6 Visual perception and processing mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience 3 works
- 7 Face Recognition and Perception Cognitive Neuroscience 2 works
- 8 Thomas Hardy Literature Studies Literature and Literary Theory 2 works
- 9 Discourse Analysis in Language Studies Literature and Literary Theory 2 works
- 10 Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies Transportation 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.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has Japan Women's University's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021.
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 Women's University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.
Fractional works of Japan Women's 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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 8.1% in 2005.
Other research institutions in Tokyo
- The University of Tokyo
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Keio University
- Waseda University
- Tokyo University of Science
- Nihon University
- Hitachi (Japan)
- NTT (Japan)
Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.
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