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Kindai University

In research, Kindai University stands highest in Medicine (#1,153 of 10,443 worldwide), Health Sciences (#1,562 of 11,982 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,733 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Transportation, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Radiation — Transportation is 9.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,834
of 28,054 · #1,978 all time
Rank in Japan
#46
of 1,070
Research works
27k
◆ 1% vs 2013–17
Citations
346k
12.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
50%
world 28%

What is Kindai University 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
MedicineField #1,153 of 10,443 13.4%950 #1175
Health SciencesDomain #1,562 of 11,982 13.1%1,014 #1531
Life SciencesDomain #1,733 of 7,800 11.4%564 #1211
Physical SciencesDomain #3,442 of 12,888 4.9%1,215 #2085
SurgerySubfield #576 of 1,816 14.6%148 #831
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineSubfield #463 of 1,144 13.6%141 #424
Social SciencesDomain #4,503 of 10,521 9.2%544 #5300
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,647 of 3,579 12.3%292 #1081
OncologySubfield #378 of 772 18.1%111 #354
EngineeringField #3,769 of 6,636 2.7%538 #2045

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Kindai 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 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. Medicine#1,175 #1,153
  2. Health Sciences#1,531 #1,562
  3. Life Sciences#1,211 #1,733
  4. Physical Sciences#2,085 #3,442
  5. Surgery#831 #576
  6. Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine#424 #463
  7. Social Sciences#5,300 #4,503
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#1,081 #1,647
  9. Oncology#354 #378
  10. Engineering#2,045 #3,769
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 Kindai University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Transportation takes 9.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. TransportationSubfield · 108.3 works9.8×
  2. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 39.1 works4.9×
  3. RadiationSubfield · 20.1 works4.4×
  4. HepatologySubfield · 25.9 works4.0×
  5. Aquatic ScienceSubfield · 20.4 works3.4×
← 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: 0.84× its world share, 134 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.64× its world share, 292 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.61× its world share, 54 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.13× its world share, 61 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.93× its world share, 23 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.00× its world share, 12 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.46× its world share, 76 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.66× its world share, 171 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.31× its world share, 16 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.94× its world share, 29 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.07× its world share, 538 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.79× its world share, 131 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.96× its world share, 112 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.73× its world share, 29 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.36× its world share, 101 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.41× its world share, 7 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.43× its world share, 38 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.48× its world share, 950 worksMedicineNursing: 1.04× its world share, 17 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.63× its world share, 3 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.61× its world share, 59 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.41× its world share, 45 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.59× its world share, 19 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.51× its world share, 37 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.68× its world share, 69 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.75× its world share, 315 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 1.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Kindai University?

Ranked on the composite score, Tetsuya Mitsudomi, Masahiro Fukuoka and Masatoshi Kudo lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kindai University.

  1. 1 Tetsuya Mitsudomi Japan · #2,629 worldwide 1.5k citations · 165 works
  2. 2 Masahiro Fukuoka Japan · #17,863 worldwide 593 citations · 76 works
  3. 3 Masatoshi Kudo Japan · #18,883 worldwide 2k citations · 362 works
  4. 4 Kôzô Okamoto Japan · #28,539 worldwide 431 citations · 78 works
  5. 5 Kazuhiko Nakagawa Japan · #31,391 worldwide 1.2k citations · 217 works
  6. 6 Osamu Yoshie Japan · #36,939 worldwide 339 citations · 43 works
  7. 7 Yuji Tohda Japan · #37,568 worldwide 239 citations · 46 works
  8. 8 Takehiro Nakamura Japan · #42,473 worldwide 548 citations · 69 works
  9. 9 Gaku Nakazawa Japan · #56,053 worldwide 392 citations · 55 works
  10. 10 Kiyotaka Okuno Japan · #70,626 worldwide 255 citations · 45 works
All ranked researchers at Kindai University

Which keywords describe research at Kindai University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Modernization, Science, Social Influence, Culture, Literature, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Design and Legal Regulation.

▲ 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. Epidemiology136◆ 1.03×110 topics
  2. Inflammation120▲ 1.73×80 topics
  3. History105▲ 4.5×16 topics
  4. Literature104▲ 5.8×15 topics
  5. Culture104▲ 5.9×13 topics
  6. Modernization100▲ 16×3 topics
  7. Chemotherapy97▲ 4.1×23 topics
  8. Philosophy93▲ 6.3×9 topics
  9. Science93▲ 11×6 topics
  10. Cancer92▲ 2.0×53 topics
  11. Social Influence91▲ 13×3 topics
  12. Ethnicity91▲ 7.2×6 topics
  13. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles90▲ 14×4 topics
  14. Design90▲ 16×4 topics
  15. Legal Regulation90▲ 12×3 topics
  16. Economic Security89▲ 12×2 topics
  17. International Trade Law89▲ 20×2 topics
  18. Air Force89▲ 22×1 topic
  19. Islam89▲ 13×1 topic
  20. Public Oversight89▲ 21×1 topic
  21. Sharia Law89▲ 18×1 topic
  22. Transport Policy89▲ 21×1 topic
  23. Warfare89▲ 22×1 topic
  24. Oxidative Stress81▲ 1.48×57 topics
  25. Treatment62▲ 1.53×42 topics
  26. Immunotherapy61▲ 2.6×19 topics
  27. Diagnosis57▲ 1.85×33 topics
  28. Tumor Microenvironment57▲ 3.9×8 topics
  29. Clinical Practice Guidelines53▲ 2.9×14 topics
  30. Clinical Trials50▲ 2.2×17 topics
  31. Management47▲ 1.81×30 topics
  32. Neoadjuvant Therapy41▲ 5.3×5 topics
  33. Prognostic Factors39▲ 2.7×14 topics
  34. Targeted Therapy39▲ 5.2×5 topics
  35. Ecosystem Management28▲ 14×2 topics
  36. Genomic Profiling27▲ 7.9×2 topics
  37. Endoscopic Resection25▲ 7.5×2 topics
  38. Satoyama24▲ 74×1 topic
  39. landscape conservation24▲ 74×1 topic
  40. Resistance Mechanisms24▲ 8.3×3 topics

Which research topics does Kindai University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Military Technology and Strategies, Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies, Legal and Regulatory Analysis and Urban and spatial planning.

Military Technology and …89Military Technology and Strategies: 89 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, an…89Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 89 fractional worksLegal and Regulatory Ana…89Legal and Regulatory Analysis: 89 fractional worksUrban and spatial planning: 24 fractional worksLung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 20 fractional worksPancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research: 18 fractional worksEducational Robotics and Engineering: 18 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 18 fractional worksHepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis: 17 fractional worksEsophageal Cancer Research and Treatment: 12 fractional works
Aerospace EngineeringSociology and Political ScienceTransportationNature and Landscape Conservation5 others

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

  1. 1 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 89 works
  2. 2 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 89 works
  3. 3 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 89 works
  4. 4 Urban and spatial planning Nature and Landscape Conservation 24 works
  5. 5 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 20 works
  6. 6 Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research Oncology 18 works
  7. 7 Educational Robotics and Engineering Artificial Intelligence 18 works
  8. 8 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 18 works
  9. 9 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis Hepatology 17 works
  10. 10 Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment Surgery 12 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 available50.0%not open50.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.0%domestic only92.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Kindai University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 1% higher than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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