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Kyoto Pharmaceutical University

In research, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University stands highest in Life Sciences (#2,394 of 6,403 worldwide), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (#1,605 of 2,964 worldwide) and Medicine (#5,187 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Organic Chemistry (Organic Chemistry is 10.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,084
of 22,385 · #11,040 all time
Rank in Japan
#355
of 924
Research works
7.1k
▼ 18% vs 2018-21
Citations
173k
24.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.78×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
45%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Kyoto Pharmaceutical University

What is Kyoto Pharmaceutical 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
Life SciencesDomain #2,394 of 6,403 4.8%178 #2408
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,605 of 2,964 4.6%112 #2072
MedicineField #5,187 of 8,541 4.4%130 #5142
Health SciencesDomain #6,083 of 9,902 4.5%137 #5605
Molecular BiologySubfield #1,207 of 1,880 4.6%77 #1676
Physical SciencesDomain #10,465 of 10,670 3.7%68 #15952

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Kyoto Pharmaceutical 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 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. Life Sciences#2,408 #2,394
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#2,072 #1,605
  3. Medicine#5,142 #5,187
  4. Health Sciences#5,605 #6,083
  5. Molecular Biology#1,676 #1,207
  6. Physical Sciences#15,952 #10,465
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 Kyoto Pharmaceutical University work in?

In 2022-now, 47% of research at Kyoto Pharmaceutical University is in Life Sciences, 35% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (33%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (30%), Chemistry (10%). It does 3.4× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 203 fractional works · 46.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 130 fractional works · 29.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 89 fractional works · 20.5% of its workCell Biology: 14 fractional works · 3.3% of its workBiochemistry: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCancer Research: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGenetics: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMolecular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiotechnology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 29 fractional works · 6.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSensory Systems: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workNeurology: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEndocrine and Autonomic Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 24 fractional works · 5.5% of its workImmunology: 17 fractional works · 3.9% of its workApplied Microbiology and Biotechnology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMicrobiology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 11 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPharmacology: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPharmaceutical Science: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workToxicology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 10 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPlant Science: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 152 fractional works · 35.0% of its workMedicine: 144 fractional works · 33.2% of its workOncology: 24 fractional works · 5.5% of its workPhysiology: 14 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEpidemiology: 11 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSurgery: 9 fractional works · 2.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 9 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPharmacology: 8 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDermatology: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNeurology: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHepatology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNephrology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGastroenterology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNursing: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 76 fractional works · 17.5% of its workChemistry: 45 fractional works · 10.3% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 34 fractional works · 7.8% of its workSpectroscopy: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 9 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBiomaterials: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKKyotoPharmaceutical…434fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences47%Physical Sciences17%Health Sciences35%Social Sciences1%

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
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology13029.9%
    2. Neuroscience296.6%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology245.5%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics112.5%
    5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences102.2%
    1. Medicine14433.2%
    2. Nursing61.4%
    3. Health Professions10.3%
    4. Veterinary10.2%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Chemistry4510.3%
    2. Engineering92.2%
    3. Materials Science71.6%
    4. Computer Science61.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy40.9%
    6. Environmental Science20.6%
    7. Mathematics20.3%
    8. Energy10.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.3%
    2. Psychology10.3%
    3. Social Sciences10.2%
    4. Decision Sciences00.0%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.0%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Kyoto Pharmaceutical University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Organic Chemistry takes 10.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Organic ChemistrySubfield · 33.9 works10×
← 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: 0.46× its world share, 10 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5.61× its world share, 130 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 5.42× its world share, 24 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 4.07× its world share, 29 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 7.16× its world share, 11 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 6.58× its world share, 45 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.18× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.14× its world share, 9 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.45× its world share, 7 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.39× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.73× its world share, 144 worksMedicineNursing: 2.78× its world share, 6 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.13× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.09× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 7.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics7.16×11 works
  2. Chemistry6.58×45 works
  3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology5.61×130 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology5.42×24 works
  5. Neuroscience4.07×29 works
  6. Nursing2.78×6 works
  7. Medicine1.73×144 works
  8. Veterinary1.13×1 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.46×10 works
  10. Materials Science0.45×7 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy0.39×4 works
  12. Mathematics0.30×2 works
  13. Chemical Engineering0.22×0 works
  14. Computer Science0.18×6 works
  15. Energy0.15×1 works
  16. Engineering0.14×9 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.13×1 works
  18. Environmental Science0.11×2 works
  19. Dentistry0.10×0 works
  20. Health Professions0.10×1 works
  21. Psychology0.09×1 works
  22. Decision Sciences0.05×0 works
  23. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.02×0 works
  24. Social Sciences0.02×1 works
  25. Arts and Humanities0.01×0 works
  26. Business, Management and Accounting0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Kyoto Pharmaceutical University?

Ranked on the quality score, T. Sato, Yasuji Matsuoka and Youhei Sohma lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kyoto Pharmaceutical University.

  1. 1 T. Sato Japan · #906,825 worldwide 6.9k citations · 168 works
  2. 2 Yasuji Matsuoka Japan · #1,796,640 worldwide 7.5k citations · 118 works
  3. 3 Youhei Sohma Japan · #2,453,502 worldwide 3.3k citations · 162 works
  4. 4 Tomoya Kotake Japan · #2,611,583 worldwide 425 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Takashi Ohgita Japan · #3,024,309 worldwide 636 citations · 59 works
  6. 6 Aya Yokota Japan · #3,026,401 worldwide 1.8k citations · 43 works
  7. 7 Tatsunori Sato Japan · #3,284,078 worldwide 3.2k citations · 102 works
  8. 8 Tomonori Kunikata Japan · #3,416,141 worldwide 1.1k citations · 29 works
  9. 9 Shohei Kawanishi Japan · #3,570,783 worldwide 573 citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Naoki Hayashi Japan · #3,574,910 worldwide 992 citations · 74 works
All ranked researchers at Kyoto Pharmaceutical University

What are the most cited papers from Kyoto Pharmaceutical University?

The most cited paper from Kyoto Pharmaceutical University is "MassBank: a public repository for sharing mass spectral data for life sciences" (Hisayuki Horai et al., 2010), with 2,595 citations. Next come "Prostanoid Receptors: Structures, Properties, and Functions" (2,419) and "The Fibroblast Growth Factor signaling pathway" (2,129).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MassBank: a public repository for sharing mass spectral data for life sciences Hisayuki Horai et al. · Journal of Mass Spectrometry Open access Jul 2010 2,595
2 Prostanoid Receptors: Structures, Properties, and Functions Shuh Narumiya, Yukihiko Sugimoto, Fumitaka Ushikubi · Physiological Reviews Review 10 Jan 1999 2,419
3 The Fibroblast Growth Factor signaling pathway David M. Ornitz, Nobuyuki Itoh · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Developmental Biology ReviewOpen access 13 Mar 2015 2,129
4 Application of Akaike's information criterion (AIC) in the evaluation of linear pharmacokinetic equations Kiyoshi Yamaoka, Terumichi Nakagawa, Toyozo Uno · Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics Apr 1978 2,079
5 High performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease Akinori Nakamura, Naoki Kaneko, Victor L. Villemagne et al. · Nature 31 Jan 2018 1,737
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Kyoto Pharmaceutical University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Inflammation, Cancer, Oxidative Stress, Drug Discovery, Cancer Therapy, Cell Signaling, Chemotherapy and Pharmacology.

▲ 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. Inflammation41▲ 4.5×66 topics
  2. Cancer35▲ 6.0×44 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress31▲ 4.3×42 topics
  4. Epidemiology22▲ 1.26×46 topics
  5. Drug Discovery17▲ 18×10 topics
  6. Cancer Therapy16▲ 6.6×17 topics
  7. Chemotherapy16▲ 5.1×17 topics
  8. Cell Signaling14▲ 20×11 topics
  9. Pharmacology13▲ 12×16 topics
  10. Biomarkers12▲ 4.1×14 topics
  11. Apoptosis12▲ 8.9×16 topics
  12. Medicinal Chemistry12▲ 10×10 topics
  13. Neurodegeneration11▲ 7.9×8 topics
  14. Metabolism10▲ 4.4×22 topics
  15. Reactive Oxygen Species10▲ 5.3×11 topics
  16. Drug Delivery10▲ 4.0×9 topics
  17. Antibiotic Resistance9▲ 5.4×6 topics
  18. Enantioselective Synthesis9▲ 35×5 topics
  19. Immunity9▲ 5.0×9 topics
  20. Neuroinflammation9▲ 7.0×6 topics
  21. Innate Immunity8▲ 5.9×10 topics
  22. Mitochondrial Dysfunction8▲ 6.4×10 topics
  23. Heterocycles8▲ 20×9 topics
  24. Pharmacokinetics8▲ 6.8×9 topics
  25. Membrane Proteins8▲ 24×3 topics
  26. Transition Metal Catalysis8▲ 21×4 topics
  27. Synthesis8▲ 4.8×15 topics
  28. Protein-Protein Interactions8▲ 40×3 topics
  29. Biogenesis7▲ 9.9×2 topics
  30. Glycosylation7▲ 15×3 topics
  31. Lipid Rafts7▲ 46×2 topics
  32. Stem Cells7▲ 6.0×11 topics
  33. Cholesterol7▲ 11×4 topics
  34. Ion Channels7▲ 14×4 topics
  35. Mass Spectrometry7▲ 10×3 topics
  36. Gene Therapy7▲ 8.0×4 topics
  37. Monoclonal Antibodies7▲ 17×3 topics
  38. Therapeutic Potential7▲ 15×3 topics
  39. Calcium Signaling6▲ 19×4 topics
  40. Therapeutic Antibodies6▲ 21×2 topics

Which research topics does Kyoto Pharmaceutical University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Extracellular vesicles in disease, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research.

Lipid Membrane Structure…6Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior: 6 fractional worksExtracellular vesicles i…6Extracellular vesicles in disease: 6 fractional worksChemical Synthesis and Analysis: 6 fractional worksMonoclonal and Polyclona…5Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research: 5 fractional worksRNA Interference and Gen…5RNA Interference and Gene Delivery: 5 fractional worksComputational Drug Discovery Methods: 5 fractional worksAlzheimer's disease research and treatments: 5 fractional worksReceptor Mechanisms and …4Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling: 4 fractional worksCancer Treatment and Pharmacology: 4 fractional worksMicrotubule and mitosis dynamics: 4 fractional works
Molecular BiologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingComputational Theory and MathematicsPhysiology2 others

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

  1. 1 Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior Molecular Biology 6 works
  2. 2 Extracellular vesicles in disease Molecular Biology 6 works
  3. 3 Chemical Synthesis and Analysis Molecular Biology 6 works
  4. 4 Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 5 works
  5. 5 RNA Interference and Gene Delivery Molecular Biology 5 works
  6. 6 Computational Drug Discovery Methods Computational Theory and Mathematics 5 works
  7. 7 Alzheimer's disease research and treatments Physiology 5 works
  8. 8 Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling Molecular Biology 4 works
  9. 9 Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology Oncology 4 works
  10. 10 Microtubule and mitosis dynamics Cell Biology 4 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 available45.3%not open54.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors6.5%domestic only93.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Kyoto Pharmaceutical University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% 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 Kyoto Pharmaceutical University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Kyoto Pharmaceutical University0.0017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Kyoto Pharmaceutical 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 2025Kyoto Pharmaceutical University5.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 9.6% in 2000.

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