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Kyushu Economic Research Center

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Research works
22
▼ 5% vs 2018-21
Citations
280
12.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.6%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
68%
world 40%
International
9%
world 18%
Kyushu Economic Research Center

Not ranked overall: Kyushu Economic Research Center is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Kyushu Economic Research Center work in?

In all years, 46% of research at Kyushu Economic Research Center is in Health Sciences, 32% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (45%), Social Sciences (13%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (12%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 10 fractional works · 46.0% of its workMedicine: 10 fractional works · 45.3% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 15.1% of its workOncology: 3 fractional works · 11.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 4.8% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGastroenterology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 31.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 13.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 4.6% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 12.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 11.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 6.6% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 17.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 8.0% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBiological Psychiatry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKKyushu EconomicResearch Center22fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences17%Health Sciences46%Social Sciences32%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1045.3%
    2. Veterinary00.4%
    3. Dentistry00.3%
    1. Social Sciences313.2%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance312.1%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting16.6%
    1. Environmental Science28.0%
    2. Engineering14.0%
    3. Materials Science02.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy01.5%
    5. Computer Science01.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14.2%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology00.7%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.93× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.70× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Engineering: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMedicine: 3.29× its world share, 4 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4.03× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 6.06× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 6.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance6.06×1 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting4.03×1 works
  3. Medicine3.29×4 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.93×0 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology0.70×0 works
  6. Engineering0.26×0 works
  7. Environmental Science0.19×0 works
  8. Social Sciences0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Kyushu Economic Research Center?

Ranked on the quality score, Takayuki Shimose lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Kyushu Economic Research Center.

  1. 1 Takayuki Shimose Japan · #4,120,083 worldwide 474 citations · 47 works
All ranked researchers at Kyushu Economic Research Center

What are the most cited papers from Kyushu Economic Research Center?

The most cited paper from Kyushu Economic Research Center is "KEGG mapping tools for uncovering hidden features in biological data" (Minoru I. Kanehisa, Yoko Sato, Masayuki Kawashima, 2021), with 778 citations. Next come "Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3–90 years" (308) and "Monitoring of somatic mutations in circulating cell-free DNA by digital PCR and next-generation sequencing during afatinib treatment in patients with lung adenocarcinoma positive for EGFR activating mutations" (94).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 KEGG mapping tools for uncovering hidden features in biological data Minoru I. Kanehisa, Yoko Sato, Masayuki Kawashima · Protein Science Open access 23 Aug 2021 778
2 Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3–90 years Sophia Frangou et al. · Human Brain Mapping Open access205 authors 17 Feb 2021 308
3 Monitoring of somatic mutations in circulating cell-free DNA by digital PCR and next-generation sequencing during afatinib treatment in patients with lung adenocarcinoma positive for EGFR activating mutations Eiji Iwama, Kazuko Sakai, Koichi Azuma et al. · Annals of Oncology Open access 3 Oct 2016 94
4 Criteria for the diagnosis of idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis: A proposal Kentaro Watanabe, Hiroshi Ishii, Fumiaki Kiyomi et al. · Respiratory Investigation 11 Apr 2019 92
5 KEGG tools for classification and analysis of viral proteins Zhao Jin, Yoko Sato, Masayuki Kawashima et al. · Protein Science Open access 26 Oct 2023 56
All 91 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Kyushu Economic Research Center?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Targeted Therapy, Clinical Trials, Chemotherapy, Treatment Guidelines, Precision Medicine, Genomic Profiling, ALK Inhibitors and EGFR Mutations.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years 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 16 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Clinical Trials2▲ 13×3 topics
  2. Targeted Therapy2▲ 39×3 topics
  3. Chemotherapy2▲ 11×8 topics
  4. Precision Medicine1▲ 20×2 topics
  5. Treatment Guidelines1▲ 29×4 topics
  6. ALK Inhibitors1▲ 101×1 topic
  7. EGFR Mutations1▲ 101×1 topic
  8. Genomic Profiling1▲ 58×2 topics
  9. Immunotherapy1▲ 8.4×8 topics
  10. Medical Imaging1▲ 20×2 topics
  11. Machine Learning1▲ 2.5×3 topics
  12. Cross-Border Regions1▲ 613×1 topic
  13. Regenerative Medicine1▲ 21×2 topics
  14. Spatial Econometrics1▲ 99×2 topics
  15. Territorial Governance1▲ 32×1 topic
  16. Tissue Engineering1▲ 8.6×2 topics

Which research topics does Kyushu Economic Research Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations, Spatial and Panel Data Analysis, Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management and Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers.

Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations: 1 fractional worksSpatial and Panel Data Analysis: 0 fractional worksSupply Chain Resilience …0Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management: 0 fractional worksCancer Immunotherapy and…0Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers: 0 fractional worksLung Cancer Research Studies: 0 fractional worksRegional Economic and Spatial Analysis: 0 fractional worksGlobal Trade and Competi…0Global Trade and Competitiveness: 0 fractional worksRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 0 fractional worksSafety and Risk Management: 0 fractional worksColorectal Cancer Screening and Detection: 0 fractional works
Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineEconomics and EconometricsStrategy and ManagementOncology2 others

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

  1. 1 Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 1 works
  2. 2 Spatial and Panel Data Analysis Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  3. 3 Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management Strategy and Management 0 works
  4. 4 Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers Oncology 0 works
  5. 5 Lung Cancer Research Studies Oncology 0 works
  6. 6 Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis Economics and Econometrics 0 works
  7. 7 Global Trade and Competitiveness Strategy and Management 0 works
  8. 8 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 0 works
  9. 9 Safety and Risk Management Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 0 works
  10. 10 Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Oncology 0 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 available67.7%not open32.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.8%domestic only91.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Kyushu Economic Research Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% 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 Kyushu Economic Research Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000023% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%Kyushu Economic Research Center0.000013% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of Kyushu Economic Research Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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