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Line Corporation (Japan)

In research, Line Corporation (Japan) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#2,939 of 10,670 worldwide) and Engineering (#2,548 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ocean Engineering, Mechanics of Materials and Civil and Structural Engineering (Ocean Engineering is 11.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#8,990
of 22,385 · #14,353 all time
Rank in Japan
#209
of 924
Research works
926
▲ 265% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.6k
9.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.87×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
28%
world 40%
International
50%
world 18%
Line Corporation (Japan)

What is Line Corporation (Japan) 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
Physical SciencesDomain #2,939 of 10,670 9.0%287 #8069
EngineeringField #2,548 of 5,901 7.5%170 #5746

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Line Corporation (Japan) 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 Line Corporation (Japan) work in?

In 2022-now, 90% of research at Line Corporation (Japan) is in Physical Sciences, 6% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (55%), Computer Science (15%), Materials Science (8%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 392 fractional works · 90.3% of its workEngineering: 238 fractional works · 54.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 60 fractional works · 13.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 39 fractional works · 9.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 27 fractional works · 6.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 26 fractional works · 6.1% of its workMechanics of Materials: 25 fractional works · 5.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 16 fractional works · 3.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 6 fractional works · 1.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 64 fractional works · 14.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 28 fractional works · 6.5% of its workSignal Processing: 13 fractional works · 3.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 10 fractional works · 2.3% of its workInformation Systems: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 33 fractional works · 7.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 17 fractional works · 4.0% of its workMetals and Alloys: 8 fractional works · 1.9% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Science: 26 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workWater Science and Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcological Modeling: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 8 fractional works · 1.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Energy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 5 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCatalysis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 26 fractional works · 6.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 9 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 1.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKLine Corporation(Japan)435fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences1%Physical Sciences90%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences6%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering23854.7%
    2. Computer Science6414.6%
    3. Materials Science337.5%
    4. Environmental Science266.0%
    5. Energy81.9%
    6. Chemistry81.7%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences71.6%
    8. Physics and Astronomy51.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering40.8%
    10. Mathematics10.3%
    1. Social Sciences92.0%
    2. Decision Sciences71.5%
    3. Arts and Humanities40.9%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting30.7%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance20.6%
    6. Psychology20.4%
    1. Medicine81.8%
    2. Health Professions10.3%
    3. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology40.8%
    2. Neuroscience10.2%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.2%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Line Corporation (Japan) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ocean Engineering takes 11.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 26.4 works12×
  2. Mechanics of MaterialsSubfield · 25.5 works8.2×
  3. Civil and Structural EngineeringSubfield · 39.0 works7.6×
  4. Mechanical EngineeringSubfield · 59.6 works7.5×
← 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: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.16× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 2.31× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.11× its world share, 8 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.88× its world share, 64 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.01× its world share, 7 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 2.06× its world share, 8 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.65× its world share, 238 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.21× its world share, 26 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.15× its world share, 33 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.49× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 8 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.32× its world share, 4 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.20× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.58× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering3.65×238 works
  2. Chemical Engineering2.31×4 works
  3. Materials Science2.15×33 works
  4. Energy2.06×8 works
  5. Computer Science1.88×64 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.58×7 works
  7. Environmental Science1.21×26 works
  8. Chemistry1.11×8 works
  9. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.01×7 works
  10. Physics and Astronomy0.49×5 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.32×4 works
  12. Mathematics0.27×1 works
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.26×2 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.21×1 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.20×3 works
  16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.16×4 works
  17. Social Sciences0.16×9 works
  18. Neuroscience0.15×1 works
  19. Psychology0.14×2 works
  20. Health Professions0.12×1 works
  21. Medicine0.09×8 works
  22. Dentistry0.05×0 works
  23. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.04×1 works
  24. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Line Corporation (Japan)?

Ranked on the quality score, Derek Redmore, Kent Fujiwara and Tatsuya Komatsu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Line Corporation (Japan).

  1. 1 Derek Redmore Japan · #2,154,944 worldwide 991 citations · 52 works
  2. 2 Kent Fujiwara Japan · #2,484,492 worldwide 193 citations · 36 works
  3. 3 Tatsuya Komatsu Japan · #2,959,303 worldwide 649 citations · 101 works
  4. 4 Mike Weston Japan · #3,762,795 worldwide 7 citations · 16 works
  5. 5 Yusuke Kida Japan · #4,050,430 worldwide 149 citations · 30 works
  6. 6 Brent W. Hale Japan · #4,898,732 worldwide 79 citations · 17 works
All ranked researchers at Line Corporation (Japan)

What are the most cited papers from Line Corporation (Japan)?

The most cited paper from Line Corporation (Japan) is "Welcome to the Tidyverse" (Hadley Wickham et al., 2019), with 22,949 citations. Next come "Parallel Wavegan: A Fast Waveform Generation Model Based on Generative Adversarial Networks with Multi-Resolution Spectrogram" (858) and "A Comparative Study on Transformer vs RNN in Speech Applications" (785).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Welcome to the Tidyverse Hadley Wickham et al. · The Journal of Open Source Software Open access 21 Nov 2019 22,949
2 Parallel Wavegan: A Fast Waveform Generation Model Based on Generative Adversarial Networks with Multi-Resolution Spectrogram Ryuichi Yamamoto, Eunwoo Song, Jae-Min Kim Conference paper 9 Apr 2020 858
3 A Comparative Study on Transformer vs RNN in Speech Applications Shigeki Karita, Nanxin Chen, Tomoki Hayashi et al. · 2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU) Conference paperOpen access Dec 2019 785
4 Quantification of Delay Factors Using the Relative Importance Index Method for Construction Projects in Turkey Murat Gündüz, Yasemin Nielsen, Mustafa Özdemir · Journal of Management in Engineering Open access 12 Apr 2012 445
5 Espnet-TTS: Unified, Reproducible, and Integratable Open Source End-to-End Text-to-Speech Toolkit Tomoki Hayashi, Ryuichi Yamamoto, Katsuki Inoue et al. Conference paper 9 Apr 2020 182
All 62 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Line Corporation (Japan)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Pipeline, Corrosion, Pitting Corrosion, Finite Element Analysis, Deep Learning, Natural Gas, Renewable Energy and Machine Learning.

▲ 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. Deep Learning39▲ 2.6×52 topics
  2. Pipeline36▲ 82×3 topics
  3. Machine Learning34▲ 2.3×40 topics
  4. Corrosion28▲ 52×6 topics
  5. Renewable Energy26▲ 4.1×25 topics
  6. Pitting Corrosion25▲ 111×2 topics
  7. Neural Networks24▲ 3.6×30 topics
  8. Finite Element Analysis23▲ 23×7 topics
  9. Mechanical Properties22▲ 5.1×25 topics
  10. Natural Gas20▲ 52×3 topics
  11. Risk Analysis17▲ 39×2 topics
  12. Steel Structures17▲ 98×2 topics
  13. Liquefaction17▲ 46×2 topics
  14. Tunnel17▲ 46×2 topics
  15. Offshore17▲ 214×1 topic
  16. Reliability Assessment17▲ 91×1 topic
  17. Analysis17▲ 43×2 topics
  18. Feature Extraction16▲ 8.3×5 topics
  19. Earthquake16▲ 67×1 topic
  20. Seismic16▲ 67×1 topic
  21. Convolutional Neural Networks16▲ 5.0×9 topics
  22. Optimization15▲ 7.8×9 topics
  23. Hydrogen Embrittlement13▲ 37×3 topics
  24. Numerical Simulation12▲ 9.8×11 topics
  25. Defect Detection12▲ 22×3 topics
  26. Heat Transfer11▲ 5.3×12 topics
  27. Material Characterization11▲ 22×2 topics
  28. Eddy Current Testing10▲ 59×1 topic
  29. Non-Destructive Evaluation10▲ 59×1 topic
  30. Fault Diagnosis9▲ 15×4 topics
  31. Corrosion Behavior9▲ 25×3 topics
  32. Grain Boundary Engineering8▲ 30×2 topics
  33. Wind Power Integration8▲ 29×2 topics
  34. Welding8▲ 30×2 topics
  35. Passive Films8▲ 55×1 topic
  36. Stainless Steels8▲ 55×1 topic
  37. Genetic Algorithms8▲ 13×2 topics
  38. Steel8▲ 43×2 topics
  39. Energy Transition8▲ 12×3 topics
  40. Process Optimization8▲ 28×2 topics

Which research topics does Line Corporation (Japan) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis, Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures, Non-Destructive Testing Techniques and Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals.

Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis: 17 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures: 16 fractional worksNon-Destructive Testing Techniques: 10 fractional worksHydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals: 8 fractional worksWater Systems and Optimization: 8 fractional worksWelding Techniques and Residual Stresses: 8 fractional worksIntegrated Energy System…7Integrated Energy Systems Optimization: 7 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and Synthesis: 6 fractional worksCorrosion Behavior and Inhibition: 6 fractional worksSpeech and Audio Processing: 5 fractional works
Mechanical EngineeringCivil and Structural EngineeringMetals and AlloysElectrical and Electronic Engineering3 others

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

  1. 1 Structural Integrity and Reliability Analysis Mechanical Engineering 17 works
  2. 2 Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures Civil and Structural Engineering 16 works
  3. 3 Non-Destructive Testing Techniques Mechanical Engineering 10 works
  4. 4 Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals Metals and Alloys 8 works
  5. 5 Water Systems and Optimization Civil and Structural Engineering 8 works
  6. 6 Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses Mechanical Engineering 8 works
  7. 7 Integrated Energy Systems Optimization Electrical and Electronic Engineering 7 works
  8. 8 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 6 works
  9. 9 Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition Materials Chemistry 6 works
  10. 10 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 5 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 available27.7%not open72.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors49.7%domestic only50.3%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Line Corporation (Japan)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 265% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Line Corporation (Japan) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0014% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Line Corporation (Japan)0.0028% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Line Corporation (Japan) 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 2025Line Corporation (Japan)9.7% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 13.4% in 2020.

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