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National Institute of Animal Health

In research, National Institute of Animal Health stands highest in Life Sciences (#7,097 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#21,843
of 28,054 · #13,510 all time
Rank in Japan
#678
of 1,070
Research works
3.3k
▼ 22% vs 2013–17
Citations
56k
17.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
60%
world 28%

What is National Institute of Animal Health 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
Life SciencesDomain #7,097 of 7,800 10.0%61 #5804

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Institute of Animal Health 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).

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: 6.83× its world share, 34 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.63× its world share, 15 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 11.08× its world share, 12 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.90× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.13× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceDentistry: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.46× its world share, 30 worksMedicineNursing: 2.07× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 31.49× its world share, 4 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesPsychology: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial 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: Veterinary, 31.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at National Institute of Animal Health?

Ranked on the composite score, Tsutomu Sekizaki, Minoru Yoshida and Yuji Kono lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Institute of Animal Health.

  1. 1 Tsutomu Sekizaki · #277,430 worldwide 105 citations · 25 works
  2. 2 Minoru Yoshida · #308,241 worldwide 1.2k citations · 400 works
  3. 3 Yuji Kono · #346,727 worldwide 102 citations · 43 works
  4. 4 Takehisa Yamamoto · #405,310 worldwide 45 citations · 27 works
  5. 5 Kunihiko Sato · #411,744 worldwide 92 citations · 40 works
  6. 6 T. Imada · #438,633 worldwide 66 citations · 22 works
  7. 7 Yoshio Tanaka · #451,436 worldwide 95 citations · 30 works
  8. 8 Hiroshi Sentsui · #474,585 worldwide 44 citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Kenji Sekikawa · #484,250 worldwide 71 citations · 18 works
  10. 10 Tohru Suzuki · #488,422 worldwide 71 citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at National Institute of Animal Health

Which keywords describe research at National Institute of Animal Health?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Genetic Characterization, Vaccine, Viral Pathogenesis, African Swine Fever, Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Infection.

▲ 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. Epidemiology40▲ 9.5×35 topics
  2. Pathogenesis22▲ 41×9 topics
  3. Genetic Characterization16▲ 330×2 topics
  4. Vaccine14▲ 33×7 topics
  5. Viral Pathogenesis12▲ 184×2 topics
  6. African Swine Fever11▲ 370×1 topic
  7. Foot-and-Mouth Disease11▲ 370×1 topic
  8. Infection10▲ 38×4 topics
  9. Genomic Sequencing9▲ 75×3 topics
  10. Immune Response9▲ 16×11 topics
  11. Antimicrobial Resistance9▲ 42×6 topics
  12. Climate Change8▲ 2.9×12 topics
  13. Vaccines8▲ 138×3 topics
  14. Vaccine Development8▲ 30×7 topics
  15. Public Health7▲ 4.8×11 topics
  16. Metagenomics6▲ 67×2 topics
  17. Coronavirus6▲ 26×2 topics
  18. Virulence Factors6▲ 37×7 topics
  19. Bluetongue Virus5▲ 271×1 topic
  20. Culicoides Biting Midges5▲ 271×1 topic
  21. Genomics5▲ 17×6 topics
  22. Circovirus5▲ 154×1 topic
  23. Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus5▲ 154×1 topic
  24. Norovirus5▲ 104×1 topic
  25. Rotavirus5▲ 104×1 topic
  26. Host-Pathogen Interactions5▲ 53×4 topics
  27. Virus4▲ 42×3 topics
  28. Genetic Diversity4▲ 8.7×6 topics
  29. Pneumonia4▲ 83×2 topics
  30. Mycoplasma4▲ 184×1 topic
  31. Pasteurella4▲ 184×1 topic
  32. Immunotherapy4▲ 5.1×5 topics
  33. Pathogenicity4▲ 55×3 topics
  34. Viral Transmission4▲ 23×3 topics
  35. Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance3▲ 60×2 topics
  36. Viral Infection3▲ 47×2 topics
  37. Heart Failure3▲ 7.2×2 topics
  38. Enterovirus3▲ 94×1 topic
  39. Myocarditis3▲ 94×1 topic
  40. Genomic Analysis3▲ 11×6 topics

Which research topics does National Institute of Animal Health publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, Animal Virus Infections Studies and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

Animal Disease Managemen…11Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology: 11 fractional worksVector-Borne Animal Diseases: 5 fractional worksAnimal Virus Infections …5Animal Virus Infections Studies: 5 fractional worksViral gastroenteritis re…5Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology: 5 fractional worksMicrobial infections and disease research: 4 fractional worksViral Infections and Immunology Research: 3 fractional worksViral Infections and Vec…3Viral Infections and Vectors: 3 fractional worksInfluenza Virus Research Studies: 3 fractional worksSalmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology: 2 fractional worksT-cell and Retrovirus Studies: 2 fractional works
Agronomy and Crop ScienceEcology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsAnimal Science and ZoologyInfectious Diseases5 others

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

  1. 1 Animal Disease Management and EpidemiologyAgronomy and Crop Science 11 works
  2. 2 Vector-Borne Animal DiseasesEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 5 works
  3. 3 Animal Virus Infections StudiesAnimal Science and Zoology 5 works
  4. 4 Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiologyInfectious Diseases 5 works
  5. 5 Microbial infections and disease researchMicrobiology 4 works
  6. 6 Viral Infections and Immunology ResearchCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 3 works
  7. 7 Viral Infections and VectorsInfectious Diseases 3 works
  8. 8 Influenza Virus Research StudiesEpidemiology 3 works
  9. 9 Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiologyFood Science 2 works
  10. 10 T-cell and Retrovirus StudiesImmunology 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.

openly available60.3%not open39.7%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.4%domestic only90.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has National Institute of Animal Health's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 22% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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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