National Institutes of Natural Sciences

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where National Institutes of Natural Sciences 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).

1. Physical Sciences#2,782 #2,986
2. Life Sciences#2,423 #3,199
3. Physics and Astronomy#1,739 #997

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nuclear and High Energy Physics takes 21.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

1. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 21.1 works22×
2. Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 31.7 works20×
3. Physics and AstronomyField · 83.1 works12×
4. Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsSubfield · 22.0 works10×

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

• Physics and Astronomy 12.2×
• Neuroscience 5.1×
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3.6×
• Chemistry 2.1×
• Materials Science 2.0×
• Nursing 1.6×
• Immunology and Microbiology 1.1×
• Engineering 0.9×
• Chemical Engineering 0.9×
• Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.8×
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.7×
• Energy 0.5×
• Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 0.5×
• Environmental Science 0.4×
• Medicine 0.4×
• Mathematics 0.3×
• Psychology 0.2×
• Computer Science 0.1×
• Veterinary 0.1×
• Health Professions 0.1×
• Arts and Humanities 0.1×
• Decision Sciences 0.0×
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance 0.0×
• Social Sciences 0.0×

Ranked on the composite score, Shin‐ichi Higashijima, Kuniaki Nagayama and Nobuyasu Koga lead among researchers whose main affiliation is National Institutes of Natural Sciences.

1. 1 🇯🇵 Shin‐ichi Higashijima Japan · #367,722 worldwide 146 citations · 25 works
2. 2 🇯🇵 Kuniaki Nagayama Japan · #441,126 worldwide 273 citations · 73 works
3. 3 🇯🇵 Nobuyasu Koga Japan · #630,511 worldwide 53 citations · 20 works
4. 4 🇯🇵 K. Ohkubo Japan · #946,675 worldwide 12 citations · 22 works

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Turbulence, Diagnostics, Tokamak, Transport, Solar Wind, Star Formation, Magnetic Fields and Accretion Disks.

By volume in 2022–2025: Magnetic confinement fusion research, Fusion materials and technologies, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

1. 1 Magnetic confinement fusion research Nuclear and High Energy Physics 14 works
2. 2 Fusion materials and technologies Materials Chemistry 6 works
3. 3 Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Astronomy and Astrophysics 6 works
4. 4 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 5 works
5. 5 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 5 works
6. 6 Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 4 works
7. 7 Plasma Diagnostics and Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering 4 works
8. 8 Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae Astronomy and Astrophysics 4 works
9. 9 Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 3 works
10. 10 Ion Channels and Receptors Sensory Systems 3 works

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.

Output in 2018–2022 was 57% higher than in 2013–2017.

• The University of Tokyo
• Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Keio University
• Waseda University
• Tokyo University of Science
• Nihon University
• Hitachi (Japan)
• NTT (Japan)