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Piolax (Japan)

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Research works
7
▼ 15% vs 2018-21
Citations
61
8.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
35%
world 40%
International
19%
world 18%
Piolax (Japan)

Not ranked overall: Piolax (Japan) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Piolax (Japan) work in?

In all years, 58% of research at Piolax (Japan) is in Physical Sciences, 27% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Materials Science (38%), Medicine (26%), Engineering (12%).

Physical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 57.5% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 37.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 36.4% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 12.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 7.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 6.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 4.7% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 27.2% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 26.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 13.0% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 8.7% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 3.1% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 10.7% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 5.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 5.9% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workLife Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.5% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 3.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workALL ITS WORKPiolax (Japan)7fractional works, all years
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences58%Health Sciences27%Social Sciences11%

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 11 fields, with their numbers
    1. Materials Science337.7%
    2. Engineering112.3%
    3. Computer Science06.1%
    4. Physics and Astronomy01.6%
    1. Medicine226.1%
    2. Health Professions01.1%
    1. Psychology05.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities02.4%
    3. Social Sciences02.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences03.5%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology01.0%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Piolax (Japan)?

The most cited paper from Piolax (Japan) is "A shape memory airway stent for tracheobronchomalacia in children: An experimental and clinical study" (Chikara Tsugawa, Eiji Nishijima, Toshihiro Muraji et al., 1997), with 52 citations. Next come "In vivo corrosion behaviour of magnesium alloy in association with surrounding tissue response in rats" (33) and "Implantable wireless powered light emitting diode (LED) for near-infrared photoimmunotherapy: device development and experimental assessmentin vitroandin vivo" (31).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A shape memory airway stent for tracheobronchomalacia in children: An experimental and clinical study Chikara Tsugawa, Eiji Nishijima, Toshihiro Muraji et al. · Journal of Pediatric Surgery 1997 52
2 In vivo corrosion behaviour of magnesium alloy in association with surrounding tissue response in rats Chieko Miura, Yoshinaka Shimizu, Y Imai et al. · Biomedical Materials 7 Mar 2016 33
3 Implantable wireless powered light emitting diode (LED) for near-infrared photoimmunotherapy: device development and experimental assessmentin vitroandin vivo Kohei Nakajima, Toshihiro Kimura, Hideo Takakura et al. · Oncotarget Open access 13 Apr 2018 31
4 Risk factors for technical failure of endoscopic double self‐expandable metallic stent placement by partial stent‐in‐stent method Kazumichi Kawakubo, Hiroshi Kawakami, Yoshihide Toyokawa et al. · Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences 12 Oct 2014 16
5 Development of self‐expandable covered stents Sachiko Sato, Yasuhide Nakayama, Yoshihiro Miura et al. · Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B Applied Biomaterials 23 Mar 2007 15
All 15 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Piolax (Japan) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Algorithms and Data Compression, Optical Coherence Tomography Applications, Photonic and Optical Devices and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics.

Algorithms and Data Comp…0Algorithms and Data Compression: 0 fractional worksOptical Coherence Tomography Applications: 0 fractional worksPhotonic and Optical Devices: 0 fractional worksOrbital Angular Momentum in Optics: 0 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceBiomedical EngineeringElectrical and Electronic EngineeringAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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

  1. 1 Algorithms and Data Compression Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  2. 2 Optical Coherence Tomography Applications Biomedical Engineering 0 works
  3. 3 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 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 available34.6%not open65.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.3%domestic only80.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Piolax (Japan)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% 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 Piolax (Japan) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000060% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Piolax (Japan) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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