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Rissho University

In research, Rissho University stands highest in Social Sciences (#8,192 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now.

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,605
of 22,385 · #20,795 all time
Rank in Japan
#379
of 924
Research works
1.4k
▼ 23% vs 2018-21
Citations
5.3k
3.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.94×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
62%
world 40%
International
6%
world 18%
Rissho University

What is Rissho University 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
Social SciencesDomain #8,192 of 9,585 4.6%68 #13759

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Rissho University 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 Rissho University work in?

In 2022-now, 49% of research at Rissho University is in Social Sciences, 41% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (21%), Computer Science (20%), Psychology (12%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 72 fractional works · 48.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 31 fractional works · 20.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 12 fractional works · 8.3% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCultural Studies: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 18 fractional works · 12.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 6 fractional works · 4.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5 fractional works · 3.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 3.0% of its workApplied Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 9 fractional works · 6.3% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 9 fractional works · 5.8% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 61 fractional works · 40.7% of its workComputer Science: 30 fractional works · 19.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 11 fractional works · 7.0% of its workInformation Systems: 6 fractional works · 4.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 12 fractional works · 8.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 7 fractional works · 4.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 fractional works · 4.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 9 fractional works · 5.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSensory Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 7 fractional works · 5.0% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKRissho University149fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences41%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences49%

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 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences3120.8%
    2. Psychology1812.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities96.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance95.8%
    5. Decision Sciences31.9%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting21.4%
    1. Computer Science3019.8%
    2. Environmental Science128.0%
    3. Engineering74.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences64.4%
    5. Physics and Astronomy42.4%
    6. Mathematics21.2%
    7. Materials Science10.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences42.8%
    2. Neuroscience32.2%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.7%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Medicine42.8%
    2. Health Professions31.7%
    3. Veterinary00.2%
    4. Nursing00.2%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.58× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.38× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 2.55× its world share, 30 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2.78× its world share, 6 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.31× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.62× its world share, 12 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.00× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.09× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.66× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.15× its world share, 4 worksMedicineNursing: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.70× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.19× its world share, 9 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.44× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.01× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.71× its world share, 9 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 4.00× its world share, 18 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.65× its world share, 31 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology4.00×18 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences2.78×6 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.71×9 works
  4. Computer Science2.55×30 works
  5. Arts and Humanities2.19×9 works
  6. Decision Sciences2.01×3 works
  7. Veterinary1.70×0 works
  8. Social Sciences1.65×31 works
  9. Environmental Science1.62×12 works
  10. Neuroscience1.38×3 works
  11. Physics and Astronomy1.09×4 works
  12. Mathematics1.00×2 works
  13. Health Professions0.66×3 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.58×4 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.44×2 works
  16. Nursing0.34×0 works
  17. Engineering0.31×7 works
  18. Medicine0.15×4 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.13×1 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.13×0 works
  21. Materials Science0.10×0 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Rissho University?

Ranked on the quality score, Ailixier Aikebaier, Hiroki Kataoka and Atsuhiro Sawada lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Rissho University.

  1. 1 Ailixier Aikebaier Japan · #2,379,865 worldwide 1.8k citations · 151 works
  2. 2 Hiroki Kataoka Japan · #2,567,161 worldwide 983 citations · 69 works
  3. 3 Atsuhiro Sawada Japan · #3,187,743 worldwide 155 citations · 15 works
  4. 4 Konomi Tonogi Japan · #3,518,559 worldwide 371 citations · 32 works
  5. 5 Yu Kasagi Japan · #3,861,312 worldwide 10 citations · 24 works
  6. 6 Yumiko Ito Japan · #3,890,371 worldwide 0 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Kazumi Asako Japan · #3,977,471 worldwide 340 citations · 52 works
  8. 8 Giancarla Unser-Schutz Japan · #4,296,159 worldwide 87 citations · 34 works
  9. 9 Shuko Tanaka Japan · #4,549,630 worldwide 13 citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Kooiti Masuda Japan · #4,592,148 worldwide 3 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Rissho University

What are the most cited papers from Rissho University?

The most cited paper from Rissho University is "Historical Trends in Lake and River Ice Cover in the Northern Hemisphere" (John J. Magnuson, Dale M. Robertson, Barbara J. Benson et al., 2000), with 1,404 citations. Next come "Evolutionary control of leaf element composition in plants" (351) and "A Model for Reducing Power Consumption in Peer-to-Peer Systems" (217).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Historical Trends in Lake and River Ice Cover in the Northern Hemisphere John J. Magnuson, Dale M. Robertson, Barbara J. Benson et al. · Science 8 Sep 2000 1,404
2 Evolutionary control of leaf element composition in plants Toshihiro Watanabe, Martin R. Broadley, Steven Jansen et al. · New Phytologist Open access 17 Apr 2007 351
3 A Model for Reducing Power Consumption in Peer-to-Peer Systems Tomoya Enokido, Ailixier Aikebaier, Makoto Takizawa · IEEE Systems Journal 26 May 2010 217
4 Process Allocation Algorithms for Saving Power Consumption in Peer-to-Peer Systems Tomoya Enokido, Ailixier Aikebaier, Makoto Takizawa · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 5 Aug 2010 195
5 Fluxes of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in two contrastive fringing zones of coastal lagoon, Lake Nakaumi, Japan Mitsuru Hirota, Yukiko Senga, Yasushi Seike et al. · Chemosphere 13 Feb 2007 167
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Rissho University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Distributed Systems, Fog Computing, IoT, Climate Change, Wireless Sensor Networks, Power Consumption, Server Selection Algorithms and Resource Management.

▲ 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. Climate Change9▲ 2.3×26 topics
  2. Distributed Systems6▲ 25×6 topics
  3. Globalization6▲ 1.98×13 topics
  4. Fog Computing6▲ 34×2 topics
  5. Mental Health5▲ 2.5×17 topics
  6. IoT5▲ 9.1×3 topics
  7. Economic Growth5▲ 4.0×8 topics
  8. Remote Sensing4▲ 2.5×14 topics
  9. Wireless Sensor Networks4▲ 6.8×3 topics
  10. Power Consumption4▲ 2408×1 topic
  11. Resource Management4▲ 16×2 topics
  12. Server Selection Algorithms4▲ 2408×1 topic
  13. Content Delivery4▲ 78×2 topics
  14. Innovation4▲ 2.5×6 topics
  15. Literature4▲ 4.6×3 topics
  16. Wireless Networks4▲ 17×3 topics
  17. Big Data4▲ 2.5×6 topics
  18. Caching4▲ 83×1 topic
  19. Cloud Computing4▲ 8.2×4 topics
  20. Information-Centric Networking4▲ 83×1 topic
  21. Culture3▲ 4.4×2 topics
  22. Modernization3▲ 13×2 topics
  23. Identity3▲ 3.0×4 topics
  24. Security3▲ 3.1×7 topics
  25. Social Support3▲ 3.9×7 topics
  26. Gender3▲ 3.7×3 topics
  27. Resilience3▲ 3.9×7 topics
  28. Virtualization3▲ 23×2 topics
  29. Adolescent Development3▲ 16×4 topics
  30. Data Centers3▲ 30×1 topic
  31. MapReduce3▲ 30×1 topic
  32. Language Teaching2▲ 6.2×3 topics
  33. Trust2▲ 6.0×4 topics
  34. Japan2▲ 77×1 topic
  35. Personality Traits2▲ 12×3 topics
  36. Society2▲ 8.6×1 topic
  37. Emotion2▲ 7.5×7 topics
  38. Pragmatics2▲ 9.1×3 topics
  39. Reputation2▲ 45×2 topics
  40. Gender Identity2▲ 13×2 topics

Which research topics does Rissho University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Energy Efficiency in Computing, Caching and Content Delivery, Cloud Computing and Resource Management and Japanese History and Culture.

Energy Efficiency in Computing: 4 fractional worksCaching and Content Delivery: 4 fractional worksCloud Computing and Reso…3Cloud Computing and Resource Management: 3 fractional worksJapanese History and Cul…2Japanese History and Culture: 2 fractional worksContext-Aware Activity Recognition Systems: 2 fractional worksAccess Control and Trust: 2 fractional worksIoT and Edge/Fog Computing2IoT and Edge/Fog Computing: 2 fractional worksDistributed and Parallel Computing Systems: 2 fractional worksLocal Government Finance and Decentralization: 2 fractional worksBehavioral Health and Interventions: 1 fractional works
Hardware and ArchitectureComputer Networks and CommunicationsInformation SystemsCultural Studies4 others

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

  1. 1 Energy Efficiency in Computing Hardware and Architecture 4 works
  2. 2 Caching and Content Delivery Computer Networks and Communications 4 works
  3. 3 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 3 works
  4. 4 Japanese History and Culture Cultural Studies 2 works
  5. 5 Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  6. 6 Access Control and Trust Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  7. 7 IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Computer Networks and Communications 2 works
  8. 8 Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Computer Networks and Communications 2 works
  9. 9 Local Government Finance and Decentralization Political Science and International Relations 2 works
  10. 10 Behavioral Health and Interventions Applied Psychology 1 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 available62.5%not open37.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.8%domestic only94.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Rissho University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Rissho University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00059% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Rissho University0.00070% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Rissho University 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 2025Rissho University7.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.0% in 2010.

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