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Ryukoku University

In research, Ryukoku University stands highest in Social Sciences (#4,710 of 10,521 worldwide), Social Sciences (#4,263 of 6,365 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#8,700 of 12,888 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#11,099
of 28,054 · #7,193 all time
Rank in Japan
#276
of 1,070
Research works
5.4k
▼ 12% vs 2013–17
Citations
47k
8.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
52%
world 28%

What is Ryukoku University 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
Social SciencesDomain #4,710 of 10,521 18.9%174 #4434
Social SciencesField #4,263 of 6,365 19.6%103 #4897
Physical SciencesDomain #8,700 of 12,888 4.8%282 #5284
Life SciencesDomain #6,850 of 7,800 14.3%88 #7928
EngineeringField #6,381 of 6,636 1.1%120 #4919

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Ryukoku 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#4,434 #4,710
  2. Social Sciences#4,897 #4,263
  3. Physical Sciences#5,284 #8,700
  4. Life Sciences#7,928 #6,850
  5. Engineering#4,919 #6,381
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

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

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: 1.70× its world share, 47 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.98× its world share, 30 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.97× its world share, 9 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.27× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.65× its world share, 6 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.01× its world share, 46 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.50× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.73× its world share, 4 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.37× its world share, 120 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.72× its world share, 50 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.25× its world share, 25 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.55× its world share, 11 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.18× its world share, 15 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.34× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.25× its world share, 28 worksMedicineNursing: 1.40× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.19× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 1.49× its world share, 25 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.46× its world share, 9 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.42× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.52× its world share, 19 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.93× its world share, 16 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.39× its world share, 103 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 1.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Ryukoku University?

Ranked on the composite score, Tatsuya Nomura, Tomohiro Suzuki and Takahiro Wada lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ryukoku University.

  1. 1 Tatsuya Nomura Japan · #78,120 worldwide 374 citations · 48 works
  2. 2 Tomohiro Suzuki Japan · #152,530 worldwide 241 citations · 55 works
  3. 3 Takahiro Wada Japan · #222,244 worldwide 568 citations · 128 works
  4. 4 Kingo Uchida Japan · #232,698 worldwide 267 citations · 54 works
  5. 5 Yoshihisa Morita Japan · #329,615 worldwide 101 citations · 29 works
  6. 6 H. Nishihara Japan · #418,837 worldwide 116 citations · 41 works
  7. 7 Masahiro Kimura Japan · #438,856 worldwide 313 citations · 92 works
  8. 8 Tadao Harada Japan · #507,399 worldwide 142 citations · 26 works
  9. 9 Jonah Salz Japan · #555,307 worldwide 4 citations · 25 works
  10. 10 Atsushi J. Nagano Japan · #567,666 worldwide 87 citations · 37 works
All ranked researchers at Ryukoku University

Which keywords describe research at Ryukoku University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Culture, Modernization, History, Biodiversity, Community Participation, Ecosystem Management, landscape conservation and Satoyama.

▲ 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. Climate Change19▲ 1.22×47 topics
  2. History18▲ 4.3×11 topics
  3. Biodiversity17▲ 4.0×21 topics
  4. Culture17▲ 5.5×14 topics
  5. Sustainability17▲ 1.20×30 topics
  6. Globalization16▲ 1.44×32 topics
  7. Artificial Intelligence14▲ 1.80×15 topics
  8. Modernization14▲ 13×4 topics
  9. Neural Networks13▲ 1.48×18 topics
  10. Identity13▲ 3.0×17 topics
  11. Community Participation12▲ 5.5×2 topics
  12. Literature12▲ 3.8×9 topics
  13. Virtual Reality12▲ 4.0×11 topics
  14. Invasive Species11▲ 4.4×14 topics
  15. Philosophy11▲ 4.2×7 topics
  16. Ecosystem Management10▲ 29×2 topics
  17. Satoyama10▲ 166×1 topic
  18. landscape conservation10▲ 166×1 topic
  19. Gender9▲ 3.0×11 topics
  20. Politics9▲ 5.8×7 topics
  21. DNA Barcoding9▲ 9.1×5 topics
  22. Ethnicity8▲ 3.9×8 topics
  23. Colonialism8▲ 3.0×8 topics
  24. Human-Computer Interaction8▲ 8.1×5 topics
  25. Gesture Recognition8▲ 18×3 topics
  26. Society7▲ 6.2×4 topics
  27. Neuromorphic Computing7▲ 9.9×2 topics
  28. Japan6▲ 49×1 topic
  29. Second Language Acquisition6▲ 12×3 topics
  30. Non-Volatile Memory6▲ 10×2 topics
  31. Conservation Genetics6▲ 27×2 topics
  32. Distributed Control6▲ 8.7×2 topics
  33. Modular Robots6▲ 24×1 topic
  34. Self-Reconfiguration6▲ 24×1 topic
  35. Human-Robot Interaction6▲ 9.1×3 topics
  36. Interactive Evolutionary Computation6▲ 44×1 topic
  37. Music Generation6▲ 44×1 topic
  38. Memristor5▲ 11×1 topic
  39. Resistive Switching5▲ 11×1 topic
  40. QTL Mapping5▲ 7.5×6 topics

Which research topics does Ryukoku University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Urban and spatial planning, Japanese History and Culture, Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence and Music Technology and Sound Studies.

Urban and spatial planning10Urban and spatial planning: 10 fractional worksJapanese History and Cul…6Japanese History and Culture: 6 fractional worksModular Robots and Swarm Intelligence: 6 fractional worksMusic Technology and Sound Studies: 6 fractional worksAdvanced Memory and Neural Computing: 5 fractional worksEnvironmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies: 5 fractional worksEarthquake and Disaster Impact Studies: 5 fractional worksRobotic Locomotion and C…5Robotic Locomotion and Control: 5 fractional worksUrbanization and City Planning: 5 fractional worksEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 5 fractional works
Nature and Landscape ConservationCultural StudiesMechanical EngineeringComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition6 others

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

  1. 1 Urban and spatial planning Nature and Landscape Conservation 10 works
  2. 2 Japanese History and Culture Cultural Studies 6 works
  3. 3 Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence Mechanical Engineering 6 works
  4. 4 Music Technology and Sound Studies Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 6 works
  5. 5 Advanced Memory and Neural Computing Electrical and Electronic Engineering 5 works
  6. 6 Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies Ecology 5 works
  7. 7 Earthquake and Disaster Impact Studies Transportation 5 works
  8. 8 Robotic Locomotion and Control Biomedical Engineering 5 works
  9. 9 Urbanization and City Planning Urban Studies 5 works
  10. 10 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 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 available51.7%not open48.3%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.2%domestic only92.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Ryukoku University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 12% 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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