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Shiga Prefectural Education Center

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Research works
15
▼ 32% vs 2018-21
Citations
65
4.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
80%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
Shiga Prefectural Education Center

Not ranked overall: Shiga Prefectural Education Center is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Shiga Prefectural Education Center work in?

In all years, 37% of research at Shiga Prefectural Education Center is in Health Sciences, 24% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (36%), Environmental Science (24%), Social Sciences (12%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 6 fractional works · 37.1% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 35.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 12.8% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 4.9% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 4.2% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workRehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 4 fractional works · 23.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 23.8% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 9.7% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 9.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 4.4% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 23.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 11.8% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 9.2% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 15.8% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 6.3% of its workEndocrinology: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAquatic Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workALL ITS WORKShiga PrefecturalEducation Center15fractional works, all years
Life Sciences16%Physical Sciences24%Health Sciences37%Social Sciences23%

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 10 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine535.6%
    2. Health Professions01.6%
    1. Environmental Science423.8%
    1. Social Sciences211.8%
    2. Psychology19.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities02.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology16.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences14.7%
    3. Neuroscience03.2%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics01.6%
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: 0.92× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.41× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.18× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.61× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Environmental Science: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 1.93× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.55× its world share, 1 worksMedicineSocial Sciences: 4.22× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 8 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences4.22×1 works
  2. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics3.61×0 works
  3. Health Professions1.93×0 works
  4. Medicine1.55×1 works
  5. Neuroscience1.18×0 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.92×0 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.41×0 works
  8. Environmental Science0.38×0 works

What are the most cited papers from Shiga Prefectural Education Center?

The most cited paper from Shiga Prefectural Education Center is "Lower Plasma Levels of Haloperidol in Smoking Than in Nonsmoking Schizophrenic Patients" (Kazutaka Shimoda, Toshiyuki Someya, Sachiyo Morita et al., 1999), with 55 citations. Next come "Vasospastic Angina After Chemotherapy by With Carboplatin and Etoposide in a Patient With Lung Cancer" (29) and "Early life ecology of nigorobuna Carassius auratus grandoculis in reed zone of Lake Biwa and physiological adaptation to the environment" (18).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Lower Plasma Levels of Haloperidol in Smoking Than in Nonsmoking Schizophrenic Patients Kazutaka Shimoda, Toshiyuki Someya, Sachiyo Morita et al. · Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Jun 1999 55
2 Vasospastic Angina After Chemotherapy by With Carboplatin and Etoposide in a Patient With Lung Cancer Shuichi Yano, Kazue Shimada · Japanese Circulation Journal-english Edition Open access 1996 29
3 Early life ecology of nigorobuna Carassius auratus grandoculis in reed zone of Lake Biwa and physiological adaptation to the environment KOH-ICHI FUJIWARA, TAKAHIRO USUKI, MORIHITO NEMOTO et al. · NIPPON SUISAN GAKKAISHI Open access 2011 18
4 Current Challenges and Future Opportunities for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Japan Masaru Tateno, Takahiko Inagaki, Takuya Saito et al. · Psychiatry Investigation Open access 2017 16
5 Carbonyl Reduction of Timiperone in Human Liver Cytosol Kazutaka Shimoda, Morikazu Shibasaki, Tadanobu Lnaba et al. · Pharmacology & Toxicology Open access Oct 1998 14
All 42 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Shiga Prefectural Education Center publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Academic integrity and plagiarism, Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research, Writing and Handwriting Education and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery.

Academic integrity and plagiarism: 0 fractional worksNames, Identity, and Discrimination Research: 0 fractional worksWriting and Handwriting Education: 0 fractional worksStroke Rehabilitation and Recovery: 0 fractional worksParathyroid Disorders and Treatments: 0 fractional worksVitamin D Research Studies: 0 fractional worksPancreatitis Pathology and Treatment: 0 fractional worksHomelessness and Social Issues: 0 fractional worksInfluenza Virus Research Studies: 0 fractional worksRespiratory viral infections research: 0 fractional works
Safety ResearchSociology and Political ScienceEducationRehabilitation5 others

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

  1. 1 Academic integrity and plagiarism Safety Research 0 works
  2. 2 Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  3. 3 Writing and Handwriting Education Education 0 works
  4. 4 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 0 works
  5. 5 Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments Nephrology 0 works
  6. 6 Vitamin D Research Studies Pathology and Forensic Medicine 0 works
  7. 7 Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment Surgery 0 works
  8. 8 Homelessness and Social Issues General Health Professions 0 works
  9. 9 Influenza Virus Research Studies Epidemiology 0 works
  10. 10 Respiratory viral infections research Epidemiology 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 available80.4%not open19.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.4%domestic only85.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Shiga Prefectural Education Center's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% lower than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Shiga Prefectural Education Center as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0000015% in 2023.

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Fractional works of Shiga Prefectural Education Center over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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