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Sony (Japan)

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Research works
38
▼ 55% vs 2013–17
Citations
504
13.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
10%
world 28%

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

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.

Neuroscience: 3.72× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 10.53× its world share, 6 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringPhysics and Astronomy: 0.68× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.35× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.53× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 10.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Sony (Japan)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Solar Cells, Integrated Circuits, Silicon Photonics, Biosensors, Optical Modulators, Neural Networks and Plasmonics.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years 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 27 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 27 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning5▲ 6.3×16 topics
  2. Solar Cells4▲ 32×4 topics
  3. Integrated Circuits4▲ 40×3 topics
  4. Silicon Photonics3▲ 46×2 topics
  5. Neural Networks2▲ 5.9×8 topics
  6. Biosensors2▲ 9.7×2 topics
  7. Optical Modulators2▲ 27×2 topics
  8. Plasmonics2▲ 70×1 topic
  9. Thin-Film Transistors2▲ 124×1 topic
  10. Microcavities2▲ 30×1 topic
  11. Nanophotonic Waveguides2▲ 33×1 topic
  12. Microresonators2▲ 34×3 topics
  13. Photovoltaics2▲ 18×2 topics
  14. Nanowire Transistors2▲ 62×1 topic
  15. Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors2▲ 62×1 topic
  16. Failure Analysis1▲ 27×1 topic
  17. Photon Emission Microscopy1▲ 71×1 topic
  18. Convolutional Neural Networks1▲ 8.3×2 topics
  19. Efficiency1▲ 12×1 topic
  20. Silicon1▲ 43×1 topic
  21. Machine Learning1▲ 1.38×7 topics
  22. Distributed Systems1▲ 11×2 topics
  23. Fault Tolerance1▲ 13×2 topics
  24. Machine Vision1▲ 14×2 topics
  25. Magneto-Optical1▲ 155×1 topic
  26. Nanoparticles1▲ 2.0×2 topics
  27. Waveguide Isolators1▲ 155×1 topic

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

By volume in 2022–2025: Speech and Audio Processing, Music and Audio Processing, Caching and Content Delivery and Recommender Systems and Techniques.

Speech and Audio Processing: 1 fractional worksMusic and Audio Processing: 1 fractional worksCaching and Content Deli…1Caching and Content Delivery: 1 fractional worksRecommender Systems and …1Recommender Systems and Techniques: 1 fractional worksSpeech Recognition and S…0Speech Recognition and Synthesis: 0 fractional worksMusic Technology and Sou…0Music Technology and Sound Studies: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Graph Neural Ne…0Advanced Graph Neural Networks: 0 fractional worksHearing Loss and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional worksImage and Video Quality Assessment: 0 fractional worksVoice and Speech Disorders: 0 fractional works
Signal ProcessingComputer Networks and CommunicationsInformation SystemsArtificial Intelligence3 others

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

  1. 1 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 1 works
  2. 2 Music and Audio Processing Signal Processing 1 works
  3. 3 Caching and Content Delivery Computer Networks and Communications 1 works
  4. 4 Recommender Systems and Techniques Information Systems 1 works
  5. 5 Speech Recognition and Synthesis Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  6. 6 Music Technology and Sound Studies Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0 works
  7. 7 Advanced Graph Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence 0 works
  8. 8 Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation Cognitive Neuroscience 0 works
  9. 9 Image and Video Quality Assessment Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0 works
  10. 10 Voice and Speech Disorders Physiology 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 available9.5%not open90.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors37.0%domestic only63.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2018–2022 was 55% lower than in 2013–2017.

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