Sophia University
In research, Sophia University stands highest in Social Sciences (#5,789 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#4,440 of 5,988 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#5,507 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (Experimental and Cognitive Psychology is 4.0× its share of world research).
- World rank, 2022-now
- #9,234 of 22,385 · #7,439 all time
- Rank in Japan
- #221 of 924
- Research works
- 8.7k ▼ 8% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 92k 10.6 per fractional work
- Top-10% rate
- 4.5% all institutions 10.0%
- vs its own fields
- 0.54× 1.00× is exactly expected
- Open access
- 35% world 40%
- International
- 11% world 18%
What is Sophia University known for in research?
The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.
| Field | World rank | Where that sits | Top-10% rate | Works | All time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Social SciencesDomain | #5,789 of 9,585 | 5.1% | 383 | #8902 | |
| Social SciencesField | #4,440 of 5,988 | 5.0% | 203 | #6037 | |
| Life SciencesDomain | #5,507 of 6,403 | 4.5% | 85 | #7732 | |
| Physical SciencesDomain | #9,464 of 10,670 | 3.5% | 449 | #5372 | |
| EngineeringField | #5,349 of 5,901 | 2.8% | 165 | #4000 | |
| Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield | #2,322 of 2,526 | 3.9% | 68 | #3173 | |
| Computer ScienceField | #4,114 of 4,417 | 2.6% | 72 | #5756 | |
| Health SciencesDomain | #9,364 of 9,902 | 4.9% | 66 | #8557 |
Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sophia 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 of those standings moved
The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.
- Social Sciences#8,902 #5,789
- Social Sciences#6,037 #4,440
- Life Sciences#7,732 #5,507
- Physical Sciences#5,372 #9,464
- Engineering#4,000 #5,349
- Sociology and Political Science#3,173 #2,322
- Computer Science#5,756 #4,114
- Health Sciences#8,557 #9,364
A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.
Which fields of science does Sophia University work in?
In 2022-now, 46% of research at Sophia University is in Physical Sciences, 39% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (20%), Engineering (17%), Computer Science (8%). It does 1.6× the world's share of Social Sciences.
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 25 fields, with their numbers
- Physical Sciences50446.3%
- Engineering18016.5%
- Computer Science867.9%
- Environmental Science565.1%
- Materials Science545.0%
- Physics and Astronomy534.8%
- Chemistry343.1%
- Mathematics171.6%
- Chemical Engineering101.0%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences80.8%
- Energy60.5%
- Social Sciences42238.7%
- Social Sciences22020.2%
- Arts and Humanities635.8%
- Psychology605.5%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance393.6%
- Business, Management and Accounting282.6%
- Decision Sciences121.1%
- Life Sciences948.6%
- Health Sciences696.4%
- Medicine494.5%
- Health Professions171.6%
- Nursing20.2%
- Veterinary00.0%
What does Sophia University specialise in?
Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology takes 4.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.
- Experimental and Cognitive PsychologySubfield · 20.5 works4.0×
Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.
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.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Chemical Engineering, 2.7×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 25 fields, with their numbers
- Chemical Engineering2.72×10 works
- Physics and Astronomy2.18×53 works
- Arts and Humanities2.00×63 works
- Chemistry1.98×34 works
- Psychology1.81×60 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.68×39 works
- Social Sciences1.59×220 works
- Materials Science1.43×54 works
- Mathematics1.35×17 works
- Neuroscience1.31×23 works
- Engineering1.10×180 works
- Decision Sciences1.10×12 works
- Environmental Science1.03×56 works
- Computer Science1.01×86 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.81×47 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.81×28 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.75×3 works
- Health Professions0.61×17 works
- Energy0.56×6 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.49×8 works
- Nursing0.45×2 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.37×19 works
- Medicine0.24×49 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.14×2 works
- Veterinary0.12×0 works
- Chemical Engineering 2.7×
- Physics and Astronomy 2.2×
- Arts and Humanities 2.0×
- Chemistry 2.0×
- Psychology 1.8×
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1.7×
- Social Sciences 1.6×
- Materials Science 1.4×
- Mathematics 1.4×
- Neuroscience 1.3×
- Engineering 1.1×
- Decision Sciences 1.1×
- Environmental Science 1.0×
- Computer Science 1.0×
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.8×
- Business, Management and Accounting 0.8×
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics 0.8×
- Health Professions 0.6×
- Energy 0.6×
- Earth and Planetary Sciences 0.5×
- Nursing 0.5×
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0.4×
- Medicine 0.2×
- Immunology and Microbiology 0.1×
- Veterinary 0.1×
Who are the top researchers at Sophia University?
Ranked on the quality score, Xuepeng Qian, Shujie Sun and Masahiro Yoshizawa‐Fujita lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sophia University.
- 1
Xuepeng Qian
Japan · #490,196 worldwide 981 citations · 106 works
- 2
Shujie Sun
Japan · #616,689 worldwide 205 citations · 20 works
- 3
Masahiro Yoshizawa‐Fujita
Japan · #1,026,428 worldwide 8.3k citations · 211 works
- 4
Xunlong Luo
Japan · #1,225,182 worldwide 314 citations · 18 works
- 5
Tomi Ohtsuki
Japan · #1,443,971 worldwide 4.6k citations · 269 works
- 6 Fuguo Xu #2,332,444 worldwide 574 citations · 50 works
- 7
Koichi Segawa
Japan · #2,333,914 worldwide 1.7k citations · 53 works
- 8
James Farrer
Japan · #2,610,871 worldwide 1.5k citations · 134 works
- 9 Jiro Kondo #2,772,669 worldwide 2.7k citations · 200 works
- 10 Hiroki Kanazawa #2,848,546 worldwide 511 citations · 34 works
Which keywords describe research at Sophia University?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Neoliberalism, History, Speech Perception, Identity, Deep Learning, Multilingualism and Language Policy.
- CLIL
- Density Functional Theory
- Prosody
- Speech Production
- Cosmopolitanism
- Language Acquisition
- Student Perceptions
- Hydrogen Embrittlement
- Bilingual Education
- Language Policy
- Electric Vehicles
- Multilingualism
- Colonialism
- Higher Education
- Nationalism
- Social Justice
- Renewable Energy
- Neoliberalism
- History
- Deep Learning
- Globalization
- Sustainability
- Neural Networks
- Identity
- Literature
- Culture
- Religion
- Speech Perception
- Gender
- Politics
- Philosophy
- Modernization
- Second Language Learning
- Diversity
- Society
- Perceptual Learning
- Electronic Structure Calculations
- Phonetics
- Japan
- Global Citizenship Education
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
- Globalization58▲ 2.7×53 topics
- Deep Learning42◆ 1.13×53 topics
- Sustainability33▲ 1.25×48 topics
- History24▲ 3.2×20 topics
- Neural Networks24▲ 1.41×28 topics
- Neoliberalism24▲ 6.0×15 topics
- Identity23▲ 3.0×24 topics
- Renewable Energy23▲ 1.47×27 topics
- Literature19▲ 3.2×17 topics
- Social Justice18▲ 2.8×18 topics
- Culture18▲ 3.1×14 topics
- Nationalism16▲ 3.4×16 topics
- Religion16▲ 3.2×20 topics
- Higher Education16▲ 2.7×11 topics
- Speech Perception15▲ 17×3 topics
- Colonialism15▲ 2.9×16 topics
- Gender15▲ 2.5×13 topics
- Multilingualism14▲ 8.3×6 topics
- Politics14▲ 5.0×10 topics
- Electric Vehicles14▲ 4.4×4 topics
- Philosophy14▲ 2.9×16 topics
- Language Policy13▲ 8.8×4 topics
- Modernization12▲ 6.2×3 topics
- Bilingual Education12▲ 9.5×3 topics
- Second Language Learning11▲ 11×2 topics
- Hydrogen Embrittlement11▲ 12×3 topics
- Diversity11▲ 5.8×4 topics
- Student Perceptions11▲ 5.4×5 topics
- Society10▲ 5.0×6 topics
- Language Acquisition10▲ 8.3×4 topics
- Perceptual Learning10▲ 18×2 topics
- Cosmopolitanism10▲ 8.3×5 topics
- Electronic Structure Calculations10▲ 14×2 topics
- Speech Production10▲ 26×2 topics
- Phonetics9▲ 33×1 topic
- Prosody9▲ 23×1 topic
- Japan9▲ 38×1 topic
- Density Functional Theory9▲ 7.7×5 topics
- Global Citizenship Education9▲ 15×2 topics
- CLIL8▲ 12×1 topic
Which research topics does Sophia University publish most on?
By volume in 2022-now: Phonetics and Phonology Research, Japanese History and Culture, Second Language Learning and Teaching and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning.
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Phonetics and Phonology Research Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 9 works
- 2 Japanese History and Culture Cultural Studies 9 works
- 3 Second Language Learning and Teaching Literature and Literary Theory 8 works
- 4 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 8 works
- 5 Global Education and Multiculturalism Education 7 works
- 6 Hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviors in metals Metals and Alloys 7 works
- 7 Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 6 works
- 8 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 6 works
- 9 Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Technologies Automotive Engineering 5 works
- 10 Advanced Chemical Physics Studies Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 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.
World: 40% of research is openly available.
World: 18% is written across borders.
How has Sophia University's research output changed?
Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021.
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 Sophia University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0048% in 2024.
Fractional works of Sophia 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.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 10.8% in 1990.
Other research institutions in Tokyo
- The University of Tokyo
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Keio University
- Waseda University
- Tokyo University of Science
- Nihon University
- Hitachi (Japan)
- NTT (Japan)
Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners have tabs of their own, above.
Discussion
Ask a question or share a note about Sophia University. Posts are plain text and can be reported.
