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Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan)

In research, Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan) stands highest in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (#854 of 2,176 worldwide), Engineering (#2,986 of 5,901 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#7,016 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Engineering (Electrical and Electronic Engineering is 14.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#19,920
of 22,385 · #10,113 all time
Rank in Japan
#669
of 924
Research works
2.6k
▲ 8% vs 2018-21
Citations
41k
15.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
11%
world 40%
International
14%
world 18%
Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan)

What is Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan) 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
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #854 of 2,176 10.1%83 #1127
EngineeringField #2,986 of 5,901 8.5%111 #2344
Physical SciencesDomain #7,016 of 10,670 7.2%154 #4048

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan) 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.

  1. Electrical and Electronic Engineering#1,127 #854
  2. Engineering#2,344 #2,986
  3. Physical Sciences#4,048 #7,016
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

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 Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan) work in?

In 2022-now, 99% of research at Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan) is in Physical Sciences, 1% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (69%), Materials Science (12%), Physics and Astronomy (11%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 169 fractional works · 98.5% of its workEngineering: 119 fractional works · 69.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 90 fractional works · 52.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 9 fractional works · 5.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 8 fractional works · 4.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanics of Materials: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 20 fractional works · 11.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 11 fractional works · 6.2% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCeramics and Composites: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 19 fractional works · 11.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 9 fractional works · 5.5% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 6 fractional works · 3.2% of its workInstrumentation: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 3.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKSumitomo ElectricIndustries…172fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences0%Physical Sciences99%Health Sciences0%Social Sciences1%

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 18 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering11969.5%
    2. Materials Science2011.6%
    3. Physics and Astronomy1911.2%
    4. Computer Science53.0%
    5. Energy21.2%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences21.0%
    7. Environmental Science10.6%
    8. Chemistry10.3%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.1%
    1. Decision Sciences10.4%
    2. Social Sciences00.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.1%
    3. Neuroscience00.1%
    1. Health Professions00.3%
    2. Medicine00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Electrical and Electronic Engineering takes 14.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield · 90.1 works15×
  2. EngineeringField · 119.5 works4.6×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.39× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.61× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.33× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 4.63× its world share, 120 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 3.32× its world share, 20 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 5.02× its world share, 19 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Social Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy5.02×19 works
  2. Engineering4.63×120 works
  3. Materials Science3.32×20 works
  4. Energy1.33×2 works
  5. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.61×2 works
  6. Computer Science0.39×5 works
  7. Decision Sciences0.39×1 works
  8. Chemical Engineering0.37×0 works
  9. Chemistry0.22×1 works
  10. Environmental Science0.12×1 works
  11. Health Professions0.11×0 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.06×1 works
  13. Neuroscience0.04×0 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.03×0 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.01×0 works
  16. Medicine0.01×0 works
  17. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.01×0 works
  18. Social Sciences0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan)?

Ranked on the quality score, Hitoshi Sumiya, Naoji Fujimori and Y. Nishibayashi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan).

  1. 1 Hitoshi Sumiya Japan · #424,445 worldwide 9.9k citations · 254 works
  2. 2 Naoji Fujimori Japan · #1,176,040 worldwide 3.6k citations · 96 works
  3. 3 Y. Nishibayashi Japan · #2,065,238 worldwide 428 citations · 200 works
  4. 4 Toshiki Taru Japan · #2,108,949 worldwide 2.6k citations · 58 works
  5. 5 Takeshi Hikata Japan · #2,242,961 worldwide 1.9k citations · 97 works
  6. 6 Koji Katayama Japan · #2,297,482 worldwide 3k citations · 80 works
  7. 7 Yusuke Yoshizumi Japan · #2,380,013 worldwide 1.6k citations · 35 works
  8. 8 Yoshiki Nishibayashi Japan · #2,478,229 worldwide 1.2k citations · 48 works
  9. 9 Takahiko Kawahara Japan · #2,610,846 worldwide 65 citations · 23 works
  10. 10 Eisuke SASAOKA Japan · #2,617,771 worldwide 2.5k citations · 64 works
All ranked researchers at Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan)

What are the most cited papers from Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan)?

The most cited paper from Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan) is "Ultra-high-Q photonic double-heterostructure nanocavity" (Bong-Shik Song, Susumu Noda, Takashi Asano et al., 2005), with 1,346 citations. Next come "Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system" (1,051) and "Adaptive tracking control of a nonholonomic mobile robot" (807).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ultra-high-Q photonic double-heterostructure nanocavity Bong-Shik Song, Susumu Noda, Takashi Asano et al. · Nature Materials 13 Feb 2005 1,346
2 Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system Soonwon Choi, Joonhee Choi, Renate Landig et al. · Nature Open access 7 Mar 2017 1,051
3 Adaptive tracking control of a nonholonomic mobile robot Takanori Fukao, Hidetoshi Nakagawa, Namihei ADACHI · IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation 2000 807
4 Ultrahard polycrystalline diamond from graphite Tetsuo Irifune, A. Kurio, Shizue Sakamoto et al. · Nature 5 Feb 2003 799
5 High-Precision Nanoscale Temperature Sensing Using Single Defects in Diamond Philipp Neumann, Ingmar Jakobi, Florian Dolde et al. · Nano Letters Open access 30 May 2013 795
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Optical Fiber, Integrated Circuits, Coherent Detection, Digital Signal Processing, Biosensors, Optical Modulators, Raman Lasers and Microcavities.

▲ 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. Optical Fiber20▲ 109×3 topics
  2. Integrated Circuits16▲ 66×3 topics
  3. Coherent Detection15▲ 208×1 topic
  4. Digital Signal Processing15▲ 183×1 topic
  5. Biosensors15▲ 17×4 topics
  6. Optical Modulators14▲ 58×2 topics
  7. Raman Lasers14▲ 79×2 topics
  8. Microcavities14▲ 77×1 topic
  9. Silicon Photonics14▲ 80×1 topic
  10. Semiconductor Lasers12▲ 102×2 topics
  11. Optical Interconnects11▲ 185×1 topic
  12. Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs)11▲ 185×1 topic
  13. Microwave Photonics10▲ 73×2 topics
  14. Optical Access Networks8▲ 156×1 topic
  15. Photonic Signal Processing8▲ 156×1 topic
  16. Energy Efficiency7▲ 4.5×5 topics
  17. Elastic Optical Networks6▲ 234×1 topic
  18. Optical Networks6▲ 234×1 topic
  19. Fiber Lasers6▲ 40×3 topics
  20. Nonlinear Optics6▲ 34×4 topics
  21. Nanowires6▲ 23×4 topics
  22. Band Parameters5▲ 54×2 topics
  23. Mechanical Properties5▲ 2.7×12 topics
  24. Fiber Optic Sensors4▲ 51×1 topic
  25. Nanocomposites4▲ 3.2×9 topics
  26. Photonic Crystals4▲ 21×5 topics
  27. Sensor Technology4▲ 51×1 topic
  28. Gas Sensing4▲ 57×2 topics
  29. Semiconductors4▲ 8.0×3 topics
  30. High-Power Laser4▲ 126×1 topic
  31. Supercontinuum Generation4▲ 126×1 topic
  32. Thermal Analysis4▲ 18×3 topics
  33. Thermal Management4▲ 6.6×5 topics
  34. GaN3▲ 53×2 topics
  35. III-Nitrides3▲ 59×1 topic
  36. Light-Emitting Diodes3▲ 12×1 topic
  37. Atomic Layer Deposition3▲ 27×1 topic
  38. High-k Dielectrics3▲ 27×1 topic
  39. Raman Spectroscopy3▲ 9.0×2 topics
  40. CMOS3▲ 32×2 topics

Which research topics does Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Optical Network Technologies, Photonic and Optical Devices, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems.

Optical Network Technolo…15Optical Network Technologies: 15 fractional worksPhotonic and Optical Devices: 14 fractional worksSemiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices: 11 fractional worksAdvanced Photonic Communication Systems: 8 fractional worksAdvanced Optical Network Technologies: 6 fractional worksAdvanced Fiber Optic Sen…4Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors: 4 fractional worksPhotonic Crystal and Fiber Optics: 4 fractional worksGaN-based semiconductor devices and materials: 3 fractional worksSemiconductor materials and devices: 3 fractional worksElectric Motor Design and Analysis: 3 fractional works
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringCondensed Matter Physics

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

  1. 1 Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 15 works
  2. 2 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 14 works
  3. 3 Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 11 works
  4. 4 Advanced Photonic Communication Systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering 8 works
  5. 5 Advanced Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 6 works
  6. 6 Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors Electrical and Electronic Engineering 4 works
  7. 7 Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics Electrical and Electronic Engineering 4 works
  8. 8 GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials Condensed Matter Physics 3 works
  9. 9 Semiconductor materials and devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 3 works
  10. 10 Electric Motor Design and Analysis Electrical and Electronic Engineering 3 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 available10.6%not open89.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.2%domestic only85.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher 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 Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00077% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan)0.00061% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan) 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 counting10%20%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan)8.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 22.2% in 2011.

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