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Tokyo Gakugei University

In research, Tokyo Gakugei University stands highest in Physical Sciences (#8,559 of 12,888 worldwide), Social Sciences (#9,272 of 10,521 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#5,957 of 6,365 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Transportation, Aerospace Engineering and Sociology and Political Science — Transportation is 48.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#15,528
of 28,054 · #9,476 all time
Rank in Japan
#413
of 1,070
Research works
3.3k
▼ 34% vs 2013–17
Citations
28k
8.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
4.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
54%
world 28%

What is Tokyo Gakugei 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
Physical SciencesDomain #8,559 of 12,888 4.3%203 #6434
Social SciencesDomain #9,272 of 10,521 2.8%239 #8130
Social SciencesField #5,957 of 6,365 1.8%192 #5617
EngineeringField #6,550 of 6,636 0.8%98 #10102
TransportationSubfield #131 of 132 0.0%79 —
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #2,562 of 2,578 1.0%86 #3969
Aerospace EngineeringSubfield #792 of 795 0.0%80 —

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Tokyo Gakugei 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. Physical Sciences#6,434 #8,559
  2. Social Sciences#8,130 #9,272
  3. Social Sciences#5,617 #5,957
  4. Engineering#10,102 #6,550
  5. Sociology and Political Science#3,969 #2,562
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.

What does Tokyo Gakugei University specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Transportation takes 48.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. TransportationSubfield · 78.8 works48×
  2. Aerospace EngineeringSubfield · 79.6 works14×
  3. Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield · 86.2 works4.9×
← 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: 0.39× its world share, 9 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.27× its world share, 7 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.04× its world share, 8 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.59× its world share, 3 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.73× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.00× its world share, 8 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.00× its world share, 38 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.16× its world share, 9 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 1.34× its world share, 98 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.49× its world share, 12 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.59× its world share, 10 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.65× its world share, 15 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.06× its world share, 12 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.57× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.13× its world share, 12 worksMedicineNursing: 0.46× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.62× its world share, 9 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.51× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.30× its world share, 34 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.09× its world share, 192 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 3.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Tokyo Gakugei University?

Ranked on the composite score, Takafumi Tanaka, Masaki Matsukawa and Tamaki Sato lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Tokyo Gakugei University.

  1. 1 Takafumi Tanaka Japan · #89,069 worldwide 229 citations · 28 works
  2. 2 Masaki Matsukawa Japan · #179,027 worldwide 155 citations · 33 works
  3. 3 Tamaki Sato Japan · #181,200 worldwide 127 citations · 23 works
  4. 4 Noriko Mizoguchi Japan · #187,992 worldwide 165 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Hirofumi Aritani Japan · #278,721 worldwide 60 citations · 19 works
  6. 6 Iwao Kobayashi Japan · #499,592 worldwide 42 citations · 37 works
  7. 7 Tomoko Fujita Japan · #540,231 worldwide 18 citations · 35 works
  8. 8 Tatsuaki Kimura Japan · #563,929 worldwide 34 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 K. Hidaka Japan · #642,076 worldwide 123 citations · 31 works
  10. 10 K. Sato Japan · #644,962 worldwide 156 citations · 46 works
All ranked researchers at Tokyo Gakugei University

Which keywords describe research at Tokyo Gakugei University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Culture, Literature, History, Modernization, Ethnicity, Social Influence, Science and Design.

▲ 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. Culture81▲ 31×6 topics
  2. Literature80▲ 30×4 topics
  3. History80▲ 23×4 topics
  4. Modernization80▲ 89×2 topics
  5. Ethnicity79▲ 43×3 topics
  6. Social Influence79▲ 74×3 topics
  7. Design79▲ 98×2 topics
  8. Science79▲ 65×2 topics
  9. Air Force79▲ 132×1 topic
  10. Islam79▲ 76×1 topic
  11. Legal Regulation79▲ 73×1 topic
  12. Sharia Law79▲ 111×1 topic
  13. Transport Policy79▲ 127×1 topic
  14. Warfare79▲ 132×1 topic
  15. Educational Technology8▲ 1.32×13 topics
  16. Self-Efficacy6▲ 4.9×9 topics
  17. STEM Education6▲ 2.7×4 topics
  18. Virtual Reality5▲ 2.2×6 topics
  19. Corpus Linguistics5▲ 4.8×3 topics
  20. Language Development5▲ 8.2×6 topics
  21. Carbon Nanotubes4▲ 2.7×2 topics
  22. Language Teaching4▲ 3.6×3 topics
  23. Lifelong Learning4▲ 4.3×4 topics
  24. Teacher Professional Development4▲ 5.3×3 topics
  25. Physical Education4▲ 6.6×5 topics
  26. RFID4▲ 31×1 topic
  27. Supramolecular Chemistry4▲ 8.9×3 topics
  28. Reading Comprehension3▲ 12×2 topics
  29. Endohedral Fullerenes3▲ 72×1 topic
  30. Fullerenes3▲ 72×1 topic
  31. Second Language Acquisition3▲ 7.4×3 topics
  32. Second Language Learning3▲ 7.3×2 topics
  33. Neural Correlates3▲ 6.6×6 topics
  34. Neural Machine Translation3▲ 6.4×1 topic
  35. Statistical Machine Translation3▲ 6.4×1 topic
  36. Neural Basis3▲ 7.0×3 topics
  37. Teacher Preparation3▲ 8.4×2 topics
  38. Clinical Pharmacy3▲ 49×1 topic
  39. Pharmaceutical Care3▲ 49×1 topic
  40. Readability Assessment3▲ 38×1 topic

Which research topics does Tokyo Gakugei University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Legal and Regulatory Analysis, Military Technology and Strategies, Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies and Educational Research and Pedagogy.

Legal and Regulatory Ana…79Legal and Regulatory Analysis: 79 fractional worksMilitary Technology and …79Military Technology and Strategies: 79 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, an…79Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 79 fractional worksEducational Research and Pedagogy: 4 fractional worksFullerene Chemistry and Applications: 3 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 3 fractional worksPharmacy and Medical Practices: 3 fractional worksText Readability and Simplification: 3 fractional worksEducation and Learning Interventions: 3 fractional worksEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 2 fractional works
TransportationAerospace EngineeringSociology and Political ScienceComputer Networks and Communications5 others

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

  1. 1 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 79 works
  2. 2 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 79 works
  3. 3 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 79 works
  4. 4 Educational Research and Pedagogy Computer Networks and Communications 4 works
  5. 5 Fullerene Chemistry and Applications Organic Chemistry 3 works
  6. 6 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 3 works
  7. 7 Pharmacy and Medical Practices Pharmacology 3 works
  8. 8 Text Readability and Simplification Artificial Intelligence 3 works
  9. 9 Education and Learning Interventions Information Systems 3 works
  10. 10 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 2 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 available53.5%not open46.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.2%domestic only90.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Tokyo Gakugei University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 34% 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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