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Toyama Prefectural University

In research, Toyama Prefectural University stands highest in Physical Sciences (#7,270 of 12,888 worldwide), Engineering (#5,672 of 6,636 worldwide) and Health Sciences (#10,560 of 11,982 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#12,258
of 28,054 · #8,656 all time
Rank in Japan
#308
of 1,070
Research works
3.6k
▲ 16% vs 2013–17
Citations
31k
8.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.0%
record average 16.5%
Open access
48%
world 28%

What is Toyama Prefectural 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 #7,270 of 12,888 4.1%351 #5339
EngineeringField #5,672 of 6,636 3.1%178 #4365
Health SciencesDomain #10,560 of 11,982 12.7%64 #18048
Life SciencesDomain #7,113 of 7,800 6.4%98 #7411
Computer ScienceField #4,501 of 4,667 5.6%63 #4432

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Toyama Prefectural 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#5,339 #7,270
  2. Engineering#4,365 #5,672
  3. Health Sciences#18,048 #10,560
  4. Life Sciences#7,411 #7,113
  5. Computer Science#4,432 #4,501
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.

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: 0.82× its world share, 22 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.58× its world share, 47 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.39× its world share, 22 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 3.47× its world share, 7 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.55× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 2.86× its world share, 25 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.45× its world share, 62 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.78× its world share, 7 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.43× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.14× its world share, 178 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.07× its world share, 30 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.55× its world share, 30 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.23× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.04× its world share, 13 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.33× its world share, 5 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.52× its world share, 55 worksMedicineNursing: 0.94× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.42× its world share, 8 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.16× its world share, 20 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics, 3.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Toyama Prefectural University?

Ranked on the composite score, Yasuhisa Asano, Shinjiro Ogita and Keigo Ishisaka lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Toyama Prefectural University.

  1. 1 Yasuhisa Asano Japan · #339,095 worldwide 162 citations · 64 works
  2. 2 Shinjiro Ogita Japan · #392,460 worldwide 77 citations · 19 works
  3. 3 Keigo Ishisaka Japan · #409,660 worldwide 68 citations · 44 works
  4. 4 Ryuji Yoshida Japan · #432,388 worldwide 78 citations · 21 works
  5. 5 Satoshi Yokoi Japan · #500,504 worldwide 25 citations · 18 works
  6. 6 Masatoshi Adachi Japan · #520,246 worldwide 126 citations · 40 works
  7. 7 Daisuke Urabe Japan · #549,378 worldwide 94 citations · 35 works
  8. 8 Yasuhiro Igarashi Japan · #568,732 worldwide 162 citations · 68 works
  9. 9 Takuya Tsukagoshi Japan · #575,099 worldwide 35 citations · 19 works
  10. 10 Noriyuki Nakajima Japan · #614,035 worldwide 149 citations · 53 works
All ranked researchers at Toyama Prefectural University

Which keywords describe research at Toyama Prefectural University?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Virtual Reality, Drug Discovery, Marine Natural Products, Deep Learning, Endophytic Fungi, Natural Products, Autonomous Vehicles and Genome Sequencing.

▲ 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. Deep Learning29▲ 1.53×35 topics
  2. Virtual Reality18▲ 6.6×9 topics
  3. Drug Discovery16▲ 13×7 topics
  4. Biomedical Applications14▲ 2.1×23 topics
  5. Marine Natural Products13▲ 57×2 topics
  6. Neural Networks13▲ 1.49×18 topics
  7. Mechanical Properties12▲ 2.2×24 topics
  8. Endophytic Fungi11▲ 21×2 topics
  9. Natural Products10▲ 13×5 topics
  10. Autonomous Vehicles10▲ 8.8×4 topics
  11. Self-Assembly10▲ 5.6×11 topics
  12. Genome Sequencing10▲ 12×2 topics
  13. Secondary Metabolites10▲ 24×2 topics
  14. Antibiotics10▲ 21×2 topics
  15. Microbial Metabolites10▲ 50×1 topic
  16. Nonribosomal Peptides10▲ 62×1 topic
  17. Human-Robot Interaction9▲ 16×3 topics
  18. Haptic Interfaces8▲ 25×2 topics
  19. Hydrological Modeling8▲ 6.2×5 topics
  20. Soft Robotics8▲ 20×2 topics
  21. Hydrogels8▲ 7.6×4 topics
  22. Robotic Manipulators8▲ 14×2 topics
  23. Collision Avoidance8▲ 7.5×2 topics
  24. Pharmacology8▲ 5.5×10 topics
  25. Distributed Control7▲ 11×2 topics
  26. Visual Fatigue6▲ 29×2 topics
  27. Modular Robots6▲ 29×1 topic
  28. Self-Reconfiguration6▲ 29×1 topic
  29. Actuators6▲ 7.2×4 topics
  30. Human-Computer Interaction6▲ 6.5×4 topics
  31. Cloud Robotics6▲ 39×1 topic
  32. Internet of Robotic Things6▲ 39×1 topic
  33. Mechanical Metamaterials6▲ 17×2 topics
  34. Service Robots6▲ 13×2 topics
  35. Industrial Applications6▲ 12×3 topics
  36. Biomimetic6▲ 17×2 topics
  37. Flood Risk6▲ 13×2 topics
  38. Path Planning6▲ 7.8×2 topics
  39. Bioinspired Materials5▲ 9.8×3 topics
  40. Metagenomics5▲ 10×3 topics

Which research topics does Toyama Prefectural University publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence, Robotics and Automated Systems and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery.

Microbial Natural Produc…10Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis: 10 fractional worksModular Robots and Swarm…6Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence: 6 fractional worksRobotics and Automated S…6Robotics and Automated Systems: 6 fractional worksStroke Rehabilitation an…5Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery: 5 fractional worksFlood Risk Assessment and Management: 5 fractional worksEEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces: 5 fractional worksRobotic Path Planning Al…4Robotic Path Planning Algorithms: 4 fractional worksAdvanced Materials and Mechanics: 4 fractional worksTeleoperation and Haptic Systems: 4 fractional worksTactile and Sensory Inte…4Tactile and Sensory Interactions: 4 fractional works
PharmacologyMechanical EngineeringControl and Systems EngineeringRehabilitation3 others

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

  1. 1 Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis Pharmacology 10 works
  2. 2 Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence Mechanical Engineering 6 works
  3. 3 Robotics and Automated Systems Control and Systems Engineering 6 works
  4. 4 Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery Rehabilitation 5 works
  5. 5 Flood Risk Assessment and Management Global and Planetary Change 5 works
  6. 6 EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces Cognitive Neuroscience 5 works
  7. 7 Robotic Path Planning Algorithms Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 4 works
  8. 8 Advanced Materials and Mechanics Mechanical Engineering 4 works
  9. 9 Teleoperation and Haptic Systems Mechanical Engineering 4 works
  10. 10 Tactile and Sensory Interactions Cognitive Neuroscience 4 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 available48.0%not open52.0%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Toyama Prefectural University's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 16% higher 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.

Research measures only: rankings here say nothing about teaching, admissions or student experience. Comparable institutions and collaboration partners are in the interactive view on the map.