United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability 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).

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Environmental Science takes 7.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

1. Environmental ScienceField · 27.3 works7.9×

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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.

• Environmental Science 7.9×
• Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2.6×
• Business, Management and Accounting 2.4×
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2.2×
• Social Sciences 1.9×
• Earth and Planetary Sciences 1.6×
• Nursing 1.4×
• Energy 1.3×
• Engineering 0.3×
• Decision Sciences 0.3×
• Immunology and Microbiology 0.2×
• Chemistry 0.2×
• Arts and Humanities 0.2×
• Health Professions 0.1×
• Computer Science 0.1×
• Medicine 0.1×
• Physics and Astronomy 0.1×
• Mathematics 0.0×
• Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 0.0×

Ranked on the composite score, Riyanti Djalante and Osamu Saitô lead among researchers whose main affiliation is United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability.

1. 1 🇯🇵 Riyanti Djalante Japan · #106,749 worldwide 234 citations · 24 works
2. 2 🇯🇵 Osamu Saitô Japan · #458,886 worldwide 398 citations · 169 works

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Sustainability, Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystem Services, Land Use Change, Urbanization, Social-Ecological Systems and Environmental Impact.

By volume in 2022–2025: Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Sustainability and Climate Change Governance.

1. 1 Land Use and Ecosystem Services Global and Planetary Change 4 works
2. 2 Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management Global and Planetary Change 3 works
3. 3 Sustainable Supply Chain Management Strategy and Management 2 works
4. 4 Sustainability and Climate Change Governance Global and Planetary Change 2 works
5. 5 Urban Agriculture and Sustainability Plant Science 2 works
6. 6 Environmental Education and Sustainability Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 1 works
7. 7 Energy and Environment Impacts Pollution 1 works
8. 8 Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies Water Science and Technology 1 works
9. 9 Sustainability in Higher Education Education 1 works
10. 10 Urban Green Space and Health Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 1 works

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.

Output in 2018–2022 was 32% higher than in 2013–2017.

• The University of Tokyo
• Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Keio University
• Waseda University
• Tokyo University of Science
• Nihon University
• Hitachi (Japan)
• NTT (Japan)