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Wesco (Japan)

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Research works
14
▼ 11% vs 2018-21
Citations
82
6.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
52%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
Wesco (Japan)

Not ranked overall: Wesco (Japan) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Wesco (Japan) work in?

In all years, 70% of research at Wesco (Japan) is in Physical Sciences, 18% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (28%), Engineering (28%), Business, Management and Accounting (8%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 10 fractional works · 69.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 28.4% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 1 fractional works · 8.6% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 7.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 4 fractional works · 28.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 14.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 5.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 18.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 8.1% of its workBusiness and International Management: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workUrban Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 11.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 6.0% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 5.2% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 4.9% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workALL ITS WORKWesco (Japan)14fractional works, all years
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences70%Health Sciences1%Social Sciences18%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science428.4%
    2. Engineering428.0%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences15.4%
    4. Energy14.3%
    5. Computer Science03.2%
    6. Materials Science00.5%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting18.1%
    2. Social Sciences14.7%
    3. Decision Sciences02.4%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.8%
    5. Arts and Humanities01.2%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences16.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology15.2%
    1. Medicine00.7%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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.

What are the most cited papers from Wesco (Japan)?

The most cited paper from Wesco (Japan) is "A method based on machine learning using hand-crafted features for crack detection from asphalt pavement surface images" (Yusuke Fujita, Kōji Shimada, Manabu Ichihara et al., 2017), with 45 citations. Next come "Thermocouple Psychrometers for Water Potential Measurements" (22) and "MESH-FREE METHOD FOR SOIL-WATER COUPLED PROBLEM WITHIN FINITE STRAIN AND ITS NUMERICAL VALIDITY" (20).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A method based on machine learning using hand-crafted features for crack detection from asphalt pavement surface images Yusuke Fujita, Kōji Shimada, Manabu Ichihara et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 13 Mar 2017 45
2 Thermocouple Psychrometers for Water Potential Measurements Ralph Briscoe Book chapter 1986 22
3 MESH-FREE METHOD FOR SOIL-WATER COUPLED PROBLEM WITHIN FINITE STRAIN AND ITS NUMERICAL VALIDITY Akira Murakami, Tatsuya Setsuyasu, Shinichi Arimoto · 土質工学会論文報告集 Open access 2005 20
4 Field experiment to restore a gravel bar and control growth of trees in the Asahi River Shiro MAENO, Satoshi WATANABE · International Journal of River Basin Management Sep 2008 12
5 Geographic distribution of the Cybaeus kuramotoi-group (Araneae: Cybaeidae) in Okayama, Tottori and Hyogo Prefectures, western Honshu, Japan, with descriptions of five new species. Yoh Ihara, Koichi Nojima · Acta Arachnologica Open access 2004 11
All 28 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Wesco (Japan) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Geodetic Measurements and Engineering Structures, 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications, Geological Modeling and Analysis and Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics.

Geodetic Measurements and Engineering Structures: 0 fractional works3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications: 0 fractional worksGeological Modeling and …0Geological Modeling and Analysis: 0 fractional worksAquatic Ecosystems and P…0Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics: 0 fractional worksFreshwater macroinverteb…0Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology: 0 fractional worksMarine animal studies overview: 0 fractional worksCoastal wetland ecosystem dynamics: 0 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior: 0 fractional worksAeolian processes and effects: 0 fractional worksLandslides and related hazards: 0 fractional works
Civil and Structural EngineeringBuilding and ConstructionGeochemistry and PetrologyEnvironmental Chemistry3 others

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

  1. 1 Geodetic Measurements and Engineering Structures Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  2. 2 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications Building and Construction 0 works
  3. 3 Geological Modeling and Analysis Geochemistry and Petrology 0 works
  4. 4 Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics Environmental Chemistry 0 works
  5. 5 Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology Ecology 0 works
  6. 6 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 0 works
  7. 7 Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics Ecology 0 works
  8. 8 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 0 works
  9. 9 Aeolian processes and effects Earth-Surface Processes 0 works
  10. 10 Landslides and related hazards Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 0 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 available51.5%not open48.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.6%domestic only80.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Wesco (Japan)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Wesco (Japan) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000010% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Wesco (Japan)0.0000090% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Wesco (Japan) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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