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Yamaguchi Prefectural University

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World rank, all time
#24,682
of 34,923
Rank in Japan
#891
of 1,923
Research works
284
▲ 32% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.9k
10.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.75×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
58%
world 40%
International
12%
world 18%
Yamaguchi Prefectural University

Which fields of science does Yamaguchi Prefectural University work in?

In 2022-now, 43% of research at Yamaguchi Prefectural University is in Health Sciences, 22% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (38%), Social Sciences (9%), Psychology (9%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 20 fractional works · 43.3% of its workMedicine: 18 fractional works · 38.4% of its workPhysiology: 3 fractional works · 6.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workSurgery: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHematology: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Allergy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workLeadership and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workResearch and Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmall Animals: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Sciences: 10 fractional works · 21.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 9.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDemography: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLibrary and Information Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 4 fractional works · 9.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 5.2% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 8 fractional works · 18.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 7.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiotechnology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCancer Research: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 3 fractional works · 7.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 7.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 3.9% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 7 fractional works · 16.3% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 6.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 fractional works · 4.1% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArchitecture: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workALL ITS WORKYamaguchiPrefectural…46fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences19%Physical Sciences16%Health Sciences43%Social Sciences22%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine1838.4%
    2. Health Professions12.5%
    3. Nursing11.8%
    4. Veterinary00.6%
    1. Social Sciences49.4%
    2. Psychology49.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities01.0%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.0%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.9%
    6. Decision Sciences00.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology37.1%
    2. Neuroscience37.1%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences23.9%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
    1. Computer Science36.4%
    2. Engineering23.5%
    3. Environmental Science12.3%
    4. Physics and Astronomy12.1%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences01.1%
    6. Energy00.7%
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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.81× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.34× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.39× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 4.40× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 0.82× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.70× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.79× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.24× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.96× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.95× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.99× its world share, 18 worksMedicineNursing: 3.73× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.48× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.34× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 3.03× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.75× its world share, 4 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Veterinary, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Veterinary4.48×0 works
  2. Neuroscience4.40×3 works
  3. Nursing3.73×1 works
  4. Psychology3.03×4 works
  5. Medicine1.99×18 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.34×3 works
  7. Physics and Astronomy0.96×1 works
  8. Health Professions0.95×1 works
  9. Computer Science0.82×3 works
  10. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.81×2 works
  11. Energy0.79×0 works
  12. Social Sciences0.75×4 works
  13. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.70×0 works
  14. Environmental Science0.47×1 works
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.45×0 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.39×0 works
  17. Decision Sciences0.38×0 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.34×0 works
  19. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.26×0 works
  20. Business, Management and Accounting0.26×0 works
  21. Engineering0.24×2 works

Who are the top researchers at Yamaguchi Prefectural University?

Ranked on the quality score, Kazuko Shimada, 理 斉藤 and 公子 弘津 lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Yamaguchi Prefectural University.

  1. 1 Kazuko Shimada Japan · #2,185,724 worldwide 1.4k citations · 47 works
  2. 2 理 斉藤 Japan · #3,404,661 worldwide 0 citations · 20 works
  3. 3 公子 弘津 Japan · #3,408,101 worldwide 0 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 圭介 小橋 Japan · #3,471,369 worldwide 0 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 明美 三谷 Japan · #3,864,444 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Tomoko Mizote Japan · #4,037,836 worldwide 591 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 貴裕 岩中 Japan · #4,161,618 worldwide 0 citations · 28 works
  8. 8 浩一 吉村 Japan · #4,287,200 worldwide 0 citations · 25 works
  9. 9 裕子 安光 Japan · #4,420,354 worldwide 0 citations · 28 works
  10. 10 一志 吉岡 Japan · #4,474,486 worldwide 0 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at Yamaguchi Prefectural University

What are the most cited papers from Yamaguchi Prefectural University?

The most cited paper from Yamaguchi Prefectural University is "Abdominal aortic aneurysms" (Natzi Sakalihasan, Jean‐Baptiste Michel, Athanasios Katsargyris et al., 2018), with 663 citations. Next come "World Squid Fisheries" (340) and "FLOOD DISTURBANCE REGIMES INFLUENCE RAINBOW TROUT INVASION SUCCESS AMONG FIVE HOLARCTIC REGIONS" (325).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Abdominal aortic aneurysms Natzi Sakalihasan, Jean‐Baptiste Michel, Athanasios Katsargyris et al. · Nature Reviews Disease Primers Review 18 Oct 2018 663
2 World Squid Fisheries Alexander I. Arkhipkin et al. · Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture Open access 3 Apr 2015 340
3 FLOOD DISTURBANCE REGIMES INFLUENCE RAINBOW TROUT INVASION SUCCESS AMONG FIVE HOLARCTIC REGIONS Kurt D. Fausch, Yoshinori Taniguchi, Shigeru Nakano et al. · Ecological Applications Oct 2001 325
4 Magnesium oxide nanoparticles induce systemic resistance in tomato against bacterial wilt disease Kiyoshi Imada, S. Sakai, Hiroshi Kajihara et al. · Plant Pathology 19 Aug 2015 284
5 Population health and regional variations of disease burden in Japan, 1990–2015: a systematic subnational analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 Shuhei Nomura et al. · The Lancet Open access 19 Jul 2017 224
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Which keywords describe research at Yamaguchi Prefectural University?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Genetics, Cerebral Blood Flow, Thermoregulation, Executive Functioning, Fluid Replacement, Heat Stroke and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

▲ 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 29 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 29 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology4▲ 1.99×12 topics
  2. Autism Spectrum Disorders3▲ 58×2 topics
  3. Genetics2▲ 7.7×4 topics
  4. Cerebral Blood Flow2▲ 70×2 topics
  5. Thermoregulation2▲ 70×2 topics
  6. Executive Functioning2▲ 40×2 topics
  7. Fluid Replacement2▲ 209×1 topic
  8. Heat Stroke2▲ 209×1 topic
  9. Neurodevelopmental Disorders2▲ 34×2 topics
  10. Brain Connectivity2▲ 47×1 topic
  11. Social Skills Interventions2▲ 69×1 topic
  12. Mental Health2▲ 2.4×5 topics
  13. Resilience2▲ 7.0×2 topics
  14. Reactive Oxygen Species2▲ 8.0×3 topics
  15. Caregiver Well-Being1▲ 56×1 topic
  16. Deep Learning1▼ 0.80×8 topics
  17. Depression1▲ 3.1×4 topics
  18. Exercise-Induced Oxidative Stress1▲ 100×1 topic
  19. History1▲ 4.2×4 topics
  20. Muscle-Derived Interleukin-61▲ 100×1 topic
  21. Parenting Stress1▲ 42×1 topic
  22. Regulation1▲ 5.5×5 topics
  23. Child Development1▲ 6.3×2 topics
  24. Neural Networks1▲ 1.67×3 topics
  25. Quality of Life1▲ 1.89×4 topics
  26. Virtual Reality1▲ 5.5×5 topics
  27. Cancer Therapy1▲ 4.0×3 topics
  28. Hereditary Angioedema1▲ 119×1 topic
  29. Kinin Receptor Family1▲ 119×1 topic

Which research topics does Yamaguchi Prefectural University publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Thermoregulation and physiological responses, Autism Spectrum Disorder Research, Exercise and Physiological Responses and Family and Disability Support Research.

Thermoregulation and physiological responses: 2 fractional worksAutism Spectrum Disorder Research: 2 fractional worksExercise and Physiologic…1Exercise and Physiological Responses: 1 fractional worksFamily and Disability Su…1Family and Disability Support Research: 1 fractional worksCoagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema: 1 fractional worksColor Science and Applications: 1 fractional worksVisual perception and pr…1Visual perception and processing mechanisms: 1 fractional worksChild Nutrition and Feeding Issues: 1 fractional worksChild Development and Digital Technology: 1 fractional worksInfrared Thermography in Medicine: 1 fractional works
PhysiologyCognitive NeuroscienceRehabilitationClinical Psychology5 others

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

  1. 1 Thermoregulation and physiological responses Physiology 2 works
  2. 2 Autism Spectrum Disorder Research Cognitive Neuroscience 2 works
  3. 3 Exercise and Physiological Responses Rehabilitation 1 works
  4. 4 Family and Disability Support Research Clinical Psychology 1 works
  5. 5 Coagulation, Bradykinin, Polyphosphates, and Angioedema Genetics 1 works
  6. 6 Color Science and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  7. 7 Visual perception and processing mechanisms Cognitive Neuroscience 1 works
  8. 8 Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues Psychiatry and Mental health 1 works
  9. 9 Child Development and Digital Technology Education 1 works
  10. 10 Infrared Thermography in Medicine Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 1 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 available58.1%not open41.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.8%domestic only88.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Yamaguchi Prefectural University's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Yamaguchi Prefectural University as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00020% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Yamaguchi Prefectural University0.00016% in 202519801990200020102020

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