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Yamaha (Japan)

In research, Yamaha (Japan) stands highest in Physical Sciences (#7,370 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Philosophy, General Health Professions and Health Professions (Philosophy is 25.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,657
of 22,385 · #15,702 all time
Rank in Japan
#344
of 924
Research works
872
▲ 158% vs 2018-21
Citations
8.6k
9.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
40%
world 40%
International
16%
world 18%
Yamaha (Japan)

What is Yamaha (Japan) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Physical SciencesDomain #7,370 of 10,670 2.7%76 #11270

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Yamaha (Japan) 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

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

In 2022-now, 46% of research at Yamaha (Japan) is in Physical Sciences, 29% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (26%), Health Professions (22%), Computer Science (14%).

Physical Sciences: 85 fractional works · 46.3% of its workEngineering: 47 fractional works · 25.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 12 fractional works · 6.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 7 fractional works · 3.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMechanics of Materials: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 25 fractional works · 13.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 10 fractional works · 5.7% of its workSignal Processing: 8 fractional works · 4.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 2.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 53 fractional works · 29.0% of its workHealth Professions: 41 fractional works · 22.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 40 fractional works · 21.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedicine: 10 fractional works · 5.5% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 32 fractional works · 17.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 24 fractional works · 13.1% of its workPhilosophy: 20 fractional works · 10.9% of its workMusic: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 13 fractional works · 7.0% of its workNeuroscience: 6 fractional works · 3.3% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 6 fractional works · 3.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKYamaha (Japan)184fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences46%Health Sciences29%Social Sciences18%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering4725.6%
    2. Computer Science2513.6%
    3. Environmental Science52.8%
    4. Materials Science42.2%
    5. Physics and Astronomy20.9%
    6. Chemical Engineering10.5%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.4%
    8. Chemistry00.2%
    9. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Health Professions4122.4%
    2. Medicine105.5%
    3. Nursing10.8%
    4. Dentistry00.3%
    1. Arts and Humanities2413.1%
    2. Social Sciences31.8%
    3. Psychology31.5%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting20.9%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.2%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Neuroscience63.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences53.0%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.7%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Yamaha (Japan) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Philosophy takes 25.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. PhilosophySubfield · 20.0 works25×
  2. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 40.2 works16×
  3. Health ProfessionsField · 41.3 works8.5×
  4. Arts and HumanitiesField · 24.1 works4.5×
← 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: 0.62× its world share, 6 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 2.05× its world share, 6 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.55× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.75× its world share, 25 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 1.71× its world share, 47 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.56× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.62× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.41× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 8.52× its world share, 41 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.29× its world share, 10 worksMedicineNursing: 1.56× its world share, 1 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 4.53× its world share, 24 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.28× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.49× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 8.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions8.52×41 works
  2. Arts and Humanities4.53×24 works
  3. Neuroscience2.05×6 works
  4. Computer Science1.75×25 works
  5. Engineering1.71×47 works
  6. Nursing1.56×1 works
  7. Chemical Engineering1.55×1 works
  8. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.62×6 works
  9. Materials Science0.62×4 works
  10. Environmental Science0.56×5 works
  11. Dentistry0.56×0 works
  12. Psychology0.49×3 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.41×2 works
  14. Medicine0.29×10 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.28×2 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.26×1 works
  17. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.17×0 works
  18. Social Sciences0.14×3 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.13×1 works
  20. Chemistry0.12×0 works
  21. Mathematics0.10×0 works
  22. Decision Sciences0.09×0 works
  23. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Yamaha (Japan)?

Ranked on the quality score, Juichi Arai, Masaharu Ishikura and Hideki Tsuboi lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Yamaha (Japan).

  1. 1 Juichi Arai Japan · #1,929,568 worldwide 1k citations · 40 works
  2. 2 Masaharu Ishikura Japan · #2,919,647 worldwide 1.4k citations · 37 works
  3. 3 Hideki Tsuboi Japan · #3,273,389 worldwide 605 citations · 16 works
  4. 4 Akira Kaneko Japan · #4,030,666 worldwide 78 citations · 20 works
  5. 5 Minoru Iida Japan · #4,196,337 worldwide 437 citations · 38 works
  6. 6 Hirotaka Kurita Japan · #4,196,789 worldwide 336 citations · 34 works
  7. 7 Yuma Horio Japan · #4,232,664 worldwide 287 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Eiji Tominaga Japan · #4,242,493 worldwide 484 citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Shinji Kishinaga Japan · #4,793,002 worldwide 18 citations · 21 works
  10. 10 Christopher Jaffe Japan · #4,804,438 worldwide 20 citations · 33 works
All ranked researchers at Yamaha (Japan)

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

The most cited paper from Yamaha (Japan) is "Ectopic induction of tendon and ligament in rats by growth and differentiation factors 5, 6, and 7, members of the TGF-beta gene family." (Neil M. Wolfman, Gary Hattersley, Karen A. Cox et al., 1997), with 533 citations. Next come "Dependence and independence: From linear hierarchies to nonlinear networks" (375) and "Potential application of anion-exchange membrane for hydrazine fuel cell electrolyte" (261).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ectopic induction of tendon and ligament in rats by growth and differentiation factors 5, 6, and 7, members of the TGF-beta gene family. Neil M. Wolfman, Gary Hattersley, Karen A. Cox et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation Open access 15 Jul 1997 533
2 Dependence and independence: From linear hierarchies to nonlinear networks Thomas L. Saaty, Masahiro Takizawa · European Journal of Operational Research Aug 1986 375
3 Potential application of anion-exchange membrane for hydrazine fuel cell electrolyte Kôji Yamada, Kazuaki Yasuda, Naoko Fujiwara et al. · Electrochemistry Communications 16 Sep 2003 261
4 Performance evaluation of salivary amylase activity monitor Masaki Yamaguchi, Takahiro Kanemori, Masashi Kanemaru et al. · Biosensors and Bioelectronics 9 Apr 2004 236
5 Design, manufacture, stress analysis, and experimental tests of low-noise high endurance spiral bevel gears Faydor L. Litvin, Alfonso Rafael Fernández Fuentes, Kenichi Hayasaka · Mechanism and Machine Theory 15 Apr 2005 234
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Yamaha (Japan)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Quality of Life, Healthcare, Ethics, Public Health Policy, Aging, History, Philosophy and Palliative Care.

▲ 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 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. Quality of Life23▲ 8.7×7 topics
  2. Healthcare21▲ 9.9×4 topics
  3. Mental Health20▲ 7.7×5 topics
  4. Ethics20▲ 22×2 topics
  5. Public Health Policy20▲ 43×2 topics
  6. Aging20▲ 20×2 topics
  7. History20▲ 16×2 topics
  8. Palliative Care20▲ 72×3 topics
  9. Philosophy20▲ 25×2 topics
  10. Elderly20▲ 45×2 topics
  11. Identity20▲ 15×2 topics
  12. Social Support20▲ 20×3 topics
  13. Caregiving20▲ 158×1 topic
  14. Healthcare Legislation20▲ 196×1 topic
  15. Hermeneutics20▲ 136×1 topic
  16. Narrative20▲ 70×1 topic
  17. Patient Rights20▲ 158×1 topic
  18. Retirement20▲ 173×1 topic
  19. Deep Learning14▲ 2.2×22 topics
  20. Machine Learning13▲ 2.1×19 topics
  21. Artificial Intelligence9▲ 3.4×7 topics
  22. Convolutional Neural Networks7▲ 5.3×6 topics
  23. Gesture Recognition7▲ 52×2 topics
  24. Human-Computer Interaction7▲ 22×2 topics
  25. Interactive Evolutionary Computation7▲ 168×1 topic
  26. Music Generation7▲ 168×1 topic
  27. Feature Extraction6▲ 7.4×4 topics
  28. Neural Networks6▲ 2.0×10 topics
  29. Mechanical Properties5▲ 2.8×17 topics
  30. Audio Signal Classification4▲ 63×1 topic
  31. Music Information Retrieval4▲ 63×1 topic
  32. Electric Vehicles4▲ 6.9×4 topics
  33. Model Predictive Control4▲ 7.7×3 topics
  34. Control Systems3▲ 10×4 topics
  35. Cognitive Decline3▲ 14×2 topics
  36. Hearing Loss3▲ 15×2 topics
  37. Social Isolation3▲ 8.5×3 topics
  38. Cochlear Implants3▲ 44×1 topic
  39. Speech Perception3▲ 19×1 topic
  40. Neural Mechanisms2▲ 14×2 topics

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

By volume in 2022-now: Health, Medicine and Society, Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues, Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity and Music Technology and Sound Studies.

Health, Medicine and Soc…20Health, Medicine and Society: 20 fractional worksAging, Elder Care, and S…20Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues: 20 fractional worksHermeneutics and Narrati…20Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity: 20 fractional worksMusic Technology and Sound Studies: 7 fractional worksMusic and Audio Processing: 4 fractional worksHearing Loss and Rehabilitation: 3 fractional worksNeuroscience and Music Perception: 2 fractional worksSpeech and Audio Processing: 2 fractional worksVehicle Dynamics and Control Systems: 2 fractional worksVehicle emissions and performance: 2 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsPhilosophyComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSignal Processing2 others

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

  1. 1 Health, Medicine and Society General Health Professions 20 works
  2. 2 Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues General Health Professions 20 works
  3. 3 Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity Philosophy 20 works
  4. 4 Music Technology and Sound Studies Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 7 works
  5. 5 Music and Audio Processing Signal Processing 4 works
  6. 6 Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation Cognitive Neuroscience 3 works
  7. 7 Neuroscience and Music Perception Cognitive Neuroscience 2 works
  8. 8 Speech and Audio Processing Signal Processing 2 works
  9. 9 Vehicle Dynamics and Control Systems Automotive Engineering 2 works
  10. 10 Vehicle emissions and performance Automotive Engineering 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 available40.3%not open59.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors16.3%domestic only83.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

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

Output in 2022-2025 was 158% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Yamaha (Japan) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00038% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Yamaha (Japan)0.00074% in 202519801990200020102020

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

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Yamaha (Japan)2.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 10.7% in 2012.

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