Osaka University
大阪大学
Japan
Osaka University was founded in 1931 as one of the seven imperial universities of Japan and it remains today one of Japan’s leading comprehensive universities. The University houses more than 23,000 students and more than 6,600 faculty and staff members. Osaka University was named Japan’s most innovative university and is included among the most innovative institutions in the world according to the Nature Index 2017 Innovation publication. The University’s ability to innovate stems from its broad disciplinary spectrum and strong industry-university collaboration, as well as its engagement with, and contributions to, society. This strength is coupled with a drive for innovation that extends throughout the scientific process, from fundamental research to the creation of applied technology. The University continues to explore new research fields, develop greater innovation from the fundamental research stages, and make even greater efforts to pioneer interdisciplinary research projects.
With the motto “Live Locally, Grow Globally,” Osaka University has adopted a vision of openness for 2021. To this end, we strive to make our education, research and community more open and ensure that our three campuses are places where outstanding students and researchers from around the world can gather, learn, discover, and collaborate. Since integrating with Osaka University of Foreign Studies in 2007, Osaka University has enhanced its capacity in the studies of language and culture, and we are enhancing degree programs conducted in English and Japanese language support for international students and faculty. In recent years, the University has also actively expanded its global outreach by setting up overseas centers in San Francisco, Groningen, Bangkok and Shanghai.
Osaka University leverages its role as a Designated National University Corporation selected by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to contribute to innovation for human welfare, the sustainable development of society, and social transformation.
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1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020
Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All
The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for Osaka University published between 1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.
Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.
Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.
Count | Share |
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533 | 192.22 |
Outputs by subject (Share)
Subject | Count | Share | |
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Life Sciences | 174 | 43.84 | |
Physical Sciences | 198 | 49.02 | |
Chemistry | 213 | 110.14 | |
Earth & Environmental Sciences | 7 | 1.10 | |
Geophysical Research Letters | 2 | 0.09 | |
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth | 1 | 0.25 | |
Nature Communications | 4 | 0.76 |
Highlight of the month
Sex of mice determined by overlooked gene fragment
© Jamie A. MacDonald/Moment Open/Getty Images
A previously overlooked part of the sex-determining gene Sry is responsible kicking off the series of events that leads to the development of male mice.
For more than 30 years, the gene Sry on the male Y chromosome has been known to determine the sex of mammalian offspring. But it was considered to have only a single exon — a section of DNA within a gene that codes for a protein.
Now, a team of five researchers at Osaka University and a collaborator have found that Sry in mice actually has two exons, and that the newly discovered exon is the key to the development of male offspring. They found that mice having XY chromosomes would develop as females if they lacked the exon and, conversely, mice having two X chromosomes would become males if they possessed the exon.
While humans lack the newly discovered exon, this finding could have implications for how human Sry functions.
- Science 370, 121–124 (2020). doi: 10.1126/science.abb6430
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Top articles by Altmetric score in current window
Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system immediately before the Cryogenian period revealed by KAGUYA
Nature Communications
2020-07-21
GW Ori: Interactions between a Triple-star System and Its Circumtriple Disk in Action
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2020-05-21
A Terrestrial-mass Rogue Planet Candidate Detected in the Shortest-timescale Microlensing Event
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
2020-10-29
1 December 2019 - 30 November 2020
International vs. domestic collaboration by Share
- 53.96% Domestic
- 46.04% International
Note: Hover over the graph to view the percentage of collaboration.
Top 10 domestic collaborators by Share (253 total)
- Osaka University, Japan
- Domestic institution
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The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan
(40.43)
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Kyoto University, Japan
(36.05)
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RIKEN, Japan
(24.11)
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Nagoya University, Japan
(17.14)
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Tohoku University, Japan
(13.02)
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Hokkaido University, Japan
(11.71)
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Kyushu University, Japan
(11.37)
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National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
(9.53)
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Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan
(8.81)
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National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan
(7.11)
Top 10 international collaborators by Share (1569 total)
- Osaka University, Japan
- Foreign institution
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French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
(7.21)
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University of Michigan (U-M), United States of America (USA)
(5.25)
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National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan
(4.77)
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Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), United States of America (USA)
(4.11)
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Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Germany
(3.71)
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Harvard University, United States of America (USA)
(3.36)
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University of Oxford, United Kingdom (UK)
(3.31)
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National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy
(3.14)
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Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), Germany
(3.04)
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Jiangnan University, China
(3)
Note: Collaboration is determined by the fractional count (Share), which is listed in parentheses.
Affiliated joint institutions and consortia
- AIST-Osaka University Advanced Photonics and Biosensing Open Innovation Laboratory (PhotoBIO-OIL), Japan
- Assembling Galaxies of Resolved Anatomy (AGORA), United States of America (USA)
- Belle Collaboration, Japan
- Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), Japan
- ERATO Ito Glycotrilogy Project, Japan
- Functional Annotation of the Mammalian Genome (FANTOM), Japan
- JEOL YOKOGUSHI Research Alliance Laboratories, Japan
- KamLAND-Zen Collaboration, Japan
- Keihanshin Consortium for Fostering the Next Generation of Global Leaders in Research (K-CONNEX), Japan
- Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA), New Zealand
- Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI), Japan
- Nippon Shokubai Research Alliance Laboratories at Osaka University Suita Campus, Japan
- The ATLAS Collaboration, Switzerland
- The MOA Collaboration, Japan
- The Super-Kamiokande Collaboration, Japan
- ULVAC-Osaka University Joint Research Laboratory for Future Technology, Japan
- United Graduate School of Child Development (UGSCD), Japan

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