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Japan's global connectors boost scientific research collaboration
24 March 2019
Catherine Armitage, David McNeill & Smriti Mallapaty
Six scientists whose transformative work reaches across borders.
Annual tables 2018: China and Japan lead in chemistry
19 July 2018
Gemma Conroy
Institutions in China and Japan dominate the chemistry top 10 in the Nature Index.
10 institutions that dominated science in 2017
12 June 2018
Gemma Conroy
These top 10 institutions in the Nature Index were the largest contributors to papers published in 82 leading journals in the past year.
2018 Annual Tables: Tsinghua joins elite group of research universities
7 June 2018
Smriti Mallapaty
Two Beijing-based universities are among the top 10 academic institutions in the Nature Index.
Stand aside UTokyo, Gakushuin shows size isn’t everything
22 March 2018
Tim Hornyak
Gakushuin University is the top-ranking institution when assessed on the quality of its research in the natural sciences.
The rise and rise of Chinese universities
7 February 2018
Smriti Mallapaty
China climbs the THE Asian university rankings, but Singapore is still first.
In Japan, corporates make reluctant partners
20 December 2017
Ichiko Fuyuno
Japanese institutions mix it with the world's best
17 March 2016