Top 50 institutions in life sciences

Japan’s leading institutions for high-quality science, ordered by weighted fractional count (WFC) for 2015. Also shown are the total number of articles, and the change in WFC from 2014.

2015	Institution	WFC 2014	WFC 2015	AC 2015	Change in WFC 2014-2015
1	The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Japan	99.44	106.72	247	7.3%
2	Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan	58.71	52.89	192	-9.9%
3	Osaka University, Japan	49.91	47.89	144	-4.0%
4	Kyoto University, Japan	62.09	44.77	142	-27.9%
5	Nagoya University, Japan	29.66	25.85	73	-12.8%
6	Hokkaido University (Hokudai), Japan	25.94	21.82	57	-15.9%
7	Tohoku University, Japan	20.23	19.12	49	-5.5%
8	Keio University, Japan	15.07	18.84	57	25.0%
9	Kyushu University, Japan	24.7	18.29	60	-26.0%
10	National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), Japan	13.68	11.92	41	-12.8%
11	University of Tsukuba, Japan	11.48	10.46	43	-8.9%
12	Okayama University, Japan	3.68	9.04	27	145.7%
13	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan	9.98	8.41	25	-15.7%
14	Kumamoto University, Japan	9.88	6.86	22	-30.5%
15	The University of Tokushima, Japan	2.25	6.43	16	186.4%
16	Kobe University, Japan	3.81	6.34	25	66.6%
17	Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (IGAKUKEN), Japan	4.94	6.24	18	26.4%
18	The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Japan	9.45	6.21	32	-34.3%
19	Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Japan	7.57	6.04	27	-20.1%
20	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan	9.34	5.83	24	-37.6%
21	University of Toyama, Japan	2.81	5.76	14	105.4%
22	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan	1.8	5.22	19	189.3%
23	Hiroshima University (HU), Japan	5.54	5.21	28	-5.9%
24	Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan	5.03	4.98	13	-1.1%
25	National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Japan	2.28	4.77	12	109.4%
26	Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan	5.68	4.72	17	-17.0%
27	Kanazawa University (KU), Japan	6.34	4.59	22	-27.6%
28	Chiba University, Japan	9.77	4.59	26	-53.1%
29	Gunma University, Japan	2.94	4.57	17	55.7%
30	Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Japan	5.56	4.54	22	-18.4%
31	Yokohama City University (YCU), Japan	9.63	3.98	22	-58.6%
32	National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (NCVC), Japan	1.22	3.98	15	227.3%
33	The Kitasato Institute, Japan	2.75	3.77	12	36.9%
34	National Cancer Center (NCC), Japan	4.41	3.68	10	-16.5%
35	Doshisha University, Japan	1.18	3.59	7	204.0%
36	National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID), Japan	2.16	3.41	11	58.3%
37	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan	1.15	3.19	21	177.1%
38	Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (KPUM), Japan	3.97	3.03	8	-23.9%
39	Jichi Medical University, Japan	0.45	3.02	13	567.1%
40	Waseda University, Japan	3	2.88	10	-4.0%
41	NTT Group, Japan	0.06	2.83	3	5,000.0%
42	University of Shizuoka, Japan	0.54	2.65	5	389.6%
43	Niigata University, Japan	4.09	2.61	18	-36.1%
44	Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan	1.72	2.58	8	50.6%
45	Saitama University, Japan	1.08	2.54	14	136.3%
46	Osaka Bioscience Institute, Japan	2.13	2.54	6	19.1%
47	National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences (NIAS), Japan	6.42	2.5	7	-61.1%
48	Ehime University, Japan	2.31	2.49	9	7.9%
49	Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU), Japan	1.19	2.37	7	99.1%
50	Juntendo University, Japan	5.37	2.35	18	-56.3%

Weighted fractional count (WFC) for each institution is shown to two decimal places only. When two or more institutions have the same WFC, their positions are determined by the thousandth place (or beyond).

These results are based on the most recent data available. Owing to continual refinements of the data, the figures in the database are liable to change and might differ to those printed in the supplements.