Top 25 government / not-for-profit institutions
Japan’s leading institutions for high-quality science, ordered by weighted fractional count (WFC) for 2016. Also shown are the total number of articles, and the change in WFC from 2012.
2016 |
Institution |
WFC 2016 |
WFC 2012 |
Change in WFC 2012–2016 |
Count 2016 |
1 |
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Japan
|
36.02 |
2.86 |
1,157.7%
|
127 |
2 |
Nanoscale Materials Division (MANA), NIMS, Japan
|
23.78 |
40.00 |
–40.6%
|
66 |
3 |
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Japan
|
18.75 |
14.82 |
26.6%
|
62 |
4 |
High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan
|
18.36 |
16.69 |
10.0%
|
180 |
5 |
RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI), Japan
|
13.68 |
13.06 |
4.8%
|
34 |
6 |
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS), Japan
|
13.36 |
– |
–
|
45 |
7 |
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), NINS, Japan
|
13.14 |
11.55 |
13.8%
|
311 |
8 |
Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Japan
|
11.60 |
6.56 |
76.8%
|
63 |
9 |
Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Japan
|
10.50 |
15.91 |
–34.0%
|
95 |
10 |
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (IGAKUKEN), Japan
|
9.69 |
9.61 |
0.7%
|
21 |
11 |
Department of Materials and Chemistry (DMC), AIST, Japan
|
9.48 |
0.48 |
1,860.1%
|
25 |
12 |
National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), Japan
|
9.39 |
3.20 |
193.7%
|
23 |
13 |
Research Center for Functional Materials (RCFM), NIMS, Japan
|
8.76 |
– |
–
|
29 |
14 |
Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan
|
8.59 |
7.24 |
18.5%
|
15 |
15 |
Department of Energy and Environment (DENVENE), AIST, Japan
|
8.55 |
5.90 |
44.8%
|
16 |
16 |
Department of Life Science and Biotechnology (DLSBT), AIST, Japan
|
7.96 |
13.74 |
–42.1%
|
22 |
17 |
Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), NINS, Japan
|
7.86 |
19.28 |
–59.2%
|
32 |
18 |
Advanced Key Technologies Division, NIMS, Japan
|
7.69 |
12.17 |
–36.8%
|
38 |
19 |
RIKEN Chief Scientist Laboratories, Japan
|
7.64 |
2.53 |
201.6%
|
19 |
20 |
RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies (CLST), Japan
|
7.03 |
0.13 |
5,527.4%
|
32 |
21 |
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science (RNC), Japan
|
6.75 |
9.26 |
–27.2%
|
33 |
22 |
RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS), Japan
|
6.72 |
2.79 |
141.0%
|
36 |
23 |
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), Japan
|
6.17 |
15.79 |
–60.9%
|
35 |
24 |
Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials (CMSM), NIMS, Japan
|
6.14 |
– |
–
|
10 |
25 |
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
|
6.06 |
3.69 |
64.3%
|
27 |
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.