Top institutions in chemistry by normalized WFC
The tables show Japan’s leading institutions ranked by normalized weighted fractional count (WFC), an indicator of an institution’s high-quality research output as a proportion of total output in the natural sciences (NS) from 2012 to 2017. This is derived by dividing an institution’s WFC in the Nature Index (WFC 2012–2017) by its total number of natural sciences articles in Scopus (Scopus NS articles 2012–2017). Also listed are an institution’s total number of articles in the Nature Index (AC 2012–2017) and the percentage of its total articles in Scopus that are in the natural sciences (NS articles (%) 2012–2017).
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1 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | academic | 0.1121 | 905.48 | 8,078 | 1,559 | 78.1 % |
2 | Kyoto University | academic | 0.1118 | 930.58 | 8,320 | 1,513 | 79.3 % |
3 | Osaka University | academic | 0.1020 | 630.78 | 6,185 | 1,090 | 75.1 % |
4 | Nagoya University | academic | 0.1019 | 367.84 | 3,611 | 623 | 74.9 % |
5 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | academic | 0.0876 | 407.82 | 4,654 | 684 | 83.4 % |
6 | Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) | academic | 0.0824 | 57.04 | 692 | 119 | 83.6 % |
7 | RIKEN | government | 0.0801 | 246.59 | 3,079 | 727 | 94.0 % |
8 | National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) | government | 0.0794 | 75.42 | 950 | 195 | 98.0 % |
9 | Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) | academic | 0.0781 | 78.19 | 1,001 | 109 | 77.4 % |
10 | National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) | government | 0.0768 | 262.20 | 3,415 | 649 | 98.8 % |
11 | Hokkaido University (Hokudai) | academic | 0.0751 | 326.37 | 4,346 | 570 | 79.7 % |
12 | Keio University | academic | 0.0714 | 119.98 | 1,681 | 184 | 57.4 % |
13 | Osaka City University (OCU) | academic | 0.0701 | 53.92 | 769 | 90 | 60.4 % |
14 | Tohoku University | academic | 0.0688 | 402.42 | 5,847 | 744 | 80.2 % |
15 | Rigaku Corporation | corporate | 0.0675 | 10.73 | 159 | 54 | 100.0 % |
16 | Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) | academic | 0.0625 | 94.14 | 1,507 | 140 | 86.2 % |
17 | Kyushu University | academic | 0.0617 | 287.80 | 4,665 | 570 | 76.0 % |
18 | Kanazawa University (KU) | academic | 0.0609 | 81.33 | 1,335 | 127 | 65.6 % |
19 | University of Tsukuba | academic | 0.0603 | 133.41 | 2,212 | 279 | 74.8 % |
20 | Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU) | academic | 0.0574 | 47.63 | 829 | 94 | 77.2 % |
21 | Waseda University | academic | 0.0573 | 81.74 | 1,426 | 185 | 68.5 % |
22 | Osaka Prefecture University (OPU) | academic | 0.0553 | 74.41 | 1,345 | 140 | 83.3 % |
23 | Toyota Group | corporate | 0.0548 | 42.61 | 777 | 85 | 77.5 % |
24 | Chiba University | academic | 0.0541 | 95.57 | 1,768 | 169 | 66.1 % |
25 | Okayama University | academic | 0.0507 | 76.15 | 1,502 | 138 | 72.0 % |
26 | Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) | government | 0.0483 | 33.54 | 695 | 290 | 98.0 % |
27 | Hiroshima University (HU) | academic | 0.0477 | 97.26 | 2,040 | 189 | 68.9 % |
28 | Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC) | npo | 0.0444 | 6.31 | 142 | 52 | 98.1 % |
29 | Tokyo University of Science (TUS) | academic | 0.0418 | 88.34 | 2,112 | 162 | 78.5 % |
30 | Kumamoto University | academic | 0.0412 | 49.76 | 1,209 | 105 | 65.5 % |
31 | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | government | 0.0411 | 193.71 | 4,714 | 484 | 92.5 % |
32 | High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) | npo | 0.0378 | 16.53 | 437 | 73 | 99.0 % |
33 | JEOL Ltd. | corporate | 0.0354 | 5.17 | 146 | 52 | 98.4 % |
34 | Kobe University | academic | 0.0339 | 51.68 | 1,525 | 88 | 65.0 % |
35 | University of Hyogo | academic | 0.0308 | 22.74 | 738 | 77 | 85.6 % |
36 | Mitsubishi Group | corporate | 0.0227 | 11.27 | 497 | 74 | 74.9 % |
37 | Hitachi, Ltd. | corporate | 0.0198 | 11.39 | 576 | 65 | 73.5 % |