Top institutions in Earth & environmental sciences 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 | National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) | government | 0.0789 | 22.18 | 281 | 57 | 83.7% |
| 2 | Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) | government | 0.0525 | 45.04 | 858 | 118 | 97.9% |
| 3 | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) | government | 0.0478 | 119.47 | 2,499 | 377 | 97.7% |
| 4 | Tohoku University | academic | 0.0289 | 75.60 | 2,618 | 190 | 80.2% |
| 5 | The University of Tokyo (UTokyo) | academic | 0.0264 | 193.86 | 7,350 | 465 | 78.1% |
| 6 | Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) | npo | 0.0255 | 22.43 | 881 | 109 | 71.3% |
| 7 | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) | academic | 0.0204 | 36.27 | 1,776 | 107 | 83.4% |
| 8 | Hokkaido University | academic | 0.0200 | 60.59 | 3,025 | 177 | 79.7% |
| 9 | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | government | 0.0183 | 28.89 | 1,578 | 102 | 92.5% |
| 10 | Nagoya University | academic | 0.0154 | 39.29 | 2,559 | 104 | 74.9% |
| 11 | National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) | government | 0.0144 | 23.32 | 1,620 | 98 | 94.4% |
| 12 | Kyushu University | academic | 0.0139 | 28.37 | 2,042 | 85 | 76.0% |
| 13 | Kyoto University | academic | 0.0110 | 47.21 | 4,279 | 158 | 79.3% |