Top institutions in other sectors 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	Institute of Microbial Chemistry (IMC)	npo	0.2008	46.39	231	70	99.6 %
2	National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED)	government	0.0733	22.27	304	58	83.7 %
3	National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)	government	0.0611	488.08	7,986	1,254	98.8 %
4	RIKEN	government	0.0592	858.14	14,493	3,125	94.0 %
5	Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science (IGAKUKEN)	government	0.0520	44.12	848	129	83.8 %
6	Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)	government	0.0497	45.58	918	122	97.9 %
7	Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI)	government	0.0449	83.04	1,851	597	98.0 %
8	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)	government	0.0409	128.06	3,131	426	97.7 %
9	National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS)	government	0.0356	233.77	6,559	2,501	98.0 %
10	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)	government	0.0355	438.36	12,358	1,163	92.5 %
11	High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)	npo	0.0327	120.31	3,684	1,101	99.0 %
12	Japan Fine Ceramics Center (JFCC)	npo	0.0324	13.45	415	85	98.1 %
13	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)	government	0.0290	37.40	1,288	164	70.9 %
14	Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS)	npo	0.0247	59.14	2,395	278	71.3 %
15	National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST)	government	0.0196	36.93	1,885	115	85.1 %
16	Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research (JFCR)	npo	0.0159	11.36	714	68	45.7 %
17	National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP)	government	0.0153	19.35	1,265	64	71.0 %
18	Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA)	government	0.0144	69.76	4,833	317	97.5 %
19	National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (NCVC)	healthcare	0.0140	9.70	692	55	46.7 %
20	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	government	0.0139	32.71	2,361	599	90.0 %
21	National Center for Global Health and Medicine (NCGM)	healthcare	0.0129	11.82	917	65	44.3 %
22	National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)	government	0.0115	26.64	2,316	114	94.4 %
23	National Center for Child Health and Development (NCCHD)	healthcare	0.0112	9.96	887	53	48.3 %
24	National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN)	government	0.0109	9.05	832	51	74.4 %
25	National Cancer Center (NCC)	healthcare	0.0098	22.73	2,327	86	54.5 %
26	National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID)	government	0.0093	14.64	1,571	62	70.8 %
27	Aichi Cancer Center	healthcare	0.0091	7.20	791	51	52.6 %
28	National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)	government	0.0077	45.48	5,881	140	96.2 %
29	National Hospital Organization (NHO)	healthcare	0.0017	5.76	3,371	54	35.8 %