Top 10 Japanese government institutions by international MCS
The table shows the top 10 Japanese government institutions ranked by their international multilateral collaboration score (international MCS) from January 2015 to October 2018. The international MCS sums up the contribution of each Japanese institution and their overseas partners to high-quality research papers in the field. Also listed are each government institution's total MCS, fractional count (FC) and article count (AC) in the Nature Index during the same period.
* Click on column headers to sort
| 1 | RIKEN | 328.32 | 1,010.57 | 586.03 | 2,122 |
| 2 | National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) | 325.38 | 548.56 | 301.20 | 947 |
| 3 | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) | 144.34 | 420.86 | 267.49 | 799 |
| 4 | National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) | 74.95 | 239.05 | 127.52 | 583 |
| 5 | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) | 52.33 | 154.34 | 88.92 | 322 |
| 6 | Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) | 25.55 | 85.30 | 43.98 | 204 |
| 7 | Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI) | 22.06 | 168.47 | 49.60 | 414 |
| 8 | National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST) | 19.97 | 53.05 | 34.71 | 110 |
| 9 | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) | 19.88 | 45.35 | 24.59 | 163 |
| 10 | National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) | 19.35 | 54.31 | 29.11 | 117 |