Highly Cited Paper 2017

Table1 Japanese Institutes' Highly-Cited Paper (HCP) Ranking 2017

InstitutionsWeb of Science DocumentsCitesCites/PaperHighly-Cited PapersPercentile of Highly-Cited Papers(%)Ranking
UNIV TOKYO 84,132 1,453,861 17.28 1326 1.58 1
KYOTO UNIV 61,697 973,047 15.77 764 1.24 2
RIKEN 26,425 582,841 22.06 623 2.36 3
OSAKA UNIV 49,029 772,451 15.75 540 1.10 4
TOHOKU UNIV 48,421 657,063 13.57 497 1.03 5
NAGOYA UNIV 33,046 487,888 14.76 395 1.20 6
AIST 26,613 411,810 15.47 327 1.23 7
KYUSHU UNIV 34,008 425,472 12.51 319 0.94 8
TOKYO INST TECHNOL 26,363 358,878 13.61 304 1.15 9
NIMS 14,515 238,997 16.47 303 2.09 10
UNIV TSUKUBA 21,231 289,699 13.65 252 1.19 11
HOKKAIDO UNIV 32,719 408,788 12.49 233 0.71 12
OKAYAMA UNIV 15,303 207,461 13.56 186 1.22 13
HIROSHIMA UNIV 17,916 235,405 13.14 186 1.04 14
WASEDA UNIV 11,829 146,858 12.42 165 1.39 15
KOBE UNIV 15,191 195,230 12.85 158 1.04 16
KEIO UNIV 17,814 248,707 13.96 153 0.86 17
NINS 12,779 236,777 18.53 148 1.16 18
NATL CANC CTR 6,392 131,824 20.62 133 2.08 19
KEK 6,245 109,638 17.56 132 2.11 20

Data Source: 2016 sixth version of ESI.


Table2 Okayama University's Number of HCP in Different Research
Fields and Their Rankings in the Japanese Universities 2017

Research FieldsWeb of Science DocumentsCitesCites/PaperHighly-Cited PapersRanking*
PLANT & ANIMAL SCIENCE 1,022 16,997 16.63 34 4
CLINICAL MEDICINE 4,102 56,015 13.66 49 6
SOCIAL SCIENCES, GENERAL 148 1,496 10.11 1 10
BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY 1,199 18,134 15.12 8 11
GEOSCIENCES 508 6,152 12.11 5 11
PHYSICS 2,163 34,586 15.99 61 12
ENGINEERING 445 2,531 5.69 4 14
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES 310 2,614 8.43 0 15
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & GENETICS 653 14,197 21.74 6 18
MATERIALS SCIENCE 428 3,942 9.21 3 19
NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR 752 9,876 13.13 2 20
PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY 655 5,910 9.02 0 22
CHEMISTRY 1,674 18,465 11.03 7 23
IMMUNOLOGY - - - 1 -
MATHMATICS - - - 1 -
MULTIDISCIPLINARY - - - 1 -

Data Source: 2015 sixth version of ESI.
*As for Ranking, the number of HCP is priority #1 and that of Cites is priority #2.