Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
33
researchers on the list
45
rank in Japan
1,759
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Niinomi, Mitsuo | Materials | 67 / 330,896 | 107 / 330,896 |
| Furuhara, Tadashi | Materials | 622 / 330,896 | 519 / 330,896 |
| Miyasaka, Hitoshix | Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry | 184 / 86,991 | 360 / 86,991 |
| Koyama, Motomichi | Materials | 1,719 / 330,896 | 689 / 330,896 |
| Chiba, Akihiko | Materials | 1,807 / 330,896 | 1,028 / 330,896 |
| Kumagai, Yu | Applied Physics | — | 1,065 / 323,282 |
| Yonenaga, Ichiro | Applied Physics | 1,430 / 323,282 | 4,670 / 323,282 |
| Hanada, Shuji | Materials | 1,115 / 330,896 | 4,694 / 330,896 |
| Akiyama, Eiji | Materials | 1,808 / 330,896 | 2,535 / 330,896 |
| Hiraga, Kenji | Materials | 1,656 / 330,896 | — |
| Yokoyama, Yoshihiko | Materials | 1,687 / 330,896 | — |
| Wagatsuma, Kazuaki | Analytical Chemistry | 893 / 137,328 | — |
| Kato, Hidemi | Materials | 3,376 / 330,896 | 3,101 / 330,896 |
| Miyamoto, Goro | Materials | 4,858 / 330,896 | 3,235 / 330,896 |
| Ishikawa, Yoshikazu | General Physics | 993 / 87,024 | — |
| Sasaki, Takahiko | Applied Physics | 4,103 / 323,282 | — |
| Syono, Yashuhiko | Applied Physics | 4,300 / 323,282 | — |
| Yamanaka, Kenta | Materials | 6,574 / 330,896 | 3,995 / 330,896 |
| Oku, Masaoki | Applied Physics | 5,130 / 323,282 | — |
| Sakurai, Toshio | Applied Physics | 5,288 / 323,282 | — |
| Motokawa, Mitsuhiro | General Physics | 1,311 / 87,024 | — |
| Hasegawa, Akira | Energy | 3,685 / 371,959 | 6,336 / 371,959 |
| Asami, Katschiko | Materials | 3,127 / 330,896 | — |
| Nojiri, Hiroyuki | General Physics | 1,431 / 87,024 | — |
| Awaji, Satoshi | General Physics | 1,491 / 87,024 | — |
| Wada, Takeshi | Materials | — | 5,705 / 330,896 |
| Watanabe, Kazuo | General Physics | 1,533 / 87,024 | — |
| Ichitsubo, Tetsu | Materials | 5,658 / 330,896 | 5,980 / 330,896 |
| Masahashi, Naoya | Materials | 4,147 / 330,896 | — |
| Matsui, Hideki | Energy | 4,833 / 371,959 | — |
| Konno, Toyohiko J. | Materials | 4,688 / 330,896 | — |
| Watanabe, Masashi | Microscopy | 83 / 4,178 | — |
| Hasegawa, Masayuki | Materials | 6,229 / 330,896 | — |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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