Japan Science and Technology Agency 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).
23
researchers on the list
83
rank in Japan
2,348
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noyori, Ryoji | Organic Chemistry | 27 / 188,664 | 140 / 188,664 |
| Kakiuchi, Fumitoshi | Organic Chemistry | 808 / 188,664 | — |
| Takagahara, Toshihide | Applied Physics | 1,205 / 323,282 | 7,029 / 323,282 |
| Okabe, Shigemitsu | Applied Physics | 1,556 / 323,282 | 3,522 / 323,282 |
| Nakayama, Toshinori | Immunology | 1,838 / 176,292 | 1,670 / 176,292 |
| Kasagi, Nobuhide | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 641 / 157,792 | 2,686 / 157,792 |
| Hanamura, Eiichi | Applied Physics | 2,243 / 323,282 | — |
| Seki, Shu | General Chemistry | 378 / 57,505 | 174 / 57,505 |
| Yamamoto, Kimihisa | Polymers | 974 / 133,253 | — |
| Kawatsuki, Nobuhiro Ro | Applied Physics | 3,048 / 323,282 | — |
| Asai, Shigeo | Mining & Metallurgy | 61 / 37,230 | 774 / 37,230 |
| Kuwahara, Tomotaka | General Physics | — | 896 / 87,024 |
| Kitazawa, Koichi | General Physics | 1,123 / 87,024 | — |
| Kimura, Shunsuke | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 2,393 / 216,826 |
| Higo, Tomoya | Applied Physics | — | 3,258 / 323,282 |
| Yokoi, Akira | Oncology & Carcinogenesis | — | 5,660 / 377,791 |
| Sasaki, Takatomo | Applied Physics | 6,319 / 323,282 | — |
| Takinoue, Masahiro | Analytical Chemistry | — | 2,149 / 137,328 |
| Kusamoto, Tetsuro | General Chemistry | — | 620 / 57,505 |
| Yoshio, Masafumi | General Chemistry | 864 / 57,505 | 721 / 57,505 |
| Abe, Yoshiyuki | Mechanical Engineering & Transports | 3,236 / 157,792 | — |
| Ogawa, Makoto | General Chemistry | 986 / 57,505 | — |
| Fukushima, Tomohiro | General Chemistry | — | 1,056 / 57,505 |
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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