National Institute of Information and Communications Technology 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).
30
researchers on the list
51
rank in Japan
1,896
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Higashiwaki, Masataka | Applied Physics | 565 / 323,282 | 77 / 323,282 |
| Kitayama, Kenichi | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 60 / 140,272 | 744 / 140,272 |
| Toyoshima, Morio | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 264 / 140,272 | 65 / 140,272 |
| Ashhab, Sahel | General Physics | 569 / 87,024 | 360 / 87,024 |
| Yanagida, Toshio | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 2,208 / 216,826 | — |
| Sasaki, Masahide | Optics | 330 / 83,504 | 257 / 83,504 |
| Tahara, Tatsuki | Optics | 849 / 83,504 | 305 / 83,504 |
| Han, Tesun | Networking & Telecommunications | 721 / 228,312 | 2,045 / 228,312 |
| Ohzawa, Izumi | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 7,641 / 379,830 | — |
| Wada, Naoya | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 448 / 140,272 | 2,517 / 140,272 |
| Watanabe, Soichi | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,582 / 228,312 | — |
| Lúis, Ruben Soares | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,631 / 140,272 | 510 / 140,272 |
| Duling, Irl N. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 659 / 140,272 | 2,763 / 140,272 |
| Komiyama, Susumu | Applied Physics | 5,053 / 323,282 | — |
| Hara, Shinsuke | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,954 / 228,312 | — |
| Hosako, Iwao | Networking & Telecommunications | 2,985 / 228,312 | — |
| Tomita, Akihisa | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,243 / 140,272 | 3,140 / 140,272 |
| Takeoka, Masahiro | Optics | 1,485 / 83,504 | 1,313 / 83,504 |
| Miyazaki, Tetsuya | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,344 / 140,272 | — |
| Harai, Hiroaki | Networking & Telecommunications | 3,398 / 228,312 | — |
| Fujiwara, Mikio | Optics | 1,455 / 83,504 | — |
| Awaji, Yoshinari | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,597 / 140,272 | 1,150 / 140,272 |
| Sumita, Eiichiro | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,727 / 517,648 | — |
| Ogawa, Hiroyo | Networking & Telecommunications | 3,760 / 228,312 | — |
| Furukawa, Hideaki | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 1,395 / 140,272 |
| Klaus, Werner | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,011 / 140,272 | 2,097 / 140,272 |
| Kuri, Toshiaki | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,637 / 140,272 | — |
| Yamamoto, Naokatsu | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,701 / 140,272 | — |
| Carrasco-Casado, Alberto | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,119 / 140,272 |
| Dat, Pham Tien | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 2,454 / 140,272 |
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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