National Institutes of Natural Sciences - Institute for Molecular Science 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).
11
researchers on the list
181
rank in Japan
4,213
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nagase, Shigeru Nagase | General Chemistry | 68 / 57,505 | 515 / 57,505 |
| Uozumi, Yasuhiro | Organic Chemistry | 631 / 188,664 | 2,625 / 188,664 |
| Segawa, Yasutomo | Organic Chemistry | 1,792 / 188,664 | 442 / 188,664 |
| Taira, Takunori | Optics | 218 / 83,504 | 756 / 83,504 |
| Watanabe, Yoshihito | Organic Chemistry | 1,306 / 188,664 | — |
| Kosugi, Nobuhiro | Chemical Physics | 1,904 / 121,889 | — |
| Ohmine, Iwao | Chemical Physics | 1,919 / 121,889 | — |
| Yokoyama, Toshihiko | Applied Physics | 2,788 / 323,282 | 6,401 / 323,282 |
| Daimon, Hiroshi | Applied Physics | 3,937 / 323,282 | — |
| Okumura, Hisashi | Chemical Physics | — | 1,820 / 121,889 |
| Kato, Koichi | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 3,990 / 216,826 |
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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