National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan 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).
13
researchers on the list
157
rank in Japan
3,749
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prochaska, Jason Xavier | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 91 / 58,202 | 159 / 58,202 |
| Kohri, Kazunori | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 723 / 164,120 | 321 / 164,120 |
| Sotani, Hajime | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 924 / 164,120 | 388 / 164,120 |
| Nagakura, Hiroki | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 497 / 58,202 |
| Tsuneta, Saku | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 614 / 58,202 | — |
| Nakajima, Kimihiko | Astronomy & Astrophysics | — | 1,253 / 58,202 |
| Tamura, Motohide | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,362 / 58,202 | — |
| Sakurai, Takashi | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,553 / 58,202 | — |
| Fukushima, Toshio | Astronomy & Astrophysics | 1,597 / 58,202 | — |
| Kajino, Toshitaka | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,829 / 164,120 | 2,201 / 164,120 |
| Yoshida, Haruo | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,088 / 58,297 | — |
| Nakamura, Kouji | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 1,807 / 164,120 |
| Akutsu, Tomotada | Nuclear & Particle Physics | — | 1,873 / 164,120 |
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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