National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Institute for Physiological Sciences 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).
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researchers on the list
259
rank in Japan
5,717
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tominaga, Makoto | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 1,845 / 379,830 | 2,267 / 379,830 |
| Kakigi, Ryusuke | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 1,874 / 379,830 | — |
| Nambu, Atsushi | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 2,623 / 379,830 | 3,415 / 379,830 |
| Kubo, Yoshihiro | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 3,804 / 216,826 | — |
| Kubota, Yoshiyuki | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 6,978 / 379,830 | — |
| Ebashi, Setsuro | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 4,230 / 216,826 | — |
| Wake, Hiroaki | Neurology & Neurosurgery | — | 5,186 / 379,830 |
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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