RIKEN Center for Computational 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).
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researchers on the list
274
rank in Japan
6,287
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hirao, Kimihiko | Chemical Physics | 353 / 121,889 | 1,229 / 121,889 |
| Sugita, Yuji | Chemical Physics | 1,803 / 121,889 | 997 / 121,889 |
| Yunoki, Seiji | Applied Physics | 2,199 / 323,282 | 1,836 / 323,282 |
| Matsuoka, Satoshi | Distributed Computing | 47 / 9,369 | 37 / 9,369 |
| Aoki, Yasumichi | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 3,320 / 164,120 | 3,663 / 164,120 |
| Sato, Mitsuhisa | Distributed Computing | 107 / 9,369 | 197 / 9,369 |
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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