RIKEN SPring-8 Center 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
217
rank in Japan
4,872
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ishikawa, Tetsuya | Applied Physics | 1,339 / 323,282 | 2,553 / 323,282 |
| Tanaka, Takashi | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,780 / 164,120 | 2,592 / 164,120 |
| Baron, Alfred Q.R. | Applied Physics | 3,120 / 323,282 | — |
| Katsumata, Koichi | Applied Physics | 6,316 / 323,282 | — |
| Takenaka, Mikihito | Polymers | 2,293 / 133,253 | — |
| Tono, Kensuke | General Physics | 1,683 / 87,024 | — |
| Hirata, Kunio | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | — | 3,699 / 216,826 |
| Mimura, Hidekazu | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,751 / 140,272 | 2,100 / 140,272 |
| Goto, Shunji | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 2,254 / 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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