Sophia University 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imada, Masatoshi | General Physics | 83 / 87,024 | 275 / 87,024 |
| Suzuki, Nobuhiro | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,178 / 204,373 | 203 / 204,373 |
| Tanaka, Shoji | Applied Physics | 1,179 / 323,282 | 4,748 / 323,282 |
| Hirano, Tetsufumi | Nuclear & Particle Physics | 1,607 / 164,120 | — |
| Ogata, Naoya | Polymers | 1,248 / 133,253 | — |
| Horikoshi, Satoshi | Chemical Physics | 2,531 / 121,889 | 2,014 / 121,889 |
| Takahashi, Hiroshi | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 484 / 140,272 | — |
| Takai, Kennichi | Materials | 3,062 / 330,896 | — |
| Yoshizawa-Fujita, Masahiro | Polymers | 2,450 / 133,253 | 2,495 / 133,253 |
| Oi, Takao | Energy | 3,949 / 371,959 | — |
| Arai, Takayuki | Acoustics | 661 / 38,987 | — |
| Suemasu, Hiroshi | Materials | 4,357 / 330,896 | — |
| Miyatake, Masafumi | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1,246 / 133,072 | — |
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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