University of the Ryukyus 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).
16
researchers on the list
129
rank in Japan
3,173
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danish, Mir Sayed Shah | Energy | 4,563 / 371,959 | 745 / 371,959 |
| Nishida, Mutsumi | Evolutionary Biology | 470 / 31,128 | — |
| Aydan, Orner | Geological & Geomatics Engineering | 557 / 82,760 | 825 / 82,760 |
| Senjyu, Tomonobu | Energy | 1,105 / 371,959 | 2,278 / 371,959 |
| Yamasaki, Hideo | Plant Biology & Botany | 1,265 / 204,373 | 3,195 / 204,373 |
| Funabashi, Toshihisa | Energy | 1,463 / 371,959 | — |
| Otaki, Joji M. | Entomology | 377 / 40,595 | 429 / 40,595 |
| Tsuji, Kazuki | Entomology | 438 / 40,595 | 785 / 40,595 |
| Reimer, James Davis | Marine Biology & Hydrobiology | — | 877 / 54,545 |
| Kogure, Kazuhiro | Microbiology | 3,845 / 232,186 | — |
| Takemura, Akihiro | Fisheries | 485 / 47,614 | — |
| Tokuda, Gaku | Entomology | 768 / 40,595 | 647 / 40,595 |
| Takahashi, Shunichi | Plant Biology & Botany | — | 3,986 / 204,373 |
| Namihira, Yoshinori | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,277 / 140,272 | — |
| Aniya, Yoko | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | 2,910 / 166,116 | — |
| Tanaka, Jun'ichi | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | 1,483 / 120,621 | — |
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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