Wakayama 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).
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researchers on the list
239
rank in Japan
5,247
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sharpley, Richard Anthony John | Sport, Leisure & Tourism | 22 / 11,605 | 22 / 11,605 |
| Tuomi, Aarni | Sport, Leisure & Tourism | — | 315 / 11,605 |
| Kawahara, Hideki | Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology | 86 / 13,500 | 248 / 13,500 |
| Yamamoto, Kenji | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | 4,222 / 216,826 | — |
| Matsumoto, Masayuki | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 426 / 140,272 | — |
| Kimura, Keiichi | Analytical Chemistry | 1,155 / 137,328 | — |
| Nomura, Takanori | Optics | 854 / 83,504 | — |
| Sakama, Chiaki | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,403 / 517,648 | — |
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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