The Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of information for businesses and professionals, today released a ranking of the leading Japanese research institutions and fields of scientific study based on the number of highly cited papers. Highly cited papers are defined as the top one percent of the most cited papers worldwide within a specific field. This analysis provides an overview of the critical work being produced by Japan’s leading research institutions.

MATERIALS SCIENCE
RANKING NAME OF INSTITUTION NUMBER OF HIGHLY CITED PAPERS PERCENTAGE OF HIGHLY CITED PAPERS

1, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 92, 1.94%
2, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 84, 4.16%
3, Tohoku University, 60, 0.94%
4, University of Tokyo, 55, 1.63%
5, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 52, 1.22%
6, Kyoto University, 36, 1.23%
7, Osaka University, 32, 0.79%
8, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 24, 0.85%
9, RIKEN, 16, 3.25%
10, Kyushu University, 13, 0.63%
10, Yamagata University, 13, 4.74%

cited from: http://thomsonreuters.com/press-releases/052014/Japan-Top-Research-2014