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Top institutions in Japan for Plant Biology & Botany

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Which institutions in Japan have the most top-cited scientists in Plant Biology & Botany?

200 researchers in Japan whose main subfield is Plant Biology & Botany are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 3.5% of all listed authors in Japan, and 6th of 82 countries in the subfield. 67 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences The University of Tokyo has the most (15), followed by RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (14) and Nagoya University (13). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
200
3.5% of all in Japan
In the global top 100,000
67
33.5% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#6
of 82 countries in Plant Biology & Botany
Highest-ranked
#848
Ma, Jianfeng
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences The University of Tokyo156#36Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Kazuko #6,030
2RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science145#43Sakakibara, Hitoshi #4,477
3Nagoya University137#48Matsubayashi, Yoshikatsu #16,811
4Okayama University114#58Ma, Jianfeng #848
5The University of Tokyo113#63Tsukaya, Hirokazu #35,580
6Nara Institute of Science and Technology92#85Tohge, Takayuki #26,118
7Tohoku University75#115Hikosaka, Kouki #17,018
8University of Tsukuba73#130Ezura, Hiroshi #56,036
9Kyoto University52#186Shikanai, Toshiharu #21,902
10Kagawa University43#219Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A. #4,080
11Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere42#246Yazaki, Kazufumi #37,357
12Kobe University42#268Mizutani, Masaharu #69,421
13Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences41#270Nakashima, Kazuo #69,954
14National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Institute for Basic Biology31#323Murata, Norio #18,286
15Hokkaido University30#394Tanaka, Ayumi #108,329
16Utsunomiya University30#403Yoneyama, Koichi #118,053

The top 100 in Plant Biology & Botany in Japan, in order

  1. 1
    Ma, Jianfeng
    Okayama University
  2. 2
  3. 3
    Sakakibara, Hitoshi
    RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
  4. 4
    Shinozaki, Kazuo Y.
    RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
  5. 5
    Saito, Kazuki
    RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
  6. 6
    Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Kazuko
    Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences The University of Tokyo
  7. 7
    Yamaguchi, Shinjiro
    Institute for Chemical Research
  8. 8
    Fujita, Masayuki
    Kagawa University
  9. 9
    Yanagisawa, Shuichi
    Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences The University of Tokyo
  10. 10
    Suzuki, Nobuhiro
    Sophia University
  11. 11
    Yamori, Wataru
    Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences The University of Tokyo
  12. 12
    Matsubayashi, Yoshikatsu
    Nagoya University
  13. 13
    Hikosaka, Kouki
    Tohoku University
  14. 14
    Murata, Norio
    National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Institute for Basic Biology
  15. 15
    Shikanai, Toshiharu
    Kyoto University
  16. 16
    Kato-Noguchi, H.
    Kagawa University
  17. 17
    Kozai, Toyoki
    Japan Plant Factory Association
  18. 18
    Yamaji, Naoki
    Okayama University
  19. 19
    Tohge, Takayuki
    Nara Institute of Science and Technology
  20. 20
    Makino, Amane
    Tohoku University
  21. 21
    Shirasu, Ken
    RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
  22. 22
    Sakuraba, Yasuhito
    Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences The University of Tokyo
  23. 23
    Yano, Masahiro
    Institute of Crop Science, NARO
  24. 24
    Tsukaya, Hirokazu
    The University of Tokyo
  25. 25
    Torii, Keiko U.
    Nagoya University
  26. 26
    Yazaki, Kazufumi
    Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere
  27. 27
    Asada, Kozi
    Kyoto University
  28. 28
    Seki, Motoaki
    Saitama University
  29. 29
    Frommer, W. B.
    Nagoya University
  30. 30
    Matsuoka, Makoto
    Fukushima University
  31. 31
    Izawa, Takeshi
    Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences The University of Tokyo
  32. 32
    Fukuda, Hiroo
    Akita Prefectural University
  33. 33
    Ueguchi-Tanaka, Miyako
    Nagoya University
  34. 34
    Nakamura, Yasunori
    Akita Prefectural University
  35. 35
    Matsui, Kenji
    Yamaguchi University
  36. 36
    Kakimoto, Tatsuo
    The University of Osaka
  37. 37
    Ashihara, Hiroshi
    Ochanomizu University
  38. 38
    Ezura, Hiroshi
    University of Tsukuba
  39. 39
    Asada, Kozi
    Fukuyama University
  40. 40
    Sugiyama, Akifumi
    Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere
  41. 41
    Ashikari, Motoyuki
    Nagoya University
  42. 42
    Osakabe, Yuriko
    Institute of Science Tokyo
  43. 43
    Takatsuji, Hiroshi
    Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, NARO
  44. 44
    Yamaguchi, Nobutoshi
    Nara Institute of Science and Technology
  45. 45
    Kobayashi, Takanori
    Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences The University of Tokyo
  46. 46
    Higashiyama, Tetsuya
    The University of Tokyo
  47. 47
    Mizutani, Masaharu
    Kobe University
  48. 48
    Nakashima, Kazuo
    Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
  49. 49
    Miura, Kenji
    University of Tsukuba
  50. 50
    Kyozuka, Jyunko
    Tohoku University
  51. 51
    Nakamura, Yuki
    The University of Tokyo
  52. 52
    Mitsuda, Nobutaka
    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
  53. 53
    Xuan, T. D.
    Hiroshima University
  54. 54
    Uga, Yusaku
    Institute of Crop Science, NARO
  55. 55
    Fujita, Yasunari
    University of Tsukuba
  56. 56
    Seo, Mitsunori
    RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
  57. 57
    Toki, Seiichi
    Ryukoku University
  58. 58
    Sato, Shusei
    Tohoku University
  59. 59
    Tanabe, Akifumi S.
    Tohoku University
  60. 60
    Kobayashi, Koichi
    Osaka Metropolitan University
  61. 61
    Mitani-Ueno, Namiki
    Okayama University
  62. 62
    Nakamichi, Norihito
    Nagoya University
  63. 63
    Mizuno, Takeshi
    Nagoya University
  64. 64
    Sakamoto, Wataru
    Okayama University
  65. 65
    Hayashi, Kenichiro
    Okayama University of Science
  66. 66
    Miyake, Chikahiro
    Kobe University
  67. 67
    Wada, Masamitsu
    Tokyo Metropolitan University
  68. 68
    Takaichi, Shinichi
    Tokyo University of Agriculture
  69. 69
    Asami, Tadao
    The University of Tokyo
  70. 70
    Kinoshita, Toshinori
    Nagoya University
  71. 71
    Tanaka, Yoshikazu
    Suntory Global Innovation Center Limited
  72. 72
    Yoshida, Takuya
    National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Institute for Basic Biology
  73. 73
    Miryeganeh, Matin
    Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
  74. 74
    Yoneyama, Kaori
    Ehime University
  75. 75
    Kiba, Takatoshi
    Nagoya University
  76. 76
    Takahashi, Fuminori
    Tokyo University of Science
  77. 77
    Tanaka, Ayumi
    Hokkaido University
  78. 78
    Kidokoro, Satoshi
    Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences The University of Tokyo
  79. 79
    Koyama, Tomotsugu
    Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences
  80. 80
    Kamiya, Yuji
    RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science
  81. 81
    Arimura, Genichiro
    Tokyo University of Science
  82. 82
    Shimamoto, Ko
    Nara Institute of Science and Technology
  83. 83
    Tsukagoshi, Hironaka
    Meijo University
  84. 84
    Nakabayashi, Ryo
    Bruker Japan K.K.
  85. 85
    Umezawa, Toshiaki
    Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere
  86. 86
    Murata, Yoshiyuki
    Okayama University
  87. 87
    Yoneyama, Koichi
    Utsunomiya University
  88. 88
    Yamagishi, Masumi
    Hokkaido University
  89. 89
    Shirasawa, Kenta
    Kazusa DNA Research Institute
  90. 90
    Iba, Koh
    Kyushu University
  91. 91
    Iwashina, Tsukasa
    National Museum of Nature and Science
  92. 92
    Sugimoto, Keiko
    The University of Tokyo
  93. 93
    Yamauchi, Takaki
    Nagoya University
  94. 94
    Fukao, Takeshi
    Fukui Prefectural University
  95. 95
    Akiyama, Kohki
    Osaka Metropolitan University
  96. 96
    Epron, Daniel
    Graduate School of Agriculture
  97. 97
    Ishikawa, Satoru
    Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO
  98. 98
    Saijo, Yusuke
    Nara Institute of Science and Technology
  99. 99
    Asakawa, Yoshinori
    Tokushima Bunri University
  100. 100
    Ohnishi, Toshiyuki
    Shizuoka University

200 listed scientists in Plant Biology & Botany in Japan

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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