While major research institutes in the United States and China rank high in the world ranking of the number of high-quality papers, it is international publication that some small-scale research institutes publish high-quality papers at a high rate. It was found by a survey by Springer Nature.It is believed that the high goals of aiming for the highest in the world and the interdisciplinary nature beyond research fields lead to the publication of high-quality papers.
Springer Nature devised a new analytical method that divides the points of research institutes calculated in consideration of the contribution of co-authors of papers by the total number of papers in the field of natural science.A world ranking was created for about 82 papers published in 2018 in 6 prominent natural science journals around the world.
According to it, the top is the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the United States, the Austrian Institute of Science and Technology is second, and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel is third.Small-scale research institutes were among the top three in this analysis method, and large-scale research institutes such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Harvard University in the United States, which ranked high in the number of high-quality papers, fell in rank.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University ranked 10th among Japanese research institutes.In terms of the number of high-quality papers, it ranks 361st in the world, but it occupies the highest rank among Japanese research institutes, overtaking other research institutes.In terms of the number of high-quality papers, the University of Tokyo ranks highest in Japan, and although it is in the top ten in the world, it is out of the top ten in the ranking by the new analysis method.
