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title: "Meiji (Japan): research papers, co-authors and journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Meiji (Japan) took part in 12 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (4), management (2) and health economics and policy (2). 3 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017."
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# Meiji (Japan)

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Papers in the tracked journals with an author at Meiji (Japan): per year and category, where they are published, the institutions its researchers write with, and its most-cited papers. A paper counts as corporate when at least one of its authors is affiliated with an institution that OpenAlex classifies as a company; it counts once for each company among its authors' affiliations. Universities are the institutions OpenAlex classifies as education.

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## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at Meiji (Japan) took part in 12 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (4), management (2) and health economics and policy (2).
- 3 of them were published in 2025, against 0 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Meiji University (5), Bundesministerium für Bildung, Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (1) and Central Denmark Region (1).
- The journals publishing most of them were Scientometrics (2), Journal of Vocational Behavior (1) and Health Policy (1).
- The most-cited of them is “Changes in revenue structure of a leading open access journal publisher: the case of BMC” (Scientometrics, 2019), with 17 citations.
- Since 2023, papers in the tracked journals cited 7 of its papers 11 times; 91% of those links came from papers with a university author and 9% from its own papers.
- Its own papers since 2023 cite archived papers 25 times, 4% of them papers with a company author.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, Meiji (Japan) has 3,649 works with 183,996 citations (h-index 156).
- The tracked journals hold 12 of its 999 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (1.2%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Probiotics and Fermented Foods (213), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (91) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (82).

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 2 |
| 2 | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 1 |
| 3 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 1 |
| 4 | [Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-behavioral-and-experimental-economics.md) | 1 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Meiji University | 5 |
| 2 | Bundesministerium für Bildung, Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend | 1 |
| 3 | Central Denmark Region | 1 |
| 4 | Cranfield University | 1 |
| 5 | Fontys University of Applied Sciences | 1 |
| 6 | Hitotsubashi University | 1 |
| 7 | [Imperial College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/imperial-college-london.md) | 1 |
| 8 | National Institute for Environmental Studies | 1 |
| 9 | Necmettin Erbakan University | 1 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Japan | 5 |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 2 |
| 4 | Sweden | 2 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 1 |
| 6 | Germany | 1 |
| 7 | Denmark | 1 |
| 8 | Finland | 1 |
| 9 | Turkey | 1 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Elsevier | 2 |
| 2 | OpenAPC | 2 |
| 3 | article processing charges | 2 |
| 4 | list prices | 2 |
| 5 | open access journals | 2 |
| 6 | DOAJ | 1 |
| 7 | Hindawi | 1 |
| 8 | Springer Nature | 1 |
| 9 | WHO member states | 1 |
| 10 | Wiley | 1 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 | 0.2 | [Changes in revenue structure of a leading open access journal publisher: the case of BMC](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03200-1) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 2019-08-10 | Sumiko Asai |
| 2 | 10 | 0.1 | [The effect of collaboration with large publishers on the internationality and influence of open access journals for research institutions](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03426-4) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 2020-03-28 | Sumiko Asai |
| 3 | 8 | 0.1 | [Is insurance normal or inferior? -A regret theoretical approach-](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2021.101559) | [The North American Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-north-american-journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 2021-09-21 | Yoichiro Fujii, Mahito Okura, Yusuke Osaki |
| 4 | 7 | 0.7 | [National policy responses to address loneliness: A global scoping review of 194 WHO member states](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105553) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2025-12-23 | Nina Goldman, Melek Alemdar, Herlind Megges et al. |
| 5 | 4 | 0.1 | [Determinants of manuscript submissions to fully open access journals: elasticity to article processing charges](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-04934-3) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 2024-01-19 | Sumiko Asai |
| 6 | 3 | 0.2 | [Emergence of calling in the domain of creative work, and the role of context: The stories of manga artists](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104181) | [Journal of Vocational Behavior](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-vocational-behavior.md) | 2025-10-09 | Enrico Fontana, Evgenia I. Lysova, Kaori Sato et al. |
| 7 | 2 | 0.1 | [Which database with article processing charges should be used?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04841-z) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 2023-10-10 | Sumiko Asai |

## Who cites its research

*Institutions whose papers cite it most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Meiji University | University | Japan | 2 |
| 2 | University of Vermont | University | United States | 1 |
| 3 | University of Bern | University | Switzerland | 1 |
| 4 | The Graduate Center, CUNY | University | United States | 1 |
| 5 | Baruch College | University | United States | 1 |
| 6 | [University of British Columbia](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-british-columbia.md) | University | Canada | 1 |
| 7 | [University of Ottawa](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-ottawa.md) | University | Canada | 1 |
| 8 | City University of New York | University | United States | 1 |
| 9 | Public Health Agency of Canada | Government | Canada | 1 |
| 10 | Simon Fraser University | University | Canada | 1 |

## What its papers cite

*Institutions its papers cite most, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Kind | Country | Links |
|---:|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Meiji University | University | Japan | 4 |
| 2 | [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam.md) | University | Netherlands | 4 |
| 3 | Technische Universität Ilmenau | University | Germany | 2 |
| 4 | [King's College London](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/king-s-college-london.md) | University | United Kingdom | 2 |
| 5 | [University of Florida](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-florida.md) | University | United States | 2 |
| 6 | Colorado State University | University | United States | 2 |
| 7 | Northern Illinois University | University | United States | 1 |
| 8 | [Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/universita-cattolica-del-sacro-cuore.md) | University | Italy | 1 |
| 9 | Idaho State University | University | United States | 1 |
| 10 | University of Bern | University | Switzerland | 1 |

More: https://scholar4ai.com/corporate-citations.md · https://scholar4ai.com/industry-university.md

## In OpenAlex

*Meiji (Japan) in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Company |
| Location | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also known as | 明治 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 3,649 |
| Citations | 183,996 |
| h-index | 156 |
| i10-index | 3,214 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 2.02 |
| Website | [www.meiji.com](http://www.meiji.com/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/027tjex48](https://ror.org/027tjex48) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I4210114911](https://openalex.org/I4210114911) |

*Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals*

| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 103 | 1,756 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 2025 | 89 | 2,534 | 3 | 3.4% |
| 2024 | 92 | 2,558 | 1 | 1.1% |
| 2023 | 119 | 2,561 | 1 | 0.8% |
| 2022 | 104 | 2,471 | 1 | 1.0% |
| 2021 | 114 | 2,568 | 2 | 1.8% |
| 2020 | 130 | 2,274 | 1 | 0.8% |
| 2019 | 113 | 2,022 | 2 | 1.8% |
| 2018 | 114 | 1,831 | 1 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 124 | 1,918 | 0 | 0.0% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Probiotics and Fermented Foods | Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 213 |
| 2 | Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis | Medicine | 91 |
| 3 | Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 82 |
| 4 | Gastrointestinal motility and disorders | Medicine | 82 |
| 5 | Gut microbiota and health | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 80 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Meiji (Japan). Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/companies/meiji-japan

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@misc{scholar4ai-companies-meiji-japan,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Meiji (Japan)},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/companies/meiji-japan}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).