Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Papers in the tracked journals that name Japan Society for the Promotion of Science as a funder. Funders are the organisations OpenAlex links to a paper from its funding information (Crossref metadata and the paper's acknowledgements); a paper counts once for each funder it names. Grant numbers are not shown. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science was named as a funder of 6,007 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (2,752), AI (872) and operations research (717).
It ranks #8 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
577 of them were published in 2025, against 539 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were The University of Tokyo (314), Waseda University (155) and Kyoto University (146).
The journals publishing most of them were Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (59), Neural Networks (59) and Economics Letters (55).
The most-cited of them is “Virtual Adversarial Training: A Regularization Method for Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning” (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2018), with 2,861 citations.

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
Economics	281	275	261	287	315	302	262	293	255	221
AI	49	56	60	77	126	123	120	106	95	60
Operations Research	69	81	72	65	74	83	72	76	65	60
Finance	56	44	41	43	65	60	63	73	67	51
Statistics	35	56	65	52	57	61	50	53	40	47
Management	22	14	22	23	30	24	23	16	17	18
Higher Education and Research	6	2	9	15	10	15	11	9	11	13
Health Economics and Policy	8	10	9	6	11	9	11	5	8	4
Tourism and Hospitality	3	5	8	5	9	9	7	10	8	5
Marketing	2	5	3	6	7	11	11	11	5	5
Information Systems	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	6	2	1
Accounting	5	2	0	3	3	4	4	5	4	0
All categories	539	553	553	585	710	704	638	663	577	485

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Journal of the Japanese and International Economies	59
2	Neural Networks	59
3	Economics Letters	55
4	Japanese Economic Review	51
5	Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science	48
6	Japan and the World Economy	43
7	Expert Systems with Applications	41
8	Pattern Recognition	40
9	Journal of Economic Structures	40
10	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	36

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	The University of Tokyo	314
2	Waseda University	155
3	Kyoto University	146
4	Hitotsubashi University	142
5	Keio University	129
6	The University of Osaka	128
7	Kobe University	116
8	Kyushu University	108
9	Tohoku University	75
10	RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project	74

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	Japan	2,240
2	China	244
3	United States	161
4	United Kingdom	96
5	Australia	71
6	France	50
7	Canada	46
8	Germany	38
9	South Korea	27
10	Taiwan	24

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	Japan	142
2	COVID-19 pandemic	78
3	China	40
4	Japanese companies	37
5	corporate governance	37
6	economic growth	30
7	overlapping generations model	30
8	welfare effects	25
9	mechanism design	24
10	population aging	24

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	2,861	28.8	Virtual Adversarial Training: A Regularization Method for Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	2018-07-23	Takeru Miyato, Shin‐ichi Maeda, Masanori Koyama et al.
2	2,141	23.4	Recent advances in physical reservoir computing: A review	Neural Networks	2019-03-20	Gouhei Tanaka, Toshiyuki Yamane, J. B. Héroux et al.
3	2,113	20.0	Sigmoid-weighted linear units for neural network function approximation in reinforcement learning	Neural Networks	2018-01-11	Stefan Elfwing, Eiji Uchibe, Kenji Doya
4	785	11.7	Public spending and green economic growth in BRI region: Mediating role of green finance	Energy Policy	2021-03-31	Dongyang Zhang, Muhammad Mohsin, Abdul Khaliq Rasheed et al.
5	751	8.3	The way to induce private participation in green finance and investment	Finance research letters	2019-04-08	Farhad Taghizadeh Hesary, Naoyuki Yoshino
6	700	7.0	Dendritic Neuron Model With Effective Learning Algorithms for Classification, Approximation, and Prediction	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	2018-07-10	Shangce Gao, MengChu Zhou, Yirui Wang et al.
7	699	9.0	Does financial inclusion reduce poverty and income inequality in developing countries? A panel data analysis	Journal of Economic Structures	2020-04-28	Md Abdullah Omar, Kazuo Inaba
8	580	5.2	A review of the ecosystem concept — Towards coherent ecosystem design	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2017-07-15	Masaharu Tsujimoto, Yuya Kajikawa, Junichi Tomita et al.
9	576	9.4	Impacts of influencer attributes on purchase intentions in social media influencer marketing: Mediating roles of characterizations	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2021-09-28	Hisashi Masuda, Spring H. Han, Jungwoo Lee
10	573	8.4	Energy efficiency: The role of technological innovation and knowledge spillover	Technological Forecasting and Social Change	2021-02-24	Huaping Sun, Bless Kofi Edziah, Anthony Kwaku Kporsu et al.

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/japan-society-for-the-promotion-of-science

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