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title: "Japan Society for the Promotion of Science"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science was named as a funder of 6,159 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (2,863), AI (872) and operations research (717). It ranks #8 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science was named as a funder of 6,159 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (2,863), AI (872) and operations research (717). (as of 2026-10-31)"
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# 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.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science was named as a funder of 6,159 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (2,863), AI (872) and operations research (717).
- It ranks #8 among the funders of the tracked journals' papers from 2023 to 2025.
- 589 of them were published in 2025, against 549 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were The University of Tokyo (322), Waseda University (156) and Kyoto University (150).
- 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 289 | 281 | 270 | 302 | 336 | 311 | 283 | 306 | 261 | 224 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 49 | 56 | 60 | 77 | 126 | 123 | 120 | 106 | 95 | 60 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 69 | 81 | 72 | 65 | 74 | 83 | 72 | 76 | 65 | 60 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 56 | 44 | 41 | 43 | 65 | 60 | 63 | 73 | 67 | 51 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 35 | 56 | 65 | 52 | 57 | 61 | 50 | 53 | 40 | 47 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 22 | 14 | 22 | 23 | 31 | 24 | 23 | 17 | 17 | 18 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 8 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 19 | 19 | 16 | 17 | 14 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 8 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 4 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 3 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 5 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 2 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 5 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| All categories | 549 | 562 | 563 | 601 | 736 | 719 | 667 | 684 | 589 | 489 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Journal of the Japanese and International Economies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-japanese-and-international-economies.md) | 59 |
| 2 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 59 |
| 3 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 55 |
| 4 | [Japanese Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-economic-review.md) | 51 |
| 5 | [Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-journal-of-statistics-and-data-science.md) | 48 |
| 6 | [Japan and the World Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japan-and-the-world-economy.md) | 43 |
| 7 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 41 |
| 8 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 40 |
| 9 | [Journal of Economic Structures](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-structures.md) | 40 |
| 10 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 36 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | The University of Tokyo | 322 |
| 2 | Waseda University | 156 |
| 3 | Kyoto University | 150 |
| 4 | Hitotsubashi University | 142 |
| 5 | Keio University | 132 |
| 6 | Kobe University | 128 |
| 7 | The University of Osaka | 128 |
| 8 | Kyushu University | 111 |
| 9 | Tohoku University | 75 |
| 10 | RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project | 74 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Japan | 2,306 |
| 2 | China | 259 |
| 3 | United States | 163 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 99 |
| 5 | Australia | 72 |
| 6 | France | 50 |
| 7 | Canada | 47 |
| 8 | Germany | 38 |
| 9 | South Korea | 30 |
| 10 | Taiwan | 25 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Japan | 144 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 84 |
| 3 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 46 |
| 4 | Japanese companies | 37 |
| 5 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 37 |
| 6 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 30 |
| 7 | overlapping generations model | 30 |
| 8 | gender differences | 25 |
| 9 | population aging | 25 |
| 10 | welfare effects | 25 |

## 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](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2018.2858821) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2019.03.005) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2017.12.012) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112256) | [Energy Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-policy.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.04.016) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2019-04-08 | Farhad Taghizadeh Hesary, Naoyuki Yoshino |
| 6 | 700 | 7.0 | [Dendritic Neuron Model With Effective Learning Algorithms for Classification, Approximation, and Prediction](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2018.2846646) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40008-020-00214-4) | [Journal of Economic Structures](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-structures.md) | 2020-04-28 | Md Abdullah Omar, Kazuo Inaba |
| 8 | 580 | 5.2 | [A review of the ecosystem concept — Towards coherent ecosystem design](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2017.06.032) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121246) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2021-09-28 | Hisashi Masuda, Spring H. Han, Jungwoo Lee |
| 10 | 573 | 8.4 | [Energy efficiency: The role of technological innovation and knowledge spillover](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120659) | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 2021-02-24 | Huaping Sun, Bless Kofi Edziah, Anthony Kwaku Kporsu et al. |

## Cite this page

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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