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title: "The University of Tokyo: research profile and papers"
description: "Research profile of The University of Tokyo: 1,337 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,447."
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share_text: "Research profile of The University of Tokyo: 1,337 papers in 480 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and AI; h-index 1,447. (as of 2026-11-03)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
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---

# The University of Tokyo

- 5 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Japan
- web domain: u-tokyo.ac.jp

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

## Key findings

- The University of Tokyo was involved in 12 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #98 of 3,809 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Japanese Economic Review (2), Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science (2) and Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (1).
- Countries: Japan (12), Germany (2) and United States (2).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at The University of Tokyo took part in 1,337 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (529), AI (306) and operations research (166).
- 150 of them were published in 2025, against 108 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (46), RIKEN (36) and Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo (31).
- The journals publishing most of them were IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (27), International Journal of Computer Vision (21) and Japanese Economic Review (21).
- The most-cited of them is “Recent advances in physical reservoir computing: A review” (Neural Networks, 2019), with 2,141 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, The University of Tokyo has 583,528 works with 50,439,628 citations (h-index 1,447).
- The tracked journals hold 1,195 of its 165,225 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (0.7%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (13,825), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (12,041) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (10,457).

## 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) | 47 | 45 | 66 | 57 | 62 | 54 | 54 | 59 | 48 | 37 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 12 | 11 | 21 | 33 | 34 | 36 | 31 | 41 | 46 | 41 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 16 | 17 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 19 | 18 | 27 | 24 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 9 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 16 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 12 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 7 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/marketing.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 108 | 105 | 134 | 127 | 147 | 139 | 131 | 154 | 150 | 142 |

## Where the papers come from and its co-authors

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 27 |
| 2 | [International Journal of Computer Vision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-computer-vision.md) | 21 |
| 3 | [Japanese Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-economic-review.md) | 21 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 19 |
| 5 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 14 |
| 6 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 14 |
| 7 | [Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-journal-of-statistics-and-data-science.md) | 14 |
| 8 | [Journal of the Japanese and International Economies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-japanese-and-international-economies.md) | 11 |
| 9 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 11 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 11 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project | 46 |
| 2 | RIKEN | 36 |
| 3 | Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo | 31 |
| 4 | Keio University | 21 |
| 5 | Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo | 18 |
| 6 | Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo | 16 |
| 7 | Kyoto University | 16 |
| 8 | Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo | 16 |
| 9 | The University of Osaka | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Japan | 577 |
| 2 | China | 120 |
| 3 | United States | 65 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 38 |
| 5 | Canada | 30 |
| 6 | Singapore | 26 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 21 |
| 8 | Australia | 20 |
| 9 | Germany | 20 |
| 10 | France | 12 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Japan | 33 |
| 2 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 12 |
| 3 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 11 |
| 4 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 9 |
| 5 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 8 |
| 6 | Bank of Japan | 7 |
| 7 | Tokyo metropolitan area | 7 |
| 8 | [convergence rate](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/convergence-rate.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [parameter estimation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/parameter-estimation.md) | 7 |
| 10 | axiomatization | 6 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | 968 | 31.2 | [SpectralGPT: Spectral Remote Sensing Foundation Model](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3362475) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-04-03 | Danfeng Hong, Bing Zhang, Xuyang Li et al. |
| 3 | 587 | 5.8 | [How to Respond to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or the Second Information Technology Revolution? Dynamic New Combinations between Technology, Market, and Society through Open Innovation](https://doi.org/10.3390/joitmc4030021) | [Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-open-innovation-technology-market-and-complexity.md) | 2018-06-22 | MinHwa Lee, JinHyo Joseph Yun, Andreas Pyka et al. |
| 4 | 547 | 10.0 | [Deep learning, reinforcement learning, and world models](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2022.03.037) | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 2022-04-19 | Yutaka Matsuo, Yann LeCun, Maneesh Sahani et al. |
| 5 | 350 | 4.7 | [An experimental study of public trust in AI chatbots in the public sector](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2020.101490) | [Government Information Quarterly](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/government-information-quarterly.md) | 2020-08-18 | Naomi Aoki |
| 6 | 341 | 13.0 | [Frequency-Aware Feature Fusion for Dense Image Prediction](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2024.3449959) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-08-26 | Linwei Chen, Ying Fu, Lin Gu et al. |
| 7 | 296 | 2.9 | [Socioeconomic Vulnerability to Disaster Risk: A Case Study of Flood and Drought Impact in a Rural Sri Lankan Community](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.05.010) | [Ecological Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ecological-economics.md) | 2018-06-13 | M.M.G.T. De Silva, Akiyuki Kawasaki |
| 8 | 238 | 3.6 | [Endmember-Guided Unmixing Network (EGU-Net): A General Deep Learning Framework for Self-Supervised Hyperspectral Unmixing](https://doi.org/10.1109/tnnls.2021.3082289) | [IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-neural-networks-and-learning-systems.md) | 2021-05-28 | Danfeng Hong, Lianru Gao, Jing Tao Yao et al. |
| 9 | 236 | 3.2 | [Can financial inclusion be an effective mitigation measure? evidence from panel data analysis of the environmental Kuznets curve](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2020.101725) | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 2020-08-15 | Nuobu Renzhi, Yong Baek |
| 10 | 213 | 11.3 | [HyperSIGMA: Hyperspectral Intelligence Comprehension Foundation Model](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3557581) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2025-04-08 | Di Wang, Meiqi Hu, Yao Jin et al. |

## In OpenAlex

*The University of Tokyo in OpenAlex*

| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | University |
| Location | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also known as | UT, Todai, Tōkyō Daigaku, UTokyo |
| Units listed in OpenAlex | 130 |
| Works in OpenAlex | 583,528 |
| Citations | 50,439,628 |
| h-index | 1,447 |
| i10-index | 688,319 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 4.62 |
| Website | [www.u-tokyo.ac.jp](https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp) |
| ROR | [ror.org/057zh3y96](https://ror.org/057zh3y96) |
| Wikidata | [Q7842](Q7842) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I74801974](https://openalex.org/I74801974) |

*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) | 18,445 | 668,983 | 142 | 0.8% |
| 2025 | 19,857 | 912,146 | 150 | 0.8% |
| 2024 | 19,629 | 921,276 | 154 | 0.8% |
| 2023 | 19,728 | 874,904 | 131 | 0.7% |
| 2022 | 19,043 | 876,332 | 139 | 0.7% |
| 2021 | 19,405 | 893,655 | 147 | 0.8% |
| 2020 | 18,901 | 797,998 | 127 | 0.7% |
| 2019 | 16,985 | 692,588 | 134 | 0.8% |
| 2018 | 16,097 | 639,953 | 105 | 0.7% |
| 2017 | 15,580 | 598,323 | 108 | 0.7% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---:|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism | Physics and Astronomy | 13,825 |
| 2 | Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies | Physics and Astronomy | 12,041 |
| 3 | Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions | Physics and Astronomy | 10,457 |
| 4 | Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies | Physics and Astronomy | 10,173 |
| 5 | Advanced Condensed Matter Physics | Physics and Astronomy | 9,810 |

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.

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-31 | [The personnel inquiry records: a historical microdatabase of elites and families in prewar Japan](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42973-026-00279-z) | [Japanese Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-economic-review.md) | Hiroshi Kumanomido, Suguru Otani, Yutaro Takayasu | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; The University of Tokyo; Hitotsubashi University |
| 2026-10-29 | [Planning culture and Co-creation in green infrastructure transitions: Insights from seven green infrastructure projects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101213) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Jessica Kritz, Joerg Knieling, Mark Barnes-Ricketts et al. | Georgetown University; HafenCity University Hamburg; Zealand Institute of Business and Technology; … |
| 2026-10-29 | [Interaction-driven macroeconomic fluctuations](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42973-026-00278-0) | [Japanese Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-economic-review.md) | Makoto Nirei | The University of Tokyo |
| 2026-10-28 | [Forward and backward smoothing for noisy nonstationary time series with an application of detecting recent change points](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42081-026-00380-y) | [Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-journal-of-statistics-and-data-science.md) | Seisho Sato, Naoto Kunitomo | The University of Tokyo; The Institute of Statistical Mathematics |
| 2026-10-28 | [Strategic consequences of stakeholder misconduct in Japan’s entrepreneurial ecosystem](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbvi.2026.e00680) | [Journal of Business Venturing Insights](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-business-venturing-insights.md) | Masahiro Kotosaka, Michiko Ashizawa, Masumi Sai et al. | Keio University; Kyoto University; The University of Tokyo |
| 2026-10-27 | [Online dynamic task planning with environment observation for human–robot collaboration](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jii.2026.101227) | [Journal of Industrial Information Integration](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-industrial-information-integration.md) | Fan Kui Zeng, Yusheng Wang, Shinsuke Kondoh et al. | Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Automation; Research into Artifacts, Center for Engineering, The University of Tokyo; … |
| 2026-10-26 | [Quasi-BIC of SEM for jump-diffusion processes based on high-frequency data](https://doi.org/10.1007/s42081-026-00378-6) | [Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/japanese-journal-of-statistics-and-data-science.md) | Shogo Kusano, Masayuki Uchida | Kumamoto University; Japan Science and Technology Agency; Center for Mathematical Modeling and Data Science, The University of Osaka; … |
| 2026-10-22 | [TTFE: Mining top-k high-threat-and-frequency event sets in IIoT security](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-026-07461-1) | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | Yuer Yang, Yifeng Lin, Siu-Ming Yiu et al. | Jinan University; University of Hong Kong; Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo; … |
| 2026-10-22 | [Evaluating transit accessibility to education and the effects of operational delays in Japanese regional cities: a case study of Matsumoto City](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12469-026-00431-3) | [Public Transport](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-transport.md) | Itsuki Sato, Kiyoshi Takami, Giancarlos Parady | The University of Tokyo |
| 2026-10-12 | [From traffic-flow capacity to recovery capacity: An episode-based framework for multi-sector urban resilience](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2026.106063) | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | F. C. Tang, Xuesong Simon Zhou, Edward Zhu et al. | Arizona State University; Johns Hopkins University; Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [Supply chain security and global dependencies in the trade of phosphorus-related products](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2026.106064) | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | Peter Hirner, Matthias Raddant, Johann Fellner | TU Wien; The University of Tokyo; Keio University; … |
| 2026-10-07 | [Three patent portfolio structures for lifecycle management of cell therapy products](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2026.102507) | [World Patent Information](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-patent-information.md) | Yasuaki Kawai, Shingo Kano | The University of Tokyo |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). The University of Tokyo. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-tokyo

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