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Highly Cited Researchers 182 Scientists Citation Rankings - 2026

See how widely and consistently research is cited with real-time citation rankings.
Covering 2.6 million scientists, this list evaluates both total and last 5 years’ citation counts to measure scientific influence and highlight Highly Cited Researchers.
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Total 182 scientists , Updates every 3 days
* Total Citation Counts Rankings

Rankings

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21,800
World Rank
Japan
285
Country Rank
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1
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
1
William John Munro|Bill Munro
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Natural Sciences / Physics
Quantum information - quantum optics - engineered quantum systems - quantum computation - quantu

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    34,387
  • Last 5 Years
    16,478
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.479
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Rankings

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22,841
World Rank
Japan
301
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
2
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
2
Junichi Yamagishi|山岸順一
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Others
Speech processing | Speech synthesis | Biometrics | Deepfakes | Multimedia Forensic

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    33,402
  • Last 5 Years
    23,739
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.711
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Rankings

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70,718
World Rank
Japan
1,181
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
3
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
3
Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Natural Sciences / Mathematical Sciences
Graph Theory | Graph Algorithms | Combinatorics | Discrete Mathematics | Combinatorial optimizatio

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    14,931
  • Last 5 Years
    9,728
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.652
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Rankings

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77,197
World Rank
Japan
1,317
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
4
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
4
Yusheng Ji
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
network | wireless networking | mobile computin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    13,919
  • Last 5 Years
    8,922
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.641
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Rankings

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82,167
World Rank
Japan
1,411
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
5
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
5
Shin'ichi Satoh
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Others
Multimedia Content Analysis | Computer Vision | Artificial Intelligence | Information Retrieva

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    13,239
  • Last 5 Years
    7,312
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.552
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Rankings

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96,901
World Rank
Japan
1,717
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
6
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
6
Yuichi Yoshida
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Theoretical Computer Scienc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    11,536
  • Last 5 Years
    9,114
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.790
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Rankings

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113,546
World Rank
Japan
2,079
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
7
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
7
Helmut Prendinger
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Artificial Intelligenc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    10,069
  • Last 5 Years
    4,038
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.401
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Rankings

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125,152
World Rank
Japan
2,304
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
8
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
8
Hideaki Takeda
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence | Semantic Web | Linked Data | Open Data | Design Theor

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    9,230
  • Last 5 Years
    3,153
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.342
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Rankings

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132,480
World Rank
Japan
2,486
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
9
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
9
Isao Echizen
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Others
Multimedia security | Multimedia forensics | AI Security | Biometrics | Privac

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    8,772
  • Last 5 Years
    6,604
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.753
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Rankings

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145,184
World Rank
Japan
2,773
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
10
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
10
Xin Wang
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Speech synthesis | Speech Security | Audio signal Processing | Machine learnin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    8,073
  • Last 5 Years
    7,669
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.950
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Rankings

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149,615
World Rank
Japan
2,876
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
11
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
11
Aizawa Akiko
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Others

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    7,851
  • Last 5 Years
    5,091
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.648
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Rankings

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176,758
World Rank
Japan
3,435
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
12
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
12
Katsumi Inoue
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence | Abductive Reasoning | Inductive Logic Programming | Answer Set Programmin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    6,690
  • Last 5 Years
    1,731
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.259
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Rankings

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207,670
World Rank
Japan
4,117
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
13
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
13
Taisuke Sato
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
artificial intelligence | machine learning | logic programmin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    5,685
  • Last 5 Years
    869
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.153
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Rankings

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209,361
World Rank
Japan
4,146
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
14
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
14
Sato Imari
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Computer Vision | Physics-based vision | Illumination and Reflectance Analysis | Computational photograph

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    5,639
  • Last 5 Years
    2,262
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.401
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Rankings

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215,473
World Rank
Japan
4,291
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
15
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
15
noriko kando
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Social Sciences / Library and Information Science
Information Retrieval | Information Science | Interactive Information Retrieva

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    5,475
  • Last 5 Years
    1,295
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.237
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Rankings

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223,791
World Rank
Japan
4,466
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
16
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
16
Yuka Tateisi
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Natural Language Processin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    5,265
  • Last 5 Years
    1,357
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.258
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Rankings

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226,020
World Rank
Japan
4,515
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
17
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
17
Shinichi Honiden
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Software Engineerin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    5,210
  • Last 5 Years
    1,075
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.206
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Rankings

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237,297
World Rank
Japan
4,788
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
18
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
18
Kensuke Fukuda
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Networ

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    4,949
  • Last 5 Years
    1,839
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.372
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Rankings

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241,269
World Rank
Japan
4,856
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
19
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
19
Yi Yu
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Others
Multimodal learning | Generative modeling | Multimedia | AI Musi

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    4,861
  • Last 5 Years
    3,579
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.736
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Rankings

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262,110
World Rank
Japan
5,264
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
20
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
20
Tomohiro Sonobe|薗部 知大
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Others

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    4,445
  • Last 5 Years
    4,108
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.924
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Rankings

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277,030
World Rank
Japan
5,553
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
21
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
21
Ken Satoh
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Artificial Intelligenc

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    4,180
  • Last 5 Years
    2,315
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.554
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Rankings

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294,969
World Rank
Japan
5,941
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
22
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
22
Paolo Arcaini
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Others
software testing | search-based testing | automated repair | quantum software engineerin

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    3,889
  • Last 5 Years
    3,043
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.782
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Rankings

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296,671
World Rank
Japan
5,974
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
23
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
23
Seiji Yamada
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Human-Agent Interaction | Intelligent Interactive Systems | Artificial Intelligence | Intelligent Robo

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    3,863
  • Last 5 Years
    1,697
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.439
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Rankings

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302,433
World Rank
Japan
6,108
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
24
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
24
Akihiro Sugimoto
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
computer vision | discrete geometr

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    3,778
  • Last 5 Years
    1,981
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.524
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Rankings

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321,770
World Rank
Japan
6,524
Country Rank
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Logo
25
University
Ranking Based On Selection:
25
Fuyuki Ishikawa
National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chiyoda City, Japan
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science
Software Engineering | Software Testing | Formal Methods | SE4AI | AI4S

Citation Metrics

  • Total
    3,514
  • Last 5 Years
    2,127
  • Last 5 Years / Total
    0.605
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