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Okayama University

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World University Rankings 2026 · 90% range 881–2188 of 2,287 · score 26.9
Research Index 1177

How it scores

Research
29
Alumni outcomes
50
Admissions & earnings
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Research and Alumni outcomes are percentiles among 2,287 universities; alumni outcomes are counted per student. Admissions & earnings is the position among universities in the same country.

No official admissions or earnings data is used for this university yet. Its in-country score is estimated from its standing among its own country’s universities on the global measures.

Admissions, outcomes and alumni

Internationally notable alumni (Wikidata)
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Heads of state or government (Wikidata)
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Founders, billionaires and $30M+ alumni
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Students (undergraduate / total)
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Each figure links to its source. Admissions and earnings figures are comparable only within a country.

Research Index

A · Quality
7.3
B · Strength
27.0

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =1216. On strength alone: 953. The Research Index scores research only; admissions, earnings and alumni outcomes are scored in the overall ranking where data exists.

The numbers behind it (2020–2023)

Papers in the top 10% of their field
5.4% (4.8%–6.0%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.3% (0.2%–0.4%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
192
All papers (fractional count)
3,559
International co-authored
29.4%
Open access
63.8%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
5 (0.59 per 1,000)

Core publications, fractional counting, field-normalised citation shares. Brackets show Leiden’s stability interval. Collaboration and open-access shares use full counting and aren’t field-normalised. Retraction counts come from the Retraction Watch database and include publishers’ mass retractions as well as honest-error retractions; a retraction is not by itself evidence of misconduct, and the count is never scored.

By field

Biomedical & health sciences=1292range 1069–1397 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences=747range 542–880 of 1,092
Mathematics & computer science=1362range 1318–1381 of 1,391
Physical sciences & engineering=1533range 1386–1623 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities–fewer than 200 papers

Position over time

bottom2006–2009: 518 of 5712020–2023: 1177 of 1,305

The same method applied to each 4-year publication window. The number of ranked universities grows from period to period, so position is shown as a share of the field.

How other rankings place it

1177Research Index 2026
–QS 2027 (not in top 100)
–THE 2027 (not in top 100)
–ARWU 2026 (not in top 100)

Other rankings are cited for comparison. The Research Index measures research only; QS and THE also use reputation surveys and figures universities submit, and ARWU counts prize winners and total output.

Prize winners

No Nobel, Fields, Turing or Abel laureates linked to this university in Wikidata.