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Tokushima University

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#1253
Research Index 2026 · 90% range 1215–1276 of 1,305 · score 4.9

Not ranked in the World University Rankings

We couldn’t find an official student count for this university, so its alumni outcomes can’t be measured per student. It is listed in the Research Index but not ranked overall.

Research Index

A · Quality
4.9
B · Strength
5.1

Percentiles among 1,305 ranked universities. Rank on quality alone: =1250. On strength alone: =1238. 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
5.1% (4.3%–6.0%)
Papers in the top 1% of their field
0.2% (0.1%–0.3%)
Top-10% papers (fractional count)
99
All papers (fractional count)
1,930
International co-authored
26.1%
Open access
69.6%
Papers from 2020–23 since retracted
0 (0.00 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=1305range 1097–1418 of 1,671
Life & earth sciences–fewer than 200 papers
Mathematics & computer science–fewer than 200 papers
Physical sciences & engineering=1694range 1625–1721 of 1,742
Social sciences & humanities–fewer than 200 papers

Position over time

bottom2006–2009: 554 of 5712020–2023: 1253 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

1253Research 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

Alumni laureates
1
Staff laureates
0

Alumni: 1 Nobel. Most recent: Shuji Nakamura (Nobel Physics, 2014). Counted from Wikidata (CC0). Shown for context; this university is not in the overall ranking.