Ritsumeikan University Research Activity Report | Research Data AY2022
1

No. of Teaching Staff and Researchers

1-1

Grand Total

AY2022as of May 1, 2022

2

External Research Funding

2-1

No. of Projects by Funding Source

2-2

Amount by Funding Source(unit: thousand yen)(unit: person)

PositionProfessor

SenninAssociate Professor
Sennin Lecturer
Ninkisei Kyoin (Professor)
Ninkisei Kyoin (Associate Professor)
Ninkisei Kyoin (Lecturer)
Ninkisei Kyoin (Assistant Professor)
Tokubetsu Ninyo Teaching Staff (Professor)
Tokumei Teaching Staff (Professor)
Extended Tenure Teaching Staff (Associate Professor)

Full-timeTokubetsu Keiyaku Kyoin (Professor)

FixedTokubetsu Keiyaku Kyoin (Associate Professor)
term
Teaching Tokubetsu Shohei Kyoin (Professor)
StaffResearch Professor
Research Associate Professor
Research Assistant Professor
Eminent Research Professor
Eminent Research Associate Professor
Tokunin Assistant Professor
Starting Assistant Professor
Shokutaku Lecturer
Visiting Professor
Visiting Associate Professor
Affiliate Research Professor
Affiliate Research Associate Professor
Affiliate Research Assistant Professor
Part-time
Visiting Research Professor
Visiting Research Associate Professor
Part-time Lecturer (Hijokinkoshi)
Part-time Lecturer (Jugyotantokoshi)
Senior Researcher
Researcher
Starting Researcher
Research Scholar
Assistant Researcher
Research Assistant
AssistantTotal

Suzaku Campus

Kinugasa Campus

Biwako-Kusatsu Campus

Osaka Ibaraki Campus

1910
3500
400
50000000000
60
10000
6
16
000
000
66

258
74
4
61142
31
30
52
1
1
564
3
40
51
7000
2
30
242
391
16
362
221,151

276
84
16
44
20
93
27
7
100
2
7
1115
31
124
48
15
128
92211151
203
35
60
2241
61,176114
492112251420800002137018608044065152
800430494667
208221432261007612118238162387234117
3413798281464762
59962846
8
2,887

1,897
1,611

1,568

1,556

Suzaku Campus

Kinugasa Campus

Biwako-Kusatsu Campus

Osaka Ibaraki Campus

School of Law andGraduate School ofProfessional Teacher
Education

College of Law, College of Social Sciences, College ofInternational Relations, College of Letters, College of Image
Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Core Ethics andFrontier Sciences, Graduate School of Language Educationand Information Science, Ritsumeikan Global Innovation
Research Organization (Humanities and Social Sciences),
Kinugasa Research Organization, and others

College of Economics, College of Science and Engineering,
College of Information Science and Engineering, Collegeof Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Life Sciences,
College of Sport and Health Science, College of Gastronomy Management, Ritsumeikan Global Innovation ResearchOrganization (Natural Sciences), Research Organization ofScience and Technology, BKC Research Organization ofSocial Sciences, and others

College of Policy Science, College of Business
Administration, College of Comprehensive Psychology, College of Global Liberal Arts, Graduate
School of Management, Graduate School of HumanScience, Graduate School of Technology Management, Research Organization of Open Innovation andCollaboration, Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan ResearchOrganization, and others■ Female ■ Male■

886

153

236

118

220

171

139
106
93

202

172

96
121
38 33

80
129
31 26

154
67
107
22 31

AY2020

AY2021

AY20192,520,598
1,476,262
1,219,272

30

142
AY2022

26.5%

3 -1

Overall Trends

3 -2
AY2019A.Grant awarded(for new projects)(for continuing projects)

723

242

240

186

226

533,000

462,410

480,610

513,500

388

450

494

466

793,910879,580

844,176

829,384

630

690

680

692

1,326,910

1,341,990

No. of Projects

23(4)

21(3)

23(4)

23(5)

Amount

23(3)

23(3)

24(3)

25(4)

No. of Projects

No. of Projects
AmountNo. of Projects
Amount(unit: thousand yen)

■ No. of Applications■ No. of Projects Newly Adopted
29.8%
27.4%

805

242
770

814

AY2019AY2020

AY2021

AY2022

63,876
4,630
12,709230,666
199,356
208,692

66,6598,641

346,249 112,105
180,201 13,834

83,561

183,718

AY2021

28,652

AY2022

AY2019240

Adoption rate in Ritsumeikan Univ.

■National average adoption rate*

31.3%
27.9%
28.6%
25.8%

723AY2020

186
AY2021

AY2019AY2020

AY2021

AY2022

Specially Promoted Research0000

Scientific Resarch on
Innovative Areas

6714

Scientific Research (S)0000

Scientific Research (A)3374

Scientific Research (B)26192331

Scientific Research (C)

106

124

87

95

Challenging Research(Pioneering)

00

1

3

Challenging Research(Exploratory)

1113

1114

Early-Career Scientists

65

58

4151

Research Activity start-up

22

121218

Fostering Joint International
Research (B)

32

1

2

Grant-in-Aid for Transformative
Research Areas (A) *-213

Grant-in-Aid for Transformative
Research Areas (B) *-011242240

186

226

1,324,786 1,342,884■722

No. of Projects Newly Adopted by Research Category

AY2022

722(unit: thousand yen)

Total (A+B)

AY2021805

AmountB.Grant awarded

AY2020773

No. of Applications

Total

26.2%

774

AY2020Adoption Results of the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI)

773

791

AY2019

32072

26.9%

332,684
158,749
160,118*1: Including Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows and Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research).
This includes a special exception for the extension of the grant period for Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Fund for Academic Research Subsidies) due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
*2: Royalties, tangible products, and licensing/transfer fees.
*3: Income from research consortium membership fees, income from external use of the SR Center.

28.4%

2143

404,773 160,937
237,273 12,062
119,214
17,523

880,409■ Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research*1 ■ Other Public Research Funding ■ Contracted Research ■ Joint Research ■ Grants and Subsidies■ Private Research Funding ■ Revenue from Patents, etc.*2 ■ Other revenue*3

31.3%
2145

1,552,344

167

143
287

3,230,328

1,400,220

Created from the funding results published by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology.
The figures in parentheses for National Ranking indicate the rank among private universities.

Propotion of female

28.2%

2169

3,352,259
1,389,870

751

NationalRanking

Employment Status of Female Researchers

1,584,209

3,817,914
1,000681(unit: thousand yen)

1-2

4,969,566

Total

226
AY2022* Cited from “Award Trends”(https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-grants/award_trends.html)* The category started to call for application in AY2020 due to a revision of Scientific Resarch on
Innovative Areas.

Ritsumeikan University Research Activity Report | Research Data AY2022
4No. of Applications/No. of Acceptances/Acceptance Rate ofthe Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists

4 -1

DC14 -2■ No. of Applications ■ No. of Acceptances■Acceptance Rate

DC2

■ No. of Applications ■ No. of Acceptances■AY2022

7Patent and Technology Transfer

7-1

No. of New Inventions (Total)

Acceptance Rate

22.9%
10.0%
17.5%

10.0%

17.1%

9.6%

12.1%
7041403533

AY201978AY2020

AY2021

AY2022■8273707677

AY2019AY2020

AY2021

AY20224-4PD■ No. of Applications ■ No. of Acceptances

9.1%

7982

AY2021

AY202258744-366

Acceptance Rate

AY20197-2

RPD■ No. of Applications ■ No. of Acceptances■Acceptance Rate

AY20207- 3

No. of New Patent Applications (Domestic)

No. of New Patent Applications (Overseas)■ Individual applications ■ Joint applications■ Individual applications ■ Joint applications

2

60.0%
32.4%

50.0%

2926.1%
22.7%

4135
55233724

23

8.3%

20.0%

3AY202065

AY2021

AY2022No. and Percentage ofInternational Co-authored Papers

No. of International■ Co-authored Papers■0.0%

625.8%

28.0%

AY2020■338

AY2021

AY202214203

AY20197- 4

AY2020

AY2021

7.0％

AY2019AY2022

Cumulative Number of Patent Registrations (Total)

7- 5

AY2022■

New Royalties Income(Total number)

33
7.4%

2931

269774

AY2021

New Royalties Income (Total number/Total amount)

6.1%

347

AY2020

New Royalties Income■ (Total amount）[unit：thousand yen]

Percentage of Papers in
Top 10% Percentiles

7.8％

437
315

1

No. and Percentage of Papers in
Top 10% Percentiles

No. of Papers in■ Top 10% Percentiles

Percentage of International
Co-authored Papers

201760

AY2019

33.9%
29.2%

3622532211

AY20191043495

81268

285

302

338

13,731

12,0628,453
4,630

AY2019AY2020

AY2021

AY2022

Percentage = No. of International Co-authored Papers/No. of Scopus-indexed Papers
Source: Elsevier’s “SciVal” (as of September 2023)

AY2019AY2020

AY2021

Percentage = No. of Papers in Top 10% Percentiles/No. of Papers in Scopus
Source: Elsevier’s “SciVal” (as of September 2023)

AY2022

AY2019AY2020

AY2021

AY2022

AY2019AY2020

AY2021

AY2022

Including patents, utility model rights, design rights, trademark rights, copyrights, plant breeder’srights, rights of layout-designs of integrated circuit, know-how, and materials.