In this file photo, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is seen in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.... Papers in the analysis were deemed to be influential if they were among the top 10% in terms of how many citations they had received in other research articles.... The institute under Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology studied academic papers published worldwide from 2017 to 2019 and calculated an annual average for each country....