Chiaki Miura
PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Chiaki Miura is a PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo pursuing a mechanistic understanding of how science itself works—peer review, citation dynamics and null models, and how science comes to understand the world. She has secured multiple competitive research grants, and serves as a core organizer of Japan’s flagship Science of Science community, where she leads its hands-on tutorial program. She is firmly embedded in the international community of the field—trained at CWTS Leiden, the field’s leading European center for scientometrics; sought out as a host by three visiting researchers from Germany; and an invited speaker at international venues, most recently a workshop at Kobe University. This work is consistently translated for practitioners, including joint research with university research administrators (URAs) presented at the Japan’s largest URA conference.
Research Interest
- Peer Review, Research Evaluation, and Science Policy
- Learning Dynamics, Mechanistic Interpretability, and Training Data Attribution
- Science Systems Studies
Education
- Technology Management and Innovations, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, PhD student (2023-)
- Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Master of Engineering (2021-2023)
- Department of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (2017-2021)
Grant
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Strategic Basic Research Programs Act-X Awardee (2024-) Grant Number: JPMJAX24CP
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Kakusei Project (2026.07-)
Publications
- C. Miura, I. Sakata, “Preprints Without Curation Are Increasingly Cited by Journals”, Preprint (2026)
- C. Miura, I. Sakata, “From Rapid Release to Reinforced Elite: Citation Inequality is Stronger in Preprint than Journals”, Preprint
- C. Miura, I. Sakata, “Difference between Preprints and Journal Systems”, (2025). Conference Proceedings
- C. Miura, K. Ito, “Incentivize Peer Review Without Rewarding: Using OSS-Like Citation Pull Request”, (2024). Conference Proceedings
Conference Presentations
- C. Miura “Invitation to Science Systems Studies” Network Science Research Group Student Talk (2026)
- C. Miura, K. Asatani, M.Yoshida, Y. Kasuya, “The Hybrid Discipline: Knowledge Flows in a Century of Political Science”, International Political Science Association World Congress 2025, (Panel Talk in Science of Political Science: Evolution and Integration in Political Science Research and Education)
- C. Miura, I. Sakata, “From Rapid Release to Reinforced Elite: Citation Inequality is Stronger in Preprint than Journals”, 20th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics, (2025). (peer reviewed, oral Presentation)
- C. Miura, I. Sakata, “Quantifying the Diffusion of Emerging Academic Norms”, International Conference of Science of Science & Innovation, (2025). (peer reviewed)
- C. Miura, Ichiro Sakata, the 16th Conference of Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology “Science of Science Committee Action Report” (2025).
- Yoshiyasu Watanabe, Tsubasa Sakamoto, Kan Hashizume、C. Miura “Evaluating the Originality of Research: The Impact of Mentor-Mentee Relationships on the Creation of Innovative Research”, Annual Meeting of the Research Administration Council, (2024).
- C. Miura, ”How to make Metrics in Science: Scientometrics Summer School Participants Report”, The Second Science of science Committee, (2024).
- C. Miura, K. Ito, “Incentivize Peer Review Without Rewarding: Using OSS-Like Citation Pull Request”, Intelligent Solutions to Support Human Intelligence and Social Good, (2024). (peer reviewed, oral Presentation)
- C. Miura, Kimitaka Asatani, Ichiro Sakata, ”Learning from Open Source Software: Applying Pull Request to Scholarly Citation to Incentivise Open Participatory Peer Review”, The 1st Science of science Committee, (2024).
- C. Miura, K. Asatani, I. Sakata, ”Scientists Have an Inherent Prioritized Queue in Selecting Collaborations”, International Conference of Science of Science & Innovation, (2024). (peer reviewed, oral Presentation)
- C. Miura, “The Age of Anticipation and the Better Way to Share Science”, DeSciTokyo Conference, (2023).
Conference Organization
- Program Committee, Science of Science Conference Japan, (2025)
- Tutorial Organizer, Science of Science Conference Japan, (2024).
Invited Talks
- Chiaki Miura, Preprints, Inequality, and Trust: Designing Scientific Communication for Humans and AI, International Workshop on Science, Innovation, and the Knowledge Economy (2026)
- C. Miura, “The State of the Art in Research Assessment with AI”, University of Tokyo Research Administrator Study Group, (2025)
- C. Miura, “Citation Inequality is Stronger in Preprint than Journals”, AI Science Night, (2025)
- C. Miura, ”SciSci Hands-on”, The 3rd Science of Science Committee, (2025).
- C. Miura, ”Open Contribution to Research Translation: Redesigning Technology/Science Interface”, Presidential Showcase, UTokyo Deep Tech Entrepreneurship Education Design Endowed Course (Finalist), (2023).
- C. Miura, ”What Makes a Research Question Worth Pursuing?”, Future Research Talk, (2023).
- C. Miura, ”The Distributed Repository Model: A New Ecosystem for Researc”, Laboratory Automation Study Group, (2023).
- C. Miura, ”Science of Science: Giant”, HongoWeb3Valley, (2023).