Registration for e-Rad (The Cross-Ministerial R&D Management System) and RU Researcher's Database
e-Rad (The Cross-Ministerial R&D Management System)
What is e-Rad?
"The Cross-Ministerial Research and Development Management System (e-Rad) is a cross-ministerial system enabling online management of research and development processes (acceptance of applications, screening, acceptance, management of accepted projects, results reports, etc.) for the Competitive Funding System run by Japanese ministries and agencies and other funding systems."
Source: e-Rad Research and Development (https://www.e-rad.go.jp/en/about.html)
To apply for competitive public funding from Japan's public fund-allocating bodies, such as Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), you must be registered with e-Rad as a researcher affiliated with a research institution and obtain a unique researcher's number.
To obtain a researcher number and to be registered as a researcher of Ritsumeikan University, please download the "e-Rad Registration Request Form’ from the link below and email it to the Research Office at your campus.
- e-Rad Registration Request Form
The Research Office will update your e-Rad registration and change your affiliation to Ritsumeikan University.
- Request for Resignation / Transfer Procedures for e-Rad
<IMPORTANT> Register Information about your research integrity in e-Rad
After registering with e-Rad as a Ritsumeikan researcher, please update your e-Rad "Researcher Information" section with information regarding your research integrity. Without this information, you will not be able to apply for Kakenhi or other competitive public funding from Japan's public fund-allocating bodies either as a Principal Investigator or a Co-Investigator.
Procedures can be found from here.
Ritsumeikan University Researcher’s Database
The Ritsumeikan University Researcher's Database (hereinafter referred to as Researcher's DB) is a database managed and published on the web by Ritsumeikan University, with pages for each individual researcher. It aims to publish a wide range of useful information and to organize and centralize information for third-party evaluation.
Ritsumeikan University has designated the Researcher's DB as an official tool for disclosing the University's research achievements, and requests affiliated researchers to update and disclose their research information and achievements in the Researcher's DB. Therefore, researchers are requested to enter their own up-to-date information in the Researcher DB.
The research achievements entered in the Researcher's DB will be used in an evaluation of applications for our Research Advancement Promotion Programs.
Researchers in the following positions are required to enter their research information into the Researcher's Database.
If researchers in other positions wish to register their research achievements, they are also welcome to do so. Please contact the Research Office at your campus for details.
Target for Registration
[Positions whose achievements must be registered]The positions of researchers who are required to register their research achievements are as follows.
They will be contacted by the Research Office with instructions on how to update the database.
- Fixed-term faculty member (Ninkisei kyōin): Assistant Professor (Jokyō), Special Assistant Professor (Tokunin jokyō)
- Starting Assistant Professor (Shonin jokyō)
- Eminent Research Professor (Tokubetsu shōhei kenkyū kyōin)
- Research Professor (Kenkyū kyōin)
- Senior Researcher (Senmon kenkyūin)
- Researcher (Kenkyūin)
- Starting Researcher (Shonin kenkyūin)
- Tenured faculty member (Sennin kyōin): Professor (Kyōju), Associate Professor (Junkyōju)
The research achievements of researchers in the following positions may be registered in the Researcher’s Database on a request basis.
- Specially-Appointed Faculty Member (Tokubetsu nin'yo kyōin)
- Distinguished Professor (Tokumei kyōju)
- Special-Contract Faculty Member (Tokubetsu keiyaku kyōin)
- Eminent Professor (Tokubetsu shōhei kyōin)
- Research Associate (Joshu)
- Visiting Research Professor (Shōhei kenkyū kyōin)
- Affiliate Research Professor (Kyakuin kenkyū kyōin)
- Visiting professor (Kyakuin kyōin)
- Extended Tenure Faculty (Keizoku koyou kyōin)
- Senior Research Fellow (Tokubetsu kenkyū fellow)
- Visiting Senior Researcher (Jōseki kenkyūin)
Note: If you are not in one of the positions listed above, please use researchmap (Operated by Japan Science and Technology Agency).