Center for Integrated Japanese Studies has been working to design academic evaluation indicators that will enable a more appropriate understanding of Japanese studies research and its social impact. As a foundational step in this effort, the report released here constructs a dataset of cited references from Japanese Studies, one of the leading journals in the field, covering the years 2015 to 2024, and examines what kinds of works are most frequently cited, the balance between English- and Japanese-language sources, patterns in the use of books and journal articles, and the age profile of cited literature.