SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH:THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH EMANATING FROM CANADA
Canada: annual paper output in social sciences
60% increase over last 5 years
Canada: publication trend in three social science fields
Canada: relative citation impact, Environmental Studies
Canada is currently above the field average
1.0 represents the world average citation rates in these fields.
Canada currently performs above
average in all three.
CANADA: RELATIVE IMPACT, 2004-2008
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Top ten Canadian universities: citation impact (cites/paper) in Plant & Animal Science
INSTITUTION CITATION IMPACT PAPERS
1 UNIV BRITISH COLUMBIA 5.65 1396
2 UNIV TORONTO 5.58 734
3 DALHOUSIE UNIV 5.12 439
4 QUEENS UNIV 4.93 300
5 UNIV CALGARY 4.67 390
6 MCGILL UNIV 4.60 503
7 UNIV WESTERN ONTARIO 4.40 253
8 UNIV QUEBEC 4.30 623
9 SIMON FRASER UNIV 3.96 502
10 UNIV VICTORIA 3.90 288
2004-2008; restricted to universities with at least 250 papers
Top ten Canadian universities: citation impact (cites/paper) in Economics/Business
2004-2008; restricted to universities with at least 100 papers
INSTITUTIONCITATION IMPACT
PAPERS
1 UNIV WESTERN ONTARIO 3.60 259
2 UNIV ALBERTA 3.17 269
3 UNIV TORONTO 3.09 513
4 WILFRID LAURIER UNIV 2.95 117
5 UNIV BRITISH COLUMBIA 2.85 406
6 MCGILL UNIV 2.75 215
7 UNIV MONTREAL 2.60 209
8 CONCORDIA UNIV 2.55 163
9 MCMASTER UNIV 2.50 175
10 SIMON FRASER UNIV 2.48 223
Canada: world share of papers, top 10 fields
FIELD%WORLD
PAPERS
ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY 7.48
PSYCHIATRY/PSYCHOLOGY 7.44
GEOSCIENCES 6.88
NEUROSCIENCE & BEHAVIOR 6.51
SOCIAL SCIENCES GENERAL 6.06
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS 6.03
PLANT & ANIMAL SCIENCE 6.00
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY & GENETICS 5.47
SPACE SCIENCE 5.28
MATHEMATICS 5.13