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