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Research in Burnaby

Science Explorer records 46 research institutions in Burnaby, Canada. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are Simon Fraser University, British Columbia Institute of Technology and Delta-Q Technologies (Canada).

Research institutions
46
4 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
49k
◆ 1% vs 2013–17
Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
20.8%
record average 16.5%

A city carries no overall standing here. The composite score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.

Which research institutions are in Burnaby?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Simon Fraser UniversityUniversity 45,430 #643
2British Columbia Institute of TechnologyUniversity 904 #15,119
3Burnaby HospitalHospital / health system 412 #17,506 all time
4Microsemi (Canada)Company 275 #32,994 all time
5Alpha Technologies (Canada)Company 234 #25,767
6Delta-Q Technologies (Canada)Company 219 #24,108
7Ballard Power Systems (Canada)Company 157 #17,856 all time
8D-Wave Systems (Canada)Company 155 #8,810 all time
9Pacific Centre for Reproductive MedicineHospital / health system 118 not ranked
10Xenon Pharmaceuticals (Canada)Company 110 not ranked
11Electronic Arts (Canada)Company 98 not ranked
12Inimex Pharmaceuticals (Canada)Company 95 not ranked
13General Fusion (Canada)Company 59 not ranked
14Arbutus Biopharma (Canada)Company 49 not ranked
15Institute of Indigenous Peoples' HealthResearch facility 45 not ranked
16Digital Payment Technologies (Canada)Company 40 not ranked
17Neil Squire SocietyNonprofit 34 not ranked
18OceanWorks International (Canada)Company 28 not ranked
19Kerr Wood Leidal Associates (Canada)Company 27 not ranked
20Nautilus EnvironmentalCompany 24 not ranked
21Innovative Targeting Solutions (Canada)Company 21 not ranked
22Down Syndrome Research FoundationInstitution 20 not ranked
23TerraBioGen (Canada)Company 19 not ranked
24Phoenix Technologies (Canada)Company 16 not ranked
25Coanda Research and Development Corporation (Canada)Company 15 not ranked
26Welichem Biotech (Canada)Company 15 not ranked
27Culex EnvironmentalInstitution 8 not ranked
28Northern Lipids (Canada)Company 8 not ranked
29Artron Bioresearch (Canada)Company 7 not ranked
30Biogate Laboratories (Canada)Company 6 not ranked
31Capcom Vancouver (Canada)Company 4 not ranked
32Kardium (Canada)Company 3 not ranked
33British Columbia Dairy AssociationNonprofit 3 not ranked
34Aurel Systems (Canada)Company 3 not ranked
35Allied Vision Technologies (Canada)Company 3 not ranked
36Alectos (Canada)Company 2 not ranked
37ImmuneChem (Canada)Company 2 not ranked
38Tantalus Systems (Canada)Company 2 not ranked
39Fusion Genomics (Canada)Company 1 not ranked
40British Columbia Dental Hygienists' AssociationInstitution 1 not ranked
41Kodak (Canada)Company 1 not ranked
42T2 Systems (Canada)Company 1 not ranked
43SWITCH Materials (Canada)Company 1 not ranked
44Terry Fox FoundationNonprofit 0 not ranked
45eSenso (Canada)Company 0 not ranked
46Inventys Thermal Technologies (Canada)Company 0 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022–2025. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

How concentrated the city is

The same institutions as shares of everything the list accounts for. A city that is one university and a city that is twelve read alike as a table and not at all alike here.

Simon Fraser University: 93.3%British Columbia Institute of Technology: 1.9%Burnaby Hospital: 0.8%Microsemi (Canada): 0.6%39 others listed: 3.4%93%largest
Simon Fraser University45k · 93.3%British Columbia Institute of Technology904 · 1.9%Burnaby Hospital412 · 0.8%Microsemi (Canada)275 · 0.6%39 others listed1,654 · 3.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

What is Burnaby strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Burnaby is most concentrated in Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design and Health (5.8× the world share in Human-Computer Interaction).

  1. Human-Computer InteractionSubfield · 75.7 works5.8×
  2. Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignSubfield · 20.6 works3.9×
  3. HealthSubfield · 71.2 works3.8×
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Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

Which keywords describe research in Burnaby?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Deep Learning, Climate Change, Mental Health, Machine Learning, Public Health, Social Support and Neighborhood Effects.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning272▲ 1.25×74 topics
  2. Climate Change245▲ 1.43×95 topics
  3. Globalization233▲ 1.87×104 topics
  4. Machine Learning208◆ 1.00×79 topics
  5. Mental Health166▲ 1.79×40 topics
  6. Epidemiology160▼ 0.64×115 topics
  7. Public Health146▲ 1.58×51 topics
  8. Sustainability137◆ 0.88×84 topics
  9. Neural Networks116▲ 1.18×38 topics
  10. Social Media114▲ 1.25×33 topics
  11. Education100◆ 0.92×80 topics
  12. Identity92▲ 2.0×50 topics
  13. Social Support87▲ 2.5×18 topics
  14. Remote Sensing84◆ 1.08×33 topics
  15. Nationalism78▲ 2.6×25 topics
  16. History77▲ 1.74×38 topics
  17. Social Justice76▲ 2.0×31 topics
  18. Big Data74▲ 1.29×23 topics
  19. Neoliberalism70▲ 3.1×22 topics
  20. Gender69▲ 2.0×42 topics
  21. Ethics67▲ 2.2×37 topics
  22. Colonialism59▲ 1.95×33 topics
  23. Health Equity55▲ 3.2×6 topics
  24. Health Disparities54▲ 3.2×9 topics
  25. Neuroscience51▲ 2.7×14 topics
  26. Feminism50▲ 2.8×18 topics
  27. Neighborhood Effects50▲ 7.2×3 topics
  28. User Experience46▲ 8.9×3 topics
  29. Mortality Risk46▲ 3.0×6 topics
  30. Discrimination44▲ 3.6×8 topics
  31. Emotion44▲ 3.3×12 topics
  32. Immigration40▲ 5.6×6 topics
  33. Substance Abuse40▲ 8.7×2 topics
  34. Convolutional Networks38▲ 4.3×3 topics
  35. Criminal Behavior37▲ 14×2 topics
  36. Participatory Design35▲ 11×2 topics
  37. Youth Violence33▲ 12×3 topics
  38. Health Behavior Change32▲ 10×2 topics
  39. Aesthetics32▲ 6.7×8 topics
  40. Approximation Algorithms31▲ 7.0×5 topics

What research is done in Burnaby?

  1. 1 Fuel Cells and Related Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering 30 works
  2. 2 Innovative Human-Technology Interaction Human-Computer Interaction 28 works
  3. 3 Crime Patterns and Interventions Sociology and Political Science 24 works
  4. 4 Health disparities and outcomes Health 22 works
  5. 5 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 21 works
  6. 6 Canadian Identity and History Sociology and Political Science 20 works
  7. 7 Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 20 works
  8. 8 Homelessness and Social Issues General Health Professions 19 works
  9. 9 Advanced Vision and Imaging Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 19 works
  10. 10 Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis Sociology and Political Science 19 works

Research output over time

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.