Research in Calgary
Science Explorer records 124 research institutions in Calgary, Canada. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Calgary, Alberta Children's Hospital and Hotchkiss Brain Institute.
- Research institutions
- 124 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 124k ▲ 15% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 18.7% 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 Calgary?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of CalgaryUniversity | 96,194 | #207 | |
| 2 | Alberta Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 2,676 | #4,752 | |
| 3 | Encana (Canada)Company | 2,616 | #17,056 | |
| 4 | Mount Royal UniversityUniversity | 2,511 | #6,800 | |
| 5 | Calgary Laboratory ServicesResearch facility | 1,937 | #13,422 | |
| 6 | Foothills Medical CentreHospital / health system | 1,895 | #10,827 | |
| 7 | Schlumberger (Canada)Company | 976 | #17,255 all time | |
| 8 | Libin Cardiovascular Institute of AlbertaResearch facility | 964 | #10,058 | |
| 9 | Petro-CanadaCompany | 914 | #18,603 | |
| 10 | Institute of Cancer ResearchResearch facility | 851 | #13,765 | |
| 11 | Hotchkiss Brain InstituteUniversity | 818 | #5,991 | |
| 12 | Nexen (Canada)Company | 773 | #14,124 | |
| 13 | Imperial Oil (Canada)Company | 722 | #16,524 all time | |
| 14 | Shell (Canada)Company | 680 | #19,383 all time | |
| 15 | TransCanada (Canada)Company | 638 | #12,824 all time | |
| 16 | ConocoPhillips (Canada)Company | 557 | #16,963 all time | |
| 17 | Alberta Bone and Joint Health InstituteResearch facility | 482 | #14,518 | |
| 18 | Calgary General HospitalHospital / health system | 446 | #18,277 all time | |
| 19 | Alberta Bible CollegeUniversity | 410 | #21,369 | |
| 20 | Nova Chemicals (Canada)Company | 386 | #15,485 all time | |
| 21 | Provincial Laboratory of Public HealthResearch facility | 377 | #18,611 all time | |
| 22 | Canadian Natural ResourcesCompany | 373 | #20,953 all time | |
| 23 | St. Mary's UniversityUniversity | 354 | #21,785 all time | |
| 24 | SAIT PolytechnicUniversity | 336 | #20,953 | |
| 25 | BP (Canada)Company | 335 | #29,364 all time | |
| 26 | Suncor Energy (Canada)Company | 326 | #24,652 | |
| 27 | Husky Energy (Canada)Company | 289 | #39,463 all time | |
| 28 | ARC Resources (Canada)Company | 266 | #32,686 all time | |
| 29 | Royal Tyrrell MuseumArchive | 242 | #31,297 all time | |
| 30 | South Health CampusHospital / health system | 239 | #24,277 all time | |
| 31 | Apache (Canada)Company | 232 | #23,299 all time | |
| 32 | Ambrose UniversityUniversity | 177 | #33,411 all time | |
| 33 | Canadian Pacific Railway (Canada)Company | 155 | #30,517 all time | |
| 34 | Hyperion Technologies (Canada)Company | 146 | #36,094 all time | |
| 35 | Baker Hughes (Canada)Company | 144 | #36,783 all time | |
| 36 | Willow Biosciences (Canada)Company | 127 | #37,396 all time | |
| 37 | Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research AuthorityInstitution | 124 | #33,759 all time | |
| 38 | Heritage Medical Research ClinicHospital / health system | 120 | #22,873 all time | |
| 39 | Canada Energy RegulatorGovernment institution | 115 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Chevron (Canada)Company | 110 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Rockyview General HospitalHospital / health system | 105 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Cenovus Energy (Canada)Company | 102 | not ranked | |
| 43 | TECO-Westinghouse (Canada)Company | 102 | not ranked | |
| 44 | Bentley (Canada)Company | 96 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Gimbel Eye CentreResearch facility | 90 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Oncolytics Biotech (Canada)Company | 90 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Petro Geotech (Canada)Company | 85 | not ranked | |
| 48 | Virtual Materials Group (Canada)Company | 85 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Raytheon Technologies (Canada)Company | 77 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Resverlogix (Canada)Company | 73 | not ranked | |
| 51 | ATCO (Canada)Company | 70 | not ranked | |
| 52 | Condor Petroleum (Canada)Company | 70 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Gibson Energy (Canada)Company | 63 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Bow Valley CollegeUniversity | 63 | not ranked | |
| 55 | Canadian Bio-Systems (Canada)Company | 60 | not ranked | |
| 56 | Petrel Robertson Consulting (Canada)Company | 59 | not ranked | |
| 57 | NovAtel (Canada)Company | 59 | not ranked | |
| 58 | Penn West Exploration (Canada)Company | 58 | not ranked | |
| 59 | Aecom (Canada)Company | 57 | not ranked | |
| 60 | Running Injury ClinicHospital / health system | 55 | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Calgary strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Calgary is most concentrated in Conservation, Ocean Engineering and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (4.0× the world share in Conservation).
- ConservationSubfield · 69.2 works4.0×
- Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 316.0 works3.3×
- Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSubfield · 149.9 works3.2×
- Family PracticeSubfield · 22.5 works2.6×
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 Calgary?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Mental Health, Inflammation, Risk Factors, Hydraulic Fracturing, Depression, Machine Learning and Shale Gas.
- X-ray Computed Tomography
- Thermal Maturity
- Surfactants
- Nanopores
- Shale Gas Reservoirs
- Pore Structure
- Reflective Practice
- Shale Gas
- Hydraulic Fracturing
- Anxiety
- Mortality
- Neurological Disorders
- Diagnosis
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Depression
- Public Health
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Mental Health
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Inflammation
- Deep Learning
- Risk Factors
- Treatment
- Quality of Life
- Sustainable Development
- Oxidative Stress
- Genetics
- Social Justice
- Local Wisdom
- Neuroprotection
- Adolescents
- Neuroimaging
- Community Resilience
- Fracture Propagation
- Gas Permeability
- Porous Media
- Mudstones
- Pore-scale Modeling
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
- Epidemiology1,038▲ 1.44×136 topics
- Machine Learning489▼ 0.82×88 topics
- Inflammation474▲ 1.25×81 topics
- Mental Health436▲ 1.63×46 topics
- Deep Learning433▼ 0.69×78 topics
- Climate Change425◆ 0.87×105 topics
- Risk Factors357▲ 1.78×37 topics
- Sustainability355▼ 0.80×106 topics
- Treatment318▲ 1.44×50 topics
- Public Health314▲ 1.19×69 topics
- Quality of Life311▲ 1.18×58 topics
- Depression287▲ 1.79×25 topics
- Sustainable Development278◆ 0.96×71 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease274▲ 1.35×37 topics
- Oxidative Stress272◆ 0.91×60 topics
- Diagnosis236▲ 1.39×41 topics
- Genetics225▲ 1.77×27 topics
- Neurological Disorders221▲ 2.1×20 topics
- Social Justice178▲ 1.66×44 topics
- Mortality175▲ 1.67×13 topics
- Local Wisdom168▲ 1.90×7 topics
- Anxiety162▲ 1.88×12 topics
- Neuroprotection155▲ 2.4×16 topics
- Hydraulic Fracturing152▲ 7.6×2 topics
- Adolescents150▲ 2.2×11 topics
- Shale Gas144▲ 6.3×2 topics
- Neuroimaging142▲ 2.9×11 topics
- Reflective Practice130▲ 3.8×7 topics
- Community Resilience126▲ 3.9×5 topics
- Pore Structure117▲ 5.2×3 topics
- Fracture Propagation114▲ 10×1 topic
- Shale Gas Reservoirs114▲ 10×1 topic
- Gas Permeability112▲ 6.1×2 topics
- Nanopores109▲ 6.2×2 topics
- Porous Media108▲ 4.5×6 topics
- Surfactants106▲ 6.0×5 topics
- Mudstones106▲ 7.6×1 topic
- Thermal Maturity106▲ 7.6×1 topic
- Pore-scale Modeling84▲ 13×1 topic
- X-ray Computed Tomography84▲ 13×1 topic
What research is done in Calgary?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 114 works
- 2 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 106 works
- 3 Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques Ocean Engineering 84 works
- 4 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 73 works
- 5 Economic Growth and Fiscal Policies Economics and Econometrics 70 works
- 6 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 64 works
- 7 Community-based Tourism Development and Sustainability Sociology and Political Science 63 works
- 8 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 57 works
- 9 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 57 works
- 10 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 56 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.