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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?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of CalgaryUniversity 96,194 #207
2Alberta Children's HospitalHospital / health system 2,676 #4,752
3Encana (Canada)Company 2,616 #17,056
4Mount Royal UniversityUniversity 2,511 #6,800
5Calgary Laboratory ServicesResearch facility 1,937 #13,422
6Foothills Medical CentreHospital / health system 1,895 #10,827
7Schlumberger (Canada)Company 976 #17,255 all time
8Libin Cardiovascular Institute of AlbertaResearch facility 964 #10,058
9Petro-CanadaCompany 914 #18,603
10Institute of Cancer ResearchResearch facility 851 #13,765
11Hotchkiss Brain InstituteUniversity 818 #5,991
12Nexen (Canada)Company 773 #14,124
13Imperial Oil (Canada)Company 722 #16,524 all time
14Shell (Canada)Company 680 #19,383 all time
15TransCanada (Canada)Company 638 #12,824 all time
16ConocoPhillips (Canada)Company 557 #16,963 all time
17Alberta Bone and Joint Health InstituteResearch facility 482 #14,518
18Calgary General HospitalHospital / health system 446 #18,277 all time
19Alberta Bible CollegeUniversity 410 #21,369
20Nova Chemicals (Canada)Company 386 #15,485 all time
21Provincial Laboratory of Public HealthResearch facility 377 #18,611 all time
22Canadian Natural ResourcesCompany 373 #20,953 all time
23St. Mary's UniversityUniversity 354 #21,785 all time
24SAIT PolytechnicUniversity 336 #20,953
25BP (Canada)Company 335 #29,364 all time
26Suncor Energy (Canada)Company 326 #24,652
27Husky Energy (Canada)Company 289 #39,463 all time
28ARC Resources (Canada)Company 266 #32,686 all time
29Royal Tyrrell MuseumArchive 242 #31,297 all time
30South Health CampusHospital / health system 239 #24,277 all time
31Apache (Canada)Company 232 #23,299 all time
32Ambrose UniversityUniversity 177 #33,411 all time
33Canadian Pacific Railway (Canada)Company 155 #30,517 all time
34Hyperion Technologies (Canada)Company 146 #36,094 all time
35Baker Hughes (Canada)Company 144 #36,783 all time
36Willow Biosciences (Canada)Company 127 #37,396 all time
37Alberta Oil Sands Technology and Research AuthorityInstitution 124 #33,759 all time
38Heritage Medical Research ClinicHospital / health system 120 #22,873 all time
39Canada Energy RegulatorGovernment institution 115 not ranked
40Chevron (Canada)Company 110 not ranked
41Rockyview General HospitalHospital / health system 105 not ranked
42Cenovus Energy (Canada)Company 102 not ranked
43TECO-Westinghouse (Canada)Company 102 not ranked
44Bentley (Canada)Company 96 not ranked
45Gimbel Eye CentreResearch facility 90 not ranked
46Oncolytics Biotech (Canada)Company 90 not ranked
47Petro Geotech (Canada)Company 85 not ranked
48Virtual Materials Group (Canada)Company 85 not ranked
49Raytheon Technologies (Canada)Company 77 not ranked
50Resverlogix (Canada)Company 73 not ranked
51ATCO (Canada)Company 70 not ranked
52Condor Petroleum (Canada)Company 70 not ranked
53Gibson Energy (Canada)Company 63 not ranked
54Bow Valley CollegeUniversity 63 not ranked
55Canadian Bio-Systems (Canada)Company 60 not ranked
56Petrel Robertson Consulting (Canada)Company 59 not ranked
57NovAtel (Canada)Company 59 not ranked
58Penn West Exploration (Canada)Company 58 not ranked
59Aecom (Canada)Company 57 not ranked
60Running 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.

University of Calgary: 77.9%Alberta Children's Hospital: 2.2%Encana (Canada): 2.1%Mount Royal University: 2.0%56 others listed: 15.8%78%largest
University of Calgary96k · 77.9%Alberta Children's Hospital2,676 · 2.2%Encana (Canada)2,616 · 2.1%Mount Royal University2,511 · 2.0%56 others listed20k · 15.8%

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).

  1. ConservationSubfield · 69.2 works4.0×
  2. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 316.0 works3.3×
  3. Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSubfield · 149.9 works3.2×
  4. Family PracticeSubfield · 22.5 works2.6×
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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 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.

▲ 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. Epidemiology1,038▲ 1.44×136 topics
  2. Machine Learning489▼ 0.82×88 topics
  3. Inflammation474▲ 1.25×81 topics
  4. Mental Health436▲ 1.63×46 topics
  5. Deep Learning433▼ 0.69×78 topics
  6. Climate Change425◆ 0.87×105 topics
  7. Risk Factors357▲ 1.78×37 topics
  8. Sustainability355▼ 0.80×106 topics
  9. Treatment318▲ 1.44×50 topics
  10. Public Health314▲ 1.19×69 topics
  11. Quality of Life311▲ 1.18×58 topics
  12. Depression287▲ 1.79×25 topics
  13. Sustainable Development278◆ 0.96×71 topics
  14. Cardiovascular Disease274▲ 1.35×37 topics
  15. Oxidative Stress272◆ 0.91×60 topics
  16. Diagnosis236▲ 1.39×41 topics
  17. Genetics225▲ 1.77×27 topics
  18. Neurological Disorders221▲ 2.1×20 topics
  19. Social Justice178▲ 1.66×44 topics
  20. Mortality175▲ 1.67×13 topics
  21. Local Wisdom168▲ 1.90×7 topics
  22. Anxiety162▲ 1.88×12 topics
  23. Neuroprotection155▲ 2.4×16 topics
  24. Hydraulic Fracturing152▲ 7.6×2 topics
  25. Adolescents150▲ 2.2×11 topics
  26. Shale Gas144▲ 6.3×2 topics
  27. Neuroimaging142▲ 2.9×11 topics
  28. Reflective Practice130▲ 3.8×7 topics
  29. Community Resilience126▲ 3.9×5 topics
  30. Pore Structure117▲ 5.2×3 topics
  31. Fracture Propagation114▲ 10×1 topic
  32. Shale Gas Reservoirs114▲ 10×1 topic
  33. Gas Permeability112▲ 6.1×2 topics
  34. Nanopores109▲ 6.2×2 topics
  35. Porous Media108▲ 4.5×6 topics
  36. Surfactants106▲ 6.0×5 topics
  37. Mudstones106▲ 7.6×1 topic
  38. Thermal Maturity106▲ 7.6×1 topic
  39. Pore-scale Modeling84▲ 13×1 topic
  40. X-ray Computed Tomography84▲ 13×1 topic

What research is done in Calgary?

  1. 1 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 114 works
  2. 2 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 106 works
  3. 3 Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques Ocean Engineering 84 works
  4. 4 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 73 works
  5. 5 Economic Growth and Fiscal Policies Economics and Econometrics 70 works
  6. 6 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 64 works
  7. 7 Community-based Tourism Development and Sustainability Sociology and Political Science 63 works
  8. 8 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 57 works
  9. 9 Acute Ischemic Stroke Management Epidemiology 57 works
  10. 10 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 56 works

Research output over time

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