Research in Hamilton
Science Explorer records 29 research institutions in Hamilton, Canada. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are McMaster University, Hamilton Health Sciences and Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute.
- Research institutions
- 29 3 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 98k ◆ 1% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 3.5M 35.9 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 20.6% all institutions 10.0%
- Active span
- 1950-2026 77 years on the record
A city carries no overall standing here. The quality 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 Hamilton?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McMaster UniversityUniversity | 92,611 | #226 | |
| 2 | Hamilton Health SciencesHospital / health system | 3,073 | #3,055 | |
| 3 | Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine ProgramResearch facility | 404 | #14,758 all time | |
| 4 | Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research InstituteResearch facility | 399 | #15,657 | |
| 5 | Brockhouse Institute for Materials ResearchResearch facility | 374 | #11,597 all time | |
| 6 | Mohawk CollegeUniversity | 147 | #27,630 all time | |
| 7 | Canada Auto WorkersInstitution | 130 | #31,032 all time | |
| 8 | American Water (Canada)Company | 124 | #31,777 all time | |
| 9 | Hamilton Psychiatric HospitalHospital / health system | 123 | #32,978 all time | |
| 10 | Programs for Assessment of Technology in Health Research InstituteUniversity | 121 | #32,571 all time | |
| 11 | Hydromantis Environmental Software Solutions (Canada)Company | 51 | not ranked | |
| 12 | EnviroSim (Canada)Company | 37 | not ranked | |
| 13 | Hamilton Medical Research GroupHospital / health system | 33 | not ranked | |
| 14 | Dermatrials ResearchResearch facility | 26 | not ranked | |
| 15 | Saint-Gobain (Canada)Company | 19 | not ranked | |
| 16 | Centre for Probe Development and CommercializationNonprofit | 15 | not ranked | |
| 17 | Hamilton Utilities CorporationCompany | 14 | not ranked | |
| 18 | AllerGenResearch facility | 12 | not ranked | |
| 19 | The Mayer InstituteHospital / health system | 7 | not ranked | |
| 20 | Olivieri FoodsCompany | 4 | not ranked | |
| 21 | Centurion Biofuels (Canada)Company | 4 | not ranked | |
| 22 | Canadian Society of Pharmacology and TherapeuticsNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Stryker (Canada)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Fabris (Canada)Company | 2 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Children’s Aid Society of HamiltonNonprofit | 1 | not ranked | |
| 26 | BIOX (Canada)Company | 1 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Heraeus (Canada)Company | 0 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of CanadaNonprofit | 0 | not ranked | |
| 29 | The Canadian Scientific & Christian AffiliationInstitution | 0 | not ranked |
By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. 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.
Which fields of science does Hamilton work in?
In 2022-now, 42% of research in Hamilton is in Health Sciences, 27% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (36%), Engineering (12%), Social Sciences (9%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Health Sciences.
Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.
Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Sciences6,04242.1%
- Medicine5,19736.2%
- Health Professions7425.2%
- Nursing760.5%
- Dentistry190.1%
- Veterinary70.0%
- Physical Sciences3,91627.3%
- Engineering1,75512.2%
- Computer Science5794.0%
- Environmental Science4443.1%
- Materials Science3282.3%
- Physics and Astronomy2791.9%
- Mathematics2171.5%
- Chemistry1190.8%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1090.8%
- Energy550.4%
- Chemical Engineering300.2%
- Social Sciences2,91320.3%
- Social Sciences1,2538.7%
- Psychology7405.1%
- Arts and Humanities2721.9%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance2701.9%
- Business, Management and Accounting2101.5%
- Decision Sciences1681.2%
- Life Sciences1,49610.4%
What is Hamilton strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Hamilton is most concentrated in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Family Practice (6.4× the world share in Internal Medicine).
- Internal MedicineSubfield · 49.9 works6.4×
- GastroenterologySubfield · 63.8 works4.2×
- Family PracticeSubfield · 24.6 works4.0×
- Statistics, Probability and UncertaintySubfield · 76.1 works3.5×
- Immunology and AllergySubfield · 33.6 works3.3×
- HematologySubfield · 124.5 works3.2×
- Critical Care and Intensive Care MedicineSubfield · 60.3 works3.2×
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.
The whole field profile
All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.
Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 2.0×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Health Professions1.99×672 works
- Medicine1.87×4,602 works
- Psychology1.67×652 works
- Neuroscience1.33×276 works
- Mathematics1.26×190 works
- Immunology and Microbiology1.24×160 works
- Decision Sciences1.19×147 works
- Nursing1.08×68 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.02×700 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.93×254 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.87×39 works
- Physics and Astronomy0.87×247 works
- Engineering0.84×1,619 works
- Social Sciences0.69×1,114 works
- Materials Science0.66×296 works
- Arts and Humanities0.66×246 works
- Chemical Engineering0.61×27 works
- Environmental Science0.59×376 works
- Chemistry0.55×111 works
- Computer Science0.52×518 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences0.47×95 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.47×196 works
- Energy0.42×50 works
- Veterinary0.33×6 works
- Dentistry0.28×17 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.23×140 works
Which keywords describe research in Hamilton?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Inflammation, Quality of Life, Mental Health, Risk Factors, Diagnosis, Treatment and Depression.
- Antithrombotic Therapy
- Immunology
- Quality Improvement
- Health Disparities
- Clinical Guidelines
- Medical Education
- Patient Satisfaction
- Biosensors
- Rehabilitation
- Anxiety
- Prevalence
- Global Burden
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Guidelines
- Depression
- Climate Change
- Machine Learning
- Risk Factors
- Mental Health
- Inflammation
- Epidemiology
- Quality of Life
- Treatment
- Diagnosis
- Public Health
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Management
- Genetics
- Clinical Trials
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Primary Care
- Mortality
- Aging
- Adolescents
- Emotion Regulation
- Thrombosis
- Health-related Quality of Life
- Mortality Risk
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Prophylaxis
Size is fractional works in 2022-now 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
- Epidemiology999▲ 1.74×135 topics
- Inflammation559▲ 1.83×81 topics
- Quality of Life398▲ 1.92×56 topics
- Mental Health374▲ 1.82×40 topics
- Treatment340▲ 1.94×50 topics
- Risk Factors338▲ 2.1×36 topics
- Diagnosis315▲ 2.4×41 topics
- Machine Learning314▼ 0.66×82 topics
- Public Health306▲ 1.46×64 topics
- Climate Change303▼ 0.78×99 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease291▲ 1.77×38 topics
- Depression283▲ 2.2×24 topics
- Management270▲ 2.4×36 topics
- Guidelines225▲ 3.3×13 topics
- Genetics220▲ 2.2×26 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome187▲ 1.61×24 topics
- Clinical Trials182▲ 1.90×19 topics
- Global Burden180▲ 2.3×12 topics
- Clinical Practice Guidelines178▲ 2.3×14 topics
- Prevalence170▲ 2.9×14 topics
- Primary Care169▲ 3.2×14 topics
- Anxiety168▲ 2.5×12 topics
- Mortality159▲ 1.95×13 topics
- Rehabilitation158▲ 2.8×12 topics
- Aging154▲ 1.97×18 topics
- Biosensors140▲ 1.99×12 topics
- Adolescents139▲ 2.6×9 topics
- Patient Satisfaction126▲ 2.8×9 topics
- Emotion Regulation120▲ 2.6×9 topics
- Medical Education120▲ 3.1×13 topics
- Thrombosis118▲ 3.0×7 topics
- Clinical Guidelines115▲ 2.7×9 topics
- Health-related Quality of Life111▲ 3.3×6 topics
- Health Disparities110▲ 2.9×9 topics
- Mortality Risk107▲ 3.1×6 topics
- Quality Improvement101▲ 3.6×8 topics
- Evidence-Based Practice97▲ 5.1×7 topics
- Immunology87▲ 5.5×3 topics
- Prophylaxis87▲ 4.8×4 topics
- Antithrombotic Therapy80▲ 7.0×2 topics
What research is done in Hamilton?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 60 works
- 2 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 53 works
- 3 Asthma and respiratory diseases Physiology 50 works
- 4 Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management Internal Medicine 50 works
- 5 Innovations in Medical Education Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 49 works
- 6 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 48 works
- 7 Meta-analysis and systematic reviews Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 42 works
- 8 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes General Health Professions 42 works
- 9 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 41 works
- 10 Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques Molecular Biology 39 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.
Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 31.1% in 2016.
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