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Research in Markham

Science Explorer records 27 research institutions in Markham, Canada. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are Huawei Technologies (Canada), Advanced Micro Devices (Canada) and MD Precision (Canada).

Research institutions
27
3 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
3.4k
▲ 59% vs 2018-21
Citations
55k
16.3 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
18.0%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1960-2026
67 years on the record
Markham

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 Markham?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1Huawei Technologies (Canada)Company 894 #9,663
2Advanced Micro Devices (Canada)Company 882 #14,349
3MD Precision (Canada)Company 146 #17,559
4Integrity Testing Laboratory (Canada)Company 123 #34,049 all time
5Markham Stouffville HospitalHospital / health system 97 not ranked
6Fluidigm (Canada)Company 73 not ranked
7Custom Security Industries (Canada)Company 60 not ranked
8Hypertension CanadaNonprofit 43 not ranked
9Extendicare (Canada)Company 40 not ranked
10Lynde Centre for DermatologyHospital / health system 37 not ranked
11JDA Software (Canada)Company 26 not ranked
12Quanser (Canada)Company 25 not ranked
13Motorola (Canada)Company 20 not ranked
14Canadian Association of Radiation OncologyInstitution 20 not ranked
15Qualcomm (Canada)Company 17 not ranked
16Allergan (Canada)Company 12 not ranked
17OPKO Health (Canada)Company 7 not ranked
18Canadian Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and RehabilitationInstitution 5 not ranked
19Multimatic (Canada)Company 4 not ranked
20Kuraray (Canada)Company 4 not ranked
21Canadian Institute of Steel ConstructionNonprofit 4 not ranked
22ALS Society of CanadaNonprofit 2 not ranked
23Canadian Liver FoundationNonprofit 1 not ranked
24Sofina Foods (Canada)Company 1 not ranked
25CrossWing (Canada)Company 1 not ranked
26Steel Structures Education FoundationInstitution 0 not ranked
27Teleflex (Canada)Company 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.

Huawei Technologies (Canada): 35.1%Advanced Micro Devices (Canada): 34.7%MD Precision (Canada): 5.7%Integrity Testing Laboratory (Canada): 4.8%21 others listed: 19.6%35%largest
Huawei Technologies (Canada)894 · 35.1%Advanced Micro Devices (Canada)882 · 34.7%MD Precision (Canada)146 · 5.7%Integrity Testing Laboratory (Canada)123 · 4.8%21 others listed499 · 19.6%

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

Which fields of science does Markham work in?

In 2022-now, 78% of research in Markham is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (39%), Computer Science (32%), Medicine (7%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 711 fractional works · 78.5% of its workEngineering: 356 fractional works · 39.3% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 214 fractional works · 23.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 24 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 24 fractional works · 2.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 18 fractional works · 2.0% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 17 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 289 fractional works · 31.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 81 fractional works · 8.9% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 56 fractional works · 6.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 50 fractional works · 5.5% of its workInformation Systems: 36 fractional works · 3.9% of its workHardware and Architecture: 28 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSignal Processing: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSoftware: 9 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 24 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 16 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 22 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 14 fractional works · 1.5% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 75 fractional works · 8.2% of its workMedicine: 66 fractional works · 7.3% of its workOncology: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 22 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth Professions: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 67 fractional works · 7.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 20 fractional works · 2.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEducation: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 13 fractional works · 1.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMarketing: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLife Sciences: 54 fractional works · 5.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 32 fractional works · 3.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 21 fractional works · 2.3% of its workBiophysics: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workImmunology: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 8 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 6 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKMarkham906fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences78%Health Sciences8%Social Sciences7%

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
    1. Engineering35639.3%
    2. Computer Science28931.9%
    3. Physics and Astronomy242.7%
    4. Materials Science222.4%
    5. Environmental Science80.9%
    6. Mathematics40.5%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences30.4%
    8. Chemistry20.2%
    9. Energy10.2%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Medicine667.3%
    2. Health Professions70.8%
    3. Dentistry10.1%
    4. Nursing10.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Social Sciences202.2%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting131.5%
    3. Decision Sciences101.1%
    4. Psychology101.1%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance80.9%
    6. Arts and Humanities50.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology323.5%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology101.1%
    3. Neuroscience80.8%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences40.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Markham strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Markham is most concentrated in Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (29.2× the world share in Hardware and Architecture).

  1. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 26.4 works29×
  2. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 53.2 works7.4×
  3. Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield · 199.4 works7.0×
  4. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 46.0 works4.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.66× its world share, 28 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.17× its world share, 10 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.46× its world share, 6 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.12× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 4.25× its world share, 265 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.64× its world share, 318 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.16× its world share, 6 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.61× its world share, 17 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.46× its world share, 4 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.26× its world share, 23 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.29× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.33× its world share, 52 worksMedicineNursing: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.22× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.49× its world share, 13 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.17× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.40× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.29× its world share, 7 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 16 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Computer Science, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science4.25×265 works
  2. Engineering2.64×318 works
  3. Physics and Astronomy1.26×23 works
  4. Immunology and Microbiology1.17×10 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.17×9 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.66×28 works
  7. Materials Science0.61×17 works
  8. Business, Management and Accounting0.49×13 works
  9. Neuroscience0.46×6 works
  10. Mathematics0.46×4 works
  11. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.40×7 works
  12. Medicine0.33×52 works
  13. Health Professions0.29×6 works
  14. Psychology0.29×7 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.22×5 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.19×2 works
  17. Environmental Science0.16×6 works
  18. Veterinary0.16×0 works
  19. Social Sciences0.16×16 works
  20. Dentistry0.15×1 works
  21. Nursing0.15×1 works
  22. Chemistry0.12×2 works
  23. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.11×4 works
  24. Energy0.10×1 works
  25. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.07×0 works
  26. Chemical Engineering0.05×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Markham?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Optical Fiber, Energy Efficiency, Digital Signal Processing, Coherent Detection, Nonlinear Effects and Machine Learning.

▲ 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-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
  1. Deep Learning103▲ 3.3×69 topics
  2. Machine Learning63▲ 2.1×57 topics
  3. Neural Networks56▲ 4.0×32 topics
  4. Energy Efficiency45▲ 5.3×21 topics
  5. Optical Fiber38▲ 41×3 topics
  6. Digital Signal Processing34▲ 79×2 topics
  7. Coherent Detection33▲ 88×1 topic
  8. Nonlinear Effects33▲ 88×1 topic
  9. Microwave Photonics25▲ 33×2 topics
  10. Distributed Systems23▲ 15×6 topics
  11. Integrated Circuits23▲ 17×3 topics
  12. Parallel Computing22▲ 21×4 topics
  13. Big Data21▲ 2.4×15 topics
  14. Biosensors21▲ 4.7×9 topics
  15. High-Performance Computing20▲ 28×2 topics
  16. Optical Access Networks20▲ 69×1 topic
  17. Photonic Signal Processing20▲ 69×1 topic
  18. Optical Modulators18▲ 14×3 topics
  19. Performance Optimization16▲ 29×2 topics
  20. Raman Lasers16▲ 17×2 topics
  21. GPU Computing16▲ 46×1 topic
  22. Multicore Architectures16▲ 46×1 topic
  23. Microcavities16▲ 17×2 topics
  24. Nanophotonic Waveguides16▲ 20×1 topic
  25. Silicon Photonics16▲ 17×1 topic
  26. 5G Networks15▲ 8.3×5 topics
  27. Anomaly Detection14▲ 5.5×4 topics
  28. Semiconductor Lasers14▲ 23×2 topics
  29. Resource Management13▲ 8.7×3 topics
  30. Wireless Communications13▲ 8.4×5 topics
  31. Wireless Networks13▲ 9.8×8 topics
  32. Channel Estimation12▲ 15×4 topics
  33. Virtualization11▲ 15×2 topics
  34. Data Integration11▲ 7.1×4 topics
  35. Unsupervised Learning11▲ 8.0×3 topics
  36. Beamforming11▲ 11×4 topics
  37. Channel Modeling10▲ 9.6×5 topics
  38. Wireless Communication10▲ 7.8×7 topics
  39. FPGA10▲ 29×4 topics
  40. Spectral Efficiency10▲ 17×2 topics

What research is done in Markham?

Optical Network Technolo…30Optical Network Technologies: 30 fractional worksAdvanced Photonic Communication Systems: 19 fractional worksParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques: 16 fractional worksPhotonic and Optical Devices: 15 fractional worksSemiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices: 9 fractional worksAdvanced Optical Network…8Advanced Optical Network Technologies: 8 fractional worksSingle-cell and spatial transcriptomics: 8 fractional worksCloud Computing and Resource Management: 8 fractional worksSoftware Engineering Research: 7 fractional worksTopic Modeling: 7 fractional works
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringHardware and ArchitectureMolecular BiologyInformation Systems1 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 30 works
  2. 2 Advanced Photonic Communication Systems Electrical and Electronic Engineering 19 works
  3. 3 Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Hardware and Architecture 16 works
  4. 4 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 15 works
  5. 5 Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 9 works
  6. 6 Advanced Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 8 works
  7. 7 Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics Molecular Biology 8 works
  8. 8 Cloud Computing and Resource Management Information Systems 8 works
  9. 9 Software Engineering Research Information Systems 7 works
  10. 10 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 7 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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.

still counting20%40%Markham15.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 30.6% in 2014.

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