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Research in Toronto
Science Explorer records 417 research institutions in Toronto, Canada. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Toronto, York University and University Health Network.
- Research institutions
- 417 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 472k ▲ 12% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 21.1% 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 Toronto?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of TorontoUniversity | 221,429 | #42 | |
| 2 | York UniversityUniversity | 49,717 | #765 | |
| 3 | Hospital for Sick ChildrenHospital / health system | 22,382 | #1,386 | |
| 4 | Toronto Metropolitan UniversityUniversity | 21,170 | #1,414 | |
| 5 | University Health NetworkHospital / health system | 14,013 | #802 | |
| 6 | Sunnybrook Health Science CentreHospital / health system | 10,347 | #2,615 | |
| 7 | St. Michael's HospitalHospital / health system | 8,862 | #2,332 | |
| 8 | Princess Margaret Cancer CentreHospital / health system | 8,025 | #1,483 | |
| 9 | Toronto General HospitalHospital / health system | 7,288 | #2,766 | |
| 10 | Mount Sinai HospitalHospital / health system | 7,276 | #4,357 | |
| 11 | SickKids FoundationFunder | 6,323 | #3,087 | |
| 12 | Centre for Addiction and Mental HealthHospital / health system | 5,540 | #2,493 | |
| 13 | Toronto Western HospitalHospital / health system | 5,379 | #6,142 | |
| 14 | Toronto Public HealthGovernment institution | 4,186 | #12,131 | |
| 15 | Ontario Institute for Cancer ResearchFunder | 3,997 | #8,358 | |
| 16 | The Scarborough HospitalHospital / health system | 3,666 | #3,683 | |
| 17 | Public Health OntarioHospital / health system | 3,595 | #2,457 | |
| 18 | Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada)Company | 3,093 | #3,352 | |
| 19 | Institute for Christian StudiesUniversity | 2,615 | #11,145 | |
| 20 | Women's College HospitalHospital / health system | 2,614 | #4,314 | |
| 21 | Trinity CollegeUniversity | 2,518 | #6,902 | |
| 22 | Toronto Rehabilitation InstituteHospital / health system | 2,314 | #5,666 | |
| 23 | Institute for Clinical Evaluative SciencesNonprofit | 2,261 | #6,486 | |
| 24 | Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research InstituteResearch facility | 2,045 | #3,241 | |
| 25 | Hydro One (Canada)Company | 2,035 | #8,549 all time | |
| 26 | Baycrest HospitalHospital / health system | 1,722 | #10,156 | |
| 27 | Canadian Institute for Advanced ResearchResearch facility | 1,690 | #1,641 | |
| 28 | Royal Ontario MuseumArchive | 1,342 | #15,269 | |
| 29 | Golder Associates (Canada)Company | 1,228 | #17,357 | |
| 30 | Occupational Cancer Research CentreResearch facility | 1,162 | #11,625 | |
| 31 | Cancer Care OntarioGovernment institution | 1,063 | #23,165 | |
| 32 | Sunnybrook HospitalHospital / health system | 1,031 | #8,133 | |
| 33 | Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and ParksGovernment institution | 1,011 | #19,126 | |
| 34 | Canadian Institute for Theoretical AstrophysicsResearch facility | 1,001 | #7,967 | |
| 35 | St Joseph's Health CentreHospital / health system | 937 | #16,390 all time | |
| 36 | Wellesley InstituteNonprofit | 900 | #10,352 all time | |
| 37 | Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation HospitalHospital / health system | 868 | #19,349 | |
| 38 | Sinai Health SystemHospital / health system | 845 | #5,971 | |
| 39 | Ministry of Transportation of OntarioGovernment institution | 799 | #21,276 all time | |
| 40 | Ontario College of Art and DesignUniversity | 776 | #22,584 | |
| 41 | Institute for Work & HealthNonprofit | 747 | #13,651 | |
| 42 | Kensington HealthNonprofit | 735 | #18,661 | |
| 43 | Ontario Brain InstituteNonprofit | 728 | #8,862 | |
| 44 | Centre for Global Health ResearchNonprofit | 678 | #7,127 | |
| 45 | PricewaterhouseCoopers (Canada)Company | 677 | #23,707 | |
| 46 | Xerox (Canada)Company | 672 | #4,482 all time | |
| 47 | Humber PolytechnicUniversity | 643 | #18,313 | |
| 48 | Canadian Memorial Chiropractic CollegeUniversity | 621 | #27,272 | |
| 49 | North York General HospitalHospital / health system | 613 | #13,839 | |
| 50 | Centre for Movement DisordersHospital / health system | 610 | #21,318 | |
| 51 | Novelis (Canada)Company | 595 | #20,961 | |
| 52 | Pediatric Oncology GroupInstitution | 550 | #17,455 all time | |
| 53 | Vector InstituteResearch facility | 547 | #2,175 | |
| 54 | Wycliffe CollegeUniversity | 536 | #19,781 | |
| 55 | Ministry of Health and Long Term CareGovernment institution | 499 | #17,183 all time | |
| 56 | Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical SciencesResearch facility | 438 | #14,951 all time | |
| 57 | The Wilson CentreResearch facility | 419 | #16,094 | |
| 58 | Toronto ZooArchive | 419 | #23,674 all time | |
| 59 | Heart and Stroke FoundationNonprofit | 407 | #14,040 all time | |
| 60 | Geomechanica (Canada)Company | 389 | #23,638 |
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 Toronto221k · 49.1%York University50k · 11.0%Hospital for Sick Children22k · 5.0%Toronto Metropolitan University21k · 4.7%56 others listed136k · 30.2%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Toronto strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Toronto is most concentrated in Transplantation, Public Administration and Theoretical Computer Science (3.3× the world share in Transplantation).
- TransplantationSubfield · 100.3 works3.3×
- Public AdministrationSubfield · 104.5 works2.8×
- Theoretical Computer ScienceSubfield · 32.3 works2.7×
- Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 1,366.9 works2.7×
- General Decision SciencesSubfield · 35.6 works2.7×
- Family PracticeSubfield · 86.2 works2.6×
- Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 873.7 works2.5×
← 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.
Which keywords describe research in Toronto?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Mental Health, Depression, Inflammation, Quality of Life, Machine Learning, Globalization and Deep Learning.
- Health Equity
- Mortality Risk
- Health Disparities
- Radiotherapy
- Precision Medicine
- Aging
- Gender
- Mortality
- Biomarkers
- Chemotherapy
- Neurological Disorders
- Identity
- Cancer
- COVID-19
- Treatment
- Oxidative Stress
- Public Health
- Globalization
- Inflammation
- Machine Learning
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Mental Health
- Quality of Life
- Depression
- Risk Factors
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Healthcare
- Clinical Trials
- Immunotherapy
- Anxiety
- Genetics
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Primary Care
- Social Support
- Nationalism
- Adolescents
- Prevalence
- Ethical Considerations
- Neuroimaging
▲ 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
- Epidemiology3,851▲ 1.41×139 topics
- Machine Learning2,059◆ 0.91×96 topics
- Deep Learning2,058◆ 0.87×85 topics
- Inflammation1,808▲ 1.26×83 topics
- Mental Health1,724▲ 1.70×47 topics
- Globalization1,637▲ 1.21×166 topics
- Quality of Life1,536▲ 1.54×60 topics
- Public Health1,441▲ 1.44×73 topics
- Depression1,362▲ 2.2×26 topics
- Oxidative Stress1,189◆ 1.05×63 topics
- Risk Factors1,114▲ 1.47×37 topics
- Treatment1,102▲ 1.32×52 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease1,084▲ 1.41×39 topics
- COVID-19991◆ 1.05×33 topics
- Healthcare990▲ 1.27×40 topics
- Cancer950◆ 1.03×58 topics
- Clinical Trials950▲ 2.0×19 topics
- Identity928▲ 1.85×75 topics
- Immunotherapy894▲ 1.82×19 topics
- Neurological Disorders889▲ 2.3×20 topics
- Anxiety816▲ 2.5×12 topics
- Chemotherapy811▲ 1.68×25 topics
- Genetics801▲ 1.66×27 topics
- Biomarkers786▲ 1.67×18 topics
- Metabolic Syndrome765▲ 1.36×24 topics
- Mortality759▲ 1.90×13 topics
- Primary Care698▲ 2.7×15 topics
- Gender673▲ 1.80×56 topics
- Social Support654▲ 1.70×20 topics
- Aging641▲ 1.73×19 topics
- Nationalism636▲ 1.99×32 topics
- Precision Medicine617▲ 1.92×8 topics
- Adolescents609▲ 2.4×11 topics
- Radiotherapy587▲ 2.2×13 topics
- Prevalence581▲ 2.1×15 topics
- Health Disparities566▲ 3.1×9 topics
- Ethical Considerations543▲ 2.3×21 topics
- Mortality Risk534▲ 3.2×6 topics
- Neuroimaging529▲ 2.8×11 topics
- Health Equity528▲ 2.8×6 topics
What research is done in Toronto?
Clinical PsychologyEconomics and EconometricsHealth InformaticsPsychiatry and Mental health6 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 212 works
- 2 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 198 works
- 3 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 196 works
- 4 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 184 works
- 5 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 175 works
- 6 Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment Genetics 163 works
- 7 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 162 works
- 8 Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 159 works
- 9 Homelessness and Social Issues General Health Professions 152 works
- 10 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 151 works
Research output over time
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.