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Research in Vancouver
Science Explorer records 212 research institutions in Vancouver, Canada. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of British Columbia, BC Children's Hospital and Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre.
- Research institutions
- 212 15 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 214k ▲ 6% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 22.3% 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 Vancouver?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of British ColumbiaUniversity | 163,985 | #91 | |
| 2 | BC Cancer AgencyHospital / health system | 5,750 | #7,277 | |
| 3 | BC Children's HospitalHospital / health system | 4,105 | #2,925 | |
| 4 | Vancouver General HospitalHospital / health system | 3,899 | #9,065 | |
| 5 | TRIUMFResearch facility | 3,057 | #5,334 | |
| 6 | St. Paul's HospitalHospital / health system | 2,478 | #8,416 | |
| 7 | University of British Columbia HospitalHospital / health system | 2,413 | #4,724 | |
| 8 | Women's Health Research InstituteResearch facility | 1,714 | #19,605 | |
| 9 | Columbia CollegeUniversity | 1,623 | #22,250 | |
| 10 | Vancouver Coastal HealthHospital / health system | 1,245 | #8,007 | |
| 11 | Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences CentreInstitution | 1,075 | #4,649 | |
| 12 | Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences CentreHospital / health system | 1,033 | #10,728 all time | |
| 13 | BC Centre for Disease ControlFunder | 1,003 | #7,949 | |
| 14 | Quest University CanadaUniversity | 980 | #23,013 | |
| 15 | Child and Family Research InstituteResearch facility | 806 | #5,031 all time | |
| 16 | Providence Health CareHospital / health system | 748 | #13,300 | |
| 17 | Centre for Advancing Health OutcomesResearch facility | 727 | #12,372 | |
| 18 | Children's & Women's Health Centre of British ColumbiaHospital / health system | 619 | #13,081 all time | |
| 19 | International Collaboration On Repair DiscoveriesResearch facility | 599 | #10,951 | |
| 20 | BC Hydro (Canada)Company | 581 | #18,374 all time | |
| 21 | Imperial Metals (Canada)Company | 553 | #10,811 all time | |
| 22 | BC Research (Canada)Research facility | 544 | #18,608 all time | |
| 23 | AIDS VancouverNonprofit | 527 | #6,736 all time | |
| 24 | Spinal Cord Injury BCNonprofit | 504 | #12,052 | |
| 25 | Vancouver Biotech (Canada)Company | 499 | #21,664 | |
| 26 | Terry Fox Research InstituteResearch facility | 460 | #12,634 | |
| 27 | Vancouver Coastal Health Research InstituteResearch facility | 451 | #15,115 | |
| 28 | BC Innovation CouncilInstitution | 439 | #7,424 all time | |
| 29 | B.C. Women's Hospital & Health CentreHospital / health system | 421 | #22,581 | |
| 30 | University Canada WestUniversity | 411 | #5,684 | |
| 31 | BGC Engineering (Canada)Company | 399 | #10,189 | |
| 32 | Pancreas Centre (Canada)Company | 396 | #17,722 | |
| 33 | Adidas (Canada)Company | 370 | #26,945 | |
| 34 | Arthritis Research Centre of CanadaNonprofit | 332 | #13,795 all time | |
| 35 | New York Institute of TechnologyUniversity | 311 | #32,223 all time | |
| 36 | British Columbia Centre on Substance UseNonprofit | 302 | #12,584 | |
| 37 | Prevention of Organ FailureNonprofit | 292 | #26,279 all time | |
| 38 | Geoscience BCNonprofit | 291 | #24,961 all time | |
| 39 | Regent CollegeUniversity | 268 | #36,696 all time | |
| 40 | Surgical Specialties (Canada)Company | 265 | #17,188 | |
| 41 | GF Strong Rehabilitation CentreHospital / health system | 264 | #35,302 all time | |
| 42 | Langara CollegeUniversity | 262 | #20,874 all time | |
| 43 | Provincial Health Services AuthorityGovernment institution | 258 | #17,626 | |
| 44 | Shaughnessy HospitalHospital / health system | 255 | #35,735 all time | |
| 45 | Telus (Canada)Company | 249 | #34,291 all time | |
| 46 | Canadian Society of Intestinal ResearchNonprofit | 243 | #34,806 all time | |
| 47 | British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's HealthNonprofit | 231 | #21,401 all time | |
| 48 | Genome British ColumbiaNonprofit | 229 | #17,062 all time | |
| 49 | BC Mental Health & Substance Use ServicesHospital / health system | 217 | #27,521 all time | |
| 50 | Community Based Research CentreNonprofit | 200 | #35,959 all time | |
| 51 | Response Biomedical (Canada)Company | 190 | #25,411 all time | |
| 52 | Western Forest ProductsCompany | 188 | #28,429 all time | |
| 53 | Fraser InstituteNonprofit | 180 | #36,211 all time | |
| 54 | Centre for Drug Research and DevelopmentResearch facility | 170 | #27,265 all time | |
| 55 | Vancouver Native Health SocietyInstitution | 167 | #32,350 all time | |
| 56 | Vancouver AquariumNonprofit | 164 | #22,673 all time | |
| 57 | Stemcell TechnologiesCompany | 150 | #31,005 all time | |
| 58 | Teck (Canada)Company | 148 | #29,352 all time | |
| 59 | Canadian Association of Nurses in OncologyInstitution | 146 | #36,564 all time | |
| 60 | Vancouver Community CollegeUniversity | 139 | #30,767 all time |
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 British Columbia164k · 77.9%BC Cancer Agency5,750 · 2.7%BC Children's Hospital4,105 · 1.9%Vancouver General Hospital3,899 · 1.9%56 others listed33k · 15.6%
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Vancouver strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Vancouver is most concentrated in Toxicology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology and Transplantation (2.7× the world share in Toxicology).
- ToxicologySubfield · 37.1 works2.7×
- Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologySubfield · 23.3 works2.6×
- TransplantationSubfield · 31.8 works2.6×
- HealthSubfield · 188.2 works2.3×
- Behavioral NeuroscienceSubfield · 23.6 works2.2×
- Ecological ModelingSubfield · 45.8 works2.2×
- Linguistics and LanguageSubfield · 68.4 works2.2×
← 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 Vancouver?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Climate Change, Public Health, Inflammation, Mental Health, Quality of Life, Machine Learning and Clinical Trials.
- Chronic Pain Management
- Substance Abuse
- Substance Use Disorders
- Health Disparities
- Prevalence
- Social Support
- Neurological Disorders
- Physical Activity
- Biomarkers
- Genetics
- Immunotherapy
- Cancer
- Clinical Trials
- Depression
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Treatment
- Quality of Life
- Deep Learning
- Inflammation
- Climate Change
- Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Public Health
- Mental Health
- Globalization
- Sustainability
- Oxidative Stress
- Risk Factors
- Diagnosis
- COVID-19
- Management
- Chemotherapy
- Mortality
- Global Burden
- Anxiety
- Genetic Mutations
- Mortality Risk
- Health Equity
- Chronic Disease Management
- Recovery
▲ 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
- Epidemiology1,683▲ 1.56×139 topics
- Climate Change903▲ 1.23×107 topics
- Machine Learning757▼ 0.85×89 topics
- Inflammation683▲ 1.21×83 topics
- Public Health631▲ 1.59×72 topics
- Deep Learning627▼ 0.67×81 topics
- Mental Health588▲ 1.47×46 topics
- Quality of Life558▲ 1.42×58 topics
- Globalization555◆ 1.04×133 topics
- Treatment465▲ 1.41×52 topics
- Sustainability451▼ 0.68×108 topics
- Cardiovascular Disease445▲ 1.47×39 topics
- Oxidative Stress420◆ 0.94×63 topics
- Depression407▲ 1.70×25 topics
- Risk Factors405▲ 1.35×37 topics
- Clinical Trials383▲ 2.1×19 topics
- Diagnosis372▲ 1.47×40 topics
- Cancer355◆ 0.97×55 topics
- COVID-19338◆ 0.91×30 topics
- Immunotherapy320▲ 1.65×19 topics
- Management319▲ 1.49×36 topics
- Genetics300▲ 1.57×27 topics
- Chemotherapy285▲ 1.49×25 topics
- Biomarkers284▲ 1.53×18 topics
- Mortality271▲ 1.72×13 topics
- Physical Activity261▲ 1.95×12 topics
- Global Burden254▲ 1.74×12 topics
- Neurological Disorders243▲ 1.57×20 topics
- Anxiety241▲ 1.87×12 topics
- Social Support238▲ 1.57×19 topics
- Genetic Mutations217▲ 1.84×23 topics
- Prevalence210▲ 1.90×15 topics
- Mortality Risk208▲ 3.2×6 topics
- Health Disparities187▲ 2.6×8 topics
- Health Equity187▲ 2.5×6 topics
- Substance Use Disorders165▲ 8.3×2 topics
- Chronic Disease Management159▲ 3.0×5 topics
- Substance Abuse132▲ 6.8×2 topics
- Recovery129▲ 4.5×4 topics
- Chronic Pain Management98▲ 11×1 topic
What research is done in Vancouver?
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthEpidemiologyInfectious DiseasesEconomics and Econometrics4 others
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 98 works
- 2 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 81 works
- 3 Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Epidemiology 67 works
- 4 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 63 works
- 5 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 62 works
- 6 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 62 works
- 7 Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics Cancer Research 62 works
- 8 Spinal Cord Injury Research Pathology and Forensic Medicine 62 works
- 9 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine 61 works
- 10 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 60 works
Research output over time
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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.