Research in Victoria
Science Explorer records 56 research institutions in Victoria, Canada. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022–2025 are University of Victoria, Ministry of Education and Child Care and Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics.
- Research institutions
- 56 7 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 48k ◆ 1% vs 2013–17
- Top-10% rate, 2022–2025
- 22.9% 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 Victoria?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of VictoriaUniversity | 37,060 | #595 | |
| 2 | Herzberg Institute of AstrophysicsResearch facility | 1,765 | #5,681 | |
| 3 | Royal Roads UniversityUniversity | 1,244 | #12,050 | |
| 4 | Institute of Particle PhysicsNonprofit | 1,073 | #7,681 | |
| 5 | Dominion Astrophysical ObservatoryResearch facility | 1,070 | #6,953 all time | |
| 6 | Ministry of Education and Child CareGovernment institution | 734 | #3,816 | |
| 7 | Government of British ColumbiaGovernment institution | 722 | #19,529 | |
| 8 | Island HealthHospital / health system | 480 | #18,970 | |
| 9 | Canadian Sport Centre PacificInstitution | 412 | #23,890 all time | |
| 10 | Ministry of EnvironmentGovernment institution | 382 | #23,472 all time | |
| 11 | Royal British Columbia MuseumArchive | 350 | #25,588 all time | |
| 12 | Ministry of ForestsGovernment institution | 330 | #18,446 all time | |
| 13 | Ministry of HealthGovernment institution | 297 | #20,774 all time | |
| 14 | North Pacific Marine Science OrganizationGovernment institution | 221 | #23,111 all time | |
| 15 | Royal Jubilee HospitalHospital / health system | 214 | #32,743 all time | |
| 16 | Carbon Engineering (Canada)Company | 181 | #26,973 all time | |
| 17 | ASL Environmental Sciences (Canada)Company | 178 | #27,199 all time | |
| 18 | Camosun CollegeUniversity | 169 | #31,668 all time | |
| 19 | Ocean Networks Canada SocietyResearch facility | 167 | #27,575 all time | |
| 20 | Victoria General HospitalHospital / health system | 125 | #34,676 all time | |
| 21 | Pacific Institute for Climate SolutionsResearch facility | 111 | not ranked | |
| 22 | Raincoast Conservation FoundationResearch facility | 82 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Capital Regional DistrictGovernment institution | 81 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Dynamic Systems Analysis (Canada)Company | 60 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Reach Technologies (Canada)Company | 51 | not ranked | |
| 26 | ImmunoPrecise (Canada)Company | 50 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Aurinia (Canada)Company | 41 | not ranked | |
| 28 | Victoria Heart Institute FoundationNonprofit | 35 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Yellow Island Aquaculture (Canada)Company | 28 | not ranked | |
| 30 | International Institute for Child Rights and DevelopmentNonprofit | 22 | not ranked | |
| 31 | Canadian Asian Studies AssociationNonprofit | 18 | not ranked | |
| 32 | RealNetworks (Canada)Company | 18 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Freshwater Fisheries Society of BCNonprofit | 18 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Contech (Canada)Company | 12 | not ranked | |
| 35 | ViVitro Labs (Canada)Company | 11 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Society for NeuroeconomicsInstitution | 11 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Applied Bio-nomics (Canada)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Ministry of Advanced EducationGovernment institution | 7 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Three-Speed Logic (Canada)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 40 | Council of Prairie and Pacific University LibrariesInstitution | 6 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Seastar Chemicals (Canada)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Industrial PlanktonResearch facility | 4 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Aker Arctic (Canada)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 44 | MedGenesis Therapeutix (Canada)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Canadian Society for Italian StudiesInstitution | 2 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Habitat Acquisition TrustNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Ministry of Tourism, Sport and the ArtsGovernment institution | 2 | not ranked | |
| 48 | International Society of Electrophysiology and KinesiologyInstitution | 2 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Ministry of Jobs, Economic Recovery and InnovationGovernment institution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Forest Genetics CouncilGovernment institution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 51 | Canadian Agricultural Economics SocietyInstitution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 52 | British Columbia Arts CouncilGovernment institution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 53 | Quaternion Aerospace (Canada)Company | 0 | not ranked | |
| 54 | Canadian Astronomical SocietyNonprofit | 0 | not ranked | |
| 55 | CosmedicaInstitution | 0 | not ranked | |
| 56 | MycoLogic (Canada)Company | 0 | 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
What is Victoria strongest at in research?
Relative to its size, research in Victoria is most concentrated in Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Oceanography (8.4× the world share in Instrumentation).
- InstrumentationSubfield · 26.3 works8.4×
- Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield · 163.4 works5.0×
- OceanographySubfield · 82.6 works4.7×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 90.6 works4.6×
- Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 53.7 works3.6×
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 Victoria?
By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Globalization, Population Dynamics, Mental Health, Machine Learning, Sustainability, Global Warming and Public Health.
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems
- Substance Abuse
- Marine Mammals
- Particle Physics
- Exoplanets
- Marine Sediments
- Predator-Prey Interactions
- Acoustic Communication
- Health Equity
- Dark Matter
- Colonialism
- Gender
- Conservation
- Population Dynamics
- Identity
- Renewable Energy
- Public Health
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Climate Change
- Globalization
- Sustainability
- Mental Health
- Environmental Impact
- Remote Sensing
- Social Justice
- Global Warming
- Biodiversity
- Invasive Species
- Neoliberalism
- Vulnerability
- Trophic Cascades
- Fisheries Sustainability
- Star Formation
- Ocean Circulation
- Stellar Astrophysics
- Anthropogenic Noise
- Decolonization
- Settler Colonialism
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
- Climate Change430▲ 2.5×100 topics
- Machine Learning204◆ 0.99×80 topics
- Globalization174▲ 1.42×106 topics
- Deep Learning168▼ 0.78×75 topics
- Sustainability164◆ 1.07×90 topics
- Epidemiology152▼ 0.61×122 topics
- Mental Health151▲ 1.64×42 topics
- Public Health131▲ 1.43×56 topics
- Environmental Impact111◆ 1.04×58 topics
- Renewable Energy100◆ 1.11×42 topics
- Remote Sensing91▲ 1.17×37 topics
- Identity90▲ 1.97×53 topics
- Social Justice85▲ 2.3×36 topics
- Population Dynamics82▲ 5.2×13 topics
- Global Warming82▲ 3.2×14 topics
- Conservation80▲ 3.0×22 topics
- Biodiversity75▲ 1.60×34 topics
- Gender74▲ 2.2×44 topics
- Invasive Species72▲ 2.7×19 topics
- Colonialism58▲ 1.95×35 topics
- Neoliberalism57▲ 2.5×23 topics
- Dark Matter52▲ 7.2×4 topics
- Vulnerability52▲ 3.6×9 topics
- Health Equity49▲ 2.9×6 topics
- Trophic Cascades45▲ 7.6×2 topics
- Acoustic Communication41▲ 13×3 topics
- Fisheries Sustainability41▲ 7.4×2 topics
- Predator-Prey Interactions40▲ 8.0×3 topics
- Star Formation40▲ 12×2 topics
- Marine Sediments37▲ 9.6×2 topics
- Ocean Circulation37▲ 4.5×3 topics
- Exoplanets36▲ 14×1 topic
- Stellar Astrophysics36▲ 14×1 topic
- Particle Physics34▲ 7.1×2 topics
- Anthropogenic Noise32▲ 18×1 topic
- Marine Mammals32▲ 18×1 topic
- Decolonization32▲ 6.3×7 topics
- Substance Abuse30▲ 6.6×2 topics
- Settler Colonialism29▲ 11×2 topics
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems27▲ 14×3 topics
What research is done in Victoria?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 36 works
- 2 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 32 works
- 3 Underwater Acoustics Research Oceanography 27 works
- 4 Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Ecology 25 works
- 5 Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights Health 25 works
- 6 Astronomy and Astrophysical Research Instrumentation 25 works
- 7 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies Nuclear and High Energy Physics 23 works
- 8 Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Astronomy and Astrophysics 22 works
- 9 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 21 works
- 10 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 20 works
Research output over time
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more.