Research in Victoria
Science Explorer records 52 research institutions in Victoria, Canada. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Victoria, Royal Roads University and Institute of Particle Physics.
- Research institutions
- 52 6 of them ranked worldwide
- Research works
- 48k ◆ 0% vs 2018-21
- Citations
- 1.2M 25.0 per fractional work, all time
- Top-10% rate, 2022-now
- 22.9% 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 Victoria?
| # | Institution | Works | Against the largest here | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of VictoriaUniversity | 37,228 | #343 | |
| 2 | Royal Roads UniversityUniversity | 1,244 | #6,883 | |
| 3 | Institute of Particle PhysicsNonprofit | 1,073 | #11,439 | |
| 4 | Ministry of Education and Child CareGovernment institution | 734 | #19,896 | |
| 5 | Government of British ColumbiaGovernment institution | 722 | #19,715 | |
| 6 | Island HealthHospital / health system | 480 | #17,982 | |
| 7 | Canadian Sport Centre PacificInstitution | 412 | #11,376 all time | |
| 8 | Ministry of EnvironmentGovernment institution | 382 | #23,377 all time | |
| 9 | Royal British Columbia MuseumArchive | 350 | #21,162 all time | |
| 10 | Ministry of ForestsGovernment institution | 330 | #24,478 all time | |
| 11 | Ministry of HealthGovernment institution | 297 | #16,833 all time | |
| 12 | North Pacific Marine Science OrganizationGovernment institution | 221 | #34,277 all time | |
| 13 | Royal Jubilee HospitalHospital / health system | 214 | #27,509 all time | |
| 14 | Carbon Engineering (Canada)Company | 181 | #22,512 all time | |
| 15 | ASL Environmental Sciences (Canada)Company | 178 | #34,801 all time | |
| 16 | Camosun CollegeUniversity | 169 | #28,107 all time | |
| 17 | Victoria General HospitalHospital / health system | 125 | #32,114 all time | |
| 18 | Raincoast Conservation FoundationResearch facility | 82 | not ranked | |
| 19 | Capital Regional DistrictGovernment institution | 81 | not ranked | |
| 20 | Dynamic Systems Analysis (Canada)Company | 60 | not ranked | |
| 21 | Reach Technologies (Canada)Company | 51 | not ranked | |
| 22 | ImmunoPrecise (Canada)Company | 50 | not ranked | |
| 23 | Aurinia (Canada)Company | 41 | not ranked | |
| 24 | Victoria Heart Institute FoundationNonprofit | 35 | not ranked | |
| 25 | Yellow Island Aquaculture (Canada)Company | 28 | not ranked | |
| 26 | International Institute for Child Rights and DevelopmentNonprofit | 22 | not ranked | |
| 27 | Canadian Asian Studies AssociationNonprofit | 18 | not ranked | |
| 28 | RealNetworks (Canada)Company | 18 | not ranked | |
| 29 | Freshwater Fisheries Society of BCNonprofit | 18 | not ranked | |
| 30 | Contech (Canada)Company | 12 | not ranked | |
| 31 | ViVitro Labs (Canada)Company | 11 | not ranked | |
| 32 | Society for NeuroeconomicsInstitution | 11 | not ranked | |
| 33 | Applied Bio-nomics (Canada)Company | 7 | not ranked | |
| 34 | Ministry of Advanced EducationGovernment institution | 7 | not ranked | |
| 35 | Three-Speed Logic (Canada)Company | 6 | not ranked | |
| 36 | Council of Prairie and Pacific University LibrariesInstitution | 6 | not ranked | |
| 37 | Seastar Chemicals (Canada)Company | 5 | not ranked | |
| 38 | Industrial PlanktonResearch facility | 4 | not ranked | |
| 39 | Aker Arctic (Canada)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 40 | MedGenesis Therapeutix (Canada)Company | 3 | not ranked | |
| 41 | Canadian Society for Italian StudiesInstitution | 2 | not ranked | |
| 42 | Habitat Acquisition TrustNonprofit | 2 | not ranked | |
| 43 | Ministry of Tourism, Sport and the ArtsGovernment institution | 2 | not ranked | |
| 44 | International Society of Electrophysiology and KinesiologyInstitution | 2 | not ranked | |
| 45 | Ministry of Jobs, Economic Recovery and InnovationGovernment institution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 46 | Canadian Agricultural Economics SocietyInstitution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 47 | Forest Genetics CouncilGovernment institution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 48 | British Columbia Arts CouncilGovernment institution | 1 | not ranked | |
| 49 | Quaternion Aerospace (Canada)Company | 0 | not ranked | |
| 50 | Canadian Astronomical SocietyNonprofit | 0 | not ranked | |
| 51 | CosmedicaInstitution | 0 | not ranked | |
| 52 | MycoLogic (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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which fields of science does Victoria work in?
In 2022-now, 49% of research in Victoria is in Physical Sciences, 28% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (14%), Engineering (13%), Medicine (10%). It does 1.3× the world's share of Physical 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
- Physical Sciences3,48349.0%
- Engineering95313.4%
- Environmental Science6629.3%
- Computer Science5567.8%
- Physics and Astronomy4746.7%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2974.2%
- Materials Science1832.6%
- Mathematics1311.8%
- Chemistry1241.7%
- Energy680.9%
- Chemical Engineering340.5%
- Social Sciences2,00828.2%
- Social Sciences1,00214.1%
- Psychology3575.0%
- Arts and Humanities3044.3%
- Business, Management and Accounting1402.0%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1301.8%
- Decision Sciences741.0%
- Health Sciences99514.0%
- Medicine6909.7%
- Health Professions2743.9%
- Nursing200.3%
- Veterinary60.1%
- Dentistry50.1%
- Life Sciences6298.8%
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.
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: Physics and Astronomy, 2.9×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physics and Astronomy2.92×407 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences2.60×256 works
- Environmental Science1.87×583 works
- Psychology1.67×320 works
- Mathematics1.59×117 works
- Arts and Humanities1.54×278 works
- Health Professions1.53×252 works
- Chemical Engineering1.16×26 works
- Social Sciences1.12×886 works
- Decision Sciences1.10×67 works
- Chemistry1.07×106 works
- Computer Science1.02×499 works
- Energy1.01×58 works
- Neuroscience1.00×102 works
- Engineering0.91×855 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.89×120 works
- Materials Science0.71×155 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.69×231 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.65×14 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.60×122 works
- Nursing0.55×17 works
- Veterinary0.54×5 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.52×156 works
- Medicine0.51×609 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.47×30 works
- Dentistry0.11×3 works
Which keywords describe research in Victoria?
By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Globalization, Population Dynamics, Mental Health, Machine Learning, Global Warming, Sustainability and Dark Matter.
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems
- Settler Colonialism
- Anthropogenic Noise
- Stellar Astrophysics
- Marine Sediments
- Ocean Circulation
- Predator-Prey Interactions
- Acoustic Communication
- Health Equity
- Neoliberalism
- Colonialism
- Invasive Species
- Conservation
- Global Warming
- Identity
- Renewable Energy
- Public Health
- Epidemiology
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Climate Change
- Globalization
- Sustainability
- Mental Health
- Environmental Impact
- Remote Sensing
- Social Justice
- Population Dynamics
- Biodiversity
- Gender
- Dark Matter
- Vulnerability
- Trophic Cascades
- Fisheries Sustainability
- Star Formation
- Particle Physics
- Exoplanets
- Decolonization
- Marine Mammals
- Cosmology
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
- Climate Change492▲ 2.5×104 topics
- Machine Learning231◆ 0.98×83 topics
- Globalization196▲ 1.40×109 topics
- Deep Learning186▼ 0.76×76 topics
- Sustainability183◆ 1.05×94 topics
- Epidemiology172▼ 0.61×124 topics
- Mental Health168▲ 1.65×43 topics
- Public Health146▲ 1.41×59 topics
- Environmental Impact129◆ 1.06×61 topics
- Renewable Energy113◆ 1.10×45 topics
- Remote Sensing105▲ 1.21×37 topics
- Identity98▲ 1.90×54 topics
- Social Justice98▲ 2.3×37 topics
- Global Warming96▲ 3.2×15 topics
- Population Dynamics94▲ 5.1×13 topics
- Conservation91▲ 3.0×23 topics
- Biodiversity88▲ 1.63×35 topics
- Invasive Species82▲ 2.7×20 topics
- Gender80▲ 2.1×45 topics
- Colonialism66▲ 1.97×37 topics
- Dark Matter61▲ 7.5×4 topics
- Neoliberalism61▲ 2.4×24 topics
- Vulnerability58▲ 3.5×9 topics
- Health Equity57▲ 2.8×6 topics
- Trophic Cascades50▲ 7.8×2 topics
- Acoustic Communication49▲ 13×3 topics
- Fisheries Sustainability46▲ 7.6×2 topics
- Predator-Prey Interactions46▲ 8.2×3 topics
- Star Formation44▲ 11×2 topics
- Ocean Circulation42▲ 4.2×3 topics
- Particle Physics41▲ 7.9×2 topics
- Marine Sediments40▲ 8.8×2 topics
- Exoplanets39▲ 14×1 topic
- Stellar Astrophysics39▲ 14×1 topic
- Decolonization37▲ 6.4×7 topics
- Anthropogenic Noise37▲ 18×1 topic
- Marine Mammals37▲ 18×1 topic
- Settler Colonialism33▲ 11×2 topics
- Cosmology33▲ 6.9×4 topics
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems32▲ 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.
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 32.8% in 2013.
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