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Research in Waterloo

Science Explorer records 42 research institutions in Waterloo, Canada. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are University of Waterloo, Perimeter Institute and Wilfrid Laurier University.

Research institutions
42
8 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
106k
▼ 3% vs 2018-21
Citations
3M
28.4 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
21.8%
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 Waterloo?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1University of WaterlooUniversity 86,476 #278
2Wilfrid Laurier UniversityUniversity 12,799 #1,982
3Perimeter InstituteResearch facility 2,822 #1,934
4Centre for International Governance InnovationNonprofit 975 #16,968
5Balsillie School of International AffairsUniversity 470 #14,752
6Regional Municipality of WaterlooGovernment institution 391 #18,434
7St. Jerome's UniversityUniversity 314 #22,945 all time
8Blackberry (Canada)Company 272 #16,663 all time
9Research Institute for AgingNonprofit 262 #14,529
10Cybernet Systems Corporation (Canada)Company 238 #28,239 all time
11Probity Medical ResearchResearch facility 208 #21,172
12Dalsa CorporationCompany 149 #32,872 all time
13Conestoga Meat Packers (Canada)Company 144 #33,013 all time
14Open Text (Canada)Company 108 not ranked
15Ansys (Canada)Company 75 not ranked
16Lakes Environmental (Canada)Company 72 not ranked
17Bioinformatics Solutions (Canada)Company 45 not ranked
18Canadian Water NetworkNonprofit 30 not ranked
19Smarter Alloys (Canada)Company 30 not ranked
20IGNIS Innovation (Canada)Company 30 not ranked
21Ontario Drive & Gear (Canada)Company 27 not ranked
22Intelligent Mechatronic Systems (Canada)Company 26 not ranked
23Terahertz Technology Solutions (Canada)Company 22 not ranked
24Huron Technologies (Canada)Company 22 not ranked
25Northern Digital (Canada)Company 21 not ranked
26Intellijoint Surgical (Canada)Company 18 not ranked
27PTC (Canada)Company 16 not ranked
28Waterloo CFD Engineering ConsultingCompany 15 not ranked
29Pattern Discovery Technologies (Canada)Company 9 not ranked
30Environmental Studies Association of CanadaInstitution 9 not ranked
31DSM (Canada)Company 7 not ranked
32P&P Optica (Canada)Company 7 not ranked
33CrossChasm Technologies (Canada)Company 6 not ranked
34CommunitechNonprofit 4 not ranked
35Mennonite Economic Development AssociatesInstitution 3 not ranked
36Magnum Semiconductor (Canada)Company 3 not ranked
37Nicoya Lifesciences (Canada)Company 2 not ranked
38Southern African Migration ProgrammeInstitution 2 not ranked
39Nuvation (Canada)Company 2 not ranked
40ShadNonprofit 2 not ranked
41Teledyne Technologies (Canada)Company 0 not ranked
42Waterloo Institute for Disaster ManagementGovernment institution 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.

University of Waterloo: 81.5%Wilfrid Laurier University: 12.1%Perimeter Institute: 2.7%Centre for International Governance Innovation: 0.9%36 others listed: 2.9%81%largest
University of Waterloo86k · 81.5%Wilfrid Laurier University13k · 12.1%Perimeter Institute2,822 · 2.7%Centre for International Governance Innovation975 · 0.9%36 others listed3,061 · 2.9%

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

Which fields of science does Waterloo work in?

In 2022-now, 56% of research in Waterloo is in Physical Sciences, 26% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (19%), Computer Science (14%), Social Sciences (12%). It does 1.4× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 8,987 fractional works · 55.8% of its workEngineering: 3,035 fractional works · 18.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 744 fractional works · 4.6% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 463 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 337 fractional works · 2.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 237 fractional works · 1.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 226 fractional works · 1.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 204 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 162 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 160 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 120 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 119 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 77 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 73 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMedia Technology: 51 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 49 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 2,226 fractional works · 13.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 862 fractional works · 5.3% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 283 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 283 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 247 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems: 220 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 96 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSignal Processing: 74 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHardware and Architecture: 59 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 39 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSoftware: 37 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 27 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 990 fractional works · 6.1% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 187 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology: 159 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 144 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 94 fractional works · 0.6% of its workWater Science and Technology: 92 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 76 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 68 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 68 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 51 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 42 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 961 fractional works · 6.0% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 297 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 260 fractional works · 1.6% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 164 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 145 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 56 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 39 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 573 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 307 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiomaterials: 91 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 69 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 63 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 42 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 473 fractional works · 2.9% of its workStatistics and Probability: 112 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeometry and Topology: 88 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematical Physics: 77 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Mathematics: 46 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 43 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 38 fractional works · 0.2% of its workModeling and Simulation: 37 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 33 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 339 fractional works · 2.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 162 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeophysics: 48 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOceanography: 46 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 82 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 192 fractional works · 1.2% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 60 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpectroscopy: 50 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 82 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 138 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 121 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 60 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 4,114 fractional works · 25.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 1,921 fractional works · 11.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 765 fractional works · 4.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 264 fractional works · 1.6% of its workEducation: 189 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth: 94 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDemography: 92 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGender Studies: 78 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety Research: 77 fractional works · 0.5% of its workTransportation: 52 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 46 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnthropology: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workUrban Studies: 42 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 39 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCommunication: 38 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 99 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychology: 746 fractional works · 4.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 268 fractional works · 1.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 216 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 110 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 86 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 48 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 17 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 407 fractional works · 2.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 78 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory: 55 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhilosophy: 51 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 50 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArcheology: 39 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 135 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 398 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 248 fractional works · 1.5% of its workFinance: 113 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 37 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 378 fractional works · 2.3% of its workStrategy and Management: 103 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAccounting: 80 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 58 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 49 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 46 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 42 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 263 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 143 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 51 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 49 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 21 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 1,849 fractional works · 11.5% of its workMedicine: 1,399 fractional works · 8.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 181 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEpidemiology: 122 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysiology: 117 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurgery: 97 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 95 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 70 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 68 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPharmacology: 63 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 58 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 45 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInfectious Diseases: 44 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 41 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 37 fractional works · 0.2% of its workRheumatology: 36 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 324 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Professions: 398 fractional works · 2.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 266 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 132 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNursing: 42 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 39 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 6 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 4 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 1,165 fractional works · 7.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 483 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 320 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGenetics: 49 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 113 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 302 fractional works · 1.9% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 212 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 36 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 53 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 262 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPlant Science: 95 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 37 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFood Science: 35 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 94 fractional works · 0.6% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 86 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 63 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 23 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 33 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKWaterloo16kfractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences56%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences26%

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. Engineering3,03518.8%
    2. Computer Science2,22613.8%
    3. Environmental Science9906.1%
    4. Physics and Astronomy9616.0%
    5. Materials Science5733.6%
    6. Mathematics4732.9%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences3392.1%
    8. Chemistry1921.2%
    9. Energy1380.9%
    10. Chemical Engineering600.4%
  1. Social Sciences4,11425.5%
    1. Social Sciences1,92111.9%
    2. Psychology7464.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities4072.5%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3982.5%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting3782.3%
    6. Decision Sciences2631.6%
  2. Health Sciences1,84911.5%
    1. Medicine1,3998.7%
    2. Health Professions3982.5%
    3. Nursing420.3%
    4. Dentistry60.0%
    5. Veterinary40.0%
  3. Life Sciences1,1657.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology4833.0%
    2. Neuroscience3021.9%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences2621.6%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology860.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics330.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Waterloo strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Waterloo is most concentrated in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory and Software (6.5× the world share in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics).

  1. Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsSubfield · 37.2 works6.5×
  2. Algebra and Number TheorySubfield · 34.8 works3.8×
  3. SoftwareSubfield · 34.5 works3.7×
  4. Computational Theory and MathematicsSubfield · 220.9 works3.6×
  5. Geometry and TopologySubfield · 78.9 works3.4×
  6. Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 53.0 works3.3×
  7. Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 148.5 works3.3×
← 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: 0.34× its world share, 229 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.56× its world share, 427 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.51× its world share, 75 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.13× its world share, 265 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.57× its world share, 29 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.10× its world share, 55 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.78× its world share, 175 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.75× its world share, 1,959 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.31× its world share, 296 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.95× its world share, 125 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.30× its world share, 2,799 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.19× its world share, 853 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.03× its world share, 515 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.43× its world share, 411 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 2.67× its world share, 854 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.97× its world share, 368 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.45× its world share, 1,258 worksMedicineNursing: 0.54× its world share, 38 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.20× its world share, 4 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.83× its world share, 345 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.73× its world share, 340 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.66× its world share, 231 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.19× its world share, 368 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.50× its world share, 658 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.94× its world share, 1,705 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 2.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy2.67×854 works
  2. Mathematics2.43×411 works
  3. Computer Science1.75×1,959 works
  4. Decision Sciences1.66×231 works
  5. Psychology1.50×658 works
  6. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.31×296 works
  7. Engineering1.30×2,799 works
  8. Environmental Science1.19×853 works
  9. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.19×368 works
  10. Neuroscience1.13×265 works
  11. Chemical Engineering1.10×55 works
  12. Materials Science1.03×515 works
  13. Health Professions0.97×368 works
  14. Energy0.95×125 works
  15. Social Sciences0.94×1,705 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.83×345 works
  17. Chemistry0.78×175 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.73×340 works
  19. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.57×29 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.56×427 works
  21. Nursing0.54×38 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.51×75 works
  23. Medicine0.45×1,258 works
  24. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.34×229 works
  25. Veterinary0.20×4 works
  26. Dentistry0.08×6 works

Which keywords describe research in Waterloo?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Entanglement, Quantum Gravity, Neural Networks, Black Holes and Quantum Information.

▲ 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 Learning707▲ 1.27×81 topics
  2. Climate Change662▲ 1.51×101 topics
  3. Machine Learning653▲ 1.22×87 topics
  4. Sustainability376◆ 0.95×96 topics
  5. Neural Networks364▲ 1.46×38 topics
  6. Epidemiology353▼ 0.55×119 topics
  7. Globalization330◆ 1.04×124 topics
  8. Mental Health285▲ 1.23×43 topics
  9. Biomedical Applications247▲ 1.30×36 topics
  10. Remote Sensing247▲ 1.25×37 topics
  11. Security228▲ 2.1×27 topics
  12. Public Health228◆ 0.97×55 topics
  13. Mechanical Properties200▲ 1.27×38 topics
  14. Entanglement181▲ 7.5×4 topics
  15. Quantum Gravity154▲ 11×4 topics
  16. Biosensors152▲ 1.92×12 topics
  17. Black Holes140▲ 9.0×3 topics
  18. Quantum Information139▲ 7.4×3 topics
  19. Superconducting Circuits111▲ 10.0×2 topics
  20. Cryptography110▲ 5.7×3 topics
  21. Hydrology106▲ 5.1×4 topics
  22. Supernovae105▲ 8.0×2 topics
  23. Quantum Entanglement103▲ 9.9×2 topics
  24. Dark Energy101▲ 9.7×2 topics
  25. General Relativity100▲ 9.3×2 topics
  26. Approximation Algorithms97▲ 8.2×5 topics
  27. String Theory95▲ 11×2 topics
  28. Cosmic Microwave Background94▲ 11×1 topic
  29. Cosmological Parameters94▲ 11×1 topic
  30. Field Theories91▲ 13×1 topic
  31. Holographic91▲ 13×1 topic
  32. Computation91▲ 7.8×2 topics
  33. Quantum Simulation86▲ 6.7×2 topics
  34. Quantum85▲ 6.8×2 topics
  35. Measurement84▲ 6.4×2 topics
  36. Metrology83▲ 8.7×1 topic
  37. Photon83▲ 8.7×1 topic
  38. Quantum Algorithms71▲ 8.1×1 topic
  39. Quantum Computation71▲ 8.1×1 topic
  40. Algorithmic Applications67▲ 12×2 topics

What research is done in Waterloo?

  1. 1 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 87 works
  2. 2 Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 84 works
  3. 3 Quantum Information and Cryptography Artificial Intelligence 78 works
  4. 4 Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture Artificial Intelligence 66 works
  5. 5 Quantum Mechanics and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 48 works
  6. 6 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 44 works
  7. 7 Advancements in Battery Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering 39 works
  8. 8 Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 39 works
  9. 9 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 38 works
  10. 10 Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques Molecular Biology 38 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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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%Waterloo20.5% 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 33.5% in 2013.

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