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?
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 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.
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 Sciences8,98755.8%
- Engineering3,03518.8%
- Computer Science2,22613.8%
- Environmental Science9906.1%
- Physics and Astronomy9616.0%
- Materials Science5733.6%
- Mathematics4732.9%
- Earth and Planetary Sciences3392.1%
- Chemistry1921.2%
- Energy1380.9%
- Chemical Engineering600.4%
- Social Sciences4,11425.5%
- Social Sciences1,92111.9%
- Psychology7464.6%
- Arts and Humanities4072.5%
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance3982.5%
- Business, Management and Accounting3782.3%
- Decision Sciences2631.6%
- Health Sciences1,84911.5%
- Medicine1,3998.7%
- Health Professions3982.5%
- Nursing420.3%
- Dentistry60.0%
- Veterinary40.0%
- Life Sciences1,1657.2%
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).
- Discrete Mathematics and CombinatoricsSubfield · 37.2 works6.5×
- Algebra and Number TheorySubfield · 34.8 works3.8×
- SoftwareSubfield · 34.5 works3.7×
- Computational Theory and MathematicsSubfield · 220.9 works3.6×
- Geometry and TopologySubfield · 78.9 works3.4×
- Hardware and ArchitectureSubfield · 53.0 works3.3×
- Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsSubfield · 148.5 works3.3×
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, 2.7×. Every wedge is a field page.
All 26 fields, with their numbers
- Physics and Astronomy2.67×854 works
- Mathematics2.43×411 works
- Computer Science1.75×1,959 works
- Decision Sciences1.66×231 works
- Psychology1.50×658 works
- Earth and Planetary Sciences1.31×296 works
- Engineering1.30×2,799 works
- Environmental Science1.19×853 works
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.19×368 works
- Neuroscience1.13×265 works
- Chemical Engineering1.10×55 works
- Materials Science1.03×515 works
- Health Professions0.97×368 works
- Energy0.95×125 works
- Social Sciences0.94×1,705 works
- Arts and Humanities0.83×345 works
- Chemistry0.78×175 works
- Business, Management and Accounting0.73×340 works
- Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.57×29 works
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.56×427 works
- Nursing0.54×38 works
- Immunology and Microbiology0.51×75 works
- Medicine0.45×1,258 works
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.34×229 works
- Veterinary0.20×4 works
- 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.
- Algorithmic Applications
- Quantum Algorithms
- Metrology
- Quantum
- Computation
- Field Theories
- Cosmic Microwave Background
- Approximation Algorithms
- Dark Energy
- Supernovae
- Cryptography
- Quantum Information
- Biosensors
- Entanglement
- Public Health
- Remote Sensing
- Mental Health
- Epidemiology
- Sustainability
- Climate Change
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Neural Networks
- Globalization
- Biomedical Applications
- Security
- Mechanical Properties
- Quantum Gravity
- Black Holes
- Superconducting Circuits
- Hydrology
- Quantum Entanglement
- General Relativity
- String Theory
- Cosmological Parameters
- Holographic
- Quantum Simulation
- Measurement
- Photon
- Quantum Computation
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
- Deep Learning707▲ 1.27×81 topics
- Climate Change662▲ 1.51×101 topics
- Machine Learning653▲ 1.22×87 topics
- Sustainability376◆ 0.95×96 topics
- Neural Networks364▲ 1.46×38 topics
- Epidemiology353▼ 0.55×119 topics
- Globalization330◆ 1.04×124 topics
- Mental Health285▲ 1.23×43 topics
- Biomedical Applications247▲ 1.30×36 topics
- Remote Sensing247▲ 1.25×37 topics
- Security228▲ 2.1×27 topics
- Public Health228◆ 0.97×55 topics
- Mechanical Properties200▲ 1.27×38 topics
- Entanglement181▲ 7.5×4 topics
- Quantum Gravity154▲ 11×4 topics
- Biosensors152▲ 1.92×12 topics
- Black Holes140▲ 9.0×3 topics
- Quantum Information139▲ 7.4×3 topics
- Superconducting Circuits111▲ 10.0×2 topics
- Cryptography110▲ 5.7×3 topics
- Hydrology106▲ 5.1×4 topics
- Supernovae105▲ 8.0×2 topics
- Quantum Entanglement103▲ 9.9×2 topics
- Dark Energy101▲ 9.7×2 topics
- General Relativity100▲ 9.3×2 topics
- Approximation Algorithms97▲ 8.2×5 topics
- String Theory95▲ 11×2 topics
- Cosmic Microwave Background94▲ 11×1 topic
- Cosmological Parameters94▲ 11×1 topic
- Field Theories91▲ 13×1 topic
- Holographic91▲ 13×1 topic
- Computation91▲ 7.8×2 topics
- Quantum Simulation86▲ 6.7×2 topics
- Quantum85▲ 6.8×2 topics
- Measurement84▲ 6.4×2 topics
- Metrology83▲ 8.7×1 topic
- Photon83▲ 8.7×1 topic
- Quantum Algorithms71▲ 8.1×1 topic
- Quantum Computation71▲ 8.1×1 topic
- Algorithmic Applications67▲ 12×2 topics
What research is done in Waterloo?
Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.
- 1 Cosmology and Gravitation Theories Astronomy and Astrophysics 87 works
- 2 Black Holes and Theoretical Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics 84 works
- 3 Quantum Information and Cryptography Artificial Intelligence 78 works
- 4 Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture Artificial Intelligence 66 works
- 5 Quantum Mechanics and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 48 works
- 6 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 44 works
- 7 Advancements in Battery Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering 39 works
- 8 Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 39 works
- 9 Advanced Battery Technologies Research Automotive Engineering 38 works
- 10 Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques Molecular Biology 38 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 33.5% in 2013.
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