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Canada vs Switzerland

On research quality in 2022-now, Canada ranks #10 in the world and Switzerland #11, of 189 countries. Canada stands higher in 19 of the 26 fields both publish in, Switzerland in 7.

Canada

World rank, 2022-now
#10
#6 all time
Works, 2022-now
394k
fractional
Top-10% rate
19.9%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
34%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Medical Terminology, Public Administration, Library and Information Sciences.

Switzerland

World rank, 2022-now
#11
#9 all time
Works, 2022-now
142k
fractional
Top-10% rate
22.0%
share of its work among the world's most cited
Open access
47%
of its works free to read

Strongest relative focus: Structural Biology, Medical Terminology, Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

Who leads in each field?

Canada stands higher in 19 of 26 fields, Switzerland in 7. Each bar is that side's standing among all countries ranked in the field: the full bar is first place.

Canada 197 Switzerland
  1. #12Agricultural and Biological Sciences#15
  2. #19Arts and Humanities#14
  3. #11Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#10
  4. #17Business, Management and Accounting#28
  5. #14Chemical Engineering#22
  6. #16Chemistry#13
  7. #11Computer Science#14
  8. #12Decision Sciences#16
  9. #16Dentistry#7
  10. #13Earth and Planetary Sciences#9
  11. #13Economics, Econometrics and Finance#19
  12. #15Energy#27
  13. #10Engineering#18
  14. #11Environmental Science#12
  15. #8Health Professions#20
  16. #10Immunology and Microbiology#11
  17. #12Materials Science#21
  18. #17Mathematics#15
  19. #9Medicine#11
  20. #9Neuroscience#11
  21. #17Nursing#24
  22. #9Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics#16
  23. #12Physics and Astronomy#7
  24. #9Psychology#12
  25. #11Social Sciences#15
  26. #8Veterinary#11

Standing is the percentile of world rank within each field, 2022-now; the printed number is the rank itself. A dash means the field is too small there to rank. How sides are compared.

How has their output grown?

50k100k150kCanada100k in 2025Switzerland35k in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works per year. The latest, partial year is left off.

Which publishes more research, Canada or Switzerland?

Canada publishes 2.8× as much research as Switzerland in 2022-now (394k against 142k fractional works).

Whose research has more impact, Canada or Switzerland?

22.0% of Switzerland's research reaches the world's top 10% most cited, against 19.9% for Canada.

Which institutions lead in each country?

The highest-ranked institutions on each side on research quality, 2022-now. The percentage is each institution's own top-10% rate: the share of its works that are among the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. Every figure stands alone, so they do not add up to 100%.

Canada

  1. 1University of Toronto21.9% top 10% · 29k works
  2. 2University of British Columbia22.7% top 10% · 20k works
  3. 3McGill University22.2% top 10% · 15k works
  4. 4University of Alberta20.2% top 10% · 18k works
  5. 5University of Calgary20.8% top 10% · 13k works
  6. 6University of Ottawa20.2% top 10% · 11k works

Switzerland

  1. 1ETH Zurich30.1% top 10% · 14k works
  2. 2University of Zurich27.2% top 10% · 11k works
  3. 3École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne25.1% top 10% · 8.5k works
  4. 4University of Bern24.6% top 10% · 8.5k works
  5. 5University of Basel25.4% top 10% · 5.7k works
  6. 6University of Lausanne24.3% top 10% · 7k works

The number is the rank inside the country. The track on each row is the top-10% rate; the tick is the average of all institutions, 16.5% (why not 10%): teal above it, red below. The ranking is the quality score, which compares the rate with what each institution's own topics predict and adds a small reward for size, so the rates do not fall in order.

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