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Actua

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World rank, all time
#34,259
of 42,892
Rank in Canada
#738
of 896
Research works
215
▲ 39% vs 2013–17
Citations
4.7k
21.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
35%
world 28%

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.08× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.72× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.37× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 17.66× its world share, 6 worksMathematicsHealth Professions: 1.24× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.53× its world share, 3 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.13× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 10.90× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7.65× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.66× its world share, 3 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 17.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Actua?

Ranked on the composite score, W. Palin Elderton lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Actua.

  1. 1 W. Palin Elderton Canada · #1,082,142 worldwide 6 citations · 22 works
All ranked researchers at Actua

Which keywords describe research at Actua?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Risk Management, Economic Growth, Convex Optimization, Finance, Bayesian Methods, Life Expectancy, Conditional Value-at-Risk and Robust Optimization.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 21 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Risk Management4▲ 24×4 topics
  2. Economic Growth2▲ 9.0×5 topics
  3. Convex Optimization2▲ 87×3 topics
  4. Bayesian Methods2▲ 131×2 topics
  5. Finance2▲ 34×2 topics
  6. Life Expectancy2▲ 108×2 topics
  7. Conditional Value-at-Risk2▲ 553×1 topic
  8. High-Dimensional Data2▲ 36×3 topics
  9. Robust Optimization2▲ 553×1 topic
  10. Insurance2▲ 63×3 topics
  11. Model Selection2▲ 60×2 topics
  12. Mortality Forecasting1▲ 259×1 topic
  13. Population Ageing1▲ 259×1 topic
  14. Regularization1▲ 150×1 topic
  15. Variable Selection1▲ 45×1 topic
  16. Monetary Policy1▲ 17×3 topics
  17. Climate Change1▲ 1.40×9 topics
  18. Bayesian Modeling1▲ 183×1 topic
  19. Multiple Imputation1▲ 183×1 topic
  20. Regulation1▲ 6.5×3 topics
  21. Sensitivity Analysis1▲ 37×2 topics

Which research topics does Actua publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Risk and Portfolio Optimization, Statistical Methods and Inference, Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference.

Risk and Portfolio Optimization: 2 fractional worksStatistical Methods and Inference: 1 fractional worksInsurance, Mortality, De…1Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management: 1 fractional worksStatistical Methods and …1Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference: 1 fractional worksFinancial Risk and Volatility Modeling: 1 fractional worksMathematical Approximation and Integration: 1 fractional worksStatistical Methods in C…1Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials: 1 fractional worksInsurance and Financial Risk Management: 1 fractional worksCOVID-19 epidemiological studies: 1 fractional worksAdvanced Statistical Methods and Models: 1 fractional works
Management Science and Operations ResearchStatistics and ProbabilityDemographyFinance3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Risk and Portfolio Optimization Management Science and Operations Research 2 works
  2. 2 Statistical Methods and Inference Statistics and Probability 1 works
  3. 3 Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management Demography 1 works
  4. 4 Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference Statistics and Probability 1 works
  5. 5 Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling Finance 1 works
  6. 6 Mathematical Approximation and Integration Numerical Analysis 1 works
  7. 7 Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials Statistics and Probability 1 works
  8. 8 Insurance and Financial Risk Management Economics and Econometrics 1 works
  9. 9 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 1 works
  10. 10 Advanced Statistical Methods and Models Statistics and Probability 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available34.8%not open65.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors33.8%domestic only66.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Actua's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 39% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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