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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

In research, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada stands highest in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (#200 of 3,409 worldwide), Plant Science (#158 of 1,395 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,305 of 7,800 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Agronomy and Crop Science, Animal Science and Zoology and Insect Science — Agronomy and Crop Science is 23.8× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,823
of 28,054 · #1,629 all time
Rank in Canada
#59
of 403
Research works
19k
▼ 16% vs 2013–17
Citations
670k
34.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.7%
record average 16.5%
Open access
36%
world 28%

What is Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #200 of 3,409 23.8%749 #64
Plant ScienceSubfield #158 of 1,395 30.8%320 #88
Life SciencesDomain #1,305 of 7,800 23.7%986 #740
Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield #32 of 121 21.4%79 #11
MedicineField #3,016 of 10,443 21.3%74 #3140
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyField #1,065 of 3,579 23.7%214 #582
Health SciencesDomain #3,764 of 11,982 20.8%128 #2742
Physical SciencesDomain #4,357 of 12,888 20.7%275 #2506
Environmental ScienceField #1,232 of 3,551 21.4%175 #450
Molecular BiologySubfield #1,070 of 2,175 25.6%99 #728

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#64 #200
  2. Plant Science#88 #158
  3. Life Sciences#740 #1,305
  4. Agronomy and Crop Science#11 #32
  5. Medicine#3,140 #3,016
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology#582 #1,065
  7. Health Sciences#2,742 #3,764
  8. Physical Sciences#2,506 #4,357
  9. Environmental Science#450 #1,232
  10. Molecular Biology#728 #1,070
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Agronomy and Crop Science takes 23.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Agronomy and Crop ScienceSubfield · 79.1 works24×
  2. Animal Science and ZoologySubfield · 65.0 works21×
  3. Insect ScienceSubfield · 71.6 works18×
  4. Plant ScienceSubfield · 320.1 works13×
  5. Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and SystematicsSubfield · 83.3 works13×
  6. Agricultural and Biological SciencesField · 748.8 works11×
  7. Soil ScienceSubfield · 44.6 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

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: 11.22× its world share, 749 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.85× its world share, 214 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.35× its world share, 19 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.12× its world share, 3 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.31× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.53× its world share, 3 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.75× its world share, 16 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.03× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.81× its world share, 18 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.22× its world share, 46 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.51× its world share, 175 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.19× its world share, 9 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.09× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.27× its world share, 74 worksMedicineNursing: 4.50× its world share, 31 worksNursingVeterinary: 10.38× its world share, 20 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.13× its world share, 4 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.03× its world share, 6 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 11.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada?

Ranked on the composite score, Giuseppe Mazza, M. Schnitzer and J. Rushen lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.

  1. 1 Giuseppe Mazza Canada · #24,617 worldwide 744 citations · 82 works
  2. 2 M. Schnitzer Canada · #32,291 worldwide 538 citations · 41 works
  3. 3 J. Rushen Canada · #35,776 worldwide 557 citations · 68 works
  4. 4 Edward Topp Canada · #37,875 worldwide 477 citations · 43 works
  5. 5 C.O. Gill Canada · #50,041 worldwide 283 citations · 48 works
  6. 6 Denis A. Angers Canada · #56,154 worldwide 532 citations · 51 works
  7. 7 Nicolas Tremblay Canada · #60,944 worldwide 451 citations · 31 works
  8. 8 Daniel I. Massé Canada · #67,683 worldwide 352 citations · 30 works
  9. 9 E. G. Gregorich Canada · #71,139 worldwide 601 citations · 56 works
  10. 10 John Shi Canada · #72,791 worldwide 771 citations · 60 works
All ranked researchers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Which keywords describe research at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Biological Control, Gut Microbiota, Invasive Species, Phylogenetic Analysis, Microbial Communities, Fungal Pathogens and Host Specificity.

▲ 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 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. Climate Change171▲ 4.5×73 topics
  2. Biological Control65▲ 31×9 topics
  3. Gut Microbiota64▲ 13×7 topics
  4. Invasive Species62▲ 10×17 topics
  5. Phylogenetic Analysis58▲ 14×13 topics
  6. Microbial Communities52▲ 8.8×6 topics
  7. Fungal Pathogens51▲ 28×5 topics
  8. Biodiversity48▲ 4.6×25 topics
  9. Host Specificity48▲ 30×5 topics
  10. Genetic Diversity48▲ 7.7×20 topics
  11. Genome Sequencing47▲ 22×8 topics
  12. Ecosystem Functioning46▲ 17×7 topics
  13. Phylogeny44▲ 21×16 topics
  14. Probiotics42▲ 13×5 topics
  15. Biogeography42▲ 12×19 topics
  16. Taxonomy41▲ 22×13 topics
  17. Soil Carbon Sequestration40▲ 38×2 topics
  18. Microbial Community40▲ 36×4 topics
  19. Antioxidants39▲ 6.2×9 topics
  20. Soil Fertility38▲ 12×7 topics
  21. QTL Mapping38▲ 23×6 topics
  22. Genetic Mapping37▲ 33×6 topics
  23. Quantitative Trait Loci36▲ 46×3 topics
  24. Heat Stress35▲ 31×2 topics
  25. Milk Composition34▲ 58×2 topics
  26. Health Benefits34▲ 7.3×13 topics
  27. Sustainable Agriculture33▲ 7.4×12 topics
  28. Rhizosphere Interactions33▲ 28×2 topics
  29. Global Change33▲ 8.9×6 topics
  30. Nutrient Limitation33▲ 22×2 topics
  31. Transcriptome Analysis32▲ 37×3 topics
  32. Biochar Application32▲ 22×1 topic
  33. Nitrogen Cycle32▲ 37×1 topic
  34. DNA Barcoding32▲ 14×9 topics
  35. Nitrogen Fixation32▲ 32×3 topics
  36. Food Safety32▲ 7.7×13 topics
  37. Plant Immunity31▲ 23×2 topics
  38. Microbiota31▲ 10×6 topics
  39. Methane Production30▲ 75×1 topic
  40. Ruminant Nutrition30▲ 75×1 topic

Which research topics does Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases and Animal Nutrition and Physiology.

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen…32Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics: 32 fractional worksRuminant Nutrition and D…30Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology: 30 fractional worksPlant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases: 27 fractional worksAnimal Nutrition and Phy…26Animal Nutrition and Physiology: 26 fractional worksPlant Disease Resistance…23Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics: 23 fractional worksMeat and Animal Product Quality: 21 fractional worksInsect-Plant Interactions and Control: 21 fractional worksPlant-Microbe Interactio…19Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity: 19 fractional worksWheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology: 19 fractional worksLegume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis: 18 fractional works
Soil ScienceAgronomy and Crop ScienceCell BiologyAnimal Science and Zoology2 others

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

  1. 1 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics Soil Science 32 works
  2. 2 Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology Agronomy and Crop Science 30 works
  3. 3 Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases Cell Biology 27 works
  4. 4 Animal Nutrition and Physiology Animal Science and Zoology 26 works
  5. 5 Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics Plant Science 23 works
  6. 6 Meat and Animal Product Quality Animal Science and Zoology 21 works
  7. 7 Insect-Plant Interactions and Control Insect Science 21 works
  8. 8 Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity Plant Science 19 works
  9. 9 Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology Plant Science 19 works
  10. 10 Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis Plant Science 18 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 available35.8%not open64.2%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors21.5%domestic only78.5%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 16% lower than in 2013–2017.

1990200020102020
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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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