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In research, Canadian Armed Forces stands highest in Health Sciences (#8,814 of 16,688 worldwide), Medicine (#8,392 of 14,558 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#9,548 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#18,276
of 22,385 · #11,437 all time
Rank in Canada
#251
of 305
Research works
621
▼ 27% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.1k
14.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.98×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
37%
world 40%
International
20%
world 18%
Canadian Armed Forces

What is Canadian Armed Forces known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #8,814 of 16,688 8.2%251
MedicineField #8,392 of 14,558 9.2%173
Social SciencesDomain #9,548 of 14,833 6.1%229

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Canadian Armed Forces 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 average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Canadian Armed Forces work in?

In 2022-now, 52% of research at Canadian Armed Forces is in Health Sciences, 28% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (40%), Psychology (13%), Health Professions (12%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 43 fractional works · 52.0% of its workMedicine: 33 fractional works · 39.6% of its workEmergency Medicine: 5 fractional works · 5.9% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 3.4% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workBiochemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workRehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 12.3% of its workOccupational Therapy: 4 fractional works · 4.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 4 fractional works · 4.3% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 23 fractional works · 27.8% of its workPsychology: 11 fractional works · 13.1% of its workClinical Psychology: 8 fractional works · 9.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workApplied Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 10.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 3 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workFinance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 11 fractional works · 13.4% of its workEngineering: 6 fractional works · 6.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputational Mechanics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRadiation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 6 fractional works · 6.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 4.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCell Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCanadian ArmedForces84fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences13%Health Sciences52%Social Sciences28%

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 institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine3339.6%
    2. Health Professions1012.3%
    3. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Psychology1113.1%
    2. Social Sciences910.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities11.6%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting11.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.2%
    6. Decision Sciences00.1%
    1. Engineering66.8%
    2. Environmental Science22.5%
    3. Physics and Astronomy11.2%
    4. Computer Science11.0%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.8%
    6. Materials Science10.7%
    7. Mathematics00.3%
    8. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology34.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences11.6%
    3. Neuroscience11.0%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.76× its world share, 3 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.60× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.25× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.48× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.45× its world share, 6 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.51× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 4.68× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.06× its world share, 33 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.73× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.54× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.39× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 4.29× its world share, 11 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.84× its world share, 9 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 4.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions4.68×10 works
  2. Psychology4.29×11 works
  3. Medicine2.06×33 works
  4. Social Sciences0.84×9 works
  5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.76×3 works
  6. Veterinary0.73×0 works
  7. Neuroscience0.60×1 works
  8. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.57×1 works
  9. Physics and Astronomy0.54×1 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.54×1 works
  11. Environmental Science0.51×2 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.48×1 works
  13. Engineering0.45×6 works
  14. Business, Management and Accounting0.39×1 works
  15. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.33×1 works
  16. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.25×0 works
  17. Mathematics0.22×0 works
  18. Materials Science0.19×1 works
  19. Computer Science0.13×1 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.10×0 works
  21. Chemistry0.09×0 works
  22. Decision Sciences0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Canadian Armed Forces?

Ranked on the quality score, Rakesh Jetly, Max Talbot and George A. Fraser lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Canadian Armed Forces.

  1. 1 Rakesh Jetly Canada · #226,065 worldwide 4.7k citations · 184 works
  2. 2 Max Talbot Canada · #616,833 worldwide 1.5k citations · 57 works
  3. 3 George A. Fraser Canada · #1,411,915 worldwide 1.1k citations · 37 works
  4. 4 Mark A. Zamorski Canada · #1,983,405 worldwide 3k citations · 110 works
  5. 5 David Boulos Canada · #2,715,177 worldwide 867 citations · 31 works
  6. 6 Tara J. Reilly Canada · #3,173,904 worldwide 828 citations · 59 works
  7. 7 Terry McLean Canada · #3,200,180 worldwide 17 citations · 22 works
  8. 8 Bryan G. Garber Canada · #3,333,697 worldwide 1.1k citations · 50 works
  9. 9 Dennis Filips Canada · #3,642,821 worldwide 372 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Eric Robitaille Canada · #3,737,648 worldwide 46 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Canadian Armed Forces

What are the most cited papers from Canadian Armed Forces?

The most cited paper from Canadian Armed Forces is "The 2015 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Recommendations for Blood Pressure Measurement, Diagnosis, Assessment of Risk, Prevention, and Treatment of Hypertension" (Stella Styliani Daskalopoulou et al., 2015), with 689 citations. Next come "Exercises for mechanical neck disorders" (605) and "Hypertension Canada's 2016 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Guidelines for Blood Pressure Measurement, Diagnosis, Assessment of Risk, Prevention, and Treatment of Hypertension" (470).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The 2015 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Recommendations for Blood Pressure Measurement, Diagnosis, Assessment of Risk, Prevention, and Treatment of Hypertension Stella Styliani Daskalopoulou et al. · Canadian Journal of Cardiology Open access May 2015 689
2 Exercises for mechanical neck disorders Anita Gross, Theresa Kay, Jean-Philippe Paquin et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Open access 28 Jan 2015 605
3 Hypertension Canada's 2016 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Guidelines for Blood Pressure Measurement, Diagnosis, Assessment of Risk, Prevention, and Treatment of Hypertension Alexander A. C. Leung et al. · Canadian Journal of Cardiology 10 Mar 2016 470
4 Effectiveness of therapeutic heparin versus prophylactic heparin on death, mechanical ventilation, or intensive care unit admission in moderately ill patients with covid-19 admitted to hospital: RAPID randomised clinical trial Michelle Sholzberg et al. · BMJ Open access 14 Oct 2021 373
5 Patient-reported outcome measures in arthroplasty registries Ola Rolfson, Éric Bohm, Patricia D. Franklin et al. · Acta Orthopaedica Open access 26 May 2016 335
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Canadian Armed Forces?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Trauma, Mental Health, Epidemiology, Resuscitation, Cancer Risk, Hemorrhage, Physical Fitness and Resilience.

▲ 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 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. Epidemiology10▲ 2.9×28 topics
  2. Mental Health8▲ 6.4×16 topics
  3. Trauma7▲ 41×4 topics
  4. Resuscitation5▲ 44×3 topics
  5. Cancer Risk4▲ 23×3 topics
  6. Hemorrhage4▲ 73×3 topics
  7. Physical Fitness4▲ 35×3 topics
  8. Resilience4▲ 9.9×6 topics
  9. Mortality4▲ 8.4×6 topics
  10. Public Health4▲ 3.3×15 topics
  11. Sepsis4▲ 25×3 topics
  12. Emergency Responders4▲ 245×1 topic
  13. Firefighters4▲ 245×1 topic
  14. Occupational Exposure4▲ 79×2 topics
  15. Quality Improvement4▲ 22×4 topics
  16. Health Outcomes3▲ 15×4 topics
  17. Coagulopathy3▲ 46×1 topic
  18. Glycocalyx3▲ 139×1 topic
  19. Injury Severity3▲ 46×1 topic
  20. Trauma Center3▲ 91×1 topic
  21. Global Burden3▲ 6.5×6 topics
  22. Depression3▲ 3.8×7 topics
  23. Risk Factors3▲ 2.9×12 topics
  24. Chronic Pain2▲ 13×4 topics
  25. Clinical Trials2▲ 4.2×6 topics
  26. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder2▲ 93×1 topic
  27. Psychological Treatment2▲ 93×1 topic
  28. Low Back Pain2▲ 15×2 topics
  29. Psychological Resilience2▲ 28×2 topics
  30. Critical Care2▲ 10×4 topics
  31. Disability2▲ 22×2 topics
  32. Disaster Response2▲ 32×2 topics
  33. Medical Education2▲ 8.5×7 topics
  34. Psychological Factors2▲ 11×2 topics
  35. Health Status Questionnaires2▲ 30×1 topic
  36. Measurement Properties2▲ 30×1 topic
  37. Adversity2▲ 30×1 topic
  38. Blood Transfusion2▲ 46×3 topics
  39. Coping Strategies2▲ 8.0×1 topic
  40. Pulmonary Edema2▲ 41×3 topics

Which research topics does Canadian Armed Forces publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Occupational Health and Performance, Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation, Trauma and Emergency Care Studies and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research.

Occupational Health and Performance: 4 fractional worksTrauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation: 3 fractional worksTrauma and Emergency Car…3Trauma and Emergency Care Studies: 3 fractional worksPosttraumatic Stress Dis…2Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research: 2 fractional worksMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation: 2 fractional worksResilience and Mental Health: 2 fractional worksCardiac Arrest and Resus…1Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation: 1 fractional worksDisaster Response and Management: 1 fractional worksMigration, Health and Trauma: 1 fractional worksHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnout: 1 fractional works
Occupational TherapyCritical Care and Intensive Care MedicineEmergency MedicineClinical Psychology3 others

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

  1. 1 Occupational Health and Performance Occupational Therapy 4 works
  2. 2 Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 3 works
  3. 3 Trauma and Emergency Care Studies Emergency Medicine 3 works
  4. 4 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research Clinical Psychology 2 works
  5. 5 Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation Pharmacology 2 works
  6. 6 Resilience and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 2 works
  7. 7 Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Emergency Medicine 1 works
  8. 8 Disaster Response and Management Emergency Medical Services 1 works
  9. 9 Migration, Health and Trauma Clinical Psychology 1 works
  10. 10 Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout General Health Professions 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 available37.2%not open62.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.5%domestic only80.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Canadian Armed Forces's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% lower than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Canadian Armed Forces as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00031% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Canadian Armed Forces0.00035% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Canadian Armed Forces over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Canadian Armed Forces8.5% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 9.5% in 2018.

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