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Canadian Space Agency

In research, Canadian Space Agency stands highest in Physical Sciences (#4,448 of 17,446 worldwide), Engineering (#2,447 of 9,532 worldwide) and Aerospace Engineering (#650 of 1,601 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, all time
#11,871
of 34,923
Rank in Canada
#234
of 718
Research works
1k
▼ 7% vs 2018-21
Citations
15k
14.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.95×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
12%
world 40%
International
15%
world 18%
Canadian Space Agency

What is Canadian Space Agency 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
Physical SciencesDomain #4,448 of 17,446 8.2%971
EngineeringField #2,447 of 9,532 9.2%579
Aerospace EngineeringSubfield #650 of 1,601 11.4%236
Physics and AstronomyField #1,996 of 2,917 5.0%162
Astronomy and AstrophysicsSubfield #681 of 954 5.6%132

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Canadian Space Agency 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 Space Agency work in?

In 2022-now, 84% of research at Canadian Space Agency is in Physical Sciences, 9% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (38%), Physics and Astronomy (18%), Computer Science (10%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 41 fractional works · 84.4% of its workEngineering: 18 fractional works · 37.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 10 fractional works · 20.4% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 2 fractional works · 3.8% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanics of Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 fractional works · 18.1% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 7 fractional works · 14.1% of its workRadiation: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workInstrumentation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 9.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 9.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 fractional works · 8.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeophysics: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 5 fractional works · 9.5% of its workMedicine: 4 fractional works · 9.1% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 4.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 3.6% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 2.6% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKCanadian SpaceAgency48fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences84%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences1%

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 19 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1837.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy918.1%
    3. Computer Science59.8%
    4. Environmental Science49.2%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences48.0%
    6. Materials Science00.7%
    7. Energy00.5%
    8. Chemistry00.4%
    9. Mathematics00.0%
    1. Medicine49.1%
    2. Health Professions00.3%
    3. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology23.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.7%
    3. Neuroscience00.4%
    1. Arts and Humanities00.7%
    2. Social Sciences00.6%
    3. Psychology00.1%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.1%
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: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.67× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.26× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5.09× its world share, 4 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.51× its world share, 18 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.86× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 8.15× its world share, 9 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.47× its world share, 4 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.56× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 8.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Physics and Astronomy8.15×9 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences5.09×4 works
  3. Engineering2.51×18 works
  4. Environmental Science1.86×4 works
  5. Computer Science1.26×5 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.67×2 works
  7. Energy0.56×0 works
  8. Veterinary0.56×0 works
  9. Medicine0.47×4 works
  10. Arts and Humanities0.24×0 works
  11. Chemistry0.22×0 works
  12. Neuroscience0.21×0 works
  13. Materials Science0.20×0 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.16×0 works
  15. Health Professions0.10×0 works
  16. Psychology0.05×0 works
  17. Social Sciences0.05×0 works
  18. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.03×0 works
  19. Mathematics0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Canadian Space Agency?

Ranked on the quality score, Yan‐Ru Hu, Farhad Aghili and Wen-Hong Zhu lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Canadian Space Agency.

  1. 1 Yan‐Ru Hu Canada · #191,167 worldwide 7k citations · 136 works
  2. 2 Farhad Aghili Canada · #1,209,604 worldwide 3.2k citations · 182 works
  3. 3 Wen-Hong Zhu Canada · #1,446,137 worldwide 2.2k citations · 90 works
  4. 4 Timothy W. Haltigin Canada · #1,795,201 worldwide 2.5k citations · 84 works
  5. 5 Victoria J. Hipkin Canada · #1,803,841 worldwide 4.7k citations · 78 works
  6. 6 George Vukovich Canada · #1,958,726 worldwide 2.3k citations · 128 works
  7. 7 William B. Graham Canada · #2,030,318 worldwide 557 citations · 18 works
  8. 8 Michael Maszkiewicz Canada · #2,656,736 worldwide 1.2k citations · 31 works
  9. 9 Tom Lamarche Canada · #3,013,827 worldwide 356 citations · 22 works
  10. 10 Nicole D. Buckley Canada · #3,060,722 worldwide 1k citations · 37 works
All ranked researchers at Canadian Space Agency

What are the most cited papers from Canadian Space Agency?

The most cited paper from Canadian Space Agency is "Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission overview" (P. F. Bernath et al., 2005), with 1,191 citations. Next come "A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars" (908) and "The operational environment and rotational acceleration of asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx observations" (902).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE): Mission overview P. F. Bernath et al. · Geophysical Research Letters Open access 2 Jun 2005 1,191
2 A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars J. P. Grotzinger et al. · Science 448 authors 9 Dec 2013 908
3 The operational environment and rotational acceleration of asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx observations C. W. Hergenrother et al. · Nature Communications Open access477 authors 19 Mar 2019 902
4 H 2 O at the Phoenix Landing Site Peter H. Smith et al. · Science Open access 3 Jul 2009 571
5 The James Webb Space Telescope Mission Jonathan P. Gardner et al. · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Open access1,008 authors Jun 2023 492
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Canadian Space Agency?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Remote Sensing, Microgravity, Spaceflight, Hyperspectral Imaging, Risk Assessment, Mars, Martian Surface and CubeSat.

▲ 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 35 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 35 words, with their numbers
  1. Remote Sensing6▲ 11×15 topics
  2. Climate Change3▲ 2.1×10 topics
  3. Risk Assessment2▲ 6.7×6 topics
  4. Deep Learning2▲ 1.22×5 topics
  5. Hyperspectral Imaging2▲ 15×5 topics
  6. Microgravity2▲ 225×1 topic
  7. Spaceflight2▲ 225×1 topic
  8. Mars2▲ 116×1 topic
  9. Martian Surface2▲ 116×1 topic
  10. CubeSat2▲ 206×1 topic
  11. small satellite2▲ 206×1 topic
  12. Orbit Determination2▲ 76×2 topics
  13. Space Policy2▲ 243×1 topic
  14. Space Tourism2▲ 243×1 topic
  15. Machine Learning2◆ 0.98×5 topics
  16. Support Vector Machines2▲ 11×2 topics
  17. On-Orbit Servicing2▲ 133×1 topic
  18. Space Debris2▲ 133×1 topic
  19. Hyperspectral1▲ 34×2 topics
  20. Satellite Observations1▲ 27×3 topics
  21. Sensor Fusion1▲ 26×2 topics
  22. Ecology1▲ 14×2 topics
  23. State Estimation1▲ 54×2 topics
  24. Classification1▲ 4.9×1 topic
  25. Geochemistry1▲ 35×2 topics
  26. Image Analysis1▲ 23×1 topic
  27. Simulation1▲ 8.7×2 topics
  28. Ancient DNA1▲ 39×1 topic
  29. Astrobiology1▲ 67×1 topic
  30. Data Sharing1▲ 65×1 topic
  31. Extraterrestrial Life1▲ 97×1 topic
  32. Gemstones1▲ 201×1 topic
  33. Genomic Analysis1▲ 8.1×1 topic
  34. Petrology1▲ 201×1 topic
  35. Scientific Data Management1▲ 78×1 topic

Which research topics does Canadian Space Agency publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Spaceflight effects on biology, Planetary Science and Exploration, Spacecraft Design and Technology and Space exploration and regulation.

Spaceflight effects on b…2Spaceflight effects on biology: 2 fractional worksPlanetary Science and Ex…2Planetary Science and Exploration: 2 fractional worksSpacecraft Design and Te…2Spacecraft Design and Technology: 2 fractional worksSpace exploration and re…2Space exploration and regulation: 2 fractional worksSpace Satellite Systems and Control: 2 fractional worksRemote-Sensing Image Classification: 1 fractional worksResearch Data Management…1Research Data Management Practices: 1 fractional worksSpace Exploration and Technology: 1 fractional worksSpace Science and Extraterrestrial Life: 1 fractional worksMineralogy and Gemology …1Mineralogy and Gemology Studies: 1 fractional works
PhysiologyAstronomy and AstrophysicsAerospace EngineeringMedia Technology2 others

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

  1. 1 Spaceflight effects on biology Physiology 2 works
  2. 2 Planetary Science and Exploration Astronomy and Astrophysics 2 works
  3. 3 Spacecraft Design and Technology Aerospace Engineering 2 works
  4. 4 Space exploration and regulation Astronomy and Astrophysics 2 works
  5. 5 Space Satellite Systems and Control Aerospace Engineering 2 works
  6. 6 Remote-Sensing Image Classification Media Technology 1 works
  7. 7 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 1 works
  8. 8 Space Exploration and Technology Aerospace Engineering 1 works
  9. 9 Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life Astronomy and Astrophysics 1 works
  10. 10 Mineralogy and Gemology Studies Geochemistry and Petrology 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 available12.2%not open87.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors14.9%domestic only85.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Canadian Space Agency's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 Space Agency as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00022% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Canadian Space Agency0.00019% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Canadian Space Agency 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.

10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2014Canadian Space Agency4.4% in 201420002010

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.3% in 2009.

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