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CARE Canada

In research, CARE Canada stands highest in Health Sciences (#5,808 of 9,902 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in General Health Professions and Health Professions (General Health Professions is 9.8× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,097
of 22,385 · #10,644 all time
Rank in Canada
#164
of 305
Research works
643
▲ 58% vs 2018-21
Citations
9k
14.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.92×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
34%
world 40%
International
29%
world 18%
CARE Canada

What is CARE Canada known for in research?

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

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #5,808 of 9,902 11.2%94 #5655

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

Which fields of science does CARE Canada work in?

In 2022-now, 55% of research at CARE Canada is in Health Sciences, 28% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Medicine (33%), Health Professions (21%), Social Sciences (10%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Health Sciences.

Health Sciences: 106 fractional works · 55.0% of its workMedicine: 63 fractional works · 32.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 11 fractional works · 5.5% of its workSurgery: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workEpidemiology: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workOncology: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeriatrics and Gerontology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysiology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacology: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workReproductive Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRheumatology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDermatology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Professions: 40 fractional works · 20.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 26 fractional works · 13.6% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 5 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth Information Management: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPharmacy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOccupational Therapy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedical Laboratory Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workIssues, ethics and legal aspects: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workResearch and Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 54 fractional works · 27.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 19 fractional works · 9.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 8 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEducation: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 12 fractional works · 6.4% of its workClinical Psychology: 6 fractional works · 2.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 9 fractional works · 4.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workFinance: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 6 fractional works · 3.2% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAccounting: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 3 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 1.4% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysical Sciences: 17 fractional works · 8.7% of its workEngineering: 8 fractional works · 4.0% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 16 fractional works · 8.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 8 fractional works · 4.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBiophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSensory Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKCARE Canada193fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences9%Health Sciences55%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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine6332.7%
    2. Health Professions4020.9%
    3. Nursing21.2%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    5. Veterinary00.1%
    1. Social Sciences199.7%
    2. Psychology126.4%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance94.7%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting63.2%
    5. Decision Sciences52.5%
    6. Arts and Humanities31.4%
    1. Engineering84.0%
    2. Environmental Science42.0%
    3. Computer Science21.2%
    4. Chemistry10.4%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.3%
    6. Mathematics10.3%
    7. Materials Science00.2%
    8. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    9. Energy00.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology84.3%
    2. Neuroscience42.1%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.5%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.5%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does CARE Canada specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: General Health Professions takes 9.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 26.2 works9.8×
  2. Health ProfessionsField · 40.5 works8.0×
← 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: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.80× its world share, 8 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.55× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 1.28× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.42× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.27× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.41× its world share, 4 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.24× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 7.95× its world share, 40 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.70× its world share, 63 worksMedicineNursing: 2.45× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.74× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.50× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.98× its world share, 6 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.56× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2.19× its world share, 9 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.08× its world share, 12 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.76× its world share, 19 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 8.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions7.95×40 works
  2. Decision Sciences2.56×5 works
  3. Nursing2.45×2 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance2.19×9 works
  5. Psychology2.08×12 works
  6. Medicine1.70×63 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.42×1 works
  8. Neuroscience1.28×4 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting0.98×6 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.80×8 works
  11. Social Sciences0.76×19 works
  12. Veterinary0.74×0 works
  13. Immunology and Microbiology0.55×1 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.50×3 works
  15. Environmental Science0.41×4 works
  16. Engineering0.27×8 works
  17. Chemistry0.24×1 works
  18. Mathematics0.24×1 works
  19. Dentistry0.24×0 works
  20. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.22×2 works
  21. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.21×1 works
  22. Computer Science0.16×2 works
  23. Energy0.13×0 works
  24. Physics and Astronomy0.08×0 works
  25. Materials Science0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at CARE Canada?

Ranked on the quality score, Jonathan I. Mitchell, Nataly Farshait and Greg Girard lead among researchers whose main affiliation is CARE Canada.

  1. 1 Jonathan I. Mitchell Canada · #1,732,458 worldwide 415 citations · 20 works
  2. 2 Nataly Farshait Canada · #2,090,228 worldwide 534 citations · 30 works
  3. 3 Greg Girard Canada · #2,873,818 worldwide 75 citations · 19 works
  4. 4 Carleene Bañez Canada · #4,050,673 worldwide 126 citations · 16 works
  5. 5 Stefano Gelmi Canada · #4,106,955 worldwide 95 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Trevor N. T. Hall Canada · #4,956,065 worldwide 192 citations · 26 works
  7. 7 Matthew D. Pavelich Canada · #5,759,163 worldwide 23 citations · 36 works
All ranked researchers at CARE Canada

What are the most cited papers from CARE Canada?

The most cited paper from CARE Canada is "A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial of Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care" (Paul C. Hébert, George A. Wells, Morris A. Blajchman et al., 1999), with 5,247 citations. Next come "Interpreting Small Differences in Functional Status: The Six Minute Walk Test in Chronic Lung Disease Patients" (1,035) and "Incremental Support Vector Learning for Ordinal Regression" (712).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial of Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care Paul C. Hébert, George A. Wells, Morris A. Blajchman et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 11 Feb 1999 5,247
2 Interpreting Small Differences in Functional Status: The Six Minute Walk Test in Chronic Lung Disease Patients Donald A. Redelmeier, Ahmed Mohamed Bayoumi, Roger S. Goldstein et al. · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Apr 1997 1,035
3 Incremental Support Vector Learning for Ordinal Regression Bin Gu, Victor S. Sheng, Keng Yeow Tay et al. · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 12 Aug 2014 712
4 Clinical consequences of red cell storage in the critically ill Alan T. Tinmouth, Dean A. Fergusson, Ian Chin Yee et al. · Transfusion 27 Oct 2006 583
5 RETIRED: Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Management of the Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Laura Ann Magee et al. · Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada Mar 2008 580
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at CARE Canada?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Primary Care, Quality Improvement, Ethical Considerations, Chronic Disease Management, Public Health, Quality of Life, Patient Satisfaction and Continuity of Care.

▲ 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. Primary Care12▲ 16×10 topics
  2. Epidemiology10▲ 1.34×57 topics
  3. Public Health10▲ 3.4×26 topics
  4. Quality of Life9▲ 3.4×24 topics
  5. Quality Improvement9▲ 24×7 topics
  6. Ethical Considerations8▲ 12×11 topics
  7. Mental Health8▲ 2.9×20 topics
  8. Chronic Disease Management7▲ 19×5 topics
  9. Depression7▲ 4.1×14 topics
  10. Patient Satisfaction6▲ 9.9×7 topics
  11. Continuity of Care6▲ 63×2 topics
  12. Healthcare6▲ 2.6×10 topics
  13. Communication6▲ 9.1×5 topics
  14. Patient Engagement6▲ 22×4 topics
  15. Health System Reform5▲ 40×2 topics
  16. Medical Education5▲ 9.7×8 topics
  17. Systematic Review5▲ 49×2 topics
  18. Quality of Care5▲ 30×4 topics
  19. Patient-Centered Medical Home5▲ 72×1 topic
  20. Pay for Performance5▲ 72×1 topic
  21. Patient Care4▲ 19×2 topics
  22. Mental Health Services4▲ 43×2 topics
  23. Healthcare Outcomes4▲ 36×2 topics
  24. Anxiety4▲ 4.0×7 topics
  25. Collaborative Practice4▲ 46×2 topics
  26. Health Outcomes4▲ 7.0×7 topics
  27. Integrated Care4▲ 44×2 topics
  28. Long-Term Care4▲ 24×2 topics
  29. Professional Practice4▲ 52×2 topics
  30. Public Involvement4▲ 65×1 topic
  31. Recovery Model4▲ 65×1 topic
  32. Interprofessional Education3▲ 62×1 topic
  33. Teamwork3▲ 62×1 topic
  34. Behavior Change3▲ 11×4 topics
  35. Clinical Practice3▲ 10×2 topics
  36. Health-related Quality of Life3▲ 6.6×4 topics
  37. Economic Evaluation3▲ 13×2 topics
  38. Health Care Costs3▲ 19×2 topics
  39. Nursing Home3▲ 38×1 topic
  40. Person-Centered Care3▲ 38×1 topic

Which research topics does CARE Canada publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Primary Care and Health Outcomes, Mental Health and Patient Involvement, Interprofessional Education and Collaboration and Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes.

Primary Care and Health …5Primary Care and Health Outcomes: 5 fractional worksMental Health and Patien…4Mental Health and Patient Involvement: 4 fractional worksInterprofessional Educat…3Interprofessional Education and Collaboration: 3 fractional worksGeriatric Care and Nursi…3Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes: 3 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 3 fractional worksscientometrics and bibliometrics research: 2 fractional worksEmpathy and Medical Educ…2Empathy and Medical Education: 2 fractional worksPalliative Care and End-…2Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: 2 fractional worksSingle-cell and spatial …2Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: 2 fractional worksCell Image Analysis Tech…2Cell Image Analysis Techniques: 2 fractional works
General Health ProfessionsEconomics and EconometricsStatistics, Probability and UncertaintyPsychiatry and Mental health3 others

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

  1. 1 Primary Care and Health Outcomes General Health Professions 5 works
  2. 2 Mental Health and Patient Involvement General Health Professions 4 works
  3. 3 Interprofessional Education and Collaboration General Health Professions 3 works
  4. 4 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes General Health Professions 3 works
  5. 5 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 3 works
  6. 6 scientometrics and bibliometrics research Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 2 works
  7. 7 Empathy and Medical Education Psychiatry and Mental health 2 works
  8. 8 Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2 works
  9. 9 Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics Molecular Biology 2 works
  10. 10 Cell Image Analysis Techniques Biophysics 2 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 available34.5%not open65.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors29.1%domestic only70.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has CARE Canada's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 58% higher 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 CARE Canada as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00065% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%CARE Canada0.00089% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of CARE Canada 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 counting10%20%all institutions10.0% in 2025CARE Canada7.2% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 16.1% in 2023.

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