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CIMA+ (Canada)

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Research works
18
▲ 97% vs 2018-21
Citations
157
8.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
0.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
30%
world 40%
International
22%
world 18%
CIMA+ (Canada)

Not ranked overall: CIMA+ (Canada) is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does CIMA+ (Canada) work in?

In all years, 70% of research at CIMA+ (Canada) is in Physical Sciences, 19% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (59%), Social Sciences (15%), Health Professions (8%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 13 fractional works · 70.0% of its workEngineering: 11 fractional works · 59.1% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 4 fractional works · 21.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 16.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 6.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 6.7% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workWater Science and Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMetals and Alloys: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 19.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 3 fractional works · 14.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 7.3% of its workTransportation: 1 fractional works · 5.0% of its workCultural Studies: 0 fractional works · 2.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 10.9% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 8.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 2.7% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 2.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKCIMA+ (Canada)18fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences70%Health Sciences11%Social Sciences19%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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 3 domains and 12 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering1159.1%
    2. Environmental Science16.7%
    3. Materials Science02.4%
    4. Physics and Astronomy01.4%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.4%
    1. Social Sciences314.7%
    2. Decision Sciences01.8%
    3. Psychology01.8%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.6%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.2%
    1. Health Professions28.3%
    2. Medicine02.6%
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.

Earth and Planetary Sciences: 0.51× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 3.35× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.67× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.54× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 1.38× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 6.90× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.16× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.79× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 6.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 10 fields, with their numbers
  1. Health Professions6.90×2 works
  2. Decision Sciences4.16×0 works
  3. Engineering3.35×4 works
  4. Materials Science1.54×0 works
  5. Physics and Astronomy1.38×0 works
  6. Social Sciences0.79×1 works
  7. Environmental Science0.67×0 works
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.51×0 works
  9. Medicine0.23×0 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.12×0 works

What are the most cited papers from CIMA+ (Canada)?

The most cited paper from CIMA+ (Canada) is "Development of Planning-Level Transportation Safety Models using Full Bayesian Semiparametric Additive Techniques" (Alireza Hadayeghi, Amer S Shalaby, Bhagwant N. Persaud, 2010), with 51 citations. Next come "Stability investigation of local buckling behavior of tubular polygon columns under concentric compression" (44) and "Evaluation of connected vehicle impact on mobility and mode choice" (30).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Development of Planning-Level Transportation Safety Models using Full Bayesian Semiparametric Additive Techniques Alireza Hadayeghi, Amer S Shalaby, Bhagwant N. Persaud · Journal of Transportation Safety & Security 16 Mar 2010 51
2 Stability investigation of local buckling behavior of tubular polygon columns under concentric compression Ahmed Godat, Frédéric Légeron, DieuDonné Bazonga · Thin-Walled Structures 8 Feb 2012 44
3 Evaluation of connected vehicle impact on mobility and mode choice Simon Minelli, Pedram Izadpanah, Saiedeh Razavi · Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English Edition) Open access 8 Aug 2015 30
4 Dynamic water balance of infiltration-based stormwater best management practices Jun Wang, Yiping Guo · Journal of Hydrology 13 Jun 2020 25
5 Probabilistic numerical model of cracking in ultra-high performance fibre reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) beams subjected to shear loading Pierre Rossi, Dominic Daviau‐Desnoyers, Jean‐Louis Tailhan · Cement and Concrete Composites 20 Mar 2018 19
All 41 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does CIMA+ (Canada) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Concrete Corrosion and Durability, Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete, School Health and Nursing Education and Community Health and Development.

Concrete Corrosion and D…1Concrete Corrosion and Durability: 1 fractional worksStructural Behavior of R…1Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete: 1 fractional worksSchool Health and Nursin…0School Health and Nursing Education: 0 fractional worksCommunity Health and Dev…0Community Health and Development: 0 fractional worksStructural Engineering and Vibration Analysis: 0 fractional worksRisk and Safety Analysis: 0 fractional worksSafety Systems Engineeri…0Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy: 0 fractional worksFrench Urban and Social Studies: 0 fractional worksOccupational Health and Safety Research: 0 fractional worksDiverse Cultural and His…0Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies: 0 fractional works
Civil and Structural EngineeringBuilding and ConstructionSpeech and HearingGeneral Health Professions5 others

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

  1. 1 Concrete Corrosion and Durability Civil and Structural Engineering 1 works
  2. 2 Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Building and Construction 1 works
  3. 3 School Health and Nursing Education Speech and Hearing 0 works
  4. 4 Community Health and Development General Health Professions 0 works
  5. 5 Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  6. 6 Risk and Safety Analysis Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 0 works
  7. 7 Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality 0 works
  8. 8 French Urban and Social Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  9. 9 Occupational Health and Safety Research Radiological and Ultrasound Technology 0 works
  10. 10 Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies Cultural Studies 0 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 available29.7%not open70.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.0%domestic only78.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has CIMA+ (Canada)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 97% 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 CIMA+ (Canada) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000045% in 2024.

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Fractional works of CIMA+ (Canada) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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