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Douglas Mental Health University Institute

In research, Douglas Mental Health University Institute stands highest in Life Sciences (#2,080 of 7,800 worldwide), Medicine (#3,965 of 10,443 worldwide) and Neuroscience (#485 of 1,168 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Psychiatry and Mental health, Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuroscience — Psychiatry and Mental health is 22.6× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#4,452
of 28,054 · #2,234 all time
Rank in Canada
#77
of 403
Research works
2.7k
▼ 3% vs 2013–17
Citations
133k
50.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
26.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
43%
world 28%

What is Douglas Mental Health University Institute 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
Life SciencesDomain #2,080 of 7,800 25.0%113 #752
MedicineField #3,965 of 10,443 27.4%141 #3116
NeuroscienceField #485 of 1,168 25.7%88 #193
Social SciencesDomain #4,376 of 10,521 27.7%111 #3216
Health SciencesDomain #5,078 of 11,982 27.1%162 #3600
PsychologyField #1,114 of 2,181 26.3%88 #990

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Douglas Mental Health University Institute 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. Life Sciences#752 #2,080
  2. Medicine#3,116 #3,965
  3. Neuroscience#193 #485
  4. Social Sciences#3,216 #4,376
  5. Health Sciences#3,600 #5,078
  6. Psychology#990 #1,114
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 Douglas Mental Health University Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Psychiatry and Mental health takes 22.6× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Psychiatry and Mental healthSubfield · 45.3 works23×
  2. NeuroscienceField · 88.3 works14×
  3. Cognitive NeuroscienceSubfield · 38.6 works13×
← 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: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.06× its world share, 23 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 13.55× its world share, 88 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.42× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.04× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.44× its world share, 9 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.82× its world share, 19 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.83× its world share, 141 worksMedicineNursing: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.44× its world share, 5 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.35× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 7.20× its world share, 88 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.27× its world share, 14 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 13.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Douglas Mental Health University Institute?

Ranked on the composite score, Rémi Quirion, Alain Brunet and Reut Gruber lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Douglas Mental Health University Institute.

  1. 1 Rémi Quirion Canada · #74,172 worldwide 452 citations · 83 works
  2. 2 Alain Brunet Canada · #108,785 worldwide 200 citations · 31 works
  3. 3 Reut Gruber Canada · #141,653 worldwide 241 citations · 34 works
  4. 4 Howard Steiger Canada · #228,175 worldwide 109 citations · 33 works
  5. 5 Naguib Mechawar Canada · #266,412 worldwide 173 citations · 32 works
  6. 6 N.P.V. Nair Canada · #276,503 worldwide 95 citations · 20 works
  7. 7 Jean Caron Canada · #300,498 worldwide 73 citations · 32 works
  8. 8 Nicolas Cermakian Canada · #522,287 worldwide 93 citations · 15 works
  9. 9 Lalit K. Srivastava Canada · #574,101 worldwide 43 citations · 17 works
  10. 10 Pierre Étienne Canada · #701,322 worldwide 40 citations · 15 works
All ranked researchers at Douglas Mental Health University Institute

Which keywords describe research at Douglas Mental Health University Institute?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Depression, Neuroimaging, Neurological Disorders, Oxidative Stress, Metabolic Syndrome, Biomarkers, Neuroinflammation and Neurobiology.

▲ 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. Depression43▲ 12×19 topics
  2. Epidemiology41▲ 2.6×42 topics
  3. Oxidative Stress35▲ 5.3×27 topics
  4. Neuroimaging31▲ 28×10 topics
  5. Neurological Disorders30▲ 13×13 topics
  6. Metabolic Syndrome26▲ 8.1×13 topics
  7. Biomarkers26▲ 9.5×12 topics
  8. Neuroinflammation25▲ 22×6 topics
  9. Neurobiology25▲ 24×9 topics
  10. Mental Health24▲ 4.0×29 topics
  11. Neurodegeneration22▲ 19×10 topics
  12. Alzheimer's Disease22▲ 19×6 topics
  13. Aging22▲ 9.9×14 topics
  14. Prevalence21▲ 13×9 topics
  15. Caregiver Burden20▲ 45×2 topics
  16. Cognitive Decline19▲ 39×2 topics
  17. Cognitive Training19▲ 51×2 topics
  18. Cognitive Therapy18▲ 43×3 topics
  19. Genetics18▲ 6.5×14 topics
  20. Dementia18▲ 48×1 topic
  21. Mild Cognitive Impairment18▲ 54×1 topic
  22. Social Cognition18▲ 27×8 topics
  23. Meta-Analysis17▲ 7.1×8 topics
  24. Stress16▲ 11×10 topics
  25. Antipsychotic Drugs16▲ 101×1 topic
  26. Neurocognitive Deficits16▲ 101×1 topic
  27. Adolescents16▲ 10×7 topics
  28. Brain Development15▲ 22×6 topics
  29. Functional Connectivity15▲ 29×3 topics
  30. Anxiety15▲ 8.0×11 topics
  31. Circadian Rhythms14▲ 34×2 topics
  32. Mental Disorders14▲ 31×3 topics
  33. Default Mode Network14▲ 49×1 topic
  34. Resting-State fMRI14▲ 49×1 topic
  35. Emotion Regulation14▲ 11×9 topics
  36. Hippocampus14▲ 55×2 topics
  37. Psychological Distress14▲ 13×4 topics
  38. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy13▲ 26×2 topics
  39. Amyloid Hypothesis13▲ 56×1 topic
  40. Tau Pathology13▲ 56×1 topic

Which research topics does Douglas Mental Health University Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Schizophrenia research and treatment, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research: 18 fractional worksSchizophrenia research and treatment: 16 fractional worksFunctional Brain Connect…14Functional Brain Connectivity Studies: 14 fractional worksAlzheimer's disease rese…13Alzheimer's disease research and treatments: 13 fractional worksSleep and related disorders: 10 fractional worksMental Health Treatment and Access: 8 fractional worksStress Responses and Cor…8Stress Responses and Cortisol: 8 fractional worksAdvanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications: 7 fractional worksTryptophan and brain disorders: 7 fractional worksNeuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research: 6 fractional works
Psychiatry and Mental healthCognitive NeurosciencePhysiologyExperimental and Cognitive Psychology5 others

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

  1. 1 Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research Psychiatry and Mental health 18 works
  2. 2 Schizophrenia research and treatment Psychiatry and Mental health 16 works
  3. 3 Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Cognitive Neuroscience 14 works
  4. 4 Alzheimer's disease research and treatments Physiology 13 works
  5. 5 Sleep and related disorders Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 10 works
  6. 6 Mental Health Treatment and Access Social Psychology 8 works
  7. 7 Stress Responses and Cortisol Behavioral Neuroscience 8 works
  8. 8 Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 7 works
  9. 9 Tryptophan and brain disorders Biological Psychiatry 7 works
  10. 10 Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 6 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 available42.6%not open57.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Douglas Mental Health University Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 3% lower than in 2013–2017.

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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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