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Environment and Climate Change Canada

In research, Environment and Climate Change Canada stands highest in Environmental Science (#185 of 3,334 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#1,055 of 10,670 worldwide) and Life Sciences (#1,477 of 6,403 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Chemistry (Atmospheric Science is 39.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,778
of 22,385 · #1,055 all time
Rank in Canada
#45
of 305
Research works
9.7k
▼ 20% vs 2018-21
Citations
390k
40.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.1%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.04×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
36%
world 40%
International
24%
world 18%
Environment and Climate Change Canada

What is Environment and Climate Change 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
Environmental ScienceField #185 of 3,334 8.9%560 #87
Physical SciencesDomain #1,055 of 10,670 9.2%862 #756
Life SciencesDomain #1,477 of 6,403 12.5%83 #1208
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #251 of 1,088 9.6%210 #199
Atmospheric ScienceSubfield #73 of 294 10.1%171 #74
Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield #141 of 544 9.1%142 #84
EcologySubfield #167 of 600 9.7%131 #134
Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisSubfield #118 of 322 9.0%89 #27

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Environment and Climate Change 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Environmental Science#87 #185
  2. Physical Sciences#756 #1,055
  3. Life Sciences#1,208 #1,477
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences#199 #251
  5. Atmospheric Science#74 #73
  6. Global and Planetary Change#84 #141
  7. Ecology#134 #167
  8. Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis#27 #118
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Environment and Climate Change Canada work in?

In 2022-now, 86% of research at Environment and Climate Change Canada is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (55%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (22%), Engineering (5%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 993 fractional works · 86.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 638 fractional works · 55.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 164 fractional works · 14.2% of its workEcology: 146 fractional works · 12.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 103 fractional works · 8.9% of its workPollution: 49 fractional works · 4.2% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 44 fractional works · 3.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 37 fractional works · 3.2% of its workWater Science and Technology: 31 fractional works · 2.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 27 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 16 fractional works · 1.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 16 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 248 fractional works · 21.5% of its workAtmospheric Science: 202 fractional works · 17.5% of its workOceanography: 31 fractional works · 2.7% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 53 fractional works · 4.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOcean Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanics of Materials: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 18 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 11 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSpectroscopy: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 9 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workProcess Chemistry and Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 94 fractional works · 8.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 53 fractional works · 4.6% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 16 fractional works · 1.4% of its workSoil Science: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPlant Science: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInsect Science: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAquatic Science: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 35 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 11 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 37 fractional works · 3.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 22 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 11 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 30 fractional works · 2.6% of its workMedicine: 18 fractional works · 1.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workInfectious Diseases: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKEnvironment andClimate Change…1,155fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences86%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences3%

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. Environmental Science63855.2%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences24821.5%
    3. Engineering534.6%
    4. Chemistry181.6%
    5. Materials Science100.9%
    6. Computer Science90.7%
    7. Physics and Astronomy50.5%
    8. Chemical Engineering50.4%
    9. Energy50.4%
    10. Mathematics10.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences534.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology353.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology40.3%
    4. Neuroscience10.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.1%
    1. Social Sciences221.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance80.7%
    3. Psychology30.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting20.2%
    5. Arts and Humanities20.1%
    6. Decision Sciences10.1%
    1. Medicine181.5%
    2. Health Professions100.9%
    3. Veterinary20.2%
    4. Nursing00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Environment and Climate Change Canada specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Atmospheric Science takes 39.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 202.4 works40×
  2. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 163.9 works19×
  3. Environmental ChemistrySubfield · 43.6 works17×
  4. Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisSubfield · 102.5 works17×
  5. EcologySubfield · 145.8 works16×
  6. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 248.5 works14×
← 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: 0.97× its world share, 53 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.57× its world share, 35 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.35× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.26× its world share, 5 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.01× its world share, 18 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.09× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 13.72× its world share, 248 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.45× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.31× its world share, 53 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 11.12× its world share, 638 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.25× its world share, 10 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.21× its world share, 5 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.32× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 18 worksMedicineNursing: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.43× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.31× its world share, 8 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 22 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 13.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences13.72×248 works
  2. Environmental Science11.12×638 works
  3. Veterinary1.43×2 works
  4. Chemical Engineering1.26×5 works
  5. Chemistry1.01×18 works
  6. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.97×53 works
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.57×35 works
  8. Energy0.45×5 works
  9. Immunology and Microbiology0.35×4 works
  10. Health Professions0.32×10 works
  11. Engineering0.31×53 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.31×8 works
  13. Materials Science0.25×10 works
  14. Physics and Astronomy0.21×5 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.18×1 works
  16. Social Sciences0.15×22 works
  17. Decision Sciences0.13×1 works
  18. Computer Science0.09×8 works
  19. Psychology0.09×3 works
  20. Medicine0.08×18 works
  21. Neuroscience0.07×1 works
  22. Mathematics0.06×1 works
  23. Nursing0.06×0 works
  24. Arts and Humanities0.05×2 works
  25. Business, Management and Accounting0.05×2 works

Who are the top researchers at Environment and Climate Change Canada?

Ranked on the quality score, Nathan P. Gillett, Vivek K. Arora and Richard A. Frank lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Environment and Climate Change Canada.

  1. 1 Nathan P. Gillett Canada · #11,745 worldwide 29k citations · 280 works
  2. 2 Vivek K. Arora Canada · #19,691 worldwide 26k citations · 293 works
  3. 3 Richard A. Frank Canada · #21,343 worldwide 14k citations · 181 works
  4. 4 Sangeeta Sharma Canada · #30,338 worldwide 9.5k citations · 165 works
  5. 5 Xuebin Zhang Canada · #38,019 worldwide 40k citations · 267 works
  6. 6 Tom Harner Canada · #49,824 worldwide 25k citations · 309 works
  7. 7 Jeffrey Robert Brook Canada · #58,301 worldwide 33k citations · 453 works
  8. 8 Viatcheslav Kharin Canada · #59,367 worldwide 9.8k citations · 81 works
  9. 9 Joe R. Melton Canada · #59,479 worldwide 18k citations · 290 works
  10. 10 Leonard A. Barrie Canada · #62,694 worldwide 18k citations · 223 works
All ranked researchers at Environment and Climate Change Canada

What are the most cited papers from Environment and Climate Change Canada?

The most cited paper from Environment and Climate Change Canada is "Anomalous collapses of Nares Strait ice arches leads to enhanced export of Arctic sea ice" (G. W. K. Moore, Stephen Howell, Mike Brady et al., 2021), with 5,198 citations. Next come "Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines" (4,942) and "Incidence of adverse biological effects within ranges of chemical concentrations in marine and estuarine sediments" (4,328).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Anomalous collapses of Nares Strait ice arches leads to enhanced export of Arctic sea ice G. W. K. Moore, Stephen Howell, Mike Brady et al. · Nature Communications Open access 4 Jan 2021 5,198
2 Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines Stuart H. M. Butchart et al. · Science Open access 29 Apr 2010 4,942
3 Incidence of adverse biological effects within ranges of chemical concentrations in marine and estuarine sediments Edward R. Long, Donald D. MacDonald, Sherri L. Smith et al. · Environmental Management 1995 4,328
4 PAHs in the Fraser River basin: a critical appraisal of PAH ratios as indicators of PAH source and composition Mark Bernard Yunker, Robie W. Macdonald, Roxanne Vingarzan et al. · Organic Geochemistry Apr 2002 4,315
5 The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project Gilbert P. Compo et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Open access 2011 3,728
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Environment and Climate Change Canada?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Ocean Circulation, Global Warming, Water Quality, Hydrological Cycle, Health Effects and Hydrology.

▲ 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. Climate Change399▲ 13×76 topics
  2. Remote Sensing135▲ 9.5×29 topics
  3. Ocean Circulation94▲ 59×3 topics
  4. Global Warming92▲ 19×12 topics
  5. Water Quality89▲ 19×13 topics
  6. Environmental Impact70▲ 3.6×38 topics
  7. Hydrological Cycle67▲ 57×2 topics
  8. Health Effects66▲ 9.4×18 topics
  9. Hydrology63▲ 42×4 topics
  10. Bioaccumulation62▲ 60×3 topics
  11. Arctic62▲ 48×4 topics
  12. Air Quality59▲ 27×6 topics
  13. Greenhouse Gas Emissions59▲ 18×7 topics
  14. Satellite Observations59▲ 51×3 topics
  15. Data Assimilation58▲ 31×4 topics
  16. Extreme Events56▲ 52×2 topics
  17. Emissions54▲ 24×6 topics
  18. Climate Modeling53▲ 62×1 topic
  19. Precipitation Extremes53▲ 62×1 topic
  20. Population Dynamics53▲ 18×10 topics
  21. Invasive Species52▲ 11×16 topics
  22. Habitat Selection52▲ 61×2 topics
  23. Toxicity49▲ 9.7×16 topics
  24. Hydrological Modeling47▲ 17×5 topics
  25. Biodiversity47▲ 5.3×26 topics
  26. Boundary Layer45▲ 31×2 topics
  27. Shale Gas43▲ 31×2 topics
  28. Ensemble Kalman Filter42▲ 36×2 topics
  29. Probabilistic Forecasting42▲ 19×2 topics
  30. Convective Parameterization41▲ 62×1 topic
  31. Mesoscale Modeling41▲ 62×1 topic
  32. Environmental Exposure40▲ 32×3 topics
  33. Atmospheric Aerosols39▲ 60×1 topic
  34. Black Carbon39▲ 60×1 topic
  35. Global Distribution39▲ 50×3 topics
  36. Model Evaluation39▲ 27×2 topics
  37. Sea Level Rise38▲ 26×3 topics
  38. Hydraulic Fracturing38▲ 31×2 topics
  39. Natural Gas38▲ 36×3 topics
  40. Carbon Dioxide38▲ 21×3 topics

Which research topics does Environment and Climate Change Canada publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Climate variability and …53Climate variability and models: 53 fractional worksMeteorological Phenomena…41Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations: 41 fractional worksAtmospheric chemistry an…39Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols: 39 fractional worksAtmospheric and Environm…38Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics: 38 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 32 fractional worksToxic Organic Pollutants Impact: 31 fractional worksAvian ecology and behavior30Avian ecology and behavior: 30 fractional worksCryospheric studies and observations: 29 fractional worksClimate change and permafrost: 24 fractional worksHydrology and Watershed …23Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies: 23 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeAtmospheric ScienceHealth, Toxicology and MutagenesisEcology1 others

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

  1. 1 Climate variability and models Global and Planetary Change 53 works
  2. 2 Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations Atmospheric Science 41 works
  3. 3 Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Science 39 works
  4. 4 Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics Global and Planetary Change 38 works
  5. 5 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 32 works
  6. 6 Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 31 works
  7. 7 Avian ecology and behavior Ecology 30 works
  8. 8 Cryospheric studies and observations Atmospheric Science 29 works
  9. 9 Climate change and permafrost Atmospheric Science 24 works
  10. 10 Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies Water Science and Technology 23 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 available36.4%not open63.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.0%domestic only76.0%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Environment and Climate Change Canada's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% 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 Environment and Climate Change Canada as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0042% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Environment and Climate Change Canada0.0048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environment and Climate Change 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 2025Environment and Climate Change Canada10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 17.1% in 2013.

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