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Fisheries and Oceans Canada

In research, Fisheries and Oceans Canada stands highest in Environmental Science (#400 of 3,334 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#2,113 of 10,670 worldwide) and Ecology (#150 of 600 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography and Ecology (Nature and Landscape Conservation is 49.1× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#3,869
of 22,385 · #3,134 all time
Rank in Canada
#76
of 305
Research works
7.7k
▼ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
283k
36.6 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.01×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
36%
world 40%
International
26%
world 18%
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

What is Fisheries and Oceans 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 #400 of 3,334 11.1%522 #637
Physical SciencesDomain #2,113 of 10,670 10.6%712 #2243
EcologySubfield #150 of 600 10.7%193 #372
Life SciencesDomain #1,666 of 6,403 12.6%106 #2492
Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield #223 of 544 10.4%140 #293
Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield #38 of 90 10.5%101 #184
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #505 of 1,088 8.8%152 #493
OceanographySubfield #92 of 158 9.7%97 #189

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Fisheries and Oceans 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#637 #400
  2. Physical Sciences#2,243 #2,113
  3. Ecology#372 #150
  4. Life Sciences#2,492 #1,666
  5. Global and Planetary Change#293 #223
  6. Nature and Landscape Conservation#184 #38
  7. Earth and Planetary Sciences#493 #505
  8. Oceanography#189 #92
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 Fisheries and Oceans Canada work in?

In 2022-now, 82% of research at Fisheries and Oceans Canada is in Physical Sciences, 13% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (61%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (17%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (6%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 801 fractional works · 82.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 593 fractional works · 60.8% of its workEcology: 223 fractional works · 22.9% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 158 fractional works · 16.2% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 114 fractional works · 11.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 21 fractional works · 2.1% of its workPollution: 19 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 17 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 13 fractional works · 1.3% of its workWater Science and Technology: 11 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcological Modeling: 8 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 169 fractional works · 17.4% of its workOceanography: 109 fractional works · 11.1% of its workAtmospheric Science: 47 fractional works · 4.9% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPaleontology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 23 fractional works · 2.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 12 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 11 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Science: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics and Probability: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 127 fractional works · 13.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 62 fractional works · 6.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 21 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGenetics: 17 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 9 fractional works · 0.9% of its workPhysiology: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCancer Research: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiotechnology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 52 fractional works · 5.4% of its workAquatic Science: 27 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 10 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPlant Science: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workFood Science: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workInsect Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workImmunology: 10 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 30 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 18 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 17 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 8 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 8 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKFisheries andOceans Canada975fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences13%Physical Sciences82%Health Sciences2%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 Science59360.8%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences16917.4%
    3. Engineering232.3%
    4. Computer Science50.5%
    5. Mathematics30.3%
    6. Materials Science30.3%
    7. Physics and Astronomy20.2%
    8. Chemistry20.2%
    9. Energy10.1%
    10. Chemical Engineering10.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology626.3%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences525.4%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology121.3%
    4. Neuroscience10.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    1. Social Sciences181.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance30.3%
    3. Business, Management and Accounting30.3%
    4. Decision Sciences30.3%
    5. Arts and Humanities20.2%
    6. Psychology20.2%
    1. Health Professions80.9%
    2. Medicine70.7%
    3. Veterinary10.1%
    4. Nursing00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Fisheries and Oceans Canada specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Nature and Landscape Conservation takes 49.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 114.1 works49×
  2. OceanographySubfield · 108.7 works40×
  3. EcologySubfield · 223.1 works29×
  4. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 157.7 works21×
  5. Aquatic ScienceSubfield · 27.4 works15×
  6. Environmental ScienceField · 592.8 works12×
← 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: 1.13× its world share, 52 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.18× its world share, 62 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.26× its world share, 12 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.07× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 11.08× its world share, 170 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.16× its world share, 23 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 12.24× its world share, 593 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.08× its world share, 3 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.26× its world share, 3 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.32× its world share, 8 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.04× its world share, 7 worksMedicineNursing: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.64× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.06× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.09× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.14× its world share, 3 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.15× its world share, 18 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Environmental Science, 12.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Environmental Science12.24×593 works
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences11.08×170 works
  3. Immunology and Microbiology1.26×12 works
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.18×62 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.13×52 works
  6. Veterinary0.64×1 works
  7. Health Professions0.32×8 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.28×3 works
  9. Mathematics0.26×3 works
  10. Chemical Engineering0.16×0 works
  11. Engineering0.16×23 works
  12. Social Sciences0.15×18 works
  13. Chemistry0.14×2 works
  14. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.14×3 works
  15. Physics and Astronomy0.11×2 works
  16. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.10×0 works
  17. Nursing0.09×0 works
  18. Business, Management and Accounting0.09×3 works
  19. Materials Science0.08×3 works
  20. Computer Science0.07×5 works
  21. Energy0.07×1 works
  22. Arts and Humanities0.06×2 works
  23. Psychology0.05×2 works
  24. Medicine0.04×7 works
  25. Neuroscience0.03×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Fisheries and Oceans Canada?

Ranked on the quality score, Eddy C. Carmack, John W. M. Rudd and Robie W. Macdonald lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

  1. 1 Eddy C. Carmack Canada · #46,485 worldwide 23k citations · 233 works
  2. 2 John W. M. Rudd Canada · #71,275 worldwide 13k citations · 101 works
  3. 3 Robie W. Macdonald Canada · #105,234 worldwide 34k citations · 539 works
  4. 4 John K. B. Ford Canada · #123,745 worldwide 8k citations · 159 works
  5. 5 James R. Christian Canada · #177,801 worldwide 12k citations · 116 works
  6. 6 Ian Bradbury Canada · #194,117 worldwide 14k citations · 339 works
  7. 7 Lisa A. Miller Canada · #199,779 worldwide 7.1k citations · 134 works
  8. 8 Denis Gilbert Canada · #201,629 worldwide 10k citations · 84 works
  9. 9 Peter S. Ross Canada · #283,478 worldwide 17k citations · 258 works
  10. 10 Fiona A. McLaughlin Canada · #308,870 worldwide 9.6k citations · 101 works
All ranked researchers at Fisheries and Oceans Canada

What are the most cited papers from Fisheries and Oceans Canada?

The most cited paper from Fisheries and Oceans Canada is "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., 2002), with 4,315 citations. Next come "Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters" (3,320) and "Human Consumption of Microplastics" (2,728).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters Denise L. Breitburg et al. · Science Open access 5 Jan 2018 3,320
3 Human Consumption of Microplastics Kieran Cox, Garth A. Covernton, Hailey L. Davies et al. · Environmental Science & Technology 5 Jun 2019 2,728
4 Sex determination and sex differentiation in fish: an overview of genetic, physiological, and environmental influences Robert H. Devlin, Yoshitaka Nagahama · Aquaculture Jun 2002 2,614
5 Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea-air CO2 flux over the global oceans Taro Takahashi et al. · INRIA a CCSD electronic archive server 2009 2,530
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Fisheries and Oceans Canada?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Fisheries Sustainability, Invasive Species, Freshwater Biodiversity, Trophic Cascades, Habitat Fragmentation, Conservation Challenges and Flow Regulation.

▲ 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 Change421▲ 16×65 topics
  2. Fisheries Sustainability189▲ 225×2 topics
  3. Invasive Species142▲ 34×14 topics
  4. Freshwater Biodiversity101▲ 169×2 topics
  5. Trophic Cascades100▲ 112×2 topics
  6. Habitat Fragmentation99▲ 47×5 topics
  7. Conservation Challenges97▲ 218×1 topic
  8. Flow Regulation97▲ 218×1 topic
  9. Conservation95▲ 23×15 topics
  10. Ecosystem Management92▲ 160×1 topic
  11. Marine Fisheries92▲ 234×1 topic
  12. Population Dynamics89▲ 35×10 topics
  13. Aquaculture71▲ 29×8 topics
  14. Environmental Impact71▲ 4.2×34 topics
  15. Acoustic Communication67▲ 133×2 topics
  16. Predator-Prey Interactions60▲ 78×3 topics
  17. Ocean Acidification59▲ 81×3 topics
  18. Anthropogenic Noise58▲ 213×1 topic
  19. Marine Mammals58▲ 213×1 topic
  20. Sustainability58▲ 2.5×31 topics
  21. Biodiversity55▲ 7.5×21 topics
  22. Food Security53▲ 10×8 topics
  23. Marine Environment52▲ 37×3 topics
  24. Ecosystem Services52▲ 14×7 topics
  25. Ocean Circulation51▲ 38×3 topics
  26. Remote Sensing47▲ 4.0×20 topics
  27. Bivalve Molluscs43▲ 149×1 topic
  28. Oyster Reefs43▲ 149×1 topic
  29. Marine Ecosystems41▲ 77×2 topics
  30. Arctic38▲ 36×4 topics
  31. Conservation Genetics37▲ 94×2 topics
  32. Benthic Communities35▲ 59×2 topics
  33. Marine Biodiversity35▲ 59×2 topics
  34. DNA Barcoding35▲ 20×4 topics
  35. Biogeography31▲ 11×9 topics
  36. Bleaching30▲ 95×1 topic
  37. Coral Reefs30▲ 95×1 topic
  38. Ecosystem Functioning30▲ 15×5 topics
  39. Decline28▲ 107×1 topic
  40. Sea Ice28▲ 107×1 topic

Which research topics does Fisheries and Oceans Canada publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine and fisheries research, Marine animal studies overview and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies.

Fish Ecology and Managem…97Fish Ecology and Management Studies: 97 fractional worksMarine and fisheries res…92Marine and fisheries research: 92 fractional worksMarine animal studies overview: 58 fractional worksMarine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies: 43 fractional worksCoral and Marine Ecosystems Studies: 30 fractional worksArctic and Antarctic ice…28Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics: 28 fractional worksAquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior: 22 fractional worksIsotope Analysis in Ecology: 22 fractional worksOceanographic and Atmospheric Processes: 20 fractional worksMarine Biology and Ecology Research: 19 fractional works
Nature and Landscape ConservationGlobal and Planetary ChangeEcologyAtmospheric Science1 others

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

  1. 1 Fish Ecology and Management Studies Nature and Landscape Conservation 97 works
  2. 2 Marine and fisheries research Global and Planetary Change 92 works
  3. 3 Marine animal studies overview Ecology 58 works
  4. 4 Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies Global and Planetary Change 43 works
  5. 5 Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies Ecology 30 works
  6. 6 Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics Atmospheric Science 28 works
  7. 7 Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior Ecology 22 works
  8. 8 Isotope Analysis in Ecology Ecology 22 works
  9. 9 Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes Oceanography 20 works
  10. 10 Marine Biology and Ecology Research Oceanography 19 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 available36.2%not open63.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.6%domestic only74.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Fisheries and Oceans Canada's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% 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 Fisheries and Oceans Canada as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0040% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Fisheries and Oceans Canada0.0037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fisheries and Oceans 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%Fisheries and Oceans Canada11.4% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 18.5% in 2006.

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