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Icy Waters (Canada)

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Research works
2
▼ 100% vs 2018-21
Citations
82
33.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
9.1%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
22%
world 40%
International
23%
world 18%
Icy Waters (Canada)

Not ranked overall: Icy Waters (Canada) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Icy Waters (Canada) work in?

In all years, 67% of research at Icy Waters (Canada) is in Physical Sciences, 29% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (58%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (21%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8%).

Physical Sciences: 2 fractional works · 66.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 58.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 29.2% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 20.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 8.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 4.2% of its workALL ITS WORKIcy Waters(Canada)2fractional works, all years
Life Sciences29%Physical Sciences67%Health Sciences4%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. 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 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science158.3%
    2. Materials Science04.2%
    3. Physics and Astronomy04.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology020.8%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences08.3%
    1. Nursing04.2%
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.

What are the most cited papers from Icy Waters (Canada)?

The most cited paper from Icy Waters (Canada) is "Identification of genes associated with heat tolerance in Arctic charr exposed to acute thermal stress" (Nicole L. Quinn, Colin McGowan, Glenn A. Cooper et al., 2011), with 99 citations. Next come "Ribosomal genes and heat shock proteins as putative markers for chronic, sublethal heat stress in Arctic charr: applications for aquaculture and wild fish" (55) and "Combined Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS), Aircraft, And In-Situ Water Quality Remote Sensing Experiment In Lake Ontario" (4).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Identification of genes associated with heat tolerance in Arctic charr exposed to acute thermal stress Nicole L. Quinn, Colin McGowan, Glenn A. Cooper et al. · Physiological Genomics 5 Apr 2011 99
2 Ribosomal genes and heat shock proteins as putative markers for chronic, sublethal heat stress in Arctic charr: applications for aquaculture and wild fish Nicole L. Quinn, Colin McGowan, Glenn A. Cooper et al. · Physiological Genomics 13 Jul 2011 55
3 Combined Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS), Aircraft, And In-Situ Water Quality Remote Sensing Experiment In Lake Ontario Satbir Jain, Harold H. Zwick, William McColl et al. · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE Conference paper 26 Mar 1980 4
All 3 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Icy Waters (Canada) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, Machine Learning in Materials Science and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications.

Force Microscopy Techniq…0Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications: 0 fractional worksMachine Learning in Mate…0Machine Learning in Materials Science: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Electron Micros…0Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications: 0 fractional works
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsMaterials ChemistryStructural Biology

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

  1. 1 Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 0 works
  2. 2 Machine Learning in Materials Science Materials Chemistry 0 works
  3. 3 Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications Structural Biology 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 available22.0%not open78.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors22.9%domestic only77.1%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Icy Waters (Canada)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 100% lower 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.

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