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Institute on Governance

In research, Institute on Governance stands highest in Social Sciences (#2,446 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#2,702 of 5,988 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#7,236 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Law, Political Science and International Relations and Strategy and Management (Law is 8.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#5,219
of 22,385 · #4,247 all time
Rank in Canada
#96
of 305
Research works
1.9k
▼ 13% vs 2018-21
Citations
13k
7.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.09×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
43%
world 40%
International
36%
world 18%
Institute on Governance

What is Institute on Governance 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
Social SciencesDomain #2,446 of 9,585 8.0%258 #1874
Social SciencesField #2,702 of 5,988 6.6%149 #1805
Physical SciencesDomain #7,236 of 10,670 7.6%68 #7624

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Institute on Governance 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. Social Sciences#1,874 #2,446
  2. Social Sciences#1,805 #2,702
  3. Physical Sciences#7,624 #7,236
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 Institute on Governance work in?

In 2022-now, 72% of research at Institute on Governance is in Social Sciences, 20% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (42%), Business, Management and Accounting (14%), Environmental Science (8%). It does 2.9× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 351 fractional works · 71.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 206 fractional works · 42.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 59 fractional works · 12.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 54 fractional works · 11.1% of its workLaw: 25 fractional works · 5.2% of its workSafety Research: 13 fractional works · 2.7% of its workEducation: 9 fractional works · 1.9% of its workUrban Studies: 8 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDemography: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGender Studies: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCommunication: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workTransportation: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAnthropology: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPublic Administration: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopment: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 71 fractional works · 14.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 26 fractional works · 5.2% of its workAccounting: 17 fractional works · 3.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 11 fractional works · 2.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMarketing: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 4 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 32 fractional works · 6.5% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 22 fractional works · 4.5% of its workFinance: 6 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 14 fractional works · 2.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 5 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 14 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPhilosophy: 4 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workConservation: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMuseology: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 14 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 1.2% of its workClinical Psychology: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 99 fractional works · 20.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 40 fractional works · 8.2% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 17 fractional works · 3.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 11 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEcology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 34 fractional works · 6.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 14 fractional works · 2.9% of its workInformation Systems: 9 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Science Applications: 5 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 18 fractional works · 3.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 4 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 24 fractional works · 4.9% of its workMedicine: 12 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Informatics: 3 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 11 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 7 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 15 fractional works · 3.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 fractional works · 2.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSoil Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPlant Science: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKInstitute onGovernance488fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences72%

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. Social Sciences20642.3%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting7114.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance326.5%
    4. Decision Sciences142.9%
    5. Arts and Humanities142.9%
    6. Psychology142.8%
    1. Environmental Science408.2%
    2. Computer Science346.9%
    3. Engineering183.6%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences20.5%
    5. Energy20.5%
    6. Physics and Astronomy20.3%
    7. Mathematics10.2%
    8. Materials Science00.0%
    9. Chemistry00.0%
    10. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    1. Medicine122.5%
    2. Health Professions112.2%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences112.3%
    2. Neuroscience20.4%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.3%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology00.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Institute on Governance specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Law takes 8.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. LawSubfield · 25.5 works8.9×
  2. Political Science and International RelationsSubfield · 54.5 works7.5×
  3. Strategy and ManagementSubfield · 25.6 works6.0×
← 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: 0.48× its world share, 11 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.89× its world share, 34 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.50× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.24× its world share, 18 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.65× its world share, 40 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.16× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.15× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.84× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.13× its world share, 12 worksMedicineNursing: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.99× its world share, 14 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4.49× its world share, 71 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.03× its world share, 14 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.03× its world share, 32 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.92× its world share, 14 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.34× its world share, 206 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 4.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting4.49×71 works
  2. Social Sciences3.34×206 works
  3. Decision Sciences3.03×14 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.03×32 works
  5. Environmental Science1.65×40 works
  6. Arts and Humanities0.99×14 works
  7. Psychology0.92×14 works
  8. Computer Science0.89×34 works
  9. Health Professions0.84×11 works
  10. Energy0.50×2 works
  11. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.48×11 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.30×2 works
  13. Neuroscience0.26×2 works
  14. Engineering0.24×18 works
  15. Mathematics0.16×1 works
  16. Physics and Astronomy0.15×2 works
  17. Nursing0.15×0 works
  18. Medicine0.13×12 works
  19. Dentistry0.10×0 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.07×0 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.06×0 works
  22. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.05×1 works
  23. Chemical Engineering0.03×0 works
  24. Chemistry0.01×0 works
  25. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Institute on Governance?

Ranked on the quality score, Joslyn N. Barnhart, Alexandra Andhov and Daron L. Davis lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Institute on Governance.

  1. 1 Joslyn N. Barnhart Canada · #965,154 worldwide 384 citations · 53 works
  2. 2 Alexandra Andhov Canada · #1,400,031 worldwide 156 citations · 45 works
  3. 3 Daron L. Davis Canada · #1,433,296 worldwide 177 citations · 54 works
  4. 4 Lennart Heim Canada · #1,460,760 worldwide 698 citations · 31 works
  5. 5 Yanjun Liu Canada · #2,463,018 worldwide 97 citations · 17 works
  6. 6 Leah Junck Canada · #2,575,060 worldwide 16 citations · 21 works
  7. 7 Eng. Ashraf El-Sayed Ahmed Hassan Abdeen Canada · #2,594,188 worldwide 0 citations · 30 works
  8. 8 Shann Turnbull Canada · #2,894,802 worldwide 2.4k citations · 212 works
  9. 9 Anders S. Henriksen Canada · #2,944,370 worldwide 443 citations · 151 works
  10. 10 Dragana Damjanovic Canada · #2,980,006 worldwide 0 citations · 31 works
All ranked researchers at Institute on Governance

What are the most cited papers from Institute on Governance?

The most cited paper from Institute on Governance is "The future of digital health with federated learning" (Nicola Rieke, Jonny Hancox, Wenqi Li et al., 2020), with 3,041 citations. Next come "A Theory of Access*" (2,312) and "Discursive democracy politics, policy and political science" (1,100).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The future of digital health with federated learning Nicola Rieke, Jonny Hancox, Wenqi Li et al. · npj Digital Medicine Open access 14 Sep 2020 3,041
2 A Theory of Access* Jesse Ribot, Nancy Lee Peluso · Rural Sociology Jun 2003 2,312
3 Discursive democracy politics, policy and political science John S. Dryzek 1990 1,100
4 Innovation in Governance and Public Services: Past and Present Jean F. Hartley · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics 15 Mar 2010 885
5 Business Groups and Tunneling: Evidence from Private Securities Offerings by Korean Chaebols Jae-Seung Baek, Jun‐Koo Kang, Inmoo Lee · The Journal of Finance Open access 19 Sep 2006 557
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Institute on Governance?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Human Rights, International Law, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Accountability, Global Governance, Climate Change and Ethics.

▲ 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. Human Rights41▲ 8.2×36 topics
  2. Artificial Intelligence33▲ 4.7×29 topics
  3. Climate Change32▲ 2.4×49 topics
  4. International Law30▲ 19×21 topics
  5. Sustainability29▲ 2.4×44 topics
  6. Machine Learning29▲ 1.77×35 topics
  7. Globalization28▲ 2.9×59 topics
  8. Big Data26▲ 5.5×15 topics
  9. Sustainable Development25▲ 3.2×45 topics
  10. Accountability21▲ 34×4 topics
  11. Global Governance19▲ 16×15 topics
  12. Supply Chain Management19▲ 4.3×16 topics
  13. Ethics18▲ 7.2×15 topics
  14. Transparency16▲ 24×4 topics
  15. Governance16▲ 10×12 topics
  16. Economic Growth16▲ 3.9×23 topics
  17. Surveillance14▲ 10×5 topics
  18. Innovation14▲ 2.7×20 topics
  19. Democracy13▲ 7.6×12 topics
  20. Discrimination13▲ 13×4 topics
  21. Fairness12▲ 24×2 topics
  22. International Relations12▲ 10×13 topics
  23. Algorithmic Bias12▲ 28×1 topic
  24. Biodiversity Conservation12▲ 6.4×8 topics
  25. Corporate Governance11▲ 3.1×20 topics
  26. Corporate Social Responsibility11▲ 14×6 topics
  27. Social Capital11▲ 4.2×16 topics
  28. Development10▲ 5.9×11 topics
  29. Political Economy10▲ 8.2×12 topics
  30. Transnational Corporations10▲ 80×3 topics
  31. Risk Management10▲ 4.2×12 topics
  32. Sovereignty9▲ 21×6 topics
  33. Judicial Review9▲ 22×4 topics
  34. Neoliberalism9▲ 5.1×14 topics
  35. Trust9▲ 6.3×8 topics
  36. Organizational Performance8▲ 6.5×8 topics
  37. Constitutionalism7▲ 17×2 topics
  38. Institutional Theory7▲ 15×3 topics
  39. Civil Society7▲ 13×6 topics
  40. ECHR7▲ 41×1 topic

Which research topics does Institute on Governance publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, European and International Law Studies, International Maritime Law Issues and Environmental law and policy.

Ethics and Social Impact…12Ethics and Social Impacts of AI: 12 fractional worksEuropean and International Law Studies: 7 fractional worksInternational Maritime L…6International Maritime Law Issues: 6 fractional worksEnvironmental law and po…6Environmental law and policy: 6 fractional worksLaw, logistics, and international trade: 5 fractional worksPublic Procurement and Policy: 4 fractional worksCorporate Law and Human …4Corporate Law and Human Rights: 4 fractional worksGlobal Peace and Security Dynamics: 4 fractional worksE-Government and Public Services: 4 fractional worksArctic and Russian Polic…4Arctic and Russian Policy Studies: 4 fractional works
Safety ResearchPolitical Science and International RelationsManagement, Monitoring, Policy and LawLaw4 others

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

  1. 1 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 12 works
  2. 2 European and International Law Studies Political Science and International Relations 7 works
  3. 3 International Maritime Law Issues Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 6 works
  4. 4 Environmental law and policy Law 6 works
  5. 5 Law, logistics, and international trade Accounting 5 works
  6. 6 Public Procurement and Policy Strategy and Management 4 works
  7. 7 Corporate Law and Human Rights Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 4 works
  8. 8 Global Peace and Security Dynamics Political Science and International Relations 4 works
  9. 9 E-Government and Public Services Political Science and International Relations 4 works
  10. 10 Arctic and Russian Policy Studies Sociology and Political Science 4 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 available43.1%not open56.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors35.8%domestic only64.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Institute on Governance's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% 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 Institute on Governance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Institute on Governance0.0024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Institute on Governance 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%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Institute on Governance8.3% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 21.5% in 2003.

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