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Natural Resources Canada

In research, Natural Resources Canada stands highest in Physical Sciences (#992 of 10,670 worldwide), Environmental Science (#562 of 3,334 worldwide) and Engineering (#1,147 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology and Paleontology (Geophysics is 23.7× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,887
of 22,385 · #1,844 all time
Rank in Canada
#47
of 305
Research works
16k
▼ 14% vs 2018-21
Citations
543k
33.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
27%
world 40%
International
23%
world 18%
Natural Resources Canada

What is Natural Resources 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
Physical SciencesDomain #992 of 10,670 11.4%1,405 #1223
Environmental ScienceField #562 of 3,334 12.7%463 #488
EngineeringField #1,147 of 5,901 9.8%390 #1185
Earth and Planetary SciencesField #254 of 1,088 11.8%353 #328
Life SciencesDomain #1,629 of 6,403 9.8%157 #2957
Mechanical EngineeringSubfield #516 of 1,319 8.7%117 #657
Agricultural and Biological SciencesField #1,528 of 3,157 8.5%120 #1177
Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield #274 of 544 13.8%139 #374
EcologySubfield #303 of 600 14.7%101 #453
GeophysicsSubfield #126 of 225 9.0%136 #144

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Natural Resources 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. Physical Sciences#1,223 #992
  2. Environmental Science#488 #562
  3. Engineering#1,185 #1,147
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences#328 #254
  5. Life Sciences#2,957 #1,629
  6. Mechanical Engineering#657 #516
  7. Agricultural and Biological Sciences#1,177 #1,528
  8. Global and Planetary Change#374 #274
  9. Ecology#453 #303
  10. Geophysics#144 #126
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 Natural Resources Canada work in?

In 2022-now, 86% of research at Natural Resources Canada is in Physical Sciences, 10% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Environmental Science (29%), Engineering (23%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (22%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 1,594 fractional works · 86.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 533 fractional works · 28.8% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 163 fractional works · 8.8% of its workEcology: 120 fractional works · 6.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 68 fractional works · 3.7% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 57 fractional works · 3.1% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 34 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 21 fractional works · 1.1% of its workWater Science and Technology: 19 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPollution: 16 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 14 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEcological Modeling: 13 fractional works · 0.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 431 fractional works · 23.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 130 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 63 fractional works · 3.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 49 fractional works · 2.6% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 42 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOcean Engineering: 30 fractional works · 1.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 25 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAerospace Engineering: 22 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 19 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 17 fractional works · 0.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 401 fractional works · 21.7% of its workGeophysics: 153 fractional works · 8.3% of its workAtmospheric Science: 115 fractional works · 6.2% of its workPaleontology: 34 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 31 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 27 fractional works · 1.5% of its workGeology: 25 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOceanography: 16 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science: 76 fractional works · 4.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 64 fractional works · 3.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 61 fractional works · 3.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 37 fractional works · 2.0% of its workBiomaterials: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMetals and Alloys: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 34 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 18 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 9 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 30 fractional works · 1.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 24 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 16 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 11 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCatalysis: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 182 fractional works · 9.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 138 fractional works · 7.4% of its workInsect Science: 52 fractional works · 2.8% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 33 fractional works · 1.8% of its workPlant Science: 31 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSoil Science: 10 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAgronomy and Crop Science: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 42 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 15 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 12 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCell Biology: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 52 fractional works · 2.8% of its workSocial Sciences: 22 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSociology and Political Science: 10 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDecision Sciences: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 7 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 6 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 21 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMedicine: 11 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth Professions: 8 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 5 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKNatural ResourcesCanada1,849fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences10%Physical Sciences86%Health Sciences1%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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Environmental Science53328.8%
    2. Engineering43123.3%
    3. Earth and Planetary Sciences40121.7%
    4. Computer Science764.1%
    5. Materials Science613.3%
    6. Chemistry341.8%
    7. Energy301.6%
    8. Physics and Astronomy160.9%
    9. Chemical Engineering110.6%
    10. Mathematics20.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1387.4%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology422.3%
    3. Neuroscience10.1%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.0%
    1. Social Sciences221.2%
    2. Decision Sciences80.4%
    3. Arts and Humanities70.4%
    4. Psychology60.3%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance50.3%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting40.2%
    1. Medicine110.6%
    2. Health Professions80.4%
    3. Nursing20.1%
    4. Veterinary00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Natural Resources Canada specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Geophysics takes 23.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. GeophysicsSubfield · 152.8 works24×
  2. Geochemistry and PetrologySubfield · 31.2 works17×
  3. PaleontologySubfield · 34.1 works15×
  4. Atmospheric ScienceSubfield · 114.6 works14×
  5. Earth and Planetary SciencesField · 401.5 works14×
  6. Nature and Landscape ConservationSubfield · 57.4 works13×
  7. Earth-Surface ProcessesSubfield · 27.0 works12×
  8. Global and Planetary ChangeSubfield · 163.2 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: 1.57× its world share, 138 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.43× its world share, 42 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.04× its world share, 1 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 1.67× its world share, 11 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 1.16× its world share, 34 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.53× its world share, 76 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 13.85× its world share, 402 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.75× its world share, 30 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.55× its world share, 431 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 5.81× its world share, 533 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.95× its world share, 61 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.39× its world share, 16 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.16× its world share, 8 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.03× its world share, 11 worksMedicineNursing: 0.17× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.14× its world share, 7 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.06× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.44× its world share, 8 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.13× its world share, 5 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.11× its world share, 6 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.09× 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, 13.8×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences13.85×402 works
  2. Environmental Science5.81×533 works
  3. Energy1.75×30 works
  4. Chemical Engineering1.67×11 works
  5. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1.57×138 works
  6. Engineering1.55×431 works
  7. Chemistry1.16×34 works
  8. Materials Science0.95×61 works
  9. Computer Science0.53×76 works
  10. Decision Sciences0.44×8 works
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.43×42 works
  12. Physics and Astronomy0.39×16 works
  13. Nursing0.17×2 works
  14. Health Professions0.16×8 works
  15. Arts and Humanities0.14×7 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.13×5 works
  17. Psychology0.11×6 works
  18. Mathematics0.09×2 works
  19. Social Sciences0.09×22 works
  20. Veterinary0.07×0 works
  21. Business, Management and Accounting0.06×4 works
  22. Immunology and Microbiology0.05×1 works
  23. Neuroscience0.04×1 works
  24. Medicine0.03×11 works

Who are the top researchers at Natural Resources Canada?

Ranked on the quality score, F. Kiss, F Kiss and Marc‐André Parisien lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Natural Resources Canada.

  1. 1 F. Kiss Canada · #6,166 worldwide 19k citations · 340 works
  2. 2 F Kiss Canada · #9,012 worldwide 13k citations · 398 works
  3. 3 Marc‐André Parisien Canada · #13,234 worldwide 12k citations · 185 works
  4. 4 Ellen Whitman Canada · #44,954 worldwide 4k citations · 88 works
  5. 5 Edward John Anthony Canada · #62,538 worldwide 33k citations · 540 works
  6. 6 Martin P. Girardin Canada · #63,182 worldwide 7.5k citations · 184 works
  7. 7 Piyush Jain Canada · #133,587 worldwide 3.9k citations · 113 works
  8. 8 Isabelle Aubin Canada · #196,020 worldwide 7.8k citations · 124 works
  9. 9 R H Rainbird Canada · #209,760 worldwide 6.8k citations · 228 works
  10. 10 Yan Boulanger Canada · #235,950 worldwide 3.9k citations · 125 works
All ranked researchers at Natural Resources Canada

What are the most cited papers from Natural Resources Canada?

The most cited paper from Natural Resources Canada is "A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests" (Craig D. Allen, Alison K. Macalady, Haroun Chenchouni et al., 2009), with 7,876 citations. Next come "THREE NATURAL ZIRCON STANDARDS FOR U‐TH‐PB, LU‐HF, TRACE ELEMENT AND REE ANALYSES" (6,331) and "A-type granites: geochemical characteristics, discrimination and petrogenesis" (5,654).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests Craig D. Allen, Alison K. Macalady, Haroun Chenchouni et al. · Forest Ecology and Management Open access 22 Oct 2009 7,876
2 THREE NATURAL ZIRCON STANDARDS FOR U‐TH‐PB, LU‐HF, TRACE ELEMENT AND REE ANALYSES Michael Wiedenbeck, Paul Allé, Fernando Corfú et al. · Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research Apr 1995 6,331
3 A-type granites: geochemical characteristics, discrimination and petrogenesis J B Whalen, Kenneth L. Currie, BRUCE W. CHAPPELL · Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology Apr 1987 5,654
4 Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi Conrad L. Schoch et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access156 authors 27 Mar 2012 5,240
5 The Last Glacial Maximum Peter U. Clark, Arthur S. Dyke, Jeremy D. Shakun et al. · Science 7 Aug 2009 3,661
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Natural Resources Canada?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Remote Sensing, Ecosystem Resilience, Invasive Species, Tectonics, Soil Properties, Plate Tectonics and Forest Fires.

▲ 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 Change386▲ 7.7×75 topics
  2. Remote Sensing232▲ 10×29 topics
  3. Ecosystem Resilience112▲ 39×5 topics
  4. Machine Learning106▲ 1.73×35 topics
  5. Invasive Species93▲ 12×18 topics
  6. Tectonics93▲ 42×3 topics
  7. Soil Properties90▲ 28×5 topics
  8. Plate Tectonics87▲ 31×3 topics
  9. Forest Fires76▲ 93×1 topic
  10. Wildfire Activity76▲ 93×1 topic
  11. Biomass Estimation70▲ 25×3 topics
  12. Biodiversity67▲ 4.7×26 topics
  13. Global Warming61▲ 7.7×11 topics
  14. Biodiversity Conservation60▲ 8.7×9 topics
  15. Hydrology59▲ 25×4 topics
  16. Thermodynamic Modeling59▲ 28×3 topics
  17. Geological Mapping59▲ 41×2 topics
  18. Geochronology58▲ 46×1 topic
  19. Zircon58▲ 46×1 topic
  20. Support Vector Machines56▲ 9.5×4 topics
  21. Biological Invasions56▲ 33×3 topics
  22. Shale Gas55▲ 25×2 topics
  23. Hyperspectral Imaging54▲ 11×5 topics
  24. Aboveground Biomass53▲ 34×2 topics
  25. Paleoclimatology52▲ 34×2 topics
  26. Compositional Data Analysis52▲ 44×1 topic
  27. Mineral Prospectivity52▲ 44×1 topic
  28. Arctic49▲ 24×4 topics
  29. Global Change45▲ 9.2×7 topics
  30. Gas Permeability42▲ 23×2 topics
  31. Pore Structure42▲ 18×3 topics
  32. Geodetic Measurements41▲ 21×2 topics
  33. Holocene41▲ 20×3 topics
  34. Sea Level40▲ 24×2 topics
  35. Mudstones40▲ 30×1 topic
  36. Thermal Maturity40▲ 30×1 topic
  37. Ecosystem Functioning40▲ 11×7 topics
  38. Glacial Cycles38▲ 32×1 topic
  39. Monsoon Dynamics38▲ 32×1 topic
  40. Climate Change Impact38▲ 8.9×4 topics

Which research topics does Natural Resources Canada publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Fire effects on ecosystems, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Fire effects on ecosystems: 76 fractional worksGeological and Geochemical Analysis: 58 fractional worksGeochemistry and Geologi…52Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping: 52 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration …40Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 40 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 38 fractional worksearthquake and tectonic studies: 36 fractional worksForest Insect Ecology an…36Forest Insect Ecology and Management: 36 fractional worksPaleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils: 27 fractional worksRemote Sensing and LiDAR Applications: 27 fractional worksForest ecology and management: 27 fractional works
Global and Planetary ChangeGeophysicsArtificial IntelligenceMechanics of Materials5 others

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

  1. 1 Fire effects on ecosystems Global and Planetary Change 76 works
  2. 2 Geological and Geochemical Analysis Geophysics 58 works
  3. 3 Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping Artificial Intelligence 52 works
  4. 4 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 40 works
  5. 5 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 38 works
  6. 6 earthquake and tectonic studies Geophysics 36 works
  7. 7 Forest Insect Ecology and Management Ecology 36 works
  8. 8 Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils Paleontology 27 works
  9. 9 Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Environmental Engineering 27 works
  10. 10 Forest ecology and management Nature and Landscape Conservation 27 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 available27.4%not open72.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors23.4%domestic only76.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Natural Resources Canada's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% 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 Natural Resources Canada as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0071% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Natural Resources Canada0.0067% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Natural Resources 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%Natural Resources Canada11.2% 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 16.0% in 2008.

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