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Northern Digital (Canada)

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Research works
21
▲ 5% vs 2013–17
Citations
629
29.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
5.4%
record average 16.5%
Open access
24%
world 28%

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

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.

Computer Science: 3.31× its world share, 1 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 2.58× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringMaterials Science: 1.03× its world share, 0 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 4.87× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 1.37× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.69× its world share, 1 worksMedicineSocial Sciences: 0.33× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Physics and Astronomy, 4.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Northern Digital (Canada)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Training, Technology, Surgical Skills, Virtual Reality Training, Medical Imaging, Education, Imaging and Machine Learning.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in all years 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 9 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 9 words, with their numbers
  1. Training2▲ 38×2 topics
  2. Education1▲ 5.0×1 topic
  3. Technology1▲ 15×1 topic
  4. Surgical Skills1▲ 220×1 topic
  5. Virtual Reality Training1▲ 220×1 topic
  6. Machine Learning1▲ 2.5×8 topics
  7. Medical Imaging1▲ 20×4 topics
  8. Deep Learning1▲ 2.4×8 topics
  9. Imaging1▲ 15×2 topics

Which research topics does Northern Digital (Canada) publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Augmented Reality Applications, Surgical Simulation and Training, Water Systems and Optimization and Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures.

Augmented Reality Applications: 0 fractional worksSurgical Simulation and Training: 0 fractional worksWater Systems and Optimization: 0 fractional worksGeotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures: 0 fractional worksPhysics of Superconductivity and Magnetism: 0 fractional worksAdvanced Radiotherapy Techniques: 0 fractional worksSmart Grid Security and …0Smart Grid Security and Resilience: 0 fractional worksGeophysical Methods and Applications: 0 fractional worksMedical Image Segmentation Techniques: 0 fractional worksUnderwater Vehicles and …0Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems: 0 fractional works
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSurgeryCivil and Structural EngineeringCondensed Matter Physics3 others

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

  1. 1 Augmented Reality Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0 works
  2. 2 Surgical Simulation and Training Surgery 0 works
  3. 3 Water Systems and Optimization Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  4. 4 Geotechnical Engineering and Underground Structures Civil and Structural Engineering 0 works
  5. 5 Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism Condensed Matter Physics 0 works
  6. 6 Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques Radiation 0 works
  7. 7 Smart Grid Security and Resilience Control and Systems Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Geophysical Methods and Applications Ocean Engineering 0 works
  9. 9 Medical Image Segmentation Techniques Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 0 works
  10. 10 Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems Ocean Engineering 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 available24.4%not open75.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors33.4%domestic only66.6%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Northern Digital (Canada)'s research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 5% higher than in 2013–2017.

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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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