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Petro-Canada

In research, Petro-Canada stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,329 of 10,670 worldwide) and Engineering (#5,164 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Ocean Engineering (Ocean Engineering is 25.2× its share of world research).

petro-canada.caROR OpenAlex
World rank, 2022-now
#14,070
of 22,385 · #13,697 all time
Rank in Canada
#185
of 305
Research works
914
▲ 81% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.1k
10.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.9%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.00×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
23%
world 40%
International
42%
world 18%
Petro-Canada

What is Petro-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 #5,329 of 10,670 7.8%112 #7196
EngineeringField #5,164 of 5,901 5.4%67 #6569

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Petro-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 fields of science does Petro-Canada work in?

In 2022-now, 82% of research at Petro-Canada is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (46%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%), Materials Science (7%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 151 fractional works · 81.6% of its workEngineering: 85 fractional works · 46.0% of its workOcean Engineering: 24 fractional works · 13.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 20 fractional works · 10.9% of its workMechanics of Materials: 15 fractional works · 8.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 7 fractional works · 3.9% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 18 fractional works · 9.9% of its workGeophysics: 7 fractional works · 3.8% of its workGeology: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPaleontology: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 13 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 6 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Materials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 10 fractional works · 5.4% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workWater Science and Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Science: 10 fractional works · 5.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInformation Systems: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 6 fractional works · 3.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 5 fractional works · 2.9% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 4 fractional works · 2.4% of its workEnergy Engineering and Power Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCatalysis: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 8.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 2.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 12 fractional works · 6.3% of its workMedicine: 8 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workObstetrics and Gynecology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmall Animals: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDentistry: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 7 fractional works · 3.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workMolecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKPetro-Canada185fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences82%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences8%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering8546.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences189.9%
    3. Materials Science137.0%
    4. Environmental Science105.4%
    5. Computer Science105.3%
    6. Chemistry63.3%
    7. Energy52.9%
    8. Chemical Engineering20.9%
    9. Physics and Astronomy10.7%
    10. Mathematics00.1%
    1. Social Sciences52.6%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting52.5%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance21.4%
    4. Arts and Humanities21.1%
    5. Decision Sciences10.5%
    6. Psychology00.3%
    1. Medicine84.4%
    2. Health Professions10.7%
    3. Veterinary10.6%
    4. Dentistry10.4%
    5. Nursing00.2%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology42.0%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.0%
    3. Neuroscience10.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Petro-Canada specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Ocean Engineering takes 25.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Ocean EngineeringSubfield · 24.2 works25×
← 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: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.38× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 2.59× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 2.08× its world share, 6 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.68× its world share, 10 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6.29× its world share, 18 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 3.21× its world share, 5 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.07× its world share, 85 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.09× its world share, 10 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.01× its world share, 13 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.74× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.23× its world share, 8 worksMedicineNursing: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksNursingVeterinary: 4.25× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.37× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.78× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.52× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.63× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 6.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences6.29×18 works
  2. Veterinary4.25×1 works
  3. Energy3.21×5 works
  4. Engineering3.07×85 works
  5. Chemical Engineering2.59×2 works
  6. Chemistry2.08×6 works
  7. Materials Science2.01×13 works
  8. Environmental Science1.09×10 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting0.78×5 works
  10. Dentistry0.74×1 works
  11. Computer Science0.68×10 works
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.63×2 works
  13. Decision Sciences0.52×1 works
  14. Nursing0.47×0 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.38×4 works
  16. Arts and Humanities0.37×2 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.33×1 works
  18. Immunology and Microbiology0.28×0 works
  19. Neuroscience0.28×1 works
  20. Health Professions0.28×1 works
  21. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.26×0 works
  22. Medicine0.23×8 works
  23. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.21×2 works
  24. Social Sciences0.21×5 works
  25. Psychology0.09×0 works
  26. Mathematics0.06×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Petro-Canada?

Ranked on the quality score, A. J. Tankard, Ross W. Groom and John W. Peirce lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Petro-Canada.

  1. 1 A. J. Tankard Canada · #804,773 worldwide 5k citations · 73 works
  2. 2 Ross W. Groom Canada · #2,188,467 worldwide 2.2k citations · 57 works
  3. 3 John W. Peirce Canada · #2,380,630 worldwide 2.2k citations · 60 works
  4. 4 James Edward Keogh Canada · #3,395,424 worldwide 134 citations · 24 works
  5. 5 Wl. Kistiakowsky Canada · #3,442,371 worldwide 60 citations · 15 works
  6. 6 Ian P. Fisher Canada · #3,718,110 worldwide 483 citations · 35 works
  7. 7 P R Gunther Canada · #3,827,418 worldwide 324 citations · 19 works
  8. 8 Robert A. Hanna Canada · #3,870,583 worldwide 347 citations · 23 works
  9. 9 John R. Hogg Canada · #3,922,200 worldwide 418 citations · 27 works
  10. 10 Ian A. McIlreath Canada · #4,196,020 worldwide 189 citations · 24 works
All ranked researchers at Petro-Canada

What are the most cited papers from Petro-Canada?

The most cited paper from Petro-Canada is "On the Automatic Generation of Medical Imaging Reports" (Baoyu Jing, Pengtao Xie, Eric Xing, 2018), with 412 citations. Next come "Preformed Particle Gel for Conformance Control: Factors Affecting Its Properties and Applications" (334) and "Dynamics and facies model of a macrotidal sand‐bar complex, Cobequid Bay—Salmon River Estuary (Bay of Fundy)" (310).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 On the Automatic Generation of Medical Imaging Reports Baoyu Jing, Pengtao Xie, Eric Xing Conference paperOpen access 2018 412
2 Preformed Particle Gel for Conformance Control: Factors Affecting Its Properties and Applications Baojun Bai, Liangxiong Li, Yuzhang Liu et al. · SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering 16 Aug 2007 334
3 Dynamics and facies model of a macrotidal sand‐bar complex, Cobequid Bay—Salmon River Estuary (Bay of Fundy) Robert W. Dalrymple, Ross D. Knight, Brian A. Zaitlin et al. · Sedimentology Aug 1990 310
4 Crustal Evolution of Southern Africa: 3.8 Billion Years of Earth History A. J. Tankard, Martin P. A. Jackson, Kenneth A. Eriksson et al. 21 Dec 1981 278
5 Bedforms and their hydraulic stability relationships in a tidal environment, Bay of Fundy, Canada Robert W. Dalrymple, Ross D. Knight, Joseph J. Lambiase · Nature Sep 1978 248
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Petro-Canada?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Pore Structure, Shale Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Gas Permeability, Nanopores, Mudstones, Thermal Maturity and Fracture Propagation.

▲ 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. Pore Structure13▲ 56×3 topics
  2. Shale Gas12▲ 57×2 topics
  3. Hydraulic Fracturing12▲ 61×2 topics
  4. Gas Permeability12▲ 68×2 topics
  5. Mudstones12▲ 89×1 topic
  6. Nanopores12▲ 69×2 topics
  7. Thermal Maturity12▲ 89×1 topic
  8. Fracture Propagation12▲ 104×1 topic
  9. Shale Gas Reservoirs12▲ 104×1 topic
  10. Nanoparticles10▲ 4.4×12 topics
  11. CO2 Sequestration10▲ 28×3 topics
  12. Vibration Analysis8▲ 16×3 topics
  13. Environmental Impact8▲ 2.4×21 topics
  14. Optimization8▲ 9.2×6 topics
  15. Rheological Properties7▲ 22×2 topics
  16. Drilling Fluids7▲ 74×1 topic
  17. Well Integrity7▲ 74×1 topic
  18. Renewable Energy6▲ 2.3×26 topics
  19. Data Assimilation6▲ 20×1 topic
  20. Ensemble Kalman Filter6▲ 32×1 topic
  21. Porous Media6▲ 23×3 topics
  22. Surfactants6▲ 31×5 topics
  23. Nanofluids5▲ 32×2 topics
  24. Pore-scale Modeling5▲ 70×1 topic
  25. X-ray Computed Tomography5▲ 70×1 topic
  26. Continental Margin5▲ 42×2 topics
  27. Crustal Structure5▲ 42×2 topics
  28. Geophysical Imaging4▲ 45×2 topics
  29. Petroleum4▲ 47×2 topics
  30. Inverse Problems4▲ 19×2 topics
  31. Full-Waveform Tomography4▲ 49×1 topic
  32. Plate Tectonics4▲ 13×3 topics
  33. Seismic Waveform Inversion4▲ 49×1 topic
  34. Tectonics4▲ 16×3 topics
  35. Cenozoic Evolution3▲ 47×1 topic
  36. Rifting3▲ 47×1 topic
  37. Biodegradation3▲ 15×3 topics
  38. Fault Diagnosis3▲ 10.0×3 topics
  39. Reactive Transport3▲ 26×2 topics
  40. Mass Spectrometry3▲ 9.1×2 topics

Which research topics does Petro-Canada publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Drilling and Well Engineering and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

Hydrocarbon exploration …12Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 12 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and…12Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 12 fractional worksDrilling and Well Engineering: 7 fractional worksReservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods: 6 fractional worksEnhanced Oil Recovery Techniques: 5 fractional worksSeismic Imaging and Inve…4Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques: 4 fractional worksGeological and Geophysical Studies: 3 fractional worksPetroleum Processing and Analysis: 2 fractional worksOil and Gas Production Techniques: 2 fractional worksCO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions: 2 fractional works
Mechanics of MaterialsMechanical EngineeringOcean EngineeringGeophysics3 others

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

  1. 1 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 12 works
  2. 2 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 12 works
  3. 3 Drilling and Well Engineering Ocean Engineering 7 works
  4. 4 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 6 works
  5. 5 Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques Ocean Engineering 5 works
  6. 6 Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques Geophysics 4 works
  7. 7 Geological and Geophysical Studies Geology 3 works
  8. 8 Petroleum Processing and Analysis Analytical Chemistry 2 works
  9. 9 Oil and Gas Production Techniques Ocean Engineering 2 works
  10. 10 CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions Environmental Engineering 2 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 available23.1%not open76.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors42.4%domestic only57.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Petro-Canada's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 81% higher 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 Petro-Canada as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00057% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Petro-Canada0.0013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Petro-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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Petro-Canada8.6% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 9.9% in 2001.

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