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Public Health Ontario

In research, Public Health Ontario stands highest in Health Sciences (#743 of 11,982 worldwide), Medicine (#787 of 10,443 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#1,667 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Health, General Health Professions and Infectious Diseases — Health is 10.3× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#2,457
of 28,054 · #3,744 all time
Rank in Canada
#48
of 403
Research works
3.6k
▲ 62% vs 2013–17
Citations
110k
30.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
28.3%
record average 16.5%
Open access
66%
world 28%

What is Public Health Ontario known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Health SciencesDomain #743 of 11,982 27.4%678 #1061
MedicineField #787 of 10,443 26.0%494 #1159
Social SciencesDomain #1,667 of 10,521 33.5%287 #2188
General Health ProfessionsSubfield #164 of 916 33.5%125 #269
Life SciencesDomain #2,129 of 7,800 23.3%105 #3019
Health ProfessionsField #533 of 1,928 31.8%169 #666
PsychologyField #624 of 2,181 30.9%94 #1245
Social SciencesField #2,162 of 6,365 33.6%130 #2227
EpidemiologySubfield #440 of 976 27.6%75 #520
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthSubfield #378 of 828 27.0%72 #609

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Public Health Ontario 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Health Sciences#1,061 #743
  2. Medicine#1,159 #787
  3. Social Sciences#2,188 #1,667
  4. General Health Professions#269 #164
  5. Life Sciences#3,019 #2,129
  6. Health Professions#666 #533
  7. Psychology#1,245 #624
  8. Social Sciences#2,227 #2,162
  9. Epidemiology#520 #440
  10. Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health#609 #378
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

What does Public Health Ontario specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Health takes 10.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. HealthSubfield · 35.6 works10×
  2. General Health ProfessionsSubfield · 125.0 works7.8×
  3. Infectious DiseasesSubfield · 44.9 works5.7×
  4. Health ProfessionsField · 168.7 works5.5×
← 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: 0.18× its world share, 10 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.87× its world share, 54 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.78× its world share, 21 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.78× its world share, 15 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.35× its world share, 6 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.07× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.24× its world share, 22 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.11× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 12 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.52× its world share, 30 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.02× its world share, 1 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.60× its world share, 22 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.03× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.10× its world share, 6 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 5.51× its world share, 169 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.21× its world share, 494 worksMedicineNursing: 1.55× its world share, 9 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.18× its world share, 6 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.40× its world share, 15 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.79× its world share, 9 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.29× its world share, 32 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.67× its world share, 94 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.89× its world share, 130 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Health Professions, 5.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Public Health Ontario?

Ranked on the composite score, Jonathan B. Gubbay, Natasha S. Crowcroft and Aaron Orkin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Public Health Ontario.

  1. 1 Jonathan B. Gubbay Canada · #75,235 worldwide 244 citations · 31 works
  2. 2 Natasha S. Crowcroft Canada · #78,026 worldwide 228 citations · 41 works
  3. 3 Aaron Orkin Canada · #224,038 worldwide 116 citations · 23 works
  4. 4 Kevin A. Brown Canada · #376,364 worldwide 113 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Bradley J. Langford Canada · #399,086 worldwide 73 citations · 22 works
  6. 6 Ray Copes Canada · #706,597 worldwide 86 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 Shelley L. Deeks Canada · #762,743 worldwide 33 citations · 18 works
  8. 8 Sarah A. Buchan Canada · #1,044,460 worldwide 33 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Public Health Ontario

Which keywords describe research at Public Health Ontario?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Public Health, Mental Health, Health Disparities, Primary Care, Depression, COVID-19 and Mortality Risk.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Epidemiology145▲ 3.1×122 topics
  2. Public Health87▲ 5.2×53 topics
  3. Mental Health80▲ 4.7×35 topics
  4. COVID-1954▲ 3.4×23 topics
  5. Quality of Life49▲ 2.9×50 topics
  6. Depression47▲ 4.6×21 topics
  7. Pandemic43▲ 3.5×8 topics
  8. Risk Factors40▲ 3.1×35 topics
  9. Health Disparities39▲ 13×8 topics
  10. Primary Care38▲ 8.6×14 topics
  11. Cardiovascular Disease34▲ 2.7×32 topics
  12. Social Support32▲ 4.9×15 topics
  13. Mortality Risk31▲ 11×6 topics
  14. Health Equity31▲ 9.9×6 topics
  15. Anxiety31▲ 5.6×12 topics
  16. Global Burden of Disease28▲ 9.8×4 topics
  17. Mortality28▲ 4.1×12 topics
  18. Psychiatric Disorders28▲ 18×4 topics
  19. Substance Use Disorders27▲ 32×2 topics
  20. SARS-CoV-227▲ 7.1×6 topics
  21. Vaccine26▲ 5.5×10 topics
  22. Infectious Diseases25▲ 6.6×8 topics
  23. Psychological Impact24▲ 6.5×10 topics
  24. Chronic Disease Management24▲ 11×5 topics
  25. Quality Improvement24▲ 11×8 topics
  26. Health Outcomes23▲ 7.3×8 topics
  27. Prevalence23▲ 4.9×15 topics
  28. Adolescents22▲ 5.2×8 topics
  29. Cancer Risk22▲ 8.4×9 topics
  30. Stigma21▲ 13×5 topics
  31. Substance Abuse21▲ 25×2 topics
  32. Social Determinants of Health21▲ 7.9×6 topics
  33. Health Care Utilization20▲ 15×3 topics
  34. Behavior Change20▲ 12×4 topics
  35. Evidence-Based Practice19▲ 13×6 topics
  36. Healthcare Workers19▲ 6.7×6 topics
  37. Psychological Distress18▲ 6.3×4 topics
  38. Impulsivity18▲ 30×2 topics
  39. Behavioral Interventions17▲ 19×3 topics
  40. Mortality Rates17▲ 16×2 topics

Which research topics does Public Health Ontario publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Health Policy Implementation Science and Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy.

Substance Abuse Treatmen…16Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes: 16 fractional worksCOVID-19 and Mental Health13COVID-19 and Mental Health: 13 fractional worksHealth Policy Implementation Science: 13 fractional worksVaccine Coverage and Hesitancy: 12 fractional worksHealth disparities and outcomes: 11 fractional worksLGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy: 11 fractional worksHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life: 11 fractional worksHIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk11HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk: 11 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 11 fractional worksOpioid Use Disorder Treatment: 11 fractional works
EpidemiologyClinical PsychologyGeneral Health ProfessionsHealth4 others

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

  1. 1 Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Epidemiology 16 works
  2. 2 COVID-19 and Mental Health Clinical Psychology 13 works
  3. 3 Health Policy Implementation Science General Health Professions 13 works
  4. 4 Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy Health 12 works
  5. 5 Health disparities and outcomes Health 11 works
  6. 6 LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy Social Psychology 11 works
  7. 7 Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Economics and Econometrics 11 works
  8. 8 HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk Epidemiology 11 works
  9. 9 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 11 works
  10. 10 Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 11 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 available66.4%not open33.6%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors37.6%domestic only62.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Public Health Ontario's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 62% 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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