Question 1

What is Royal Ontario Museum known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Royal Ontario Museum stands highest in Life Sciences (#1,501 of 11,023 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#4,382 of 17,446 worldwide) and Earth and Planetary Sciences (#606 of 2,224 worldwide), over all time. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Earth and Planetary Sciences (Earth and Planetary Sciences is 17.2× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Royal Ontario Museum rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Royal Ontario Museum ranks #15,492 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#3,849 all time), and #211 of 305 in Canada.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Royal Ontario Museum?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, T. E. Krogh, Jean‐Marc Moncalvo and Jean‐Bernard Caron lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Royal Ontario Museum.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Royal Ontario Museum?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Royal Ontario Museum is "THREE NATURAL ZIRCON STANDARDS FOR U‐TH‐PB, LU‐HF, TRACE ELEMENT AND REE ANALYSES" (Michael Wiedenbeck, Paul Allé, Fernando Corfú et al., 1995), with 6,331 citations. Next come "Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi" (5,240) and "Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species" (3,311).

Question 5

Which research topics does Royal Ontario Museum publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Ichthyology and Marine Biology and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Royal Ontario Museum?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Climate Change, Phylogenetic Analysis, Population Dynamics, Molecular Phylogeny, Conservation, Biogeography, Biodiversity and Invasive Species.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Royal Ontario Museum work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 57% of research at Royal Ontario Museum is in Physical Sciences, 25% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Earth and Planetary Sciences (27%), Environmental Science (23%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (17%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Question 8

Is Royal Ontario Museum's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% lower than in 2018-2021.