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Vector Institute

In research, Vector Institute stands highest in Physical Sciences (#1,197 of 10,670 worldwide), Computer Science (#504 of 4,417 worldwide) and Artificial Intelligence (#369 of 1,862 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence is 10.4× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,859
of 22,385 · #1,681 all time
Rank in Canada
#46
of 305
Research works
547
▲ 78% vs 2018-21
Citations
21k
37.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
22.2%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.33×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
69%
world 40%
International
45%
world 18%
Vector Institute

What is Vector Institute 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 #1,197 of 10,670 23.5%193 #1195
Computer ScienceField #504 of 4,417 21.9%126 #568
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #369 of 1,862 19.9%73 #375

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Vector Institute 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#1,195 #1,197
  2. Computer Science#568 #504
  3. Artificial Intelligence#375 #369
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 Vector Institute work in?

In 2022-now, 65% of research at Vector Institute is in Physical Sciences, 14% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Computer Science (43%), Medicine (12%), Engineering (10%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 225 fractional works · 65.4% of its workComputer Science: 148 fractional works · 43.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 86 fractional works · 25.0% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 36 fractional works · 10.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workInformation Systems: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHardware and Architecture: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSoftware: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 35 fractional works · 10.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 13 fractional works · 3.9% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 12 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 12 fractional works · 3.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSpectroscopy: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCatalysis: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Sciences: 48 fractional works · 14.0% of its workMedicine: 42 fractional works · 12.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 7 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHealth Informatics: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSurgery: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFamily Practice: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHealth Professions: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLife Sciences: 36 fractional works · 10.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 21 fractional works · 6.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 14 fractional works · 4.0% of its workCancer Research: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBiophysics: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGenetics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStructural Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 13 fractional works · 3.7% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 11 fractional works · 3.1% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 34 fractional works · 10.0% of its workSocial Sciences: 12 fractional works · 3.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 9 fractional works · 2.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.3% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 4 fractional works · 1.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKVector Institute344fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences11%Physical Sciences65%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences10%

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 23 fields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science14843.1%
    2. Engineering3510.2%
    3. Materials Science133.9%
    4. Physics and Astronomy123.5%
    5. Mathematics51.5%
    6. Chemistry51.4%
    7. Environmental Science30.8%
    8. Energy10.4%
    9. Chemical Engineering10.3%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.3%
    1. Medicine4212.3%
    2. Health Professions61.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology216.1%
    2. Neuroscience133.7%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.3%
    4. Agricultural and Biological Sciences10.3%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics10.2%
    1. Social Sciences123.6%
    2. Psychology92.6%
    3. Decision Sciences82.3%
    4. Business, Management and Accounting20.7%
    5. Arts and Humanities20.6%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance10.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Vector Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Artificial Intelligence takes 10.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Artificial IntelligenceSubfield · 86.0 works10×
  2. Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionSubfield · 35.8 works8.3×
  3. Computer ScienceField · 148.1 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: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.14× its world share, 21 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 2.26× its world share, 13 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.57× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.00× its world share, 1 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.87× its world share, 5 worksChemistryComputer Science: 5.54× its world share, 148 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.43× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.68× its world share, 35 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.17× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.12× its world share, 14 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.24× its world share, 5 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.59× its world share, 12 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.67× its world share, 6 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.64× its world share, 42 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.20× its world share, 2 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.33× its world share, 8 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.13× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.84× its world share, 9 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.29× its world share, 12 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

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

All 23 fields, with their numbers
  1. Computer Science5.54×148 works
  2. Decision Sciences2.33×8 works
  3. Neuroscience2.26×13 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy1.59×12 works
  5. Mathematics1.24×5 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.14×21 works
  7. Materials Science1.12×14 works
  8. Chemical Engineering1.00×1 works
  9. Chemistry0.87×5 works
  10. Psychology0.84×9 works
  11. Engineering0.68×35 works
  12. Health Professions0.67×6 works
  13. Medicine0.64×42 works
  14. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.57×1 works
  15. Energy0.43×1 works
  16. Immunology and Microbiology0.30×1 works
  17. Social Sciences0.29×12 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.22×2 works
  19. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.21×1 works
  20. Business, Management and Accounting0.20×2 works
  21. Environmental Science0.17×3 works
  22. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.13×1 works
  23. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.06×1 works

Who are the top researchers at Vector Institute?

Ranked on the quality score, Shaina Raza, Jiacheng Yang and Sedef Akinli Koçak lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Vector Institute.

  1. 1 Shaina Raza Canada · #165,585 worldwide 1.6k citations · 142 works
  2. 2 Jiacheng Yang Canada · #600,274 worldwide 1.5k citations · 38 works
  3. 3 Sedef Akinli Koçak Canada · #1,062,712 worldwide 629 citations · 41 works
  4. 4 D. B. Emerson Canada · #1,921,195 worldwide 315 citations · 39 works
  5. 5 Felix Dangel Canada · #2,209,504 worldwide 149 citations · 37 works
  6. 6 Faiza Khan Khattak Canada · #2,221,591 worldwide 310 citations · 23 works
  7. 7 Nikhil Kandpal Canada · #2,335,239 worldwide 251 citations · 20 works
  8. 8 Eu Wern Teh Canada · #2,846,724 worldwide 130 citations · 17 works
  9. 9 Arash Afkanpour Canada · #3,225,308 worldwide 56 citations · 27 works
All ranked researchers at Vector Institute

What are the most cited papers from Vector Institute?

The most cited paper from Vector Institute is "The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer" (Ludmil B. Alexandrov et al., 2020), with 3,854 citations. Next come "TRIPOD+AI statement: updated guidance for reporting clinical prediction models that use regression or machine learning methods" (3,581) and "Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes" (3,360).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer Ludmil B. Alexandrov et al. · Nature Open access1,384 authors 5 Feb 2020 3,854
2 TRIPOD+AI statement: updated guidance for reporting clinical prediction models that use regression or machine learning methods Professor Gary S. Collins et al. · BMJ Open access 16 Apr 2024 3,581
3 Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes Lauri A. Aaltonen et al. · Nature Open access1,324 authors 5 Feb 2020 3,360
4 Segment anything in medical images Jun Ma, Yuting He, Feifei Li et al. · Nature Communications Open access 22 Jan 2024 2,830
5 Inverse molecular design using machine learning: Generative models for matter engineering Benjamín Sánchez-Lengeling, Alán Aspuru‐Guzik · Science 26 Jul 2018 2,193
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Vector Institute?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Precision Medicine, Unsupervised Learning, Data Mining, Medical Imaging and Information Retrieval.

▲ 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. Deep Learning71▲ 6.0×58 topics
  2. Machine Learning66▲ 5.8×53 topics
  3. Neural Networks47▲ 8.9×28 topics
  4. Data Mining14▲ 5.8×7 topics
  5. Precision Medicine14▲ 8.3×5 topics
  6. Unsupervised Learning14▲ 26×3 topics
  7. Artificial Intelligence13▲ 2.7×11 topics
  8. Medical Imaging13▲ 7.2×7 topics
  9. Convolutional Neural Networks13▲ 5.2×11 topics
  10. Healthcare13▲ 3.2×11 topics
  11. Big Data12▲ 3.7×12 topics
  12. Information Retrieval12▲ 16×4 topics
  13. Text Classification12▲ 21×3 topics
  14. Representation Learning12▲ 22×3 topics
  15. Topic Modeling12▲ 22×2 topics
  16. Machine Translation11▲ 20×2 topics
  17. Semantic Similarity11▲ 27×1 topic
  18. Word Representation11▲ 27×1 topic
  19. Molecular Dynamics11▲ 18×5 topics
  20. Computational Chemistry10▲ 34×4 topics
  21. Quantum Mechanics10▲ 29×3 topics
  22. High-Throughput9▲ 46×1 topic
  23. Materials Informatics9▲ 46×1 topic
  24. Security9▲ 3.9×8 topics
  25. Semi-Supervised Learning9▲ 21×3 topics
  26. Deep Neural Networks9▲ 20×3 topics
  27. Corpus Linguistics8▲ 12×3 topics
  28. Transfer Learning8▲ 12×3 topics
  29. Neural Machine Translation8▲ 26×1 topic
  30. Statistical Machine Translation8▲ 26×1 topic
  31. Meta-Learning8▲ 27×2 topics
  32. Predictive Modeling8▲ 7.9×2 topics
  33. Image Captioning7▲ 36×1 topic
  34. Visual Question Answering7▲ 22×1 topic
  35. Health Equity7▲ 6.6×4 topics
  36. Ethical Challenges6▲ 8.7×2 topics
  37. Clinical Decision Support6▲ 12×1 topic
  38. Radiology6▲ 13×1 topic
  39. Domain Adaptation6▲ 32×1 topic
  40. Few-Shot Learning6▲ 32×1 topic

Which research topics does Vector Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Topic Modeling, Machine Learning in Materials Science, Natural Language Processing Techniques and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications.

Topic Modeling11Topic Modeling: 11 fractional worksMachine Learning in Mate…9Machine Learning in Materials Science: 9 fractional worksNatural Language Process…8Natural Language Processing Techniques: 8 fractional worksMultimodal Machine Learn…7Multimodal Machine Learning Applications: 7 fractional worksArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education: 6 fractional worksDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning: 6 fractional worksExplainable Artificial I…6Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): 6 fractional worksAdversarial Robustness i…5Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning: 5 fractional worksComputational Drug Disco…4Computational Drug Discovery Methods: 4 fractional worksGenerative Adversarial N…4Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis: 4 fractional works
Artificial IntelligenceMaterials ChemistryComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionHealth Informatics1 others

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

  1. 1 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 11 works
  2. 2 Machine Learning in Materials Science Materials Chemistry 9 works
  3. 3 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 8 works
  4. 4 Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 7 works
  5. 5 Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Health Informatics 6 works
  6. 6 Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning Artificial Intelligence 6 works
  7. 7 Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Artificial Intelligence 6 works
  8. 8 Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 5 works
  9. 9 Computational Drug Discovery Methods Computational Theory and Mathematics 4 works
  10. 10 Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 4 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 available69.4%not open30.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors44.6%domestic only55.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Vector Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 78% higher than in 2018-2021.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Vector Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Vector Institute0.0013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Vector Institute 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 counting20%40%Vector Institute21.3% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 30.1% in 2019.

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What does the Vector Institute research?

In research, Vector Institute stands highest in Physical Sciences (#1,197 of 10,670 worldwide), Computer Science (#504 of 4,417 worldwide) and Artificial Intelligence (#369 of 1,862 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence is 10.4× its share of world research).

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