Question 1

What is Vector Institute known for?

Accepted Answer

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).

Question 2

How does Vector Institute rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Vector Institute ranks #1,859 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#1,681 all time), and #46 of 305 in Canada.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Vector Institute?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Vector Institute?

Accepted Answer

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).

Question 5

Which research topics does Vector Institute publish most on?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Vector Institute?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Vector Institute work in?

Accepted Answer

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.

Question 8

Is Vector Institute's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

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