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Virtual Materials Group (Canada)

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Research works
85
▼ 13% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.4k
16.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
13.8%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
25%
world 40%
International
30%
world 18%
Virtual Materials Group (Canada)

Not ranked overall: Virtual Materials Group (Canada) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Virtual Materials Group (Canada) work in?

In all years, 80% of research at Virtual Materials Group (Canada) is in Physical Sciences, 10% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (42%), Environmental Science (9%), Computer Science (7%). It does 1.9× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 68 fractional works · 79.8% of its workEngineering: 36 fractional works · 41.8% of its workOcean Engineering: 10 fractional works · 12.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 6 fractional works · 6.8% of its workMechanics of Materials: 5 fractional works · 5.7% of its workMechanical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 5.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 5.2% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 7 fractional works · 8.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 2.0% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 6 fractional works · 7.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemistry: 6 fractional works · 7.3% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 3.6% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInorganic Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workElectrochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 fractional works · 6.8% of its workGeophysics: 4 fractional works · 4.5% of its workOceanography: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAtmospheric Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeochemistry and Petrology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 2 fractional works · 2.5% of its workNumerical Analysis: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematical Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 2.4% of its workCatalysis: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 9 fractional works · 10.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 6.9% of its workMedicine: 5 fractional works · 5.9% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHematology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSurgery: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHepatology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKVirtual MaterialsGroup (Canada)85fractional works, all years
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences80%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences10%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. 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. Engineering3641.8%
    2. Environmental Science78.5%
    3. Computer Science67.4%
    4. Chemistry67.3%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences66.8%
    6. Mathematics22.5%
    7. Chemical Engineering22.4%
    8. Materials Science21.8%
    9. Energy10.7%
    10. Physics and Astronomy00.5%
    1. Decision Sciences33.1%
    2. Psychology22.9%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11.7%
    4. Social Sciences11.4%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting11.2%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.0%
    1. Medicine55.9%
    2. Health Professions11.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.3%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology10.7%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.6%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.3%
    5. Neuroscience00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

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: 0.10× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.47× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.26× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.17× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 3.80× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.90× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.24× its world share, 2 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 3.36× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 3.67× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.77× its world share, 7 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.35× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.45× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.35× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.36× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksMedicineBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.95× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 6.60× its world share, 1 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.32× its world share, 1 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 6.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 19 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences6.60×1 works
  2. Chemical Engineering3.80×0 works
  3. Energy3.67×1 works
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences3.36×1 works
  5. Engineering2.77×7 works
  6. Environmental Science1.35×1 works
  7. Mathematics1.35×0 works
  8. Immunology and Microbiology1.26×0 works
  9. Computer Science1.24×2 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.95×0 works
  11. Chemistry0.90×0 works
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.47×0 works
  13. Materials Science0.45×0 works
  14. Medicine0.41×1 works
  15. Health Professions0.36×0 works
  16. Social Sciences0.32×1 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.28×0 works
  18. Neuroscience0.17×0 works
  19. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.10×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Virtual Materials Group (Canada)?

Ranked on the quality score, Mohammad Nezam Uddin and Gilles Bourgault lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Virtual Materials Group (Canada).

  1. 1 Mohammad Nezam Uddin Canada · #2,780,654 worldwide 461 citations · 27 works
  2. 2 Gilles Bourgault Canada · #3,134,287 worldwide 344 citations · 21 works
All ranked researchers at Virtual Materials Group (Canada)

What are the most cited papers from Virtual Materials Group (Canada)?

The most cited paper from Virtual Materials Group (Canada) is "Numerical Studies of Gas Hydrate Formation and Decomposition in a Geological Reservoir" (Mohammad Nezam Uddin, Dennis Coombe, David Hin-Sum Law et al., 2008), with 118 citations. Next come "Comparative analysis of metagenomes from three methanogenic hydrocarbon-degrading enrichment cultures with 41 environmental samples" (115) and "Brine-Dependent Recovery Processes in Carbonate and Sandstone Petroleum Reservoirs: Review of Laboratory-Field Studies, Interfacial Mechanisms and Modeling Attempts" (114).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Numerical Studies of Gas Hydrate Formation and Decomposition in a Geological Reservoir Mohammad Nezam Uddin, Dennis Coombe, David Hin-Sum Law et al. · Journal of Energy Resources Technology 8 Aug 2008 118
2 Comparative analysis of metagenomes from three methanogenic hydrocarbon-degrading enrichment cultures with 41 environmental samples BoonFei Tan, Jane Fowler, Nidal Abu Laban et al. · The ISME Journal Open access 3 Mar 2015 115
3 Brine-Dependent Recovery Processes in Carbonate and Sandstone Petroleum Reservoirs: Review of Laboratory-Field Studies, Interfacial Mechanisms and Modeling Attempts Adedapo N. Awolayo, Hemanta Sarma, Long X. Nghiem · Energies Open access 2 Nov 2018 114
4 Gas hydrate dissociations in Mallik hydrate bearing zones A, B, and C by depressurization: Effect of salinity and hydration number in hydrate dissociation Mohammad Nezam Uddin, Fred Wright, S R Dallimore et al. · Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering 15 Aug 2014 85
5 A progressive point cloud simplification algorithm with preserved sharp edge data Hao Song, Hsi-Yung Feng · The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 4 Mar 2009 85
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Virtual Materials Group (Canada)?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Optimization, Porous Media, Pore-scale Modeling, X-ray Computed Tomography, Shale Gas, Gas Permeability, Thermodynamic Properties and Mudstones.

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

Size is fractional works in all years 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. Optimization9▲ 19×5 topics
  2. Machine Learning6▲ 3.0×13 topics
  3. Porous Media6▲ 42×5 topics
  4. Pore-scale Modeling5▲ 168×1 topic
  5. X-ray Computed Tomography5▲ 168×1 topic
  6. Nanoparticles4▲ 4.0×2 topics
  7. Shale Gas4▲ 40×2 topics
  8. Gas Permeability4▲ 52×2 topics
  9. Mudstones4▲ 64×1 topic
  10. Pore Structure4▲ 44×1 topic
  11. Thermodynamic Properties4▲ 50×2 topics
  12. Data Assimilation4▲ 25×3 topics
  13. Supercritical Fluids4▲ 76×2 topics
  14. Extraction4▲ 25×3 topics
  15. Energy Efficiency4▲ 5.3×3 topics
  16. Ensemble Kalman Filter4▲ 37×2 topics
  17. Hydraulic Fracturing4▲ 35×2 topics
  18. Equation of State4▲ 52×1 topic
  19. Monte Carlo Simulation4▲ 13×1 topic
  20. Scheduling4▲ 49×2 topics
  21. Uncertainty Quantification4▲ 42×1 topic
  22. Well Placement4▲ 74×1 topic
  23. CO2 Sequestration3▲ 29×2 topics
  24. Distillation3▲ 158×1 topic
  25. Process Intensification3▲ 158×1 topic
  26. Fracture Propagation3▲ 61×1 topic
  27. Reactive Transport3▲ 66×2 topics
  28. Shale Gas Reservoirs3▲ 61×1 topic
  29. Petroleum3▲ 64×2 topics
  30. Asphaltenes3▲ 127×1 topic
  31. Biodegradation3▲ 30×2 topics
  32. Naphthenic Acids3▲ 127×1 topic
  33. Inverse Problems2▲ 27×2 topics
  34. Carbon Capture2▲ 69×1 topic
  35. Geological Storage2▲ 140×1 topic
  36. Geophysical Imaging2▲ 37×2 topics
  37. Elastic Properties2▲ 28×2 topics
  38. Full-Waveform Tomography2▲ 54×1 topic
  39. Seismic Waveform Inversion2▲ 54×1 topic
  40. Inventory Management2▲ 30×2 topics

Which research topics does Virtual Materials Group (Canada) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis and Forecasting Techniques and Applications.

Reservoir Engineering an…2Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods: 2 fractional worksEnhanced Oil Recovery Te…1Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques: 1 fractional worksHydrocarbon exploration …1Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis: 1 fractional worksForecasting Techniques a…1Forecasting Techniques and Applications: 1 fractional worksCO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions: 1 fractional worksHydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis: 1 fractional worksCarbon Dioxide Capture T…1Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies: 1 fractional worksGeothermal Energy Systems and Applications: 1 fractional worksRisk Management in Financial Firms: 0 fractional worksProcess Optimization and Integration: 0 fractional works
Ocean EngineeringMechanics of MaterialsManagement Science and Operations ResearchEnvironmental Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods Ocean Engineering 2 works
  2. 2 Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques Ocean Engineering 1 works
  3. 3 Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis Mechanics of Materials 1 works
  4. 4 Forecasting Techniques and Applications Management Science and Operations Research 1 works
  5. 5 CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions Environmental Engineering 1 works
  6. 6 Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis Mechanical Engineering 1 works
  7. 7 Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies Mechanical Engineering 1 works
  8. 8 Geothermal Energy Systems and Applications Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 1 works
  9. 9 Risk Management in Financial Firms Accounting 0 works
  10. 10 Process Optimization and Integration Control and Systems Engineering 0 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 available24.7%not open75.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors30.1%domestic only69.9%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Virtual Materials Group (Canada)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower 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 Virtual Materials Group (Canada) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000081% in 2024.

still counting0.00020%0.00040%0.00060%Virtual Materials Group (Canada)0.000071% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Virtual Materials Group (Canada) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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