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Women and Children’s Health Research Institute

In research, Women and Children’s Health Research Institute stands highest in Life Sciences (#2,404 of 7,800 worldwide), Health Sciences (#6,245 of 11,982 worldwide) and Medicine (#5,492 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Neuroscience — Neuroscience is 11.4× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#6,114
of 28,054 · #8,399 all time
Rank in Canada
#106
of 403
Research works
802
▲ 86% vs 2013–17
Citations
21k
26.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
25.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
61%
world 28%

What is Women and Children’s Health Research Institute 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
Life SciencesDomain #2,404 of 7,800 22.9%88 #3524
Health SciencesDomain #6,245 of 11,982 27.0%152 #6676
MedicineField #5,492 of 10,443 26.9%138 #5348

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Women and Children’s Health Research 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 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. Life Sciences#3,524 #2,404
  2. Health Sciences#6,676 #6,245
  3. Medicine#5,348 #5,492
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 Women and Children’s Health Research Institute specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Neuroscience takes 11.4× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. NeuroscienceField · 50.8 works11×
← 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: 0.14× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2.07× its world share, 30 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.50× its world share, 4 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 11.36× its world share, 51 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.19× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.10× its world share, 4 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.22× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.20× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 1.10× its world share, 2 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.34× its world share, 10 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 2.60× its world share, 138 worksMedicineNursing: 1.49× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 1.32× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.18× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.79× its world share, 15 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.14× its world share, 5 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Neuroscience, 11.4×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Women and Children’s Health Research Institute?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Neurological Disorders, Oxidative Stress, Neuroinflammation, Neurodegeneration, Depression, Metabolic Syndrome, Cardiovascular Disease and Epidemiology.

▲ 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. Epidemiology20▲ 1.86×70 topics
  2. Oxidative Stress19▲ 4.2×26 topics
  3. Inflammation14▲ 2.5×45 topics
  4. Neurological Disorders14▲ 9.3×17 topics
  5. Neuroinflammation13▲ 17×6 topics
  6. Cardiovascular Disease13▲ 4.2×26 topics
  7. Depression12▲ 5.0×14 topics
  8. Metabolic Syndrome12▲ 5.2×18 topics
  9. Neurodegeneration12▲ 14×10 topics
  10. Brain Development9▲ 18×6 topics
  11. Endothelial Dysfunction8▲ 13×7 topics
  12. Neuroprotection8▲ 8.7×12 topics
  13. Synaptic Plasticity8▲ 12×5 topics
  14. Neurobiology7▲ 10×8 topics
  15. Neural Circuits7▲ 28×4 topics
  16. Maternal Mortality7▲ 11×4 topics
  17. Genetics7▲ 3.4×14 topics
  18. Mitochondrial Dysfunction6▲ 7.8×8 topics
  19. Placental Development6▲ 36×1 topic
  20. Preeclampsia6▲ 30×1 topic
  21. Neuroimaging6▲ 8.2×11 topics
  22. Cytokines6▲ 7.4×6 topics
  23. Ischemic Stroke6▲ 13×3 topics
  24. Emotion Regulation5▲ 6.3×5 topics
  25. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes5▲ 11×5 topics
  26. Pregnancy5▲ 9.4×8 topics
  27. Functional Recovery5▲ 13×4 topics
  28. Microglia5▲ 17×2 topics
  29. Neural Plasticity5▲ 10×5 topics
  30. Spinal Cord Injury5▲ 42×2 topics
  31. Neuronal Circuits5▲ 23×2 topics
  32. Chronic Pain5▲ 7.9×5 topics
  33. Neuronal Plasticity5▲ 32×2 topics
  34. Dendritic Spines5▲ 21×2 topics
  35. Diagnostic Criteria5▲ 7.7×6 topics
  36. Hyperglycemia5▲ 15×3 topics
  37. Memory5▲ 7.0×3 topics
  38. Chronic Disease5▲ 9.6×3 topics
  39. Type 2 Diabetes5▲ 7.5×5 topics
  40. Prefrontal Cortex4▲ 20×3 topics

Which research topics does Women and Children’s Health Research Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, Gestational Diabetes Research and Management, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research and Birth, Development, and Health.

Pregnancy and preeclamps…6Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies: 6 fractional worksGestational Diabetes Res…4Gestational Diabetes Research and Management: 4 fractional worksNeuroscience and Neuroph…4Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research: 4 fractional worksBirth, Development, and …4Birth, Development, and Health: 4 fractional worksNeuroscience of respiration and sleep: 4 fractional worksNeuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms: 4 fractional worksIntracerebral and Subara…3Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research: 3 fractional worksSpinal Cord Injury Research: 3 fractional worksPain Mechanisms and Treatments: 2 fractional worksCongenital Heart Disease…2Congenital Heart Disease Studies: 2 fractional works
Obstetrics and GynecologyCellular and Molecular NeurosciencePediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthEndocrine and Autonomic Systems4 others

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

  1. 1 Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies Obstetrics and Gynecology 6 works
  2. 2 Gestational Diabetes Research and Management Obstetrics and Gynecology 4 works
  3. 3 Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 4 works
  4. 4 Birth, Development, and Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 4 works
  5. 5 Neuroscience of respiration and sleep Endocrine and Autonomic Systems 4 works
  6. 6 Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms Neurology 4 works
  7. 7 Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research Neurology 3 works
  8. 8 Spinal Cord Injury Research Pathology and Forensic Medicine 3 works
  9. 9 Pain Mechanisms and Treatments Physiology 2 works
  10. 10 Congenital Heart Disease Studies Epidemiology 2 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 available60.6%not open39.4%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors27.8%domestic only72.2%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Women and Children’s Health Research Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 86% higher than in 2013–2017.

200020102020
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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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