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Canadian Identity and History

Canadian Identity and History is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 30k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses a wide range of topics related to the historical and social dynamics of Canada, including the evolution of Canadian identity, social policies, the experiences of minorities, cultural identity, immigration patterns, nationalism, and societal transformation. The papers delve into various aspects of Canadian history, shedding light on the complexities and nuances that have shaped the country's development over time.

  • Canada
  • history
  • identity
  • social policy
  • minorities
  • cultural identity
  • immigration
  • nationalism
  • language
  • societal transformation
Research works
30k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Canada
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Canadian Identity and History

Which countries lead Canadian Identity and History research?

By volume, Canada and the United States publish the most (1.3k and 458 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Canada 1.3k works
  2. 2 United States 458 works
  3. 3 France 296 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 147 works
  5. 5 Australia 100 works
  6. 6 Russia 49 works
  7. 7 Italy 25 works
  8. 8 Germany 23 works
  9. 9 Belgium 23 works
  10. 10 China 22 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Canada: 53.2%United States: 18.7%France: 12.1%United Kingdom: 6.0%6 others listed: 9.9%53%largest
Canada1,303 · 53.2%United States458 · 18.7%France296 · 12.1%United Kingdom147 · 6.0%6 others listed243 · 9.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Canadian Identity and History research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Toronto publishes the most Canadian Identity and History research, followed by Université du Québec à Montréal and Université Laval.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 74 works
  2. 2 Université du Québec à MontréalCanada 72 works
  3. 3 Université LavalCanada 70 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 65 works
  5. 5 Université de MontréalCanada 57 works
  6. 6 McGill UniversityCanada 51 works
  7. 7 University of OttawaCanada 51 works
  8. 8 York UniversityCanada 50 works
  9. 9 University of AlbertaCanada 44 works
  10. 10 University of British ColumbiaCanada 39 works

Who are the leading researchers in Canadian Identity and History?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Canadian Identity and History include J. Conway.

  1. 1 J. Conway Germany 139k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Canadian Identity and History?

The most cited paper in Canadian Identity and History is "28. The Politics of Presence" (Anne K. Phillips, 1998), with 1,213 citations. Next come "The Embodiment of Inequity: Health Disparities in Aboriginal Canada" (893) and "Subjects of Empire: Indigenous Peoples and the ‘Politics of Recognition’ in Canada" (864).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 28. The Politics of Presence Anne K. Phillips · Democracy Book chapter Oct 1998 1,213
2 The Embodiment of Inequity: Health Disparities in Aboriginal Canada Naomi Adelson · Canadian Journal of Public Health Open access Mar 2005 893
3 Subjects of Empire: Indigenous Peoples and the ‘Politics of Recognition’ in Canada Glen Sean Coulthard · Contemporary Political Theory 25 Oct 2007 864
4 Constitutive rhetoric: The case of the peuple québécois Maurice Rene Charland · Quarterly Journal of Speech May 1987 693
5 The New Disability History: American Perspectives James W. Trent, Paul K. Longmore, Lauri Umansky · Journal of American History Jun 2002 668
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Canadian Identity and History research done?

The largest centres of Canadian Identity and History research in 2022-now are Montreal (Canada), Toronto (Canada), Ottawa (Canada) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Moncton, Trois-Rivières and Fredericton.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MontrealCanada 226 works
  2. 2 TorontoCanada 154 works
  3. 3 OttawaCanada 109 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 89 works
  5. 5 QuébecCanada 84 works
  6. 6 EdmontonCanada 55 works
  7. 7 KingstonCanada 47 works
  8. 8 VancouverCanada 40 works
  9. 9 WinnipegCanada 37 works
  10. 10 WaterlooCanada 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MonctonCA · 31.0 works255×
  2. Trois-RivièresCA · 26.1 works105×
  3. FrederictonCA · 30.9 works78×
  4. QuébecCA · 83.9 works50×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Canadian Identity and History than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Canadian Identity and History?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto, Australian National University and Queen's University score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 19.71%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Australian National …Queen's UniversityUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Britis…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of TorontoCanada 63.416.1%15.9×74 -22.5%
2Australian National UniversityAustralia 58.235.6%9.3×11 -16.7%
3Queen's UniversityCanada 57.816.5%39.8×37 -10.4%
4University of British ColumbiaCanada 57.616.1%14.0×39 -31.6%
5Carleton UniversityCanada 57.317.0%50.0×32 -1.9%
6University of OttawaCanada 56.617.5%33.3×51 -46.7%
7York UniversityCanada 56.512.8%61.1×50 -11.6%
8University of SaskatchewanCanada 56.210.4%40.0×30 +27.7%
9University of AlbertaCanada 55.616.4%22.1×44 -24.8%
10Ottawa UniversityUnited States 53.838.7%157.5×10 -18.2%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Canadian Identity and History, country by country

Is Canadian Identity and History research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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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 Canadian Identity and History as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Canadian Identity and History0.0087% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Canadian Identity and History 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.

still counting5%10%15%Canadian Identity and History10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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