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Canadian Policy and Governance

Canadian Policy and Governance is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 5.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of border security measures, government policies, and neoliberal discourse on North American trade and economic integration. It delves into the implications of increased security on cross-border commerce, Canada-U.S. relations, and the broader context of globalization.

  • Border Security
  • North American Trade
  • Cross-Border Commerce
  • Neoliberal Discourse
  • Trade Impacts
  • Security Measures
  • Canada-U.S. Relations
  • Economic Integration
  • Government Policies
  • Globalization
Research works
5.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
536
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Canada
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Canadian Policy and Governance research?

By volume, Canada and the United States publish the most (399 and 165 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Canada 399 works
  2. 2 United States 165 works
  3. 3 Australia 51 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 37 works
  5. 5 France 25 works
  6. 6 Russia 17 works
  7. 7 India 14 works
  8. 8 New Zealand 11 works
  9. 9 Mexico 9 works
  10. 10 Germany 7 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: 54.2%United States: 22.4%Australia: 7.0%United Kingdom: 5.1%6 others listed: 11.3%54%largest
Canada399 · 54.2%United States165 · 22.4%Australia51 · 7.0%United Kingdom37 · 5.1%6 others listed83 · 11.3%

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

Which institutions lead Canadian Policy and Governance research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Calgary publishes the most Canadian Policy and Governance research, followed by University of Toronto and Carleton University.

Who are the leading researchers in Canadian Policy and Governance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Canadian Policy and Governance include Joseph E. Stiglitz and Sandro Galea.

  1. 1 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  2. 2 Sandro Galea United States 92k 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 Policy and Governance?

The most cited paper in Canadian Policy and Governance is "The Long and Short of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement" (Daniel Trefler, 2004), with 1,060 citations. Next come "Approaches to spectrum sharing" (541) and "Where does turnout decline come from?" (473).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Long and Short of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement Daniel Trefler · American Economic Review Sep 2004 1,060
2 Approaches to spectrum sharing Jon M. Peha · IEEE Communications Magazine Feb 2005 541
3 Where does turnout decline come from? André Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, Neil Nevitte et al. · European Journal of Political Research 25 Feb 2004 473
4 The Hollow Core: Private Interests in National Policy Making Robert S. Friedman, John P. Heinz, Edward O. Laumann et al. · Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Open access 1994 346
5 Within our reach: Breaking the cycle of disadvantage Richard P. Barth · Children and Youth Services Review 1989 281
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Canadian Policy and Governance research done?

The largest centres of Canadian Policy and Governance research in 2022-now are Toronto (Canada), Ottawa (Canada), Montreal (Canada) and Calgary (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kingston, Ottawa and Calgary.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TorontoCanada 62 works
  2. 2 OttawaCanada 57 works
  3. 3 MontrealCanada 32 works
  4. 4 CalgaryCanada 30 works
  5. 5 KingstonCanada 22 works
  6. 6 VancouverCanada 22 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 17 works
  8. 8 WaterlooCanada 17 works
  9. 9 EdmontonCanada 16 works
  10. 10 WinnipegCanada 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KingstonCA · 22.3 works64×
  2. OttawaCA · 57.3 works43×
  3. CalgaryCA · 29.7 works42×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Canadian Policy and Governance than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Canadian Policy and Governance?

Among universities, judged by research, University of British Columbia, Australian National University and University of Victoria 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 14.63%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of VictoriaAustralian National …University of Britis…University of Toronto
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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 British ColumbiaCanada 63.112.3%24.4×21 +33.4%
2Australian National UniversityAustralia 58.322.2%24.6×9 +279.8%
3University of VictoriaCanada 56.930.9%52.2×8 +123.8%
4University of TorontoCanada 51.711.3%16.1×23 -27.2%
5Toronto Metropolitan UniversityCanada 45.123.4%58.8×9 +52.0%
6York UniversityCanada 44.910.6%83.7×21 +27.5%
7McGill UniversityCanada 44.68.5%23.2×16 +176.3%
8Carleton UniversityCanada 43.18.1%115.6×23 -0.9%
9Queen's UniversityCanada 42.35.7%68.2×20 +28.7%
10University of ManitobaCanada 40.613.3%49.7×12 +52.5%

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 Policy and Governance, country by country

Is Canadian Policy and Governance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% 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 Policy and Governance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0037% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Canadian Policy and Governance0.0040% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Canadian Policy and Governance 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 Policy and Governance11.1% 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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