Based on full-service universities that placed on the 2023 Top 50 Research Universities list; and for each measure in each tier, the top ranking institution was assigned a score of 100 and the other institutions’ scores were allocated points and calculated based on their ranking positions.
University tiers: Medical = have a medical school; Comprehensive = have a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs; Undergraduate = have mainly undergraduate programs.
Apparent ties due to rounding.
Research Universities of the Year - Comprehensive
RUY (FY2022) Tier Rank
University
Total Sponsored Research Income
Research Intensity $ per Faculty
Research Intensity $ per Graduate Student
Total Number of Publications
Publication Intensity
Publication Impact
TOTAL SCORE
Rank
Rank
Rank
Rank
Rank
Rank
1
University of Waterloo
1
3
3
1
1
1
94.5
2
University of Guelph
2
1
1
2
2
10
86.4
3
University of Victoria
3
2
2
5
3
3
80.9
4
Simon Fraser University
4
4
4
3
4
2
76.4
5
Carleton University
7
6
7
6
5
5
54.5
6
Concordia University
8
7
9
7
6
4
46.4
7
York University
5
10
8
4
9
6
45.5
8
University of New Brunswick
10
5
6
11
7
8
36.4
9
Toronto Metropolitan University
9
8
5
8
10
11
30.9
10
Université du Québec à Montréal
6
9
10
9
11
7
30.0
11
University of Windsor
11
11
11
10
8
9
18.2
Notes:
Based on full-service universities that placed on the 2023 Top 50 Research Universities list; and for each measure in each tier, the top ranking institution was assigned a score of 100 and the other institutions’ scores were allocated points and calculated based on their ranking positions.
University tiers: Medical = have a medical school; Comprehensive = have a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs; Undergraduate = have mainly undergraduate programs.
Research Universities of the Year - Undergraduate
RUY (FY2022) Tier Rank
University
Total Sponsored Research Income
Research Intensity $ per Faculty
Research Intensity $ per Graduate Student
Total Number of Publications
Publication Intensity
Publication Impact
TOTAL SCORE
Rank
Rank
Rank
Rank
Rank
Rank
1
Ontario Tech University
7
6
6
3
1
9
81.4
2
University of Regina
5
9
15
1
2
2
80.5
3
Lakehead University
6
10
11
5
5
3
73.3
4
Université du Québec à Rimouski
3
1
3
14
9
11
72.4
5
Laurentian University
2
2
2
9
16
10
71.4
6
University of Northern British Columbia
11
7
4
12
6
1
68.1
7
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
1
5
16
6
13
13
67.1
8
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
8
3
7
16
3
14
66.2
9
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
4
4
14
10
7
19
65.2
10
University of Lethbridge
10
13
5
7
11
12
57.6
11
Trent University
15
16
13
8
4
5
55.2
12
Brock University
13
21
18
2
8
8
50.5
13
Wilfrid Laurier University
9
19
20
4
14
7
48.1
14
University of Winnipeg
12
12
1
15
18
6
47.1
15
Royal Military College of Canada
14
8
8
19
15
20
38.1
16
University of Prince Edward Island
19
18
9
11
10
17
37.1
17
Saint Mary's University
16
17
12
13
12
15
36.7
18
Université du Québec en Outaouais
17
15
19
18
17
4
30.0
19
Université de Moncton
18
20
10
16
20
18
21.0
20
Thompson Rivers University
20
14
17
20
19
16
19.5
21
Université TÉLUQ
21
11
21
21
21
21
11.9
Notes:
Based on full-service universities that placed on the 2023 Top 50 Research Universities list; and for each measure in each tier, the top ranking institution was assigned a score of 100 and the other institutions’ scores were allocated points and calculated based on their ranking positions.
University tiers: Medical = have a medical school; Comprehensive = have a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs; Undergraduate = have mainly undergraduate programs.
Apparent ties due to rounding.
Research Universities of the Year Ranking Method 2023
Canada's Top 50 Research Universities List 2023 ranks full-service universities based on their total sponsored research income. In order to obtain a more balanced picture of how universities are performing, the Research Universities of the Year (RUY) rankings take into account key measures of research success. The measures included are: total sponsored research income, research intensity per faculty, research intensity per graduate student, total number of publications, publication intensity and publication impact.
For each measure in each tier (category), the top ranking institution was assigned a score of 100 and the other institutions' scores were allocated points and calculated based on their ranking positions. The total score for each university was out of a possible 100 points.
Listed below is an explanation of each criterion:
Total Sponsored Research Income (20%)
Based on the university's Fiscal 2022 Top 50 sponsored research income amount.
Financial data were obtained from Statistics Canada except where otherwise noted on the Top 50 Research Universities list.
Research Intensity per Faculty (20%)
Research intensity per faculty is defined as total research income per faculty (full, associate and assistant faculty positions only were included). Fiscal 2022 research income and academic year.
2021-2022 faculty data were used to calculate ranks and allocate points.
Faculty data were obtained from the Research Infosource's University R&D Database.
Research Intensity per Graduate Student (10%)
Research intensity per graduate student is defined as total research income per graduate student (graduate students include full and part-time students enrolled in graduate level master's and doctorate programs and courses leading to degrees, certificates or diplomas). Fiscal 2022 research income and academic year 2021-2022 graduate student enrollment data were used to calculate ranks and allocate points.
Graduate student data were obtained from Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission, Ministère de l'Éducation et de l'Enseignement supérieur, Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development, Manitoba Advanced Learning Division, Alberta Advanced Education, BC HEADSet and some individual universities.
Total Number of Publications (20%)
Publications include articles, notes and reviews published by researchers affiliated with Canadian universities or research hospitals in 13,597 peer-reviewed scientific international journals, covering different fields of natural science, health science and social science and humanities. Points are based on the total number of publications published by researchers affiliated with a particular university. Rankings were based on publication data for bibliographic calendar year 2021 (the latest final data available).
Publication data were obtained from Observatoire des sciences et des technologies (Clarivate Analytics - Web of Science).
Publication Intensity (20%)
Publication intensity is defined as the total number of publications per faculty (full, associate and assistant faculty positions only were included). It has been estimated that there is, on average, a minimum 2-year lag time between research and publication. Bibliographic calendar year 2021 (the latest final data available) was used for publication counts and academic year 2018-2019 for faculty counts were used to calculate the ranking and allocate points.
Faculty data were obtained from the Research Infosource's University R&D Database.
Publication Impact (10%)
Points are based on the Average Relative Impact Factor (ARIF), which was developed and provided by OST. It is based on a measure of the perceived impact of research through a calculation of citations received by journals. The impact factor does not measure the specific number of citations per article (direct impact), but rather, a measure of the probability of being cited (perceived impact). OST developed the ARIF to compare the impact factor from several specialties because an article's probability of being cited is not the same for all fields. The ARIF does not include journals on the Humanities field. To ensure that the ARIF score was meaningful, any university with less than 125 publications was not allocated points. Rankings were based on ARIF scores for 2021 (the latest final data available).
Impact data were obtained from Observatoire des sciences et des technologies (Clarivate Analytics - Web of Science).
