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Established in March 2021, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s Scholarly Impact of the Week series has featured the work of more than three dozen ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV researchers from all eight faculties. The goal of the series is to raise the profile of our researchers, celebrate their work and mobilize their research impact. Thank you to all the faculty members and staff who helped us do that.

Throughout this eventful year, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV scholars have made breakthrough scientific and technological discoveries that have transformed their disciplines, benefitted our communities, and broadened our understanding of the planet. They have kept us safe and informed during the COVID-19 pandemic, enlightened us about the world and our place within it and advanced crucial social justice initiatives. Whatever their expertise, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV researchers contribute valuable knowledge about a complex and changing world.

Our weekly impact series featured significant career achievements such as those made by ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV scholars Pavol Hell, Stephen Holdcroft and James Wakeling. It highlighted the value of knowledge gathered from the past through works by Henry Daniel, Dana Lepofsky and Celeste Snowber.​​​​​​ It pondered the origins of the universe with .

Researchers like Laya Behbehani, Alanaise Goodwill, Boydan Nosyk and Travis Salway published important evidence-based studies on how to build more equitable and just societies. Experts like Caroline Colijn worked behind the scenes and in the media to keep the public informed about the pandemic. Two of our scholars,  and  had their work featured in , one of the world’s most trusted independent sources of news and views from the academic and research community, delivered directly to the public.

We have highlighted below just some of the scholarly works that topped the  and the top cited academic papers from ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV. Here is a snapshot of the top 21 publications of 2021—in both the traditional and  top-cited rating systems.

Please note: These data were pulled December 1, 2021 and do not reflect work published later this year.

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's top-cited articles of 2021

On average, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV researchers publish 2,500 journal articles per year, over 40% of which appear in the world's top 10% journals. The 2021 top-cited articles look at the field-weighted citation impact which considers the differences in research behaviour across disciplines.

, fields such as medicine and biochemistry typically produce more output with more co-authors and longer reference lists than researchers working in the social sciences. This is a reflection of research culture, and not research performance. The methodology of field-weighted citation impact accounts for these disciplinary differences.

A field-weighted citation impact of 1 means that the output performed as expected within the global average for that discipline, while more than 1 means that the output is more cited than expected. For example, 1.48 means 48% more cited than expected. Based on this ranking, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV scholars remain authoritative voices across all disciplines and in a range of fundamental, interdisciplinary and applied research areas.