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TOP 22 OF 2022: ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s scholarly impacts, innovations and ideas

December 14, 2022

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s (¶¡ÏãÔ°AV) Scholarly Impact of the Week series celebrates the work of ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV researchers, while raising their profile and mobilizing their research impact. Since its inception in 2021, the series has featured the work of more than 80 ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV scholars from all eight faculties. Thank you to all the faculty and staff members who have collaborated with us to make this possible.

Throughout 2022, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV scholars continued to make breakthrough scientific discoveries that are transforming their disciplines, benefitting our communities and broadening our understanding of the planet. They have advanced strategies in climate change mitigation and adaption, kept us healthy and informed in a post-COVID world, and mobilized their research in the classroom and into the cosmos. In every discipline, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV researchers contribute valuable knowledge about the multifaceted and changing world around us.

Thank you to all who participated in the Scholarly Impact of the Week series in 2022. We should be very proud of the diverse scope and reach of the research enterprise at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV. I am excited to see what new discoveries we will make in 2023 and the positive impact it will have on the world. We wish the entire ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV community a wonderful upcoming holiday season.

- Dugan O'Neil, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Vice-President, Research and International

Our weekly impact series featured advancements in climate research and climate action from scholars like ,  and . We explored vital reconciliation work with .

We joined researchers such as Jonathan Moore, ,  and Leah Bendell on their investigative journeys into the natural environment. We highlighted cutting-edge breakthroughs in computing technology from Jiangchuan Liu and . Researchers like ,  and  contributed important insights into the understanding of health and disease.

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 22 publications of 2022—in both the traditional and  top-cited rating systems.


Please note: These data were pulled December 1, 2022 and do not reflect work published after that date.
 

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's top-cited articles of 2022

On average, ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV researchers publish 2,600 journal articles per year, over 40% of which appear in the world's top 10% journals. The 2022 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.

  ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Scholar* Faculty Publications Field-weighted Citation Impact # of Citations
 1 Hasina Samji Faculty of Health Sciences 78.74 83
 2 Jian Pei Faculty of Applied Sciences 44.19 7
 3 Jiangchuan Liu  Faculty of Applied Sciences 35.1 68
 4 Jennifer Wong Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 22.29 13
 5 Beedie School of Business 19.4 18
 6 Juan Pablo Alperin Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology 18.8 22
 7 Jie Liang Faculty of Applied Sciences 17.54 16
 8 Siyuan Yin Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology 17.48 7
 9 Douglas Allen Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 16.73 27
10 Charlotte Waddell Faculty of Health Sciences 15.21 15
11 Alexandra Lysova Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 14.58 16
12 Ron Wakkary Faculty of Communication, Art & Tech 13.71 3
 13 Faculty of Applied Sciences 13.71 3
14 Theodore Cosco Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 12.17 11
15 Rylan Simpson Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 11.76 6
16 Travis Salway Faculty of Health Sciences 10.79 6
17 Faculty of Science 10.77 6
18 Ailene MacPherson Faculty of Science 10.75 9
19 Jian Pei  Faculty of Applied Sciences 10.65 2
20 Vicki Marlatt Faculty of Science 10.54 13
21 Jeffrey Warren Faculty of Science 10.5 37
22 Michael Howlett Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 10.41 1

Altmetric: What made headlines and caught our attention


¶¡ÏãÔ°AV research made headlines in 2022, with our scholars and their work enjoying a consistent media presence. Distinguished ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Professor of psychology Lara Aknin chaired The ³¢²¹²Ô³¦±ð³Ù’s Mental Health & Wellbeing Task Force, whose article on  was mentioned on Twitter over 11,000 times. Health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear has four articles in the Altmetric top 22. He was mentioned globally in the media over 650 times for his research on environmental toxins, including his work with The Lancet Commission on .

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV uses the Altmetric database to capture metrics and qualitative data that are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics. Altmetric scores pull data from traditional and social media, from sources all over the world.

Altmetric’s attention score represents a weighted count of mentions in traditional and nontraditional media platforms for a specific research output.

  ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Scholars* Faculty Publications Altmetric Attention Score
1 Lara Aknin Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Also from Lara Aknin:
  •  (959)
6596
2 Bruce Lanphear Faculty of Health Sciences


Also from Bruce Lanphear:

  •  (989)
  •  (720)
6118
3 Scott Lear Faculty of Health Sciences

Also from Scott Lear:
  •  (701)
1074
4 Nicholas Dulvy Faculty of Science 722
5 Kirsten Zickfeld Faculty of Environment 678
6 Isabelle Côté Faculty of Science 673
7 Michael Richards Faculty of Environment 651
8 Kiffer CardHasina SamjiRobert Hogg Faculty of Health Sciences 505
9 Brumme, Zabrina Faculty of Health Sciences 416
10 Molly Cairncross Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 393
11 Levon Pogosian Faculty of Science 383
12 Faculty of Science 329
13 Leithen M'Gonigle Faculty of Science 302
14 Bruce LanphearLawrence McCandlessRyan Allen Faculty of Health Sciences 300
15 David Hik Faculty of Science 279
16 Doug SteadBrent WardJohn Clague Faculty of Science 268
17 Vicki MarlattJonathan Moore Faculty of Science 267
18 David Vocadlo Faculty of Science 244
19 Tammara Soma Faculty of Environment 244
20 Shih En LuDongwoo KimAlexander KaraivanovHitoshi Shigeoka Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 236
21 Michael ThewaltStephanie Simmons Faculty of Science 229
22 Jonathan Moore Faculty of Science 221

* Please note: ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV faculty scholars listed do not include all contributors to each publication. Many of these publications include ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV students and non-¶¡ÏãÔ°AV authors as well. To view the full list of authors, please visit the link to each article. 

We encourage the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV research community to engage with us and submit an Impact idea for 2023.

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