Canada's Top 2% Scientists 2020

Canada has 6,602 scientists on the 2020 single-year Top 2% list. That places Canada 5th in the world by number of listed scientists. University of Toronto has the most listed scientists (829), followed by The University of British Columbia (638).

Single Year

6,602

First year listed

Career Data

7,225

First year listed

World rank by count

First year listed

Institutes

468

First year listed

Scientists in Canada on the list, by year

Single-year list, change on the previous year

2021+13.3%

2022+3.4%

2023+2.0%

2024+3.8%

2025+1.4%

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Year	Single Year	Change	Career Data	Change
2020	6,602		7,225
2021	7,479	+13.3%	8,127	+12.5%
2022	7,737	+3.4%	8,473	+4.3%
2023	7,889	+2.0%	8,815	+4.0%
2024	8,185	+3.8%	9,265	+5.1%
2025	8,303	+1.4%	9,589	+3.5%

Top 10 institutes in Canada

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Rank in Canada	World rank	Scientist	Institute	Sub-field	Rank in sub-field
1	4	BY Bengio, Yoshua	Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 1
2	7	Hinton, Geoffrey	University of Toronto	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 2
3	15	BA Becke, Axel D.	Dalhousie University	Chemical Physics	Rank 3
4	25	MD Moher, David	Ottawa Hospital Research Institute	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 3
5	35	AP Austin, Peter C.	Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 1
6	90	GG Guyatt, Gordon	McMaster University	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 6
7	99	YS Yusuf, Salim	Population Health Research Institute, Ontario	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 5
8	123	WD Wishart, David S.	University of Alberta	Developmental Biology	Rank 6
9	188	DI Dincer, Ibrahim	Ontario Tech University	Energy	Rank 5
10	260	HR Hancock, Robert E.W.	The University of British Columbia	Microbiology	Rank 3
11	273	YY Yao, Yiyu	University of Regina	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 21
12	289	MD Miller, Danny	HEC Montréal	Business & Management	Rank 7
13	307	BZ Bhutta, Zulfiqar	Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 9
14	358	LP Legendre, Pierre	University of Montreal	Ecology	Rank 8
15	381	SE Sargent, Edward H.	University of Toronto	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 21
16	395	BE Bialystok, Ellen	York University	Experimental Psychology	Rank 5
17	416	LG Laporte, Gilbert	HEC Montréal	Operations Research	Rank 4
18	444	PW Pedrycz, Witold	University of Alberta	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 30
19	447	FL Fahrig, Lenore	Carleton University	Ecology	Rank 12
20	471	RJ Rehm, Jürgen	University of Toronto	Substance Abuse	Rank 2
21	474	BR Boyd, Robert W.	University of Ottawa, Canada	Optics	Rank 2
22	486	SF Shahidi, Fereidoon	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Food Science	Rank 2
23	571	PD Pauly, Daniel	The University of British Columbia	Fisheries	Rank 1
24	591	DD Drucker, Daniel J.	University of Toronto	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 10
25	600	SP Sadorsky, Perry	York University	Energy	Rank 18
26	627	BF Berkes, Fikret	University of Manitoba	Ecology	Rank 17
27	651	BR Bader, Richard F.W.	McMaster University	Chemical Physics	Rank 23
28	671	GB Glick, Bernard R.	University of Waterloo	Microbiology	Rank 7
29	673	PJ Peck, Jamie	The University of British Columbia	Geography	Rank 2
30	701	DA Diamond, Adele	The University of British Columbia	Developmental & Child Psychology	Rank 12
31	717	LC Li, Chao Jun	McGill University	Organic Chemistry	Rank 8
32	754	RK Rockwood, Kenneth	Dalhousie University	Geriatrics	Rank 2
33	807	DJ Dahn, J. R.	Dalhousie University	Energy	Rank 23
34	831	OT Oke, Timothy R.	The University of British Columbia	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Rank 6
35	923	WG Wright, Gerard D.	McMaster University	Microbiology	Rank 12
36	924	DJ Després, Jean Pierre	Université Laval	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 25
37	950	Eysenbach, Gunther	JMIR Publications	Medical Informatics	Rank 1
38	997	SD Streiner, David L.	McMaster University	Psychiatry	Rank 25
39	1,030	MM Meaney, Michael J.	McGill University	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 70
40	1,054	KC Kremen, C.	The University of British Columbia	Ecology	Rank 30
41	1,059	JI Janssen, Ian	Queen's University, Kingston	Public Health	Rank 10
42	1,077	WZ Wang, Zhou	University of Waterloo	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Rank 62
43	1,085	SH Schünemann, Holger J.	McMaster University	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 20
44	1,117	SD Stephan, Douglas W.	University of Toronto	Organic Chemistry	Rank 16
45	1,181	RM Rosen, Marc A.	Ontario Tech University	Energy	Rank 27
46	1,185	WD Winter, David A.	University of Waterloo	Orthopedics	Rank 3
47	1,222	NG Norman, Geoff	McMaster University	Medical Informatics	Rank 3
48	1,277	VR Vallerand, Robert J.	Université du Québec à Montréal	Social Psychology	Rank 43
49	1,288	BR Belk, Russell	York University	Marketing	Rank 5
50	1,315	BJ Berry, John W.	Queen's University, Kingston	Social Psychology	Rank 46
51	1,329	SD Schluter, Dolph	The University of British Columbia	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 18
52	1,424	SR Suddaby, Roy	University of Victoria	Business & Management	Rank 37
53	1,438	EA Evans, Alan C.	McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 98
54	1,439	LJ Liu, Juewen	Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology	Organic Chemistry	Rank 25
55	1,466	SS Suissa, Samy	McGill University	Respiratory System	Rank 4
56	1,488	CS Connolly, Stuart J.	Population Health Research Institute, Ontario	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 35
57	1,540	VG Vidal, Guifre	Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics	General Physics	Rank 12
58	1,621	HB Hinz, Boris	University of Toronto	Developmental Biology	Rank 69
59	1,660	SD Schindler, David	University of Alberta	Ecology	Rank 53
60	1,757	BP Bansal, Pratima	Western University	Business & Management	Rank 46
61	1,862	PT Paus, Tomáš	University of Toronto	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 119
62	1,867	WR Wang, Rui	Laurentian University	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Rank 40
63	1,911	GD Gladman, Dafna	University of Toronto	Arthritis & Rheumatology	Rank 10
64	1,922	CP Corkum, P. B.	University of Ottawa, Canada	General Physics	Rank 17
65	1,939	PD Paulhus, Delroy L.	The University of British Columbia	Social Psychology	Rank 62
66	1,950	NH Nesbitt, H. Wayne	Western University	Geochemistry & Geophysics	Rank 27
67	1,956	TP Tugwell, Peter	University of Ottawa, Canada	General & Internal Medicine	Rank 34
68	1,962	MC Morin, Charles M.	Université Laval	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 128
69	2,007	NS Nattel, Stanley	Institut de Cardiologie de Montreal	Cardiovascular System & Hematology	Rank 56
70	2,021	LA Lang, Anthony E.	University of Toronto	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 129
71	2,031	HP Hebert, Paul D.N.	University of Guelph	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 23
72	2,101	CW Chan, Warren C.W.	University of Toronto	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Rank 79
73	2,126	HS Haykin, Simon	McMaster University, Faculty of Engineering	Networking & Telecommunications	Rank 22
74	2,158	MT Mak, Tak W.	University of Toronto	Immunology	Rank 49
75	2,252	PS Phillips, Stuart M.	McMaster University, Faculty of Science	Sport Sciences	Rank 4
76	2,257	ZB Zinman, Bernard	University of Toronto	Endocrinology & Metabolism	Rank 38
77	2,287	AM Amabili, Marco	McGill University	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Rank 26
78	2,288	Berardi, Umberto	Ryerson University	Building & Construction	Rank 9
79	2,296	BB Bolker, Benjamin M.	McMaster University	Ecology	Rank 75
80	2,382	KM Kramer, Michael S.	McGill University	Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine	Rank 6
81	2,402	HM Howlett, Michael	Simon Fraser University	Political Science & Public Administration	Rank 10
82	2,412	ZG Zou, G.	Western University	Statistics & Probability	Rank 24
83	2,425	TE Tulving, Endel	University of Toronto	Experimental Psychology	Rank 48
84	2,438	RL Rieseberg, Loren H.	The University of British Columbia	Evolutionary Biology	Rank 27
85	2,469	PS Patten, Scott B.	University of Calgary	Psychiatry	Rank 71
86	2,482	NS Narod, S. A.	Women's College Research Institute	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 83
87	2,514	KG Kaplan, Gilaad G.	University of Calgary	Gastroenterology & Hepatology	Rank 26
88	2,526	MJ Meyer, John P.	Western University	Business & Management	Rank 56
89	2,570	MR Melzack, Ronald	McGill University	Anesthesiology	Rank 4
90	2,627	PJ Pawliszyn, Janusz	University of Waterloo	Analytical Chemistry	Rank 12
91	2,640	LA Langley, Ann	HEC Montréal	Business & Management	Rank 62
92	2,645	BN Bontis, Nick	McMaster University	Business & Management	Rank 63
93	2,673	SK Stanovich, Keith E.	University of Toronto	Experimental Psychology	Rank 54
94	2,681	IM Isman, Murray B.	The University of British Columbia	Entomology	Rank 3
95	2,726	PM Pollak, Michael N.	McGill University	Oncology & Carcinogenesis	Rank 90
96	2,729	DC Dennis, Cindy Lee	University of Toronto	Psychiatry	Rank 76
97	2,762	MK Meyer, Klaus E.	Western University, Ivey Business School	Business & Management	Rank 67
98	2,767	MA Miall, Andrew D.	University of Toronto	Geology	Rank 3
99	2,773	SM Steriade, Mircea	Université Laval, Faculté de médecine	Neurology & Neurosurgery	Rank 182
100	2,803	TM Tremblay, Mark S.	Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa	Public Health	Rank 29
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Frequently asked questions

How many scientists from Canada are in the 2020 Stanford Top 2% list?

6,602 scientists affiliated with Canada are on the 2020 single-year list, and 7,225 are on the career-long list.

Which institute in Canada has the most Top 2% scientists?

On the 2020 single-year list, University of Toronto has the most listed scientists from Canada, with 829. It is followed by The University of British Columbia with 638.

What is the difference between the single-year and career-long lists?

The single-year list ranks scientists on the citations their work received in one year. The career-long list ranks them on citations across their whole career. Both lists are published every year, and a scientist can be on one, both or neither.

What is the official source of this data?

The rankings come from the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators published by Ioannidis et al. in the Elsevier Data Repository, updated every year. TOPSCINET, an independent platform, organises that data by country, year, institute and field, so you can compare and explore it.