Top institutions in Canada for Clinical Medicine

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Which institutions in Canada have the most top-cited scientists in Clinical Medicine?

3,140 researchers in Canada whose main field is Clinical Medicine are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 36.8% of all listed authors in Canada, and 6th of 145 countries in the field. 1,200 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). University of Toronto has the most (208), followed by University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine (195) and The University of British Columbia (184). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

3,140

36.8% of all in Canada

In the global top 100,000

1,200

38.2% of them

Country rank in the field

of 145 countries in Clinical Medicine

Highest-ranked

#18

Moher, David

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	University of Toronto	208	74	#27	Mcintyre, Roger S. #954
2	University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine	195	64	#32	Marshall, John C. #2,154
3	The University of British Columbia	184	64	#38	Brauer, Michael #963
4	McMaster University	127	50	#71	Gordon, Guyatt H. #112
5	University of Alberta	102	32	#102	Baracos, V. Elaine #3,405
6	Cumming School of Medicine	89	32	#132	Kaplan, Gilaad G. #680
7	University Health Network	88	42	#133	Gladman, Dafna D. #2,665
8	Université McGill	88	37	#134	Suissa, Samy #2,785
9	The Hospital for Sick Children	87	27	#138	Mccrindle, Brian W. #10,997
10	University of Calgary	79	40	#155	Patten, Scott B. #3,154
11	Western University	78	32	#157	Zou, Guangyong #1,935
12	University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry	66	27	#204	Lopaschuk, Gary D. #3,476
13	University of Montreal	59	19	#237	Cisek, Paul E. #12,856
14	University of Ottawa	52	21	#260	Tugwell, Peter S.L. #3,327
15	School of Medicine	50	21	#55	Kirmayer, Laurence J. #2,584
16	Princess Margaret Cancer Centre	48	22	#286	Tannock, Ian F. #9,078
17	University of Manitoba	43	18	#315	Bernstein, Charles N. #3,667
18	Queen’s University	41	15	#331	Eisenhauer, Elizabeth A. #4,742
19	University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine	40	15	#346	Mackenzie, Ian R. #12,355
20	Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	37	15	#378	Rubenfeld, Gordon David #18,447
21	Dalhousie University	36	14	#388	Croskerry, Pat G. #10,639
22	Université Laval	35	13	#394	Després, Jean Piérre #842
23	Population Health Research Institute, Ontario	33	20	#419	Yusuf, Salim N. #208
24	Dalhousie University, Faculty of Medicine	32	14	#429	Rockwood, Kenneth J. #402
25	St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto	30	10	#458	Verma, Subodh G. #2,918
26	Ottawa Hospital Research Institute	28	14	#489	Moher, David #18
27	L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill	26	11	#549	Touyz, Rhian M. #930
28	University of Waterloo	24	12	#598	Winter, David A. #2,437
29	Toronto General Hospital	23	11	#637	Hirschfield, Gideon Morris #11,811
30	L'Hôpital d'Ottawa	23	4	#648	McInnes, Matthew D.F. #37,590
31	Centre Hospitalier de L'Université de Montréal	22	9	#664	Saad, Fred #6,522
32	Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill	22	6	#668	Carli, Franco M. #8,679
33	British Columbia Cancer Agency	22	9	#673	Doll, Richard S. #12,005
34	Simon Fraser University	21	8	#702	Best, John R. #11,557
35	Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation	19	7	#763	Straus, Sharon E. #2,813
36	McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences	19	10	#771	Bzdok, Danilo #9,041
37	Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry	19	7	#786	Donner, Allan P. #26,863
38	Université de Montréal, Faculté de Médecine	18	9	#806	Nattel, Stanley #1,887
39	McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences	17	5	#859	Kearon, Clive B. #7,717
40	Université d'Ottawa, Faculté de Médecine	17	3	#869	Albert, Paul R. #16,239
41	Mount Sinai Hospital	17	4	#882	Detsky, Allan S. #30,309
42	Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa	15	7	#929	Tremblay, Mark S. #1,470
43	Queen's University, School of Medicine	15	5	#931	Von Elm, Erik B. #3,190
44	Toronto Western Hospital	14	7	#986	Lang, Anthony E. #3,128
45	Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec - Université Laval	14	9	#987	Di Marzo, Vincenzo #3,237
46	Institut-Hôpital Neurologique de Montréal	14	11	#988	Zatorre, Robert J. #3,401
47	Centre for Addiction and Mental Health	14	8	#991	Lai, Meng Chuan #6,505
48	Memorial University of Newfoundland	13	4	#1,057	Behm, David George #9,292
49	Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health	13	8	#1,060	Fereshtehnejad, Seyed Mohammad #11,232
50	University of Saskatchewan	13	1	#1,109	Baxter-Jones, Adam D.g. #99,653
51	Institut de Cardiologie de l'Université d'Ottawa	12	7	#1,165	Rayner, Katey J. #45,975
52	Hotchkiss Brain Institute	11	7	#1,191	Yong, V. Wee #6,415
53	Sunnybrook Research Institute	11	5	#1,195	Hynynen, Kullervo H. #7,631
54	L’École de médecine	11	4	#1,204	Grimes, David A. #11,096
55	CHU de Québec-Université Laval	11	4	#1,228	Boilard, Eric #25,140
56	SickKids Research Institute	11	3	#1,256	Sled, John G. #54,035
57	Hamilton Health Sciences	10	6	#1,308	Anand, Sonia S. #10,677
58	Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill, Hôpital de Montreal Pour Enfants	10	0	#1,391	Poenaru, Dan #122,751
59	Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba	10	0	#1,394	Dhalla, Naranjan S. #190,272
60	Robarts Research Institute	9	4	#1,414	Hachinski, Vladimir C.I. #6,278
61	Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute	9	5	#1,422	Jüni, Peter #10,016
62	Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute	9	5	#1,440	Collins, Stephen Michael #19,668
63	Université de Sherbrooke	9	3	#1,457	Fülöp, Tamas #27,302
64	Faculty of Health Sciences	9	4	#618	O'Donnell, Denis Einan #42,671
65	University of British Columbia, Faculty of Dentistry	9	2	#1,502	Haapasalo, Markus P.P. #62,254
66	Krembil Research Institute	8	4	#1,571	Poddubnyy, Denis A. #14,225
67	Institut Lady Davis de Recherches Médicales	8	4	#1,582	Thombs, Brett D. #16,825
68	Libin Cardiovascular Institute	8	3	#1,594	Raj, Satish R. #22,207
69	University of Saskatchewan, College of Medicine	8	2	#1,608	Prasad, Kailash #29,646
70	Carleton University	8	2	#1,612	Tombaugh, Tom N. #31,565
71	Women's College Hospital	8	4	#1,615	Drucker, Aaron Mark #34,013
72	Université d'Ottawa Faculté des Sciences de la Santé	8	1	#1,637	Meng, Xiangfei #52,013
73	London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute	8	2	#1,648	Rieder, Michael J. #60,676
74	Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences	7	2	#1,686	Austin, Peter C. #35
75	Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute	7	6	#1,687	Drucker, Daniel J. #131
76	St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton	7	4	#1,753	Douketis, James Demetrios #21,378
77	York University	7	4	#1,768	Katz, Joel D. #29,643
78	McConnell Brain Imaging Centre	7	5	#1,778	Bernhardt, Boris C. #34,562
79	Toronto General Hospital Research Institute	7	2	#1,779	Cattran, Daniel Cheyne #36,729
80	Public Health Agency of Canada	7	4	#1,788	Lang, Justin J. #40,210
81	Centre de recherche CERVO	7	3	#1,801	Bastien, Célyne H. #45,894
82	Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute	7	5	#1,828	Kirton, Adam #65,609
83	Sinai Health	7	1	#1,858	Pai, Rish K. #90,447
84	CHU Sainte-Justine - Le Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Mère-Enfant	7	0	#1,870	Levy, Emile #103,549
85	Toronto Metropolitan University	7	0	#1,873	Moradi Kashkooli, Farshad #108,124
86	Université Laval, Faculté de médecine	6	2	#1,947	Stériade, Mircea #12,529
87	Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases	6	2	#2,006	Sharkey, Keith A. #30,854
88	Odette Cancer Centre	6	3	#2,009	Sahgal, Arjun A. #31,218
89	BC Children's Hospital Research Institute	6	3	#2,059	Miller, Steven Paul #53,438
90	Le Centre de Recherche Douglas	6	2	#2,074	Malla, Ashok K. #61,402
91	University of British Columbia Okanagan	6	0	#2,129	Walsh, Zach #137,055
92	St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver	5	2	#2,152	Sin, Donald D. #5,870
93	Institut de Cardiologie de Montreal	5	3	#2,181	Khairy Dr, Paul #14,744
94	University of Victoria	5	3	#2,185	Tremblay, Marie Ěve Ěve #16,862
95	Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence	5	1	#2,213	Hartling, Lisa A. #24,355
96	St. Joseph's Health Care London	5	2	#2,260	Kertesz, Andrew #39,932
97	Brock University	5	1	#2,330	Cheung, Stephen Sau Shing #69,278
98	University of Guelph	5	1	#2,370	Bonen, Arend #90,374
99	Memorial University of Newfoundland, Faculty of Medicine	5	0	#2,429	Ploughman, Michelle #162,782
100	Women's College Research Institute	4	3	#2,484	Narod, Steven Alexander #4,851
101	Queen's University, Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Kingston	4	4	#2,553	de Felice, Fernanda Guarino #19,329
102	Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases	4	1	#2,587	Ingelsson, Martin #29,250
103	Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé	4	1	#2,621	Carpentier, André C. #37,628
104	University of Waterloo, School of Optometry and Vision Science	4	1	#2,654	Jones, Lyndon William J. #49,268
105	Faculty of Health	4	3	#1,639	Lexchin, Joel R. #53,626
106	Children's Health Research Institute, London, ON	4	1	#2,686	Mottola, Michelle F. #55,070
107	Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal	4	2	#2,708	Rainville, Pierre #61,169
108	Peter Munk Cardiac Centre	4	1	#2,728	Farkouh, Michael E. #66,710
109	Concordia University	4	1	#2,753	Penhune, Virginia B. #81,503
110	University of Alberta Hospital	4	1	#2,782	Joffe, Ari Robin #91,822
111	Trillium Health Partners	4	1	#2,794	Cheng, Alice Y.Y. #97,501
112	Rady Faculty of Health Sciences	4	0	#2,836	Singh, Harminder #114,339
113	Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières	4	0	#2,921	Forbes, Shari L. #187,102
114	Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur-de-Montréal	3	2	#2,965	Postuma, Ronald B. #2,448
115	McMaster University, Faculty of Science	3	2	#3,037	Gibala, Martin J. #15,936
116	Toronto Rehabilitation Institute	3	3	#3,052	Pichora-Fuller, Margaret Kathleen #18,657
117	University of Regina	3	2	#3,058	Asmundson, Gordon J.G. #20,176
118	Centre for Heart Lung Innovation	3	2	#3,070	Ryerson, Christopher J. #22,618
119	Institut de Recherche en Immunologie et en Cancérologie de l’Université de Montréal	3	1	#3,071	Szyf, Moshe #22,812
120	Institut Universitaire de Santé Mentale de Montréal	3	2	#3,075	Lupien, Sonia J. #24,043
121	Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience	3	2	#3,078	Kolb, Bryan E. #24,750
122	Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute	3	2	#3,085	Fitzgerald, John Mark #25,472
123	McGill University Health Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital	3	2	#3,128	Sniderman, Allan David #33,439
124	Queen's Cancer Research Institute	3	1	#3,149	Booth, Christopher M. #38,712
125	Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke	3	1	#3,232	Fraser, William D. #58,647
126	Canadian Blood Services	3	1	#3,302	Hébert, Paul C. #72,877
127	Le Centre Alan-Edwards de Recherche Sur la Douleur	3	2	#3,328	Zhang, Ji #78,497
128	Vancouver General Hospital	3	1	#3,344	Clement, Philip B. #83,743
129	Health Canada	3	1	#3,361	Chen, Hong #87,842
130	École de médecine du Nord de l'Ontario	3	1	#3,395	Suntres, Zacharias E. #97,061
131	Université d'Ottawa, Faculté des Sciences Sociales	3	1	#3,400	Presseau, Justin #99,289
132	Université Laurentienne	3	0	#3,432	McGannon, Kerry R. #112,904
133	University of Lethbridge	3	0	#3,437	Kovalchuk, Olga V. #114,413
134	CMAJ	3	0	#3,525	Vogel, Lauren #149,379
135	BC Children's Hospital	3	0	#3,610	Skarsgard, Erik D. #210,090

The top 100 in Clinical Medicine in Canada, in order

1
Moher, David
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
2
Austin, Peter C.
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
3
Gordon, Guyatt H.
McMaster University
4
Drucker, Daniel J.
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
5
Yusuf, Salim N.
Population Health Research Institute, Ontario
6
Rockwood, Kenneth J.
Dalhousie University, Faculty of Medicine
7
Kaplan, Gilaad G.
Cumming School of Medicine
8
Mullard, Asher
Science journalist
9
Després, Jean Piérre
Université Laval
10
Touyz, Rhian M.
L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill
11
Mcintyre, Roger S.
University of Toronto
12
Brauer, Michael
The University of British Columbia
13
Streiner, David L.
University of Toronto
14
Tricco, Andrea C.
Unity Health Toronto
15
Norman, Geoffrey R.
McMaster University
16
Morin, Charles M.
Université Laval
17
Tremblay, Mark S.
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa
18
Nattel, Stanley
Université de Montréal, Faculté de Médecine
19
Zou, Guangyong
Western University
20
Chaput, Jean Philippe
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa
21
Marshall, John C.
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
22
Grimshaw, Jeremy M.
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
23
Tonelli, Marcello A.
Cumming School of Medicine
24
Winter, David A.
University of Waterloo
25
Postuma, Ronald B.
Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur-de-Montréal
26
Kirmayer, Laurence J.
School of Medicine
27
Levin, Adeera I.
The University of British Columbia
28
Gladman, Dafna D.
University Health Network
29
Suissa, Samy
Université McGill
30
Dennis, Cindy Lee
University of Toronto
31
Straus, Sharon E.
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
32
Verma, Subodh G.
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
33
Fehlings, Michael George
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
34
Lang, Anthony E.
Toronto Western Hospital
35
Patten, Scott B.
University of Calgary
36
Hawker, Gillian A.
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
37
Von Elm, Erik B.
Queen's University, School of Medicine
38
Mogil, Jeffrey S.
Université McGill
39
Di Marzo, Vincenzo
Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec - Université Laval
40
Slutsky, Arthur S.
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
41
Tugwell, Peter S.L.
University of Ottawa
42
Weitz, Jeffrey Ian
McMaster University Medical Centre
43
Northoff, Georg
University of Ottawa
44
Zatorre, Robert J.
Institut-Hôpital Neurologique de Montréal
45
Baracos, V. Elaine
University of Alberta
46
Lopaschuk, Gary D.
University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
47
Kubes, Paul
Cumming School of Medicine
48
Solmi, Marco
University of Ottawa
49
Bernstein, Charles N.
University of Manitoba
50
Evans, Alan C.
Institut-Hôpital Neurologique de Montréal
51
Smith, Eric Edward
Cumming School of Medicine
52
Melzack, Ronald
Université McGill
53
Marrie, Ruth Ann
University of Manitoba
54
Gerstein, Hertzel C.
Population Health Research Institute, Ontario
55
Paus, Tomáš
Université de Montréal, Faculté de Médecine
56
Turecki, Gustavo X.
Université McGill
57
Zinman, Bernard
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
58
Meaney, Michael J.
School of Medicine
59
Feagan, Brian Gordon
Western University
60
Kovács, Gábor G.
Toronto Western Hospital
61
Eisenhauer, Elizabeth A.
Queen’s University
62
Narod, Steven Alexander
Women's College Research Institute
63
Chattu, Vijay Kumar
University of Toronto
64
Pope, Janet E. Elizabeth
Western University
65
Archer, Stephen Lawrence
Queen's University, School of Medicine
66
Tarnopolsky, Mark A.
McMaster University
67
Hegele, Robert A.
Western University
68
Brochard, Laurent Jean
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
69
Gauthier, Serge G.
McGill University Research Centre for Studies in Aging
70
Sin, Donald D.
St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
71
Hanley, James Anthony H.
School of Medicine
72
Akl, Elie A.
McMaster University
73
Devereaux, Philip James
Population Health Research Institute, Ontario
74
Connolly, Stuart J.
Population Health Research Institute, Ontario
75
Rosenbaum, Peter L.
McMaster University
76
Pai, Madhukar
L'Institut de Recherche du Centre Universitaire de Santé McGill
77
Kahn, Susan R.
School of Medicine
78
Hachinski, Vladimir C.I.
Robarts Research Institute
79
Yong, V. Wee
Hotchkiss Brain Institute
80
Lai, Meng Chuan
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
81
Saad, Fred
Centre Hospitalier de L'Université de Montréal
82
Cook, Deborah J.
McMaster University
83
Jeschke, Marc Gerhard
McMaster University
84
Bhandari, Mohit
McMaster University
85
Moayyedi, Paul M.
Population Health Research Institute, Ontario
86
Foulkes, Willliam D.
School of Medicine
87
Tardif, Jean Claude
Université de Montréal, Faculté de Médecine
88
Schiffrin, Ernesto L.
Université McGill
89
Courneya, Kerry S.
University of Alberta
90
Bagshaw, Sean M.
University of Alberta, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
91
Chow, James C.L.
University Health Network
92
Donath, Marc Yves
Centre Hospitalier de L'Université de Montréal
93
Owen, Adrian Mark
Western University
94
Walter, Stephen D.
McMaster University
95
Gordon, Tessa A.
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
96
Lozano, A. M.
University of Toronto
97
Sackett, David L.
Kilgore S. Trout Research and Education Centre
98
Hynynen, Kullervo H.
Sunnybrook Research Institute
99
Shah, Prakesh Shantilal
University of Toronto
100
Steinberg, Gregory R.
McMaster University

3,140 listed scientists in Clinical Medicine in Canada

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