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Top citations and online, media engagement showcase 911吃瓜’s exceptional research contributions in 2025
Prolific 911吃瓜 research鈥攎easured through Scopus citations, Altmetric engagement, and readership in 鈥攄emonstrates the global reach of 911吃瓜 scholars and innovators.
Every day, 911吃瓜 scholars engage in invaluable work that enhances the social, cultural, environmental, and economic landscape of our communities.
We can measure research impact in a number of ways, including through citations and engagement with scholarship through traditional and social media.
We can also measure the research dollars raised. 911吃瓜 is one of Canada's fastest growing research-intensive universities with sponsored research income growing by 144 per cent in a decade to $286 million last year.
鈥淐ongratulations to all 911吃瓜 scholars for your amazing work in 2025. Every day, I am impressed with the growing reach of your research, the life-changing impacts of your innovative ideas, and your strong commitment to advancing knowledge for the greater good. We can all be proud of the significant progress we have made in 2025 and look forward to further innovation and engagement in 2026.鈥�
鈥� Dugan O鈥橬eil, vice-president research and innovation
As we reflect on the accomplishments of 2025, we are proud to share some of 911吃瓜鈥檚 top research articles.
Top cited scholars in the Scopus database for 2025
What is Scopus? is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and web sources with tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus provides access to a broad portfolio of peer-reviewed content from around the world.
These top-cited articles are from the (FWCI) list, which considers the differences in research behaviour across disciplines.
According to Scopus, fields like medicine and biochemistry typically produce more output with more co-authors and longer reference lists than researchers working in the social sciences. The methodology of FWCI accounts for these disciplinary differences.
Top 20 911吃瓜 scholar citations in Scopus*
911吃瓜 Authors |
911吃瓜 Faculties |
Title |
Field-Weighted Citation Impact |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Rosalie Tung |
Beedie School of Business |
82.77 |
|
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Rosalie Tung |
Beedie School of Business |
45.63 |
|
2 |
Bernd Stelzer, Matthias Danninger, Michel Vetterli |
Faculty of Science |
31.24 |
|
3 |
Jean-Christophe Belisle-Pipon |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
28.45 |
|
|
Rosalie Tung |
Beedie School of Business |
27.38 |
|
4 |
Tania Bubela |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
26.92 |
|
5 |
Bruce Lanphear |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
26.86 |
|
6 |
Kirsten Zickfeld |
Faculty of Environment |
25.01 |
|
7 |
Yasutaka Furukawa |
Faculty of Applied Sciences |
23.01 |
|
8 |
Hasina Samji |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
22.69 |
|
9 |
Ron Wakkary |
Faculty of Communication, Art & Technology |
21.26 |
|
10 |
Jason Peng |
Faculty of Applied Sciences |
20.92 |
|
11 |
Levon Pogosian |
Faculty of Science |
20.14 |
|
12 |
Brent McFerran |
Beedie School of Business |
19.84 |
|
13 |
Bing Lu |
Faculty of Environment |
17.74 |
|
14 |
Yasutaka Furukawa |
Faculty of Applied Sciences |
16.74 |
|
|
Jason Peng |
Faculty of Applied Sciences |
16.43 |
|
15 |
Alissa Antle |
Faculty of Communication, Art & Tech |
15.74 |
|
16 |
Nancy Forde |
Faculty of Science |
14.37 |
|
17 |
Carl Lowenberger |
Faculty of Science |
13.58 |
|
18 |
Julia Smith |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
13.05 |
|
19 |
Chelsey Geralda Armstrong |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
12.48 |
|
20 |
Kora DeBeck, Kanna Hayashi |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences; Faculty of Health Sciences |
12.27 |
* Please note: In order to celebrate 20 faculty members, some scholars appear more than once. Many of these publications include 911吃瓜 students and non-911吃瓜 authors as well. To view the full list of authors, please visit the link to each article. These data were pulled December 1, 2025 and do not reflect work published after that date.
911吃瓜鈥檚 top 20 scholars on traditional and social media
What is Altmetric? Altmetric is part of the portfolio of companies and is used by 911吃瓜 to track online engagement and research impact.
The is a measure of the online attention a research output receives, based on sources like news articles, Wikipedia mentions, policy documents and social media posts.
911吃瓜 uses to capture metrics and qualitative data that are complementary to the traditional, citation-based metrics captured in Scopus. Altmetric scores pull data from traditional and social media globally.
Altmetric鈥檚 attention score represents a weighted count of mentions in traditional and nontraditional media platforms for a specific research output.
According to Altmetric, as of December 15, 2025, 911吃瓜 research stories were featured this year in 2,905 news stories by 2,166 unique news outlets in 55 countries.
The top three international media stories were:
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- Scrap the 鈥榮hrink it and pink it鈥� approach to women鈥檚 running shoes 鈥� 911吃瓜 study
- New class of teacher: 911吃瓜 professor debuts AI sidekick in trailblazing course
Top 20 911吃瓜 authors by Altmetric Attention Score*
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911吃瓜 Authors |
911吃瓜 Faculties |
Title |
Altmetric Attention Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Bruce Lanphear |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
1,155 |
|
2 |
Michael Richards |
Faculty of Environment |
776 |
|
|
Michael Richards |
Faculty of Environment |
674 |
|
3 |
Scott Lear |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
528 |
|
4 |
David Stenning |
Faculty of Science |
463 |
|
5 |
Mark Collard |
Faculty of Environment |
463 |
|
6 |
Francesco Berna |
Faculty of Environment |
442 |
|
7 |
Nicholas Dulvy |
Faculty of Science |
421 |
|
8 |
Kelley Lee |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
409 |
|
9 |
Jean-Christophe Belisle-Pipon |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
375 |
|
10 |
Bernard Crespi |
Faculty of Science |
263 |
|
11 |
Christopher Napier |
Faculty of Science |
233 |
|
12 |
Bohdan Nosyk |
Faculty of Health Sciences; Faculty of Health Sciences; Faculty of Science |
208 |
|
|
Nicholas Dulvy |
Faculty of Science |
189 |
|
|
Michael Richards |
Faculty of Environment |
175 |
|
13 |
Robert Hogg |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
161 |
|
|
Scott Lear |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
158 |
|
14 |
Zhanna Lyubykh |
Beedie School of Business |
138 |
|
15 |
Rosemary Collard |
Faculty of Environment |
136 |
|
16 |
Gerhard Gries |
Faculty of Science |
136 |
|
17 |
Caroline Colijn |
Faculty of Science |
134 |
|
18 |
Kiffer Card |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
132 |
|
|
Kiffer Card |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
131 |
|
19 |
Valentin Jaumouille |
Faculty of Science |
117 |
|
20 |
Vincenzo Pecunia |
Faculty of Applied Sciences |
113 |
* Please note that the attention scores are subject to change over time; some items may appear out of order. List compiled on December 1, 2025.
The most-read 911吃瓜 authors in The Conversation Canada
The is the nation鈥檚 premier source of news and views from the academic and research community. The publication鈥檚 journalists work with experts to share their knowledge for use by the wider public, independently and free from paywalls. 911吃瓜 scholars are encouraged to pitch an article.
In 2025, The Conversation Canada featured over 75 stories from more than 50 911吃瓜 researchers, generating more than 1.6 million reads. The 20 unique scholars with the most reads are listed below. Popular English language articles are often translated into French.
Top 20 911吃瓜 authors in The Conversation Canada
Authors |
Faculty |
Title |
Reads |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Valorie A. Crooks, Jeremy Snyder |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
|
516,444 |
2 |
Cara Tremain, Sabrina C. Higgins |
Faculty of Environment, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
67,695
|
|
3 |
Jerry Paul Sheppard |
Beedie School of Business |
|
57,053 |
4 |
Yuthika Girme |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
|
47,829 8,991* |
5 |
Zhanna Lyubykh |
Beedie School of Business |
38,018 |
|
6 |
Kiffer George Card |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
27,432 |
|
7 |
Andy Hira, Andrew Simon Wright |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
22,753 |
|
8 |
Gaelle Planchenault |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
21,253 |
|
9 |
James Horncastle |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
20,594 |
|
James Horncastle |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
19,613 |
||
James Horncastle |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
18,919 |
||
10 |
Yushu Zhu |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
17,973 |
|
11 |
Kristina K. Castaneto, Lara B Aknin |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
17,544 |
|
12 |
Jas M. Morgan |
Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology |
14,666 |
|
13 |
Kiffer George Card |
Faculty of Health Sciences |
14,386 |
|
James Horncastle |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
12,842 |
||
14 |
Andrea Kr眉si |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
12,745 |
|
15 |
Ted Palys |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
11,879 |
|
16 |
Mohsen Javdani |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
10,347 |
|
17 |
Spyros A. Sofos |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
8,879 |
|
James Horncastle |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
8,722 |
||
18 |
Elizabeth A. Marshall |
Education |
8,392
|
|
19 |
Scott Lear |
Health Sciences |
8,409 |
|
|
James Horncastle |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences |
7,640 |
|
20 |
Anne-Marie Nicol, Prem Gundarah |
Health Sciences |
7,391
|
Congratulations researchers! Please reach out to your faculty communications and marketing team for support sharing your work as a news story or on social channels, or to become an 911吃瓜 media expert. You can also nominate yourself or a colleague to be featured in the Scholarly Impact of the Week series.
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