Universities by Research i10-index in Canada
Universities and colleges ranked by OpenAlex's institutional i10-index, the number of works with at least ten citations. This is a research metric, not a measure of teaching quality. OpenAlex is an open scholarly index; larger and older institutions tend to have more indexed research.
1University of Toronto580,519 works
727,603
2University of British Columbia383,849 works
416,571
3McGill University304,067 works
370,683
4University of Alberta267,051 works
313,178
5McMaster University185,880 works
224,089
6Université de Montréal191,480 works
216,445
7University of Calgary198,660 works
214,725
8Western University174,380 works
183,794
9University of Ottawa167,521 works
164,008
10University of Waterloo157,348 works
147,295
11Université Laval135,608 works
145,362
12University of Manitoba119,472 works
126,535
13Queen's University122,113 works
114,053
14Dalhousie University107,820 works
106,684
15University of Guelph93,229 works
102,472
16University of Saskatchewan95,345 works
100,021
17Simon Fraser University87,227 works
86,714
18University of Victoria74,133 works
80,400
19Carleton University77,264 works
68,329
20York University91,005 works
62,773
21Université de Sherbrooke58,864 works
59,762
22Concordia University77,284 works
51,850
23Memorial University of Newfoundland58,341 works
48,806
24Polytechnique Montréal38,495 works
36,229
25Université du Québec à Montréal62,989 works
35,883
26Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique25,717 works
28,818
27University of Windsor38,924 works
28,380
28Toronto Metropolitan University53,284 works
28,058
29University of New Brunswick34,956 works
26,196
30University of Regina24,569 works
19,459
31Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research10,144 works
17,943
32Brock University23,875 works
16,894
33Hotchkiss Brain Institute9,728 works
16,338
34University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus16,735 works
15,821
35Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec9,108 works
15,167
36École de Technologie Supérieure17,918 works
13,801
37Université du Québec13,941 works
13,744
38Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières19,918 works
13,325
39University of Lethbridge15,661 works
12,812
40Lakehead University16,429 works
11,919
41Ontario Tech University15,886 works
11,658
42Wilfrid Laurier University22,189 works
11,413
43University of Toronto Scarborough11,229 works
10,893
44Laurentian University13,201 works
10,807
45Trent University14,088 works
10,724
46Collège MacDonald6,221 works
8,681
47University of Prince Edward Island9,374 works
8,117
48Université du Québec à Chicoutimi11,151 works
7,897
49St. Boniface Hospital5,062 works
7,572
50HEC Montréal12,847 works
7,407
Highlights
Within Canada, University of Toronto ranks first in 2026 with 727,603, followed by University of British Columbia (416,571) and McGill University (370,683).
University of Toronto is 1.7 times higher than University of British Columbia, the runner-up.
Across 50 entries, values run from 727,603 (University of Toronto) to 7,407 (HEC Montréal), with a median of 32,351.
Source: OpenAlex, institutional Research i10-index, 2026. Unit: i10-index.
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