Recently, the 2022 ranking of world-class disciplines in soft science was officially released. This ranking covers 54 disciplines, covering five fields: Science, engineering, life science, medicine and social science.

Basis of ranking:

Number of papers in important journals (Q1)

This indicator counts the number of article type papers in journals (Q1 partition) that are among the top 25% of the journal impact factors that have been included by the corresponding disciplines of the incites database in the past five years (2016-2020).

Paper standardization influence (CNCI)

It refers to the average value of the ratio of the number of citations of article type papers collected by the corresponding disciplines in the incites database in the past five years (2016-2020) to the number of citations of articles in the same publishing year, in the same subject, and in the same document type.

Proportion of international cooperation papers (IC)

This indicator counts the proportion of papers with foreign institution addresses in the article type papers included in the corresponding disciplines of incites database in the past five years (2016-2020).

Number of papers in top journals (top)

Refers to the number of papers published in top journals or conferences of corresponding disciplines in the past five years (2016-2020).

Number of authoritative awards won by teachers (award)

It refers to the equivalent number of teachers who have won the most authoritative international awards in this discipline since 1981.

Canada ranks as follows:

Top ten disciplines: 8

Top 50 disciplines: 89

Top 100 disciplines: 220, 801 disciplines in total

Schools on the list: 41

1. University of Toronto

Physics:

Mathematics: ranked 22nd in the world and 1st in Canada

Chemistry: ranked 36th in the world and 1st in Canada

Atmospheric science: ranked 44th in the world and 1st in Canada

Geography: ranked 27th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Ecology: ranked 20th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Engineering:

Control science and Engineering: ranked 14th in the world and 1st in Canada

Computer science and Engineering: ranked 15th in the world and 1st in Canada

Aerospace Engineering: ranking 19th in the world and 1st in Canada

Biomedical Engineering: ranked 21st in the world and 1st in Canada

Bioengineering: 21st in the world and 1st in Canada

Mining engineering: ranked 29th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Electrical and electronic engineering: ranked 50th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Environmental Science and Engineering: ranking 30th in the world and 3rd in Canada

Civil Engineering: ranked 42nd in the world and 3rd in Canada

Life Sciences:

Basic medicine: ranked 24th in the world and 1st in Canada

Biology: ranked 29th in the world and 1st in Canada

Medical Science:

Medical technology: ranked 6th in the world and 1st in Canada

Pharmacy: ranked 8th in the world and 1st in Canada

Public health: ranked 10th in the world and 1st in Canada

Clinical medicine: ranked 15th in the world and 1st in Canada

Stomatology: ranked 23rd in the world and 1st in Canada

Nursing: ranked 23rd in the world and 1st in Canada

social sciences:

Sociology: ranked 4th in the world and 1st in Canada

Psychology: ranked 7th in the world and 1st in Canada

Finance: ranked 10th in the world and 1st in Canada

Statistics: ranked 10th in the world and 1st in Canada

Education: ranked 10th in the world and 1st in Canada

Management: ranked 12th in the world and 1st in Canada

Economics: ranked 20th in the world and 1st in Canada

Law: ranked 32nd in the world and 1st in Canada

Library and Information Science: ranked 47th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Business Administration: ranked 43rd in the world and 3rd in Canada

2. University of British Columbia

Physics:

Geography: ranked 11th in the world and 1st in Canada

Ecology: 19th in the world and 1st in Canada

Mathematics: 36th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Marine Science: 37th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Engineering:

Transportation Engineering: ranked 17th in the world and 1st in Canada

Remote sensing technology: ranking 33rd in the world and 1st in Canada

Communication Engineering: ranked 22nd in the world and 2nd in Canada

Bioengineering: ranked 28th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Civil Engineering: ranked 29th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Mining engineering: ranked 35th in the world and 4th in Canada

Life Sciences:

Agronomy: ranked 25th in the world and 1st in Canada

Medical Science:

Public health: ranked 36th in the world and 3rd in Canada

Stomatology: ranked 40th in the world and 3rd in Canada

social sciences:

Politics: ranked 22nd in the world and 1st in Canada

Sociology: ranked 30th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Economics: ranked 31st in the world and 2nd in Canada

Psychology: ranked 33rd in the world and 2nd in Canada

Business Administration: ranked 33rd in the world and 2nd in Canada

Education: ranked 41st in the world and 2nd in Canada

3. McGill University

Physics:

Geography: ranked 29th in the world and 3rd in Canada

Engineering:

Mining engineering: ranked 40th in the world and 5th in Canada

Life Sciences:

Basic medicine: ranked 42nd in the world and 2nd in Canada

Medical Science:

Public health: ranked 21st in the world and 2nd in Canada

Stomatology: ranked 38th in the world and 2nd in Canada

The most outstanding ones on the list this year:

1. University of Waterloo

Engineering:

Communication Engineering: ranked 11th in the world and 1st in Canada

Electrical and electronic engineering: ranked 18th in the world and 1st in Canada

Environmental Science and Engineering: ranked 12th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Transportation Engineering: ranked 28th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Water Resources Engineering: ranked 34th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Remote sensing technology: ranked 40th in the world and 2nd in Canada

social sciences:

Tourism, leisure and management: ranked 21st in the world and 1st in Canada

2. University of Alberta

Engineering:

Environmental Science and Engineering: ranked 11th in the world and 1st in Canada

Instrument Science: ranked 48th in the world and 1st in Canada

Mining engineering: ranked 31st in the world and 3rd in Canada

Life Sciences:

Biology: ranking 30th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Nursing: ranked 49th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Agronomy: ranked 42nd in the world and 3rd in Canada

social sciences:

Business Administration: ranking 30th in the world and 1st in Canada

The University of Alberta is not only the first in Canada in terms of Instrument Science, but also the only university in Canada to enter the top 50.

3. University of Montreal

Engineering:

Computer science and Engineering: ranking 33rd in the world and 2nd in Canada

Transportation Engineering: ranking 30th in the world and 3rd in Canada

Life Sciences:

Veterinary medicine: ranked 48th in the world and 2nd in Canada

social sciences:

Library and Information Science: ranked 18th in the world and 1st in Canada

Management: ranked 15th in the world and 2nd in Canada

4. Guelph University

Engineering:

Food science and Engineering: ranked 39th in the world and 1st in Canada

Life Sciences:

Veterinary medicine: ranked 17th in the world and 1st in Canada

Agronomy: ranking 30th in the world and 2nd in Canada

5. A professional university on the top 50 list

University of Western Ontario - Engineering:

Civil Engineering: ranked 18th in the world and 1st in Canada

University of Saskatchewan - Engineering:

Water Resources Engineering: ranking 23rd in the world and 1st in Canada

Lawrenson University - Engineering:

Mining engineering: ranked 25th in the world and 1st in Canada

Dalhousie University - Science:

Marine Science: ranked 32nd in the world, and Canada ranked 1st

Memorial University of Newfoundland - Engineering:

Ship and ocean engineering: ranked 38th in the world and 1st in Canada

Simon Fraser University - Social Sciences:

Law: ranked 36th in the world and 2nd in Canada

McMaster University - medicine:

Clinical medicine: ranked 47th in the world and 2nd in Canada

Carlton University - Engineering:

Communication Engineering: ranked 44th in the world and 3rd in Canada

Laval University - Science:

Marine Science: ranked 47th in the world and 3rd in Canada

University of Calgary - Life Sciences:

Veterinary medicine: ranked 50th in the world and 3rd in Canada

University of Ottawa - Life Sciences:

Public health: ranked 39th in the world and 4th in Canada