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title: "Canadian Institutes of Health Research"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Canadian Institutes of Health Research was named as a funder of 321 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (217), AI (39) and economics (24). 37 of them were published in 2025, against 26 in 2017."
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# Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Papers in the tracked journals that name Canadian Institutes of Health Research as a funder. Funders are the organisations OpenAlex links to a paper from its funding information (Crossref metadata and the paper's acknowledgements); a paper counts once for each funder it names. Grant numbers are not shown.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), Canadian Institutes of Health Research was named as a funder of 321 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in health economics and policy (217), AI (39) and economics (24).
- 37 of them were published in 2025, against 26 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Toronto (32), University of Ottawa (26) and McGill University (25).
- The journals publishing most of them were Health Research Policy and Systems (38), Health Policy (24) and Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice (6).
- The most-cited of them is “Digital health technologies and inequalities: A scoping review of potential impacts and policy recommendations” (Health Policy, 2024), with 295 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 17 | 28 | 21 | 25 | 17 | 20 | 28 | 21 | 25 | 15 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 2 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 26 | 32 | 30 | 36 | 24 | 34 | 37 | 38 | 37 | 27 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Health Research Policy and Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-research-policy-and-systems.md) | 38 |
| 2 | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 24 |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 6 |
| 4 | [PharmacoEconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pharmacoeconomics.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 6 |
| 6 | [Applied Health Economics and Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-health-economics-and-health-policy.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [The European Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-european-journal-of-health-economics.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 4 |
| 9 | [Health Policy and Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-and-technology.md) | 3 |
| 10 | [Health Policy OPEN](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy-open.md) | 3 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | University of Toronto | 32 |
| 2 | University of Ottawa | 26 |
| 3 | McGill University | 25 |
| 4 | McMaster University | 21 |
| 5 | University of British Columbia | 19 |
| 6 | University of Calgary | 19 |
| 7 | Dalhousie University | 17 |
| 8 | Western University | 16 |
| 9 | University of Manitoba | 13 |
| 10 | Université de Montréal | 13 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Canada | 130 |
| 2 | United States | 15 |
| 3 | Australia | 11 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 9 |
| 5 | India | 4 |
| 6 | China | 3 |
| 7 | Germany | 3 |
| 8 | Chile | 2 |
| 9 | Portugal | 2 |
| 10 | South Africa | 2 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Canada | 15 |
| 2 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 10 |
| 3 | Ontario | 9 |
| 4 | [cost-effectiveness](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/cost-effectiveness.md) | 9 |
| 5 | Montreal | 7 |
| 6 | research collaboration | 7 |
| 7 | British Columbia | 6 |
| 8 | health equity | 6 |
| 9 | integrated knowledge translation | 6 |
| 10 | co-design | 5 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 295 | 10.6 | [Digital health technologies and inequalities: A scoping review of potential impacts and policy recommendations](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2024.105122) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2024-07-02 | Janine Badr, Aude Motulsky, Jean‐Louis Denis |
| 2 | 254 | 4.6 | [The transformational role of GPU computing and deep learning in drug discovery](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-022-00463-x) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-03-23 | Mohit Kumar Pandey, Michael Fernández, Francesco Gentile et al. |
| 3 | 214 | 3.6 | [Information fusion as an integrative cross-cutting enabler to achieve robust, explainable, and trustworthy medical artificial intelligence](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2021.10.007) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2021-11-12 | Andreas Holzinger, Matthias Dehmer, Frank Emmert‐Streib et al. |
| 4 | 188 | 2.1 | [Implications of interprofessional primary care team characteristics for health services and patient health outcomes: A systematic review with narrative synthesis](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.03.015) | [Health Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-policy.md) | 2019-04-01 | Wiesława Dominika Wranik, Sheri Lynn Price, Susan Marie Haydt et al. |
| 5 | 187 | 6.0 | [Generative AI for designing and validating easily synthesizable and structurally novel antibiotics](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00809-7) | [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/nature-machine-intelligence.md) | 2024-03-22 | Kyle Swanson, Gary Liu, Denise B. Catacutan et al. |
| 6 | 139 | 1.9 | [40 years of sensor fusion for orientation tracking via magnetic and inertial measurement units: Methods, lessons learned, and future challenges](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.10.018) | [Information Fusion](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-fusion.md) | 2020-11-02 | Milad Nazarahari, Hossein Rouhani |
| 7 | 113 | 2.4 | [Image denoising in the deep learning era](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10305-2) | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 2022-11-15 | Saeed Izadi, Darren B. Sutton, Ghassan Hamarneh |
| 8 | 110 | 1.0 | [Tracking the emergence of synthetic biology](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2452-5) | [Scientometrics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/scientometrics.md) | 2017-07-01 | Philip Shapira A, Seokbeom Kwon, Jan Youtie |
| 9 | 107 | 1.2 | [A practical computerized decision support system for predicting the severity of Alzheimer's disease of an individual](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.04.022) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 2019-03-12 | Magda Bucholc, Xuemei Ding, Haiying Wang et al. |
| 10 | 107 | 2.0 | [Data Augmentation in High Dimensional Low Sample Size Setting Using a Geometry-Based Variational Autoencoder](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3185773) | [IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-pattern-analysis-and-machine-intelligence.md) | 2022-06-24 | Clément Chadebec, Elina Thibeau–Sutre, Ninon Burgos et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/funders/canadian-institutes-of-health-research

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  title = {Canadian Institutes of Health Research},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/funders/canadian-institutes-of-health-research}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).