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Rotman
Research
Institute
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activities are considered highly concentrated on the neuroscience field. The RRI has maintained
a high specialization index in all the SIR reports analyzed.
The highest Spec. Index in the SIR global report is 0.99 and is usually assigned to research
institutes such as the European Southern Observatory in Poland, Max Planck Institut fur
Astronomie (sub) in Germany, National Institute for Sub-atomic Physics in Netherlands, and the
National Optical Astronomy Observatory in USA.
The lowest Spec. Index reported ranges from 0.30 to 0.50 and these values are mostly
assigned to universities since they tend to have a broader scientific coverage.
Figure 11. RRI specialization indexes
According to the SIR Global 2013 report, covering the 2007-2011 period, there are two
Canadian research institutes with specialization index that are comparable to the RRI's Spec.
Table 9 shows these Canadian institutions, as well as the Canadian institution with the highest
Spec. Index.
Table 9. Canadian Institutions with high specialization index
Institution Spec. Index [2007-2011]
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario
0.98*
TRIUMF - National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics,
Vancouver, British Columbia, 0.96
Rotman Research Institute
0.94
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
0.94
Montreal heart Institute
0.93
*Highest specialization index reported in the SIR Global Canada, 2013
0.96
0.95
0.95
0.94
0.9
0.91
0.92
0.93
0.94
0.95
0.96
0.97
0.98
0.99
1
SIR 2009
[2003-2007]
SIR 2011
[2005-2009]
SIR 2011
[2006-2010]
SIR 2011
[2007-2011]
Spec.
Index
Specialization Index (Spec)
