What the papers — written in the city and about it — point to, split by the Prism stance layer: work that reads promising versus work that flags problems or urges caution.
Opportunities the research points to
Children's Health · 225Machine Learning · 218Healthcare · 196Women's Health · 188Mental Health · 179Neuroscience · 150COVID-19 · 116Breast Cancer · 92Artificial Intelligence · 87Robotics · 85Men's Health · 82Climate Change · 80
Concerns the research raises
Healthcare · 380COVID-19 · 288Women's Health · 260Children's Health · 252Mental Health · 248Research · 159Education · 111Climate Change · 101Artificial Intelligence · 94Public Health · 90Patient Care · 74COVID-19 Pandemic · 74
counts = papers carrying the theme · concerns merge cautionary, critical and problem-identifying work
Institutions
University of Toronto
20.9K
4,001Toronto Metropolitan University
3,622York University
3,366University Health Network
687Toronto General Hospital
623Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
576Toronto Western Hospital
284Unity Health Toronto
225Toronto Public Health
180St. Luke's University Health Network
Orientation
Promising
7,685
Descriptive
6,845
Problem Identifying
4,843
Breakthrough
4,770
2,088Cautionary
1,408Critical
1,383Comparative
Output by year (sample)
Opportunities (promising + breakthrough)
Children's Health · 225Machine Learning · 218Healthcare · 196Women's Health · 188Mental Health · 179Neuroscience · 150COVID-19 · 116Breast Cancer · 92Artificial Intelligence · 87Robotics · 85Men's Health · 82Climate Change · 80
Cautions (cautionary + critical)
COVID-19 · 88Women's Health · 74Healthcare · 73Mental Health · 69Children's Health · 61Climate Change · 39Research · 38Patients' Health · 37Artificial Intelligence · 35Education · 33Men's Health · 29Women's Rights · 27
Problems flagged
Healthcare · 307COVID-19 · 200Children's Health · 191Women's Health · 186Mental Health · 179Research · 121Public Health · 90Education · 78Patient Care · 74COVID-19 Pandemic · 74Climate Change · 62Artificial Intelligence · 59
Top research topics
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · 305Functional Brain Connectivity Studies · 226Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics · 216Homelessness and Social Issues · 215COVID-19 and Mental Health · 210HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · 205Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life · 203Innovations in Medical Education · 198Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research · 197Health disparities and outcomes · 196Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · 194Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · 185
Most-cited work
Paper
Year
Cited
Orientation
Attention Is All You Need
2025
6510
Breakthrough
The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
2020
5186
Promising
PRISMA-S: an extension to the PRISMA Statement for Reporting Literature Searches in Systematic Reviews
2021
2628
Descriptive
Setting the future of digital and social media marketing research: Perspectives and research propositions
2020
2320
Problem Identifying
Effects of Once-Weekly Exenatide on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes
2017
2089
Descriptive
Nanopore sequencing and assembly of a human genome with ultra-long reads
2018
2067
Breakthrough
Declaración PRISMA 2020: una guía actualizada para la publicación de revisiones sistemáticas
2021
1832
Problem Identifying
Pembrolizumab As Second-Line Therapy in Patients With Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma in KEYNOTE-240: A…
2019
1782
Comparative
The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS): A dynamic, multimodal set of facial…
2018
1709
Descriptive
<i>Planck</i>2018 results
2019
1593
Breakthrough
Recommendations for the extraction, analysis, and presentation of results in scoping reviews
2022
1518
Problem Identifying
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
2018
1459
Problem Identifying
The Pancreatic Cancer Microbiome Promotes Oncogenesis by Induction of Innate and Adaptive Immune Suppression
2018
1318
Breakthrough
Seven strong claims about successful school leadership revisited
2019
1301
Descriptive
Electrochemical CO<sub>2</sub> Reduction into Chemical Feedstocks: From Mechanistic Electrocatalysis Models…
2019
1234
Promising
figures marked ≈ are scaled estimates from a partial sample · Prism stance layer over 2017+ papers