Where Canada First Research Excellence Fund Funded Research Is Published: Top 11 Journals

In shortCanada First Research Excellence Fund (Canada) is named as a funder in the recent research articles of 11 journals we checked, most often in Digital Discovery (6 of 200 recent articles). The journals below publish its funded work most often; open a journal for its indexing, review time, reviewer comments and fee waivers.

Journals that publish Canada First Research Excellence Fund funded research most often

#	Journal	Articles naming it	Indexing	Impact factor*	Median review time
1	Digital Discovery	6 of 200	ESCI	5.80	n/a
2	FACETS	5 of 200	SCIE	2.43	n/a
3	Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences	3 of 148	SCIE	1.69	n/a
4	Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics	2 of 200	ESCI	2.04	106 days
5	Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures	1 of 61	ESCI	2.95	n/a
6	Canadian Public Administration	1 of 102	SSCI	1.43	112 days
7	Critical Studies in Education	1 of 92	SSCI	3.41	316 days
8	Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience	1 of 62	SCIE	3.49	n/a
9	Global Networks	1 of 93	SSCI	2.08	206 days
10	Human Geography	1 of 138	Scopus	2.00	n/a
11	Sociological Theory	1 of 44	SSCI	3.34	n/a

"Articles naming" counts the research articles (of up to 200 from the last 24 months) whose funder list names Canada First Research Excellence Fund. *Impact factor calculated from OpenAlex open data, not the official Clarivate value. Review time: median days from submission to acceptance, from the dates publishers deposit in Crossref.

Funders named alongside Canada First Research Excellence Fund

Other funders that appear in the same journals. Their pages show where their funded research is published.

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada National Science Foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft European Research Council National Natural Science Foundation of China Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Canadian Institutes of Health Research Mitacs Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council U.S. Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences Canada Research Chairs Fisheries and Oceans Canada Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India U.S. Geological Survey

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Frequently asked questions

Which journals publish the most Canada First Research Excellence Fund funded research?

In the recent research articles we checked, the journals that name Canada First Research Excellence Fund as a funder most often are Digital Discovery, FACETS, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures. In all, 11 journals name it.

Does publishing in these journals help my Canada First Research Excellence Fund grant?

These journals already publish work supported by Canada First Research Excellence Fund, so editors and reviewers know this kind of research. Whether a journal suits your paper still depends on its scope, indexing and review time, shown for each journal in the table.

Does Canada First Research Excellence Fund pay the article processing charge (APC)?

Many funders pay or reimburse open access fees under their open access policy, but the rules differ by funder and by grant. Check Canada First Research Excellence Fund's open access policy and your grant terms; for country-based waivers, use the free APC waiver checker.

Where does this data come from?

From the funder information publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. For each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name. Not every publisher deposits funders, so a journal can be missing.

Source, method and date. Source: the funder information publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. Method: for each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name; spelling variants of a funder are combined. Updated: 29 October 2026. ScholarsColab is not affiliated with Canada First Research Excellence Fund or these journals.