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Ansys (Canada)

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Research works
75
▲ 347% vs 2018-21
Citations
828
11.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
12%
world 40%
International
53%
world 18%
Ansys (Canada)

Not ranked overall: Ansys (Canada) is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Ansys (Canada) work in?

In 2022-now, 93% of research at Ansys (Canada) is in Physical Sciences, 4% in Life Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (62%), Materials Science (9%), Physics and Astronomy (8%). It does 2.2× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 36 fractional works · 93.0% of its workEngineering: 24 fractional works · 62.0% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 8 fractional works · 20.9% of its workAerospace Engineering: 6 fractional works · 14.4% of its workComputational Mechanics: 3 fractional works · 8.1% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 7.0% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 4.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 1 fractional works · 2.0% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 4 fractional works · 9.2% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 8.5% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 5.9% of its workInstrumentation: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 3 fractional works · 7.4% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workApplied Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workNumerical Analysis: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 0 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workImmunology: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCell Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMedicine: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOphthalmology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKAnsys (Canada)39fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences93%Health Sciences2%Social Sciences1%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering2462.0%
    2. Materials Science49.2%
    3. Physics and Astronomy38.5%
    4. Computer Science37.4%
    5. Mathematics12.9%
    6. Environmental Science12.4%
    7. Chemistry00.3%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    1. Immunology and Microbiology12.1%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.6%
    1. Medicine11.8%
    1. Social Sciences00.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities00.4%
    3. Decision Sciences00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Ansys (Canada) specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Engineering takes 4.1× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. EngineeringField · 24.2 works4.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 2.12× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Chemical Engineering: 0.61× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.95× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 4.13× its world share, 24 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 2.64× its world share, 4 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 2.48× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 3.82× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyMedicine: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 0.18× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesSocial Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 14 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering4.13×24 works
  2. Physics and Astronomy3.82×3 works
  3. Materials Science2.64×4 works
  4. Mathematics2.48×1 works
  5. Immunology and Microbiology2.12×1 works
  6. Computer Science0.95×3 works
  7. Chemical Engineering0.61×0 works
  8. Environmental Science0.49×1 works
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.30×1 works
  10. Chemistry0.18×0 works
  11. Decision Sciences0.18×0 works
  12. Arts and Humanities0.15×0 works
  13. Medicine0.10×1 works
  14. Social Sciences0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Ansys (Canada)?

Ranked on the quality score, Brad Hutchinson, Paul F. Galpin and Philippe G. Godin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Ansys (Canada).

  1. 1 Brad Hutchinson Canada · #1,737,625 worldwide 848 citations · 18 works
  2. 2 Paul F. Galpin Canada · #1,980,844 worldwide 616 citations · 30 works
  3. 3 Philippe G. Godin Canada · #2,230,586 worldwide 245 citations · 18 works
  4. 4 Thabet Belamri Canada · #2,463,018 worldwide 384 citations · 17 works
  5. 5 Laila Salman Canada · #3,517,270 worldwide 163 citations · 18 works
  6. 6 Božidar Novaković Canada · #4,104,876 worldwide 118 citations · 24 works
  7. 7 Dylan McGuire Canada · #5,670,356 worldwide 113 citations · 28 works
All ranked researchers at Ansys (Canada)

What are the most cited papers from Ansys (Canada)?

The most cited paper from Ansys (Canada) is "Metal–organic frameworks meet scalable and sustainable synthesis" (Patrick Julien, Cristina Mottillo, Tomislav Friščić, 2017), with 527 citations. Next come "The inhomogeneous MUSIG model for the simulation of polydispersed flows" (279) and "Validation of CFD models for mono- and polydisperse air–water two-phase flows in pipes" (237).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Metal–organic frameworks meet scalable and sustainable synthesis Patrick Julien, Cristina Mottillo, Tomislav Friščić · Green Chemistry 2017 527
2 The inhomogeneous MUSIG model for the simulation of polydispersed flows Eckhard Krepper, Dirk Lucas, Thomas D. Frank et al. · Nuclear Engineering and Design 11 Mar 2008 279
3 Validation of CFD models for mono- and polydisperse air–water two-phase flows in pipes Th. Frank, Philip J. Zwart, Eckhard Krepper et al. · Nuclear Engineering and Design 6 Jun 2007 237
4 Impact of negative bias temperature instability on digital circuit reliability Vijay Reddy, Anand Krishnan, Andrew R J Marshall et al. · Microelectronics Reliability 23 Jul 2004 120
5 ANSYS Workbench System Coupling: a state-of-the-art computational framework for analyzing multiphysics problems Satish Kumar Chimakurthi, Steve Reuss, Mike Tooley et al. · Engineering With Computers 21 Nov 2017 100
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Ansys (Canada)?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Photonic Crystals, Heat Transfer, Large-Eddy Simulation, Semiconductor Lasers, Biosensors, Optical Modulators, Integrated Circuits and Microcavities.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 30 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 30 words, with their numbers
  1. Photonic Crystals3▲ 65×3 topics
  2. Heat Transfer2▲ 13×8 topics
  3. Large-Eddy Simulation2▲ 32×5 topics
  4. Semiconductor Lasers2▲ 83×2 topics
  5. Biosensors2▲ 11×2 topics
  6. Integrated Circuits2▲ 35×2 topics
  7. Optical Modulators2▲ 37×2 topics
  8. Microcavities2▲ 47×1 topic
  9. Silicon Photonics2▲ 49×1 topic
  10. Nanofabrication2▲ 69×2 topics
  11. Machine Learning2▲ 1.16×3 topics
  12. Nonlinear Dynamics2▲ 18×3 topics
  13. Spectroscopy2▲ 23×2 topics
  14. Antireflective Coatings1▲ 256×1 topic
  15. Nanostructures1▲ 8.8×1 topic
  16. Adaptive Mesh Refinement1▲ 53×2 topics
  17. Boundary Layer1▲ 26×2 topics
  18. Colloidal Crystals1▲ 75×2 topics
  19. Compound Eyes1▲ 396×1 topic
  20. Freeform Optics1▲ 396×1 topic
  21. High-Order Schemes1▲ 53×2 topics
  22. Neuromorphic Photonics1▲ 98×1 topic
  23. Photonic Reservoir Computing1▲ 98×1 topic
  24. Separation Control1▲ 115×2 topics
  25. Aerodynamics1▲ 40×3 topics
  26. Shock-Wave Interactions1▲ 73×1 topic
  27. Thermal Management1▲ 8.7×3 topics
  28. Turbulence Modeling1▲ 73×1 topic
  29. Coherent Detection1▲ 63×1 topic
  30. Optical Fiber1▲ 25×1 topic

Which research topics does Ansys (Canada) publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Photonic and Optical Devices, Optical Coatings and Gratings, Advanced optical system design and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing.

Photonic and Optical Dev…2Photonic and Optical Devices: 2 fractional worksOptical Coatings and Gra…1Optical Coatings and Gratings: 1 fractional worksAdvanced optical system …1Advanced optical system design: 1 fractional worksNeural Networks and Rese…1Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing: 1 fractional worksComputational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics: 1 fractional worksOptical Network Technologies: 1 fractional worksSemiconductor Lasers and…1Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices: 1 fractional worksPhotonic Crystals and Applications: 1 fractional worksGas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory: 1 fractional worksMetamaterials and Metasu…1Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications: 1 fractional works
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSurfaces, Coatings and FilmsBiomedical EngineeringArtificial Intelligence4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2 works
  2. 2 Optical Coatings and Gratings Surfaces, Coatings and Films 1 works
  3. 3 Advanced optical system design Biomedical Engineering 1 works
  4. 4 Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  5. 5 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics Computational Mechanics 1 works
  6. 6 Optical Network Technologies Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1 works
  7. 7 Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1 works
  8. 8 Photonic Crystals and Applications Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1 works
  9. 9 Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory Applied Mathematics 1 works
  10. 10 Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available11.5%not open88.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors53.3%domestic only46.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Ansys (Canada)'s research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 347% higher than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Ansys (Canada) as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00028% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Ansys (Canada)0.00014% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Ansys (Canada) over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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