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ENSAE Paris

In research, ENSAE Paris stands highest in Social Sciences (#5,334 of 9,585 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Economics, Econometrics and Finance is 9.3× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#12,054
of 22,385 · #7,329 all time
Rank in France
#276
of 517
Research works
877
▼ 14% vs 2018-21
Citations
16k
18.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.99×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
51%
world 40%
International
33%
world 18%
ENSAE Paris

What is ENSAE Paris known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #5,334 of 9,585 11.6%91 #2876

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where ENSAE Paris sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does ENSAE Paris work in?

In 2022-now, 59% of research at ENSAE Paris is in Social Sciences, 32% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (24%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (20%), Computer Science (11%). It does 2.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 92 fractional works · 59.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 37 fractional works · 23.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 19 fractional works · 12.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 fractional works · 2.7% of its workUrban Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 31 fractional works · 19.9% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 14 fractional works · 8.7% of its workFinance: 13 fractional works · 8.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 2.8% of its workArts and Humanities: 11 fractional works · 6.9% of its workPhilosophy: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHistory: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 6 fractional works · 4.1% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 6 fractional works · 3.6% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 5 fractional works · 2.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workMarketing: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 1.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 50 fractional works · 32.0% of its workComputer Science: 17 fractional works · 10.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 7 fractional works · 4.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 5 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSignal Processing: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMathematics: 15 fractional works · 9.6% of its workStatistics and Probability: 11 fractional works · 6.9% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMathematical Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNumerical Analysis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 8 fractional works · 5.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAerospace Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArchitecture: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 3.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 9 fractional works · 5.7% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 3.6% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth Professions: 3 fractional works · 2.0% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKENSAE Paris156fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences32%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences59%

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 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences3723.7%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3119.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities116.9%
    4. Decision Sciences64.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting52.9%
    6. Psychology31.8%
    1. Computer Science1710.9%
    2. Mathematics159.6%
    3. Engineering85.3%
    4. Environmental Science53.3%
    5. Physics and Astronomy31.6%
    6. Energy10.7%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.3%
    8. Materials Science00.2%
    9. Chemistry00.1%
    1. Medicine63.6%
    2. Health Professions32.0%
    3. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences32.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.6%
    3. Neuroscience00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does ENSAE Paris specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Economics, Econometrics and Finance takes 9.3× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 31.0 works9.3×
← 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.46× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.12× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceChemistry: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.40× its world share, 17 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.78× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.35× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.67× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 8.16× its world share, 15 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.73× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.77× its world share, 3 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.19× its world share, 6 worksMedicineVeterinary: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 2.40× its world share, 11 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.91× its world share, 5 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.19× its world share, 6 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 9.29× its world share, 31 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.58× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.87× its world share, 37 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 9.3×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance9.29×31 works
  2. Mathematics8.16×15 works
  3. Decision Sciences4.19×6 works
  4. Arts and Humanities2.40×11 works
  5. Social Sciences1.87×37 works
  6. Computer Science1.40×17 works
  7. Business, Management and Accounting0.91×5 works
  8. Energy0.78×1 works
  9. Health Professions0.77×3 works
  10. Physics and Astronomy0.73×2 works
  11. Environmental Science0.67×5 works
  12. Psychology0.58×3 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.46×3 works
  14. Engineering0.35×8 works
  15. Veterinary0.20×0 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.19×0 works
  17. Medicine0.19×6 works
  18. Neuroscience0.14×0 works
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.12×1 works
  20. Chemistry0.06×0 works
  21. Materials Science0.05×0 works

Who are the top researchers at ENSAE Paris?

Ranked on the quality score, Nicolas Chopin, Julie Poirier and Sorana Toma lead among researchers whose main affiliation is ENSAE Paris.

  1. 1 Nicolas Chopin France · #845,273 worldwide 8.5k citations · 163 works
  2. 2 Julie Poirier France · #952,193 worldwide 1.6k citations · 17 works
  3. 3 Sorana Toma France · #1,005,777 worldwide 439 citations · 57 works
  4. 4 Peter Tankov France · #1,398,737 worldwide 5.8k citations · 206 works
  5. 5 G. Michon France · #1,409,158 worldwide 864 citations · 27 works
  6. 6 Jean‐David Fermanian France · #1,577,744 worldwide 3.1k citations · 142 works
  7. 7 Jérémy L’Hour France · #1,872,336 worldwide 244 citations · 28 works
  8. 8 Caroline Hillairet France · #1,879,875 worldwide 488 citations · 99 works
  9. 9 Christian Y. Robert France · #2,082,749 worldwide 1k citations · 111 works
  10. 10 Scuola normale superiore France · #2,254,446 worldwide 613 citations · 33 works
All ranked researchers at ENSAE Paris

What are the most cited papers from ENSAE Paris?

The most cited paper from ENSAE Paris is "Approximate Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian models by using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations" (Håvard Rue, Sara Martino, Nicolas Chopin, 2009), with 5,508 citations. Next come "Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimators with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects" (5,009) and "Research, Innovation And Productivi[Ty: An Econometric Analysis At The Firm Level" (1,468).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Approximate Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian models by using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations Håvard Rue, Sara Martino, Nicolas Chopin · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) Apr 2009 5,508
2 Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimators with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Clément de Chaisemartin, Xavier D’Haultfœuille · American Economic Review Open access Sep 2020 5,009
3 Research, Innovation And Productivi[Ty: An Econometric Analysis At The Firm Level Bruno Crépon, Emmanuel Duguet, Jacques Mairessec · Economics of Innovation and New Technology 1998 1,468
4 Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Methods: Theory Christian Gouriéroux, Alain Monfort, Alain Trognon · Econometrica Open access May 1984 1,436
5 An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence From French Firms Jonathan Eaton, Samuel S. Kortum, Françis Kramarz · Econometrica 2011 1,174
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at ENSAE Paris?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Social Justice, Community Engagement, Local Development, Territorial Governance, Public Policy, Citizen Participation, Environmental Participation and Economic Growth.

▲ 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 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Sustainable Development10▲ 4.1×9 topics
  2. Community Engagement9▲ 18×4 topics
  3. Social Justice9▲ 10×6 topics
  4. Local Development9▲ 57×2 topics
  5. Territorial Governance9▲ 51×2 topics
  6. Public Policy9▲ 12×4 topics
  7. Economic Growth8▲ 6.5×13 topics
  8. Citizen Participation8▲ 45×1 topic
  9. Environmental Participation8▲ 73×1 topic
  10. Monetary Policy7▲ 18×6 topics
  11. Risk Management6▲ 8.4×8 topics
  12. Model Selection6▲ 44×4 topics
  13. Social Media5▲ 2.4×11 topics
  14. Convex Optimization5▲ 36×5 topics
  15. Fiscal Policy5▲ 15×5 topics
  16. Cultural Heritage5▲ 5.6×6 topics
  17. Bayesian Methods4▲ 56×2 topics
  18. High-Dimensional Data4▲ 18×3 topics
  19. Lasso4▲ 91×1 topic
  20. Regularization4▲ 91×1 topic
  21. Survival Analysis4▲ 9.8×2 topics
  22. Variable Selection4▲ 29×2 topics
  23. Digital Communication4▲ 36×1 topic
  24. Information Studies4▲ 126×1 topic
  25. Open Access4▲ 24×2 topics
  26. Gender Studies4▲ 15×3 topics
  27. Multivariate Analysis4▲ 27×2 topics
  28. Panel Data Analysis4▲ 15×3 topics
  29. Structural Change4▲ 36×2 topics
  30. Financial Development4▲ 15×2 topics
  31. GARCH Models4▲ 101×1 topic
  32. Volatility4▲ 101×1 topic
  33. Business Cycles3▲ 54×1 topic
  34. Interest Rates3▲ 54×1 topic
  35. Monte Carlo Simulation3▲ 9.7×2 topics
  36. Asset Pricing3▲ 22×2 topics
  37. Liquidity3▲ 25×3 topics
  38. Option Pricing3▲ 80×1 topic
  39. Stochastic Calculus3▲ 80×1 topic
  40. Financial Stability2▲ 8.3×2 topics

Which research topics does ENSAE Paris publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: French Urban and Social Studies, Statistical Methods and Inference, Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts and Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling.

French Urban and Social …8French Urban and Social Studies: 8 fractional worksStatistical Methods and Inference: 4 fractional worksCultural Insights and Di…4Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts: 4 fractional worksFinancial Risk and Volat…4Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling: 4 fractional worksMonetary Policy and Economic Impact: 3 fractional worksStochastic processes and financial applications: 3 fractional worksSparse and Compressive S…2Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques: 2 fractional worksLinguistics and Discourse Analysis: 2 fractional worksGlobal Financial Crisis and Policies: 2 fractional worksDiverse Cultural and Historical Studies: 2 fractional works
Sociology and Political ScienceStatistics and ProbabilityComputer Networks and CommunicationsFinance4 others

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

  1. 1 French Urban and Social Studies Sociology and Political Science 8 works
  2. 2 Statistical Methods and Inference Statistics and Probability 4 works
  3. 3 Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts Computer Networks and Communications 4 works
  4. 4 Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling Finance 4 works
  5. 5 Monetary Policy and Economic Impact General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 works
  6. 6 Stochastic processes and financial applications Finance 3 works
  7. 7 Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques Computational Mechanics 2 works
  8. 8 Linguistics and Discourse Analysis Philosophy 2 works
  9. 9 Global Financial Crisis and Policies Finance 2 works
  10. 10 Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies Cultural Studies 2 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 available50.6%not open49.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors32.8%domestic only67.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has ENSAE Paris's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

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 ENSAE Paris as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00057% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%ENSAE Paris0.00046% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of ENSAE Paris over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%ENSAE Paris10.8% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 19.0% in 2005.

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