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In research, HEC Montréal stands highest in Social Sciences (#621 of 9,585 worldwide), Business, Management and Accounting (#202 of 2,581 worldwide) and Physical Sciences (#1,920 of 10,670 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Urban Studies and Finance (Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management is 13.0× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#1,569
of 22,385 · #1,552 all time
Rank in Canada
#43
of 305
Research works
5.5k
◆ 1% vs 2018-21
Citations
183k
33.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.5%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.23×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
35%
world 40%
International
34%
world 18%
HEC Montréal

What is HEC Montréal 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 #621 of 9,585 17.2%727 #604
Business, Management and AccountingField #202 of 2,581 18.0%271 #197
Physical SciencesDomain #1,920 of 10,670 16.3%193 #1979
Social SciencesField #1,277 of 5,988 18.2%227 #1001
Strategy and ManagementSubfield #179 of 668 19.4%76 #231
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementSubfield #75 of 253 14.2%65 #113
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #608 of 1,798 12.6%124 #476
Sociology and Political ScienceSubfield #866 of 2,526 16.1%98 #746
EngineeringField #2,236 of 5,901 19.6%89 #1475
Economics and EconometricsSubfield #644 of 1,307 12.5%75 #495

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where HEC Montréal 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 of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#604 #621
  2. Business, Management and Accounting#197 #202
  3. Physical Sciences#1,979 #1,920
  4. Social Sciences#1,001 #1,277
  5. Strategy and Management#231 #179
  6. Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management#113 #75
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance#476 #608
  8. Sociology and Political Science#746 #866
  9. Engineering#1,475 #2,236
  10. Economics and Econometrics#495 #644
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does HEC Montréal work in?

In 2022-now, 71% of research at HEC Montréal is in Social Sciences, 20% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Business, Management and Accounting (26%), Social Sciences (23%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (12%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 796 fractional works · 70.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 293 fractional works · 26.0% of its workStrategy and Management: 82 fractional works · 7.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 70 fractional works · 6.2% of its workAccounting: 37 fractional works · 3.2% of its workManagement Information Systems: 36 fractional works · 3.2% of its workMarketing: 30 fractional works · 2.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 29 fractional works · 2.6% of its workBusiness and International Management: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 255 fractional works · 22.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 109 fractional works · 9.7% of its workUrban Studies: 39 fractional works · 3.5% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 15 fractional works · 1.3% of its workDemography: 14 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEducation: 13 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCommunication: 13 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGender Studies: 12 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSafety Research: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workTransportation: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAnthropology: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPublic Administration: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopment: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCultural Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 131 fractional works · 11.6% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 80 fractional works · 7.1% of its workFinance: 39 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPsychology: 60 fractional works · 5.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 32 fractional works · 2.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workClinical Psychology: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workApplied Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 49 fractional works · 4.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 33 fractional works · 3.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 13 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPhysical Sciences: 225 fractional works · 20.0% of its workEngineering: 102 fractional works · 9.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 35 fractional works · 3.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 17 fractional works · 1.5% of its workBuilding and Construction: 13 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 10 fractional works · 0.9% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMedia Technology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputer Science: 67 fractional works · 6.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 28 fractional works · 2.5% of its workInformation Systems: 13 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science Applications: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 25 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 9 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematics: 13 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 7 fractional works · 0.6% of its workModeling and Simulation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 12 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Energy: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 77 fractional works · 6.8% of its workHealth Professions: 46 fractional works · 4.1% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 34 fractional works · 3.1% of its workRadiological and Ultrasound Technology: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedicine: 28 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 5 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 4 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSurgery: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNursing: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workVeterinary: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workLife Sciences: 28 fractional works · 2.5% of its workNeuroscience: 12 fractional works · 1.1% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 11 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 fractional works · 0.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKHEC Montréal1,126fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences71%

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 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Business, Management and Accounting29326.0%
    2. Social Sciences25522.6%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance13111.6%
    4. Psychology605.3%
    5. Decision Sciences494.4%
    6. Arts and Humanities90.8%
    1. Engineering1029.0%
    2. Computer Science676.0%
    3. Environmental Science252.2%
    4. Mathematics131.1%
    5. Energy121.0%
    6. Physics and Astronomy30.3%
    7. Materials Science20.2%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.1%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.0%
    10. Chemistry00.0%
    1. Health Professions464.1%
    2. Medicine282.5%
    3. Nursing20.2%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Neuroscience121.1%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences110.9%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology40.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    5. Immunology and Microbiology00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does HEC Montréal specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management takes 13.0× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Organizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementSubfield · 69.9 works13×
  2. Urban StudiesSubfield · 39.4 works13×
  3. FinanceSubfield · 39.3 works12×
  4. Management of Technology and InnovationSubfield · 29.1 works8.5×
  5. Strategy and ManagementSubfield · 82.1 works8.4×
← 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: 0.20× its world share, 10 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.07× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.68× its world share, 12 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.77× its world share, 67 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.12× its world share, 12 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.60× its world share, 102 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.44× its world share, 25 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.05× its world share, 2 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.95× its world share, 13 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.13× its world share, 3 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.55× its world share, 46 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.13× its world share, 28 worksMedicineNursing: 0.39× its world share, 2 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.22× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.26× its world share, 8 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 8.07× its world share, 293 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 4.54× its world share, 50 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 5.42× its world share, 131 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.75× its world share, 60 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.79× its world share, 255 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Business, Management and Accounting, 8.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Business, Management and Accounting8.07×293 works
  2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5.42×131 works
  3. Decision Sciences4.54×50 works
  4. Social Sciences1.79×255 works
  5. Psychology1.75×60 works
  6. Health Professions1.55×46 works
  7. Energy1.12×12 works
  8. Mathematics0.95×13 works
  9. Computer Science0.77×67 works
  10. Neuroscience0.68×12 works
  11. Engineering0.60×102 works
  12. Environmental Science0.44×25 works
  13. Nursing0.39×2 works
  14. Arts and Humanities0.26×8 works
  15. Veterinary0.22×0 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.20×10 works
  17. Physics and Astronomy0.13×3 works
  18. Medicine0.13×28 works
  19. Chemical Engineering0.09×0 works
  20. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.08×0 works
  21. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.08×2 works
  22. Dentistry0.08×0 works
  23. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.07×4 works
  24. Materials Science0.05×2 works
  25. Immunology and Microbiology0.03×0 works
  26. Chemistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at HEC Montréal?

Ranked on the quality score, Danny L. Miller, Gilbert Laporte and Jean‐François Cordeau lead among researchers whose main affiliation is HEC Montréal.

  1. 1 Danny L. Miller Canada · #6,704 worldwide 64k citations · 369 works
  2. 2 Gilbert Laporte Canada · #8,708 worldwide 53k citations · 663 works
  3. 3 Jean‐François Cordeau Canada · #14,923 worldwide 18k citations · 246 works
  4. 4 Ann Langley Canada · #19,145 worldwide 28k citations · 315 works
  5. 5 Isabelle Le Breton‐Miller Canada · #19,878 worldwide 14k citations · 98 works
  6. 6 Guy Paré Canada · #79,766 worldwide 16k citations · 281 works
  7. 7 David Doloreux Canada · #89,280 worldwide 6.2k citations · 172 works
  8. 8 Laurent Charlin Canada · #121,423 worldwide 4.5k citations · 61 works
  9. 9 Jacques Desrosiers Canada · #128,044 worldwide 13k citations · 204 works
  10. 10 Christian Vandenberghe Canada · #141,615 worldwide 15k citations · 267 works
All ranked researchers at HEC Montréal

What are the most cited papers from HEC Montréal?

The most cited paper from HEC Montréal is "Understanding digital transformation: A review and a research agenda" (Grégory Vial, 2019), with 6,975 citations. Next come "Innovation in conservative and entrepreneurial firms: Two models of strategic momentum" (2,752) and "Process Studies of Change in Organization and Management: Unveiling Temporality, Activity, and Flow" (2,275).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Understanding digital transformation: A review and a research agenda Grégory Vial · The Journal of Strategic Information Systems Open access 10 Feb 2019 6,975
2 Innovation in conservative and entrepreneurial firms: Two models of strategic momentum Danny L. Miller, Peter H. Friesen · Strategic Management Journal 1982 2,752
3 Process Studies of Change in Organization and Management: Unveiling Temporality, Activity, and Flow Ann Langley, Clive Smallman, Haridimos Tsoukas et al. · Academy of Management Journal Feb 2013 2,275
4 Strategy‐making and environment: The third link Danny L. Miller, Peter H. Friesen · Strategic Management Journal Jul 1983 1,993
5 Distributionally Robust Optimization Under Moment Uncertainty with Application to Data-Driven Problems Erick Delage, Yinyu Ye · Operations Research 28 Jan 2010 1,977
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at HEC Montréal?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Social Capital, Community Engagement, Risk Management, Territorial Governance, Local Development, Corporate Governance, Institutional Theory and Sustainability.

▲ 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. Sustainability64▲ 2.3×50 topics
  2. Social Capital64▲ 11×13 topics
  3. Innovation48▲ 4.1×34 topics
  4. Community Engagement48▲ 13×8 topics
  5. Corporate Governance46▲ 5.5×17 topics
  6. Risk Management45▲ 8.4×13 topics
  7. Supply Chain Management44▲ 4.4×18 topics
  8. Economic Development44▲ 4.9×21 topics
  9. Territorial Governance41▲ 32×3 topics
  10. Local Development41▲ 35×2 topics
  11. Institutional Theory37▲ 32×3 topics
  12. Economic Growth37▲ 4.0×20 topics
  13. Social Media36▲ 2.4×21 topics
  14. Organizational Change33▲ 37×6 topics
  15. Leadership33▲ 6.0×20 topics
  16. Entrepreneurship32▲ 7.3×11 topics
  17. Market Dynamics31▲ 35×3 topics
  18. Cooperatives31▲ 37×3 topics
  19. Social Innovation30▲ 18×3 topics
  20. Citizenship30▲ 22×4 topics
  21. Solidarity Economy30▲ 48×2 topics
  22. Social Movements30▲ 9.1×4 topics
  23. Institutionalization30▲ 29×3 topics
  24. Consumer Behavior30▲ 4.2×11 topics
  25. Participative Evaluation29▲ 80×1 topic
  26. Organizational Identity29▲ 71×2 topics
  27. Professionalism28▲ 15×3 topics
  28. Institutional Entrepreneurship28▲ 91×1 topic
  29. Sensemaking28▲ 91×1 topic
  30. Strategic Alliances27▲ 37×3 topics
  31. Job Satisfaction26▲ 5.2×10 topics
  32. Human Resource Management22▲ 13×6 topics
  33. Knowledge Sharing22▲ 12×7 topics
  34. Organizational Learning22▲ 30×4 topics
  35. Work Engagement21▲ 20×2 topics
  36. Firm Performance21▲ 10×4 topics
  37. Organizational Behavior20▲ 12×3 topics
  38. Mediation Analysis19▲ 21×2 topics
  39. Psychological Capital19▲ 12×3 topics
  40. Business Models18▲ 23×3 topics

Which research topics does HEC Montréal publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Social Sciences and Governance, Management and Organizational Studies, Innovation and Knowledge Management and Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior.

Social Sciences and Governance: 29 fractional worksManagement and Organizational Studies: 28 fractional worksInnovation and Knowledge…18Innovation and Knowledge Management: 18 fractional worksJob Satisfaction and Org…18Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior: 18 fractional worksVehicle Routing Optimization Methods: 14 fractional worksEntrepreneurship Studies and Influences: 14 fractional worksFrench Urban and Social …12French Urban and Social Studies: 12 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Governance: 11 fractional worksFinancial Markets and Investment Strategies: 10 fractional worksDigital Economy and Work Transformation: 10 fractional works
Urban StudiesOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementStrategy and ManagementIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering4 others

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

  1. 1 Social Sciences and Governance Urban Studies 29 works
  2. 2 Management and Organizational Studies Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 28 works
  3. 3 Innovation and Knowledge Management Strategy and Management 18 works
  4. 4 Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 18 works
  5. 5 Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 14 works
  6. 6 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences Management of Technology and Innovation 14 works
  7. 7 French Urban and Social Studies Sociology and Political Science 12 works
  8. 8 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 11 works
  9. 9 Financial Markets and Investment Strategies Finance 10 works
  10. 10 Digital Economy and Work Transformation Sociology and Political Science 10 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 available35.2%not open64.8%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors34.4%domestic only65.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has HEC Montréal's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% 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 HEC Montréal as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0043% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%HEC Montréal0.0037% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of HEC Montréal 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%30%HEC Montréal18.9% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 26.6% in 1997.

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