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HEC Paris

In research, HEC Paris stands highest in Social Sciences (#2,174 of 9,585 worldwide), Business, Management and Accounting (#952 of 2,581 worldwide) and Social Sciences (#2,748 of 5,988 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Finance, Accounting and Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Finance is 19.9× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#7,434
of 22,385 · #3,865 all time
Rank in France
#193
of 517
Research works
2.1k
▼ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
68k
33.2 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
14.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.93×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
30%
world 40%
International
38%
world 18%
HEC Paris

What is HEC 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 #2,174 of 9,585 15.6%246 #1449
Business, Management and AccountingField #952 of 2,581 15.8%76 #497
Social SciencesField #2,748 of 5,988 13.8%78 #2340

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where HEC 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 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#1,449 #2,174
  2. Business, Management and Accounting#497 #952
  3. Social Sciences#2,340 #2,748
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 Paris work in?

In 2022-now, 81% of research at HEC Paris is in Social Sciences, 11% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (27%), Business, Management and Accounting (24%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (17%). It does 3.2× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 274 fractional works · 81.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 90 fractional works · 26.8% of its workSociology and Political Science: 36 fractional works · 10.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 17 fractional works · 5.1% of its workUrban Studies: 8 fractional works · 2.4% of its workSafety Research: 7 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGender Studies: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workLaw: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCultural Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workCommunication: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDevelopment: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLinguistics and Language: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 82 fractional works · 24.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 22 fractional works · 6.4% of its workAccounting: 21 fractional works · 6.3% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 12 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMarketing: 10 fractional works · 2.8% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 9 fractional works · 2.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 8 fractional works · 2.2% of its workBusiness and International Management: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 58 fractional works · 17.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 34 fractional works · 10.2% of its workFinance: 20 fractional works · 6.0% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workDecision Sciences: 23 fractional works · 6.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 13 fractional works · 3.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workGeneral Decision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 1.0% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPsychology: 10 fractional works · 3.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 5 fractional works · 1.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workArts and Humanities: 10 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPhilosophy: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workArcheology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 37 fractional works · 10.9% of its workComputer Science: 18 fractional works · 5.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 6 fractional works · 1.8% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEngineering: 8 fractional works · 2.3% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBuilding and Construction: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 2 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 15 fractional works · 4.5% of its workMedicine: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 1.2% of its workHealth Professions: 7 fractional works · 2.2% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 6 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEmergency Medical Services: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 11 fractional works · 3.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 fractional works · 1.4% of its workFood Science: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnimal Science and Zoology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeuroscience: 4 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKHEC Paris336fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences11%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences81%

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 24 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences9026.8%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting8224.2%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance5817.3%
    4. Decision Sciences236.9%
    5. Psychology103.1%
    6. Arts and Humanities103.0%
    1. Computer Science185.5%
    2. Engineering82.3%
    3. Environmental Science51.4%
    4. Physics and Astronomy20.7%
    5. Energy20.6%
    6. Mathematics10.4%
    7. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    8. Chemistry00.0%
    9. Materials Science00.0%
    1. Medicine72.2%
    2. Health Professions72.2%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences51.4%
    2. Neuroscience41.0%
    3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology20.5%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology10.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does HEC Paris specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Finance takes 19.9× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. FinanceSubfield · 20.3 works20×
  2. AccountingSubfield · 21.2 works10×
  3. Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField · 58.2 works8.1×
← 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.30× its world share, 5 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.09× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.17× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.65× its world share, 4 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.71× its world share, 18 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.69× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.15× its world share, 8 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.28× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.33× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.30× its world share, 2 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.82× its world share, 7 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 7 worksMedicineNursing: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.06× its world share, 10 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 7.52× its world share, 82 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 7.14× its world share, 23 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 8.08× its world share, 58 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.02× its world share, 10 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.12× its world share, 90 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 8.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 24 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance8.08×58 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting7.52×82 works
  3. Decision Sciences7.14×23 works
  4. Social Sciences2.12×90 works
  5. Arts and Humanities1.06×10 works
  6. Psychology1.02×10 works
  7. Health Professions0.82×7 works
  8. Computer Science0.71×18 works
  9. Energy0.69×2 works
  10. Neuroscience0.65×4 works
  11. Mathematics0.33×1 works
  12. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.30×5 works
  13. Physics and Astronomy0.30×2 works
  14. Environmental Science0.28×5 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.23×0 works
  16. Nursing0.21×0 works
  17. Immunology and Microbiology0.17×1 works
  18. Engineering0.15×8 works
  19. Medicine0.11×7 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.09×2 works
  21. Dentistry0.04×0 works
  22. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.02×0 works
  23. Chemistry0.01×0 works
  24. Materials Science0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at HEC Paris?

Ranked on the quality score, Eric Luis Uhlmann, Rodolphe Durand and Augustin Landier lead among researchers whose main affiliation is HEC Paris.

  1. 1 Eric Luis Uhlmann France · #64,542 worldwide 11k citations · 172 works
  2. 2 Rodolphe Durand France · #71,085 worldwide 8k citations · 249 works
  3. 3 Augustin Landier France · #105,804 worldwide 8.3k citations · 146 works
  4. 4 L. J. Shrum France · #120,100 worldwide 10k citations · 169 works
  5. 5 Bruno H. Solnik France · #134,231 worldwide 14k citations · 159 works
  6. 6 Denis Gromb France · #180,824 worldwide 5.1k citations · 66 works
  7. 7 Xitong Li France · #238,239 worldwide 1.4k citations · 98 works
  8. 8 Tina M. Lowrey France · #248,556 worldwide 4.7k citations · 130 works
  9. 9 Christophe Spaenjers France · #250,089 worldwide 1.6k citations · 90 works
  10. 10 Thierry Foucault France · #258,575 worldwide 5.8k citations · 162 works
All ranked researchers at HEC Paris

What are the most cited papers from HEC Paris?

The most cited paper from HEC Paris is "PLS path modeling" (Michel Tenenhaus, Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, Yves-Marie Chatelin et al., 2004), with 6,047 citations. Next come "How does financial reporting quality relate to investment efficiency?" (3,084) and "Measuring Consumer Involvement Profiles" (2,053).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 PLS path modeling Michel Tenenhaus, Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, Yves-Marie Chatelin et al. · Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 22 Apr 2004 6,047
2 How does financial reporting quality relate to investment efficiency? Gary C. Biddle, Gilles Hilary, Rodrigo S. Verdi · Journal of Accounting and Economics Open access 21 Sep 2009 3,084
3 Measuring Consumer Involvement Profiles Gilles Laurent, Jean‐Noël Kapferer · Journal of Marketing Research Feb 1985 2,053
4 Is the correlation in international equity returns constant: 1960–1990? Francois M. Longin, Bruno H. Solnik · Journal of International Money and Finance Feb 1995 1,888
5 Trust and Electronic Government Success: An Empirical Study Thompson S.H. Teo, Shirish Chandra Srivastava, Li Jia Jiang · Journal of Management Information Systems Dec 2008 1,402
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at HEC Paris?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Corporate Governance, Innovation, Social Capital, Community Engagement, Local Development, Territorial Governance, Regulation and Public Policy.

▲ 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. Corporate Governance26▲ 10×14 topics
  2. Innovation19▲ 5.6×21 topics
  3. Social Capital16▲ 9.0×12 topics
  4. Community Engagement15▲ 14×5 topics
  5. Globalization15▲ 2.3×33 topics
  6. Local Development15▲ 42×2 topics
  7. Territorial Governance15▲ 38×2 topics
  8. Sustainable Development14▲ 2.7×18 topics
  9. Social Media14▲ 3.0×17 topics
  10. Economic Growth14▲ 5.0×16 topics
  11. Regulation12▲ 6.8×13 topics
  12. Public Policy12▲ 7.3×7 topics
  13. Entrepreneurship11▲ 8.2×7 topics
  14. Consumer Behavior10▲ 4.9×10 topics
  15. Economic Development10▲ 3.8×11 topics
  16. Firm Performance10▲ 17×3 topics
  17. Monetary Policy10▲ 13×9 topics
  18. Social Justice10▲ 4.9×6 topics
  19. Liquidity9▲ 37×3 topics
  20. Institutionalization9▲ 29×2 topics
  21. Finance8▲ 13×4 topics
  22. Financial Constraints8▲ 23×2 topics
  23. Institutional Theory8▲ 23×3 topics
  24. Mergers and Acquisitions8▲ 28×2 topics
  25. Investor Protection8▲ 31×1 topic
  26. Ownership Structure8▲ 31×1 topic
  27. Social Innovation8▲ 15×3 topics
  28. Citizen Participation8▲ 20×2 topics
  29. Cooperatives8▲ 31×2 topics
  30. Environmental Participation8▲ 32×1 topic
  31. Proximity and Innovation8▲ 32×1 topic
  32. Asset Pricing7▲ 26×2 topics
  33. Citizenship7▲ 18×2 topics
  34. Investment7▲ 18×4 topics
  35. Participative Evaluation7▲ 65×1 topic
  36. Solidarity Economy7▲ 37×1 topic
  37. Emotion7▲ 10×4 topics
  38. European Union7▲ 9.2×6 topics
  39. Professionalism7▲ 12×4 topics
  40. Entrepreneurial Orientation7▲ 24×1 topic

Which research topics does HEC Paris publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Corporate Finance and Governance, French Urban and Social Studies, Social Sciences and Governance and Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences.

Corporate Finance and Go…8Corporate Finance and Governance: 8 fractional worksFrench Urban and Social …8French Urban and Social Studies: 8 fractional worksSocial Sciences and Gove…7Social Sciences and Governance: 7 fractional worksEntrepreneurship Studies…7Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences: 7 fractional worksFinancial Markets and Investment Strategies: 5 fractional worksBanking stability, regulation, efficiency: 5 fractional worksManagement and Organizat…5Management and Organizational Studies: 5 fractional worksPrivate Equity and Venture Capital: 5 fractional worksCultural Insights and Digital Impacts: 4 fractional worksInnovation Policy and R&D4Innovation Policy and R&D: 4 fractional works
AccountingSociology and Political ScienceUrban StudiesManagement of Technology and Innovation4 others

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

  1. 1 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 8 works
  2. 2 French Urban and Social Studies Sociology and Political Science 8 works
  3. 3 Social Sciences and Governance Urban Studies 7 works
  4. 4 Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences Management of Technology and Innovation 7 works
  5. 5 Financial Markets and Investment Strategies Finance 5 works
  6. 6 Banking stability, regulation, efficiency Finance 5 works
  7. 7 Management and Organizational Studies Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management 5 works
  8. 8 Private Equity and Venture Capital Accounting 5 works
  9. 9 Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts Computer Networks and Communications 4 works
  10. 10 Innovation Policy and R&D Economics and Econometrics 4 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 available30.1%not open69.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors37.8%domestic only62.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has HEC Paris's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% 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 Paris as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0015% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%HEC Paris0.00094% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of HEC 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%30%HEC Paris12.5% 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 23.4% in 1995.

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