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Polytechnique Montréal

In research, Polytechnique Montréal stands highest in Physical Sciences (#717 of 10,670 worldwide), Engineering (#485 of 5,901 worldwide) and Computer Science (#723 of 4,417 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Software, Computational Mechanics and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Software is 11.8× its share of world research).

World rank, 2022-now
#1,199
of 22,385 · #1,249 all time
Rank in Canada
#34
of 305
Research works
20k
▲ 7% vs 2018-21
Citations
452k
22.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.15×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
22%
world 40%
International
24%
world 18%

What is Polytechnique 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
Physical SciencesDomain #717 of 10,670 10.7%2,395 #753
EngineeringField #485 of 5,901 10.7%1,363 #409
Computer ScienceField #723 of 4,417 12.5%473 #763
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringSubfield #483 of 2,176 12.5%365 #434
Health SciencesDomain #2,601 of 9,902 13.7%162 #2031
MedicineField #2,858 of 8,541 13.1%133 #2256
Environmental ScienceField #1,124 of 3,334 8.3%134 #841
Materials ScienceField #799 of 2,276 6.4%149 #612
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #685 of 1,862 11.5%149 #720
Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield #282 of 728 13.8%105 #489

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Polytechnique 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. Physical Sciences#753 #717
  2. Engineering#409 #485
  3. Computer Science#763 #723
  4. Electrical and Electronic Engineering#434 #483
  5. Health Sciences#2,031 #2,601
  6. Medicine#2,256 #2,858
  7. Environmental Science#841 #1,124
  8. Materials Science#612 #799
  9. Artificial Intelligence#720 #685
  10. Computer Networks and Communications#489 #282
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 Polytechnique Montréal work in?

In 2022-now, 82% of research at Polytechnique Montréal is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (46%), Computer Science (17%), Materials Science (5%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 2,617 fractional works · 82.3% of its workEngineering: 1,470 fractional works · 46.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 384 fractional works · 12.1% of its workMechanical Engineering: 152 fractional works · 4.8% of its workAerospace Engineering: 141 fractional works · 4.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 136 fractional works · 4.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 134 fractional works · 4.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 106 fractional works · 3.3% of its workComputational Mechanics: 97 fractional works · 3.1% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 86 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMechanics of Materials: 60 fractional works · 1.9% of its workBuilding and Construction: 57 fractional works · 1.8% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 52 fractional works · 1.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 27 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 21 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMedia Technology: 13 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputer Science: 527 fractional works · 16.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 165 fractional works · 5.2% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 117 fractional works · 3.7% of its workInformation Systems: 75 fractional works · 2.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 52 fractional works · 1.6% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 31 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSoftware: 24 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSignal Processing: 19 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHardware and Architecture: 19 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 13 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMaterials Science: 165 fractional works · 5.2% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 69 fractional works · 2.2% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 32 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBiomaterials: 25 fractional works · 0.8% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 23 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSurfaces, Coatings and Films: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 153 fractional works · 4.8% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 32 fractional works · 1.0% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 25 fractional works · 0.8% of its workWater Science and Technology: 19 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 17 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 14 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 128 fractional works · 4.0% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 72 fractional works · 2.3% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 19 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 16 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCondensed Matter Physics: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workRadiation: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 45 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAtmospheric Science: 17 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 16 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 12 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMathematics: 39 fractional works · 1.2% of its workNumerical Analysis: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workApplied Mathematics: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematical Physics: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 14 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEnergy: 33 fractional works · 1.0% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 29 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 33 fractional works · 1.0% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 13 fractional works · 0.4% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 13 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 26 fractional works · 0.8% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCatalysis: 10 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 266 fractional works · 8.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 112 fractional works · 3.5% of its workTransportation: 53 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSociology and Political Science: 23 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEducation: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 8 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 19 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 60 fractional works · 1.9% of its workStrategy and Management: 17 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Information Systems: 17 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 50 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 32 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 9 fractional works · 0.3% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 23 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 14 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFinance: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPsychology: 19 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSocial Psychology: 13 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 6 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workHealth Sciences: 184 fractional works · 5.8% of its workMedicine: 152 fractional works · 4.8% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 39 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSurgery: 23 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 11 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 79 fractional works · 2.5% of its workHealth Professions: 23 fractional works · 0.7% of its workDentistry: 5 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 4 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 115 fractional works · 3.6% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 56 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMolecular Biology: 27 fractional works · 0.9% of its workBiophysics: 11 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 18 fractional works · 0.6% of its workNeuroscience: 31 fractional works · 1.0% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNeurology: 7 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 24 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPlant Science: 8 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 15 fractional works · 0.5% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 3 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKPolytechniqueMontréal3,182fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences82%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences8%

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. Engineering1,47046.2%
    2. Computer Science52716.6%
    3. Materials Science1655.2%
    4. Environmental Science1534.8%
    5. Physics and Astronomy1284.0%
    6. Earth and Planetary Sciences451.4%
    7. Mathematics391.2%
    8. Energy331.0%
    9. Chemistry331.0%
    10. Chemical Engineering260.8%
    1. Social Sciences1123.5%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting601.9%
    3. Decision Sciences501.6%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance230.7%
    5. Psychology190.6%
    6. Arts and Humanities30.1%
    1. Medicine1524.8%
    2. Health Professions230.7%
    3. Dentistry50.2%
    4. Nursing40.1%
    5. Veterinary00.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology561.8%
    2. Neuroscience311.0%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences240.7%
    4. Immunology and Microbiology30.1%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.1%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Polytechnique Montréal specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Software takes 11.8× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. SoftwareSubfield · 24.2 works12×
  2. Computational MechanicsSubfield · 97.4 works5.3×
  3. Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringSubfield · 86.4 works5.3×
  4. TransportationSubfield · 53.4 works5.0×
  5. Computer Networks and CommunicationsSubfield · 116.9 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.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.16× its world share, 24 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.33× its world share, 56 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.08× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.59× its world share, 31 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 2.36× its world share, 26 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.65× its world share, 33 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.13× its world share, 527 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.90× its world share, 45 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.14× its world share, 33 worksEnergyEngineering: 3.08× its world share, 1,470 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.97× its world share, 153 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.49× its world share, 165 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.03× its world share, 39 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.80× its world share, 128 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.34× its world share, 5 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.27× its world share, 23 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.25× its world share, 152 worksMedicineNursing: 0.23× its world share, 4 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.03× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.58× its world share, 60 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.62× its world share, 50 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.33× its world share, 23 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.20× its world share, 19 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 112 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Engineering, 3.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Engineering3.08×1,470 works
  2. Chemical Engineering2.36×26 works
  3. Computer Science2.13×527 works
  4. Physics and Astronomy1.80×128 works
  5. Decision Sciences1.62×50 works
  6. Materials Science1.49×165 works
  7. Energy1.14×33 works
  8. Mathematics1.03×39 works
  9. Environmental Science0.97×153 works
  10. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.90×45 works
  11. Chemistry0.65×33 works
  12. Neuroscience0.59×31 works
  13. Business, Management and Accounting0.58×60 works
  14. Dentistry0.34×5 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.33×56 works
  16. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.33×23 works
  17. Social Sciences0.28×112 works
  18. Health Professions0.27×23 works
  19. Medicine0.25×152 works
  20. Nursing0.23×4 works
  21. Psychology0.20×19 works
  22. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.16×24 works
  23. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.16×2 works
  24. Immunology and Microbiology0.08×2 works
  25. Arts and Humanities0.03×3 works
  26. Veterinary0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Polytechnique Montréal?

Ranked on the quality score, F. Dallaire, Julien Cohen‐Adad and Manuele D. Margni lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Polytechnique Montréal.

  1. 1 F. Dallaire Canada · #11,831 worldwide 25k citations · 387 works
  2. 2 Julien Cohen‐Adad Canada · #54,276 worldwide 15k citations · 413 works
  3. 3 Manuele D. Margni Canada · #91,593 worldwide 18k citations · 254 works
  4. 4 Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl Canada · #152,250 worldwide 11k citations · 206 works
  5. 5 Anne‐Marie Boulay Canada · #159,375 worldwide 5.3k citations · 95 works
  6. 6 Stéphane Kéna‐Cohen Canada · #205,001 worldwide 7.6k citations · 137 works
  7. 7 Giuliano Antoniol Canada · #205,053 worldwide 11k citations · 331 works
  8. 8 Basil D. Favis Canada · #208,377 worldwide 11k citations · 214 works
  9. 9 Michael D. Buschmann Canada · #217,730 worldwide 15k citations · 188 works
  10. 10 Yann‐Gaël Guéhéneuc Canada · #224,145 worldwide 10k citations · 357 works
All ranked researchers at Polytechnique Montréal

What are the most cited papers from Polytechnique Montréal?

The most cited paper from Polytechnique Montréal is "Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation" (Kyunghyun Cho, Bart van Merriënboer, Çağlar Gülçehre et al., 2014), with 25,290 citations. Next come "Empirical Evaluation of Gated Recurrent Neural Networks on Sequence Modeling" (10,801) and "Convolutional networks for images, speech, and time series" (4,363).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation Kyunghyun Cho, Bart van Merriënboer, Çağlar Gülçehre et al. Conference paperOpen access 2014 25,290
2 Empirical Evaluation of Gated Recurrent Neural Networks on Sequence Modeling Jun‐Young Chung, Çağlar Gülçehre, Kyunghyun Cho et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) PreprintOpen access 11 Dec 2014 10,801
3 Convolutional networks for images, speech, and time series Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Book chapter Oct 1998 4,363
4 GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X Open access1,149 authors 4 Sep 2019 3,658
5 Brain tumor segmentation with Deep Neural Networks Mohammad Havaei, Axel Davy, David Warde-Farley et al. · Medical Image Analysis Open access 21 May 2016 3,312
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Which keywords describe research at Polytechnique Montréal?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Energy Efficiency, Optimization, Integrated Circuits, Biosensors, Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Networks.

▲ 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. Deep Learning211▲ 1.92×74 topics
  2. Machine Learning192▲ 1.81×71 topics
  3. Sustainability107▲ 1.38×46 topics
  4. Energy Efficiency97▲ 3.3×33 topics
  5. Neural Networks92▲ 1.87×34 topics
  6. Biomedical Applications78▲ 2.1×33 topics
  7. Mechanical Properties72▲ 2.3×36 topics
  8. Optimization64▲ 4.5×24 topics
  9. Renewable Energy64▲ 1.40×37 topics
  10. Biosensors63▲ 4.0×12 topics
  11. Artificial Neural Networks61▲ 4.2×8 topics
  12. Heat Transfer53▲ 3.4×19 topics
  13. Nanocomposites52▲ 2.1×21 topics
  14. Anomaly Detection50▲ 5.5×4 topics
  15. Environmental Impacts48▲ 5.6×8 topics
  16. Security48▲ 2.2×18 topics
  17. Integrated Circuits47▲ 10×3 topics
  18. Optical Modulators43▲ 9.5×3 topics
  19. Smart Grid41▲ 3.6×8 topics
  20. Wireless Communications41▲ 7.4×5 topics
  21. Power Electronics40▲ 3.9×8 topics
  22. IoT Security39▲ 4.0×3 topics
  23. Additive Manufacturing38▲ 3.9×8 topics
  24. Raman Lasers38▲ 11×2 topics
  25. Silicon Photonics37▲ 12×2 topics
  26. Fluid-Structure Interaction37▲ 7.7×6 topics
  27. Microcavities36▲ 11×2 topics
  28. Nanophotonic Waveguides36▲ 12×1 topic
  29. Whispering Gallery Mode36▲ 12×1 topic
  30. Microwave Filters32▲ 19×1 topic
  31. Substrate Integrated Waveguide32▲ 19×1 topic
  32. Wireless Networks32▲ 6.8×9 topics
  33. Distributed Systems31▲ 5.7×5 topics
  34. Health Impact Assessment28▲ 10×3 topics
  35. Accessibility27▲ 9.7×2 topics
  36. Metamaterial27▲ 9.6×2 topics
  37. Active Travel27▲ 12×1 topic
  38. Built Environment27▲ 12×1 topic
  39. Travel Behavior26▲ 9.4×2 topics
  40. Multiphase Flow25▲ 9.6×4 topics

Which research topics does Polytechnique Montréal publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Photonic and Optical Devices, Microwave Engineering and Waveguides, Urban Transport and Accessibility and Software Engineering Research.

  1. 1 Photonic and Optical Devices Electrical and Electronic Engineering 36 works
  2. 2 Microwave Engineering and Waveguides Electrical and Electronic Engineering 32 works
  3. 3 Urban Transport and Accessibility Transportation 27 works
  4. 4 Software Engineering Research Information Systems 24 works
  5. 5 Antenna Design and Analysis Aerospace Engineering 24 works
  6. 6 Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies Automotive Engineering 20 works
  7. 7 Software System Performance and Reliability Computer Networks and Communications 19 works
  8. 8 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 18 works
  9. 9 Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies Aerospace Engineering 18 works
  10. 10 Manufacturing Process and Optimization Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering 17 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 available21.5%not open78.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors24.2%domestic only75.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Polytechnique Montréal's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
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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 Polytechnique Montréal as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Polytechnique Montréal0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Polytechnique 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%Polytechnique Montréal11.1% 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 16.5% in 2012.

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