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Tunisia Polytechnic School

In research, Tunisia Polytechnic School stands highest in Physical Sciences (#5,296 of 10,670 worldwide) and Engineering (#3,368 of 5,901 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Control and Systems Engineering (Control and Systems Engineering is 12.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#13,785
of 22,385 · #13,783 all time
Rank in Tunisia
#31
of 56
Research works
780
▼ 15% vs 2018-21
Citations
9.2k
11.8 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.4%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.97×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
24%
world 40%
International
41%
world 18%
Tunisia Polytechnic School

What is Tunisia Polytechnic School 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 #5,296 of 10,670 9.5%122 #5584
EngineeringField #3,368 of 5,901 8.8%67 #3259

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Tunisia Polytechnic School 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 Tunisia Polytechnic School work in?

In 2022-now, 79% of research at Tunisia Polytechnic School is in Physical Sciences, 10% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (42%), Computer Science (22%), Medicine (8%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 141 fractional works · 79.0% of its workEngineering: 75 fractional works · 42.2% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 24 fractional works · 13.2% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 14 fractional works · 7.6% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMechanics of Materials: 5 fractional works · 2.9% of its workMechanical Engineering: 5 fractional works · 2.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.5% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 2.3% of its workBuilding and Construction: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workComputational Mechanics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMedia Technology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science: 40 fractional works · 22.3% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 11 fractional works · 6.4% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 11 fractional works · 6.2% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 8 fractional works · 4.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 4 fractional works · 2.1% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workSignal Processing: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHardware and Architecture: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 11 fractional works · 5.9% of its workMathematical Physics: 4 fractional works · 2.0% of its workApplied Mathematics: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workAlgebra and Number Theory: 2 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStatistics and Probability: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workNumerical Analysis: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workModeling and Simulation: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeometry and Topology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMaterials Science: 7 fractional works · 3.7% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 3 fractional works · 1.9% of its workPolymers and Plastics: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiomaterials: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 fractional works · 2.2% of its workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workHealth Sciences: 17 fractional works · 9.7% of its workMedicine: 15 fractional works · 8.4% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOncology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHepatology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth Professions: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 8.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 7 fractional works · 4.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 2.6% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 3 fractional works · 1.6% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAccounting: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 5 fractional works · 3.0% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPlant Science: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNeuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 1 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workALL ITS WORKTunisiaPolytechnic…179fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences79%Health Sciences10%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 25 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering7542.2%
    2. Computer Science4022.3%
    3. Mathematics115.9%
    4. Materials Science73.7%
    5. Physics and Astronomy42.2%
    6. Environmental Science31.6%
    7. Energy10.8%
    8. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    9. Chemistry00.1%
    10. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.0%
    1. Medicine158.4%
    2. Health Professions21.0%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    4. Dentistry00.1%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance74.1%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting31.6%
    3. Decision Sciences20.9%
    4. Social Sciences20.9%
    5. Psychology10.8%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.0%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology21.0%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.4%
    4. Neuroscience10.4%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Tunisia Polytechnic School specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Control and Systems Engineering takes 12.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Control and Systems EngineeringSubfield · 23.5 works12×
← 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: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.18× its world share, 2 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.38× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.23× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.55× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 0.48× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 2.87× its world share, 40 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.84× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 2.81× its world share, 75 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.33× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 1.07× its world share, 7 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 5.00× its world share, 10 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.99× its world share, 4 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.13× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.44× its world share, 15 worksMedicineNursing: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.49× its world share, 3 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.98× its world share, 2 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.90× its world share, 7 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.26× its world share, 1 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Mathematics, 5.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 25 fields, with their numbers
  1. Mathematics5.00×10 works
  2. Computer Science2.87×40 works
  3. Engineering2.81×75 works
  4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.90×7 works
  5. Materials Science1.07×7 works
  6. Physics and Astronomy0.99×4 works
  7. Decision Sciences0.98×2 works
  8. Energy0.84×1 works
  9. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.55×0 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.49×3 works
  11. Chemical Engineering0.48×0 works
  12. Medicine0.44×15 works
  13. Health Professions0.40×2 works
  14. Immunology and Microbiology0.38×1 works
  15. Environmental Science0.33×3 works
  16. Psychology0.26×1 works
  17. Neuroscience0.23×1 works
  18. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.22×2 works
  19. Nursing0.19×0 works
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.18×2 works
  21. Dentistry0.13×0 works
  22. Chemistry0.07×0 works
  23. Social Sciences0.07×2 works
  24. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.02×0 works
  25. Arts and Humanities0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Tunisia Polytechnic School?

Ranked on the quality score, Habib Hamdi, Chokri Mechmeche and Khaled Nouri lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Tunisia Polytechnic School.

  1. 1 Habib Hamdi Tunisia · #2,746,759 worldwide 708 citations · 46 works
  2. 2 Chokri Mechmeche Tunisia · #2,810,618 worldwide 592 citations · 39 works
  3. 3 Khaled Nouri Tunisia · #2,829,821 worldwide 440 citations · 53 works
  4. 4 S. Choura Tunisia · #3,110,575 worldwide 1.3k citations · 79 works
  5. 5 Wided Souidene Mseddi Tunisia · #3,140,893 worldwide 584 citations · 27 works
  6. 6 Manel Labidi Tunisia · #3,160,691 worldwide 249 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 Marwa Jmal Tunisia · #3,410,701 worldwide 307 citations · 16 works
  8. 8 Sofiene Helaili Tunisia · #3,773,734 worldwide 350 citations · 45 works
  9. 9 Mbarka Selmi Tunisia · #3,932,199 worldwide 162 citations · 16 works
  10. 10 Naceur Benhadj Braïek Tunisia · #3,946,532 worldwide 2.4k citations · 233 works
All ranked researchers at Tunisia Polytechnic School

What are the most cited papers from Tunisia Polytechnic School?

The most cited paper from Tunisia Polytechnic School is "Supplier selection and order lot sizing modeling: A review" (Najla Omrane Aissaoui, Mohamed Haouari, Elkafi Hassini, 2006), with 651 citations. Next come "Islamic and conventional banks' soundness during the 2007–2008 financial crisis" (452) and "A Survey of IoT Security Based on a Layered Architecture of Sensing and Data Analysis" (315).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Supplier selection and order lot sizing modeling: A review Najla Omrane Aissaoui, Mohamed Haouari, Elkafi Hassini · Computers & Operations Research 10 Mar 2006 651
2 Islamic and conventional banks' soundness during the 2007–2008 financial crisis Khawla Bourkhis, Mahmoud Sami Nabi · Review of Financial Economics 16 Jan 2013 452
3 A Survey of IoT Security Based on a Layered Architecture of Sensing and Data Analysis Hichem Mrabet, Sana Belguith, Adeeb Alhomoud et al. · Sensors Open access 28 Jun 2020 315
4 A bi-objective model for robust resource-constrained project scheduling Mohammad A Al-Fawzan, Mohamed Haouari · International Journal of Production Economics 5 Aug 2004 247
5 The effect of carbon dioxide emissions on the building energy efficiency Ji Min, Gongxing Yan, Azher Mouhsen Abed et al. · Fuel 30 Jun 2022 239
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Tunisia Polytechnic School?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Nonlinear Systems, Feedback Control, Adaptive Control, Neural Networks, Sliding Mode Control, Machine Learning and Stability Analysis.

▲ 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 Learning19▲ 3.0×47 topics
  2. Machine Learning13▲ 2.1×38 topics
  3. Neural Networks11▲ 4.1×22 topics
  4. Nonlinear Systems10▲ 25×7 topics
  5. Feedback Control10▲ 32×6 topics
  6. Adaptive Control9▲ 37×5 topics
  7. Sliding Mode Control7▲ 56×2 topics
  8. Mechanical Properties7▲ 3.8×21 topics
  9. Stability Analysis6▲ 22×5 topics
  10. IoT Security6▲ 10×3 topics
  11. Neural Network5▲ 16×3 topics
  12. Distributed Control5▲ 26×3 topics
  13. Internet of Things5▲ 3.2×6 topics
  14. Disturbance Observer5▲ 55×1 topic
  15. Finite-Time Stability5▲ 55×1 topic
  16. Robotic Manipulators5▲ 27×2 topics
  17. Robust Control5▲ 36×2 topics
  18. Convolutional Neural Networks5▲ 3.6×13 topics
  19. Path Planning5▲ 21×3 topics
  20. Optimization4▲ 5.0×10 topics
  21. Event-Triggered Control4▲ 32×2 topics
  22. Networked Control Systems4▲ 55×2 topics
  23. Vibration Analysis4▲ 7.6×7 topics
  24. Switched Systems4▲ 78×1 topic
  25. Time-Delay Systems4▲ 78×1 topic
  26. Functional Analysis3▲ 55×2 topics
  27. Holomorphic Functions3▲ 72×2 topics
  28. 5G Networks3▲ 9.1×4 topics
  29. Security and Privacy3▲ 9.5×3 topics
  30. Mobile Edge Computing3▲ 11×2 topics
  31. Multi-Agent Systems3▲ 8.4×5 topics
  32. Synchronization3▲ 13×3 topics
  33. Collision Avoidance3▲ 8.2×2 topics
  34. Autonomous Vehicles3▲ 7.0×3 topics
  35. Viscoelasticity3▲ 23×3 topics
  36. Edge Computing2▲ 11×1 topic
  37. Fog Computing2▲ 12×1 topic
  38. Attractors2▲ 35×2 topics
  39. Parameter Estimation2▲ 11×4 topics
  40. Dynamic Modeling2▲ 31×2 topics

Which research topics does Tunisia Polytechnic School publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems, Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems, IoT and Edge/Fog Computing and Advanced Banach Space Theory.

Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems: 5 fractional worksStability and Control of Uncertain Systems: 4 fractional worksIoT and Edge/Fog Computing: 2 fractional worksAdvanced Banach Space Theory: 2 fractional worksControl and Dynamics of Mobile Robots: 2 fractional worksComposite Structure Analysis and Optimization: 2 fractional worksStability and Controllab…2Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations: 2 fractional worksNetwork Security and Intrusion Detection: 2 fractional worksRobotic Path Planning Algorithms: 2 fractional worksAdaptive Dynamic Program…2Adaptive Dynamic Programming Control: 2 fractional works
Control and Systems EngineeringComputer Networks and CommunicationsMathematical PhysicsMechanics of Materials2 others

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

  1. 1 Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems Control and Systems Engineering 5 works
  2. 2 Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems Control and Systems Engineering 4 works
  3. 3 IoT and Edge/Fog Computing Computer Networks and Communications 2 works
  4. 4 Advanced Banach Space Theory Mathematical Physics 2 works
  5. 5 Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots Control and Systems Engineering 2 works
  6. 6 Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization Mechanics of Materials 2 works
  7. 7 Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations Control and Systems Engineering 2 works
  8. 8 Network Security and Intrusion Detection Computer Networks and Communications 2 works
  9. 9 Robotic Path Planning Algorithms Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2 works
  10. 10 Adaptive Dynamic Programming Control Computational Theory and Mathematics 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 available24.4%not open75.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors41.3%domestic only58.7%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Tunisia Polytechnic School's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% 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 Tunisia Polytechnic School as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00053% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%Tunisia Polytechnic School0.00067% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Tunisia Polytechnic School 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 counting5%10%15%all institutions10.0% in 2025Tunisia Polytechnic School8.6% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 12.9% in 2022.

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