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Researcher · HEC Montréal · Canada

Gilbert Laporte

Gilbert Laporte publishes mostly in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering and Building and Construction, on topics such as Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods, Transportation and Mobility Innovations and Optimization and Packing Problems.

ORCID 0000-0003-0869-1507 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,459
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#24
of 183,316
Works
663
Citations
53k
Citations per work
80.3
h-index
123
i10-index 445Top 0.1% in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Engineering)
Gilbert Laporte

What does Gilbert Laporte research?

Gilbert Laporte's work is mostly in Engineering (65%), Social Sciences (6%), Business, Management and Accounting (5%).

Physical Sciences: 451 works · 68.0% of their workEngineering: 430 works · 64.8% of their workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 289 works · 43.6% of their workAutomotive Engineering: 78 works · 11.8% of their workBuilding and Construction: 62 works · 9.4% of their workComputer Science: 21 works · 3.2% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 21 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 141 works · 21.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 71 works · 10.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 39 works · 5.9% of their workTransportation: 39 works · 5.9% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 32 works · 4.8% of their workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 32 works · 4.8% of their workTHEIR WORKGilbert Laporte663works
Physical Sciences68%Social Sciences11%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering43064.8%
    2. Computer Science213.2%
  2. Everything else14121.3%
    1. Social Sciences395.9%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting324.8%
  1. 1Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering44% of their works
  2. 2Automotive Engineering12% of their works
  3. 3Building and Construction9% of their works
  4. 4Transportation6% of their works
  5. 5Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management5% of their works
  6. 6Computer Networks and Communications3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gilbert Laporte's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Heuristic Algorithms, Tabu Search, Vehicle Routing Problem, Environmental Impacts, Ridesharing, Shared Autonomous Vehicles, Cutting and Packing.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Heuristic Algorithms5622 topics
  2. Tabu Search4101 topic
  3. Vehicle Routing Problem4101 topic
  4. Environmental Impacts3472 topics
  5. Ridesharing2051 topic
  6. Shared Autonomous Vehicles2051 topic
  7. Cutting1521 topic
  8. Packing1521 topic
  9. City Logistics1421 topic
  10. Last Mile Delivery1421 topic
  11. Supply Chain Management1372 topics
  12. Order Picking1231 topic
  13. Warehouse Design1231 topic
  14. Public Transport941 topic
  15. Travel Behavior941 topic
  16. Disaster Relief871 topic
  17. Humanitarian Logistics871 topic
  18. Container Terminals501 topic
  19. Operations Research501 topic

Where does Gilbert Laporte work?

Gilbert Laporte's main affiliation in the publication record is HEC Montréal, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Gilbert Laporte have?

OpenAlex counts 663 works and 53,211 citations for Gilbert Laporte, an h-index of 123, ranking #1,459 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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